Only Connect (BBC4) [Part 2]

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davads

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by Rosebuddy:
“Yes, tricky to find another TV show with four presenters, two with identical surnames.

Try this one for size, 4th in the sequence please.

Lee Lee Churchill ________

[ no googling ]”

It's not Game For A Laugh again is it, forgotten presenters - Rustie Lee, Lee Peck and er...Winston Churchill. No maybe not

LordBobbin

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by lundavra:
“Discovered by the Americans?

Humphrey Davy (British) identified its existence.

H.C. Oersted (Danish) was the first to produce aluminium.

Henri Sainte-Claire Deville (Frog) developed a process to make it in limited quantities.

The method used for commercial smelting was developed independently by an American and another Frog.”

And Humphry Davy himself referred to it as Aluminum - since it comes from the mineral Alumina. A few bods at the time, though, thought the 'um' didn't sound sufficiently 'classical', so in Britain we settled on calling it Aluminium so that it fitted in with Magnesium, Potassium etc. Really and truly, though, we ought to refer to it as Aluminum. (And it's a bit of a mystery why some were given the 'ium', while others - Platinum, for instance - weren't.)

johnny_t

25-08-2015

For Points of View, you could take

Robinson, Robinson, Took & Robinson

as a sequence

Supratad

25-08-2015

Actually, I think Davy called it Alumium, then the Americans changed it to Aluminum, so we changed it to Aluminium so that it ended with "ium" again.

lundavra

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by LordBobbin:
“And Humphry Davy himself referred to it as Aluminum - since it comes from the mineral Alumina. A few bods at the time, though, thought the 'um' didn't sound sufficiently 'classical', so in Britain we settled on calling it Aluminium so that it fitted in with Magnesium, Potassium etc. Really and truly, though, we ought to refer to it as Aluminum. (And it's a bit of a mystery why some were given the 'ium', while others - Platinum, for instance - weren't.)”

Magnesum, Potassum, Sodum?

batdude_uk1

25-08-2015

Why did they have to cut off the best category that they have had in years?!

For the first time in a very long while I was very confident of getting all of the "British Wrestlers"!!

HarrisonMarks

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by batdude_uk1:
“Why did they have to cut off the best category that they have had in years?!

For the first time in a very long while I was very confident of getting all of the "British Wrestlers"!!”

Me too, even if they'd had obscure ones like
SDCR YBBYC PR
BLL DGTR RYRDG
PTRTL LYHKY
JH NTHB RLJH
HLR SCT WZL
etc

Rroses

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by lundavra:
“Magnesum, Potassum, Sodum?”

Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Beadle?

batdude_uk1

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by HarrisonMarks:
“Me too, even if they'd had obscure ones like
SDCR YBBYC PR
BLL DGTR RYRDG
PTRTL LYHKY
JH NTHB RLJH
HLR SCT WZL
etc”

I was hoping for
BBBLGM,
KS TVS
MRTN KRBY
DV MSTFF
DV RYN

HarrisonMarks

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by batdude_uk1:
“I was hoping for
BBBLGM,
KS TVS
MRTN KRBY
DV MSTFF
DV RYN”

Too recent for me, although I did like DV MSTFF on the TNA bootcamp thing.

LordBobbin

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by Rroses:
“Magnesium, Potassium, Sodium, Beadle?”

Was that a lucky guess?

Supratad

25-08-2015

La Source, Parabolica, Paddock Hill, Beadle?

Not a sequence, just name the connection.

fiveinabed

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by davads:
“It's not Game For A Laugh again is it, forgotten presenters - Rustie Lee, Lee Peck and er...Winston Churchill. No maybe not ”

Lyons!

Eagle9a

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by Supratad:
“La Source, Parabolica, Paddock Hill, Beadle?

Not a sequence, just name the connection.”

F1 Bends..or similar. Spa, Monza, Silverstone, Brands Hatch

Eagle9a

25-08-2015

Still waiting for the definite Lee Lee Churchill etc...buggered me that one

fiveinabed

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by Eagle9a:
“Still waiting for the definite Lee Lee Churchill etc...buggered me that one”

it has to be Lyons. Shhhhhhhhhh!

Supratad

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by Eagle9a:
“F1 Bends..or similar. Spa, Monza, Silverstone, Brands Hatch”

Close, but no.
It was awkward right handers.

Supratad

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by fiveinabed:
“it has to be Lyons. Shhhhhhhhhh!”

Well I've googled it and the kindest thing I can say is that it is outside of my sphere of reference.

degsyhufc

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by Paul_DNAP:
“Purely on the basis that the first three clues in the sequence were given as full names rather than surname alone. Very pedantic indeed. I could see the need for pedantry if the first three were Name & Scoreline, then you can't allow name only as the answer. but to insist on the first name as well is a bit "Reykjavik comma Iceland fullstop"”

Or Red Arrow

Monty Fuque

25-08-2015

delete

The_Bonobo

25-08-2015

How about this one...the sequence is (second) youngest to oldest...

Taylor ... Taylor ... Taylor ... ???

Rosebuddy

25-08-2015

Yep, it's Lyons

For devotees of seminal Brit Blues Bands who have two unrelated members having the same surname [ a very small clique if truth be told ]

The original line-up of Ten Years After.

Alvin Lee . Ric Lee, Chick Churchill, Leo Lyons.

Ex Pat

25-08-2015

Perhaps it would be a good idea to create a seperate thead for game playing and keep this thread for discussing the program.

HarrisonMarks

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by Ex Pat:
“Perhaps it would be a good idea to create a seperate thead for game playing and keep this thread for discussing the program.”

BLL CK STTHT
PS 'Separate'

Ex Pat

25-08-2015

Originally Posted by HarrisonMarks:
“BLL CK STTHT
PS 'Separate'”

It's P.S
SM RTRS

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