Wrestlers v Genealogists

Series 12, Episode 16

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

It Ain't....

It Ain't Me Babe by Bob Dylan, Ain't Necessarily So by Sammy Davis Jr, It Ain't What You Do It's The Way That You Do It by Fun Boy Three and Bananarama, It Ain't Over Til It's Over by Lenny Kravitz

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Claudius, Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis

Tomato, 1893 US Supreme Court declaration

Clue 2

Graham Taylor, Sun front page, 24 November 1993

Clue 3

Carriage at midnight, Cinderella

Clue 4

Becomes a vegetable

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Add a B

Eta & Beta, Eagle & Beagle, Rat Pack & Brat Pack, Ryan Adams & Bryan Adams

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

The Pontipines and The Wottingers

Miss Rachel Haverford and Atticus Finch

Clue 2

Prime Minister and Chancellor of the Exchequer

Clue 3

Smokie and Alice, for 24 years

Clue 4

Next-door neighbours

Answer

𓈗 Water

LOUDER

Bit on the Side

Clue 2

It Takes Two

Clue 3

You’re Fired!

Clue 4

Reality spin-offs

The Voice, Big Brother, Strictly Come Dancing, The Apprentice

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Lou Gehrig: Horse

Louis Van Gaal: Tulip

Clue 2

Wellington: Duke

Clue 3

Otto von Bismarck: Chancellor

Clue 4

Nicknamed Iron ___

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

Clue 2

Clue 3

(e.g.) Danny Ings

Sewings, The Ewings (from Dallas), Wings, Ings

Answer

𓃭 Lion

5p has 1

10p has 1

Clue 2

20p has 7

Clue 3

50p has 7

Edges on British coinage

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

La lune

Mars

Clue 2

Mercure

Clue 3

Jupiter

Etymology of French weekdays

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

“Sides” of a cricket pitch

Capital One Cup semi-finals

Clue 2

Bannera dâ Sicilia

Clue 3

(e.g.) Pantomime horse

1, 2, 3, 4 legs

Answer

𓈗 Water

Citigroup

Wells Fargo

Clue 2

Bank of America

Clue 3

JP Morgan Chase

US banks in ascending order of assets

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Petroselinum crispum

Salvia officinalis

Clue 2

Rosmarinus officinalis

Clue 3

Thymus

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Pathétique

Hammer-klavier

Moonlight

Pastoral

Beethoven piano sonatas

Answer

Toy

Ball

Altar

Whipping

___ boy

Answer

Terrier

Hound

Working

Utility

Types of dog

Answer

Palme d'Or

Goldener Bär

Teddy

Grand Prix

International film awards

Answer

𓈗 Water

Java

Ruby

Go

Python

Programming languages

Answer

Sidewinder

Habu

Boomslang

Anaconda

Snakes

Answer

Starling

Whiteread

Creed

Kapoor

Turner Prize winners

Answer

Rocky

Cobra

Oscar

Cliffhanger

Sylvester Stallone films

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Associated with Bertolt Brecht

M TH RCR GN DH RCH LDRN

MOTHER COURAGE AND HER CHILDREN

BR LN RNS MBL

BERLINER ENSEMBLE

LNT NF FC T

ALIENATION EFFECT

MC KT HK NF

MACK THE KNIFE

Morbid expressions

NTL NGF RT HSWR LD

NOT LONG FOR THIS WORLD

FD NGF ST

FADING FAST

TD TH SDR

AT DEATH'S DOOR

NF TNT HG RV

ONE FOOT IN THE GRAVE

Keepers

G MK PR

GAMEKEEPER

BKKP R

BOOKKEEPER

BKP R

BEEKEEPER

PCK PR

PEACEKEEPER

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