Politics: Politicians v Activists

Specials, Episode 37

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Martin Luther King Junior

King James I having Guy Fawkes executed

Clue 2

Xhosa warriors vs. Upington’s Trekboer soldiers

Clue 3

Zealots yelling xenophobically will vote unpredictably, typically speaking

Clue 4

Historical guise for easy distraction: clues backwards alphabetically

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Pork ___

Barrel, Belly, Markets, Scratching

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Ed Balls

Clue 2

310-954-7277 Call me bro. C

Clue 3

Tweets on Winston Peters NZ politician

Clue 4

Accidental tweets

Ed Balls, Rupert Murdoch, Charlie Sheen, Winston Peters

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Two New York City city council members (1940s)

Largest party in the French National Assembly (1946)

Clue 2

Five British MPs (between 1920 and 1950)

Clue 3

All Romanian office holders (1948-1989)

Clue 4

Members of the Communist party

Answer

𓈗 Water

Diane Abbott

and

Jamaican politics

Peter Tatchell

and

Malcolm X

Clue 2

Edwina Currie

and

Marie Curie

Clue 3

David Lammy

and

Muhammad Ali

Clue 4

Mastermind specialist subjects

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Bossing people about

Be Strong by Delta Goodrem, You Should Be Dancing by The Bee Gees, You Must Love Me from Evita, Don't Be Cruel by Elvis Presley

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

Person seeking elections

Thrush fungus

Clue 2

Soul singer Staton

Clue 3

(e.g.) "Yes We..."

Candidate, Candida, Candi, Can

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

Alec Douglas-Home

Football's coming home. Michael FOOT, Ed BALLS, Dominic CUMMINGs, Alec Douglas-HOME.

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Entente Cordiale

AUKUS

Clue 2

The Big Four

Clue 3

(e.g.) Quintuple Alliance

International cooperation

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Drink your ale and pick up your cigarettes

There’s an argument happening in Berkshire

Clue 2

Take out your carpet and worship in an occidental direction

Clue 3

I'll take out my one and supplicate on my own behalf

The Eton Rifles by The Jam. Sup up your beer and collect your fags, There's a row going on down near Slough, Get out your mat and pray to the west, I'll get out mine and pray for myself.

Answer

𓈗 Water

Panama: somewhat disappointing

Philippines: average

Clue 2

New Zealand: good

Clue 3

(e.g.) China: excellent

Flag reviews. 2 stars, 3 stars, 4 stars, 5 stars.

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Raith Rovers

Leeds United

Clue 2

Arsenal

Clue 3

Arsenal

Football teams supported by Labour leaders. Gordon Brown, Ed Miliband, Jeremy Corbyn, Keir Starmer.

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Globe

State

Ratio

Ticket

Golden ___

Answer

Realm

Nation

Kingdom

Homeland

Country

Answer

Roar

Streep

Land

Alles

Streets with last letter changed

Answer

Manville

Brown

Riseborough

Anderson

Played Thatcher

Answer

𓈗 Water

Alternative fact

Fudge

Untruth

Dissimulation

Lie

Answer

Ward

Spall

Finney

Oldman

Played Churchill

Answer

County

Knickers

Zero

Porkie

Chocolate bars with first letter changed

Answer

Borough

Parish

District

Constituency

Administrative divisions

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

A year and who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in that year

NN T NNN T YNNN DB RWN

NINETEEN NINETY-NINE AND BROWN

TWT HS NDN DS XN DB RWN

TWO THOUSAND AND SIX AND BROWN

TWN TYT WL VN DSB RN

TWENTY TWELVE AND OSBORNE

TWN TYT WN TYT WND SN KZH WKW RTN GN DH NT

TWENTY TWENTY-TWO AND SUNAK, ZAHAWI, KWARTENG AND HUNT

Left and right

BNK SFT HSN

BANKS OF THE SEINE

SDS FTH B RN

SIDES OF THE BRAIN

WN GSNF TBLL

WINGS IN FOOTBALL

L GGG NDN GL

LUGGAGE AND ANGLE

Parliamentary roles

LR DSP KR

LORD SPEAKER

B LCK RD

BLACK ROD

CH RMN FWY SNDM NS

CHAIRMAN OF WAYS AND MEANS

SR JN TT RMS

SERJEANT AT ARMS