Thrifters v Suncatchers (2)

Series 19, Episode 25

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Grindelwald is the younger of the two main characters

Fleur Delacour dates Grindelwald

Clue 2

Mad-Eye Moody is the older of the main characters

Clue 3

Lord Voldemort is the boss of Grindelwald and Mad-Eye Moody

Clue 4

Wizarding World actors in "In Bruges"

Grindelwald = Colin Farrell, Fleur Delacour = Clémency Poésy, Mad-Eye Moody = Brendan Gleeson, Lord Voldemort = Ralph Fiennes

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Nothing like a Dame

Physical by Olivia Newton-John, World in Union by Kiri Te Kanawa, I (Who Have Nothing) by Shirley Bassey, We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

1918: Kaiser Wilhelm II deposed

1923: Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch fails

Clue 2

1938: Kristallnacht

Clue 3

1989: Berlin Wall falls

Clue 4

9th November in Germany

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Never going to happen

Offering something valuable to someone who doesn’t understand its value

Clue 2

To eat voraciously

Clue 3

Something inferior can’t be made valuable

Clue 4

Porcine phrases

Pigs might fly, pearls before swine, pig out, can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear

Answer

𓈗 Water

Gender reveal parties

Dune (1984 films)

Clue 2

Creep

Clue 3

Pop-up ads

Clue 4

Renounced by creators

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Seniors with their famous Juniors removed

Sammy Davis Sr, Robert Downey Sr, Martin Luther King Sr, Floyd Mayweather Sr

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

(e.g.) What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor?

Decreasing time signatures. Mission Impossible Theme (in 5/4 time), Stayin' Alive by The Bee Gees (in 4/4 time), The Blue Danube by Johann Strauss II (in 3/4 time), What Shall We Do with the Drunken Sailor? (in 2/4 time)

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Aden

Cytos

Clue 2

Guan

Clue 3

Thym

ACGT bases of DNA

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

(e.g.) Kenya

Ya, Nya (from Lego Ninjago), Enya, Kenya

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Because they did not issue manifestos or make speeches

Because of the increase in birth rates

Clue 2

Because of Douglas Coupland’s 1991 novel

Clue 3

(e.g.) Because they were at school at the turn of the millennium

Generation names. Silent Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials

Answer

𓈗 Water

4th: Cedric Gibbons

3rd: Alfred Newman

Clue 2

2nd: John Williams

Clue 3

1st: Walt Disney

Most Oscar nominations

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

6@15

3@30

Clue 2

11@45

Clue 3

20@0

Dartboard numbers on a clock

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Coalesce

Flintoff

Stonehenge

Slater

Start with rocks

Answer

Basked

Dinah

Baja

Sierra

Go before US states

Answer

Broad

Snow

Hoggard

Small

England cricket bowlers

Answer

Lima

Kidney

String

Cocoa

Beans

Answer

𓈗 Water

Hoosegow

Clink

Porridge

Quod

Slang for prison

Answer

Klitschko

Neville

Downie

Hastings

Sporting siblings

Answer

Brownlee

Tealight

Rosemary

Redford

Start with a colour

Answer

Williams

Slammer

Dreamin'

Wade

Go after US states

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Four apparently random countries

MN GL

MONGOLIA

B LV

BOLIVIA

STR

AUSTRIA

TH P

ETHIOPIA

What connects those apparently random countries

TH YLL HVRD NT HRFLG

THEY ALL HAVE RED ON THEIR FLAG

TH YR LLL NDL CKD

THEY ARE ALL LANDLOCKED

THR NMSL LN DW THR HS MTWL TTRS

THEIR NAMES ALL END WITH THE SAME TWO LETTERS

T HYLLB RDRC NTRSW THFVL TTRN MS

THEY ALL BORDER COUNTRIES WITH FIVE-LETTER NAMES

Book titles with their words in alphabetical order

HG HTSW THR NG

HEIGHTS WUTHERING

CHTT RLYSL DYL VR

CHATTERLY'S LADY LOVER

NDL NT HTHT HW RDRBW TCH

AND LION THE THE THE WARDROBE WITCH

BR VN WW RLD

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Tie-break

LL SWL LTH TND SWLL

ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL