Yorkers v Operational Researchers

Series 11, Episode 22

Jump To: Connections Sequences Connecting Wall Missing Vowels

Round 1: Connections

𓇌 Two Reeds

Units of length

Maggie May by ROD Stewart, Don't You Want Me by The Human LEAGUE, So What by MILES Davis, Hurt by Nine INCH Nails

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Ludwig Wittgenstein

ASF Gow

Clue 2

Guy Liddell

Clue 3

John Cairncross

Clue 4

Alleged "Fifth Man" in the Cambridge Five

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Heterochromia iridum

Jane Seymour, Michael Flatley, Kate Bosworth, Mabel

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Rebecca

Cold

Clue 2

Western

Clue 3

Judean People’s

Clue 4

___ Front

Answer

𓈗 Water

Three Countries: France & Germany

New Europe: Bulgaria & Romania

Clue 2

Ambassador: USA & Canada

Clue 3

Øresund: Denmark & Sweden

Clue 4

Bridges that connect countries

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Record-breaking British marathon runner

Geneticist and Curiosities captain

Clue 2

Host of 101 Ways to Leave a Gameshow

Clue 3

Sex Pistols guitarist

Clue 4

Steve Joneses

Answer

Round 2: Sequences

𓇌 Two Reeds

John B

Bertie A

Clue 2

Brian C

Clue 3

Enda K

Taoisigh

Answer

𓃭 Lion

16mo

8vo

Clue 2

4to

Clue 3

fo

Paper sizes

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

Harding -> Coolidge

Roosevelt -> Truman

Clue 2

Kennedy -> Johnson

Clue 3

Nixon -> Ford

US vice-presidents becoming president

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Clue 2

Clue 3

e.g. a druid

AlbertA, BaobaB, CadillaC, DruiD

Answer

𓈗 Water

Pison

Gihon

Clue 2

Hiddekel a.k.a. Tigris

Clue 3

Euphrates

Rivers with their origin in Paradise

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Here’s Looking At You, BBC

Scenes of London, ITV

Clue 2

Play School, BBC2

Clue 3

Countdown, C4

First programmes on first four British TV channels

Answer

Round 3: Connecting Walls

𓃭 Lion

Steuben

Swarovski

Tiffany

Lalique

Decorative glass

Answer

Vignole

Lido

Murano

Crevan

Venetian islands

Answer

Scimitar

Kitten

Rialto

Bond Bug

Reliant cars

Answer

Lucozade

Golden Gate Bridge

Basketball

EasyCruiseOne

Orange things

Answer

𓈗 Water

Bumblebee

Optimus Prime

Fixit

Sideswipe

Autobots in Transformers

Answer

Blow-out

Aquaplane

Rear-end

Shunt

Vehicular mishaps

Answer

Jumper

Probe

Busbar

Coaxial pair

Electrical conductors

Answer

Rebrand

Grimlock

Okay

Sidle

End with comedians

Answer

Round 4: Missing Vowels

Sportspeople who became politicians

SBS TNC

SEBASTIAN COE

MR NK HN

IMRAN KHAN

V TLK LTSC HK

VITALI KLITSCHKO

JSSV NT R

JESSE VENTURA

Transposed country names

ZLN DNW

ZEALAND NEW

SL VDRL

SALVADOR EL

RBS D

ARABIA SAUDI

LN KSR

LANKA SRI

Ballets that premiered in the 1910s

T HFRB RD

THE FIREBIRD

THTH RC R NRD HT

THE THREE-CORNERED HAT

DPH NSND CHL

DAPHNIS AND CHLOE

T HRT FSP RNG

THE RITE OF SPRING

British universities

DN BRG HN PR

EDINBURGH NAPIER

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