quote:

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Originally posted by ElaineC:
Let's go for some Missing Vowels

Which Dickens novel?

LDCR STYS P

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Originally posted by jacobsen:
Let's stick with the missing vowels.
A novel of Wales.

HWG RNW SM YVL LY

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Originally posted by jacobsen:

Stords

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Originally posted by jacobsen:
Sorry about the too many. Just count the first four.
Stords is/are real.

Would I cheat?

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I wasn't thinking you were cheating, i was just wondering if it was a typo
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Stord sounds Scandinavian....

Islands?
 

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Posted by Piglet (# 11803) on :
 
Stord is indeed an island, off the coast of Norway; I've been there. Can't do a Wiki link, as the heading has brackets. Google Stord (island).

No idea about the connection though.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 

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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
They're all units of length?

Barleycorns (plus an offset) is the unit shoe size is measured in. A nail is a small unit of cloth length. Don't know the others.

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You got it! they are all units of length. Stord is found in John Evelyn's 17thC guide to gardening

Directions for the gardiner* and other horticultural advice

* Evelyn's spelling, not mine.

A mile contains 88 stords

a nail is 2.5 inches.

But I do like Ariel's suggestion, which is plausible.

[ 14. August 2015, 17:09: Message edited by: jacobsen ]
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
*bump*

Here's some missing vowels. The following are all London underground stations.

S TNS QR
TR NPKL N
LG HTN
KWD
RD NGVL LY
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I can do all but one of those immediately:

?
Turnpike Lane
Loughton
Oakwood
Roding Valley

I'm halfway there on the first one, but I need to go out.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Euston Square!

But, Curiosity...I think this is your win as you did all the rest.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
What connects the following:

Feather
Herringbone
Fly
Chain?

I got the Square fast and then failed to work out the first bit. Very remiss of me as I like the Wellcome Trust Museum, which is nearby. I tend to walk around the middle of London rather than use the tube and none of my usual routes goes through Euston Square.
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Those all sound like embroidery stitches, I think
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Yep, your turn
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
What links:

1) Haluin
2) Rhun
3) Columbanus
4) Ruald
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Characters in "Brother Cadfael" novels?
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Indeed - over to you.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
It's more than 24 hours, so I will continue.

What is the connection between the following? Two facts.

Isabella
Lydia
Elizabeth
Mary
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I suspect a Jane Austen connection but I don't know what, exactly.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I wondered about queens - there's a Queen Lydia (anglicised) of Hawaii.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I'd wondered about queens but Lydia didn't fit into the vaguely 15th century era I had in mind.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
I'll give it to Ariel. These are all characters in JA's novels, but they are the sisters of the heroines.

Isabella is Emma Woodhouse's sister.(Emma)
Lydia is Lizzie and Jane Bennett's sister.(Pride and Prejudice)
Mary and Elizabeth are Anne Elliott's sisters.{Persuasion)

Over to you, Ariel
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Thanks! OK, here goes...

What's the connection between these four?

Bizet
Oxford
Wensleydale
Texel
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Sheep breeds, I think?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Yes! Well done - over to you.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Sorry to get that so quickly- lucky guess!

Let's have a picture round;
This and this and this and this.
 

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Posted by Banner Lady (# 10505) on :
 
Let's see...black & white...no. They are all whistlers? Maybe.
But they could certainly all pull a crowd!
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
I'm sure they could, but that wasn't what I was thinking of!
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I'd wondered if it was a "name" question as three out of the four are known by names other than their birth names, but I don't think the fourth does fit into that.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
The Mona Lisa is what it is.
"Whistler's mother" is sometimes called the Victorian Mona Lisa.
Fred Astaire wrote or sang a song which included a line about the Mona Lisa.
Don't know who the gentleman with the hat is though ...
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
The link is "You're the top" by Cole Porter.

...You're the smile on the Mona Lisa...
...You're the nimble tread Of the feet of Fred Astaire,...
...You're Whistler's mama!...
...You're the nose On the great Durante...
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
It is indeed- well done And
here he is singing it.
Over to you.

[ 24. August 2015, 19:37: Message edited by: Albertus ]
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
That one was fun, so let's have another picture round. What comes next in the sequence?

One Two Three
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Something like this?
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Something exactly like that

Your turn, CK.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Explanation, please!
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
First picture shows the top half of Michigan which is known as UP
Second picture shows County Down
Third Dr Strange

The sequence of quarks goes up, down, strange, charm, so my answer was a picture of a lucky charm.

OK, another picture clue. What comes next?

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
My brain doesn't do pictures!
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
I can't see any connection!
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I'm going to guess this.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Why that Sipech?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I was thinking it might be progression of colours in martial arts belts (e.g. karate)

Blue -> Silver -> Gold -> Black (Sabbath)
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Ah, that makes sense, but the first one isn't blue. (You can read the titles of the pictures in the url bar.)
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Thought that might be cheating.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
This is a very long shot ... but the Hilton Hotels "honours" scheme goes blue, silver, gold and finally DIAMOND. Sounds a bit too commercial for me!
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Good one. And if it's not that, I reckon it's ascending types of credit cards- blue, silver, gold, platinum?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Nope, the first one is not a colour, any colour. It's something else entirely. Two and three are silver and gold respectively.

I did start part way through, rather than the beginning, and it's probably a good thing I didn't go backwards, which I nearly did.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Think I've got it- magpies- one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy; five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told . Am I right?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
And where is the picture?

(Yes, you're right)
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Here you are!

Are we allowed a music round? What's next in this sequence:
Piece 1
Piece 2
Piece 3
(I'm not expecting a musical link for number 4 - just a word/name/phrase/title as the case may be).

[ 25. August 2015, 12:09: Message edited by: Albertus ]
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Thank you. I must stop channelling Victoria Coren Mitchell
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Is this it?
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
It is! Your go. Olympic cities- Los Angeles (1932), Berlin (1936), London (1948): next is Helsinki (1952)
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
How about this one?

One

Two

Three

What's next?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
A duke?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I reckon it's a Marquess
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
I think CK has it.

We have Sacha Baron Cohen, Count Basie and Earl Warren.

I cheated a bit. Were I doing ranks of the English Peerage in ascending order, I should have had Viscount, not Count (Count being a European rank equal to Earl).

But since I couldn't think of anyone called "Viscount", and since foreigners are clearly inferior to proper Britishers, dammit, I cheated a bit.

But anyway, next up in rank after an Earl is indeed a Marquess, so the drinks are on CK.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Prince?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Sorry, I was being slow finding the picture of the pub as my first thought was the Marquess of Anglesey!

What comes next:

First Term
Second Form
Third Year
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
In the fourth

?
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
I fear Chapelhead has the right connection, but the wrong book.

Upper Fourth.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I'm afraid it's Upper Fourth at Malory Towers and In the Fifth at Malory Towers so Leorning Cniht gets it.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Upper Fourth, I believe.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Rats.

Still most excellent reading, though.
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Let's follow CK's lead and see where we get.

First Time
Second Edition
Third Order

What's next?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Fourth Estate?
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
No ...
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Fourth delivery?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I think I've got it.

Fourth Bishop

Reason: The final letter of the ordinal word appears in the said position of the second word. To emphasise this:

First Time
Second Edition
Third Order
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
That sounds fiendishly intelligent ...
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Full fiendish marks for Sipech. Your turn.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
What comes fourth in this sequence of pictures (only posting the first two to make it a bit harder and because I'm on a mobile phone - will post the third clue in the morning if no one gets it)?

Image 1
Image 2
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
A picture of a bungee jumper leaning forward on the platform, just before the point of no return ?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Not at all close, but I'm intrigued by how you arrived at that answer.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
This, for third and fourth together?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Albertus, you certainly know your Gibbon, though I was hoping for a picture of Gordon Brittas.

Over to you.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Thought it would either be that - decline, fall, Roman Empire- or Vile Bodies (Evelyn Waugh novels in order of publication...)!
OK, what connects

Bertha's husband
Polly's creator
Elizabeth's snappy cousin
and Mrs (and/or Mr) Petersen's unexpected guest?

[ 26. August 2015, 21:59: Message edited by: Albertus ]
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
I think I know the four people, but I'm struggling with a connection. The best I can do is three out of four being English cities.

[ 27. August 2015, 13:00: Message edited by: Chapelhead ]
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Getting warm... but not quite there yet

[ 27. August 2015, 13:37: Message edited by: Albertus ]
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
have no idea, so am keen to hear the answer
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Patron saints of the countries of the British Isles?

Lord (Patrick) Litchfield
David Collins in The Guest

No idea about the other two yet, but I'm hoping for a George and an Andrew.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
No, not patron saints, but Patrick Lichfield is right.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Albertus:
Bertha's husband
Polly's creator
Elizabeth's snappy cousin
and Mrs (and/or Mr) Petersen's unexpected guest?

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Rochester, Wells, Lichfield and I don't know what the other one is, but they're all English cathedrals, right?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
(If that is right, would someone else like to have a go at setting one as I'm not going to have time in the next 48 hours - sorry!)
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Yes, that is right. Mr Rochester's wife (Jane Eyre) was called Bertha, HG Wells wrote The History of Mr Polly, Lord Lichfield was a photographer and cousin of the Queen; and the last one was Abraham Lincoln, who was taken to die in the Petersen House in Washington DC after being shot.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Rats again - and I waited two years to post on this thread.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
As Ariel has asked if someone else would set the next one, and I was soooo close last time, perhaps you'll permit me to have a go.

What connects:

Carlos 'The Jackal'
Mrs Freddy Eynsford Hill
Colonel Saito
Nick Mason

 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Very puzzling. At first, I thought that the connection was Frederick, as "The day of the Jackal" is by Frederick Forsythe.

In the play "Pygmalion" Mrs Freddy EH is the erstwhile Eliza Dolittle. She marries Freddy, strictly speaking, after the play has ended.

The connections are obviously even more convoluted.
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
Is it something to do with made up names for real people ?
The real Saito was not a Colonel, and Carlos was called the Jackal after alledgedly having the book in his posession

[ 28. August 2015, 14:30: Message edited by: Wet Kipper ]
 

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Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Is the link architecture?

Carlos started to study architecture.
FEH was an archiecture student
Colonel Saito started to study architecture
Nick Mason began a course in architecture at PCL.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
Not at all close, but I'm intrigued by how you arrived at that answer.

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quote:

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Originally posted by L'organist:
Is the link architecture?

Carlos started to study architecture.
FEH was an archiecture student
Colonel Saito started to study architecture
Nick Mason began a course in architecture at PCL.

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• Mervin Earl of Castlehaven,
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Robert Boyle
• Sir James Thornhill (artist who painted the Painted Hall at Greenwich)

quote:

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Stower ... on the West Banke of which is Stalebridge or Staplebridge, a little Markett Towne, which, as appeares in Domsday Booke, belonged to the Abbot of Sherborne; but since, by Dissolution of it, it came to John Lorde Audley, whose Successour, Mervine Earle of Castlehaven, hath lately built a goodlie faire House there.

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Douglas Adams' mother lived in Stalbridge and was most irritated to have her view of the Blackmore Vale obscured by a block of flats being built, the planning permission of which was to be found in the basement of the council offices in Sturminster Newton. I'm afraid I heard her rant after hearing the Radio 4 production and reading the book of HHGTG. Apparently Douglas Adams was living there when he wrote most of HHGTG. Eventually she built herself another smaller house in the garden further up the hill and sold the original house.

Robert Boyle lived in the house built by Castlehaven and did much of his experimenting there. All that's left of that house are the walls around the grounds and some lumps and bumps in the field.

Thornhill House, which is amazing, was built by Sir James Thornhill.

I did wonder about giving you Dike and Sons bakery, or what I suspect they've renamed themselves, Thomas J Fudge's bakery.

(I did check and realised you could get to this from googling the final two names and then working backwards, so I wasn't being too mean.)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Here is mine. What connects these four words?

--> Blood

--> Sword

--> Curtains

--> Sweep
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
They can all be drawn?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Yes - too easy!!


 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
What comes next:

1. A
2. D
3. M
?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
S?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Nope
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
I think it's 4I and the next one would be 5N.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Nope, but you are right to include the numbers.
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
It's then not probably a sequence of calculated numbers and letters in relation I think. Maybe it's UK postal code related?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
So, not a Latin inscription then. Is this directly related to education by any chance?

[ 01. September 2015, 16:22: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Nothing to do with education. It's the sort of thing that would turn up on Only Connect.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
How about 4Y - I'm guessing these are all Scrabble tiles?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Yes, that would do it. And yes, Scrabble tiles.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
OK, see if you can spot the connection here:

Birmingham
New York
Frankfurt
Istanbul
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Are they all 'second' cities?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
They might be, but that wasn't what I had in mind.

Let me know if a clue is needed, though there is one in there already.

[ 01. September 2015, 18:55: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
OK. The clue is "landmarks".
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Still not getting it, unless the connection is iron. Frankfurt has an iron bridge, New York has the flatiron building, Birmingham has the Iron Man statue and Istanbul ... well, buried at the bottom of the Column of Constantine it has the very axe that Noah used to build the Ark, and that's probably made of iron.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
They all have Museums of Modern Art?

(Not sure that's exclusive enough though)
 

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Posted by the famous rachel (# 1258) on :
 
Similarly, they all have, or are creating "Central Parks".
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Do they all have large statues of bulls?
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
Do they all have large statues of bulls?

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quote:

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At the main entrance to the west building stands The Guardian, a 2.2-metre (7 ft 3 in) tall bronze sculpture of a running, turning bul

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quote:

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There is a magnificent, four-meter high marble statue of the "Bull and Bear", in front of the ISE building’s protocol entrance.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
Do they all have large statues of bulls?

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Yes they do! Including Istanbull

Take it away, Sipech.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
What links the following:

Wordsworth
Robot
Leisure Centre
Scrapheap
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
Red Dwarf actors in other TV programmes?

Danny John Jules (Cat) was Milton Wordsworth in the Story makers (had to google that one)
Craig charles (dave lister) did Robot Wars
Chris Barrie (Rimmer) did the Brittas Empire in a leisure Centre
Robert Llewellyn (Kryten) did ScrapHeap Challenge

[ 02. September 2015, 12:15: Message edited by: Wet Kipper ]
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I need to make these harder.

Your turn, soggy fish!
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
May I alter the format slightly, and give you all a question I submitted for the Round Britain Quiz which they said they liked but I never heard it used ?
It's very similar to the Only Connect "connection" questions so far - just an extra step to decipher the clues, and then the reason behind the connection (with an extra clue in the question)

Why is finding a connection to the following things a Political Question?:
Tuneful Tony
A Badger's Brook
A Malawi Missionary
An Enterprising Engineer.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
If this is an RBQ question, am I allowed to witter on endlessly, without ever getting anywhere near the answer, a la Polly Devlin?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
OK, are the decoded clue answers:

Tuneful Tony - Blackburn,
Badger's Brook - Broxburn
Malawi Missionary - Livingston(e)
Enterprising Engineer - Alexander Calder?

If so Blackburn, Broxburn, Livingston and Calder are all regions of West Lothian, which makes the political question the West Lothian question?

(I'm back to work next week, I'll leave you all alone again then.)
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 

 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
not quite, but close enough (I'd give you 5 points instead of the maximum 6)
Enterprising Engineer is Scotty from Star Trek, who (in some sources) is said to be born in Linlithgow - and these are all towns in West Lothian
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I wasn't sure about the engineer. I knew Livingston immediately and worked out that it was probably the West Lothian question, then had to work backwards to figure out the others.

I now need to think up a question.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Picture round coming up:

What comes next?

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I think it might be this.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Yes - I was wondering about this one

In case it needs a solution:
Picture 1 is a deck
Picture 2 is Dick Cheney
Picture 3 is a dock leaf with added beetles
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I thought I would wait to see if I was right before posting the reason. And I couldn't decide on a single picture.

