European Mission
You’ll need to brush up on European languages before your next training exercise, in which you’ll be investigating events of 2015, 1999, 1987, 1981, 1977, and 1969 in six different places. You’ll need to do a little online reconnaissance to work out your destinations. To get your bearings, zoom out for a view from a helicopter.
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| What three words? | ||||
| Means “where,” “which way,” or “where is it” in Italian | • | Can be spelled using only symbols of elements, the atomic numbers of which sum to 83 | • | Consists of the name of a famous lawman plus a kind of nut |
| What three words? | ||||
| Would become a new word if its letters were put in alphabetical order | • | Would become a phrase meaning “settle a debt” if you inserted a Y and doubled the last letter | • | Contains a silent B |
| What three words? | ||||
| Follows STOP, NIGHT, and BINGE in common expressions | • | Would become a piece of sports equipment worn by 007 in several films if you dropped its last letter | • | Contains a three-letter mammal that, when changed to a three-letter insect, makes a similar change to the entire word |
| What three words? | ||||
| Sounds like a letter from Bangkok | • | Begins with 3 letters that, if shifted forward 6 or 19 positions in the alphabet, would make two different 3-letter words meaning “annoy” | • | Could make the name of a sea if you changed one vowel to a different vowel |
| What three words? | ||||
| Could logically join the group containing SASH, SPINE, STEAK, and SLIME, but not SWORD | • | Is an anagram of the title of a 1960s British TV series starring Roger Moore | • | Contains a European capital reading backward inside it |
To complete your mission, you must determine your sixth and final location — but you don’t have the coordinates. Fortunately, a message from HQ has just come in that should help you figure out where it is:
Put the remaining 3 words in alphabetical order. This will be outside of Europe, but don't worry; it's not the final location. Go 3 squares north and 3 squares east and read the coordinates. Don’t forget to cross-reference the years.