Islamic Pilgrimage: Omura

Stephanie Dalquist, Sam Kendig

HINTS:

• Stuck at rebuses: Sucks to be you. I haven't heard much, but someone mighta cast a spell on you.
• Stuck at address, can't get names: Who's on first? Who cares! What's where! [these are all pretty obvious from google search. Ford is the most difficult]
• Stuck at company name, can't get stocks: You need a hint? Sure, because we're about to go public with this one.

CLUES IN PUZZLE:

• Title: abbreviates to IPO, means to use stocks

SOLUTION:

1. Rebus number/words
2. Headquarters Address
3. Company Name
4. Ticker Symbol
5. Spell answer word

DETAILED SOLUTION:

1 = number of things worse than being talked about (Oscar Wilde - the worse thing is not being talked about)
220 = Austin, PA / the number of trombones
477 = Most popular major at MIT + Formula by Clorox + Age Carl Sagan dies = 6 + 409 + 62 = 477
14 = Number of mosques remaining in Timbuktu + Original colonies - Wrath of Khan = 3 + 13 - 2
145 = Unniloctium + Freezing of water in F + Specifies 13,053 Hanzi in Taiwan = 108 + 32 + (big) 5
1 = Number of Dalmatians - 4 * this mystery hunt = 101 - 4*25 = 1

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AMERICAN	=	[Camp]-[CP]+[Tower]-[Tow]+[pickle]-[kelp]+[wand]-[DW - darkwing duck]
ROAD	=	[Sport]-[Spot]+[Toad]-[T-shirt]
WEST	=	[World]-[Lord]+[Breast]-[Bra]
CREST	=	[Chirp,bird,noise]-[hip]+[Kresge]-[keg]-[R button on N64]+[train]-[rain]
STREET	=	[W20,Stratton]-[rat]-[ton]+[Sprite]-[spit]+[ET]
MARTINSVILLE	=	[Marvin the martian]-[OaklandA's player]+[SUV]-[U turn]+[Achilles]-[(Johnny) Cash]
ROAD	=	[Carrot]-[Cart]+[Amide]-[Michigan]-[Semaphore E]
PAR	=	[Pram]-[Ram]+[Flare]-[Elf]
LA	=	[pail]-[IPA]+[pail]-[lip]
VILLE	=	[Violin]-[Lion]+[ladle]-[ad]
ROAD	=	[Random]-[dam]-[no]+[wild boar]-[bar]+[lemonade]-[enol]-[8.02 E&M]
KING	=	[Klingon]-[Lon Chaney]
STREET	=	[Star]-[Scarlet Letter]+[Jeep]-[PJ Harvey]+[T MBTA map]
WEST	=	[Whale]-[HAL]+[ghost]-[hog]
AT&T	=	[Matador]-[MD]-[OR]+[brandy]-[bray (donkey, noise, arrows)]+[store]-[rose]
WAY	=	[Wart]-[art]+[kayak]+[k]-[KKK]

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Ticker	Company	Address	City
F	Ford Motor Company	The American Road	Dearborn MI
O	Realty Income Corporation	220 West Crest Street	Escondido CA
RE	Everest Reinsurance Group	477 Martinsville Road	Liberty Corner NJ
FRO	Frontline Limited	14 Par la Ville Road	Hamilton Ontario
N	INCO Limited	145 King Street West	Toronto Ontario
T	AT&T	1 AT&T Way	Bedminster NJ

Answer: FOREFRONT

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2004 MIT Mystery Hunt