Scientists v Builders

Series 11, Episode 8

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Played by Benedict Cumberbatch

Alan Turing, Stephen Hawking, Julian Assange, Smaug

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Milan

Your party

Clue 2

My shirt

Clue 3

This song

Clue 4

Things I'm Too Sexy for

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

The Raven

Little Weed

Clue 2

Seagulls in Finding Nemo

Clue 3

Hodor

Clue 4

One-word vocabularies

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Abaft the mainmast

4 of 5 bells in the Elizabeth Tower

Clue 2

Every 25th Hunger Games

Clue 3

113.4g hamburger

Clue 4

Quarter

Answer

𓈗 Water

!

Negativland by Neu!, The Story of the Blues by The Mighty Wah!, The Power by Snap!, Last Christmas by Wham!

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Intensity of cosmic microwave background radiation

Norwegian banknotes

Clue 2

Footballers’ gestures

Clue 3

Dick Cheney’s residence on Google Earth

Clue 4

Pixelation

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

If you can’t stand the heat…

Clue 2

…the “falling domino” principle

Clue 3

(e.g.) Ich bin ein Berliner

Quotations from US Presidents (Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy)

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

C-G-C, C-G-C

Frère Jacques

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

35th anniversary LP reissue, 2012: Universal

After one week with A&M: Virgin

Clue 2

Following Grundy interview: A&M

Clue 3

First single: EMI

Sex Pistols record labels

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

RM

RM

Clue 2

DM

Clue 3

€

German currency symbols (Rentenmark, Reichsmark, Deutschmark, Euro)

Answer

𓈗 Water

Now Get out of That

The Wizard

Clue 2

Yellow Pearl

Clue 3

Whole Lotta Love

Top of the Pops theme tunes

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Ras al-Khaimah

Sharjah

Clue 2

Dubai

Clue 3

Abu Dhabi

United Arab Emirates by area

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Colour

Cut

Clarity

Carat

4 Cs of gem quality

Answer

Shade

Hue

Tint

Tincture

Words meaning colour

Answer

Category

Pigment

Bates

Molesley

Start with mammals

Answer

Carson

Hughes

Barrow

Patmore

Staff in Downton Abbey

Answer

𓈗 Water

Chapel

Temple

Kirk

Church

Places of worship

Answer

Britten

Disraeli

Zephaniah

Spock

Famous Benjamins

Answer

Bones

Lewis

Castle

Luther

Eponymous crime series

Answer

Scott

Deign

Fin

Poll

Native homophones

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Afflictions of the ear, nose and throat

TN NT S

TINNITUS

PGL TTT S

EPIGLOTTITIS

G LR

GLUE EAR

SN ST S

SINUSITIS

Can be abbreviated to three letters

MNS DMG LTMT

MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE

FD RLB RFN VS TGTN

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

XC TBL FL

EXECUTABLE FILE

LN DNH TH RWR PRT

LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT

Suicides in Shakespeare plays

MR KNTNY

MARK ANTONY

T MN

TIMON

G NR L

GONERIL

LD YM CB TH

LADY MACBETH

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