OK, What is next in this sequence:

Liaisons
The Bassist is Sven Dillenburger
Love, according to Taja Sevelle
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Robbie Williams on tour?
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Nope, but there is one minor aspect of your answer that is in the right continent.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
I think this might be Smells like Teen Spirit- Nirvana:

With the lights out, it's less dangerous (liaisions)
Here we are now, entertain us (Dillenburger's band)
I feel stupid and contagious (Love is...)
Here we are now, entertain us

So
A mulatto
An albino
A mosquito
My libido
A denial!
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
so would the 4th thing be something like
"Go ahead Robbie, we'll let you" ?

(in reference to the earlier attempt)
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Albertus is correct. I realised last night that the Robbie Williams reference was closer than I thought (I had wanted to use him, but quickly decided against). The problem is, his song is "Let me Entertain You", not "Entertain Me", which (especially in the context of the song) is important.

However, what was needed was a reference for the last line (Entertain Me) - Dillingers band again would have worked, but Wet Kipper has it accurate - I think the bonus goes to Wet Kipper for getting it exactly right.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Nice one, Wet Kipper. Over to you, then.
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
Only possible after you did the heavy lifting, Albertus.

How about some missing vowels. The theme is cars

STLN
RLTM
JPCHRK
TYTRS
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Last two are a Jeep Cherokee and a Toyota Auris.

on the first two.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
OK, I should have got the Ariel Atom, as a chap from my church left to become one of their designers.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Seat Leon.
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
All correct, well done
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I assume Sipech wins that round as he got 3/4?

I might have got the Toyota eventually but I'd never have got the other two.
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
I'd agree
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
What comes fourth in this sequence (first two clues only, until the third is asked for):

Picture 1
Picture 2
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
No idea, but the phrase "Whereof you cannot speak, therefore you should be silent" comes to mind. Is this about sound?

[ 07. September 2015, 10:49: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
My immediate thought was Clive James and the Echo Chamber (poetry programme on Radio 4), although it's an anechoic chamber in the picture.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
You're both fairly far adrift so far.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Two isn't really enough to form a proper sequence, and it's asking too much to try to guess the fourth at this stage; it could be anything.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
OK, here's the third picture in the sequence.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Think I've got it, though I'm a bit embarrassed to have done so as I'm not a fan.

This?

Will explain if it's correct!
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Well done, Albertus. The picture I had in mind was this one.

You may give the explanation and pose the next question.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
They're Harry Potter books. First was Wittgenstein- a philosopher- the Philosopher's Stone. Second was an anechoic chamber- the Chamber of Secrets. Third was paatrick McGoohan, who played The Prisoner in the 60s TV show- The Prisoner of Azkaban. Fourth would be the Goblet of Fire.
Um, what now. Missing vowels- these will probably be pretty easy because theme is US States so not a huge pool to choose from

RGN
NDN
DH
W
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Oregon
Indiana
Idaho
Iowa
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Over to you!
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Too much playing Sporcle that one.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
What comes next?

I'll do what Sipech did and see if you can do this from two pictures first.

Picture 1
Picture 2
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
It wouldn't be one of these, would it?

Picture 4
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Yep, well done and over to you.

I had this one in reserve for Picture 3 and my version of Picture 4 was this
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
(Pirates of the curried bean films in reverse order - but you all knew that)

Probably a quick and easy one: what connects...


Alaska
Perpetuity
Flags
Tripwire
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Perhaps trickier than I thought, or possibly I've just killed the thread. A fifth item, as an extra clue.

Alaska
Perpetuity
Flags
Tripwire
Typewriter
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Alaska is typed with alternating hands on a standard keyboard, but that's not true of the others.

Wait - that's it. They're all typed with letters form the same row on a QUERTY keyboard.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Correct! 'Alaska' is, I believe, the only US state that can be typed in this way.
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Let's have a picture round.

One Two

Will post #3 later
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
Let's have a picture round.

One Two

Will post #3 later

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quote:

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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
Let's have a picture round.

One Two

Will post #3 later

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quote:

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Originally posted by Stejjie:
Don't know if it helps, but that's not Mark Lester, it's John Howard Davies.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
So we've got 'speak, sing, ask' or 'speech, song, begging'...

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quote:

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Originally posted by jacobsen:
Praising?

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That's a fairly close synonym.

Asking isn't right for the third one, though. I think we need another hint, so here you go:

"Norman Rockwell"
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Think I've got it: this?
Four freedoms- of speech, of religion, from want, from fear- famously illustrated by Rockwell.
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Yes indeed. It's the subjects, in order, of FDR's "Four Freedoms". As expressed on the FDR memorial, these are "Freedom of Speech" - Nicola Sturgeon giving a speech
"Freedom of Worship" - people engaged in worship
"Freedom from Want" - Oliver Twist very much in want.

So a picture of Fear, or "Freedom from Fear" is the fourth in line, and Normal Rockwell's famous depiction will certainly do.

Over to you.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Thank you!
Right, bit less clever, this one, but brain is slow today. What connects
The Way Ahead
Nicholas and Alexandra
Shallow Grave
The Lair of the White Worm
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
That's a Doctor Who connection, isn't it?

I recall The Way Ahead featured William Hartnell, who went on to become the first doctor.

Shallow Grave certainly starred Christopher Eccleston, whose reign was all to short.

Not sure about the other two, but The Lair of the White Worm might have featured Matt Smith; if it's the one I'm thinking of...
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
I think Matt Smith was barely out of nappies when Lair of the White Worm was made
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
The Lair of the White Worm featured Peter Capaldi
Nicholas and Alexandra featured Tom Baker

(hooray for imdb.com)
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Didn't think that would take long! You and sipech can fight it out for setting the next one.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
What comes fourth in this sequence:

00 + 9
04 + 2
08 + 7
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
00 + 9
04 + 2
08 + 7

12 + 0

They are the years of the last four summer Olympic Games (two digits only) and the time difference in hours between the location of the games and the UK/London, allowing for the UK being on BST when the games took place.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Full marks!
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
OK, what connects...

Wolverine
Fire salamander
Black rat
Moose
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
They all have latin names where the genus and species are the same word?

The rat is Rattus rattus, the moose is Alces alces, and hopefully the others are similar.
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
yup
a quick wiki search shows
Wolverine is Gulo Gulo and
a fire salamander is Salamandra salamandra
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Yes. Please excuse brevity - on phone at w*rk!
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
OK - what connects:

1. Malich
2. Webb
3. Larkin
4. Frost
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Are they all chess players?
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Poets?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Pop Larking in Darling Buds of May

Frost in Frost

Alberto Malich in Hogfather (Terry Pratchett)

Webb (?) in Porridge

**David Jason!**
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Boogie has it. David Jason's character in Porridge is Blanco Webb - the old guy who occupies a hospital bed next to Ronnie Barker for basically a whole episode.

Your turn.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Hurrah!

What connects these four?

Syndrome

Bridge

Treaty

Hilton
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Paris ?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Nope
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Preceded by "The" and they make TV series? I am particularly thinking of The Bridge, and I believe there was The Hilton too?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
You are thinking along the right lines!
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Can be preceded by 'Stockholm'?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
You are both on the right lines
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Like others, I'm thinking of (capital) cities

Stockholm syndrome
London bridge
Berlin treaty
Paris Hilton

Is this specific enough, though?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
That's it Chapelhead
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Oh, and it's too late to think of anything clever. What connects:-

1 Gin
2 Scotch whisky
3 Brandy
4 Rum
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Alcohol ?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
They've all been smuggled into the country at some point/have been declared illegal?

There are films featuring smuggling of all of these? (E.g. "Whisky Galore", "Brandy for the Parson"?)
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Will I find the answer if I drink all four of them in order this evening?
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Racehorses?

Red Rum, Go for Gin, ...?
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
I am drinking them in every possible order, and I am not sure it is becoming any clearer to me....


 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Is it "favourite tipple of certain politicians"?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
I'll complete the sequence, to see if it makes it any clearer (or harder, for those drinking them).

