Metrophiles v 5Ks

Series 21, Episode 25

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

There’s too much confusion

I wanted to be the first kid on my block to get a confirmed kill

Clue 2

Why so serious?

Clue 3

I speak of the pompatus of love

Clue 4

Said by Jokers

All Along The Watchtower, Full Metal Jacket, The Dark Knight, The Joker

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Arsenal

Ghetto

Clue 2

Lagoon

Clue 3

Lido

Clue 4

Venetian exports

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

To celebrate John Paul II’s visit

-L

In the world of BoJack Horseman

-D

Clue 2

After 26 years

-LAND

Clue 3

To promote the 2028 Olympics

+OOO

Clue 4

HOLLYWOOD sign alterations

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Superimposed symbols

CND (Peace), Bluetooth, Power, Chi-Rho

Answer

𓈗 Water

Places of origin

Modern Girl by Sleater-Kinney, YMCA by The Village People, Stay Another Day by East 17, If You Leave Me Now by Chicago

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

The end of the Albigensian Crusade

The end of the American Revolutionary War

Clue 2

The end of the Seven Years’ War

Clue 3

The end of the Crimean War

Clue 4

We'll always have Paris

Ended with a Treaty of Paris

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

Without which not

Whatever will be, will be

Clue 2

Shame to whoever thinks evil of it

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Something for something

Sine QUA non, QUE sera sera, honi soit QUI mal y pense, quid pro QUO

Answer

𓃭 Lion

The British monarch’s head

Japanese plants (mostly)

Clue 2

A map of Europe

Clue 3

?

US presidents (mostly)

Coins of the most-traded currencies. GBP, JPY, EUR, USD.

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

People born in 1722 turned 42 in 1764

People born in 1806 turned 43 in 1849

Clue 2

People born in 1892 turned 44 in 1936

Clue 3

?

People born in 1980 turned 45 in 2025

Age is square root of the year

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Bicycle Thieves (1952)

Citizen Kane (1962, 1972, 1982, 1992, 2002)

Clue 2

Vertigo (2012)

Clue 3

?

Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce 1080 Bruxelles (2022)

Sight and Sound Critics Poll

Answer

𓈗 Water

Sleeping in a bed “with sheets”

Drinking “to excess”

Clue 2

Killing another animal “without cause”

Clue 3

?

Being equal "but some animals are more equal than others"

Amendments to the Seven Commandments of Animalism

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) a Cardiff City strip

Football clubs in progressively larger settlements. Dulwich HAMLET, Llansantffraid VILLAGE, Huddersfield TOWN, Cardiff CITY.

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

Crime

Dombey

Pride

War

First words in "___ and ___" book titles

Answer

Atlas

Clavicle

Ethmoid

Radius

Bones in the body

Answer

Drakensberg

Hoggar

Nuba

Ogo

African mountain ranges

Answer

One clog

Sternum

Reddens

Sense

Anagrams of German cities

Answer

𓈗 Water

Much

Onion camp

Team

Finder

Anagram of "friend"

Answer

John

Will

Allan

Tuck

Merry Men

Answer

Stable

Stale

Soul

House

___mate

Answer

Hammer

Pebble

Skip

Bonspiel

Curling terminology

Answer

Round 4

Group photos at a wedding

F ML YFT HG RM

FAMILY OF THE GROOM

T HB R DLPR TY

THE BRIDAL PARTY

SC HLF RN DS

SCHOOL FRIENDS

THH PP YCP L

THE HAPPY COUPLE

Famous line-ups missing a John

PLG RGN DR NG

PAUL, GEORGE AND RINGO

MTT HWM RKN DLK

MATTHEW, MARK AND LUKE

MCH LTR RYTR RYG RHMN DRC

MICHAEL, TERRY, TERRY, GRAHAM AND ERIC

WL LYW LLYHRR YSTH RRYD CKHR RYTH R

WILLY, WILLY, HARRY, STEE, HARRY, DICK, HARRY THREE

A Charles Dickens novel merged with a film

DVDC PPR FLDFD RMS

DAVID COPPERFIELD OF DREAMS

BLK HSP RTY

BLEAK HOUSE PARTY

MR TNC HZ ZLW THN LND

MARTIN CHUZZLEWITHNAIL AND I

LVRT WS TR

OLIVER TWISTER

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