This is a game Lee and I play sometimes on long car trips.
You have to name three items. They can be anything at all (actors, songs, letters in greek, historical things, scientific things, really anything at all...) They must all have at least one element which unites them as part of a group. The person who correctly guesses the linking element gets the next question. If they come up with another valid connection that you didn't think of, that should be rewarded as well. Here are some examples:
Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven: All composed in Vienna, Austria during the classic period.
Harrison Ford, Alan Rickman, Keanu Reeves: All starred in a movie in which Gary Oldman played their chief nemesis (Air Force One, Harry Potter 3, Dracula)
Diana Muldaur, Majel Barrett Roddenberry, Robin Curtis: All starred in classic Trek and then came back as unrelated characters on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Now here's an easy one to get the ball rolling.
Superman, Emma Frost, Light Lass
Posted by PolarBoy on :
would it be at some point they all had a change in powers
Electric Superman Diamond Phoneix Emma Frost And floaty spark V Electric Spark??/?
Posted by Kid Prime on :
You got it, PolarBoy, you're up! Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Posted by PolarBoy on :
The Smashing Pumpkins Britney Spears and Lisa Kudrow
Posted by Kid Prime on :
All appeared on the Simpsons? (I don't actually know if they did or not, just a guess)
Posted by PolarBoy on :
Thats the one
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Dang!
Okay...
The Incredible Hulk Batman Superman
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were featured on TV shows.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Actually, I was going for the fact that they're all rollercoasters, but you got it another way!
You're up!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK:
Bob Hope Ronald Reagan Billy Graham
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
A hint: what links them occurred in the United Kingdom
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They're all honorary British Knights?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be the link I was going for.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Try this one:
Phil Collins Rush Limbaugh Jim Shooter
Posted by legionadventureman on :
singer, song, writer?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
CLUE: One wouldn't have to read very far into the biographies of these three individuals to figure out what it is they have in common.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
All published teenage writers?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Posted by legionadventureman on :
They were all born in the same day?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Very close.
Posted by PolarBoy on :
Born same year?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Same year it is, PB.
Posted by PolarBoy on :
Ok
Peter Wilton Cushing Percy James Patrick Kent-Smith Peter Moffett
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
Their first names all start with P?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They're all British actors
Posted by PolarBoy on :
Ok a bit of a clue the names I provided are all their name at birth not nessasarily the names they are famous with.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
They all played Dr. Who, but under different names?
Posted by legionadventureman on :
1. Peter Cushing 2. Sylvester McCoy 3. Peter Davison
Posted by PolarBoy on :
thats it lightning lad got it first
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Mission: Impossible T.J. Hooker
Looking for something very specific. The obvious answer will not be the correct one.
[ July 24, 2005, 08:30 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I'm stumped. I don't even see an obvious answer
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Think about two different stars from two of the programs (that are also tied by another WAY obvious one I didn't list) and you'll get the answer.
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
Well, William Shatner starred in T.J. Hooker, I believe Leonard Nimoy starred in M:I for a bit and both guested on the same episode of U.N.C.L.E. along with the late James Doohan.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That would be what I was looking for. Nimoy and Shatner actually appeared together on six different series:
Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) Mission: Impossible (1966) Star Trek: TOS (1966) Star Trek: TAS (1973) T.J. Hooker (1982) Futurama (1999)
Incidently, Nimoy played Paris on MI, around the same time as Sam Elliott and Lesley Ann Warren appeared on it. 3rd season I think.
Next to you Miner!
[ July 29, 2005, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
OK, then:
W.C. Fields Bob Dylan Oscar Wilde
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
They all hated children? Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
Bob actually seems to love kids, but I think you're right about the other two.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay, more seriously. It can't be the obvious that they all were born with different names (most of these questions could have that answer) so I'll go with the three of them being on the cover to the Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band".
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
That would be the answer.
Good job, LL! I thought that one would be a stumper.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Believe it or not I actually used to own a signed copy of that album. I inherited it from a family friend who got me hooked on Beatles music. But a cousin stole it and before I could recover it he was killed in a hunting accident. Never knew what happened to it.
I'll post another question in bit.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK, I think I am going to revive this old game.
Recap of the rules: Find the common link to the 3 people/objects listed. The correct poster gets to list the next 3
SO:
Nancy Walker Walter Cronkite Betty Ford
Posted by Matthew E on :
Did they all appear on 'The Mary Tyler Moore Show'?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Darn, that was quick. I wonder if it would have been hard with my original three (Henry Winkler, John Ritter, & Nanacy Walker - same answer)
Nancy Walker had the reoccurring role as Ida Morgenstern, Rhoda's mom. Walter Cronkite & Betty Ford appeared as themselves.
OK, Matthew E your turn
Posted by Matthew E on :
Here we go:
Starman Karate Kid Cloak & Dagger
...and be as specific as you can!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All are comic book characters/titles that were also unrelated movie titles.
Posted by Matthew E on :
You're on the right track... just missing one detail.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Did the filmmakers need to get permission to use those titles from the respective owners of the comics characters?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Uh... not sure. I know they did in two cases; don't know about the third. But that's not what I'm thinking of.
I might as well just tell you; it's clearly your question next and there's no point in making you jump through hoops:
All three movies in question were 1984 movies. How weird is that?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
There is a little twist on this one too, but we'll see if anyone gets it: Richard Dreyfuss Willie Mays Mercedes McCambridge
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I think a hint is needed.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
It's a similar triad to the one you posted last week, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
So I assume they all were guest stars on some show. Would that show be the Love Boat?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No. Right network, but off by about a decade.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
They all guest starred on Bewitched?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Right-O. Specifically, they all played witch/warlock types (to use the terminology of the show). A very young Richard Dreyfuss played Rodney, an old friend of Samantha's (on whom he had a crush) who changed himself into a dog that Darrin brought home. Mercedes McCambridge played Carlotta, a flamboyant witch whose son Juke was promised Samantha's hand in marriage. And Willie Mays played himself. He puts in an appearance at a party and then disappears. Darrin asks Sam "Is he?" to which she responds "The way he hits home runs?"
Up to you, Scott.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Thanks RL. I'll try and post another question in a bit. Don't have one off the top of my head.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay, here's one.
Kiefer Sutherland Rob Zombie Me (yes, I mean myself, Scott)
Posted by ActorLad on :
You've all been undead at some point? Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Not the answer I was looking but a damn good one.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
You have all been forced to cut your hair for your job?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I don't think that's happened to Rob. Not from the looks of his locks.
Not the answer I'm looking for. I'll post a hint tomrrow if needed.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Okay, here's a hint. All three of us celebrate(d) a milestone this year.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Does that mean you were all born in the same year?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Could be. Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Either that or Donald Sutherland is the father of all three of you Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
NEXT:
Ronald Reagan Mother Teresa Pelé
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Sorry, Quis. Guess I was misleading in my last answer to you. You haven't gotten the question yet. What milestone are the three of us celebrating this year?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be your 40th birthday.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
And that would be the correct answer.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Alrightie then
NEXT:
Ronald Reagan Mother Teresa Pelé
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
This is a shot in the dark: Did they all receive honorary knighthood or the equivalent from Queen Elizabeth, but were unable to use it because none are/were British or Commonwealth citizens?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all received honorary Knighthoods (Dame for Mother T)
In looking up people to use, the explanation that I saw was that "honorary" is used for all non-British citizens. And that they can't use the "Sir" or "dame" in front of their name, but can use the initials after.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I remembered when Reagan got his and guessed that was the only thing he and the other two could possibly all have in common.
Okay: Ingrid Bergman Betty Friedan Edna May Oliver
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Rockhopper:
quote:I remembered when Reagan got his and guessed that was the only thing he and the other two could possibly all have in common.
Actually, they have one other thing in common: they were all members of Time Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th Century.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Here's a hint: There was one bit of information on their obituaries that could not have been more accurate.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They were all accused of being Communists?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Hmm. That wasn't what I was going for. Edna May Oliver was already dead during the red scare, so I don't think she was.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: Hmm. That wasn't what I was going for. Edna May Oliver was already dead during the red scare, so I don't think she was.
There was also a Red Scare during the WWI era.
Well hopefully someone else can figure this out.
Oh and to post the 3 on this new page:
Ingrid Bergman Betty Friedan Edna May Oliver
[ May 08, 2006, 12:45 PM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq. ]
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I'll make my hint a little more precise. The obituaries for any of these three would include a very accurate age at death.
Posted by Bevis on :
Did they all die on their birthday? (If so then you could add Shakespeare to the list).
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Yes. They all died on their birthdays.
Ingrid Bergman was born 29 August 1915 and died 29 August 1982 (29 August is my birthday too, BTW)
Betty Friedan was born 4 February 1921 and died 4 February of this year.
Edna May Oliver (a character actress probably best known now for being spoofed in Warner Brothers cartoons of the late '30s) was born 9 November 1883 and died 9 November 1942.
What can you give us, Bevis?
[ May 09, 2006, 11:27 AM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Bevis on :
I'm blanking at the moment on a question since it is bed time and my brain has stopped working. If I've not posted anything by tomorrow lunch time my time (so early morning-ish US time) someone give me a shout in case I've forgotten...
Posted by Bevis on :
OK, lets go with a relativly simple one sicne I can think of some really good ones that link two people/things but I keep getting stuck when it comes to adding a third one. So...
Joss Whedon Gillian Anderson Bill Clinton
Posted by walkwithcrowds on :
None of them had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky (supposedly)
Posted by Bevis on :
Well yes, I suppose that's probably true (allegedly) but not the answer I was after. Posted by Lance's realm on :
The letter X?
X-Men, X-files, X-president?
Posted by Bevis on :
heh, nope, not that either.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all got more votes than Ralph Nader in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential election?
Posted by Bevis on :
Oh almost certainly, but still not right.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
They all voiced themselves on The Simpsons?
Posted by Bevis on :
oooh, possibly, but that's not the one I'm looking for.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They're all Americans who were educated in England.
Posted by Bevis on :
That's the one. Anderson for nine months, Whdeon for quite a while I think and Clinton when he was at Uni. Incidentally Joss Whedon's birthday is the day before mine. I only found that out this morning.
Your go Chaim.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Side note: Anderson actually lived in London for nine years, from age 2 until 11. So I think she had more than nine months of schooling there.
Posted by Bevis on :
That makes more sense actually. I either misread a site I checked on this morning or it had it wrong.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
This one is slightly different from the rest, but I believe it's still within the rules:
Adder Daddy Pastry
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
You can put the word "puff" before all of them.
Puff Adder Puff Daddy Puff Pastry
Side note: I was looking at the first page and realized I used the "they were all honorary British Knights" before. Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct, Quislet.
Next Triad to you.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK:
Nancy Kulp Natalie Schafer Mabel Albertson
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
None of them ever married?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I don't know. I checked it out and Natalie Schafer was married from 1934 to 1942. In checking out Mabel Albertson, one site states it is not known if she married or had children, but other sites state she was Cloris Leachman's real life mother-in-law, which she could only be if she had children (although she could still never had married).
Long story short, that is not the link.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They were all supporting actresses on sitcoms.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yes they were but that is not the link that I have for them.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
They all appeared on the Loretta Young Show?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Hmm apparently they all did. I think I will give it to you, Lightning Lad. The link I had was that they all appeared in the Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz movie "Forever, Darling". So, the link of them all appearing oin the same show/movie is established. I caught the movie the other night in TCM.
And for those who don't know Mabel Albertson was best known for playing Darrin's Mother Phyllis Stevens on Bewitched.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
See also played Dick Van Dyke's mother on The New Dick Van Dyke Show. And all three did appear in Forever Darling as well as various incarnations of the Lucy Show.
Next Triad:
Raymond Bailey Amanda Bearse Gale Gordon
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They all played bankers in sitcoms?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I figured that might be an easy one. You got it RL.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
How about:
Charlie Brown Lyndon Johnson Me (John)
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
You have last names that are amongst the 10 most common in America?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Nope. My last name is actually quite unusual.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
You all own/owned beagles
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Yeah. I figured this would be an easy one too. If a hint was needed, I was going to add that we all have this in common with another Legion Worlder who lives in the same state I do (Beagz, of course).
For the record:
CB: Snoopy (of course) LBJ: Him, Her and Edgar Me: Hyfrydol (aka, Hyvvie the Wonder Beagle)
Your turn, Quis.
[ May 10, 2006, 02:32 PM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Hmm ok let me think.........
Howard Hughes Howie Mandel Joan Crawford
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All had or were suspected of having OCD?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I was going for mysophobia (the fear of germs) but seeing as that leads to OCD you got it.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Another one that's not human beings:
Virginia Samoa Yemen
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They are all places that have, at some point, been partitioned into multiple entities with a cardinal direction in the name of at least one of the units.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
You've just about got it...a little hint...there's a reason my Triad doesn't include Dakota or Korea.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Hmm.
Virginia has "West" and plain ol' Virigina. Samoa has "American" and "Western". Yemen was North and South, but they were more like east and west of each other.
So, is it that they were divided where one entity was west of the other?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Not what I meant, but what the heck, let's get this game moving on...
What I was really looking for was that the named entities have or had two portions, one of which was designated by direction...and the other was not. West Virginia's other isn't East Virginia, it's just plain Virginia. Western Samoa (now known just as Samoa, but the "Western" usd to be official)'s other isn't Eastern, but American. And North Yemen's other was never officially called South Yemen, it was just plain Yemen.
You take the next one, Rockhopper.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I did not know that. I always thought it was South Yemen. Oh well. You learn something new every day.
Okay:
Berlin Florida Peru
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Rockhopper Lad: I did not know that. I always thought it was South Yemen. Oh well. You learn something new every day.
Okay:
Berlin Florida Peru
You could also have added Holland and Wales to that list.
They are all towns in Massachusetts.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
And back up to you, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK here goes.
Hope Lange Sally Fields Sarah Michelle Gellar
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All starred in TV series based on movies.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Dang, you are good.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Why, thank you. *blink, blink*
Lewis Caroll John Donne John Danforth
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They're all clergymen?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Yes, but can you be more specific?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They're Anglican/Episcopalian clergyman?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Donne and Carroll were C of E. Danforth is Episcopal Church in the USA.
It's EDE's turn!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Here you go:
Chuck D Stephen King Andrew Lloyd Webber
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
By "Chuck D", are you referring to comics writer Chuck Dixon?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
No, I'm referring to the onetime lead rapper of Public Enemy.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
HINT: The connection concerns their relationship to another famous person.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
HINT: The fact that each of these people is a writer of something, as is the person to whom they are each related, is significant.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I think you've got us all stumped with this one.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
They each cast their wife in something they wrote?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Reflect on what the following works have in common:
Niggativaty, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe CATS The Dark Tower Series Posted by CJ Taylor on :
Their sons are all writers?
Posted by Kid Prime on :
They all wrote works based on T.S. Eliot.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by Kid Prime: They all wrote works based on T.S. Eliot.
That's the cigar.
Chuck D's Niggatively, Do I Dare Disturb the Universe is inspired by The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
CATS is inspired by Ol' Possum's Book of Practical Cats.
And The Dark Tower is inspired by The Waste Land.
I was originally going to do the question entirely with Prufrock quotes, but beyond Chuck D and Dennis Hopper in Apocalypse Now, I couldn't come up with anything that wasn't completely obscure.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Okay, cool!
Let's see...
Bette Midler Seal Tori Amos
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have sung a song with "rose" in the title?
Bette Midler - The Rose Seal - Kissed by a Rose Tori Amos - (don't know)
Posted by Kid Prime on :
LOL! Good job, Quis... Tori's song was "Blood Roses."
You're up.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Paper Cotton Leather
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They're all traditional themes for anniversary gifts (specifically the first three years).
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup. Someday I'll post a tough one.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Madeleine Albright Sigmund Freud Tom Stoppard
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All Austrians?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope, though I almost used that.
[ May 25, 2006, 12:50 PM: Message edited by: Eryk Davis Ester ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
My only other guess would be that all have daughters named "Anna"
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
As far as I know, that's not the case.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They were all born in what is now the Czech Republic.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All Jewish as well.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
The Czech Republic thing was what I was going for, cmk.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Philadelphia San Francisco Houston
Posted by Kid Prime on :
All have NFL teams. Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Well, I'll give you this much: the answer does lie in the area of major league, professional sports. But its something these three cities have in common which none other (to my knowledge) does.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They all have had sports teams whose names are/were numbers?
49ers 76ers Colt.45s (former name of the Astros)
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's the connection, Rockhopper! Next Triad is yours.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I got a sports question right??? That's scary!
Let's try: Minnesota North Carolina Ohio
I had to edit this one, because I realised one of the states I originally picked arguably didn't fit. Sorry.
[ May 26, 2006, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Their quarters were each the second issued in their years. (MN in 2005, NC in 2001, OH in 2002)
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Good guess, but not what I was going for. It has to do with their capitals.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Since we're on a new page, I'll post it again:
Minnesota North Carolina Ohio
Posted by CJ Taylor on :
Their capital cities aren't the original names. ie: St. Paul use to be Pig's Eye, etc...
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Still not what I'm looking for. It does have to do with their names.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Are those the only capitals named after a person who wasn't a president of the U.S.?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They were all named after people who were dead when the city was founded.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Chaim is close enough. Actually, there are others named after people who weren't a US president (Stephen F. Austin, for example), but these three capital cities were all named after people who were not Americans.
St. Paul (Saul/Paul of Tarsus in Asia Minor) Raleigh (Sir Walter Raleigh explored America, but would not have identified himself as anything but English) Columbus (Christopher Columbus was an Italian in the employ of Spain)
Back to you, Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Williams Fats Jones
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
Last names of 3 famous names where each first name is also the name of a U.S. state.
Tennessee Williams Minnesota Fats Indiana Jones
Posted by Matthew E on :
You should have said 'Tuxedo' instead of 'Williams'.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I don't know, Matthew. BRM got it just fine.
Your turn, BRM!
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
New Triad:
ZOT! Watchmen Captain Confederacy Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were set in alternative timelines?
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
Well, I had something more specific in mind, but that is a valid response.
Over to Quislet, Esq.
(my answer was, they all had people wearing colorful costumes, but *actual super-powers* were rare-if-not-nonexistent. Watchmen had Dr. Manhattan, ZOT didn't have any "supers", and, while I don't have all of Captain Confederacy, the issues I have read didn't have any "supers", and did not indicate the existence of any in that world)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK
Abraham Lincoln Theodore Roosevelt Ronald Reagan
And that fact that all were US Presidents is not the linking fact.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They were all shot.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is true, but not the link I had in mind.
If no one else guesses it by tomorrow, the question is yours Eryk.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all represent extremes amongst US Presidents...Lincoln was the tallest, Teddy Roosevelt the youngest, Reagan the oldest.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Sorry, the next question is Eryk's
My link of the three is that they all changed political parties at some point in their lives. Lincoln started out as a Whig but joined the new Republican party. Theodore Roosevelt left the Republican to start the Progressive (or Bull Moose) party. And Reagan started out as a Democrat before becoming a Republican.
[ June 01, 2006, 12:59 PM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq. ]
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Umm...
Franklin Roosevelt Peter Gabriel Ivan V
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Hint: Think about FDR's wife.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all married their cousin?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Hint: Think about FDR's children, as well.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They all had six children?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Hint: I *really* wasn't feeling very creative when I came up with this linkage.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They all married poeple who already had the same last name?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Hint: Sigmund Freud also qualifies.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
They all had daughters named Anna.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
There you go, HWW.
Anna Roosevelt Jr was named after her mother, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
Anna Gabriel is a film director.
Anna Ivanovna was Empress of Russia during the eighteenth century.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Here's the next triad:
Ayla Ranzz Julie Andrews Calista Flockhart
Posted by CJ Taylor on :
They are all redheads?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They've all been portrayed as pretending to be a man?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Rockhopper Lad got it.
Ayla impersonated her brother Lightning Lad in her first appearance.
Julie Andrews starred in Victor/Victoria.
Calista Flockhart played a woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman (figure that one out!) in The Birdcage.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Sorry for the delay. Bellaire, Texas Brasília, Brazil Gary, Indiana
Posted by CJ Taylor on :
They are all cities where penguins don't fare well?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I suppose they wouldn't, but that wasn't what I was looking for. Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Actually, I imagine there are penguins if not in Brailia itself, at least in the coastal waters of corresponding latitude.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Probably so. Of course, Brasilia is well inland.
The answer has nothing to do with penguins.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were former capitals?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No. Brasilia is the current capital of Brazil. Neither Bellaire nor Gary have been capitals.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Here's a hint: None of my great-grandparents could have been born in any of these cities, even if they had lived in that part of the world.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all were founded on the same day?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Not the same day, or even the same year, but...
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All in the 20th century?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's it.
Gary was founded in 1905 (the largest city in the US founded in the 20th Century) Bellaire, a suburb of Houston (about three miles from my house) in 1907. Brasilia was founded as the new capital of Brazil in 1960.
Back over to you, Quis.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Just a minor correction. Gary was founded in 1906. One of the jokes in The Music Man is that Professor Hill graduated from Gary Conservatory in 1905, which he couldn't have.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled trivia.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I sit corrected. I was going by memory and couldn't remember if it was "ought five" when he claimed to have graduated or when the place was founded. Marian the Librarian would be ashamed of me. Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Hmm I probably won't be here tomorrow. So should I wait or make one real easy.
I'll go with real easy:
Saturn Girl Cosmic Boy Lightning Boy
Posted by Matthew E on :
I assume you're going for 'three original Legionnaires'.
Posted by Matthew E on :
On the assumption that this was Quislet Esq's intention, here's my next question. I take it back if he had something else in mind:
Blok White Witch Spider Girl
Posted by Lance's realm on :
All were villains before joining the Legion?
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's it. Go ahead.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Ok...another Legion one...
Ultra Boy Star Boy Colossal Boy
Posted by Matthew E on :
Three male Legionnaires, whose codenames end with 'Boy', whose real first names are variants of common 21st-century-English first names?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All three joined before the Legion got its own series in ADVENTURE.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
No...there is something that is true about these 3, that I don't think is true of any other Legionnaire.
Posted by Matthew E on :
All three received their superpowers through random space phenomena (Ultra Boy: space dragon, Star Boy: tail of a comet, Colossal Boy: meteor)?
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Goog guess Matt, but not what I was going for.
hint: it has to do with wrongdoings each supposedly committed.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Each was expelled from the Legion temporarily. Star Boy for killing Kenz Nuhor, Colossal Boy for telling Legion secrets to Tarik the Mute, and Ultra Boy for supposedly hiding a criminal past as a space pirate (ADV 316).
