Spaghetti Westerners v Operational Researchers

Series 11, Episode 18

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

El Chicharito’s first team

Author, The Making of the English Working Class

Clue 2

Author, The Go-Between

Clue 3

“Put a ring on it” song

Clue 4

Music formats

CD Guadalajara, EP Thompson, LP Hartley, SINGLE Ladies

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Painful sports “hernia”

Stars Hollow

Clue 2

Capt. James Onedin

Clue 3

Happy Sandler

Clue 4

Gilmore

Gilmore's groin, Town in The Gilmore Girls, Played by Peter Gilmore in The Onedin Line, Happy Gilmore

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Mouse: 2/3m

Cat: 2m

Clue 2

Chimpanzee: 8m

Clue 3

Human: 9m

Clue 4

Gestation periods

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Natural disasters

Tsunami by The Manic Street Preachers, The Flood by Take That, Hurricane by Bob Dylan, Heat Wave by Martha Reeves

Answer

𓈗 Water

JP Morgan: 15/04/1912

Kokura: 09/08/1945

Clue 2

Waylon Jennings: 03/02/1959

Clue 3

Seth Macfarlane: 11/09/2001

Clue 4

Narrow escapes

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Also played by Kenneth Branagh

Franklin D Roosevelt, Victor Frankenstein, Hamlet, Kurt Wallander

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

4th: Rawlinson

3rd: Monro

Clue 2

2nd: Smith-Dorrien

Clue 3

1st: Haig

First Commanders of Kitchener's armies

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

(e.g.) sunlight

Vitamin A, B, C, D. Carrots, Yeast supplement, Citrus fruits, Sunlight.

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

1: common era

2: scarlet woman

Clue 2

3: death re-enacted

Clue 3

(e.g.) 4: handcuff ourselves

Hidden numbers

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Eastern cut-off

Western roll

Clue 2

Straddle

Clue 3

Flop

High-jump techniques (in the order they broke the men's world record)

Answer

𓈗 Water

Clue 2

Clue 3

H with the rest of the pie chart filled in

Abundance of elements in the universe

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Candle in the Wind '97 by Elton John

Best selling singles. Mull of Kintyre by Wings, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen, Do They Know It's Christmas? by Live Aid, Candle in the Wind '97 by Elton John

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Chase

Bennet

Fossil

March

Literary sisters

Answer

Celebration

Upside Down

September

Shame

Disco tracks

Answer

Kissing

The Love

June

Millennium

Bugs

Answer

Oak chip

Lake

Keel

May

Anagrams of vegetables

Answer

𓈗 Water

Doctor!

Monday

Sugar

Louie

Repeat for a song title

Answer

Shreds

One Red Paperclip

Alex from Target

Friday

Internet memes

Answer

Sunday

Moose

π

Taught

Dessert homophones

Answer

See

Island

Saturday

City

Holy ___

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Films with UK prime ministers in their titles

T HB LRWT CHP RJCT

THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

NR TH BYNR TH WST

NORTH BY NORTHWEST

ST FDN

EAST OF EDEN

FFT YSH DS FGRY

FIFTY SHADES OF GREY

Currencies and their predecessors

RNDLR

EURO AND LIRA

RND NDP ND

RAND AND POUND

NWT WNDLLR ND LDT WNDLLR

NEW TAIWAN DOLLAR AND OLD TAIWAN DOLLAR

RNDG LD R

EURO AND GUILDER

Associated with cats

RW NSCH RD NGR

ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER

JYD MSN

JOY ADAMSON

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