User:SGuySMW/things/only connect: Difference between revisions
< User:SGuySMW | things
(wip) |
(→4) |
||
| (10 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 20: | Line 20: | ||
*'''[[:Category:Tobacco|Tobacco]]''': [[screw]], [[grass]], [[snout]], [[lag]] | *'''[[:Category:Tobacco|Tobacco]]''': [[screw]], [[grass]], [[snout]], [[lag]] | ||
*'''[[:Category:Nick|Nick]]''': [[Santa Claus]], [[Satan]], [[Nick Bottom|Bottom]], [[Dr. Nick|Dr. Riviera]] | *'''[[:Category:Nick|Nick]]''': [[Santa Claus]], [[Satan]], [[Nick Bottom|Bottom]], [[Dr. Nick|Dr. Riviera]] | ||
*'''[[:Category:Words for 0|Words for 0]]''': [[love]], [[zip]], [[goose egg]], [[duck]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Fictional captains|Fictional captains]]''': Sparrow, [[Captain Hook|Hook]], Haddock, [[Ahab]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Flying (word)|Flying (word)]]''': [[flying fox|fox]], [[flying ace|ace]], [[flying fish|fish]], [[flying buttress|buttress]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Playing card nicknames|Playing card nicknames]]''': [[bullet]], [[cowboy]], [[deuce]], [[crab]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Dishes made using eggs|Dishes made using eggs]]''': [[meringue]], [[omelette]], [[mousse]], [[frittata]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Famous mathematicians|Famous mathematicians]]''': [[Alan Turing]], [[Archimedes]], [[René Descartes]], [[Blaise Pascal]] | |||
===2=== | ===2=== | ||
*'''[[:Category:17|17]]''': [[haiku]], [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]], [[chlorine]], [[Stalag 17]] | *'''[[:Category:17|17]]''': [[haiku]], [[Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress]], [[chlorine]], [[Stalag 17]] | ||
| Line 33: | Line 39: | ||
*'''[[:Category:Currencies of Germany|Currencies of Germany]]''': [[Rentenmark]], bad, [[Deutschmark]], [[euro]] | *'''[[:Category:Currencies of Germany|Currencies of Germany]]''': [[Rentenmark]], bad, [[Deutschmark]], [[euro]] | ||
*'''[[:Category:British royal houses|British royal houses]]''': [[House of Lancaster]], [[House of York]], [[House of Tudor]], [[House of Stuart]] | *'''[[:Category:British royal houses|British royal houses]]''': [[House of Lancaster]], [[House of York]], [[House of Tudor]], [[House of Stuart]] | ||
*'''[[:Category:Water|Water]]''': [[tonic water]], [[heavy water]], [[bath water]], [[barley water]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Chancellors of the Exchequer|Chancellors of the Exchequer]]''': Major, Clarke, Darling, Brown | |||
*'''[[:Category:Morris cars|Morris cars]]''': Marina, Minor, Oxford, Isis | |||
*'''[[:Category:Things denoted by "PC"|Things denoted by "PC"]]''': [[computer]], [[constable]], [[%]], [[postcard]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:English cricket captains|English cricket captains]]''': May, Gower, Lamb, Fry | |||
*'''[[:Category:Trees|Trees]]''': [[cork]], [[ash]], [[lime]], [[willow]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Presidential candidates who lost|Presidential candidates who lost]]''': [[Jimmy Carter|Carter]], [[Bob Dole|Dole]], [[Al Gore|Gore]], [[George H. W. Bush|Bush]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Irish counties|Irish counties]]''': [[County Galway|Galway]], [[County Mayo|Mayo]], [[County Clare|Clare]], [[County Kerry|Kerry]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Wading birds|Wading birds]]''': [[oystercatcher]], [[avocet]], [[ibis]], [[ringed plover]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Booker Prize-winning novels|Booker Prize-winning novels]]''': [[The Ghost Road]], [[Life of Pi]], [[Oscar and Lucinda]], [[Vernon God Little]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Proverbs about money|Proverbs about money]]''': [[every man has his price]], [[a fool and his money are soon parted]], [[a rising tide lifts all boats]], [[there's no such thing as a free lunch]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Famous Westerns|Famous Westerns]]''': [[Rio Grande (1950 film)|Rio Grande]], [[Once Upon a Time in the West]], [[Fort Apache]] | |||
===3=== | |||
*'''[[:Category:Epistolary novels|Epistolary novels]]''': [[Frankenstein]], [[We Need to Talk About Kevin]], [[Clarissa]], [[Les Liaisons dangereuses]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Self-penned epitaphs|Self-penned epitaphs]]''': [[quoth the Raven "Nevermore."]], [[don't cry for me Argentina]], [[that's all, folks]]!, [[I told you I was ill]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:People with palindromic surnames|People with palindromic surnames]]''': [[Yoko Ono]], [[John Hannah]], [[Monica Seles]], [[Trevor Eve]] | |||