1 Gin
2 Scotch whisky
3 Brandy
4 Rum
5 Rye whisky
6 Vodka

And as an extra clue - you (almost certainly) can't drink them all.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Are the numbers part of the items, or just the way you have formatted the list ?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Is this about that cocktail that's made with several different spirits?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Doublethink.:
Are the numbers part of the items, or just the way you have formatted the list ?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Ariel:
Is this about that cocktail that's made with several different spirits?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Chess games?

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Yes! They all involve playing chess with someone's life at stake.

Your turn.

[ 13. September 2015, 10:23: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I had to dig out the Harry Potter to check .

OK, next one, music and what comes next:

First one
Second one
Third one
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Seven Tears (Truly terrible catchy music)
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Nope - I'd forgotten how bad this lot was. When we get an answer I'll share something I found when finding links. Just because.

[ 13. September 2015, 11:57: Message edited by: Curiosity killed ... ]
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Would it be

Save your kisses for me

UK Eurovision entries in the mid 1970s.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Yep - and I nearly used this link but it made it too easy. It's impressive in its sheer awfulness.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Ah, those legs, I remember them well.

In honour of the presenter of the finest quiz show on television, what connects:-

Victoria Coren Mitchell
James Bond
Omar Sharif
Tobey Maguire

And clearly the answer can't be that they are the four sexiest people on the planet, because one of them is Tobey Maguire.

Oh, I've a feeling that might have been Too Much Information.
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
They all play poker?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Dafyd:
They all play poker?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Albertus:
I think they're British winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature- Rudyard Kipling, Bertrand Russell, Winston Churchill, William Golding- but is there another connection too?

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Albertus has it. (No other connection.)
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Thanks! I'll see if I can think up something a bit more challenging than my last couple.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Right: what links the following (forgive the capital letters- they're not essential to the clues or their solutions but I have put them in for a reason of my own)

ONE WHO ASSISTS AN ENDEAVOUR
ONE OF MONTMORENCY'S COMPANIONS
ONE WHO LISTENED IN PLAYGROUNDS
ONE NOTED FOR FLASH AND FAME
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I'll guess: Scottish Islands.

Reason: only on the first one, Endeavour was Inspector Morse's first name. His assistant was Lewis. Hence the Island of Lewis.

No idea if that fits the others.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Sod it, thought I was being clever! But still need the other three.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
I think you may have it! Montmorency was the dog in "Three Men in a Boat", one of whom was called "Harris". I'll keep working on the others ...
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
No inspiration has dawned ...
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I came on to say that Harris accompanied Montmorency.

Iona Opie listened in playgrounds
Stroma for the last one?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Drat, I thought of "Opie" but got the wrong one (Robert, not Iona) and couldn't see how to fit that in!
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Cara - Irene Cara from Fame and Flashdance - is also a Scottish Island

(That one's been rumbling round my head all afternoon and I've only just got home to check it.)
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Got it! All Hebridean islands- Lewis, Harris, Iona, Cara.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Does Sipech or Baptist Trainfan want to set the next clue?

(I'm not sure who's supposed to, but this is my lunchbreak and I'm not around much this week.)
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Most of mine seem to be pretty easy. Let's see if this can test you. What links these four pictures?

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
A stripy lawn, Radiohead's Street Spirit, a sequoia and a cobbler.

They're all record labels?
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
I've got a peculiar idea that these might all be pointers to a song lyric, but I'm blowed if I can think of which one. Anyway, I won't try in case I get it and all my questions are a bit lame!
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Record labels? No.

Song lyrics? No.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Is it to do with the predominant colours: green, black, red, brown?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Nope, not colours.

I'll give you a clue: picture 2 could have been this.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Irn-Bru: "made with girders".

I doubt it ...
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Are people giving up on this one?
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
not so much giving up, as stumped in the first place.
the only thing I can think of your alternative #2 helping is taking me to paranoid Android and therfore hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, but i have no idea how the other pictures fit.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Street Spirit wasn't a track from the Paranoid Android album...
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
shows you how much I know about Radiohead
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
aha !

Street Sprit was on "The Bends", and your alternative picture was the robot "Bender".

so you have straight lines, bends, crosses (X shapes) and something for the cobbler (loops ?)
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
You're right......about clue 2.

Not with the connection, though.

Looking at the jpg names won't help, as I deliberately used pictures that didn't contain the word(s) the pictures denote.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Still not got a clue

Border, bend, butt, boot

Band, bend, bind, bond


 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Let's see if you can get it if I tell you that what is being depicted is:

1. Grass
2. Bends
3. Girth
4. Shoe maker
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
Looking at the jpg names won't help, as I deliberately used pictures that didn't contain the word(s) the pictures denote.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:

1. Grass
2. Bends
3. Girth
4. Shoe maker

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quote:

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Originally posted by Doublethink.:
Translations of the names of racing drivers ?

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
You're edging marginally closer. Not translations, not specifically racing drivers, but what language did you have in mind?

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German? Is this about authors? Grass and Bender for starters, and Goethe?

And possibly Schumacher?

[ 16. September 2015, 18:51: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by L'organist (# 17338) on :
 
Is the answer Willie Schumaker, prize-winning American jockey.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I'll give that to Ariel.

It's things that sound like famous Germans.

Gunter Grass (author)
Karl Benz (motor engineer)
Johann Goethe (author)
Michael Schumacher (racing driver)
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Oooh, that was clever! Mrs. Coren-Mitchell would be proud of you.

And the next question is ...?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Can you work out the connection between:

The Mabinogion
Game of Thrones
The Dark is Rising
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
All beloved of nerds? (dives for cover).
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
No... I'll narrow this down a bit for you in a while if nobody else wants to hazard a guess.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Same plot ?
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
There have been film/TV adaptations of them all, but that can't be the link.

There's a King Arthur story in the Mabinogion, and one in the Dark is Rising, but I think not in Game of Thrones.

Is it seven?

Seven Kingdoms in Game of Thrones, Seventh son of a Seventh son in The Dark is Rising, and then I start stretching things even further and claim that there are seven (ish) stories that usually accompany the four branches of the Mabinogi
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
I think that it is King Arthur - I was going to check when I got home tonight but Leorning Cniht got there first.

I remembered the Dark is Rising links to Merlin and Arthur, but it's years since I read them. I vaguely remember that the stories of Arthur came from the same sources as the Mabinogion, but set in Wales instead of Glastonbury or Tintagel or Camelot from some book on the Arthurian legend I read one Cornish holiday.

Isn't Game of Thrones set in the world of the Once and Future King?
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Not the same plot, not King Arthur, not film/tv adaptations. It's about characters, though.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
The fisher king ?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Since my knowledge of the Dark Hunger Throne Game of Material is minimal, I'll just guess that they all have a character called 'Bob'.

Well, they would in the Blackadder version.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
No and no
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
There's a Grey King in two, but not the other.

There's a walker in two, but not the other.

There are dragons in two, but not the other.

I've read two of them, but not the other (not really a fan of Game of Porn)

They all feature brother and sister as main characters? They do, of course, but that's not exactly uncommon.

They all feature characters called "Bran"? It's not much of a link.

I'm a bit stumped.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
They all feature characters called "Bran"? It's not much of a link.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
These are not the Mars bars you are looking for.

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Holst?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 

 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
So the creator of Mars bars is Holst and the village in Derbyshire is Alsop. I thought Boogie had solved the first clue, but I'm not sure. The second clue is based on Disraeli's view of his future wife.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Is number 7 a golf club, then- is there such a thing as a 7 wood?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
You've got the right answer, but for the wrong reason. Number 7 is 'local', to you, me, everyone else on this website.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Got it! We're in the realm of orchestral conductors.

Gustav Holst, Marin Alsop, Henry Wood ... and Simon Rattle (Disraeli called his wife "a flirt and a rattle").

Or is that a complete coincidence?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Exactly right!

Shipmate number seven is 'Wood'.

'Rattle', I admit, was tough, but I've always liked the 'Mars bar' clue.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
I suppose that makes it my turn.

What about:

Boston
Ipswich
Moscow
London.