Posted by Lance's realm on :
That's it, CMK. Each was expelled - on-screen - for alledged wrongdoings. Take it, sir...
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
OK, I'm moving this thread back off Legion for now...
Anson Jones Sanford P. Dole Jefferson Davis
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
People who were presidents of parts of the U.S.?
Anson Jones was President of Texas, Jeffesron Davis of the Confederate States. Don't know anything about Dole.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Pretty much, I'll give it to you. They were each the last person to be president of an independent (at least in their own minds, obviously in the case of the CSA this was in dispute) nation that was later absorbed into the United States. Dole was President of the Republic of Hawaii before the U.S. annexed it.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
George Washington Andrew Jackson Ronald Reagan
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All their last names end in the letter "n"
All married women who had be previously married.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Not what I was thinking of, but I'll give it to you. I was going for the fact that they all had adopted children.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Don't give it to me. Nancy Reagan was never married to anyone other than Ronald Reagan. I did some checking after posting my guess.
Seeing as you gave away the answer, you'll have to come up with a new one.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Crap! I really thought both Reagans had been married before!
All right, try another U.S. Presidents question:
Woodrow Wilson Dwight Eisenhower James Garfield
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were elected from states that weren't their state of birth?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Garfield was both born and elected from Ohio, so no!
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
The middle names of all three came from one of their parents:
Dwight David Eisenhower (father David)
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (mother Janet Woodrow)
James Abram Garfield (father Abram)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Wow. Not at all what I was thinking, but impressive. There's a little more obvious connection, that applies to only these three Presidents.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Hey, if I'm going to fail, at least I fail impressively. Posted by Lightning Lad on :
They were all college presidents prior to become US President:
Garfield: Hiram College Wilson: Princeton Eisenhower: Columbia U
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's it.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I like this presidential trivia so here's another that only these three presidents have in common (and it is not the obvious answer):
John Tyler Millard Fillmore Chester A. Arthur
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I assume "the obvious answer" is that they were all Vice Presidents who assumed the presidency upon the death of their predecessor?
Would the correct answer be that they were the only ones of those types whose predecessor hadn't served half a term as President before dying?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
You are right on the obvious answer (all three assumed office upon the sudden death of their predecessor) but the answer I'm looking for is not the length of term. It is something only these three presidents have in common and I think a one or two other vice-presidents assumed office less that half way through a term.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
LL: Less than halfway through a term, yes. Less than halfway through their predecessor's first term, no. (Lincoln, McKinley, F.D.R. and Nixon all served full terms prior to the one in which their presidency was terminated; Kennedy and Harding served more than half their term.)
Still, I will attempt to think of the other commonality you have in mind.
Posted by Bevis on :
They were all widowers when they took office?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Nope, both Tyler and Fillmore were married when they took office. Tyler's first wife died after the first year of her husband's assuming the office and Fillmore's first wife died less than a month after he left office.
Arthur was a widower and never remarried.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
A hint is this has something to do with their position. There was actually a fourth president who also would fit the bill but these three are tied to the same commonality through Chaim's original guess (the all assumed the office early in their predecessor's first term).
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Presidents who were never elected as President, though they were elected as Vice-President?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Wrong even though it is true. There were actually eight presidents who took office without being elected to the Presidency. They were elected as vice presidents and then promoted from that position.
While these three are among those eight, there is still something else that sets these three apart from the other five.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Clarification: Gerald Ford was never elected as either president or vice president. I am not sure if he is one of the eight you are counting, Scott.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Nope, Ford isn't one of the eight. Just for the record the other five were:
Andrew Johnson Theodore Roosevelt Calvin Coolidge Harry S. Truman Lyndon Johnson
Posted by CJ Taylor on :
Neither they, nor their predecessors, served a full term in office.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by CJ Taylor: Neither they, nor their predecessors, served a full term in office.
I was thinking that, but then Andrew Johnson would also fit the bill.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Lance's realm: Clarification: Gerald Ford was never elected as either president or vice president. I am not sure if he is one of the eight you are counting, Scott.
In my high school history class the teacher would ask the class "how many electoral votes do you have to get to be president?" When we would say a number (I forget what the minimum number needed is to be elected president) My teacher would say "Wrong! none." and then talk about Gerald Ford.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.:
quote:Originally posted by CJ Taylor: Neither they, nor their predecessors, served a full term in office.
I was thinking that, but then Andrew Johnson would also fit the bill.
Good but not quite it. And I did say Johnson would fit this if not for the length of term of his predecessor.
Last hint. I said it involved their position but I didn't say which one. Hopefully I haven't made this too convuluted.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
AH, so then are they the 3 VPs with the shortest term in that office before becoming president?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
It does have to do with the VP position but not the length of term. It is what was done with the VP position.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They were not filled with a replacement VP?
Nope, I know that is wrong.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
No, that is right. Those three took over for their predecessor after only being in office for a short period and served their Presidential term without a VP.
Others, including Johnson did the same but either took over during a second term (as Johnson did) or succeeded themselves and had a VP who served later.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I'll take the question then. But A. Johnson only served one term and didn't have a VP either.
OK a new triad.........
Diesel engine Geiger counter Petri dish
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: I'll take the question then. But A. Johnson only served one term and didn't have a VP either.
But I explained that. He assumed office during Lincoln's second term so he didn't count. The others all assumed during their predecessor's first term and never had another of their own.
Posted by Bevis on :
As for Quis's three I think they can be joined by the windscreen wiper and disposable nappies/diapers in that tey were all invented by women.
Posted by Bevis on :
Oh ignore me on that one, I am talking rubbish. They were all invented by and named after Germans.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I don't know if they were all Germans, but they were all named after their inventors. (just checked and they were all Germans)
Take it away, Bevis!
Posted by Bevis on :
I was going to list Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift in the belief that The Misfits was the last completed film they all made before they died only I just checked and in fact Clift did make a few others afterwards, if only in minor roles. So instead...
Ambrose Bierce Mike Wieringo Me
Posted by Matthew E on :
People who disappeared mysteriously in Mexico and were never heard from again?
Posted by Bevis on :
Probably not the right answer (unless someone hasn't told me something I should know yet).
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Hmm. I can get the connection between you and Bierce but I just can't figure out where Wieringo fits in.
Posted by Bevis on :
What's the connection between me and Bierce?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Bierce was featured as a detective in a novel "Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades". You, of course, are famous for the Queen of Diamonds. But the only Queen I can think of to connect Wieringo with is when he drew Insect Queen in the Amalgam comics.
Posted by Matthew E on :
quote:Originally posted by Bevis: Probably not the right answer (unless someone hasn't told me something I should know yet).
Wait for it.
Posted by Bevis on :
Wow, that's a very good connection between me and Bierce. Especially since the Queen of Diamonds is (visually) also based on me. Unfortunately it's not the right answer.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Same birthday: June 24. (Happy birthday, by the way.)
Posted by Bevis on :
Yep, simple as that. Midsummer's Day as well (at least in Europe). Plus, I'm not 30 until seven o'clock in the morning. Posted by He Who Wanders on :
30?! You geezer! (I passed 30 some time ago.)
NEXT TRIAD:
"Room 222" Blondie The Go-Go's
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
If Blondie the band then it must be the Valentine connection.
Karen Valentine - Room 222 Kathy Valentine - Go-Go's Valentine - Blondie (was a guitarist but can't recall his first name)
[ June 23, 2006, 06:46 PM: Message edited by: Lightning Lad ]
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
That went quick. Gary Valentine was Blondie's original bass player (either that, or her boyfriend before Dagwood, I can't remember which. )
Yerrup, Scott!
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I had actually posted asking you which Blondie you meant, Dagwood or Harry before I remembered Kathy in the Go-Go's. That's what made it click.
Here's another Presidential one, probably easy.
John Adams Thomas Jefferson James Monroe
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They are the first 3 presidents whom the number of their presidency is a prime number?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
While that may be true it isn't the answer I'm looking for. Good one though. Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They all died on the Fourth of July?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That's it RL. Adams and Jefferson even died on the same 4th, in 1826. Guess that would be a Duo Damsel question.
To you my fine feathered friend.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Thank you.
Edward I of England Barbra Streisand Alan Scott
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All were married twice.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
While that is true, it's not what I was going for.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
To repeat on this page: Edward I of England Barbra Streisand Alan Scott
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
One more shot.
They all changed their names.
Edward I was to originally to be Edward IV, after the three Saxon kings, but became Edward I instead.
Barbra's name was originally spelled Barbara.
Alan Scott underwent two name changes. He was originally called Alan Ladd, and later changed his hero name from Green Lantern to Sentinel and back again.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No, but a very good guess.
I'll give a hint: They have this in common with my parents.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They have gay children?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Yes, specifically gay sons.
Edward I's son Edward II is generally understood to have been gay.
Barbra Streisand's son is Jason Gould.
Alan Scott's son, of course, is Todd Rice, Obsidian.
Over to you, EDE.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nero Adolf Hitler Ernest Hemmingway
Posted by Matthew E on :
All committed suicide?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's it.
Posted by Matthew E on :
This shouldn't be too tough.
Lyle Norg James Cullen Val Armorr
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Dead Legionnaires?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nope.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
"Kid" Legionnaires.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
I got it. They each had a successor that went by II.
Invisible Kid II Kid Quantum II Karate Kid II
Posted by Matthew E on :
Lightning Lad got it.
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Fred Rogers Jimmy Stewart David Letterman
Posted by Matthew E on :
All from Indiana?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Both Rogers and Stewart were born in Pennsylvania (although Stewart was born in Indiana, PA) so that's not what I'm looking for.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Did they all star in something beginning with "Mister"? Fred Rogers, of course, was the eponymous star of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood", and Jimmy Stewart was the star of "Mister Smith Goes to Washington." Can't think of how David Letterman might fit that, but if I'm right, you'll tell me...
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Nope, that's not it either.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All worked on a children's show?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
Nope. What ties these three together is something personal that they share.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Are all three Presbyterians?
Posted by Lightning Lad on :
That would be it. Mr. Rogers was even an ordained Presbyterian minister.
Over to you Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Chuuk Palau Kwajalein
Posted by Ben McClure on :
They are all words I've never heard of
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
They are all islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
True, HWW, but there's something more specific about these islands that they share beyond merely being in the Pacific Ocean. They (and others) were all once part of a single political entity. The person who names that entity has answered the question correctly.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
French Polynesia?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
The Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Micronesia
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
He Who Wanders is correct. Quislet, one of those three (Chuuk) is in Micronesia, the others are not. But Micronesia, as well as Palau, the Marshall Islands (to which the third of my Triad belongs) and the Northern Mariana Islands were all once part of the U.S. Trust Territories of the Pacific.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Harpo Marx Ringo Starr Robert Plant
Posted by Xben on :
Hmm...they all use fake names that sound funny? Oh, except for Robert Plant. How about they all have the same middle initial...oh, except for Ringo Starr. They all featured in bands that spelled their names oddly? Oops, except for Harpo. Sorry, I have no idea.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All are classically trained musicians?
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They could all play the harp?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Good guesses ... but wrong.
HINT: Jimi Hendrix could also fit on this list.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Time for another clue?
On Hendrix, the link is more noticeable than the rest.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Unmanageable hair?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Okay, I'll make a serious guess.
They're all left-handed?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
You got it, Rockhopper Lad ... the second time, that is!
Jimi held his guitar with the neck in his right hand, as does Paul McCartney, also a famous leftie.
Harpo played his harp by resting the harp on his right shoulder, as a left-handed person would.
On singers and drummers, such as Plant and Starr, left-handedness is much harder to spot.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Alan Jay Lerner Mickey Rooney Elizabeth Taylor
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All started as child stars?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Rooney and Taylor were, but not Lerner.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Looking up Lerner (I did recognize the name as being the composer) I think I stumbled upon the answer. I'll wait a bit before I use it.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Two days and no further guesses:
They all have been married multiple times. At least 8 times.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Hurrah for Quislet, Esq.!
Alan Jay Lerner, Mickey Rooney and Elizabeth Taylor have each been married eight times (twice to the same person in Taylor's case).
Up to you, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK:
Mary Tyler Moore Carolyn Jones Barbara Eden
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All co-starred in a movie with Elvis Presley.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Dang! I thought that would take longer.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
My mom is a huge Elvis fan. I had seen every Elvis movie by the time I was ten.
Audrey Hepburn Deborah Kerr Natalie Wood
[ July 10, 2006, 08:42 PM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Xben on :
All appeared in musicals, but didn't do their own singing?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's almost it. There's one thing other that those performances have in common.
Posted by Xben on :
Were they all dubbed by the same person?
Posted by Xben on :
Also, all three musicals were based on the non-musical plays (at least, the famous three musicals that I am thinking of, don't know if there were others that the stars appeared in)
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They were indeed all dubbed by the same person: Marni Nixon. She pretty much made a career out of singing for other people.
Oh, and yes: The King and I was based on Anna and the King of Siam; West Side Story was based on Romeo and Juliet and My Fair Lady was based on Pygmalion. All three were originally not musicals.
Over to Xben.
[ July 10, 2006, 08:34 PM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Xben on :
Wow how exciting! OK, I'll be back in a few hours with a post
Posted by Xben on :
All right, I had something more interesting that I was working on, but no time to really go into it, so...
1. Beastmaster 2. Logan's Run 3. Millennium
Posted by Lance's realm on :
All were novels before they were movies?
Posted by Xben on :
Maybe, although that's not a very strong distinction. It's not what I had in mind, although you've correctly guessed that it has to do with the movie version of each of these titles.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Each film starred a former Charlie's Angel.
Posted by Xben on :
That's right!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Prince Bruce Springsteen Joni Mitchell
Obviously, they're all singers; it's something more specific.
Posted by Xben on :
Well, apparently their all on Paste Magazine's list of top 10 greatest living songwriters, but somehow I doubt that's it.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Nope. Each sang a song with a particular commonality in their titles.
Posted by Xben on :
Colors? Seems a bit of a weak link. Purple Rain, Big Yellow Taxi, and ??
Posted by Xben on :
...Red-headed woman
Posted by Matthew E on :
Did they all have a song called 'River'?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Don't know about "River", but Xben is half-right on the colors. The Joni Mitchell song XBen mentioned is the appropriate one for this Triad, and Prince and the Boss sang songs similar to that in what manner...?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All about colorful cars? Joni Mitchell: Big Yellow Taxi, Bruce Springstien: Pink Cadilliac, Prince: Little Red Corvette
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Them's the three! (Would have been even cooler if I could have thought of another one with size, color and car.)
You're up, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
New York Istanbul Tokyo
Posted by Xben on :
All three are, or have been in the past, the names of both a city and the province / prefecture / state that it exists in
[ July 12, 2006, 01:29 AM: Message edited by: Xben ]
Posted by Bevis on :
They all used to have different names: New Amsterdam, Constantinople, Edo.
[ July 12, 2006, 03:37 AM: Message edited by: Bevis ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Bevis has the triad I was thinking of.
Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople So if you've a date in Constantinople She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way
So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul (Istanbul) Istanbul (Istanbul)
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam Why they changed it I can't say People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
So take me back to Constantinople No, you can't go back to Constantinople Been a long time gone, Constantinople Why did Constantinople get the works? That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul Posted by Bevis on :
Yay me! Dammit, now I've got to think of a new one.
OK, possibly quite a simple one this time...
Raven in The Teen Titans cartoon Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls Timmy Turner in Fairly Odd Parents
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They're all voiced by Tara Strong
Posted by Bevis on :
That they are. I could also have included Toot and Princess Clara from Drawn Together, Omi from Xiaolin Showdown, Barbara Gordon/Batgirl in The New Batman Adventures, Giggling Girl in the Clerks animated series, Scarlet Witch in X-Men (the recent animated series) and a whole hoard of others. In fact she's in almost every single US animated series (and a few non-animated ones as well) you can name. A very busy lady clearly.
Your go Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Anne Murray Celine Dion Bryan Adams
Yes, they're all Canadian singers. There's something they have in common that other Canadian singers do not.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Have they won Academy Awards for best song?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Nope.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Hint time: In a movie about Canadian Entertainment, these three are the only real-world Canadian Entertainers mentioned by name.
One Canadian athlete was also mentioned.
Posted by Bevis on :
Are they all in South Park: Bigger, Longer, Uncut? They certainly have a bit of a thing about taking the mick out of Celine Dion (and rightly so) in the TV series.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They are all mentioned in that movie.
And the athlete, of course, was Brian Boitano. The only four real-life Canadians mentioned by name in SP:BLU.
Over to you, Bevis.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Doesn't change the question or answer, but Boitano is American. Brian Orser is the Canadian skating Brian.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Holy cow, you're right. I guess that means that the three people I named were the only real-world Canadians mentioned by name in SP:BLU.
Posted by Bevis on :
I still haven't seen it despite the fact I love South Park.
OK, new one:
Ruth Taylor Carol Channing Marilyn Monroe
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All platinum blonde?
(A South Park fan who hasn't seen the movie? You're missing out, big time.)
Posted by Bevis on :
Nope.
Posted by Matthew E on :
All played the lead in some version of 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'?
Posted by Bevis on :
Gosh, that was quick. Unless it was easier than I thought it was.
Yep, all played Lorelei Lee in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Taylor in the original silent film (1928 I think. It's been lost but was one of the first films to have any sound in it. Just one scene so they could have a poisson/poison joke that wouldn't work in subtitles), Channing in the original stage show and of course Marilyn in the 1953 musical film.
Your go Matthew.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Probably not that easy, but my wife is way big into musicals, and I like the novel version of GPB.
This one should be pretty easy. It's also backwards: I'll give the answer, and you provide the three examples (I suppose there could be more than three, but I have a hard time imagining it):
Three mainstream comic-book women with the superpower of long, prehensile hair.
1. 2. 3.
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
1. Sussa Paka a.k.a. "Spider Girl", LSH supporting character (DC) 2. Medusa of the Inhumans (Marvel) 3. Godiva of the Global Guardians (DC)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Matthew E: Probably not that easy, but my wife is way big into musicals, and I like the novel version of GPB.
This one should be pretty easy. It's also backwards: I'll give the answer, and you provide the three examples (I suppose there could be more than three, but I have a hard time imagining it):
Three mainstream comic-book women with the superpower of long, prehensile hair.
1. 2. 3.
This backwards version should get its own thread. I'll start it. Title: Name Three
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Bicycle Repair Man: 1. Sussa Paka a.k.a. "Spider Girl", LSH supporting character (DC) 2. Medusa of the Inhumans (Marvel) 3. Godiva of the Global Guardians (DC)
Bicycle Repair Man,
I think you can go ahead with your own Triad.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Those were the three I had.
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
New Triad:
Hello, Dolly! How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying God's Favorite Posted by CJ Taylor on :
3 books about cloning sheep?
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
No. Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All three plays starred Charles Nelson Reilly
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
Correct! (in their respective original Broadway productions)
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Gone With the Wind (movie) Nathaniel Hawethorn University of Miami
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Gables
1) starred Clark Gable 2) wrote "The House of Seven Gables" 3) located in Coral Gables
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's it, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Mary Tyler Moore Sally Fields Kathy Najimy
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All have played nuns.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That they have.
Mary Tyler Moore in the film "Change of Habit" Sally Fields in the TV show "The Flying Nun" Kathy Najimy in the movies "Sister Act" & Sister Act II"
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Soap Horse Comic
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Opera
Soap Opera - A serial episodic drama, usually in the daytime Horse Opera - a slang term for a movie with a Wild West setting. Comic Opera - an opera with a light or comedic theme
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I figured it wouldn't take long for someone to get that one. Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Oscar Wilde Nelson Mandela William Sydney Porter (aka O Henry)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They were all imprisoned?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup. Jailbirds everyone of them.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Linus Pauling Francis Crick John Steinbeck
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Nobel prize winners?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
More specific...
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Nobel Prize winners in the same year?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
(looking up his hunch) Yep...1962. Peace, Medicine and Literature, respectively.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's it.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Mister America Congorilla Hellcat
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All features changed names during their course (Mister America to Americommando and Congo Bill to Congorilla I know, so I'm guessing the other)?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They were all non-superhero features that were later adapted to superheroes.
Tex Thompson became Mister America. Congo Bill became Congorilla. Patsy Walker became Hellcat.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
You got it, Eryk!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
The Cardinal The American Foxhound The Oyster
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Species introduced to America?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Posted by KryptonKid on :
State symbols of the Commonwealth of Virginia?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Really lame Batman villians?
Species on the Endangered Species list?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by KryptonKid: State symbols of the Commonwealth of Virginia?
Yep.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Thought I suppose they're technically "Commonwealth Symbols"...
Posted by KryptonKid on :
A protean "blaster"
A statuette of "His Lardship"
A flagpole
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Things Proty has turned into?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Things eaten by Tenzil
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Things Chameleon Lad(?) (from the Super-rejects) turned into?
Posted by KryptonKid on :
EDE gets the prize!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
for EDE
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Sorry.
Philadelphia York Lancaster
[ August 10, 2006, 02:01 PM: Message edited by: Eryk Davis Ester ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
former capital cities?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
More detail needed.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Former capital cities of Pennsylvania?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Former capital cities of the United States?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Well, to be absolutely specific, they're former capital cities of the United States that are located in Pennsylvania, but that's good enough, RL.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Roy Clark Nat "King" Cole Tab Hunter
Posted by KryptonKid on :
they all spoke Spanish?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Not that I'm aware.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All appeared on the Beverly Hillbillies?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I'll give a hint: It has to do with singing.
Posted by KryptonKid on :
They all played the Spanish guitar.
while singing.
in Spanish.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Not quite. It has to do with something sung in English.
To repeat on this page:
Roy Clark Nat "King" Cole Tab Hunter
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Rockhopper, I think no one has a guess on this.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
I'll make a guess: All sang "Young Love."
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That is close enough!
They all sang songs with "Young" in the title:
Clark: "Yesterday When I was Young" Cole: "Too Young" Hunter: "Young Love"
Up to HWW
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Jane Edward Edward
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They were rejected from the Newhart show in favor of Larry, Darryl, and Darryl?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Nope. You have to go back much further than that.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I am thinking it has something to do with royalty, but can't think of anything specific
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
You're on the right track!
Posted by KryptonKid on :
Monarchs of England that reigned less than a year, or whose reigns were contained within one calendar year.
