Gold Rush, Round 13, Final Challenges…
Last day to compete. AOL’s Gold Rush is all over!
Challenge 11
It’s time to separate the pop culture pack with a grand slam final exam served up Gold Rush style. Don’t worry if you get stuck, it’s not like there are [a] million dollars at stake. Oh wait… there is. Answers:
- wind
- 7
- Armstrong
- Mary Kay LeTourneau
- foil
- Joyce
- Phillies
- i
Challenge 12
With all the blood and guts and the screaming blonde bombshells, horror movies can be a real mess. Untangle this mess of horror movie titles to reveal the classics of blood-curdling cinema. Answers:
- It
- Saw
- See No Evil
- Scream
- Psycho
- Candyman
- Christine
- Species
- Hannibal
- Scary Movie
- Halloween
- Hellraiser
- Nosferatu
- Leprechaun
- Poltergeist
- Sleepy Hollow
- Arachnophobia
Final Challenge
- heart (shape made by rotating certain stars 180 degrees)
- brain (sign language)
- 5:00 (as “Whitney” said on the messageboards, “Look at each of the colored sections of six squares. Fold them up mentally into a cube. Now, take the letter that is opposite each of the gold bars. That should spell out “When is joyous $news$ spread” referring to the time the news of the wicked witch’s death was announced.”)
this was extremely helpful. Best help yet. Thanks!!
for the last gold challenge, you fold each colored section into a cube, get the letter that is on the opposite side of the gold bar, it will spell “WHEN IS JOYOUS $NEWS$ SPREAD”, referring to the the time the wicked witch’s death was announced.
The answer is 5:00.
Looks like I edited my entry above, and you commented — both at about the same time. Thanks, though!
Very generous of you Richard, vgl 2 u also. I am having 1 problem with the side by side I saw a pop up printer option when I first loaded your page but my printer is out of ink.. and I see no other place to view the side by side you spoke about on message board. I am just 1 short I have 1 upper left mountain and the 1 you provided in MB reply @ lower right man (TY) the rest I have are among the skyline (Buildings). Any help you feel up to providing I’d appreciate. I used Snag-It to compare it with challenge picture, but am getting bleary eyed lol tyty
Liz D.
Not sure I understand the problem in viewing the differences. Take a look at the images for Challenge 10 again and see if that helps.
where did you even come up with 5:00? it says that nowhere, I actually found a website that shows the death certificate and time being 12:30…nowhere in the song does it say the death time is 5:00?
You’re right! Nowhere in the song does it say anything about the time. In fact, that information is also missing completely from the book as well. Only the Warner Brothers movie gives a hint, and it’s extremely subtle. I’ve just uploaded a new image, a screen capture of Dorothy meeting the Mayor of Munchkinland (which, to give proper credit, I found here). Notice the time on his rather large pocketwatch which is only visible for a few seconds.
Thanks, AOL, for a completely obscure clue that was totally useless because people ended up just brute-force guessing at it anyway. By the way, in case any of you are doing the other challenges for the heck of it, I have all the answers to the Round 13 challenges posted in my AOL Gold Rush category. Have fun!
Can you tell me how you found the scene capture site? Did you know where it was already or, if not, what did you search on?
Please could anyone here help me I’m in challenge 13 #1~~Cannot for the life of me figure this one out scrambled word~nnseeitspgr~~~Any one who got this it would be really appreciated!
Thanks~
jessie~
No, I didn’t know about the site ahead of time, and I can’t for the life of me remember the search terms to get there. It took a while, way too long for me to have qualified for the million-dollar round if I had gone that route. Actually, I popped in a Wizard of Oz DVD that I just happen to have in my video library to see the “Witch is Dead” scene long before I started searching online for the screen-captured image to use here on this website. Either way, by the time I finished the two rounds and the final challenge, 38 minutes had elapsed, so I was probably way out of the running by then. It was actually the “Joyce” and “Armstrong” questions in Challenge 11 that killed my chances. I had absolutely no clue on those and had to wait for other contestants to provide those two answers before I could move on.
Without having done the challenge (I’m assuming that’s Round 1), so I’m not sure of the question, that looks like it might be “Springsteen”. Just a guess.
thanks for all your help! i would have never gotten that last puzzle. thanks for taking the time to help everyone! we’ll be looking for you next year!
NEED HELP ON RPOUND 1, CHALLENGER 1,2,3.
PLEASE REPLY THANKS.
Closing the comments. This game has already resulted in millions for one, and nothing for millions. Ancient history.