This shouldn't be too hard once you get into the right mode of thinking.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
Well, they all contain the same vowel twice, but not as a double vowel. Is that it?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Nothing like that. It's not a word play or anything of that ilk.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
They are all towns in Massachusetts ?
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
London, Moscow and Boston all have regular marathons, but Ipswich only has a half-marathon, I think, so presumably that's not it.

[ 23. September 2015, 05:39: Message edited by: Chapelhead ]
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
It is to do with the towns and where they are, nothing to do with marathons (Ipswich UK does only have a half-marathon - last Sunday in fact).

[ 23. September 2015, 06:05: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
So not Massachusetts ?

[ 23. September 2015, 06:43: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
No - if they all happen to be there, that's a coincidence I didn't know about. But you are very much on the right line.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Yes, they are, damn !
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
I know there's an Ipswich in Australia and a few other places are (similar to America) nicked from English place names.

So I'll say the link is: English towns/cities that share their names with places in Australia.
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
There is a Moscow in Ayrshire
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
well, I checked, and it's not lines of Latitude
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
They all have railway museums?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Sipech is close enough. They are all British places (as Moscow is, indeed, in Ayrshire) which are repeated elsewhere: USA, Australia, Canada - some of them (e.g. Ipswich) come more than once.

P.S. I'd love them all to have railway museums. But (in Britain) only Ipswich and London have transport museums.

[ 23. September 2015, 17:46: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
What links the following:

Hickory Dickory Dock
US Secretary of State
Richard Chamberlain
Oil, egg and vinegar
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Richard Chamberlain played Aramis in the 1973 fim The Three Musketeers. One of the other characters in this story is Cardinal Richelieu. The chef of the third Duke de Richelieu is sometimes credited with inventing mayonnaise, which is made using eggs, oil and water. Mayonnaise might be named after the town of Mahon. Alan Mahon played for Tranmere Rovers, and scored the equaliser in their one-all draw with Oxford United on 18 April 1998. Oxford University is where Bill Clinton studied. He is married to Hillary Clinton, who was US Secretary of State. The attendance at the Tranmere vs Oxford match was was 6,489. Hickory Dickory Dock has Roud Folk Song Index number 6489.

Or is that too simple?
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
Or is that too simple?

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In no parallel universe is that simple.

The right answer is, I think, much simpler than that.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
The US Secretary of State is John Kerry
Richard Chamberlain played Dr Kildare
The egg etc are ingredients of mayonnaise, familiarly known as Mayo
So we're talking Irish counties. But Hickory Dickory Dock? Can't think which of the remaining 29 it might be. Anyone else care to have a sly go (see what I did there )?
 

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Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on :
 

quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
What links the following:

Hickory Dickory Dock
US Secretary of State
Richard Chamberlain
Oil, egg and vinegar

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quote:

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
You're right, but I was thinking something simpler like this

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quote:

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
My immediate thought was the Playschool windows, for the first three, but I am not sure where triangular comes in. So I checked and apparently it was added later.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:

Purple = 34 (1863)
Brown = 25 (1906)
Light blue = 16 (1968)
Grey = 27 (1979)

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quote:

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Originally posted by Sipech:
Storytelling
Parliament
Mob
Murder

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• Childhood
• Southern Cross
• Destiny
• Eve

quote:

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Originally posted by jacobsen:
Come on, Dafyd - your turn.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Boogie:
Are the all graphic novels?

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Very, very close - I'll give you that, they are all the titles of wordless books.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Hurrah!!

Now it is Dafyd's turn
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
Am thinking of something.
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
Lawers
More
Snowdon
Pen y fan
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Highest peaks in various areas of Scotland and Wales?

Pen y Fan is the highest in the Brecon Beacons, Snowdon in Snowdonia,
Ben More is the highest in the Crianlarich Hills
Ben Lawers is the 10th highest peak in the UK and the highest in the southern Scottish Highlands
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
Kind of along the right lines, but there's a more specific reason.
I could have put Binnein in between More and Snowdon.
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
Actually I made the list late last night, so I'll alter it a bit.

Lawers
More
Binnein
Snowdon

is complete between the two ends.
(Pen y Fan would be on the list, but there would be things left out between it and Snowdon.)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Mountains?
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 
Yes. But there's a reason why those hills and not, say, Scafell Pike or Ben Lomond.
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
Are they the highest peaks in their respective mountain ranges? But that doesn't give the ordering.

Maybe it's highest UK mountains ordered by longitude? The highest mountain south of Ben Lawers is Ben More, and so on.
 

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Posted by Dafyd (# 5549) on :
 

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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
Maybe it's highest UK mountains ordered by longitude? The highest mountain south of Ben Lawers is Ben More, and so on.

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
The problem was remembering what to call the book because the title of the edition I read has definitely been changed.

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Pearl
Ruby
Peridot

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One, two,
Buckle my shoe;
Three, four,
Open the door;
Five, six,
Pick up sticks;
Seven, eight,
Lay them straight:
Nine, ten,
A big, fat hen;
Eleven, twelve,
Dig and delve;
Thirteen, fourteen,
Maids a-courting;
Fifteen, sixteen,
Maids in the kitchen;
Seventeen, eighteen,
Maids a-waiting
Nineteen, twenty,
My plate's empty.

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Originally posted by Leorning Cniht:
Chapelhead finds both my fish and the solution. I was going to pick this, though.

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Originally posted by jacobsen:
I see a sequence of vowels - not in the right order, perhaps, but pandemonium

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Half way there - but what are the two possible answers?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Now you're being facetious.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Well, I dont't think I've ever claimed to be abstemious.

LeRoc's turn.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I knew I shouldn't have done that

This one is probably too easy: one, two, three. What's next?
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 

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Originally posted by Chapelhead:
Well, I dont't think I've ever claimed to be abstemious.

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I knew I shouldn't have done that

This one is probably too easy: one, two, three. What's next?

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Doublethink.: Are they linked by the golden mean ?

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No, in fact I had to look up what the golden mean means I'd be curious to know how you think these three figures are linked to it.

The x'es on David's shoulder are irrelevant (in fact I only just saw them )
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Well, they're all biblical figures. Are their countries significant? Christ in Brazil, David in Italy, Matthew in Russia?

(I don't think it's anything to do with World Cup winners... )

[ 09. October 2015, 19:27: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 

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Ariel: Are their countries significant?

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No, I'm afraid not. I just couldn't resist putting Christ in Rio. I've seen it a number of times, it's very beautiful.

(I have a friend who lives in Rio. If you squeeze yourself behind her fridge and twist your neck in a rather unnatural way, you can just see Christ the Redeemer as a lit dot at night through a small window. She is immensely proud of this: she can see it from her home! )

[ 09. October 2015, 19:44: Message edited by: LeRoc ]
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 

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Doublethink.: Are they linked by the golden mean ?

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No, in fact I had to look up what the golden mean means I'd be curious to know how you think these three figures are linked to it.

The x'es on David's shoulder are irrelevant (in fact I only just saw them )

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Doublethink.: Well Michelangelo is known to have used the golden ratio in his work, and so do some iconographers - wasn't sure about Christ the Redeemer.

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Ariel: The fourth in the set is another icon?

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Ariel: Is it about a genealogical link?

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
It is another Biblical figure.

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Ariel: Jesus, descended from David. Matthew compiled a genealogy in his Gospel. They all had good friends named John (or Jonathan)?

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It isn't really about Christ, David and Matthew themselves.

I like the genealogy thing: one generation following another ...
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
So Christ the Redeemer is Art Deco, David is Renaissance, St Matthew is either medieval or modern in the medieval style - so maybe ... this ?

[ 09. October 2015, 20:56: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
The styles in which the images were made is not relevant. It is about Christ, David and Matthew. I just put pictures because they look pretty
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Technically my image had the holy spirit in - I was hoping the incorporeal Godhead counted as a biblical character in a succeeding generation ...

(Says she as she backpedals furiously.)
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 

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Doublethink.: Technically my image had the holy spirit in - I was hoping the incorporeal Godhead counted as a biblical character in a succeeding generation ...

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Ah yes. No, the Holy Spirit doesn't figure in this.