Lady Jane Grey, 1553 Edward V, 1483 Edward VIII, 1936
Jane was executed by cousin Mary I Tudor, Edward V was allegedly murdered in his sleep or poisoned in the Tower by uncle Richard III, Edward VIII abdicated for the love a colonist.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
You got it, KK! Another distinction: All three monarchs were never crowned.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
I actually figured it had to do with British monarchs, but I am not enough of an anglophile to know the specifics. I just decided to go for the nyucks instead. I better watch that - look what happened to Ted Kord...
Posted by KryptonKid on :
quote:Originally posted by Lance's realm: I actually figured it had to do with British monarchs, but I am not enough of an anglophile to know the specifics. I just decided to go for the nyucks instead. I better watch that - look what happened to Ted Kord...
These days we need as many nyucks as we can get.
I'll post something soon,
Posted by KryptonKid on :
Alexandra Geraldine Nelson
Posted by Bevis on :
Technically Lady Jane Grey was never a monarch since she never had a coronation. I'm just being picky on that one though...
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Bevis,
The two Edwards never had a coronation (i.e., "were crowned," as I said), either, but they were still considered kings from the time they inherited the throne. According to this site, Jane was actually crowned, albeit under duplicitous circumstances.
Posted by Bevis on :
That's true, but for whatever reason Jane Grey isn't considered an actual monarch of England, in the same way that Matilda isn't, even though they both had legitimate claims to the throne. No idea why though.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by KryptonKid: Alexandra Geraldine Nelson
No idea. perhaps a hint would help
Posted by KryptonKid on :
Hint: A proper question might be, "North Island or South Island?"
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They're all cities in New Zealand?
Posted by KryptonKid on :
That's it! Go Birfday boy!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Lee Harvey Oswald Elvis Presley Dr. Ruth Westheimer
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have visited Russia?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
As far as I know Elvis never went to Russia.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All were excellent marksmen with guns?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They've all regretted going to Dallas Texas?
They all were twins?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No. This has to do with a TV series.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Sam Beckett has been all of these people?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Yes! They were all real people Sam leaped into. I loved Quantum Leap!
Over to you, Lance.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Jerry Orbach Julie Newmar Jack Palance
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Well with Julie Newmar & Jack Palance, I would say all have been villians in Batman. But I don't think Jerry Orbach would work.
All have won Tony awards?
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Not what I was thinking, Quis. I'll give a hint - this question is very similar to Rockhopper's.
Posted by Xben on :
All guest-starred on Buck Rogers in the 25th century?
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Yes! They all played villains on Buck Rogers. It was really funny to see Jerry Orbach in that role! Take it, Xben!
Posted by Xben on :
OK, I think I've got this right...
Glorith Dr. Regulus Validus
Posted by Matthew E on :
I'm going to guess, all have killed Legionnaires. Although I'm not sure who Dr. Regulus would have killed.
Posted by Xben on :
In the right direction, but not quite there yet. I'm going by memory here so I'm a little worried I've got the specifics of the stories correct.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All got reverted back to infancy?
Posted by Xben on :
Reverted back to infancy? I guess Validus was, and Glorith would have passed through infancy on her way to protoplasmic goop, but I don't remember Regulus...
No, Matthew E is closer to what I was thinking...
Posted by Xben on :
Hint: you have to look at three different continuities to see this commonality
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all killed a version of Gim Allon.
Glorith, during Zero Hour (Leviathan younger Gim) Dr. Regulus, after Zero Hour (Leviathan) Validus, in Superboy's Legion
Posted by Xben on :
That's it! I once counted and realized that Gim was the most-killed Legionairre, though this was also by memory. I was counting the various alternate realities of LSH #300, where I *think* he was killed by Computo/Polar Boy, the Dark Man, and Mordru.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Diamonds Are Forever The Spy Who Loved Me The Living Daylights
(Obviously, all James Bond movies, but what do they share that other Bond films do not?)
Posted by Xben on :
Nothing comes to mind, even after some research. Any hints?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Is it that they take their names from Ian Fleming novels/stories, but are wholly original stories?
Posted by Lance's realm on :
I am guessing that it is something Bond does. Are these films in which he does NOT say, "shaken, not stirred?"
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
No, it has something to do with where action takes place
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Does much of the action take place in England?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Many of the Bond films have scenes set in England.
Posted by Bevis on :
Well Diamonds Are Forever is mostly set in Vegas (although 'Vegas' is never actually used in any of the dialogue oddly enough) but I think the other two are all over the world. Is it actually to do with the story or where the film was shot? Otherwise I'm stumped.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Not where the film was shot, where the story is set.
I'll throw another hint: in Diamonds Are Forever, the scene in this location does not contain Bond, though in the other two movies (Spy Who Loved Me and Living Daylights), Bond is seen in that place.
I'll throw in one more hint: Moonraker is unique in the way the three mentioned are a triad (and not because it's partially set in space; it's an Earth location).
Posted by Bevis on :
They all involve scenes in or on volcanoes?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
No...in fact, I don't think any of the ones I mentioned include volcanoes.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They all include scenes in Africa?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Bingo! Diamonds are Forever had some of the diamond-smuggling scenes, including a Wint & Kidd murder, in an unspecified, but definitely African, country. The Spy Who Loved Me had Bond action in Cairo and Giza, Egypt, and Living Daylights had him in Tangier, Morocco.
The Moonraker hint was meant to point to the fact that that film is the only one with any scenes set in South America.
Take it away, EDE!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Turtles Sharks Ants
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
None of them are Kosher.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I would think sharks *are* kosher, but that's not what I had in mind, anyway.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They're not; fish must have scales in order to be Kosher.
Is it that those species are the same now as they were since the time of the dinosaurs?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's close enough to what I was going for, cmk.
The exact answer was: "Types of animals that survived the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs."
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Alan Alda Sarah Michelle Gellar Peta Wilson
Posted by Xben on :
Did they all star in TV shows that were based on movies as characters that were originally played by different actor (eg. Donald Sutherland was Hawkeye in the movie version of MASH)?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's correct!
Posted by Xben on :
OK, here's mine (pretty easy, I think)
Anthony Hopkins Billy Crudup Henry Czerny
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Did they all portray cannibals?
Posted by Xben on :
First guess at four days, but that's not correct, to my knowledge. Of course Anthony Hopkins did, but I'm not aware of the others doing that.
It does have to do with a commonality in a roll that each of them played. It was three different movies, three different characters, but a quite specific link between them, quite well known is certain segments of popular culture. A hint is that I'm quite confident they are the ONLY three actors to share this link in the movies. However, there would be others if you included television.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Each of them were in one of the Mission: Unwatc- ... I mean, Mission: Impossible trilogy of movies.
Posted by Xben on :
That's true, and that's most of the answer, but my thoughts were a little more specific than that. Remember, I said I cannot think of any other actors who share this link, at least in movies.
Posted by Xben on :
Basically, to take it further, what did their rolls in the Mission: Impossible movies have in common, that is shared by none of the other actors. It's something that would not be any big deal to anyone who isn't a fan of the TV series.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they all played versions of original series characters?
Posted by Xben on :
No, in fact none of them did necessarily (Jon Voight is the only person in the movies to play a character who was definitely on the original series). But they all had a function in the movie that was a key part of the original series--in fact, one of the most famous parts of the original series.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They did the voices on the tape that self-destructed?
Posted by Xben on :
That's it--definitely one of the most famous aspects of the original series. The differences here being that in the original series that voice was never a character, but in all three movies they were.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all three (diliberately or not) give Scientology Lad his missions?
Posted by Xben on :
More or less correct, Kent, but Lance had what I was looking for.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Ok, here we go...
Erg-1 Polar Boy Supergirl
Posted by Matthew E on :
Legionnaires who were rejected from the Legion in their first appearance?
Posted by Lance's realm on :
That's it, Matt. Take it...
Posted by Matthew E on :
George Orwell William Makepeace Thackeray Gerald Durrell
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They were all born in India.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Cool. I thought I was going to have to give hints.
(Actually, it's 'British writers born in India', but you got the important part.)
Take it away.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Teen Girl President T.O.D.D. and Son Victorian-Era Superhero
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
OK, I guess noone here reads Medium Large. Shame...you're missing out.
OK, better triad:
Jack the Ripper Zodiac Son of Sam
Posted by Matthew E on :
Serial killers? Or is there more to it than that?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Slightly more. Basically, they're all VERY well known...but just how productive were they?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I am pretty sure tha Jack only killed six people. So I would guess that they all only killed six people.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's close enough - they all (as far as is known) killed less than ten people. Their notoriety far outstrips the actual damage they did.
Yours, Quis!
Posted by Bevis on :
*fewer* than ten people. That's one of my grammatical bugbears, sorry. But it's now got to the point that I end up getting really wound up about it. Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Bevis,
The thing that really sets my dad off is when people say "wicked good". Where I live, the word "wicked" is used as an adjective meaning "really" or "very".
Now back to the game.
Athens Paris St Louis
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
First three cities to host the Olympics
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
North Carolina Ohio Florida
Posted by Bevis on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: The thing that really sets my dad off is when people say "wicked good".
Ah, see, but that's slang so (completely irrationally) that doesn't bother me in the slightest. The difference between 'fewer' and 'less' is a gramttical rule thing and I know it doesn't really matter at all but sometimes things like that that you know shouldn't matter are the ones that get you most annoyed.
But no idea about the nest Triad...
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They all cheat at football.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
But they're hardly the only ones.
Hint: it relates to the state quarters of these states.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They all have something on their quarters relating to flight: North Carolina has the Wright Brothers, Ohio an astronaut and Florida a space shuttle.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Close enough - They all have flying machines. In addition to the astronaut, Ohio also has the Wright Brothers' first airplane.
Take it away, Rockhopper!
Posted by CJ Taylor on :
Hmm, I think RHL is out getting fish...
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
has anyone PMed him?
Posted by CJ Taylor on :
Someone has now.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Actually, two have. Thanks Quis and CJ!
I've had company this week, so I've been a bit scattered lately.
A simple one:
Adelie d'Urville Ferdinand Magellan Alexander von Humboldt
Posted by Xben on :
Is it just that they're all explorers?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Did they all not complete the feat they are famous for?
I know Magellan didn't go around the world, having died on the journey.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's not it.
This is just the kind of question you'd expect me to ask.
Posted by Seth Gaterra on :
They all had penguin species named after them? I recognized Adelie d'Urville's first name as Rockhopper Lass' name.
[ October 15, 2006, 02:34 PM: Message edited by: Seth Gaterra ]
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's it, Seth. I thought Rockhopper Lass' first name would be a giveaway.
The species in question are: Adelie Magellanic Humboldt
Your turn.
Posted by Seth Gaterra on :
Muhammad Ali Jackie Gleason William Shatner
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all three have university buildings named after them?
Posted by Seth Gaterra on :
No, though the student society building at Montreal's McGill University is unofficially named after Shatner. Officially, though, it's the "University Center".
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Did all three have catchphrases which included the phrase "the Greatest"?
Posted by Seth Gaterra on :
Chaim -- don't know if that would include Shatner? But that wasn't what I had in mind.
Hint: This was an event all three experienced, though at different times.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Yeah, I didn't know if it would include Shatner either, but I figured since it applied to two of them, it would be a decent guess.
Guess not.
Posted by Xben on :
Did they all meet the dali lama?
Posted by Seth Gaterra on :
No, that's not it.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Did all three avoid the draft?
Posted by Seth Gaterra on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Did all three avoid the draft?
If that happened, that's not what I was thinking of...
Hint: Shatner would have been considered the most likely of the three to experience this.
Posted by Ghost of Numf El on :
They all met God?
Posted by Xben on :
Did they all dedicate a spaceship?
Posted by Xben on :
Or did they all claim to have encountered UFO's or aliens?
Posted by Seth Gaterra on :
quote:Originally posted by Xben: Or did they all claim to have encountered UFO's or aliens?
That's the answer! Muhammad Ali said he's seen them seven times. Two sightings for Jackie Gleason. And Shatner claims the one he saw saved him, when he was lost in the Mojave Desert.
Posted by Xben on :
the abominable snowman a school of fish a piggy bank
Posted by KryptonKid on :
Things that tend to vanish without a trace.
Posted by Xben on :
Nope
Posted by Lance's realm on :
all bave been voiced by John Ratzenberger
Posted by Xben on :
There you go! (from Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and Toy Story 1 & 2 respectively)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
When I saw the list, I had no clue. But when I saw Lance's realm's answer, I thought "that must be it"
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Bob the Builder Caspar the friendly ghost Peter Pan
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All are male characters who have been portrayed or voiced by women.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
nope...has Bob the Builder been voiced by a woman? I don't think so...
Posted by Xben on :
They all had a female friend or companion named Wendy!
Posted by Lance's realm on :
That's it, Xben!
Posted by Xben on :
OK, here goes...
Dr. Jason Woodrue The Flash Lana Lang
Posted by Xben on :
No guesses? A hint...it has to do with other non-comic adaptations of these characters
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nothing is clicking for me
Posted by Xben on :
More hint: It has to do with actors who have played these characters in movies or television...
Posted by Xben on :
Continuing hints...
For Dr. Jason Woodrue, it has to do with the actor who played him in a movie (to my knowledge, only one possibility)
For the Flash, it has to do with an actor who voiced him in a cartoon (one or two possibilities)
For Lana Lang, it has to do with an actress who played her in a movie (two possibilities)
These three actors all have something in common...
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I will admit I cheated a little by looking up Jason Woodrue at IMDB.
The link would be that the actors all appear in Smallville as different characters
Posted by Xben on :
That's right. No problem that you "cheated"...this has gone on for a while now. For anyone else interested, the actors are John Glover (Lionel Luthor) from Batman & Robin, Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor) from Justice League, and Annette O'Toole (Martha Kent) from Superman III.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
hmmmm........
Massachusetts Virginia Pennsylvania
Posted by Matthew E on :
Commonwealths?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup. As I was typing it, I thought it might be easy, but what the hey.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Let's try this one. Some may say it's a very arguable point, but it's clear in my mind:
Wonder Man Black Canary Animal Man
Posted by Matthew E on :
No takers yet? I'll say it's something you don't need to know a whole lot about the characters to pick up on.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have dated Oliver Queen?
I have been racking my brains and can't think of a connection.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They all wear jackets as part of their outfits.
Posted by Matthew E on :
EDE got it right. (I know they don't *always* wear jackets, but their most famous costumes all feature jackets.)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Aquaman Green Arrow Johnny Quick
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All had strips in More Fun Comics
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have dated Dinah Lance. (just to be consistant with my last answer )
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All moved (along with Superboy) from More Fun to Adventure where Mort Weisinger kept them alive for years longer than most other Golden Age super-hero features (other than the Big Three)?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Close. There's two parts to the answer, one part of which has to do with why they were kept alive/moved from More Fun to Adventure, and the other part has to do with other Golden Age characters.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all survived the great super-hero implosion of the 1950's.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
The answer that I'm looking for only indirectly relates to their surviving the Golden Age.
It's primarily about their creation.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
All had their origins revised in the 50s?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Not what I'm thinking of (and, to my knowledge, only Aquaman's origin was revised).
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Were they all created to be knockoff of other characters? Aquaman = Sub-Mariner, Johnny Quick = Flash? (not sure about GA)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I'll give that to you, cmk.
They were all created by Mort Weisinger and their design was influenced by pre-existing characters.
Aquaman = Timely's Sub-Mariner. Johnny Quick = All-American's Flash. Green Arrow = Fawcett's Golden Arrow.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Patriot Super-Patriot Spirit of '76
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Other names for the character Uncle Sam?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Nope
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
EDE - GA had a revamped origin, too. the island exile wasn't the original origin.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: EDE - GA had a revamped origin, too. the island exile wasn't the original origin.
Really? I had no idea. But, then again, my GA knowledge is pretty sparse, and based primarily on the Showcase. Next you'll be telling me that whole society of archers from around the world isn't a core part of the GA mythos, either!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Hint: they all took on a certain heroic identity.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all took on the identity of Captain America?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's correct, Quis. In an early issue of What If...? it has the Patriot and the Spirit of '76, two minor old Marvel heroes, taking on the identity of Captain America after he went missing in 1945, and Super-Patriot did so more recently, and is now known as USAgent.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Hmmmmmm...... Do I do another comics related triad or go for something different.
Different.
Angelina Jolie Elizabeth Taylor Russell Crow
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They've all won Oscars
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Have they? Not the link I was thinking of. If no one gets the connection by tomorrow, then the question is your.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
They've all appeared in movies set in ancient Rome?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Have they?
The link I was going for was that they all were the "other person" in the breakup of a celebrity marriage.
But as Chaim stated, they all also won an oscar. so the question is his.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I was thinking of Gladiator and Cleopatra, but don't know of AJ doing one. It was worth a guess.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I looked on IMDB. Angelina was in Alexander, which techincally wasn't set in ancient Rome, but would be close enough. However, as I said, Chaim did have a link first although not the link I was thinking of. He has the next Triad
Posted by Xben on :
Anything happening here?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Amazing Man Flash Super-Chief
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They all appeared on Super-friends?
Posted by Xben on :
All are heroic legacies that at one point, involved a grandfather and grandson
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Xben got it - the hero names were (in their most recent iterations, at least) shared by grandfather and grandson, but not by the generation in between. (In the case of Super-Chief, it is at least implied, though not actually seen that the grandfather had been Super-Chief.)
Posted by Xben on :
Sara Mary Martha
Posted by Lance's realm on :
All names given for Superman's mom?
Posted by Xben on :
yes that's right. Sara was from the George Reeves tv series
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
waiting for Lance...
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Wow...sorry...thanks for the pm. I'll post a question as soon as I think of one.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
You can just do a real easy one. Like: George HW Bush, Bill Clinton, & George W Bush
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Let's just go with that one, Quis. Since the birth of our new baby a few days ago, the time I am spending on here is near non-existent.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Um, they were all Presidents of the United States? Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is the link. Over to you Kid Prime.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Oscar Hammerstein II Jonathan Larsen Howard Ashman
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
three musical playwrights?
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Yes, but it needs to be more specific. Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Three musical playwrights who's partner was also teamed with another musical playwright?
Did some checking. I'll give others a chance before giving this new answer (which is hopefully the one Kid Prime is thinking of)
[ January 12, 2007, 09:49 AM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq. ]
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Good guess. 2 out of 3 correct, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't believe Jonathan Larsen ever had a partner. I know he wrote the music and lyrics for Rent and Tick... Tick... BOOM! by himself.
I'll give a hint later on today.
Posted by Bevis on :
Three musical playwrights who had unfinished musicals at the time of their deaths that were performed as they were. (I was going to say tehy were produced after they died but Larsenw as still alive when the first production was being put together. i think he died the day before first ngiht of Rent or something. Oh, but he did have another one that he'd written that's only just been produced but I don't know if that was unfinished).
Posted by Kid Prime on :
Good job, Bevis! (Though I'm so not surprised.)
Technically, I was referring to the movies of their last projects (The Sound of Music, Rent, Aladdin), none of which they were alive to see, sadly. Hammerstein died weeks after The Sound of Music went into previews.
But you got it, fellow musical theatre man! Over to you.
Posted by Bevis on :
Yay!
Hmm, new question...
Anni-Frid Lyngstad Jamie Lee Curtis Grace Kelly
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
quote:Originally posted by Kid Prime: Good guess. 2 out of 3 correct, but (correct me if I'm wrong) I don't believe Jonathan Larsen ever had a partner. I know he wrote the music and lyrics for Rent and Tick... Tick... BOOM! by himself.
I'll give a hint later on today.
Early on for Rent, he and Billy Aronson were partners, but split because of creative differences.
Posted by Kid Prime on :
I'm not sure if it counts if their name isn't on the final product. Posted by Kid Prime on :
Ah. I see now. The original idea was Aronson's, and he did cowrite "Santa Fe" and some of the title number. Oh well, c'est la vie.
Posted by Xben on :
They each married royalty or nobility
Posted by Bevis on :
Yup, that's the one. Specifically they all have (or had, in the case of Kelly) aristocratic titles.
Posted by Xben on :
Colossal Boy Data Lena Luthor
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They were all blackamiled into doing something evil?
Posted by Xben on :
Not my thought. I know Colossal Boy having that situation back in the day, but not Data. And I don't know Lena Luthor well enough.
Posted by KryptonKid on :
They were all "born" on Terran colonies?
Posted by Xben on :
That's not really a very particular connection, especially as the Data you are thinking of wasn't really "born". And I think in most incarnations of the Legion, wasn't Colossal Boy actually born on earth? He is currently, and pre-crisis, he was amongst the Legionairres (along with Sun Boy, Karate Kid, and Wildfire) being honoured for being born on earth.
OK, here's a hint...this question is about three primarily comic book characters.
Posted by Xben on :
Another hint:
Colossal Boy is pre-crisis Lena Luthor is post-crisis Data is not the character from Star Trek!
Posted by Xben on :
OK, no guesses, so I'll give another hint
Data is a character from Thriller (short lived non-continuity DC series by Robert Loren Fleming)
The connection has to do with people that each of these characters were related to
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All are relatives of the President of the US (or United Planets in the case of GIm)
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they were each children of presidents!
Posted by Xben on :
Hmm, you are both right, of course. Kent actually had the specific thing I was going for..."children of presidents", but Quislet was essentially correct as well and got his answer in first (apparently at the same minute!) I guess I've got to give it to Quislet...if I'd seen his answer only I would have given it to him, and he did get in first.
Now that I've done this, I can't do another groovy triad that occurred to me as I was giving hints on this one, namely "Star Trek" "Thriller" and "Goonies"...which each had characters named Data in them.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Lena was Lex's daughter post-crisis? I only knew her as his sister.
oh well.
Here's mine:
John Quincy Adams Davy Crockett Abraham Lincoln
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
yes, pre-crisis she was his sister, but post-crisis, she was his daughter with the Contessa.
As for your three:
While all three are famous for other things, each of them served in the House of Representatives.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That's the triad. JQA after being president.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Dianne Wiest Edie Falco Joe Piscopo
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have appeared on Law & Order as repeat characters?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
yep.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
bookkeeper accountant bank teller
Posted by Xben on :
Financial related occupations that are ten letters long (I assume that's not actually it)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
No, that is not the triad I was going for.
Zoologist Bellhop Actress
Also work for this triad.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Occupations with a double-letter in them?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That's it.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Arco, Idaho Hot Springs, Arkansas Chiloquin, Oregon
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I would say we are all stumped. I looked up all three places and could not see a connecting link.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Three places whose final letter matches the final letter of the state they're in?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
True, I suppose, but not what I was aiming for.
These three are the closest towns to locations with a certain commonality to them.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They are all near craters or crater lakes? I found them for Arco & Chiloquin, but not Hot Springs.
