As a special Christmas special, I present to you a sequence question. It has little to do with Christmas (although actually there *is* a connection as it turns out), it’s not actually very hard but if you can’t work out what it is (although everyone will get it in the comments I reckon) then come back late on Christmas Day for the answer. Good luck, happy Christmas!
And the connection is they are the first four things that go round like The Windmills Of Your Mind, the song made famous by Noel Harrison on the soundtrack to the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair (Noel is the inadvertant Christmas connection).
Picture 1: Round, Like a circle in a spiral…
Picture 2: … Like a wheel within a wheel, never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel…
Picture 3: Like a snowball down a mountain…
OK. My initial correct response to this was “or a carnival balloon” feeling that the “like” was implied, but the first acceptable answer given was from Twitter’s Bubbobz who correctly argued that the next thing that’s “like …” is “a carousel that’s turning, running rings around the moon” so I quickly made a photoshop of it. I would be hard pushed not to accept either answer, which just goes to show how hard writing really good questions for Only Connect is.
I hope you all had an acceptably good Christmas Day!
I say “it’s not very hard”, I do realise that whilst I think it’s perfectly logical everybody else might take a little while to catch on.
It’s not hard though, you’ll kick yourselves.
I have a winner, but I’m keeping this unsolved until tomorrow evening. Feel free to guess away in the meantime though.
A carnival balloon?
It’s fair to suggest that WAS my first answer until Twitter gave an answer that’s equally if not more valid I think. I’d be happy to accept that there’s an implied “like a…” for carnival balloon, so you’d get points.
Fraught with danger, Only Connect question writing. That’s why I leave it to THE PROFESSIONALS.
Ah, I get it. It’s the lyrics to ‘Windmills of Your Mind’:
Round, like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that’s turning
Running rings around the moon