*dunno if that would be appropriate | |||
*'''[[:Category:Card games|Card games]]''': [[Pope Joan]], [[Black Maria]], [[Newmarket]], [[Cheat]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Operatic iconic duos|Operatic iconic duos]]''': [[Pelleas and Melisande]], [[Romeo and Juliet]], [[Tristan und Isolde]], [[Porgy and Bess]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Eurovision Song Contest winners|Eurovision Song Contest winners]]''': [[Tu te reconnaîtras]], [[Waterloo]], [[Ding-a-dong]], [[Save Your Kisses for Me]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Quarter Days in England and Wales|Quarter Days in England and Wales]]''': [[March 25]], [[June 24]], [[September 29]], [[December 25]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Noble gases|Noble gases]]''': [[helium|He]], [[neon|Ne]], [[argon|ar]], [[krypton|Kr]] | |||
*it's the SIX GRANDFATHERS, not mount rushmore | |||
*'''[[:Category:Civil courts in England and Wales|Civil courts in England and Wales]]''': [[county court|county]], [[high court|court]], [[Court of Appeal|Appeal]], [[House of Lords]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Oranges and Lemons|Oranges and Lemons]]''': [[Old Bailey]], [[Shoreditch]], [[Stepney]], [[Bow]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Irish counties|Irish counties]]''': [[County Cork|Cork]], [[County Wexford|Wexford]], [[County Longford|Longford]], [[County Clare|Clare]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:TV doctors|TV doctors]]''': Martin, Quinn, Kildare, House | |||
*'''[[:Category:Trees|Trees]]''': [[hazel]], [[quince]], [[rowan]], [[myrtle]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Houses|Houses]]''': [[Somerset House|Somerset]], [[opera house|opera]], [[Wendy House|Wendy]], [[Heartbreak House|Heartbreak]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Fictional detectives|Fictional detectives]]''': Rebus, Hammer, Wimsey, Spade | |||
*'''[[:Category:Puzzles|Puzzles]]''': [[monkey puzzle|monkey]], [[Chinese puzzle|Chinese]], [[jigsaw puzzle|jigsaw]], [[crossword]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Fabrics|Fabrics]]''': terry, drill, wincey, jersey | |||
*'''[[:Category:Tools|Tools]]''': [[trowel]], [[pick]], [[riddle (tool)|riddle]], [[wimble]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Soups and stews|Soups and stews]]''': [[bouillabaisse]], [[carrot and coriander]], [[crab bisque]], [[cioppino]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Terms in mechanical physics|Terms in mechanical physics]]''': [[elastic collision]], [[inertia]], [[potential energy]], [[acceleration]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Presidential quotations|Presidential quotations]]''': [[you can fool all the people some of the time]], [[ich bin ein Berliner]], [[there can be no whitewash at the White House]], rule 4 | |||
*'''[[:Category:Tiebreakers in Only Connect|Tiebreakers in Only Connect]]''': [[Albert Einstein]] | |||
===4=== | |||
*'''[[:Category:People who were poisoned|People who were poisoned]]''': [[Socrates]], [[Snow White]], [[Emma Bovary]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:People accused of stealing food|People accused of stealing food]]''': [[Knave of Hearts]], [[Isobel Barnett]], [[Richard Madeley]], [[Goldilocks]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Literary ghosts|Literary ghosts]]''': [[Peter Quint]], [[Elvira Condomine]], [[King Hamlet]], [[Sir Simon de Canteville]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Backwords|Backwords]]''': [[looter]], [[drawer]], [[desserts]], [[lamina]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Rhapsodies|Rhapsodies]]''': [[Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini]], [[Rhapsody in Blue]], [[Hungarian Rhapsody]], [[Bohemian Rhapsody]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Scales|Scales]]''': [[Wentworth scale|Wentworth]], [[Modified Mercalli intensity scale|Mercalli]], [[Scoville scale|Scoville]], [[Mohs scale|Mohs]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Highest mountains|Highest mountains]]''': [[Lhotse]], [[Kangchenjunga]], [[K2]], [[Mount Everest]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Characters with seasons in their names|Characters with seasons in their names]]''': [[Spring-heeled Jack]], [[Donna Summer]], [[Autumn Kelly]], [[Johnny Winter]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Hindu castes|Hindu