[ February 02, 2007, 03:27 PM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq. ]
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Crater places is indeed the link.
Arco, Idaho is the closest town to Craters of the Moon National Monument. Hot Springs, Arkansas is the closest town to Crater of Diamonds State Park. Chiloquin, Oregon is the closest town to Crater Lake National Park.
Your turn, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
The Color Purple The Lion King Hairspray
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All movies that became Broadway plays?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Sorry for the delay, I've had a little trouble thinking of one. But here goes:
Brunei Malaysia Indonesia
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
The nations that own Borneo?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's right, Kent. I had a feeling that one was pretty easy.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
West Florida Madawaska Conch
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Types of shells?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
...not that I'm aware of, but good try.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I don't think this is right, but I'll guess it anyway:
Panhandles?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
one was 1980s, the other two were about 200 years ago, more or less.
Posted by Xben on :
Places devastated by hurricanes?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
not that I'm aware of.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Ah! Got it - they were all little-recognized secessionist republics.
Very cool and obscure, Kent.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
good job, Chaim!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Chicago Detroit Tonga
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
three operation code-names for the Normandy invasion.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
And, back to you, Kent!
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Dr. Leete Wilma Deering Judith Gardenier
Posted by Vee on :
Hmmm, not sure what exactly connects them other than that they are all characters met in the protagnoist's future?
Dr, Leete in Bellamy's Looking Backwards Wilma Deering in the Buck Rogers stories JUdith Gardenier in Rip Van Winkle
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
close enough... each were characters that helped awakened sleepers adjust decades/cenmturies afterward.
your go, Vee!
Posted by Vee on :
Barbecue Hurricane Hammoock
Posted by Matthew E on :
I'm taking a long shot here... nicknames for Long John Silver?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
types of parties common (or common until recently) on the Gulf coast?
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Matthew E: I'm taking a long shot here... nicknames for Long John Silver?
Nope
Posted by Vee on :
quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: types of parties common (or common until recently) on the Gulf coast?
Nope, but a hammock party sounds kina fun! Posted by Vee on :
HINT: Think derivation
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They're all originally American Indian words that entered English through Spanish?
Posted by Vee on :
Yay!! Rockhopper figured it out!
You go Rocky!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Dime Box Grapevine Splendora
Posted by Matthew E on :
Towns in Texas?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Yup!
Posted by Matthew E on :
Dr. Manhattan Prof. Alphaeus Hyatt (Ray Palmer's colleague) Dark Destroyer (the Atari Force villain)
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
People existing in two times/places at once?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Hmm... interesting. But no.
(I'm trying to think of a good hint for this question, but it's difficult. Really you don't need to know anything about the Dark Destroyer to get this; you can get the answer just from Dr. Manhattan and Prof. Hyatt and assume that the same is true of the Destroyer. I don't want to say more at this stage.)
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
professors who were victims of their own experiments?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nope.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
people who could in some way defy the normal flow of time?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nope.
The thing they have in common has to do with how they were depicted in comic books. The train of thought I imagine is for people to say, "Well, such-and-such factor is famously true of Dr. Manhattan, and I recall that there was a recent* sensation where Prof. Hyatt joined this club, and let's assume that the Dark Destroyer is a valid third."
*the word 'recent' is a hint itself
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Have they all been drawn by Dave Gibbons?
Posted by Matthew E on :
No. The group these three guys are in is much more select than that. I can't think of anyone else who qualifies, among DC characters, anyway; the format of this answer is something like, "They're all DC characters who..."... but wait! Yes! If we expand it to Marvel, Peter Parker would also (recently) qualify! I think, anyway; I seem to recall reading something about this.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Split himself in two?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nope.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
unmasked/revealed their secret IDs? (never knew Hyatt had one, but...)
Posted by Matthew E on :
No, it's a much smaller group than that. Although 'revealed' may be an appropriate word to use in the correct answer.
Posted by Xben on :
Does it have something to do with having their internal organs exposed for some length of time? Or perhaps with walking around with no clothes on?
Posted by Matthew E on :
You're close. Both those answers are close.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have been rebuilt fropm the molecular level?
Posted by Matthew E on :
No. Xben's answer, "Or perhaps with walking around with no clothes on?" was the closest thing so far, but wasn't specific enough.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Well, don't quit now! You're almost there!
Posted by Xben on :
Walked around with no underwear on? This doesn't seem like it could be it.
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's even closer, but lots of characters have done that without qualifying for this list. The key point is not so much what the characters are wearing as how the characters are depicted. I will also point out that only male characters are on this list.
Posted by Vee on :
Exposed themselves in public Posted by Matthew E on :
That's just as close, but lots of comic book characters have walked around naked in public without qualifying for this list. But there's something about how Dr. Manhattan, the Dark Destroyer, Professor Hyatt and, to the best of my knowledge, Peter Parker, have been depicted on one specific occasion each that sets them apart from all other mainstream comics characters I've heard of. And you're all coming real close to saying it, but nobody's said the one key word or idea that convinces me you've got the answer.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They are all uncut?
Posted by Matthew E on :
... I guess that's close enough. (And probably true.) The key thing is that all three characters (Dr. Manhattan, obviously; the Dark Destroyer in a panel where he's a newborn baby; Prof. Hyatt in cross-section on the cover of a recent issue of The All-New Atom) have had their genitalia depicted in plain view in a DC comic.
ETA: And I should have said, go ahead.
[ March 07, 2007, 08:14 PM: Message edited by: Matthew E ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK now that that is over with.
Switzerland Bolivia Chad
Posted by Matthew E on :
Landlocked nations?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That's it
Posted by Matthew E on :
Juno (Roman goddess; wife of Jupiter) Mars (Roman god of war) Janus (Roman god of doorways)
(The answer is not 'they're all Roman gods!'. There's something else.)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They all have months named after them.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yep. Go ahead.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Jim Morrison Marcel Proust Richard Wright (the author, not the guy from Pink Floyd)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all died of a drug overdose?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Buried in the same graveyard in Paris?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Pere Lachaise Cemetary, yes.
You're up again, Matthew E.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I'm really on a roll here. This almost never happens.
Kings Cardinals Rangers
Posted by Xben on :
Names of teams of more than one major league sport
Posted by Matthew E on :
C'est vrai.
En avant!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
And strangely enough, the Basketball Kings had previously been the Royals, so they're (at least after 1969) sort of a double-example of this!
Posted by Xben on :
board game magazine breakfast cereal
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have been called "Life"
Posted by Xben on :
There ya go
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
and people say Quis has no Life!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
No, no. They say I need to get a life.
Caroline Jones Jill St. John Joan Collins
Posted by Xben on :
They all guest starred in the 1960's Batman series
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That didn't take long
Posted by Xben on :
Hawkeye The Thing Henry Gale
Posted by KryptonKid on :
They are all named Benjamin? I know that is true of Hawkeye and the Thing. The second sequel to The Wizard of Oz had Henry and Dorothy Gale on a ship to Australia, but I don't remember if they ever called him Benjamin. Anyway, it's a guess...
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
blue eyes?
Posted by Matthew E on :
I think Xben's right with 'Benjamin'. If I remember right, the character on Lost who called himself 'Henry Gale' was really named Benjamin.
Posted by Xben on :
Krypton Kid is right about Benjamin. Matthew E had the right info about the character on Lost. And the Hawkeye here is obviously the character on MASH, as opposed to the archer superhero. I thought this would have been tougher. Good job, KK.
Posted by KryptonKid on :
Thanks, Xben.
Double Fantasy Cherokee Father Hugo
Posted by Matthew E on :
Wild guess:
albums that became hits posthumously?
Posted by Xben on :
I think I stumbled across the answer...are they all varieties of roses?
Posted by KryptonKid on :
Xben is correct! In my new roll of Domestic Parnticipator I (yes, me!) have been doing a lot of gardening. Oy Vey.
Posted by Xben on :
Wildcat Manhunter Captain Marvel
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Three traditionally male super-heroes that have breifly seen female characters using those code-names?
Posted by Xben on :
Well, my answer was simpler--codenames that have been used by both men and women--but you got it Kent.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Alan Arkin Roger Moore Steve Martin
Posted by Xben on :
All played Inspector Clouseau? Although I had no idea where Roger Moore would have done this.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Roger Moore did at the tail end of Curse of the Pink Panther (the one made after Sellars' death). The implication was that Clouseau had plastic surgery to look like Roger Moore.
I think it was Moore's best acting ever... he did a GREAT Clouseau.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
In other words, Xben's turn!
Posted by Xben on :
Peter Rabbit Jo March Greg Brady
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They each have three sisters?
Posted by Xben on :
That's it! Easier than I thought.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Miriam Deborah Huldah
Posted by Xben on :
Not sure who Huldah is, but the other two are Old Testament prophets / leaders. Is that the link?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Close...but there were plenty of prophets. What about these three set them apart from, say, Moses or Samuel?
Posted by Xben on :
Well, they are all women. Is that it?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's right - those are the three prophetesses in the Old Testament. (Huldah, FYI, was consulted by King Josiah in a story told in Kings and Chronicles.)
Posted by Xben on :
John Malkovich Jack Palance Spencer Tracy
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
are their stars next to each other on Hollywood Boulevard?
Posted by Xben on :
Not to my knowledge
Posted by Calybos on :
Let me ask if this fourth name fits in: Jason Fleming?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Aha!
They all played Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
ETA: I didn't realize that Calybos's 'Jason Fleming' reference was also Jekyll-related. If this is the answer you had in mind, he should get the next question.
[ April 10, 2007, 01:02 PM: Message edited by: Matthew E ]
Posted by Calybos on :
No problem; go ahead, Matthew.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I'll leave it up to Xben.
Posted by Xben on :
If Calybos had the right answer, then he can go ahead
Posted by Calybos on :
I'm stumped for now... anyone got one?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK here is one.
Ben Grimm Jay Garrick Bruce Wayne
Posted by Matthew E on :
All are the real names of superheroes whose names are prefixed by the word 'the'?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope.
Hint: if you only knew the characters from the present day, the link would be non-existant.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
A triad of: Wolverine, Mr. Bones, & Dr. Will Magnus (metal Men) would also work for this link.
[ April 23, 2007, 02:18 PM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq. ]
Posted by Lance's realm on :
They all smoke?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yep. All have been shown to smoke.
Bruce Wayne has been shown smoking a pipe and in one cruise ship adventure was on deck to smoke a cigarette. Jay Garrick was taking a cigarette break when the accident occurred that gave him super speed. Ben Grimm has been shown smoking a cigar, As has Wolverine. Mr. Bones also smookes and Will Magnus does smoke a pipe.
You are next Lance's realm
Posted by KryptonKid on :
Did we ever see Batman smoke as "Matches" Malone? Just curious.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I don't think so. IIRC, Matches Malone got his nickname because he was an arsonist and/or always playing with matches, not because he smoked.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Yeah, apparently he always plays with matches/cigarette lighter, but I don't believe he's ever been seen smoking.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
ok, here we go...
a toboggan a perfect game (in baseball) a poorly publicized marathon
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
No runners
very cute!
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Thanks Chaim! Yes, no runners. Take it, CMK!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
The Gem State Part of the mind, according to Freud A passport (for example)
Posted by Matthew E on :
IDs (Idaho, the id, identification).
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Matthew got id!
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay, I've been saving this one. I don't think it'll be too tough, but I like it:
Peter Gabriel R.E.M. Shania Twain
Posted by Matthew E on :
No takers? Okay, here's a sort of a hint; the key part of the answer has something obviously and superficially in common with the key part of the answer to the one I just answered.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all had untitled albums that the record company named for them?
Posted by Matthew E on :
That I don't know about. But you're looking in the right area for the answer I'm thinking of.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Did they all have albums with two-letter titles?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yes, but there's a better answer than that.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They all have albums titled "Up".
(I know it's true of Gabe and R.E.M., so I'll guess it's true of Shania as well).
Posted by Matthew E on :
EDE for the win. Go ahead.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
The Last Temptation of Christ Tarzan Quicksilver
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Do they all feature men in loincloths?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Hmm... I don't believe so. I don't think a loincloth would be particularly comfortable wear for a bike messenger!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All featured nude scenes that were censored out?
[ May 03, 2007, 04:58 PM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq. ]
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
Hint: This was inspired by the previous question.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Did the feet of the title character never touch the ground during the movie?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That would be really cool, but no.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Further hint: One item in my Triad is linked to one item in the previous Triad.
Posted by Matthew E on :
All three movies feature music by a member of Genesis.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That would be it.
The Last Temptation soundtrack is by Peter Gabriel.
The Tarzan soundtrack is by Phil Collins.
And Quicksilver features a soundtrack by Tony Banks.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Here we are then:
Black Lightning Amazing-Man Miss Arrowette
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have a daughter (or son) who became a superheros?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nothing so common.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Here's a sort of a hint: when I first thought up this question I had Geena Davis in there instead of Miss Arrowette, but had to scramble for someone else when I found that Geena didn't *quite* qualify.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Ah! All are Olympic medal winners or participated in the Olympics.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I can't believe that that was helpful.
Yes, they're all Olympians. Go ahead.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup, one of the bits of trivia about Geena Davis that I have in memory was that she had (almost?) qualified for the US Archery team.
New triad:
Rhoda Phyllis Lou Grant
Posted by Language Arts Lad on :
Mary Tyler Moore show characters theat spun off into their own series'.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
yup.
Posted by Language Arts Lad on :
Rot Lop Fan Isamot Kol Charlie Vickers
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Green Lanterns.
Posted by Language Arts Lad on :
yup
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Chicago Cairo Nashville
Posted by Matthew E on :
Illinois cities?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Not unless you can show me a Nashville in Illinois.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Locations of sphinxes?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Nope
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
city names that have also been movie names?
Posted by Matthew E on :
quote:Originally posted by Chaim Mattis Keller: Not unless you can show me a Nashville in Illinois.
Well, if it's not the answer you had in mind, it isn't, but:
Hmm...I'm going to give it to you just for that effort, Matt. Stupid me for not looking first.
The answer I had in mind was that they were pre-release names for versions of Windows. Chicago was released as Windows 95, Cairo as Windows NT 4.0 and Nashville was meant to be the next generation after Windows 95, though I think it ended up being just Internet Explorer 4.0. (I realize that might sound overly obscure, but the names were in wide use in the techie field.)
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay, here's an easy one:
Garth Christopher Champion Dr. Joshua Clay
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All code-named Tempest
Posted by Matthew E on :
There you go.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Hoyt Wilhelm Rollie Fingers Bruce Sutter
Posted by Matthew E on :
Ah, an easy one! I'll let someone else take a shot at it, though.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Matthew, it doesn't look like anyone else is taking it, you might as well.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I will as soon as I think of another question. In the meantime, the floor remains open for someone else to jump in.
Posted by Matthew E on :
They're all relief pitchers who are in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
Next question:
Michael Jackson Bruce Boxleitner Cillian Murphy
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have played The Scarecrow. Michael Jackson in the Wiz, Bruce Boxleitner in the Scarecrow and Mrs. King, and Cillian Murphy in Batman Begins
Posted by Matthew E on :
That was quick. Go ahead.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
The answer just hit me.
Cary Grant John Wayne Jayne Mansfield
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Posted by Matthew E on :
I think we're gonna need a hint.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
hmmmmm........
Their biographies would provide a hint
Posted by Matthew E on :
They all have stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That may be true, but not the triad I was going for.
Repeating the triad for a new page:
Cary Grant John Wayne Jayne Mansfield
Hint: Their biographies might give a clue
Posted by Matthew E on :
None of them acted under their real names? (Although Jayne Mansfield almost did...)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be it. They all had stage names.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay then. This one might (or might not! Not sure) be easy, but I've been wanting to use it for a while:
Bowl of soup Salt shaker Polaroid picture
Posted by Matthew E on :
Hint: you may already have thought of the answer for this one. The thought that popped into your head when you saw the third item on the list may just be the actual answer to the question.
Posted by Calybos on :
Things you shake to an Outkast song. (Of course, you really don't WANT to shake a bowl of soup.)
Posted by Matthew E on :
Close enough. They're all things you can shake it like.
("Shake it like a bowl of soup" from 'Shake' by Sam Cooke; "Shake it like a salt shaker" from "Shake It Like a Salt Shaker" by the Ying Yang Twins; "Shake it like a Polaroid picture" from 'Hey Ya' by Outkast.)
Go ahead.
Posted by Calybos on :
Oh, damn... let's see. Here's an old riddle: What do these have in common?
fortune bank story
Posted by Matthew E on :
Tellers!
So now *I* have to think of one...
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay, well, I'll assume 'tellers' was right'.
crabcakes stuffing liverwurst
Posted by Matthew E on :
Hint: the answer to this question has nothing to do with food.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Is nobody interested in this? Well, here's another hint, anyway:
I don't want to monopolize or hijack this thread with a definition of how to solve this particular example of hijinks. I know; reading this, some of you are sighing and some laughing, but the worst is over, so you can return to your previous states of calmness or even somnolence while I cease my prideful ways and defer this stupid conversation to a canopy in Afghanistan.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
You have me stumped, even more so after this last hint.
Think a bit, would it be that they are spelt the same in the singular and plural form?
Posted by Matthew E on :
No, but you're on the right track in that you're thinking about the spelling of the words instead of the meaning of the words.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Ah - they contain three consecutive letters of the alphabet!
Posted by Matthew E on :
C'est correct.
Go ahead.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Galapagos Egyptian Texas
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
No takers yet, eh?
Hint: The fact that the middle one is "Egyptian" rather than "Egypt" is significant.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I figured Egyptian was significant, just not sure how.
types of turtles?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Close enough - tortoises. You go, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
New Orleans Chicago Detroit
Posted by Matthew E on :
Homes of great soul/R&B/jazz/blues music?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That could be, but not what I am looking for. The linking thing is not limited to just these three.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Former homes of NBA teams, which are now homes to entirely different teams?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Not what I was thinking
It has to do with what is not listed
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
cities that were founded by the French?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
To furthe my hint, there is a complimentary triad that is not expressed.
Also New York City could also be added to the triad
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Cities that are the most populous in their states, but not the state capital?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is it. Also I would say that these cities are more well-known than their state capital.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Hmm...I wonder how many of the 50 states' capitals are their largest cities. I'm guessing less than half. Maybe I'll work it out and post the answer soon...
In any case, the new Triad is:
Peru Mexico Denver
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All are cities or towns in Maine?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Right idea, wrong state - Maine has only two of the three.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I know New York state has at least two of those, so I'll guess NY.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Nope. And BTW, not only are they in the same state, they're even in the same county.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I'll throw another hint. The county they're in shares its name with the biggest city in another state. And not an obscure city, but a major one, one with a team in all four popular American major league sports.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I know Cole Porter was from Peru, Indiana, so let's say they're all cities in Indiana.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
There we go - all cities in Miami County, Indiana. You're up, Rockhopper.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Audrey Hepburn Deborah Kerr Natalie Wood
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I refuse to let this game die, so I'll give this one a shot, though I'm sure it's not specific enough (even if it's correct):
They were all nominated for Best Actress in the 1950's.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All had Marni Nixon dub in their singing?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Quis has it. Marni Nixon dubbed some of Deborah Kerr's singing in The King and I, all of Natalie Wood's singning in West Side Story and most of Audrey Hepburn's singing in My Fair Lady.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
This might be easy
Rhodes The Statue of Liberty Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin
Posted by Matthew E on :
Colossi?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Colossus, yes.
the Colossus of Rhodes, The Poem The New Colossus located at and about the Statue of Liberty, and, of course, Colossus of the X-Men.
Posted by Matthew E on :
The Byrds Buffalo Springfield The Hollies
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All contained future members of Crosby Stills Nash & Young.
Posted by Matthew E on :
C'est ca. En avant.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
I copied your text into a translation service. It came back as "This is ca. Forward."
Assuming that "ca" means "correct" and not "ca-ca" , here's the next triad:
Star Trek The Simpsons Grey's Anatomy
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Leonard Nimoy has appeared in all of them?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
I don't think Nimoy has appeared on "Grey's Anatomy," Quis.
Posted by Matthew E on :
quote:I copied your text into a translation service. It came back as "This is ca. Forward."
Well, I couldn't type the little dangling thing under the 'c' of 'ca', but it's supposed to be the French word for 'that'.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
"This is that"? That makes sense.
Seriously, I know what you mean. I can't always find a way to use umlauts and ess-szets in German when posting on the Internet.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Okay, clue time: Think character names.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Clue #2: The name I have in mind is a first, middle, and last name (for different characters, natch).
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
The name Montgomery, I guess?
I didn't realize until now that Scotty's first name was Montgomery (had to look that up on Wikipedia) and I've never watched Gray's Anatomy, but IMDB indicates a character whose last name is (or was) Montgomery. And the Simpsons I know has Charles Montgomery Burns.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
The Montys have it, and so does CMK!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
*Interlude*
quote:Originally posted by Matthew E:
quote:I copied your text into a translation service. It came back as "This is ca. Forward."
Well, I couldn't type the little dangling thing under the 'c' of 'ca', but it's supposed to be the French word for 'that'.
It's called a cedilla in English or cedille in French. Under a C, it looks like this: ç. *End interlude*
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's the one.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
M*A*S*H (film) Punctuated Equilibrium Dick Tracy
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all three feature people named Gould in some degree of prominence: Eliot Gould starred in MASH Stephen Jay Gould co-authored the theory of Punctuated Equilibrium Chester Gould created Dick Tracy
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Gould work, Kent - next Triad to you.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Bob Barker Will Rogers Sheldon Souray
[ July 15, 2007, 11:24 PM: Message edited by: Kent Shakespeare ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All are Native Americans?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
well, one's Canadian... but close enough. Famous people with a significant percentage of aboriginal North American stock.
Go, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I had to look up Sheldon Souray, but when I read his entry on wikipedia, I was pretty sure that was the link.
Now for:
Steve McQueen Paul Newman OJ Simpson
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all have played the same parts in sequels?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
What do you mean by that?
Regardless, I don't think it is what I am going for.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
OJ Simpson as Norbert in the Naked Gun movies. Paul Newman reprised an old role for "The Color of Money." dunno about McQueen (I was never that familiar with him); it was just a guess.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I kind of figured that is what you meant after I posted (and was too lazy to edit) And I was correct in that is not what I was going for.
Posted by Novelty on :
They all got divorced and remarried again? Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Not that I know of.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all three are associated with auto races? OJ fleeing police and the other two as hobbyists.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope.
the association is something very simple.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they all appeared in films?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Do they all have the same birthday?