Christ, David, Matthew ... what does this make you think of?
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
its the David that is throwing me to be honest.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Is it old rocky?

The last three 'Doctor Who' were Christ(opher Eccleston), David Tennant and Matt(hew) Smith, the current being Peter Capaldi.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
YES!!!

[ 09. October 2015, 21:12: Message edited by: LeRoc ]
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
I'd never have got that.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Gosh, these get harder to set.

What connects...

Picture 1
Picture 2
Picture 3
Picture 4
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Very good. Now that I've had time to digest I've got the answer-I think you'd have to be crackers not to get this one.
Bourbon, Bath Oliver (which is an absolutely brilliant clue- Mr Reed of blessed memory in the tub), Nice, Lincoln- all biscuits!
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Exactly so. I wasn't sure about the second clue, but at least we get a wet and soapy Oliver Reed, so it can't be all bad.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 

OK, what comes fourth?
One
Two
Three
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Is that batsman Gary Sobers ?
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Yes
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Hmm, could it be numbers? 617 Squadron - but Sir Garfield Sobers' highest score was 365 and he took 235 test wickets and 1,043 first class wickets, so I can't see any sequence starting there. Doesn't look hopeful.

The aircraft is a Lancaster. If Sobers and played for Yorkshire it could be English royal houses, but he didn't, so it isn't.

Tricky.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I think that's the recently renamed Mount Denali in Alaska. Maybe it's about name changes?
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Two of the three pictures have been correctly identified.
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Ah, the aircraft is a Lincoln, an improved version of the Lancaster.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 

 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
John F. Kennedy: the fourth American President to be assassinated (after Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley).
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Yup, that seems right to me.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Albertus seems to have gone quiet ... so dare I start a new round?

What comes next?

Victory
Torch
Glory.

I won't give you a clue just yet, but the connection is very specific.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Death?
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Sounds like a hymn connection.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 

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Originally posted by Baptist Trainfan:
John F. Kennedy: the fourth American President to be assassinated (after Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley).

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Yes, just right, that's the one I was thinking of. I would also have accepted Harding as he was the next one to die in office.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Thanks Albertus.

My clues have nothing whatsoever to do with hymns, or death. But they are definitely subterranean.

[ 11. October 2015, 16:47: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
 

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Posted by Chapelhead (# 21) on :
 
Could they be tunnels/mines in the First World War?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Something to do with tunnels, yes; but nothing to do with the First World (or any other) War. I suggest you transport yourself eastwards.

[ 12. October 2015, 21:30: Message edited by: Baptist Trainfan ]
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Tunnels on the Kalka-Shimla Railway.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
You're right about railways (of course!), but it's the wrong country and they aren't the names of tunnels.

(Do the tunnels on the Simla railway have names? I thought they only had numbers, but I may be wrong).
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
At least one of the tunnels on the Shimla railway is called Victory tunnel, and as it has well over a hundred I thought maybe ...

[ 12. October 2015, 22:23: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Korean metro stations ?

[ 12. October 2015, 22:25: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Can you be more specific? And, if so, what's the next one in the sequence?
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Reconstruction

Last station on the Chollima line of the Pyongyang metro.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
... is the correct answer! Over to you.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 


Puts on thinking cap
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
What is the connection between:

• Cutlery
• Shoes
• The Knowledge

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Originally posted by Schroedinger's cat:
Along the same line, are they skills that show a physical difference? I believe that the Knowledge does show up in cabbies brains.

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I think I will give it you, they are all cultural products that have the incidental effect of changing the body. Only humans who use cutlery routinely have an overbite, (only the last 250 yrs in the west - a lot earlier in China), shoe wearers have differently shaped feet to non-shoe wearers, and doing the knowledge changes the shape of the hippocampus.

I thought the taxi driver connection might give it away !
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
Thank you - I think an honorary mention to Sipech who pointed me in the right direction.

I will think of a connection, and post it as soon as I can.
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
OK, what links these:

The great gig in the sky
Love is like a butterfly (Theme song)
Love to love you baby (Abigails Party)
Yellowstone park
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Hm I had a look at the chords for those three songs; couldn't find anything there.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Palmer?

Geoffrey Palmer in Butterflies,
Palmer House at Yellowstone Park
Robert Palmer - Love to Love you
I'm sure Amanda Palmer will be in there somewhere (just because we follow some of the same people on Twitter)
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
You have one small part of one clue.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Is the connection the singer Clare Torry ?
 

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Posted by Schroedinger's cat (# 64) on :
 
DoubleThink - you are a genius. Well done.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
I'm on a roll

Will go have a little think.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
OK, what is the connection:

• Prombron Monaco Red Diamond Edition SUV
• Christina
• Why brother?
• Honda Civic Kevlar Induction Kit

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Originally posted by Doublethink.:
I think I will give it you, they are all cultural products that have the incidental effect of changing the body.

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
I think the connection is whale penises.

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Yup, well done

Both the car and the yacht were reputed to have whale foreskin seats, Why brother? is a song on an album by the Cassetteboy group called Inside the Whale's cock volume 1 and and the car part is widely known as a whale's penis.

(In my defence, the car and yacht were facts on QI, cassetteboy has been referenced on BBC national news a couple of times. The car part came up when I googled whale penis for a fourth clue.)

[ 15. October 2015, 19:02: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
The connection is funny. But I admit I'd never have known without googling.
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
So do I get half marks?
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
I think maybe No prophet takes it as having got the key words first ?
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
The connection is funny. But I admit I'd never have known without googling.

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Doublethink.: I think maybe No prophet takes it as having got the key words first ?

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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:
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Obscurity? Many of these are hopelessly obscure, particularly if they are about things unique to one country, like Clare Torry (who I googled, never heard of her), The Knowledge (Googled, never heard of it).
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Schroedinger's cat: It is a voyage of discovery for everyone.

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Originally posted by LeRoc:

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Schroedinger's cat: It is a voyage of discovery for everyone.

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So just to be sure, it's OK to google in this game?

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Schroedinger's cat: For most of the questions, of course, that will not help. Like the current one.

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
Since I'm allowed to Google, what I'm getting is something to do with Magic (the Gathering).

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Originally posted by no prophet's flag is set so...:

white
blue
black
red

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Sipech: Are they the most common colours on international flags?

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In that case, green and yellow would be missing?


[ETA: I found an interesting page about the statistics of international flag colours. I like this kind of geekiness.]

[ 16. October 2015, 09:19: Message edited by: LeRoc ]
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Morgellons fibres on skin? (I'd never heard of them).
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
I suspect birds. But I'm not sure which type...
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I guess we're waiting for some prophetic words at the moment (although he may insist he isn't one )
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Liturgical colours?
 

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Posted by Wet Kipper (# 1654) on :
 
colours of collar for different kind of workers
eh blue-collar work, white collar work etc ?

though this link says Gold, not Golden

[ 16. October 2015, 12:09: Message edited by: Wet Kipper ]
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 

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Originally posted by kingsfold:
I suspect birds. But I'm not sure which type...

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This response is the closest of very far away responses because it is about natural versus nautical things.

The non-propheticalisticness is because of sleep, perchance to dream. My dream was of canoe trips in the boreal forest. They are recurrent for me.
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Herons?

(You know I'm not sure if I actually want to get this, and have the stress of setting one!)

[ 16. October 2015, 13:20: Message edited by: kingsfold ]
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
Or pine?
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Almost there with your second guess.
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
I think I should probably give it too you for "pine". The difference between pine and spruce is often not known and both are evergreens. They are all species of spruce trees, describing the hue of needles. The golden spruce is a rare mutation and not a species. Sacred to to Haida.
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
I was considering leaving it for someone else to make the final connection. Oh well.

Give me a while to come back with a new one.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Ok, now I have an image of spruce dressed up in liturgical colours wearing martial arts belts all playing quidditch. In matching colours of course

Well done kingsfold!
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
There are times when having a dominantly non-visual mind/imagination is a good thing....

