Metrophiles v Worker Bees

Series 21, Episode 27

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

One official language in Indonesia

Two Booker Prize wins of Margaret Atwood

Clue 2

Eight traditional categories of boxing weight

Clue 3

Ten Doctor Who actors up to and including David Tennant

Clue 4

The numbers is hidden in the clue

Answer

𓃭 Lion

John Newcome

Richard Smart

Clue 2

Henry Brash

Clue 3

William Friendless

Clue 4

Idiomatic names

Johnny-Come-Lately, Clever Dick, Flash Harry, Billy No Mates

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Taylor Swift exes

Ready for the Weekend by Calvin Harris, Gravity by John Mayer, As It Was by Harry Styles, About You by The 1975 (Matty Healy)

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

A misinterpretation of sunlight on clouds

A scientific rocket to study auroras

Clue 2

A Soviet submarine that went uncontacted for too long

Clue 3

A war training tape, mistakenly loaded in a computer

Clue 4

Nuclear false alarms

Answer

𓈗 Water

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Animal rocks

Elephant Rock in Saudi Arabia, Camel Rock in New Mexico, Monkey Face in Oregon, Rhino Rock in Iceland

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Performs the Heimlich manoeuvre

Carves ice sculptures

Clue 2

Changes a flat tyre

Clue 3

Learns the piano

Clue 4

Groundhog Day

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

Add 4 Es at the bottom

SLEEVELESS

Answer

𓃭 Lion

N. Richie (Lionel’s daughter)

E. Windsor (George VI’s daughter)

Clue 2

P. Schwarzenegger (Arnold’s son)

Clue 3

?

O. Jackson (Ice Cube's son)

NEPO babies

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Sgt: We play maracas

Lt: Case ban

Clue 2

Capt: Fouling bad burdock

Clue 3

?

Col: Cannibal myth

We daydream (The A-Team). BA Baracus, Face Man, Howling Mad Murdock, Hannibal Smith.

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

ABC

123

Clue 2

Do, Re, Mi

Clue 3

?

ABC

ABC by The Jackson 5

Answer

𓈗 Water

4th: Two women in the USA (Massachusetts)

3rd: Two men in Canada (Ontario)

Clue 2

2nd: Two women in Belgium

Clue 3

?

1st: Two men in the Netherlands

First countries with legalised same-sex marriage

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

King defeated by Henry Tudor

Waged

Clue 2

Conflict

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Without success

Richard of York, Gave, Battle, In vain

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

Helium

Lead

Party

Weather

___ balloon

Answer

Aluminium

Caesium

Traveller

Colour

Different spelling in US English

Answer

Gold

Bowline

Polk

Darth

Sports with last letter changed

Answer

Palladium

Plutonium

Tellurium

Monday

Named after celestial bodies

Answer

𓈗 Water

Aluminium

Tin

Cooking

Kitchen

Different names for cooking foil

Answer

Argon

Booth

Primary

Lido

Shops with last letter changed

Answer

Cerium

Uranium

Selenium

Sunday

Named after celestial bodies

Answer

Nickel

Silver

Flash

Feed

___back

Answer

Round 4

What you get for finishing third and where

BRN ZM DLN D THSM MRL YMPCS

(A) BRONZE MEDAL AND THE SUMMER OLYMPICS

BRNZM DLNDT HWNT RLYM PCS

(A) BRONZE MEDAL AND THE WINTER OLYMPICS

CHMP NSL GP LCN DT HPR MRLG

(A) CHAMPIONS LEAGUE PLACE AND THE PREMIER LEAGUE

NT HNGN DN LYCN NCT

NOTHING AND ONLY CONNECT

Famous people and the things they opened

QNV CTR ND THR YLL BR THLL

QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL

TN YBL RND THL NDN Y

TONY BLAIR AND THE LONDON EYE

JY NMN SFL DND THCH SW CKFL YVR

JAYNE MANSFIELD AND THE CHISWICK FLYOVER

HRB RT HVRN DTH MPR ST TBL DNG

HERBERT HOOVER AND THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

Two wrongs do make a right

THP RCSW RN GWR NG

THE PRICE IS WRONG WRONG

W R NGW RNGT RP LY

WRONG WRONG TO REPLY

THW RNGW RN GTKP N DB RRMS

THE WRONG WRONG TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS

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