(Edit) Looked that up. I know it's wrong.
[ July 22, 2007, 12:22 AM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Novelty on :
Stab in the dark: They were all acquitted of the charges brought against them?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
So far Kent's last guess is the closest for the Triad of:
Steve McQueen Paul Newman OJ Simpson
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they were all film stars, but also particiapted in competitive sport events.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope. The answer is toweringly simple.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Their named all end with the letter N.
[ July 24, 2007, 01:44 PM: Message edited by: Chaim Mattis Keller ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is true, but not the link I have in mind. IMDB is your friend
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they were all in the film, "The Towering Inferno!"
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
We have a winner.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Mark Means Crow
(one of the above is misspelled by one letter, so as not to make the answer too obvious. This misspelling does not affect pronunciation)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Indian tribes?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no, but one of the three has something to do with at least one tribe/nation.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no guesses? Time to Russell up a new question, then.
Job Fate Love
Posted by Matthew E on :
Doctors?
I don't know.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
They're all... books?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
IBby has it!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
You might want to PM IB that he has the next Triad.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Sorry for holding up the game, and thanks to Matthew E for PMing me. I never expected my guess to be right!
Here's something that should be easier...
Midnight Light Destiny
Posted by Matthew E on :
Doctors!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I don't think you need to wait for confirmation.
Posted by Matthew E on :
This one shouldn't be too tough; if you know who any two of these people are you should probably be able to figure out what all three have in common:
Admiral Sir Miles Messervy Robin Scott Monique St. Croix
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They are all known simply as "M".
I'm assuming that the last one is meant to be Monet St. Croix.
[ August 29, 2007, 12:24 AM: Message edited by: Chaim Mattis Keller ]
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's correct. (I can't believe I messed that up.)
(For those who need details, Admiral Sir Miles Messervy is 'M' in the James Bond books and movies, Robin Scott is the 'M' who had a hit song with 'Pop Muzik', and Monet St. Croix is 'M' from Generation X.)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I was thinking M but Monique threw me
Posted by Matthew E on :
Sorry. I swear I had it right when I first thought up the question.
I feel shame.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
We have all made mistakes. See Crypto-list thread.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Ciccone Nelson Darwish
Posted by Matthew E on :
Aha!
Last names of '80s pop stars who tended to go just by their first names (Madonna, Prince, Tiffany).
Cripes, now I have to think of another one...
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct, Matthew (clearly, though, you didn't really need this pro-forma confirmation).
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay... this one has the advantage of being simple. And it's easy if you've heard it before:
purple silver month
Hint: there's a fourth that could go on this list, that is much more famous for belonging to this category than these three are, and that shares some not-relevant other characteristics with two of the three I listed.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Nothing rhymes with them? THat would make the fourth "orange?"
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's it exactly. Go ahead.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
OK, here we go...
access biopsy chintz
What do these words have in common?
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Other words that fit are:
almost billow ghosty
Posted by Matthew E on :
They all have all six letters in alphabetical order.
I'll think of one later.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
That's it - but then, you knew that.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Smacky Patchy Patch Pooky
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Famous stuffed animals/teddy bears/the like?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yeah, basically: stuffed animals belonging to cartoon characters.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I knew Pooky was Garfield's teddy bear. I guessed at the others.
Baton Rouge Juneau Lansing
And it's not just the obvious.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Is the obvious that they are the capital of their respective states while not being the most well-known city?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No. The obvious is that they're state capitals, but there's something more.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Their names are from French words?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's not it.
Here's a hint: The fact that the capitals of Alaska and Louisiana are on this list is significant.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Were the cities all founded by non-English settlers? (I imagine Santa Fe and Sacramento would then qualify as well)
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Not what I was looking for. It's actually a distinction these cities don't have that's important.
Again the three are:
Baton Rouge Juneau Lansing
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Here's another hint:
It has to do with something that every state except Alaska and Louisiana have. Even though they each have something that serves the same purpose, they use different names.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They're not in counties? (Alaska having Boroughs and Louisiana having Parishes? Is Lansing not in any county in Michigan?)
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's close enough.
They're are not the seat of a county. Juneau is the seat of the City and Borough of Juneau and Baton Rouge is the seat of East Baton Rouge Parish.
Carson City, Nevada, an independent city, would also qualify.
Lansing, Michigan is located in Ingham County, but the seat is in nearby Mason. This makes Lansing the only state capital that is located in a county of which it is not the seat.
*Whew*
Go ahead, Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Family Ties Friends Dirt
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Courtney Cox. She has appeared in all three.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Red Tornado Black Orchid Bernie the Brain
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All created by Sheldon Mayer?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be the link.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Acrylic Glass Australopithecus Afarensis Morning Star
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
LUC Acrylic glass is also known as LUCite the first found Australopithecus Afarensis was named LUCy LUCifer was also known as the Morning Star
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
And back to you, Quis.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Good one, Chaim!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Pop Curly Mary
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Third names in famous trios?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be it.
Snap, Crackle,& Pop Moe, Larry, & Curly Peter, Paul, & Mary
You're up.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Ray Boone Gus Bell Sam Hairston
Posted by Matthew E on :
Major league baseball players whose sons and grandsons were also major league baseball players.
Ray Boone -> Bob Boone -> Bret Boone Gus Bell -> Buddy Bell -> David and Mike Bell Sam Hairston -> Jerry Hairston -> Jerry Hairston Jr.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's correct, Matt! And the ping-pong game between me and Quis is over.
Posted by Matthew E on :
This one should be easy. There are a few parts to the answer, but nothing that isn't obvious once you know it.
Gladys Knight and the Pips Vicki Lawrence Brook Benton
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All had hit songs with Georgia in the title?
Gladys Knight & the Pips: Midnight train to Georgia Vicki Lawrence: The night that the lights went out in Georgia Brook Benton: ?
(or maybe it has "night" in the title Or both "night" & "Georgia")
Posted by Matthew E on :
Correct: all had their biggest hits with songs about both 'night' and 'Georgia'. 'Midnight Train to Georgia', 'The Night That the Lights Went Out in Georgia', 'Rainy Night in Georgia'. Go ahead.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Barbara Billingsley Ethel Merman David Leisure
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All appeared in the movie Airplane!?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That they did. You're next. For a Triad, not for appearing in Airplane!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Gully cats Hedge toads Queen snakes
Posted by Stealth on :
All are wild animals that Linus Van Pelt fears?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Stealth, you are awesome!
Young Mister Van Pelt's fertile imagination also gave is the rock snake (noted for lousy aim) and the chicken-bird (do they build their nests on mountain tops?) and, of course, the Great Pumpkin!
Your go.
Posted by Stealth on :
The Teardrop Explodes Echo and the Bunnymen Wah!
Posted by Stealth on :
It's been a week now, so it's time for a hint:
The connection has to do with the three lead singers of the bands listed at the bottom of the previous page:
quote:Originally posted by Stealth: The Teardrop Explodes
Echo and the Bunnymen
Wah!
[ September 20, 2007, 09:13 PM: Message edited by: Stealth ]
Posted by Stealth on :
Okay, I guess that one was too obscure.
The respective lead singers of each band (Julian Cope, Ian McCulloch, and Pete Wylie) had all previously been together in a very short-lived band named The Crucial Three.
Anybody who has a mindbender can post next.
[ October 02, 2007, 09:01 PM: Message edited by: Stealth ]
Posted by Stealth on :
Posted by Matthew E on :
Kris Kross Pointer Sisters Van Halen
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All have had hit singles called "Jump".
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's it.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Good Neighbors The Spinners "Bang a Gong (Get It On)"
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
This one, too, must be obscure. The correct answer is that they all had slightly different names in the UK. The British TV series Good Neighbors was originally The Good Life, and T. Rex's hit "Bang A Gong (Get It On)" was simply "Get It On". In the US, these names were already taken.
The venerable US soul group The Spinners became known in the UK as The Detroit Spinners for the same reason.
Next triad is up for grabs.
Posted by Matthew E on :
This one shouldn't be too bad:
Jane Marie Felicity Sally Joy
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
They were the girls mentioned in The Who's "I'm a Boy."
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yup. Go ahead.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
This one should be easy, too:
Dire Straits Cyndi Lauper Simply Red
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all had songs whose titles began with the word "Money"?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Yep:
"Money for Nothing" "Money Changes Everything" and "Money is Too Tight to Mention,"
respectively.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Christopher Columbus Lancome Cosmetics Black Lightning
Posted by Matthew E on :
All were associated with 'Isabella's!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct, Matt!
Queen Isabella was Columbus's sponsor Isabella Rossellini was the exclusive model for Lancome cosmetics Tony Isabella created Black Lightning
Posted by Matthew E on :
Francis Crick Alexander Graham Bell Sherlock Holmes
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Watson, come here. I need you.
Posted by Matthew E on :
That was quick. Yes, they all had assistants named Watson. Go ahead.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Lumbar Cervical Thoracic
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
three kinds of cancer?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Nope (at least not that I know of).
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All are near the abdominal section of the human body?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Vertebrae?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All are a type of surgical specialty.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Matthew is correct - they are all types of vertebrae.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay, let's try this...
'Drowning In the Sea of Love' 'The Karate Kid' Nero Wolfe
Posted by Matthew E on :
Hint: the connection between them is comic-book related.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they involved people with the same names as comics creators.
'Drowning In the Sea of Love' was written by a man named Joe Simon (same as Kirby's old partner).
The "Karate Kid" movie starred Ralph Macchio.... same name as a Marvel editor.
Nero Wolfe was created by a man named Archie Goodwin.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Close enough: Joe Simon, Ralph Macchio, and Archie Goodwin (who was Nero Wolfe's assistant, not his creator; his creator was Rex Stout) were all Marvel editors-in-chief (although it wasn't really Marvel when Simon was there). Go ahead.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Copper Porcupine Colville
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
hint: geography
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All rivers in Alaska?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Chaim has it!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Johnny Carson Alex Gordon Warren Buffett
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All went to the Univesrity of Nebraska.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Cornhusker correct, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Massachusetts Illinois Missouri
Posted by Matthew E on :
States with Springfields?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
yup.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Alecia Beth Moore Nellie Bly Steve Buscemi
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Pseudonyms (sp?)?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Your spelling is correct, but your answer is not.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Did some looking up.
The link is Pink.
Alecia Beth Moore is best known as the singer Pink, Nelly Bly had a nickname of Pink, and Steve Buscemi was Mr. Pink in Resivoir Dogs.
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's it. Go ahead.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Sandra Bernhard Harry Hamlin Robin Williams
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all have played Peter Pan?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Not that I know of.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
hint time: It is common to a character each of them have played.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I think you've stumped us. They all played characters from Greek myth? Something like that?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all played gay characters.
Sandra Bernhard played Nancy on Roseanne Harry Hamlin played Bart in "Making Love" Robin Williams played Armand Goldman in "The Birdcage"
OK a hopefully easier one.
Mother Teresa Jimmy Carter Henry Kissinger
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nobel Peace prize winners?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Lex Luthor Angel (from the TV shows 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Angel') Oliver Queen
[ November 07, 2007, 03:40 PM: Message edited by: Matthew E ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Arch?
Lex Luthor is Superman's Arch enemy Angel is a lower class than archangel Oliver Queen is an Archer
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nope. Hold on while I clarify the question a little bit. I wasn't sure if I should, but now I think I will.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Matthew E: Nope. Hold on while I clarify the question a little bit. I wasn't sure if I should, but now I think I will.
You can if you want. The thread is about listing three things and for others to guess/figure out the link between the three.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Have they all held elective office?
Posted by Matthew E on :
I don't think Angel ever did.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I wouldn't know, I'm not familiar with Buffy, but it was the only thing I could think of that Lex Luthor and Oliver Queen had in common.
Posted by Matthew E on :
They have one more thing in common. (...If you're not too worried about spelling. Which, in this case, I'm not.)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Well they all have run companies.
Lex - Lexcorp Angel - Wolfram & Hart Ollie - His family's business from which he got wealthy.
But that doesn't account for the spelling clue.
Posted by Matthew E on :
They have all run companies, but that's not the answer.
As for the spelling thing: the commonality between these characters has consistent spelling between how Ollie and Angel fit in, but Lex's connection to this triad is spelled with an 'e' instead of an 'o'.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Ah - got it!
They all have sons named Connor or Conner.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yes. And not only do they all have sons with this name, but none of them were involved in raising them to adulthood.
Go ahead.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Avocado Indian fig Dragon fruit
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they're all green?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Not necessarily. Dragon fruit are primarily red (with some green on the tentacles) and Indian figs come in a variety of colors - I googled some images to see if you were right, there are green ones, but the ones I was familiar with were red.
Hint: these fruits have a nickname in common.
Posted by Matthew E on :
quote:Hint: these fruits have a nickname in common.
Biff?
Posted by Bevis on :
They're all known by a different name including the word pear? I know the dragon fruit is called the strawberry pear and avacados are called prickly pears but not sure about the indian fig.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct in the connection, although not in the specifics.
Avocados are called alligator pears Indian figs are the ones known as prickly pears or cactus pears Dragon fruit, as you knew, are called strawberry pears.
And none of them are actually members of the genus Pyrus, which are the true pears.
Your turn, Bevis.
Posted by Bevis on :
Yay me! I knew avacados were something pears so it was a sort of guess based on the previous clue so I'm quite chuffed it turned out to be right.
Possibly an easy one if you know what teh first one actually is:
Attaniout Ikeneego Lord of the Isles Baron of Renfrew
Posted by Matthew E on :
Titles that are also held by the King/Queen of England?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
three titles for Prince Charles?
Posted by Bevis on :
Kent has it. The first one is a Candadian Inuit title given to him which means something like 'son of the Big Boss'.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
okay...
George Plimpton Alanis Morissette David Johansen/Buster Poindexter
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have played God in movies?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Quis is correct!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I was thinking of doing this Triad: Rosemary Lane, Heddy Lamarr, and Olivia DeHavilland. The connection being in a Bugs Bunny cartoon, when Bugs sneaks up on Elmaer, puts his hands over Elmer's eyes and say "Guess who?" those are the guesses Elmer makes. I figure that it would be too obscure. (and after Elmer guesses "Owivia DeHaviwwand" Bugs says "you're getting warmer" & Elmer's next guess is "You aren't that scwewy wabbit?" How he makes the jump from Olivia DeHavilland to Bugs always intrigues me)
Instead let's go with:
Bolivia Columbia Rhodesia
Posted by Matthew E on :
They're all named after European explorers/colonizers (Simon Bolivar, Christopher Columbus, Cecil Rhodes)?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Correct
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay.
In putting together this triad, I am making an assumption about one of the three entries that I think is valid, but I'm not 100% certain about it. Apologies in advance if it turns out I'm wrong. I don't think I'm wrong.
Brita An'nan Salu Digby Laurel Gand
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all their homeworlds have been to war (possibly involving Khunds)?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nah. Lots of planets have been to war. But these are the only three Legionnaires I could find with the connection I'm thinking of.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were kidnapped?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Were they? Not what I was thinking of, if they were.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
All have gotten tied up with nationalistic (for lack of a better term) movements?
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's an interesting one. And I guess it's true. But that's not what I had.
Hint: after further consideration, I now think that I could have put Ral Benem on the list too. He probably belongs on there a little more than Brita An'nan does.
Another hint: there's a reason why I'm referring to them by their civilian names.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All three have codenames associated with plants: Shrinking Violet, Andromeda, Chlorophyll Kid.
(Not sure how Kono (Brita) fits into this, unless her name derives from a imaginary plant in the Legionverse. I always thought it derived from Brainy's favorite drink, kono juice, but maybe the juice is made from a plant.)
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Andromeda is a plant? I've only ever known it as a galaxy/constellation.
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's it. (But, for Laurel Gand, the codename in question isn't 'Andromeda'; it's 'Tiger Rose'.) And, yes, my assumption was that 'kono' is a kind of fruit. (Isn't it?) Go ahead.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
brilliant one, Matt. I'd forgotten about Tiger Rose, and the addition of Ral really threw me off as well.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Now that I think of it, Laurel itself is a kind of plant.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Andromeda polifolia is another name for bog-rosemary. So, your question worked either way, Matthew.
I'll be back later with a new triad.
[ November 28, 2007, 05:45 PM: Message edited by: He Who Wanders ]
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
(That didn't take as long as I thought.)
Brian Keith Geoffrey Palmer "19"
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Hardcastle?
Brian Keith was Hardcastle in the show "Hardcastle & McCormick" "19" was a hit for Paul Hardcastle.
I had to look up Geoffrey Palmer, but he played Lionel Hardcastle in "as Time Goes By".
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
You got it, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Jay Garrick Bruce Wayne Perry White
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
All originated in the Golden Age, and have directly mentored several others in their respective lines of work.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They've all been seen smoking cigars?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Chaim is correct. Although I am not sure about the cigar part. All have been seen smoking.
Jay Garrick in his first appearance is having a cigarette break when the accident that made him Flash occurred (and kind of caused it too)
Bruce Wayne was seen smoking a pipe, mulling how to fulfill his vow to his dead parents when the bat burst through his window. I also saw another Golden Age story set on a ship where Bruce goes on deck for a smoke (cigarette) and stumbles into the mystery of the story.
And of course Perry White smoked lots of cigars over the years.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Emilio Largo A popular pencil Excrement
Posted by Matthew E on :
Number Two.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Aces on the deuce, Matthew - you're next.
Posted by Matthew E on :
I've got one in mind but I might have to look up some stuff. Maybe tonight.
Posted by Matthew E on :
You should have seen me scouring my comic collection to remember all three of these names. One, of course, I knew right away; a second one I happened to know where to find it, but the third had me flipping through this and scrolling through that, until I finally realized exactly where it had to be. Anyway, here we go:
Jo Nah Jarel Rax
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were swallowed by some beast which gave them their powers?
Posted by Matthew E on :
No, but you're on the right track in this sense: the thing that qualifies Jo to be on this list is one of the best-known, longest-standing facts about Ultra Boy. There's nothing subtle or tricky about this question; it's very straightforward and simple. (Edited for clarity.)
[ December 06, 2007, 12:33 PM: Message edited by: Matthew E ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They each have multiple powers that can only be used one at a time?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nope.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
All have dated Tinya!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They can all see through lead?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Kent S. is correct. All three have been Phantom Girl's boyfriends: Ultra Boy, obviously; Jarel, as shown in that Dave Gibbons-drawn backup story early in the threeboot; Rax as mentioned in passing in the Themyscira issue of LSH31C.
Take it away!
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I've brainstormed up some great ones while walking around, but I can never remember them when it's my turn!
Jack Kennedy Ted Knight Wesley Dodd
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All are Golden-Age comics characters who share their names with real people? I remember the very first Superman story had a character named Jack Kennedy in it. Ted Knight, of course is both Starman and Ted Baxter. I'm not sure about Wes.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
close enough... who shared names with people who would later become famous.
The real Wesley Dodd was a 90s serial killer.
Go, Rocky!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Wexford Coventry Sussex
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Earls?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's not it.
It has to do with this particular time of year and an interest of mine that is not comics (or penguins ).
Posted by Matthew E on :
They all have Christmas carols named after them? I know there's a Coventry Carol.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All right! I was afraid I was getting too obscure.
Your turn, Matthew. Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Figures I wouldn't know that one.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Aglovale Lamorak Bleoberis
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Didn't recognize any of the names. Looked up the first one.
Knights of the Round Table
Posted by Matthew E on :
Forsooth.
Go ahead.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK.
George Lucas Jeffrey Jones Steve Gerber
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Howard the Duck?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup.
George Lucas was the Executive producer of the Howard the Duck movie. Jeffrey Jones played the villian in the movie. And of course Steve Gerber created Howard.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
French Big Bone Lizard
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I see this one is getting cold. Here's a hint: Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Licks?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
races?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Quislet has it. French Lick, Indiana, Big Bone Lick (State Park), Kentucky and Lizard Lick, North Carolina.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Jennifer Jason Leigh A Star is Born
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
One hint (then if no one gets it, I'll do an easier one)
Additional connections:
"Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses"
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised."
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Well, those are all quotes from Dorothy Parker. Knowing that, I can now see from her Wikipedia entry that:
She bequeathed her estate to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. She was portrayed on film by Jennifer Jason Leigh And she wrote the script for A Star is Born.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Dorothy Parker is the Triad. You are up Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Covered with gift paper Emulated the Beastie Boys Giving complete attention
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They are all pronounced "rapt"?
Wrapped Rapped Rapt
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct, Rockhopper.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I'll have to think of one. I'll post it later today.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
A nickel The Edge of Night A small mountain in Italy
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
a nickle portrays Tommy J's estate Monticello, which in Italian means "small mountain." Monticello was also the name of the fictional city in the soap opera The Edge of Night. Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Kent is smart and has good taste in avatars! Go ahead!
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
"God! A red nugget! A fat egg under a dog!" "Leno located a cadet: a colonel!" "Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog."
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Those are palindromes.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Go, do, dog!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Desi Arnaz Michael McKean Linda Park
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were or are married to red-heads
Desi Arnaz to Lucille Ball Michael McKean to Annette O'Toole Linda Park to Wally West
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
And there we go. Back to Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Sea Hunt Brooklyn Trump
Posted by Matthew E on :
Bridges?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That was quick. Yup. Lloyd Bridges starred in Sea Hunt. Brooklyn has a famous bridge. And Trump is a term in the card game Bridge.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Lightning Lad Invisible Kid Polar Boy
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all served a single term as Legion Leader
Posted by Matthew E on :
Did they? Sort of; counting across continuities I can come up with multiple terms for Lightning Lad and Invisible Kid, and Polar Boy had an unofficial second term during the Five Year Gap.
No, it's something else, and, now that I think about it, it's something they've all qualified (or, in one case, re-qualified) for during the past year.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Ah, they've each lost an arm. I should have realized that sooner.
Posted by Matthew E on :
That's it. Go ahead.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
1942 Detroit Red Wings 1975 Pittsburgh Penguins 2004 New York Yankees
Posted by Matthew E on :
Without looking it up:
Losers of seven-game serieses after leading the series 3-0?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Yup. Your Triad next, Matt.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Tuscarora Cayuga Onondaga
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
three Iroquois nations.
specifically, three of the six (Seneca, Mohawk and Oneida being the others), nations that exist today in both NY and Ontario.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yep.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Denali Moheganituck Kalaallit Nunaat
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I know the last one is the Greenlandic name for Greenland. Are they native names for places generally known in English by other names?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
correct! Mt. McKinley and the Hudson River were the other two.
