What do we fall back on when we can’t be bothered to have an opinion on something? Why Questions Not Good Enough For Only Connect of course! And today it’s a DOUBLE BILL!
Question 1: What connects the following?
- Bill Cullen
- Tokyo Sexwale
- Martha Stewart
- Alan Sugar
The correct answer is, of course, they are all Apprentice bosses – Bill Cullen is the Irish one (I was hoping you might have gone down the US game show host route, but I under/overestimated you), Mosima Gabriel “Tokyo” Sexwale is the South African boss, Martha Stewart was the boss for one series of the US show (usually it’s Donald Trump, obviously) and, of course, grumpy grumpy Alan Sugar is the UK boss.
Dave was the first person to get a correct answer in, so well done to him. He has done a fun Puzzgrid.
Question 2: What comes fourth in the sequence?
- Birmingham
- Carlisle
- Dublin
- ?????
This stumped all of you for a long time, although it is a bit cruel. It is, of course, Panic by The Smiths where there was “panic on the streets of London, panic on the streets of Birmingham,” then some other stuff, “but there’s panic on the streets of Carlisle, Dublin, Dundee, Humberside…” they are the named places where there is panic on the streets in Panic by The Smiths and the fourth in this sequence is therefore Dundee because I was mean in starting partway through the song.
Congratulations to last year’s Fantasy X Factor winner Mark D for working that out after three clues.
I have a stormer of a connection for tomorrow, but it’s so good (or I think so anyway) I might have to offer it to David B first this evening, once I’ve sourced the pictures. Thanks for playing!
1 – The Apprentice ‘bosses’ in various countries/version of the show
Guessing Liverpool for number in the sequence.
0121 Birmingham
0131 Edinburgh
0141 Glasgow
0151 Liverpool
Bill Cullen definitely hosts The Apprentice in Ireland.
Don’t know about the man with the second name that makes me snigger!!! (Sex-Whale!!!)
As for the second, i’m taking a stab at London. I wont put my reasoning until everyone else has had a go.
It’s pronounced Seh-kwa-le, as this educational film shows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nbo_XOMoc0k
I’m going to put the next set of clues up at 2pm.
The first one is definitely Apprentic moguls, for the Second One I guess Alabama.
Birmingham 6
Jurassic 5
Something Something 4
Alabama 3
or it will be hosts of eurovision or Sports Personality of the Year
What comes fourth in this sequence:
Crosswords
Rugby
Gambling
……. (I think only one person here can get this one right….)
Whoever wins S4 of Only Connect.
*crosses off two questions for next series* 🙁
Seriously?
Don’t worry, I’ve got another question for tomorrow I guarantee is too esoteric.
And nulls one of my questions for David B too. Dammit.
The show has had four series to do Panic by The Smiths, I mean, come on.
Q2: I’m going to guess at Coventry as #4, thinking of “locations of Euromillions jackpot winners within the UK”. Obviously I have not looked up whether the first two winners really were in Birmingham and Carlisle or not.
Edinburgh. For no reason whatsoever except that it starts with E. Maybe “elephant” would do…
Ah, Jennifer, I had money on you getting this as well.
I can’t believe it – this literally just came to my ears. DUNDEE!
I’d have got Apprentice hosts from four clues, but I’d still stuck on the cities. I’d have taken the same shot in the dark as Jennifer and plumped for Edinburgh – perhaps something to do with registrations, hallmarks, or something similar?
Don’t Panic, you’ll get there soon…..
Will anybody get it, I wonder to myself?
Oh right! It’s Humberside, then. Considering that I needed two giveaway clues, I don’t think I can claim much credit there.
Definitely Dundee. It goes ‘Dublin, Dundee, Humberside’.
With Birmingham and Carlisle mentioned earlier, Dundee is the 4th.
What do I win?
Two points.
From Richard Bacon.
Can I plug a connecting wall while people are musing?
http://www.puzzgrid.com/grid/552
Five points, messed up three-strikes-and-out and one of the connections.
Fun wall!
Great wall! I managed to get the full 10 🙂 Yay me!
We’re not all as bright as each other here. 0/10.
Mind if I do two of my own?
What’s the connection here:
Swansea
Milford Haven
Brecon
Fishguard
And what comes next:
holmium
lutetium
tantalum
???
I assume the second is gold. The first has an answer which is just too obvious to be correct. Well, it’s certainly correct, but too obvious to be the one you want…
Gold is indeed the answer to the second one – it being the next element with an atomic number that is prime.
And the first does look obvious – but the connection I was thinking of has something to do with other names for these towns.
The towns’ Welsh language names each contain at least six “l”s and three “ch”s?
No… but it is to do with their Welsh names.
When you look up what their Welsh names are, it becomes very obvious.
It does indeed – their Welsh names all begin with “Aber” (Abertawe, Aberdaugleddau, Aberhonddu, Abergwaun).
“Aber”, as one might guess, means “river mouth”.
It is a bit of a stinker, though, when you haven’t got the Net or a bilingual map of Wales in front of you.
(Apologies for not responding sooner – work and sleep have tended to get the better of me these last few days.)
Rather tremendously, I have just discovered Puzzgrid works fine on iPads.