Sit in one spot

I am usually in a wooden case
I can have a square or round base
I have my own set of weights
In my name, is what a child calls a parent
When you hear me, I am apparent
I am Grand.
By my name, I sound old
I am in stores where I am sold
Short I am not
I usually sit in one spot

It's always

It's always 1 to 6.
It's always 15 to 20
and it's always 5,
unless it's flying,
when it's always 21.

What is it?

Three Consecutive Letters

The following words have three letters missing. Fill in the blanks with three consecutive missing letters. For example _ _ A _ U S can take A, B and C (for three consecutive letters) to make the word ABACUS.

1. _ _ R _ E S,

2. D O _ I _ _,

3. _ R A _ I _,

4. _ O U _ _ T,

5. _ _ A _ U E,

6. _ A Y _ A _.

Palindromes

Can you guess the palindromes using the clues below? Palindromes are words that are spelled the same backwards as forwards. For example: eve and abba are both palindromes.

Example clue: Part of the body
Answer: Eye

1. Midday
2. A young dog
3. Flat
4. Word for addressing a lady
5. An Eskimo canoe
6. A system for detecting aircraft, ships, etc.
7. Grass that grows on the seashore
8. In music, half a semibreve
9. Doctrine
10. Restorer

Repeats

Fill in the missing letters using a repeated pair of letters.

1. _ _ chorm _ _
2. _ _ joym _ _ t
3. _ _ iqu _ _ te
4. _ _ ip _ _ ape
5. _ _ s _ _ cere
6. _ _ p _ _ zard

Example: 1. _ _ chorm _ _ is anchorman (an is repeated).

Thank You!

This site, more than any other, depends on you, the readers, to come by and answer each question. So I just wanted to say thank you and share with you some of the statistics from the past year on the traffic you've helped to bring in.

I use google analytics to keep track of where people are coming from and what they do while they're here, so this all comes from that:

Content statspuzzles.blogspot.com/	Uniq. Views	Pageviews
Total	22,178	33,188
/	6,871	11,199
/2006/07/leap-frog.html	955	1,188
/2005_09_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	655	1,644
/2005/12/letter-equations.html	463	689
/2005/11/letter-equations.html	446	697
/2005_10_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	418	842
/2006_05_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	405	786
/2006_06_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	361	802
/2006_07_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	271	436
/2006_01_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	270	608
/2006_04_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	268	582
/2005_08_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	268	541
/2006/06/riddle-me-this.html	251	313
/2005_12_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	233	504
/2005_11_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	207	409
/2006_02_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	202	447
/2006_03_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	152	317
/2006_08_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	106	194
/2006/12/christmas-trivia.html	102	126
/2006/05/full-house-in-yahtzee.html	88	105
/2005/09/wine-anyone.html	88	93
/2005/09/ive-seen-this-one-before.html	76	84
/2006/05/how-high-can-you-go.html	72	86
/2006/04/can-you-see-forest.html	64	70
/2006/05/horse-with-no-name.html	61	73
/2005/08/riddles.html	59	69
/2006_09_01_statspuzzles_archive.html	58	98
/2006/07/largest-number.html	58	67
/2006/10/what-word-am-i.html	58	63
/2006/06/what-am-i.html	57	63
/2006/04/into-basket.html	56	61

I'm also going to show where that traffic came from (for the front page, only). Google and Yahoo were (not surprisingly) my biggest supporters, as people came looking for your answers. Note the large numbers of driven traffic from blogazoo and blogexplosion. I don't really use them anymore (they helped build up an audience). Then there's you, who come directly, or by bloglines or my.msn or my.yahoo.

Source[Medium]	Visits	P/Visit
google[organic]	1040	3.24
yahoo[organic]	697	2.58
blogazoo.com[referral]	560	1.31
blogexplosion.com[referral]	496	1.28
(direct)[(none)]	385	3.1
mybestimitationofmyself.blogspot.com[referral]	343	4.04
blogadvance.com[referral]	329	1.62
bloglines.com[referral]	316	2.75
msn[organic]	306	2.08
blogsoldiers.com[referral]	286	1.58
dsl.sbc.yahoo.com[referral]	211	4.09
joninterglad.blogspot.com[referral]	211	3.55
my.yahoo.com[referral]	210	3.63
jd2718.wordpress.com[referral]	181	2.97
blogger.com[referral]	171	3.18
karnblog.blogspot.com[referral]	154	3.06
search[organic]	143	3.64
blogmosh.com[referral]	117	3.27
blogtraffic.org[referral]	82	1.22
ask[organic]	50	1.72
goodsearch.com[referral]	49	2.24
dir.blogflux.com[referral]	48	2.02
blogclicker.com[referral]	36	1.5
technorati.com[referral]	32	3.22
twosonsoutnumber.blogspot.com[referral]	22	7.27
my.msn.com[referral]	22	2.64
blogmad.net[referral]	20	1.05
thebeardedman.blogspot.com[referral]	16	2.69
sitesthatdontsuck.com[referral]	14	1.79
blogs.botw.org[referral]	13	4.15
flanerie.org[referral]	12	3.33

BTW, I've made about $30 off this site for the year. (I'm obviously not doing it for the money)

If you're interested in something else, let me know.

In what year

In what year did Christmas Day and New Year's Day fall in the same year?






BTW, welcome back to everyone!