Go, Rocky!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
The Duke of Edinburgh Eddie Fisher Gig Young
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all three had wives named Elizabeth.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
also, all three had some sort of royal connection, real or fictitious: Young hosted a TV show that included a segment called "King's Row," and Fisher's daughter was Princess Leia.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Wives named Elizabeth is what I was going for: The Duke of Edinburgh, of course, is married to the Queen; Eddie Fisher was married to Elizabeth Taylor; Gig Young was married to Elizabeth Montgomery.
Go ahead Kent.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Alec Guinness Peter Cushing Robin Williams
Posted by Matthew E on :
They've all played extraterrestrials?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
that avenue occured to me after posting, but it's not the main commonality.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have been knighted?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
not that I'm aware of; but even if true, that's not what I'm looking for. Comparitively speaking, Matthew E was closer, in terms of subject matter.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no takers?
Okay, I'll post something new tomorrow (I always think of good ones while walking, not sitting at a computer).
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
new one:
Wild Bill Hickok John Jacob Astor Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were short?
What was the link for your previous one?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
oh- the previous one was that they all played the same obscure Shakespeare part (I have it written down, but not with me).
Short is not what I am looking for.
Hint: the correct answer also involves things that transpired after their lifetimes.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: new one:
Wild Bill Hickok John Jacob Astor Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
All have been characters in movies not about them?
Wild Bill Hickok in Little Big Man John Jacob Astor in Titanic Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
you are close - much closer than I'd imagined without more hints. You are in the right ballpark, but your score is a little bit off.
"movies not about them" is slightly off the mark, but yet is also part of the answer.
"Little Big Man" is not the film title in question (there's a reason I put it like that).
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Movies based on historical events in which they were a part of?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
that's another part of it.
hints:
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: All have been characters in movies not about them?
That's at least 5/6 true.
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Movies based on historical events in which they were a part of?
That is at least 2/3 but true (but in no way 100 percent true), depending on interpretations.
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Wild Bill Hickok in Little Big Man John Jacob Astor in Titanic Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec in Moulin Rouge
You have named exactly 2/3 of the proper film titles.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
If no one even attempts by the end of today, I'm giving this one to Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
OK so let me think of a triad. Kent you'll have to tell me exactly what you were going for.
Orioles Cardinals Blue Jays
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I was thinking of real people used as film characters in at least two substantially different movies of the same name: Calamity Jane, Titanic and Moulin Rouge.
Doris Day's Calamity Jane was pure fictionalization, while Jane Alexander's tried to follow Jane's later life (Wild Bill was a character in both). There are at least three Titanics with JJ Astor; the 97 one, which aside from its main characters was the most realistic (esp. in its handling of real characters); the 1950s one was anachronistic and completely fictional (save for the inclusion of the few real-people names like Astor) and the 1943 German version was more about anti-Brit/US capitalism (Astor was handled in a similar role to Billy Zane's character from 97). And of all the various Moulin Rouges, Toulouse was the main charater in the '52 biopic by John Huston, but a supporting character in the recent fiction.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Baseball teams named after birds? Or did you have something less obvious in mind?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope, that was it.
The Baltimore Orioles, The St. Louis Cardinals, & The Toronto Blue Jays.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Saskatchewan Ottawa Peoria
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
names (of American aboriginal origin) that describe both rivers and modern governmental regions (cities/counties, and a province).
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Not what I was thinking of, though that could well be true.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
names for two different places:
Saskatchewan (province) and Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta Ottawa - Ontario and Kansas Peoria - Illinois and Arizona
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
So many places like that.
Hint: it relates to sports. One sport in particular.
Posted by Matthew E on :
They've all had football teams called the Rough Riders (or Roughriders)?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That is correct, Matthew. The first two in the CFL, the last in various indoor football leagues (the team's name has changed since).
Posted by Matthew E on :
Motorhead Juice Newton Steve Miller Band
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all three had records that shared names with playing cards:
Motorhead: Ace of Spades Newton: Queen of Hearts SMB: The Joker
Posted by Matthew E on :
Exactly. Go ahead.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Die Hard O Brother Where Art Thou? The Abyss
Posted by Matthew E on :
Well, I haven't seen The Abyss, but... movies in which a subplot features a husband reconciling with his ex-wife?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
you got it! (Ed Harris and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, in case you were curious)
Posted by Matthew E on :
Batman/Bruce Wayne Mongul Atom/Ryan Choi
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have had a Black Rose attached to them (and possibly all have successfully fought off the effects of a Black Rose)
Posted by Matthew E on :
The Black Mercy, yes. Go ahead.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Chicago Boston Kansas
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
rock bands named after U.S. places?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Linda Danvers of Florida Ursula Buffay of New York Deregon of Australia
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were governors.
Linda in Superman Family 200 Ursula Buffay in Mad About You and Deregon was Governor of Australian Region in S&LSH #228
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
close enough! more specifically, they were portrayed as future governors at the time of description. Linda in c.1998ish (20 years in the future of SF #200), Ursula at some unspecified point in the future as per the final ep. of M.A.Y., and of course good old Der in the 30th.
and here I worried that would be another of my too-tough ones.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Well, I remember the story from SF 200 and recognized Deregon.
mine triad:
Red Riding Hood Angelique Monte Carlo
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Here's a hint: Holland
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Triumph Parrot Fringe
are three more that fit the triad.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
kinds of tulips?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is correct
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Nicholas Breakspear Joshua Norton Jeff Gladwyn
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Self-declared Emperors?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope; only one of them was.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Born in England?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
that's part of it, but so were millions of others.
There is something more significant they share as well.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Englishmen who became Emperors of places not within the British Empire?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
again; only one of them was an emperor per se.
the British Empire aspect only plays in indirectly, and only for Norton was the British Empire completely unconnected.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no takers? I'll offer a hint, and if that doesn't work I'll post an easier triad mid-week.
Hint: Nicholas Breakspear was better known as Adrian IV.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They were Englishmen who became monarchs of somewhere else?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
close, Rocky, but *monarch* doesn't accurately describe them all.
They were all Englishmen, and had a particular commonality - but NOT in actual job description.
Posted by Bevis on :
Breakspear aka Adrian IV was the only Englishman to be Pope.
Norton was the only Emporer of the USA (even if self proclaimed).
If you mean Jebb Gladwyn rather than Jeff Gladwyn he was the only Englishman to be Acting UN Secretary General.
So I would guess they're the only Englishmen to hold a particular title.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Bevis has it!
sorry about the Jeff/Jebb mistake.
Posted by Bevis on :
Yay me!
New Triad...
Manchester 2004 Chicago 1999 Auckland 2003
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I can only guess that they were the host of some major international sporting event, but I can't say which one.
Posted by Bevis on :
(Damn, forgot I had this one up...)
Nope, not a sporting event. It was a particular event that took place in those cities in those years. I'll add three more to the list:
Edinburgh 2006 Atlanta 2003 Boston 2006
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
It's been over a month now...I think it's time you just told us the answer.
Posted by Bevis on :
Sorry, completely forgot this hadn't been answered yet.
The answer is that they're all cities that have hosted Cow Parade (a public art project). There's a lot more cities that i could have listed, but the next question can go to whomsoever chimes up first.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Ulysses S Grant William J Clinton Chester A Arthur
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
The names by which they are known in their presidencies are not the names they were born with? (Grant's birth name was Hiram Ulysses, Clinton was born Blythe, don't know about Arthur.)
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no... but that comes close to a different potential Triad-answer than the one I was thinking of.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
It was predicted that they would be President when they were young?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope.
for one of the three, it has to do with his youth. For the other two, their post-presidency.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They traveled to England?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
not that I'm aware of, but possible. Not related to the answer, but a geographical region does figure into the answer.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all lived in New York
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
close enough. They were all born in another state, but later in life moved to New York state.
Go Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Massachusetts Maine Pennsylvania
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I-95 runs through all of them?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is true but not the Triad I was thinking of.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
This should not be hard.
Hawaii & Indiana also would fit.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Also Oregon would work
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all contain a city called Springfield?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope. It is something very simple.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Their two-letter postal abbreviations spell actual words (ME, MA, PA)?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is the correct answer.
Your turn Rocky
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Lisa Simpson Margaret Anderson Reva Shayne Lewis
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All live in Springfield.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's it. The Simpsons (Lisa), Father Knows Best (Margaret) and Guiding Light (Reva) all are/were set in fictional communities called Springfield. Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Aspirin Jello Kleenex
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Brand names that became common words.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Correct
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Washington Nationals Texas Rangers Tampa Bay Rays
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Pro teams who have never won a championship?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Close - these three teams comprise a specific subset of non-champs.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
It's not just the World Series that these teams never won.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They've never made it to the playoffs?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
teams that have changed cities/names and never won the Series either before or after?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
The Nationals (as the Expos) and the Rangers have both played in post-season series. And it does not relate to the name changes.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
You guys are dancing right around th exact answer, but not quite connecting.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
I'm leaving soon for a two-week vacation, so I'm going to give this one to Rockhopper, I think he's closest.
The answer is that they never won a post-season series.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I changed my mind about the one I originally posted. Here's another one:
Chile Iceland New Zealand
[ June 21, 2008, 05:33 AM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Okay, maybe a hint would help.
France could also be included.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All right. Another hint: It's a fairly simple thing these countries also have in common with the United Kingdom and the Netherlands.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Parliments?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's not it.
The Fourth of July coming up should remnd everyone why the good ol' U.S. of A. would also qualify for this group.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
To repeat on this page, the original triad was: Chile Iceland New Zealand
In the hints, I've mentioned that France, the Netherlands, the UK and the USA also have this in common.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
red, white and blue flags?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's it! Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
eastern plains swampy
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Great?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
maybe... but not the answer I'm seeking.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
hint: aboriginal
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no takers? New one:
Rome Bethel Saugerties
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Cities in New York
What was the link in the other set?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
not all are cities, but they are in New York
I'm looking for a more specific link that only those three have.
The previous ones were dialects of Cree.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Woodstock - a Woodstock concert was held in each of these locations
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Quis has it! I was at two of them.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
silhouette leotard boycott
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All are words derived from a person's name who had something to do with popularizing said thing.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Words derived from a person's name is the correct answer.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Catherine of Aragon Lucille Ball Elizabeth Taylor
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Divorced women?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's not it, though it does have to do with marriage.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I think the number eight has something to do with it. Catherine of Aragon married Henry the Eighth and Elizabeth Taylor was married eight times. I don't know about an 8 marriage connection with Lucille Ball.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's not it. It has more to do with who they married.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
an 8-Ball?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Each married a Junior?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No, but that's very close!
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Here's another hint: They each had a husband for whom this thing in common is relative to the same trait of their wives.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all married someone whose primary language is different from the one they spoke?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Not what I was going for.
Here's another hint, the respective spouses in question are Henry VIII, Desi Arnaz and Larry Fortensky.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They all married younger men?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's it!
Catherine was 5 1/2 years older than Henry.
Lucy was 5 1/2 years older than Desi.
Liz is about 20 years older than Larry.
Take it, Chaim!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
ATM Machine PIN Number SAT Test
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Each repeats the word that the last initial stands for.
Automated Teller Machine machine Personal Identification Number number Scholastic Aptitude Test test
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Exactly - the phrases are commonly used but are inherent redundancies.
You go, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
The Professor (Gilligan's Island) Wally Cleaver (Leave it to Beaver) Eddie Munster (the Munsters)
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All were played by a different actor in the original pilot than in the series?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Correct. Your question
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Patty Duke Shirley Jones Cloris Leachman
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All played librarians?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Shirley Jones did in The Music Man, but I'm not aware of the other two doing so.
Posted by Bevis on :
Is it that they've all been in Oklahoma!? I know Jones and Duke have, but I'm not sure about Leachman.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Rockhopper Lad says "no, Good guess thoough."
Posted by Bevis on :
No idea then. I'm stumped.
Posted by Lance's realm on :
Hey! Bevis! I haven't seen you much since the "Buffy trivia" thread slipped into limbo. How ya been?!
Posted by Bevis on :
I'm very good. Been busy with real life recently so I've not been around much, but I look in Legion World pretty much every day. Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
It's tough to give a hint without giving it away. I'll try.
The commonality happened between 1960 and 1971.
Posted by Bevis on :
Still stumped. Patty Duke and Shirley Jones both had tv series with their own names in the title but Cloris Leachman didn't (although she was tghe title character in Phyliss)
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Okay. They didn't get this at breakfast with these hints, so let's try it: It has to do with their movie roles.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
My goodness. I thought this one would be pretty easy.
Three more who would qualify are Hattie McDaniel, Olympia Dukakis and Tilda Swinton.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All played landlords?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Nope. It pertains to their movie roles, but isn't what the roles themselves that have something in common.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
...hmmm.... If only Whoopi Goldberg were here... I'm sure she'd have the answer....
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
And if she didn't, Linda Hunt surely would!
Posted by Bevis on :
Dukakis, Hunt, Swinton and Goldberg makes me think that it's that they've all played men of one kind or another (either actually being men, women pretending to be men or trasngender women who used to be men).
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No. Again, it's not something to do with characters they've played. It has to do that they were in movies.
Celeste Holm, Dianne Wiest and Judi Dench also qualify.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They were in all-women productions?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's not it. Perhaps it should be pointed out that though all these ladies are famous actresses, most of them are not leading stars.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
If only Anna Paquin knew the answer...
Posted by Bevis on :
Oh jeez, it's just that they're Best Supporting Actress Oscar winners isn't it? There's me looking for some complex, twisty link between them all and it's just a nice straightforward one. D'oh.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Yay, Bevis! That's it!
Thanks for the additional clues, Kent. I had told Kent (and Seymour) the answer over breakfast one day in San Diego.
Your go, Bevis.
Posted by Bevis on :
Yay me! OK, this one might be quite easy which probably means it'll stall the thread again...
Deborah Kerr in The King & I Rita Moreno in West Side Story Marilyn Monroe in Gentlement Prefer Blondes
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All had someone else dub their singing (I know Marni Nixon dubbed Deborah Kerr)?
Posted by Bevis on :
You're close enough that if someone else doesn't get it before tomorrow I'll give it to you.
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
They were all cast by Hollywood in roles that someone else originated on Broadway. IIRC: Gertrude Lawrence in The King & I Chita Rivera in West Side Story Carol Channing in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Posted by Bevis on :
That is actually true, but Rockhpper is much closer to the one that I was looking for.
I'm actually off on my hols tomorrow so I think I should give it to Rockhopper so as not to stall the game. The link is actually that they were all partially dubbed by Marni Nixon. She did some of the top notes in Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend, parts of The King & I and parts of Moreno's singing in West Side Story (she also dubbed all of Natalie Woods. At points though she was dueting with herself and Moreno and Betty Wand who dubbed some parts).
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Obsidian The Owls Sake
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Rice?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Wow! That was fast!
Obsidian is Todd Rice.
Rice University's teams are the Owls.
Sake is made from fermented rice.
Go Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I knew Obsidan and Sake. Didn't know about The Owls. Hmmmm.........
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Alexander Hamilton Benjamin Franklin Salmon P Chase
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All are (or have been) portrayed on US currency, though none were ever President.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I thought that might be easy. I assume Salmon P Chase gave it away.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That pretty much is his claim to fame.
Elvis Presley Groucho Marx Sebastian Cabot
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Hint: Think an urban legend (or perhaps a superstition) about celebrities.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all were "sighted" after their deaths?
Posted by Exnihil on :
They all died within the same week (3rd week of August, 1977).
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That's it, Exnihil. All died in mid-August of 1977. Elvis died on the 16th, Groucho on the 19th and Cabot on the 22nd.
It's a classic example of the old "celebrity death happen in threes" thing.
Your turn! Posted by Exnihil on :
Ted Lange Lorne Greene Sir Laurence Olivier
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All appeared on "the Love Boat"?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Oh, dear God, I hope not!
(Double checks just to make sure he didn't overlook the obvious.)
No, only two of the three ever sailed on the "Pacific Princess." Sir Larry, of course, was the odd man out on that one.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All played bartenders?
Posted by Exnihil on :
To the best of my knowledge, no. (If you know for certain that they all did, just let me know.)
I will give a hint: you guys are on the right track regarding roles, but it's not so much what they played as who.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Well I know Lorne Greene played Commander Adama and Ted Lange played Isaac the bartender. SO I would say they are know for playing charaters with biblical names.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Not quite it. Another hint (kind of a gimme): I mentioned before than the answer lies in who they played. Well, although the question references 3 actors, the answer will reference only 1 role.
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
They have all played the title role in "Othello"?
Posted by Exnihil on :
That's the one.
"Othello" ranks among my favorite of Shakespeare's works, and it warms my heart to no end that it links Laurence Olivier and "Isaac" of the "Love Boat". Lorne Greene, on the other hand - though I've not seen the performance - apparently turns in one of the worst interpretations ever of the "Moor of Venice".
Control of the board passes to you, Bicycle Repair Man.
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
Next:
Sir Bailey Barre Sir Wilfred Robarts Horace Rumpole
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Fictional British barristers?
Posted by Bicycle Repair Man on :
That was quick!
Sir Bailey Barre is from Gilbert & Sullivan's Utopia, Limited. Sir Wilfred Robarts is from Agatha Christie's Witness For The Prosecution. Horace Rumpole is of course from the Rumpole of the Bailey series by John Mortimer.
Over to He Who Wanders.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
George VI of England Lewis Carroll James Earl Jones
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were mathameticians?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Nope.
Hint: Roger Daltrey and Randy Bachman each did an imitation of the link in song.
[ August 21, 2008, 07:11 PM: Message edited by: He Who Wanders ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by He Who Wanders: George VI of England Lewis Carroll James Earl Jones
All were regents?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Nope. George VI was never a regent, and the term does not apply to Carroll or Jones.
Hint #2: The link has to do with a personal "defect" that all shared.
Posted by Exnihil on :
They were all stutterers?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
That's it, Exnihil.
As to my first clue, Roger Daltrey stuttered in The Who's "My Generation," and Randy Bachman stuttered in Bachman-Turner Overdrive's "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."
Posted by Exnihil on :
Muhammad Ali Billy Preston Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
Posted by Exnihil on :
Hint: all three have something in common.
What... you want more? OK, fine: a great many other people have just as valid (and, in some cases, a more valid) claim to this media-ascribed commonality.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Each are the Greatest?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Each was a "Fifth Beatle."
Posted by Exnihil on :
Which, of course, according to Apu, rhymes with "Seattle."
You got it, HWW.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Jerry Garcia James Doohan Gary Burghoff
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Too tough?
Hint: This link, like my last one, has to do with a "defect" that the general public was not aware of.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They were dyslexic?
Posted by Exnihil on :
They all had "malformed" hands. Jerry Garcia and James Doohan were missing a finger and Gary Burghoff had a withered hand.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
That's it, Exnihil. Doohan and Burghoff were careful not to let their "malformed" hands appear on camera (though there are reportedly some scenes on M*A*S*H where Burghoff's deformed hand is evident). Garcia went the other route by showing his four-fingered hand on the cover of his solo album.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Damon Lindelof T. S. Eliot John Ostrander
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All wrote "Wasteland"s?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All wrote something entitled "Wasteland" or "The Waste Land."
Posted by Exnihil on :
Yup. That was an easy one, I suppose. Lindelof was a writer on the TV show, "Wasteland," Ostrander on a Vertigo comic of the same name, and Eliot, of course, wrote the epic poem, "The Waste Land."
Next round to Chaim.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Chaim beat me to it by one minute! You're up, Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Betty Alice D. B.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Coopers
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Yup. Didn't really have any tricky ones up my sleeve this time...
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Good for me.
Abraham Lincoln John Muir Helen Keller
Posted by Exnihil on :
What is: People who appeared on the new designs of the State Quarters?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be the link.
Posted by Exnihil on :
OK, you reminded me of this one with Lincoln:
Mary Todd Lincoln Jack Kerouac Brian Wilson
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All suffered break downs and were placed in asylums/mental hospitals?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Mmmmm... well... OK, close enough. Basically, they all suffered schizophenia. (I hedged a bit because I don't think Kerouac was ever institutionalized).
Next round to Quislet.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Horse Goat Domestic Cat
Posted by Exnihil on :
They were all first domesticated in ancient Egypt?
[ October 15, 2008, 09:16 PM: Message edited by: Exnihil ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Horse Goat Domestic Cat
I don't know if they were all domesticated in ancient Egypt or not. Regardless, that is not the link I was going for.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Hint: Where they originated is an indirect clue to the link.
Posted by Exnihil on :
They all, at one point, represented the head of a deity?
[ October 15, 2008, 09:17 PM: Message edited by: Exnihil ]
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
You are digging too deep. This Triad was inspired by a Far Side cartoon. I'll give it one more day.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Exnihil, you were close enough with your first guess. All are animals that were introduced to North America.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Okey-doke:
Salu Digby Pre-boot Jan Arrah Walter Pratt
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq.: Exnihil, you were close enough with your first guess. All are animals that were introduced to North America.
technically not. The horse did exist in North America long, long ago but died out. The Spanish reintroduced, not introduced, the horse.
but I don't intend that to derail Exnihil's question.
Posted by Exnihil on :
No guesses? A hint = "It's a family affair."
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Perhaps it would help if you identified Walter Pratt. Is he the hockey player or someone else with that name?
Just a guess . . . all were or were suspected of being gay.
Posted by Exnihil on :
OK: Walter Pratt is DC comics character, the father of a superhero, but, also, more significantly, the son of one, as well.
Posted by Bevis on :
Walter Pratt in that case would be son of Al Pratt (GA Atom) and father of Manhunter (Kate Spencer). I'm sure he has (or possibly had, I have a feeling he's dead) powers and murdered Kate's mother but I can't think of how he connects to the other two.
Posted by Exnihil on :
quote:Originally posted by Bevis: [QB] Walter Pratt in that case would be son of Al Pratt (GA Atom)...[QB]
Hmmm, are you sure about that?
Posted by Bevis on :
Ah, no, of course he's not. It was thought he was but he's actually the son of Iron Munro and Phantom Lady (Sandra Knight) but was adopted by the Pratts. Still no idea what the connection is though.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They are all orphans?
Posted by Exnihil on :
No, Shrinking Violet isn't an orphan. How about a top of the page recap? The Triad, again is:
Salu Digby Pre-boot Jan Arrah Walter Pratt
Significant facts revealed so far:
-"It's a family affair"
-Walter Pratt is a DC comics character, the son of Golden Age hero, "Iron" Munro.
