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jacobsen
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So Kind.
What is the connection between
1. Old salt
2. Double Bass
3. Composition?
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LeRoc
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I'm going to go out on a limb here. Heavy metal.
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Antonio Salieri who composed music using thoroughbass or figured bass notation?
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LeRoc
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My reasoning was: Old Salt is usually a name for an elderly sailor who talks a lot, so could be an Ancient Mariner. Apart from the Ship connection, Ancient Mariner is also an Iron Maiden song (based on the poem of course).
In heavy metal, they often use a double bass drum in the drum set.
And 'composition' could refer both to the act of composing heavy metal songs, as to the heavy metal composition of river water, for example.
Hey, I gotta start somewhere ...
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Baptist Trainfan
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@Jacobsen (and everyone):
"What is the connection between ..." questions need FOUR items.
"What is the last in the sequence ..." questions need THREE items.
So we need a fourth clue in this one.
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Curiosity killed ...
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A few times we have offered three clues and said a fourth would arrive if people needed it. Because on the show, teams do occasionally get it from the first one or two in the sequence.
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Baptist Trainfan
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What about "Coleridge"?
Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote the Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Coleridge Goode the double bass player died last week.
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor composed choral works such as "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" etc.
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LeRoc
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I was just thinking the same thing when I took a shower 5 minutes ago ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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LeRoc
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I'm not impatient but ... I want to know!!
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jacobsen
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Sorry chaps, I was away. Baptist Trainfan gets it from three clues. Just as well, as I couldn't think of a fourth.
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LeRoc
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So, should I brush up on my train knowledge?
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Baptist Trainfan
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That's for me to know and you to find out.
Philosopher
Mercury
Clock
Hen.
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LeRoc
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Haydn symphonies
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Baptist Trainfan
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Wow, LeRoc - way too easy for you, clearly!
Well done.
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Sipech
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With the Limericks thread closed, here's a friendly nudge to LeRoc.
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Albertus
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This game might have come to a natural end, but in case anyone would like to keep it going, may I try out this one I came up with the other day?
What connects:
A dropped pilot;
A shipwrecked correspondent;
A travelled aunt; and
An inventive dowager?
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Baptist Trainfan
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I presume that the first three are Bismarck, possibly Robinson, and Augusta. I suspect some sort of US city link, possibly sporting, but can't make it out.
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jacobsen
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Maggie Smith played the aunt in the film of Travels with my aunt, and the Dowager in Downton
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Albertus
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She did, though it's not about her or Downton
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Albertus
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You've got the right aunt- Augusta, from Graham Greene's 'Travels with my Aunt'- and the right pilot- Bismarck, from the title of Tenniel's famous Punch cartoon after he was sacked by the young Kaiser Wilhelm II. So you need the other two. BT is going the right way with US cities, though not with what they have in common.
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Baptist Trainfan
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Might the inventive dowager by Deborah Mitford, Dowager Duchess of Devonshire, who worked out how to make Chatsworth profitable?
Problem is that "Mitford" USA is a fictional place rather than a real one; also it's supposedly in one of the Carolinas while Bismarck is in the Dakotas and Augusta is in Georgia.
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Salicional
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Is it state capitals? If so, the shipwreck could be referring to Columbus.
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Baptist Trainfan
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I wondered about that. But I don't think Columbus was a "correspondent".
I thought about Lemuel Gulliver, but he doesn't fit either. What about someone called Stephen Crane?
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Albertus
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Yes, since it's been mentioned, it is state capitals . Bismarck North Dakota and Augusta Maine.
I suspect someone will now get the shipwrecked correspondent by going through the list. Any shipmates of a certain age and tradition might be able to find the dowager!
[ 04. December 2015, 14:25: Message edited by: Albertus ]
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Salicional
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Ah...Saint Paul. Clever, Albertus!
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Albertus
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![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
One to go!
(BT- don't worry- I won't tell your congregation or your Regional Minister you couldn't spot that one! ![[Biased]](wink.gif) )
[ 04. December 2015, 15:18: Message edited by: Albertus ]
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Albertus
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Don't think the inventive dowager's really a Baptist thing, though.
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Albertus
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She's a real person, but the heroine of an Evelyn Waugh novel, too.
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Baptist Trainfan
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So it's Helena ((Montana) - I'd never heard either of the book or the city. (Margot Pennefeather she's not!)
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Albertus
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quote:
Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Northern most states, or states with a border with Canada?
I hadn't thought of that- no, just state capitals. Helena is an inventive dowager because she was a dowager Empress of Rome and is traditionally associated with the finding of the True Cross, commemorated as the Invention of the Cross.
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Baptist Trainfan
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That was a joint effort ... who sets the next question?
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Albertus
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You, I reckon it's between you and Salicional. I'd say he had the edge on making the connection, which just about nudges him over the line, but there's hardly anything between you.
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Aravis
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Would someone like to post another question? I've only just discovered this thread so it would be presumptuous of me to do so myself!
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Albertus
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No, go for it!
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Aravis
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OK, as you asked...
What's the connection between the following words? (Though this is probably more a "wall" type of question):
Each
Range
Rape
Ear
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quote:
Originally posted by Aravis:
OK, as you asked...
What's the connection between the following words? (Though this is probably more a "wall" type of question):
Each
Range
Rape
Ear
1. All contain e and a.
2. If you take the first letter of each word and put it on the end of the word, you get another reasonable word:
ache, anger, aper, are.
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Leorning Cniht
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quote:
Originally posted by Aravis:
Each
Range
Rape
Ear
They are all fruits with the first letter removed? (peach, orange, grape, pear)
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jacobsen
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Jumps up and down, eager to try something else, and hoping it hasn't been done already
I only await confirmation of the previous answers.
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jacobsen
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OK. Failing a resolution of the previous question, here is a new one. What comes fourth, and what is the common link?
1. Lindsey Davies
2. C.S.Lewis
3. John Ruskin
4. ...........
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Baptist Trainfan
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Do you mean Lindsey Davis, the novelist?
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jacobsen
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Whoops - yes, no 'e'.
Lindsey Davis.
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