OK: what links

Star of the County Down
H Dean Wagner
The Owl Pub
Penwortham, Lancs
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Kingsfold!
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
That certainly appears to be the right answer. And no-one even mentioned Ralph Vaughan Williams ... perhaps he would have been the fifth clue?
 

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Posted by kingsfold (# 1726) on :
 
I thought RVW was just a little too obvious, but clearly it didn't take too long!

Over to LeRoc...
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Nice clues!

I like doing images. What connects these? One two three four.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
So, chalice/Chrst, ?, King James' Bible and an exercise ladder(maybe Jacobs ladder ?)

So I'm going to go with biblical characters begining with J

[ 17. October 2015, 16:03: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Doublethink.: So I'm going to go with biblical characters begining with J

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Doublethink.: Do I take it is not biblical,characters then ?

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Finding out what the building is would be helpful. It isn't just any ruin.
 

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Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on :
 
The building looks awfully like the Colosseum. That would give us:

1. Priest with chalice
2. Colosseum
3. KJV bible
4. "Jacob's Ladder" domestic torture device.

Are they things that are supposed to go on forever?

The Eucharistic sacrifice is eternal, Rome won't fall unless the Colosseum does, the Bible is eternal, and Jacob's Ladder goes on forever.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
@Leorning Cnight: you've identified all images correctly, including the building. (I was looking for an image of Jacob's ladder, and thought about putting a medieval painting or so, but when I saw the image of the exercise machine I couldn't resist )

Your explanation of things going on forever is intriguing, but it isn't what I was thinking of. I mean, I could basically take anything related to religion and say "this is supposed to go on forever". There is something else that connects these images, something much simpler.

(Just to help a bit more: image 1 is about the chalice, not about the priest holding it. And in image 3, the fact that it is KJV isn't terribly important here.)
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Is the link consecration ?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Ways to heaven?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Hehe, all good ones. I see now that my clues can be interpreted in many ways, I hadn't anticipated that.

I'm looking for a place where you'd find these four things together (actually there's nine of them but I was only allowed to put four )

They're also not in the right order.

[ 18. October 2015, 11:31: Message edited by: LeRoc ]
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Damn ! I was so sure; wine consecrated to God, bible consecrated to God, colosseum consecrated to pagan Gods, Jacob waking up from his ladder dream and consecrating his pillow ...

[ 18. October 2015, 11:36: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Hehe, I know the feeling. In No prophet's challenge, I was sure that Hearthstone was the right answer.

Don't look for a characteristic that almost all religious things have in common: they last forever, they're consecrated, they point us to heaven ... I'm looking for a specific place where you can find these four (actually nine) things.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Freemason or rosicrution initiation ceremonies.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Sorry, I counted wrong. In the place I'm referring to, there are 10 items, not 9. These images refer to four of them. I chose these four more or less at random, and they're not in the right order.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Sorry, I crossposted. No, no Freemasons or the other one. Although it does feel a bit like an initiation ceremony when you come to this place the first couple of times.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Place, is that geographical like a specific church - or a type of place. So in a harware shop you could find etc. ?

(Yes, I am shamelessly begging for a clue.)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Lego! They've made them all in Lego!!
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Turner!

Turner did paintings of them and they are in the Tate Gallery!
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Yebbut - the Tate owns over 300 Turners - there are rooms of them if you go there, not just 9 or 10. There are certainly more than 9 or 10 in the National Gallery.

I was debating the British Museum and British Library for similar reasons, but there are too many other things there. And the Temple Church - because it has quite a few amazing artefacts, but that doesn't fit brilliantly.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
(I'm a bit busy right now. I'll be able to answer in a couple of hours.)
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Just throwing this wrong answer in given that there are 10: aren't there nine patriarchates in tbe Eastern Orthodox Church? Maybe there's a 10th somewhere.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Nice ones! But I don't think there are places with exactly 10 Lego objects or 10 Turner paintings which include a chalice, the Colosseum, a Bible and Jacob's Ladder.

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prophet's flag is set so...: Just throwing this wrong answer in given that there are 10: aren't there nine patriarchates in tbe Eastern Orthodox Church? Maybe there's a 10th somewhere.

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Perhaps it is mousethief? Hmm, I wonder which of the Patriarchs the Colosseum would refer to ... No, this isn't going to work.

The 10 things these items refer to, all have a different mood about them. Many people definitely have preferences among them.

(If no-one has guessed it by, say, 11-ish tomorrow morning, shall I post the other 6 images? I realise this means that the Circus Hosts must open 10 image links, but I think it can be done rather quickly.)


PS Doublethink.: good question! It isn't a geographical place, but it isn't a type of place either.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Things you have to find in a computer game?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Ooooooh! Close!
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Is this then a set of 10 objects rather than 10 objects which you'll find in one particular place?

(It isn't Tarot cards or the Stations of the Cross, anyhow.)

Is it a well-known board game?

[ 18. October 2015, 19:24: Message edited by: Ariel ]
 

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Ariel: (It isn't Tarot cards or the Stations of the Cross, anyhow.)

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No. There may have been plans to turn it into a board game in the past, but I don't think it has gone off.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Trading card games?

Pokemon?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
No. No.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
I am happy for you to post those links now if you like. As we is a little stuck.

(It seems like every town has somewhere they like to call Jacob's ladder.)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Top ten XBox games?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Alright. My reason for postponing it until tomorrow is that I'm afraid you'll guess the answer right away after I post these links

Here are the 10 images, this time in the right order:

1  2 3 4 5  6 7 8 9 x  x 12


Aand the right answer is ... (sorry Boogie, yours isn't it.)
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Are these items "easter eggs" within a videogame, menu of a DVD or a computer program? I expect if it is easter eggs, then its a DVD since you suggest its not a game yet.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
No, they are not Easter eggs. They are very visible and easy to find.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Fear not, I am now even more confused.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
I had been thinking of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - set in Borgia's Rome - but there is no Jacob's ladder connection.
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 

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No, they are not Easter eggs. They are very visible and easy to find.

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Doublethink.: I had been thinking of Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood - set in Borgia's Rome - but there is no Jacob's ladder connection.

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Ariel: There are too many possible points in each picture to focus on to be able to link them in any coherent way.

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Maybe, now that the pictures are in order, it would help if you looked at them in series. Have you figured out what the 10 pictures refer to already?

[ 18. October 2015, 20:28: Message edited by: LeRoc ]
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
That's exactly what I mean. There are now so many that I'm completely lost.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Well, I was asked to post all 10 pictures Number 2 is Jacob's ladder. Numbers 6, 7, 8 are a chalice, a Bible and the Colosseum respectively. What are the others?
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Free my mind? Okay.

DNA, the development of life, and progression of the chain of being?

Is it the Moonlight Sonata?

Or perhaps about the finding of water on Mars which signifies out eventual conquest (shudder) of the universe.

Is it a disease, and how it kills us, turning us into stardust, even the signpost should tell us how to cure it?
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
A recapitalization of Revelation? Or something weirdly biblical?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 

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no prophet's flag is set so...: Free my mind? Okay.

DNA, the development of life, and progression of the chain of being?

Is it the Moonlight Sonata?

Or perhaps about the finding of water on Mars which signifies out eventual conquest (shudder) of the universe.

Is it a disease, and how it kills us, turning us into stardust, even the signpost should tell us how to cure it?

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no prophet's flag is set so...: A recapitalization of Revelation? Or something weirdly biblical?

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Boogie: Steps to something?

Happiness, enlightenment, finding the way?

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LOL, in a way yes. But also not the answer.

Look at my posts here. Almost all of them contain a clue. In fact, I think I've given the answer already.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
There's only one such thing in the universe. It's not a geographical place, but it is a place of sorts. It is a recapitalization of Revelation. It's weirdly biblical. It is steps to happiness, enlightenment, finding the way. What is it??


 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
The Ship!!

Keyboard 1

Gets you to Heaven 2

Then Purg (business meeting) 3

etc
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Hallelujah! The 10 pictures refer to the images on the top of Ship boards.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Now you owe me 4 hours!!
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
!!!

Excellent, Le Roc

[ 18. October 2015, 21:19: Message edited by: Doublethink. ]
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Excellent Boogie!

