Chessmen v Mathematicians

Series 2, Episode 7

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𝝰 Alpha

Tour

Cavalier

Clue 2

Pion

Clue 3

Roi

Clue 4

Chess pieces in French

Rook, Knight, Pawn, King

Answer

𝝱 Beta

DALZIEL = 550

SEEDY = 400

Clue 2

EMCEE = 1100

Clue 3

IVY = 4

Clue 4

Roman numeral homophones

Answer

𝝲 Gamma

Amasie

The History of Cardenio

Clue 2

A Brilliant Career

Clue 3

Love’s Labour Won

Clue 4

Lost plays

Answer

𝝳 Delta

Sung by Marni Nixon

Honor To Us All from Mulan, Getting To Know You from The King and I, I Could Have Danced All Night from My Fair Lady, Tonight from West Side Story

Answer

𝝴 Epsilon

Khudai Khidmatar activists

Tiger Woods on the final day

Clue 2

Star Trek security officers

Clue 3

Followers of Garibaldi

Clue 4

Wear red shirts

Answer

𝝵 Zeta

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Begin with "Ts"

TSETSE fly, Morgan TSVANGIRAI, TSUNAMI, Jo-Wilfried TSONGA

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𝝰 Alpha

Clue 2

Clue 3

2 electrons

Electron shell capacity

Answer

𝝱 Beta

1485 A.D.

Elizabethan

Clue 2

Regency

Clue 3

World War I

Periods of the Blackadder series

Answer

𝝲 Gamma

Cordelia

Julia

Clue 2

Sebastian

Clue 3

Brideshead

Lord Marchmain's children in Brideshead Revisited

Answer

𝝳 Delta

mp

mf

Clue 2

f

Clue 3

ff

Musical dynamics

Answer

𝝴 Epsilon

John Beckett, 1930

Michael Heseltine, 1976

Clue 2

Ron Brown, 1988

Clue 3

John McDonnell, 2009

Famous mace protests in Parliament

Answer

𝝵 Zeta

Song

Yuan

Clue 2

Ming

Clue 3

Qing

Chinese dynasties

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𝝰 Alpha

Fu

Virgo

White

Perry

Professional snooker players

Answer

Wheel

Cobra

Lotus

Diamond

Yoga positions

Answer

Orion

Crater

Indus

Hydra

Constellations

Answer

Board

Ball

Mobile

Plough

Snow___

Answer

𝝱 Beta

Bullet

Carpet

Circle

Lantern

Magic ___

Answer

Roast

Slate

Pan

Hammer

Ways to criticise

Answer

Triangle

Square

Sine

Sawtooth

Waveforms

Answer

Robinson

Powell

Cook

Jackson

Famous Peters

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Twins

RNNND RG GK RY

RONNIE AND REGGIE KRAY

NTH NYN DPTRSH FFR

ANTHONY AND PETER SHAFFER

PL LNDRT MS

APOLLO AND ARTEMIS

RBNN DM RCGB B

ROBIN AND MAURICE GIBB

Biographical movies

LWR NCF RB

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA

WL KT HLN

I WALK THE LINE

THS NDFM SC

THE SOUND OF MUSIC

THT HRB LYNG RL

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

Doctors who were authors

RTH RCN NDYL

ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

NT NCH KHV

ANTON CHEKHOV

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