Brews v Ancient Alumni

Series 14, Episode 23

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Pop stars who joined EastEnders

One Love by Blue (Lee Ryan), A Message To Your Heart by Samantha Janus, Gonna Make You A Star by David Essex, Gold by Spandau Ballet (Martin Kemp)

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Nicknamed "The Big ___"

Clemenceau, Wilson and Lloyd-George (The Big Three), Ernie Els (The Big Easy), New York (The Big Apple), Billy Connolly (The Big Yin)

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

3.1416…

1.6180…

2.71828…

Clue 2

1,000,000

1,000,000,000

Clue 3

Clue 4

Rhyming numbers

Pi and phi, three and e, million and billion, seven and eleven

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Richard and Natalie Gillespie

Zeus and Hera

Clue 2

Nat and Georgia Simpson

Clue 3

Jaime and Cersei Lannister

Clue 4

Incestuous siblings

Answer

𓈗 Water

Park Geun-hye 2013-17

William Morris 1860-65

Clue 2

Van Gogh & Gauguin 1888

Clue 3

Barack & Michelle Obama 2009-17

Clue 4

Residents of coloured houses

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Interrupting

Landscaping

Clue 2

Bikini

Clue 3

Explaining

Clue 4

Man- neologisms

Manterrupting, manscaping, mankini, mansplaining

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

I: William II

II: Henry I

Clue 2

III: Anne

Clue 3

IV: Victoria

Successors to Kings William

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Corner 8

Street 11

Clue 2

Split 17

Clue 3

Straight 35

Roulette bets

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Bo, the Obamas' dog

Bonobono, Bonobo, Bono, Bo

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Mathematical

Quadratical

Clue 2

Lot o’news

Clue 3

Hypotenuse

The Modern Major-General by Gilbert and Sullivan

Answer

𓈗 Water

Mr Brownlow: 1

Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman: 2

Clue 2

Gru: 3

Clue 3

(e.g.) Madonna: 4

Adoptive parents of 1, 2, 3, 4 children

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Austria (and 2 others)

Cyprus (and 9 others)

Clue 2

Romania and Bulgaria

Clue 3

Croatia

EU accession

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Summer

Liberty

Joaquin

Rain

Phoenix siblings

Answer

Pitt

Trudeau

Bush

Kim

Father and son leaders

Answer

Governors

U Thant

Roosevelt

Ellis

New York islands

Answer

World

Food

Sperm

River

Banks

Answer

𓈗 Water

Hot Spot

VAR

Hawk-Eye

Cyclops

Sport decision making systems

Answer

Caption

Motto

Rubric

Colophon

Types of inscriptions

Answer

Minotaur

Locke

Legend

Dunkirk

Tom Hardy films

Answer

Chimera

Typhon

Hydra

Cerberus

Greek mythological creatures

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Educational establishments that don't exist

FTL GH TSCL LG

FOOTLIGHTS COLLEGE

THN VRS TYFLF

THE UNIVERSITY OF LIFE

THS CH LFH RDK NC KS

THE SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

MN ST RSN VR STY

MONSTERS UNIVERSITY

Keepers and what kind of keeper they are

LVRM LL RSN DGMK PR

OLIVER MELLORS AND GAMEKEEPER

JN NYB RST WNDW CK TKPR

JONNY BAIRSTOW AND WICKETKEEPER

JHNS PN LLN DZK PR

JOHN ASPINALL AND ZOOKEEPER

DVDS MNN DG LKPR

DAVID SEAMAN AND GOALKEEPER

Films in which a lead character is called Tommy

GDFL LS

GOODFELLAS

THR GRT SMV

THE RUGRATS MOVIE

TM MY

TOMMY