I was so afraid that the answer would be found within 2 seconds.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
An easy one to calm all our nerves!

Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct

Stork

Jean Sibelius

25th anniversary of German reunification
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
Hallelujah! The 10 pictures refer to the images on the top of Ship boards.

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Ariel: Right. So there was no internal connection between the pictures after all. Ah well.

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But there was. My picture number 1 refers to this picture. My picture number 2 refers to this picture. Etcetera. I've never seen the programme, but I understand that this is how Only Connect works. You post four pictures, and they connect in a way people wouldn't think of at first sight. It is how my previous Dr Who question worked.

(One of the funny things for me, every time you were searching for answers to my question, you were looking at the Colosseum cartoon at the top of the Circus board )

[ 19. October 2015, 07:22: Message edited by: LeRoc ]
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
For reference.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 

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Originally posted by LeRoc:
But there was. My picture number 1 refers to this picture.

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That's not what I meant by an internal connection. Picture 1 doesn't relate directly to Picture 2, IMO.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 

 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Well, all my questions (if I win again) on this thread are going to be like this. The four biblical figures referred to the four actors who played the Doctor in NuWho. The four pictures in this question referred to four cartoons on the top of Ship boards. They all refer to something you all know, but in a different way. I think that is more fun.

Of course I can look up the Wikipedia pages of the aquaduct of Segovia and of Jean Sibelius. They'll probably have something in common and that will give me the answer to Boogie's question. And if I'm faster than the others, I will win. This is the only way I can do it, I simply don't know enough about Segovia and Sibelius to do this on my general knowledge alone.

Or in No prophet's case, there are a zillion things that can be either white, blue or black. We just needed to guess which of these happened to be in his head.

Everyone will have their own preferences. But taking something everyone knows and presenting it in a different way, so that it needs to be solved by lateral thinking, is what makes this fun to me. My next questions will be of the same kind.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Thanks for the warning. I'd assumed the game was supposed to be based on a selection of apparently random items that connected to each other. I'm not keen on picture questions, or YouTubes, so I'll sit those out in future.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Thank you, LeRoc. That seems to me to be how it's supposed to work, too.

FWIW I'm not so keen on picture clues, either - they're a bit fiddly to look up!
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I had great fun - as you can tell. And I love picture clues as all my thinking is visual (I don't think in words)

All my thinking is lateral! When LeRoc asked us to look back at his posts they were littered with clues, but I hadn't noticed them.

Hidden in plain sight!
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Let's just say that all of us like different kinds of puzzles, and this thread has the ability to cater for a range of them.


I'm working on Boogie's question ...
 

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Posted by Doublethink. (# 1984) on :
 
Part of the confusion arises, I think, because this thread a number of different games from the Only Connect series on.

There are the sequences, picture or word.
Missing vowels
Connection, picture or word - similar to the groups on the wall at the end.
Picture rounds that work as a kind of visual chardae or pun - so a hook, a house and an old bloke might be linked by 'gaff' or the pictures can be spoken in a certain way to make a phrase.

The programme includes a mix of games - some where the link is due to general knowledge, but many are to do with the visual, aural or mathematical properties of the items. It may help partcipants if the label their challenge as a knowledge question or a puzzle question ?

Or perhaps we should specify a thread for each type of game ?
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
I think maybe a thread for each type of game would be too much, considering the numbers who play.

I think labelling the post would help too much! The thing with the TV game is that there are lots of possible connections on the final board - we can't do that here, so working out the type of connection we are looking for is part of it, imo.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
(I have an idea about Boogie's question but I don't want to set the next question )
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Here it is again, what is the connection -

Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct

Stork

Jean Sibelius

25th anniversary of German reunification
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Well, each to their own. I can only say that faced with picture 1 my first thoughts were: spillage, computer failure, water and picture 2 was: exercise, fitness, indoor gym, and I could see no easy way of linking these, let alone with the other pictures. It never occurred to me that the answer was that they didn’t actually connect to each other but to their equivalents in another set. Anyhow, let’s move on and see if anyone can crack Boogie’s latest.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 

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Ariel: It never occurred to me that the answer was that they didn’t actually connect to each other but to their equivalents in another set.

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Life isn't always what you expect

Coming back to Boogie's question, on the risk of answering it, in 2015 we have the 150 year anniversary of Sibelius. It is also 30 years since the aqueduct is on UNICEF's World Heritage list. And the reunification thing is obviously an anniversary. I don't know about Stork, it can mean many things.
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
2015 is a good clue
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Ah, I know the answer.
 

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Posted by Ariel (# 58) on :
 
Stork margarine's been around for 95 years - arrived in Britain in 1920.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
There's no obvious date for all of these, but they all celebrate anniversaries in 2015, but they aren't logical centenaries or all round numbers.

(I wondered if they all occurred on the same date but the Reunification of Germany is 9 October and Sibelius was born in December)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
The dates are not all 2015 - one is 2016

(The Old Town of Segovia and its Aqueduct is 2016, the rest are 2015)

[ 20. October 2015, 07:40: Message edited by: Boogie ]
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
All these things are the subject of commemorative coins.
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
It's been a week! may I have a go, please?
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Isn't it LeRoc's go if he's got it right? But we don't know that until Boogie gets back from Tuscany and tells us.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
I've just got it! These are not just "commemorative coins", but more specifically 2 Euro commemorative coins issued by different countries during 2015. (The Stork is Latvia, by the way, not Holland).

Strangely enough a similar question was asked on Monday night's TV programme.
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
(I'd just looked the stork up as a commemorative coin and registered that, but I think we need Boogie to confirm that's what she had in mind.)
 

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Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on :
 
Yes - they are all pictures on commemorative Euros for 2015 and 2016.

Sorry I ran away to spend some before letting you know!!
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I'm not sure if it's mine or Baptist Trainfan's. If it's mine, I'd like to give it to jacobsen.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Fine by me!
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
So Kind.

What is the connection between

1. Old salt
2. Double Bass
3. Composition?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I'm going to go out on a limb here. Heavy metal.
 

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Posted by no prophet's flag is set so... (# 15560) on :
 
Antonio Salieri who composed music using thoroughbass or figured bass notation?
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
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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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
@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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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
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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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Dizzy Gillespie?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
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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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I was just thinking the same thing when I took a shower 5 minutes ago
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
I'm not impatient but ... I want to know!!
 

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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
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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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
So, should I brush up on my train knowledge?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
That's for me to know and you to find out.

Philosopher
Mercury
Clock
Hen.
 

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Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on :
 
Haydn symphonies
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Francis Bacon?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
Wow, LeRoc - way too easy for you, clearly!

Well done.
 

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Posted by Sipech (# 16870) on :
 
With the Limericks thread closed, here's a friendly nudge to LeRoc.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
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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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
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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Posted by jacobsen (# 14998) on :
 
Maggie Smith played the aunt in the film of Travels with my aunt, and the Dowager in Downton
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
She did, though it's not about her or Downton
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Graham Greene?
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
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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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
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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Posted by Salicional (# 16461) on :
 
Is it state capitals? If so, the shipwreck could be referring to Columbus.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
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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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
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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Posted by Salicional (# 16461) on :
 
Ah...Saint Paul. Clever, Albertus!
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 

One to go!
(BT- don't worry- I won't tell your congregation or your Regional Minister you couldn't spot that one! )

[ 04. December 2015, 15:18: Message edited by: Albertus ]
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
You can if you like!!!
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
Don't think the inventive dowager's really a Baptist thing, though.
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 
She's a real person, but the heroine of an Evelyn Waugh novel, too.
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
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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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
(You don't play Sporcle enough)
 

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Posted by Curiosity killed ... (# 11770) on :
 
Northern most states, or states with a border with Canada?
 

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Posted by Baptist Trainfan (# 15128) on :
 
No, but I've been to a theatre performance where the audience had to make Sporklas before the show (and wave them during it). Don't ask ...
 

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Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on :
 

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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
Northern most states, or states with a border with Canada?

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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

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Originally posted by Aravis:

Each
Range
Rape
Ear

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