castes]]''': [[Sudra]], [[Vaishya]], [[Kshatriya]], [[Brahman]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Precious gems and minerals|Mohs scale of hardness]]''': [[quartz]], [[topaz]], [[corundum]], [[diamond]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Car registration year identifiers|Car registration year identifiers]]''': [[Y]], [[51]], [[02]], [[52]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Grand Slam surfaces in tennis|Grand Slam surfaces in tennis]]''': [[Plexicushion]], [[clay]], [[grass]], [[hard court]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:The Wombles|The Wombles]]''': [[Alderney]], [[Bulgaria]], [[Tobermory]], [[Orinoco]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:"New" states|"New" states]]''': [[New Jersey|Jersey]], [[New York|York]], [[New Hampshire|Hampshire]], [[New Mexico|Mexico]] | |||
*dunno if that would be appropriate | |||
*'''[[:Category:Beef (word)|Beef (word)]]''': [[tea]], [[Wellington]], [[jerky]], [[Stroganoff]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:London Underground lines|London Underground lines]]''': [[Northern line|Northern]], [[District line|District]], [[Circle line|Circle]], [[Jubilee line|Jubilee]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Horse riding styles|Horse riding styles]]''': western, English, bareback, jumping | |||
*'''[[:Category:(word) cross|(word) cross]]''': [[Crux|Southern]], [[Maltese cross|Maltese]], [[Victoria Cross|Victoria]], [[International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement|Red]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Time zones|Time zones]]''': [[Eastern Time Zone|Eastern]], [[Central Time Zone|Central]], [[Mountain Time Zone|Mountain]], [[Pacific Time Zone|Pacific]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Famous TV news readers|Famous TV news readers]]''': [[Sue Lawley]], [[George Alagiah]], [[Moira Stewart]], [[Robert Dougall]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Beethoven piano sonatas|Beethoven piano sonatas]]''': [[Piano Sonata No. 8 (Beethoven)|Pathétique]], [[Piano Sonata No. 23 (Beethoven)|Appassionata]], [[Piano Sonata No. 29 (Beethoven)|Hammerklavier]], [[Piano Sonata No. 21 (Beethoven)|Waldstein]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Potato varieties|Potato varieties]]''': [[Désirée potato|Désirée]], [[Red Pontiac]], [[Estima]], [[Maris Piper]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Mike Leigh films|Mike Leigh films]]''': [[Career Girls]], [[Vera Drake]], [[All or Nothing]], [[Life is Sweet]] | |||
*'''[[:Category:Rivers|Rivers]]''': [[Indus River|Indus]], [[Orinoco]], [[Seine]] | |||
Latest revision as of 21:44, 24 October 2024
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
SPOILER WALL
1
1
- People who stood for the Parliament of the United Kingdom unsuccessfully: Auberon Waugh, Bertrand Russell, Robin Day, Screaming Lord Sulch
- Items on the Moon: hammer / feather, Flag of the United States, Eugene Shoemaker, Golf Ball
- Things developed by monks: pretzel, bookkeeping, kung fu, genetics
- Pieces with "night" in the title: Les nuits d'été, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Night Train, Summer Nights
- Stories with reverse chronology: Merrily We Roll Along, Betrayal, Memento, Time's Arrow
- Locations of the Seven Ancient Wonders of the World: Olympia, Babylon, Alexandria, Rhodes
- 7 Ages of Man: infant, whining schoolboy, lover, soldier
- Prime Ministers of the United Kingdom: Gordon Brown, Tony Blair, John Major, Margaret Thatcher
- Pythagorean triples: 7, 24, 25; 6, 8, 10; 5, 12, 13; 3, 4, 5
- dunno if that would be appropriate
- Colors on an archery target: gold, red, blue, black
- Thunderbirds pilots: Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon
- Rubber things: elastic band, puck, squash ball, rule 4
- Quarks: up, down, charm, strange
- Tobacco: screw, grass, snout, lag
- Nick: Santa Claus, Satan, Bottom, Dr. Riviera
- Words for 0: love, zip, goose egg, duck
- Fictional captains: Sparrow, Hook, Haddock, Ahab
- Flying (word): fox, ace, fish, buttress
- Playing card nicknames: bullet, cowboy, deuce, crab
- Dishes made using eggs: meringue, omelette, mousse, frittata
- Famous mathematicians: Alan Turing, Archimedes, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal
2
- 17: haiku, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, chlorine, Stalag 17
- Previous names of bands: Silmarillion, Arabicus Pulp, Tyrannosaurus, The Troglodytes
- Halves: semibreve, half crown, half hitch knot, half of beer
- dunno if that would be appropriate
