How Did You Know Neil Konouchi?

I'm happy to announce a winner to our last How Did You Know? 5-day trivia hunt. Please re-meet Neil Konouchi of Nashville. You may recall that Neil won the pilot HDYK way back in March, 08, when we were only giving away bragging rights and a t-shirt. So congrats Neil, who now has $100 to spend in our store. He blazed through the final puzzle and got all the answers within 8 minutes of the gun!

Dozens of you got all the answers correct, and I'll be sure to post the top 10 in the order we received them over on our Facebook page soon.

Meantime, our random winner this month is Allison Jirsa, who says she forgot all about the final puzzle, and was ready to kill herself at 2am last night when she finally remembered. (And remember she did, taking only 15 minutes to get through the whole thing!) We'll be in touch soon with your spoils.
See everyone back for another HDYK on the 28th of July, when Neil will be looking to defend the title. Meantime, let's meet our winner and review his answers:

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I live in Nashville, Tennessee where I work in the music business and also as a freelance tuba player (not a joke). I'm a big time trivia/puzzle junkie, can often be found at the local pub trivia games, and always have fun with these HDYK puzzles every time they come around (been trying to repeat since the inaugural game!). I have to give credit to my wife for giving me "The Supremes," as I couldn't get past "The Justice League," clearly my brain trying to squeeze The Human League into the context of the puzzle. I knew it wasn't right, but just couldn't get that idea out of my head. Appropriately for this edition of HDYK, the picture I've attached is of me with my friend Steven when we did The Price Is Right live in Las Vegas. Unfortunately neither of us were selected to play, but it turns out I would have grossly overbid on the Showcase anyway. Thanks for the hunt, looking forward to the next one!

Final Answer JD SALINGER Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon that day while carrying a copy of Catcher In The Rye

Day 1 Pictures: 1. A Full Count (aka 3-2 count) 2. Safe! 3. Pitcher 4. Batter 5. Strike (a match) 6. The Lineup 7. Green Monster (at Fenway Park) 8. Double Play (Name of Moby's Album pictured here x2) Theme Songs: 1. The Price is Right (knew) 2. Card Sharks * (sounded familiar, verified on YouTube) 3. Jeopardy! (knew) 4. Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (knew) 5. Hollywood Squares (finally found it after browsing themes on YouTube. Pure luck.) * Card Sharks theme is the same as Double Dare, but this recording matches the Card Sharks recording.

Day 2 Each letter is assigned a number based on its place in the alphabet A=1, B=2, C=3, etc. A = 1 D = 4 G = 7 J = 10 M = 13 A G D J G M ? 1 7 4 10 7 13 So the pattern is +6, -3 1 (+6) 7 (-3) 4 (+6) 10 (-3) 7 (+6) 13 (-3) = 10 10 = J Part 2: Assassins (Victims in Parentheses) 1. Mark David Chapman (Lennon) 2. Leon Czolgosz (McKinley) 3. John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln) 4. Charles Guiteau (Garfield) 5. John Hinckley (Reagan attempt) 6. Yigal Amir (Yitzhak Rabin) 7. Khalid Islambouli (Anwar Sadat) 8. James Earl Ray (MLK Jr.) 9. Jack Ruby (Lee Harvey Oswald) John Hinckley was the only of those that was unsuccessful in his attempt.

Day 3 "Writers, indeed, need time to write. And critics, who, I presume, are also writers, of a sort, need time to critique. Then again, no one ever erected a statue for a critic." paraphrases Sibelius' famous quote, "Pay no attention to what critics say. No statue has ever been put up to a critic." Sibelius' Finlandia was used in Die Hard 2 Die means "The" in German ("No, that's German for 'The Bart, The.'") "die" is feminine Lothar-Günther Buchheim wrote Das Boot in 1973 "das" is gender-neutral "der" is the masculine version Part 2: Cryptographs (each letter to the next in the alphabet) Each sentence in this puzzle is governed by its own rules, so that every word in the sentence can be deciphered using the same rule. (back one in the alphabet) Some sentences use the same rule as other sentences. (back one space on the keyboard) This was only done because the author is lazy. (back one in the alphabet) When read backwards the final word in the next sentence is your secret code word and final puzzle answer today. (next in the alphabet) David Israel is nuts! Last word backwards: STUN

Day 4 1. Nickelback (back side of a nickel) 2. Phish (school of fish) 3. Led Zeppelin (it's a zeppelin) 4. Queen (she's the Queen) 5. The Supremes (Supreme Court Justices) 6. Nine Inch Nails (maybe not quite nine inches, but very long nails) Phish was formed at the University of Vermont in 1983. Part 2: AIR. Any letter in the "secret word" AIR gives me the same answer for number of vowels. AIR: A: OAk (2) AIr (2) I: dIE (2) AIr (2) R: AIr (2) For all other words: DIE D: dIE (2) cOd (1) I: dIE (2) AIr (2) E: dIE (2) cUE (2) COD C: cOd (1) cUE (2) O: cOd (1) OAk (2) D: dIE (2) cOd (1) OAK O: cOd (1) OAk (2) A: OAk (2) AIr (2) K: OAk (1) CUE C: cOd (1) cUE (2) U: cUE (2) E: dIE (2) cUE (2) The clue is that "if we were to tell you any one letter of the secret word, you'd be able to tell how many vowels are in the word." So you tell me A, I tell you 2 (I presume the word is AIR or OAK). You tell me I, I tell you 2 again (DIE or AIR). You tell me R, I tell you 2 (AIR is the only answer for that one). I'll be honest, though, this seems too easy to be the correct solution. I'm not sure I'm totally understanding this puzzle.

Day 5 Latitude: Searching on CastTV for Jacob plays Money Game in hopes of winning a car! turns up episode 4635 Lat Min.Sec: 46.35 John Hinckley Jr. Tried to assassinate Reagan, President #40 Lat Degrees: 40 Longitude: Backwards word was STUN Re-reverse it: NUTS, add P = PNUTS = "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz He moved the family to Sebastabol in 1958 (via Wikipedia) Long Min: 58 The ZRS-4, USS Akron crashed April 1933, killing 73 (via Wikipedia) Long Degrees: -73 Long Sec: 33 Zooming in puts me at Central Park West and W. 72nd, where the Dakota is John Lennon and Yoko Ono lived in The Dakota Mark David Chapman killed John Lennon that day while carrying a copy of Catcher In The Rye by...JD SALINGER