Third-Place Play-Off Play-Off Special: Poptimists v Ramblers

Series Specials, Episode 64

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

Three Blind Mice

Monsieur Non

Clue 2

McDonaldland Fun Times

Clue 3

Exit polls before the poll is closed

Clue 4

Not published in the UK

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Sporting threes

Turkey (ten-pin bowling), hat-trick (football and many others), threepeat (American sports), triple crown (horse racing)

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

1970 Triple Crown winner…

Country with Suva as its capital…

Clue 2

Host city of 2022 Winter Olympics…

Clue 3

US variant spelling of “high jinks”…

Clue 4

Three consecutive tittles

Nijinsky, Fiji, Beijing, hijinx

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Trivia

French supermarket chain

Clue 2

Low-level drug dealer in The Wire

Clue 3

Soap opera set in Midlands motel

Clue 4

Up the Junctions

Tri-viae (three roads), Carrefour, Corner Boys, Crossroads

Answer

𓈗 Water

Love triangles

Au fond du temple saint by Bizet, Taste by Sabrina Carpenter, I Know Him So Well by Barbara Dickson and Elaine Page (from Chess), Jolene by Dolly Parton

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Time

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Clue 2

Plasma

Clue 3

D’Artagnan

Clue 4

Fourth of three

Dimensions, Hitchhiker's Guide books, states of matter, Musketeers

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

3rd: Andrew

3rd: Harry

Clue 2

3rd: George

Clue 3

?

3rd: Charlotte

Spare question. Third in line to the throne, through time.

Answer

𓃭 Lion

3 (1)

33 (3)

Clue 2

333 (7)

Clue 3

?

3333 (10)

3 syllables. Number of syllables in the number.

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Chess

Fünf

Clue 2

Evri

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Dire

Fün anagrams of German numbers. Sechs, Fünf, Vier, Drei.

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Japan’s international dialling code

Books of the New Testament

Clue 2

Greek muses

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Degrees

81, 27, 9, 3

Answer

𓈗 Water

London 2012

Paris 2024

Clue 2

[none, only three clues in this sequence]

Clue 3

?

Los Angeles 2028

Hosted the Summer Olympics three times

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

Ebbing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

T-Mobile

Continental

SAP

BMW

German brands

Answer

EE

TS

WB

AE

Poets' initials

Answer

Orange

Month

Silver

Purple

Words without a rhyme

Answer

Three

Blush

Vince

Grasps

Plants with an extra letter

Answer

𓈗 Water

Three

Bang

Apple

Kahuna

The Big ___

Answer

Orange

Tulips

Gouda

Sinterklass

Associated with the Netherlands

Answer

Vodafone

Aquarius

Wasserstein

Vandals

Begin with "water" in other languages

Answer

O2

Tramshed

Barrowlands

Rock City

UK music venues

Answer

Round 4

They come in threes

W SMN

WISE MEN

F RN CHH NS

FRENCH HENS

CH RS

CHEERS

RS

"R"S

Songs that reached Number 3 in the UK singles chart

MN YM NYM NY

MONEY MONEY MONEY

BG GYTR SRS

BAGGY TROUSERS

LKVR GN

LIKE A VIRGIN

BK RST RT

BAKER STREET

Phrases missing the word "three"

STR KSN DYRT

STRIKES AND YOU'RE OUT

LNW HP

LINE WHIP

TST NGT STNGNT W

TESTING TESTING ONE TWO

NT WCL CKF RCL CKRCK

ONE TWO O'CLOCK FOUR O'CLOCK ROCK

Three-part alliterative phrases

LVLG HLV

LIVE, LAUGH, LOVE

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