-Shrinking Violet is not an orphan
-And a new clue: The reason that it's preboot Jan is that the postboot writers must not have read Superboy #211.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
They all had a father named Arn.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Ding, ding, ding! We have a winner!
Yeah, that's the commonality. Arn Digby first appeared in the "Dagon the Avenger" two-parter, Arn Arrah (later Tarn Arrah in the reboot) in a flashback in Superboy #211, and Arn "Iron" Munro in the "Young All-Stars".
Next round to HWW.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Let's do a musical triad:
"Live and Let Die" "A Horse With No Name" "The First Cut is the Deepest"
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Hint: There's something a tad odd about the lyrics.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They all have the word "Heart" in the lyrics?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Considering the popularity of the word "heart" in pop songs, that doesn't seem so odd, Quis. It's not the link I was looking for.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Each have been covered at least 5 times across several decades?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
That has nothing to do with the lyrics.
Second hint: The songwriters may have been employing artistic license, but they wouldn't pass muster in an English class!
Posted by Exnihil on :
OK, in a general sense I guess they all use poor grammar.
- "The First Cut is the Deepest" makes improper use of the superlative form with the line, "When it comes to lovin' me she's worst".
- "Live and Let Die" has both a redundant and dangling participle with "This ever changing world in which we live in". (I never noticed that before, but now it just cracks me up. It just sounds so silly - "in which we live in," Heh heh.)
- "A Horse With No Name," well, I don't know where to begin. "'Cause there ain't no-one for to give you no pain" is just... wrong... on so many levels.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
That's it, Exnihil. You're best! Posted by Exnihil on :
Next up:
v.3 Ayla Ranzz v.4 SW6 Legion v.5 Chameleon
Posted by Exnihil on :
A hint: You might not notice it about v.5 Chameleon, unless he told you.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Legionnaires seen in the nude?
Posted by Exnihil on :
That's the one. Next Triad to Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
September 22, 2007 October 9, 2008 September 28, 2009
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Dates the Legion got cancelled?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
dates of Yom Kippur?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
That's right, Kent.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Faith Hope Charity
(...in a comic book context)
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Three O'Dare women
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Chaim has it!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Ben Stiller Chris Rock David Schwimmer
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all have starred opposite Jennifer Aniston?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Hmm, have they? Schwimmer in Friends, of course, and Stiller in Along Came Polly. Don't recall Rock doing so, and in any case, not what I had in mind.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All provided voices in the animated film Madagscar
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Madagascar it is. You go, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
North Dakota Montana Washington
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All were admitted to the union in 1889?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be it. All in November too
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Walter Cronkite Howard Hughes Brent Spiner
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
fans of Charlie Chapin?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That me be, but it's not what I'm looking for.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All grew up in Houston, Texas.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That would be it. All are Houstonians.
From the Houstonian to the Bostonian (though technically, I'm both).
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Victor Hugo Rudyard Kipling Lewis Carroll
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
No guesses?
You could add Felix Salten to the list for a quartet
Posted by Novelty on :
Authors?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
well they are all authors. However authors like Jane Austen and William Shakespeare don't fit the triad connection (at least at this point in time)
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
no more guesses? do people want a clue or a new triad?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
I'll guess that they were all involved in some sort of controversy. Carroll may or may not have been a pedophile (he took revealing photos of the real "Alice"). Salten's work was banned by the Nazis and he fled to Switzerland. Hugo was exiled from France during the reign of Napoleon III and only returned after that latter was no longer in power. I'm not sure how Kipling fits in, although Wikipedia notes that he was never awarded the Poet Laureate and that Queen Victoria disapproved of him.
If this guess doesn't work, I'll take another clue.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Nope that is not it.
Another threesome that fits this group are:
Carlo Lorenzini J. M. Barrie Dodie Smith
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All wrote stories that were turned into Disney films.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That would be the connection. See how easy it was Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Well, it was sure fun researching it.
I'll be back in a day or so with a new triad.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
And here 'tis:
The letter Y Thorn Eth
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They have all been used to represent a "th" sound?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Very good, Rocky! Someone's familiar with the history of the English language.
Your turn.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Leek Daffodil Dragon
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All are national emblems of Wales
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That would be it.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
William Devane Martin Sheen Patrick Dempsey
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they've all played TV presidents?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Can you be more specific?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All played JFK?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
wouldn't you know I just sent Kent an E-mail telling him he had the question. They did all play JFK.
Rocky, I say that if Kent doesn't post a new triad by 6pm EST tomorrow then you should go ahead.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Rocky, you were more correct than I. It should be your turn.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Colorado Ohio Virginia
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All three voted Republican in the last presidential elect and voted Democratic in this presidential election.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Red states that turned blue!
Go, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Ronald Reagn Gerald Ford Jimmy Carter
(and it is not that they were all President)
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
All participants in the 1976 Presidential election campaign?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I don't know. But that's not the link I have for them.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Clue time:
What links these three occurred in 1953 for Reagan, 1969 for Ford, and 1972 for Carter. Carter's was the only one not involving blindfolds.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They all made appearances on What's My Line.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Correct. None were on as president. Carter went as Governor of Georgia, Ford as House Minority Leader, and Reagan as an actor.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Missouri Indiana North Carolina
[ November 06, 2008, 12:03 PM: Message edited by: Eryk Davis Ester ]
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
States that weren't called for either candidate this year on Election Night?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Hmm... that *may* be true, and actually may be the result of the fact that I'm looking for, but isn't it...
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
States where the difference ion numbers is less than 100,000?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's true, but is also true of a number of states that do not qualify, such as New Mexico or Wyoming.
Hint: One could say the same thing about several Senate elections, including Oregon, Alaska, and Minnesota.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
States that had a recount?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope.
This is also true of the Nationwide Presidential results in 1992, 1996, and 2000.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Occasions on which votes for a third party made up more than the difference between the major party candidates?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's pretty much what I was looking for. I also would have accepted occassions on which the winner got less than a majority of the votes.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Vila Louis Moresby
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Ports?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Can you be a little more specific? What might these ports have in common that, say, Port Jefferson doesn't?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Capital cities that start with "Port"?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
National capitals beginning with with Port, yes. The capitals of Vanuatu, Mauritius and Papua New Guinea, respectively.
Your turn, Rockhopper.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Phil Morris Ray Walston Pia Zadora
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have played Martians
Phil Morris played J'onn J'onzz on Smallville Ray Walston played the title character in My Favorite Martian And Ms. Zadora played one of the martian children in Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That would be it.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Peter Lawford Arnold Schwarzenegger Carolyn Bessette
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All married members of the Kennedy Family?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Sorry, I forgot about this. That is the triad.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Austin, Texas Honolulu, Hawaii Richmond, Virginia
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
US State Capitals that were once capitals of independent countries?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
You are correct, sir: for the Republic of Texas, the Kingdom of Hawaii and the Confederate States of America, respectively.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Sorry for the delay, everybody...here goes...
Naomi Orpah Boaz
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
People from the Book of Ruth?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct. I was wondering how Biblically knowledgeable this gang was.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I expect some are quite so.
Ludwig van Beethoven Franz Schubert Antonín Dvořák
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All have unfinished symphonies?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
You're close, but that's not it.
Posted by Xben on :
Was their last completed symphony for each their "ninth" symphony?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That would be it. Welcome back, Xben.
Posted by Xben on :
Thanks! I'm not sure how long I'll be around for this time, but I do enjoy it here.
I'm having a hard time thinking of one, so all I've got is this, which I think won't be too difficult:
Hot Lead and Cold Feet The Man from Snowy River The Prestige
Posted by Xben on :
Okaaaay, a week later and no guesses. Too hard or just not that interesting?
Anyway, the answer was they were all movies that featured one actor playing both of a set of brothers.
Here is a different one which I thought of later, and I think is more fun...
- The First Officer fires upon his Captain - The Captain jumps to his certain doom - The Doctor laments over leaving his prison
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I flashed to the Star Trek movies and I think in Undiscovered Country, Kirk & Bones are put into a Klingon prison. And when they leave, Bones, being Bones, complains about leaving.
Posted by Xben on :
If you're guess is that they are all moments from Star Trek movies, than no, that's not what I had in mind.
However, Star Trek does play a role in the answer.
Posted by Xben on :
I'm going to modify these slightly to give a bit more of a hint
- The First Officer fires upon his Captain - The Captain jumps to his certain doom while nuclear death screams down from above - The Doctor laments ever leaving the place where he was trapped
Posted by Xben on :
Hints: The category here is TV series. One of the three items mentioned pertains to the Star Trek franchise, but only one.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
This is a shot in the dark, but I'm guessing that each episode featured character actor Jeff Corey.
The first clue could refer to the Star Trek (Original Series) episode, "The Cloud Minders," in which Corey played Plasus.
The second clue apparently refers to the Babylon 5 episode "Z'ha'dum," in which Corey played an agent of the Shadows.
The third might refer the Outer Limits episode "O.B.I.T." Corey does not play a doctor in that episode, but a doctor is listed in the cast list.
Posted by Xben on :
Wow, that's quite the shot in the dark. It's not correct, at least it's not what I had in mind.
However, I will say that you are on the right track in that each clue refers to a specific episode of a TV series (one of them being an episode of some Star Trek series, obviously). You have correctly identified one of the episodes I was thinking of (not the correct Star Trek episode, but you were right in that the first clue refers to the Star Trek episode).
And the three episodes have a link, but it's not Jeff Corey or any other actor.
Posted by Xben on :
OK, more hints, or rather the same hints with more detail...
- The First Officer orders his ship to fire upon his mind-controlled Captain - The Captain jumps to his certain (and prophesied) doom while his automatically controlled spaceship flies down, bringing nuclear death to his enemies' city - The Doctor laments to his ex-girlfriend over ever leaving the island where they were both trapped
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
The first clue almost certainly refers to the "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episode, "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II," in which Riker fires upon a Borg-controlled Picard.
The second clue, as I noted earlier, refers to the "Babylon 5" episode, "Z'ha'dum," in which Sheridan brings down nuclear wrath upon the Shadows' homeworld and then jumps into the abyss.
I have no idea what the third clue refers to. I gather that it refers to "Lost," but I don't watch that series. Earlier, I thought it referred to "Doctor Who," but I don't watch that series, either.
One possible link between 1 and 2 is that 2 was directed by Adam Nimoy, son of Leonard, but neither Adam nor Leonard had anything to do with 1, so far as I know.
I suppose the link has something to do with the characters. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that the captains were both lost and their first officers (Riker and Ivanova in 1 and 2) went looking for them?
Posted by Xben on :
You are almost right about the episodes referred to for all three series (Star Trek: TNG, Babylon 5, and Lost) except that you are off about the Star Trek episode by a single Roman numeral.
The link has nothing to do with actors or characters. I couldn't have described any other moment from the episodes (ie. "The Captain gets captured" or something) and have had the triad work in the same way.
You might be able to get the link without knowing the Lost episode in question.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Now that He Who Wanders has done a lot of the work, I think I know the link. They are all the third (ha! triad) season ending episode.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
More than that, they are the final scenes in the third-season ending episodes.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
If we are correct, I defer to you He Who Wanders
Posted by Xben on :
You are absolutely correct!
In my opinion, all three are the best of the season finales that each series had.
So that would be He Who Wanders is up.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
From the mindbending to the obscure . . .
Pete Duel
Ric Ocasek
John Ford Coley
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Okay, maybe this is a bit too obscure.
Pete Duel was an actor best known for the TV series "Alias Smith and Jones."
Ric Ocasek was the guitarist/lead singer of The Cars and has released solo albums.
John Ford Coley was half of England Dan & . . . , the duo known for '70s hits such as "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight."
But the link I'm looking for has nothing to do with what they did. In fact, you might say the link is right in front of your nose.
Posted by Xben on :
Uh...they all had big goofy mustaches?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
No, that's not it. So far as I know, Coley is the only one who ever sported a moustache.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Another person who fit the link at one time was Keith Richards.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Here's another (probably equally confusing) clue: The link probably enhanced their careers, but if a mailman did it, it would not be a good thing.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Final clue, and if no one gets it by tomorrow, I'll pass the gauntlet to Quis, who also figured out Xben's last link.
If you look up the bios of Coley, Duel, and Ocasek on Wikipedia, you can probably find the link rather easily. LET Wikipedia do the work for you. If you look up Richards, too, LET'S say it should be obvious.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
The link was that they all changed their names by deleting a single letter:
John Colley (the "Ford" was also added later) Pete Deuel Ric Otcasek
Also, Keith Richards deleted the "s" for several years, becoming Keith Richard. He later reverted to the original spelling.
If you look at the last clue, the deleted letters spell LET or LET'S.
As for the mailman clue, if a mailman dropped a letter, that means it wouldn't be delivered.
So much for my attempt to be clever. Your turn, Quis.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Oh, you were clever. Just too clever for us.
Now my three:
Will Geer Angelina Jolie Cynthia Nixon
Posted by Bevis on :
They are all bisexual (or at least have had relationships with both genders).
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
that is the link.
Will Geer played Grandpa Walton and was at one time the boyfriend of gay rights pioneer Harry Hayes.
Posted by Bevis on :
Yay me!
Anni-Frid Lyngstad Jami Lee Curtis Marianne Faithful
Posted by Bevis on :
Too hard? As a clue, it's to do with who they are rather than anything they've done.
Posted by Xben on :
Are they all the daughters of Oscar winners?
Hmm, I don't think so.
Posted by Bevis on :
Nope, not that. In one case it is related to who one of tehir parents is, with the other two it's actually due to a different relative.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They are all related to nobility. Jamie Lee & Anni-Frid through marriage, Marianne from her mother.
Posted by Bevis on :
I was actually going specifically for the fact that they all have aristocratic titles, but that's pretty much the same answer so it's good enough for me. You're up Quis.
For the record, if anyone is interested, Anni-Frid Lyngstad is Her Serene Highness Princess Anni-Frid von Plauen (through marriage), Marianne Faithful is Baroness Sacher-Masoch (title inherited from her mother and making her directly related to the notorious Scaher-Masoch who wrote Venus In Furs and from whom we get the term masochism) and Jamie Lee Curtis is Lady Haden-Guest (through marriage, but only a title she can use when she's in the UK. I think she actually used to have a seat in the House of Lords too before they did away with most of hereditary peers).
Posted by Xben on :
Quislet, do you have one for us?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
oops forgot about this. give me a minute
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
I think this should be fairly easy.
Barbara Billingsley Ethel Merman Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I thought that triad looked familiar, though one person was different. Since the same person asked, the same will answer: They all appeared in Airplane! Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
And I almost used David Leisure again.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Ann-Margret Tony Curtis Elizabeth Montgomery
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
All were animated on the Flintstones?
Ann Margrock Stoney Curtis And Elizabeth Montgomery played a Stone Age animated version of her Samantha Stephens character.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That would be it.
Back over to Quis. Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
South Korea Canada Portugal
Posted by Matthew E on :
Nations that border only one other nation?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup. Which gave it away? South Korea?
Posted by Matthew E on :
No, I just sort of figured it out. I was considering Portugal when I did figure it out, if that means anything.
Saturn Girl Gazelle Colossal Boy
[ February 04, 2009, 11:20 AM: Message edited by: Matthew E ]
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
more accurately, it was land borders. 2/3 of those are within spitting distance of additional nations by sea.
Re: the new trio:
All are from different worlds in the Sol system?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yes.
(Only two-thirds? Which one isn't? Canada has France; South Korea has... Japan, I guess...; Portugal has... mmm... I can't picture whether there are islands around there or not.)
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I'll post something tomorrow. Why is it I think of great ones, but then forget them when it's my turn?
(re: 2/3s. Yes, you've described it, Matthew. And depending on who owns Hants Island, Greenland could also be added as another off-shore for Canada. There are no non-Portuguse islands very close to Portugal; the Madieras are farther away than the whole length of Portugal, and thay're Spanish anyway.)
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Lincoln Darwin Gladstone
Posted by Exnihil on :
They are all celebrating (or, rather, failing to do so) their 200th birthday this year.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
That was actually my 'red herring' set-up... but since no one else has even guessed, I'll give it to you anyway. I was actually intending for the answer to be 'British names used for Australian cities,' hoping everyone would get tripped up by the 200 (as many have noted the Darwin/Lincoln overlap).
But as there has been no mad outpouring of guesses, I'll let you pick a more thought-provoking Triad, Exxy.
Posted by Exnihil on :
"Love Me Tender" "In Dreams" "Sixteen Reasons"
Posted by Exnihil on :
No takers? OK, then, a hint:
The lynchpin to the above triad is a cinematic connection.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Apparently no David Lynch fans on Legion World. They are all songs sung by actors in Lynch Films: "Wild at Heart," "Blue Velvet," and "Mulholland Drive," respectively.
OK, then, an easy one next:
Bloody Mary Beetlejuice Marcia
Posted by Matthew E on :
They're all things that are famously repeated three times.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Assuming I got that one right...
Ultra Boy Jetfire Early Girl
Posted by The Traveler on :
Sorry, Matthew, it had been a while since I checked this. As you surmised, you were correct on that one.
Posted by Arm Fall Off Boy on :
quote:Originally posted by Matthew E: Assuming I got that one right...
Ultra Boy Jetfire Early Girl
Question: Early Girl the tomato variety?
Posted by Matthew E on :
Yes.
Posted by Matthew E on :
Okay, well, nobody seems interested in pursuing this, so the answer is:
All three are varieties of tomatoes. (I've seen a picture of the Ultra Boy tomato and it's the same colour as his shirt, and the green stem-leaf part is a reasonable stand-in for the green dragon logo. I can't help but think that it was intentional on the part of the tomato people, or, depending on when the variety was isolated, on the part of the Legion artist.)
Next:
Driver's Seat by Sniff 'n the Tears Pink Cadillac by Bruce Springsteen Little Red Corvette by Prince
(and, no, it's not that they're car songs. There's something else.)
Posted by Exnihil on :
They all reference things happening on "Saturday Night"
Posted by Matthew E on :
That is right. (Sorry to take so long getting back to this.)
Go ahead.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Wow... I totally forgot about this thread... OK... a wild tangent, but something I recently heard:
Jon-Erik Hexum George Clooney Kato Kaelin
Posted by Exnihil on :
A hint... there's just something about that girl.
Pee Wee saw it.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Married to someone named Mary?
Posted by Exnihil on :
No, but you're on the right track with the romantic angle.
Another hint: I came across this triad while researching cartoon voice actors.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
They all dated actress Elizabeth (E.G.) Daily.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Bingo.
Ms. Daily (these days a voice actress) was one of my childhood crushes after I saw her in Valley Girl and Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Apparently others felt the same as, in addition to the three listed above, she also dated Nick Cage and Andrew Dice Clay. She is nothing if not... um... eclectic in her tastes.
You're up next, He Who.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Next:
Walter Koenig Gary Burghoff Ron Palillo
Posted by Arm Fall Off Boy on :
They all played characters much younger than their actual age?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winnah!
Koenig was 31 when he started playing the 22-year-old Ensign Chekov on "Star Trek" in 1967.
Burghoff was 29-36 when he played the 19-20 (or so) Radar O'Reilly during the "M*A*S*H" TV series from 1972-79. (Of course, Burghoff also played Radar in the 1970 movie, when the actor was a mere 27).
Pallilo was 26 when he started playing the high school-aged Arnold Horshack in "Welcome Back, Kotter," in 1975.
Take it away, AFOB!
Posted by Arm Fall Off Boy on :
Sorry for the delay-I never thought I'd get it!
Daisy May Moses The Baldwin Sisters Hawkeye Pierce and BJ Hunnicutt
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they all made moonshine?
Posted by Arm Fall Off Boy on :
Well that was hard, wasn't it?
Daisy May Moses, better known as Granny on The Beverly Hillbillies , who had the still out by the cement pond; The Baldwin Sisters from The Waltons who made their "Recipe" for medicinal purposes only, and Hawkeye and BJ of M*A*S*H who had their own still in the "swamp."
Take it Kent.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Cerebus Elvis Presley Oprah Winfrey
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Taking a guess (expecting it to be wrong): Hounds
Cerebus is named after Cerberus, the three headed hound of hell
Elvis had the sone I Ain't Nothing But a Hound Dog
Oprah - I don't know
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope, but good effort.
also- part of what you brought up does factor into the correct answer.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I know Elvis and Oprah were, I don't know about Cerebus, but I'll guess that all are from Mississippi?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope. It's more a name thing than anything else.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Their names are all mis-spelling of other names???
[ September 28, 2009, 05:41 AM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq. ]
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
basically, that's it. The Elvis portion had to do with the whole Aron/Aaron middle name bit.
go, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Lois Lane Commissioner Gordon Aunt May
Posted by Exnihil on :
Supporting characters who all appeared in their respective lead's first story appearance?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
That is it
Posted by Exnihil on :
Richard the Lionheart General George Custer Seth Green
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Normandy.
Richie-the-L invaded Normandy (among other places).
A base named for GG-Custer was a major staging area in the US leading up to the Normandy invasions in WW2.
Seth Green voiced a character on a space ship called the Normandy in a video game called Mass Effect.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Umm... yeeeeeeahhhh, that's what I was going for.
(Actually, I just meant that all three were redheads... but that answer was so inspired I've got to give it to Kent.)
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
lemme think up something good. be back later.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Jack Kerouac Gregory Hines Bo Diddley
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
A guess "Beat" is the common theme.
Bo Diddley if famous for the Bo Diddley beat Jack Kerouac is the most famous of the Beat poets. Gregory Hines, not sure, maybe the beat of his tap dancing
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
good guess, but nope.
Posted by Lethargy Lad on :
quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: Jack Kerouac Gregory Hines Bo Diddley
Also all male and all dead, but those are probably trivial similarities.
[ October 09, 2009, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: Lethargy Lad ]
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
the male part wasn't an intentional commonality.
the dead part is an incomplete but vital part of the actual commonality I am looking for.
Posted by Lethargy Lad on :
Still not getting it. After a bit of cheating (aka "research"), I find that Bo and Jack both died in Florida, while Greg died in California. There's two thirds of a set. Here's another -- Messieurs Kerouac and Hines both died from liver related malfunctions (cirrhosis and cancer, respectively), while Mr Diddley gave it up after a stroke and heart attack.
Another clue please?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
the commonality in question has nothing to do with any action that took place by them, during their lifetimes or in relation to how they died. It involves a certain type of action taken by others.
Posted by Lethargy Lad on :
Okeh, all were awarded posthumous college degrees, which, of course, are awarded only to the dead.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
correct, LL!
sorry for my delayed response. Been busy.
