History Boys v Oxonians

Series 10, Episode 2

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

Guernsey

Jersey

Clue 2

Balaclava

Clue 3

Bikini

Clue 4

Clothing named after places

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Hits in translation

Die Moritat von Mackie Messer by Bertolt Brecht (Mack the Knife), Comme d'habitude by Claude François (My Way), Io che non vivo senza te by Pino Donaggio (You Don't Have To Say You Love Me), Dorogoi dlinnoyu by Boris Fomin (Those Were The Days)

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Henry Pym

Emberiza citrinella

Clue 2

Flavivirus febricis

Clue 3

Musical subaqueous craft

Clue 4

Yellow

Yellowjacket, Yellowhammer, Yellow Fever, Yellow Submarine

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Pope John XX

The Traveling Wilburys Vol. 2

Clue 2

Australian Open 1986

Clue 3

3-13 September 1752

Clue 4

Didn't exist

Answer

𓈗 Water

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Insured by Lloyd's

Ken Dodd's teeth, Merv Hughes's moustache, Betty Grable's legs, The Titanic

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

the Biography of Great Men (Carlyle)

a race between education and catastrophe (Wells)

Clue 2

a set of lies agreed upon (Napoleon)

Clue 3

more or less bunk (Ford)

Clue 4

Descriptions of history

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) a seal pup

PEP Guardiola, Gladys Knight and the PIPs, Iggy POP, a seal PUP

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Moore: Dr. Kanaga

Dalton: Gen. Georgi Koskov

Clue 2

Brosnan: Alec Trevelyan

Clue 3

?

Craig: Le Chiffre

First villains of successive Bonds

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Savannah

Isla

Clue 2

George

Clue 3

?

Mia

The Queen's great-grandchildren

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

1st: the aqueduct

2nd: the sanitation

Clue 2

3rd: the roads

Clue 3

?

4th: irrigation

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Answer

𓈗 Water

Mortimer 1961

Haydon Jones 1969

Clue 2

Wade 1977

Clue 3

?

Murray 2013

British Wimbledon singles champions

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

6th: Heresy

7th: Violence

Clue 2

8th: Fraud

Clue 3

?

9th: Treachery

Circles of hell in Inferno

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

Shrewsbury

Wellington

Ludlow

Madeley

Shropshire towns

Answer

Bath

Boarding

Doge

Cathode

Begin with animals

Answer

Chelsea

Gum

Snow

Cowboy

Boots

Answer

Bolt

Bond

Churchill

Coward

English playwrights

Answer

𓈗 Water

Jones

Marley

Bolt

Holding

Born in Jamaica

Answer

Rockhopper

Fairy

Emperor

King

Penguin species

Answer

Spin

Macaroni

Joint

Room

Elbow __

Answer

Carrie

Basic

Hairspray

Grease

John Travolta films

Answer

Round 4

They come in twelves

LB RSFH RCLS

LABOURS OF HERCULES

T RBSFS RL

TRIBES OF ISRAEL

NG RYM N

ANGRY MEN

MN TH SFT HYR

MONTHS OF THE YEAR

TV talent shows

ST RS NTH RYS

STARS IN THEIR EYES

NWF CS

NEW FACES

P PDL

POP IDOL

PPR TN TYKN CKS

OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS

They include or contain cabbages

S RK RT

SAUERKRAUT

CLC NNN

COLCANNON

THW LRSN DTHC RPNTR

THE WALRUS AND THE CARPENTER

CRC KRJ CK

CRACKERJACK

Music-hall songs

WT NGTT HCH RCH

WAITING AT THE CHURCH

BL DBFN DC RRTS

BOILED BEEF AND CARROTS

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