- Settings of Shakespearean works: My Love is as a Fever, Who is Sylvia?, Oh Mistress Mine, It Was a Lover and His Lass
- Translators of the Bible: Jerome, Erasmus, Martin Luther, William Tyndale
- nah
- M1 service stations: Toddington, Newport Pagnell, Northampton, Watford Gap
- Pairs of prime numbers: 23, 57, 1113, 1719
- Things given on wedding anniversary decades: tin, china, pearl, ruby
- Currencies of Germany: Rentenmark, bad, Deutschmark, euro
- British royal houses: House of Lancaster, House of York, House of Tudor, House of Stuart
- Water: tonic water, heavy water, bath water, barley water
- Chancellors of the Exchequer: Major, Clarke, Darling, Brown
- Morris cars: Marina, Minor, Oxford, Isis
- Things denoted by "PC": computer, constable, %, postcard
- English cricket captains: May, Gower, Lamb, Fry
- Trees: cork, ash, lime, willow
- Presidential candidates who lost: Carter, Dole, Gore, Bush
- Irish counties: Galway, Mayo, Clare, Kerry
- Wading birds: oystercatcher, avocet, ibis, ringed plover
- Booker Prize-winning novels: The Ghost Road, Life of Pi, Oscar and Lucinda, Vernon God Little
- Proverbs about money: every man has his price, a fool and his money are soon parted, a rising tide lifts all boats, there's no such thing as a free lunch
- Famous Westerns: Rio Grande, Once Upon a Time in the West, Fort Apache
3
- Epistolary novels: Frankenstein, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Clarissa, Les Liaisons dangereuses
- Self-penned epitaphs: quoth the Raven "Nevermore.", don't cry for me Argentina, that's all, folks!, I told you I was ill
- People with palindromic surnames: Yoko Ono, John Hannah, Monica Seles, Trevor Eve
- dunno if that would be appropriate
- Card games: Pope Joan, Black Maria, Newmarket, Cheat
- Operatic iconic duos: Pelleas and Melisande, Romeo and Juliet, Tristan und Isolde, Porgy and Bess
- Eurovision Song Contest winners: Tu te reconnaîtras, Waterloo, Ding-a-dong, Save Your Kisses for Me
- Quarter Days in England and Wales: March 25, June 24, September 29, December 25
- Noble gases: He, Ne, ar, Kr
- it's the SIX GRANDFATHERS, not mount rushmore
- Civil courts in England and Wales: county, court, Appeal, House of Lords
- Oranges and Lemons: Old Bailey, Shoreditch, Stepney, Bow
- Irish counties: Cork, Wexford, Longford, Clare
- TV doctors: Martin, Quinn, Kildare, House
- Trees: hazel, quince, rowan, myrtle
- Houses: Somerset, opera, Wendy, Heartbreak
- Fictional detectives: Rebus, Hammer, Wimsey, Spade
- Puzzles: monkey, Chinese, jigsaw, crossword
- Fabrics: terry, drill, wincey, jersey
- Tools: trowel, pick, riddle, wimble
- Soups and stews: bouillabaisse, carrot and coriander, crab bisque, cioppino
- Terms in mechanical physics: elastic collision, inertia, potential energy, acceleration
- Presidential quotations: you can fool all the people some of the time, ich bin ein Berliner, there can be no whitewash at the White House, rule 4
- Tiebreakers in Only Connect: Albert Einstein
4
- People who were poisoned: Socrates, Snow White, Emma Bovary
- People accused of stealing food: Knave of Hearts, Isobel Barnett, Richard Madeley, Goldilocks
- Literary ghosts: Peter Quint, Elvira Condomine, King Hamlet, Sir Simon de Canteville
- Backwords: looter, drawer, desserts, lamina
- Rhapsodies: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Rhapsody in Blue, Hungarian Rhapsody, Bohemian Rhapsody
- Scales: Wentworth, Mercalli, Scoville, Mohs
- Highest mountains: Lhotse, Kangchenjunga, K2, Mount Everest
- Characters with seasons in their names: Spring-heeled Jack, Donna Summer, Autumn Kelly, Johnny Winter
- Hindu castes: Sudra, Vaishya, Kshatriya, Brahman
- Mohs scale of hardness: quartz, topaz, corundum, diamond
- Car registration year identifiers: Y, 51, 02, 52
- Grand Slam surfaces in tennis: Plexicushion, clay, grass, hard court
- The Wombles: Alderney, Bulgaria, Tobermory, Orinoco
- "New" states: Jersey, York, Hampshire, Mexico
- dunno if that would be appropriate
- Beef (word): tea, Wellington, jerky, Stroganoff
- London Underground lines: Northern, District, Circle, Jubilee
- Horse riding styles: western, English, bareback, jumping
- (word) cross: Southern, Maltese, Victoria, Red
- Time zones: Eastern, Central, Mountain, Pacific
- Famous TV news readers: Sue Lawley, George Alagiah, Moira Stewart, Robert Dougall
- Beethoven piano sonatas: Pathétique, Appassionata, Hammerklavier, Waldstein
- Potato varieties: Désirée, Red Pontiac, Estima, Maris Piper
- Mike Leigh films: Career Girls, Vera Drake, All or Nothing, Life is Sweet
- Rivers: Indus, Orinoco, Seine