Posted by Lethargy Lad on :
Martha Randolph Harriet Lane Emily Donelson
Posted by Xben on :
I was going to guess that they were all sit-com Moms, (thinking that maybe Harriet Lane was the mother on the Patty Duke Show perhaps) but after I looked her up, I saw that I was wrong.
So I'll make another guess based on that brief bit of research...
They are all related to US Presidents
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Ah! I think the more accurate link is that all served as White House hostess for Presidents that did not have living wives while President.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
It's been seven months and Lethargy Lad hasn't posted since January.
If no one objects, I'll get this thread going again: Fiji Ireland Zimbabwe
Posted by Kent on :
three places that were screwed up by British colonialism?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Not quite specific enough, but it does relate to formerly being part of the British Empire.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Places that drive on the left?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
While that is true, that's not it. There is something that these countries don't have that would be true of most other countries that were part of the old British Empire.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Never converted to the metric system?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No.
Another hint, South Africa and Pakistan would have once qualified but this is no longer true of them.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
And another hint: you might think the U.S. States of Kentucky, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Virginia might have to do with what these countries don't have in common, but, they really don't.
Posted by Kent on :
former British colonies that dropped out of the Commonwealth?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Close enough. More accurately, they are all countries that were formerly full members of the Commonwealth of Nations, though in Fiji's case, it's a suspension. Ireland and Zimbabwe have both officially resigned from the Commonwealth.
Kent?
Posted by Kent on :
1883 1991 2010
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
They are all years.
Posted by Kent on :
looking for something more specific.
Posted by Kent on :
no takers?
New Q then, an all-20th Century Triad:
The Papacy The British Invasion French philosophy
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Things that involved a John and a Paul?
Posted by Kent on :
yep! Beatles, the prior pope, and Sartre.
go, Chaim!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
A hospital The cockpit Headquarters
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Hmm, no takers yet?
Think movie. Think running gags.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Airplane?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Airplane? What is it?
It's the correct answer to this Triad. But that's not important right now. You've got to supply the next three clues.
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Here goes:
Ann-Margret Tony Curtis Cary Grant
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
All were satirized on The Flintstones?
Posted by Quislet, Esq. on :
Yup. You are next Rockhopper Lad.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Scott Bakula Chris Evans Charles Laughton
Posted by Xben on :
Thinking about it, but not coming up with anything.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Okay, here's a hint: Bob Keeshan could also have been included.
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
Actors who portrayed Captains?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I thought that would give it away!
Laughton was Captain Bligh in Mutiny on the Bounty Bakula was Captain Jonathan Archer on Star Trek: Enterprise. Evans is the forthcoming Captain America.
Miner?
Posted by Outdoor Miner on :
Stranger Than Fiction The Drowning Man Lady Fuschia
Posted by Xben on :
After six months, I decided to have a look at this again. With some research, I see that these are three songs that are all based on the work of Mervyn Peake in his Gormenghast series.
Here's a new triad, if anyone is interested
Dinosaurs Nazis Shadow Demons
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Adversaries presented in Crisis on Infinite Earths?
Posted by Xben on :
No, though I imagine they all show up there - but then so does just about every other DC character up to that point (except, weirdly, Hal Jordan). However, the answer does involve, in part, COIE (fairly obvious perhaps with the Shadow Demons there)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They all killed the Losers, in one version or another.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
that's probably it.
Posted by Xben on :
That is it.
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
Man. what a bunch of Losers! Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Next Triad:
Isabella Emma Olivia
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
The most popular girls' names of 2010?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Close enough. (They're actually 2009, the most recent year with stats).
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I expect "Isabella" will be falling from favor now that the "Twilight" thing is getting old.
Audrey Hepburn Vanessa Redgrave Lesley Ann Warren
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
This might need a hint. It does have to do with a certain role that each played, but they are three different roles.
Posted by Xben on :
Did they all play a "Holly"?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Did they all play a prostitute? Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's, Warren in Clue, and Redgrave in... some movie I don't know.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
No and no.
Another hint: It's not a characteristic that the characters have in common.
[ February 03, 2011, 12:36 PM: Message edited by: Rockhopper Lad ]
Posted by Xben on :
I've no idea, but I'm very intrigued. Three different roles that in someway link to make a Triad, but not because the three roles share a common characteristic. Hmm....
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
It's not that the three roles don't have a common characteristic, it's that the three characters do not; that is, it's not something about the characters themselves (such as the proposal of them all being prostitutes, which none of them are) that they have in common. The three roles have something in common. There is a subtle, but important difference.
Here's another hint: Hepburn and Redgrave's roles in question were in movies. Warren's was on a television special.
Again, the three actresses are: Audrey Hepburn Lesley Ann Warren Vanessa Redgrave
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
All three starred in roles originated by Julie Andrews?
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Ding ding ding! We have a winner!
Audrey Hepburn played Eliza Doolittle in the 1964 film version of My Fair Lady (originally played on Broadway by Julie in 1956).
Lesley Ann Warren played the title role in the 1965 version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella (originally broadcast in 1957 with Julie playing the part).
Vanessa Redgrave played Guenevere in the dreadful 1967 film adaption of Camelot (The 1960 Broadway role was written by Lerner and Lowe for Julie).
Incidentally, Hepburn's singing was (mostly) dubbed by Marni Nixon; Warren did her own singing and was quite good; Redgrave did her own singing and--well, the less said the better.
Take a bow, Eryk!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I accidentally stumbled across it by accident. My first theory was that they were all in either Rogers and Hammerstein musicals, or all in Lerner and Lowe musicals, and, in looking up who wrote which musical, I came across the fact that both My Fair Lady and Cinderella originally starred Julie Andrews.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Next:
The Jungle Book Stalag 17 Godfather III
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Hint:
Each of these movies features a character who is connected to a character in another medium.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Hint:
It has to do with a major villain in each of the films.
Posted by Xben on :
Do they each have the same name as a villain from Star Trek (not really confident about that, just thinking of the tiger from the Jungle Book)?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Nope, while Shere Khan does share his name with a Star Trek villain, as far as I know Commandant Von Sherbach and Don Altobello do not.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Each of the actors playing the respective villain, George Sanders, Otto Preminger, and Eli Wallach, also portrayed Mr. Freeze on the Adam West Batman show.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's it!
Posted by Exnihil on :
Very cool question.
Next:
Joseph Smith Sir Thomas More Muhammad Ali
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
People who changed their religions?
Posted by Exnihil on :
No. In fact, isn't Thomas More famous for not changing his religion?
As a hint, I'll say that, contrary to first glance, this Triad has nothing to do with religion, and was directly inspired by the previous round.
Posted by Xben on :
I just read somewhere that Dean Cain once played Joseph Smith. I can't back this up, but...
...they were all played by people who also played superheroes? (Dean Cain, Will Smith, and ??)
Posted by Exnihil on :
I just looked up that Dean Cain thing, and apparently, in the same film, Terence Stamp plays Brigham Young. Superman and Zod in the story of the Mormons... might just have to check that out.
But, although you're on the right track, that's not quite it. They were all portrayed by actors who also portrayed... something... but not superheroes. Additionally, only one of the actors you list is correct. (hint... not Cain. )
The list again is:
Joseph Smith Sir Thomas More Muhammad Ali
Posted by Exnihil on :
Another hint, the film from which the first part of the Triad is taken is called "Brigham Young".
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they were all played by actors who also played roles as the last man on Earth?
Posted by Exnihil on :
That's it. Even more specifically, each played the last man on Earth in a film based on the book, "I Am Legend."
Vincent Price, who played Joseph Smith in "Brigham Young" was in the first adaptation called, "The Last Man on Earth." Charlton Heston, Thomas More in one adaptation of "A Man for All Seasons" was the lead in the 70's adaptation, "The Omega Man," and Will Smith, Ali in "Ali" played the role in a film which finally used the actual title, "I Am Legend".
Next round to Kent.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
The Remains of the Day Daredevil A Japanese Blossom
Posted by Exnihil on :
Novels by authors of mixed Asian/English ancestry: Kazuo Ishiguro, Leslie Charteris, and Winnifred Eaton?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
very close! one important detail missing; these were not just any of their books.
Posted by Xben on :
Was it their debut novels?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no, it wasn't. that'd be too easy. but you're on the right track.
Posted by Xben on :
How about their first novels to be adapted into film?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope. I'm pretty sure at least one never was a film.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
hint: Xben's first was closer to the answer. just not their first novels.
Posted by Xben on :
Award winning novels?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
your first guess of feb 11 is still the closest.
Posted by Xben on :
Really have no idea. I just did a little reading on Kazuo Ishiguro (the writer of the only novel I've read on this list), so I'll guess...their first novels not to take place in Japan?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope. Please cure yourself of the idea of 'firsts;' that seems to be your biggest obstacle.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
It was the debut of the main character which the author used in other books?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
nope. again, stay away from 'firsts.'
Posted by Xben on :
I'm stuck here - with the closest guess being debut novels, but the answer not having anything to do with "firsts", unless it's just their most popular or bestselling novels?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Since you seem to warning away from "first" and I know that "Remains of the Day" was Ishiguro's third novel... is it that simple? Are they all the third?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Exxy has it!
for all 3 British-Asian authors, it was their third published novels.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
(side note to Exxy: Eaton and her family briefly lived in Hudson in the 1800s. Small world, eh?)
Posted by Xben on :
Ah...
Posted by Exnihil on :
quote:Originally posted by Kent Shakespeare: (side note to Exxy: Eaton and her family briefly lived in Hudson in the 1800s. Small world, eh?)
Ah, Columbia County... you keep pulling me back in.
Next Round:
Harlem SWLABR Tuesday Heartbreak
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
classic rock songs?
Posted by Exnihil on :
While that is true, it's a bit more involved than that. Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
okay, I figured I'd start the ball rolling so we'd get to hints faster.
All were originally B-sides?
Posted by Exnihil on :
That's not it ("Harlem" is, in fact, an A-side), but definitely thinking in the right terms.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I'll try: non-album tracks?
Posted by Exnihil on :
No, without looking the other two up I know that at least SWLABR appeared on an album (Disraeli Gears).
The Triad, again is:
Harlem SWLABR Tuesday Heartbreak
and, thus far, it's been said that they are classic rock songs, that they are not all B sides (though that guess is starting to head in the right direction) and that they are not non-album tracks.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
They were all A-sides?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Nope. "Harlem" is the only A-side of the three.
An oblique hint: I thought of this Triad earlier in the week, after a spat of cold weather finally broke.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Hmm... nada.
Another hint, "Harlem" is by Bill Withers, an artist more commonly known for another song.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
This is probably too vague, but what about something along the lines of songs that weren't hits but were included on Greatest Hits albums?
Posted by Exnihil on :
No, I'm thinking this might be too tough. Thus far, I'd say the key pieces of info are:
-They are not all A-Sides -They are not all B-Sides - "Harlem" is by Bill Withers, an artist more commonly known for another song - I thought of this Triad after a spat of cold weather finally broke Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Each of them was released as the flipside of a song with "Sunshine" in the title?
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
Ex said that they weren't all B (or flip) sides.
Perhaps it's because each of the artists is better known for a song with "Sunshine" in the title?
Bill Withers - Ain't No Sunshine Cream - Sunshine of Your Love Stevie Wonder - You Are the Sunshine of My Life
EDIT: The songs in the clue are also from ALBUMS that contain the above songs.
[ February 20, 2011, 07:34 AM: Message edited by: He Who LSHes ]
Posted by Exnihil on :
Hmm... while He Who provided the fleshed out detail on what the songs and artists were, I think I'm going to reward credit to EDE for getting the initial intent first.
They were each on the opposite side of the single containing the "Sunshine" song that He Who cites. He's right though that "flipside" does mean "B-side", and the Withers song, "Harlem" was the A-side (though "Ain't No Sunshine" proved to be more popular with DJ's).
That being said, though, I think with the small terminology mistake aside, that EDE got the answer. What I'll say is that EDE has the right to first refusal. If Eryk wants to take the next round, it's his, but if he wants to pass to He Who for fleshing it out, that's cool, too.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I'll go ahead and take it, since I actually did mean "opposite side" by "flipside", and I've got a question ready.
New triad:
When I'm 64 Breakfast in America I Belong to You
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Songs in 4/4 time? Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Actually a Triad of songs in, say, 5/4 would've been cool!
Nope! It's something far less common in rock music than that!
[ February 21, 2011, 07:57 PM: Message edited by: Eryk Davis Ester ]
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
HINT:
Among Muse songs, this feature is (I believe) unique to I belong to you. However, there are multiple Supertramp songs which could qualify. Without checking, I would bet there are other Beatles songs as well, but none come to mind as prominently as When I'm 64.
[ February 22, 2011, 08:31 AM: Message edited by: Eryk Davis Ester ]
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
No guesses?
While rare in rock music, what they have in common is something which is quite common in classical music, and was once quite common in jazz, though less so these days.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Let's try this:
Supertramp's John Helliwell is many of many talents.
Posted by Exnihil on :
They all make use of the clarinet?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
"Rock Songs with Clarinet" it is!
Posted by Exnihil on :
I though that might be it, but I wasn't sure about the Supertramp song... I actually thought that was a saxophone.
Another round soon... as soon as I can think of something.
Posted by Exnihil on :
OK:
A Rose for Emily The Tell-Tale Heart Withnail and I
Posted by Xben on :
Productions featuring actors who also starred in Doctor Who?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Hmmm... is that just a guess, or do you know that to be true?
That wasn't what I was going for (and, off the top of my head, I can only think of Paul McGann from "Withnail and I" who played that the Doctor) but let me know if I missed that obvious connection.
Posted by Xben on :
No, that was a guess based on the Paul McGann thing. So if you're unaware of it, it's probably not true.
Posted by Exnihil on :
A hint: the answer to this Triad is alluded to in one of the three titles.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Another hint: upon futher investigation, the connection applies to the two short stories, and only the movie "Withnail and I", not the screenplay.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all three are narrated by the main character?
Posted by Xben on :
Are they all narrated by an unnamed character?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Xben's got it.
I had to make the clarification about "Withnail" because although the film leaves "I" unnamed, apparently he's called "Marwood" in the screenplay.
Posted by Xben on :
Thanks.
Ok...
Singin' in the Rain The Purple Rose of Cairo Tropic Thunder
Posted by Xben on :
No guesses?
Hint: the answer has nothing to do with any cast or crew member
Posted by Exnihil on :
Are they all "meta" movies? Like Tropic Thunder is about a war movie, and Singing in the Rain is about a talkie movie?
I don't know Purple Rose of Cairo, so that's just a guess.
Posted by Xben on :
That's close, but not precisely it
Posted by Xben on :
The answer does relate to the fact that all three movies are about movies or movie making - in the case of Purple Rose of Cairo, the plot revolves around the main character watching a film (I think it's supposed to be a screwball comedy) - but the Triad sets these films apart from many other films that are also about movies.
I'll give this hint: the talkie film whose production takes up most of the plot of "Singin' in the Rain" is not relevant to this Triad.
Posted by Xben on :
Hmm, little interest here. How to give another hint without completely giving it away?
The Triad has to do with three film-within-each-film. For Purple Rose of Cairo and Tropic Thunder, the films are the obvious main ones within the movie. For Singin' in the Rain, it has to do with a movie that's implied by the very last shot of the film, starring the movies two leads.
Posted by Xben on :
OK, if possible I don't want to completely kill the thread. I guess I shouldn't have waited this long.
So the answer to the Triad is that each title is the actual name of a fictional film within each real film.
Here is a much easier Triad for anyone who wants to pick it up:
Green Lantern Flash Legion of Super-Heroes
Obviously, the answer is more than that they are DC comics or superheroes, but I think anyone familiar with all three series would pick up a connecting point pretty easily.
Posted by Xben on :
Green Lantern Flash Legion of Super-Heroes
Hints: 1. More than just that they are DC comics or superheroes 2. This is true of all Green Lanterns, most Legionnaires from most periods of Legion history, and Barry Allen / Wally West, but not Jay Garrick
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
They wear rings.
Posted by Xben on :
That's right.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Judd Nelson Randy Newman Ed Harris
Posted by Exnihil on :
Three people who've never been in my kitchen?
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
While I am sure that is true, that is not the link I have for them.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Hint time: Anna Nicole Smith also fits this Triad
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Wow, this has killed the thread.
The link was that they all shared my birthday.
Maybe an easy one will revive this thread.
Jay Garrick Barry Allen Wally West
Posted by Xben on :
They were all the Flash!
This seems to be a hard thread to keep alive.
Hopefully this won't be too difficult...
Transformers (almost any incarnation) Leonard Nimoy (in 2009's Star Trek) Infinite Crisis / Sinestro Corp War / Legion of 3 Worlds
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
A character with "Prime" as part of his name?
Posted by Xben on :
That's right!
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Samuel Gad Nathan
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
No takers? Hint: it's Biblical.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Judges of Israel?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Of the three mentioned, only Samuel was a judge.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Prophets? I'm not sure about Gad, but I believe Samuel and Nathan were.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They are indeed prophets, but a specific subset of prophets.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Prophets that advises King David?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct, they all spoke prophesy to King David. Your turn, Quis!
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Thanks to Invisible Brainiac for reminding me of this thread.
Michael Keaton Diane Keaton David Bowie
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
My pleasure, Quis.
I'm horribly unfamiliar with them, so... they're all over 60 now?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
They took a stage name because someone in the industry was already using their real name?
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
You are correct Chaim.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Sorry for the delay...
Lagos Abidjan Dar Es Salaam
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Former African capitals?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Correct, Rockhopper.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Sorry for my delay.
Richard Burton Paul Lynde Henry Winkler
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Arthur
Richard Burton played King Arthur in Camelot Paul Lynde played Uncle Arthur on Bewitched Henry Winkler played Arthur Fonzarelli on Happy Days
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
And the next triad belongs to Quislet, Esq. Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
John Quincy Adams Andrew Johnson William Howard Taft
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
They all served in another US Government office after serving as President? I know JQA was in the House of Representatives and Taft was Chief Justice.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
That is the link. Andrew Johnson became a Senator in 1874 after his presidency. Although his Senate career was pretty short. He assumed office on March 4, 1875 and then died on July 31, 1875.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
I'll post a new triad this evening.
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Or next week.
Lauren Bacall Bea Benaderet Stockard Channing
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
Hmmm.
One of the last ten First Ladies of the United States would also qualify. So would Rose Nylund.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Betty. (Actually, I meant to give this answer sooner, but was distracted by other games!)
Posted by Rockhopper Lad on :
That is correct.
Lauren Bacall's real name is Betty Joan Perske. Bea Benaderet was the original voice of Betty Rubble. Stockard Channing played Betty Rizzo in Grease.
Betty Ford and Betty White, of course, were the other examples.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Corvettes American horse racing Tractor pulling
Posted by Exnihil on :
Things that you see on tracks in Kentucky?
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Not necessarily, though you're sort of on the right track (no pun intended).
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Time for a hint: three cities with the same name but different locations.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
quote:Originally posted by Chaim Mattis Keller: Corvettes American horse racing Tractor pulling
With that clue, I was thinking it had something to do with one of the triple crown races. So I will guess that the common link is Belmont.
[ September 11, 2011, 05:55 PM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq ]
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Not correct.
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Maybe this will be better:
Corvette Factory Cradle of American Horse Racing National Tractor Pulling Championships
Posted by Xben on :
Is it Bowling Green?
Posted by Xben on :
I'm pretty sure this is right, so I'm going to go ahead, with what I think is a pretty easy one.
Peter Parker Len Snart Ming
Posted by Chaim Mattis Keller on :
Sorry I neglected to pay attention, but yes, these represent three cities named Bowling Green:
The Corvette Factory is in Bowling Green, KY The Cradle of American Horse Racing is a nickname for Bowling Green, VA The National Tractor Pulling Championships are held in Bowling Green, OH.
Posted by Exnihil on :
quote:Originally posted by Xben: Peter Parker Len Snart Ming
Each has opposed a "Flash".
Posted by Xben on :
That's right!
Posted by Exnihil on :
OK, next:
Dan Aykroyd Christina Ricci Pam Grier
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
They've all played airline stewardesses/flight attendants?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Dan Aykroyd played a flight attendant? Was that an old SNL bit? But, no, not the connection I had in mind.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
It seemed somewhat plausible. Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
All were guest hosts onn SNL?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Just did a quick search and it doesn't look like Pam Grier ever hosted SNL (apologies if I missed it), but that wouldn't have been what I had in mind anyway.
The three again are:
Dan Aykroyd Christina Ricci Pam Grier
and I'll give a hint:
It would be very appropriate if someone were to correctly guess this one today.
Posted by Exnihil on :
No takers?
Hint #2: They, they, they so excited.
Posted by Xben on :
Was it all their birthdays on November 18th?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Were they all born on Fridays?
Posted by He Who LSHes on :
(Side note: I have no idea what the connection is, but I found it interesting that Aykroyd has a daughter whose birthday is November 18.)
Posted by Exnihil on :
Of the guesses, Eryk's last one is sort of the closest... but the answer has nothing to do with birthdays (that is a weird coincidence about Aykroyd's daughter, though).
Hint #3 - When you figure out the connection, you'll see that Grier had it first, Ricci had it in the middle, and Aykroyd had it last.
Posted by Exnihil on :
I guess this one is harder than I thought - possibly because the Christina Ricci one isn't immediately apparent, so:
Hint #4 - You'd think Christina Ricci might not fit this Triad (being two days early) but if you consider her in full you'd see she actually does.
Posted by Xben on :
Hm, just stumbled across the answer. Very clever, actually. I didn't get it on my own at all, so I'll refrain from answering at this point.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I'm assuming they all played characters named "Friday".
Posted by Exnihil on :
Close enough for government work.
Pam Grier played the title character in the 70's film, Friday Foster.
Christina Ricci played Wednesday Addams, whose middle name, in a neat bit of trivia, is actually Friday.
And Dan Aykroyd was in the 80's remake of Dragnet, playing a cop who shared his more famous uncle's name, Sgt. Joe Friday.
Eryk's up next.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
I would've gone with Ed O'Neill rather than Dan Ackroyd.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
And speaking of which:
Ed O'Neill Edmond Hamilton The Warner Brothers
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
They were all from Youngstown, Ohio?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's it!
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Oh wow. Hmm...
Kinetix Brainiac 5 Monstress
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Green? Both Brainiac 5 & Monstress have green skin and Kinetix dresses in green
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
No, it is not the color green.
Hint: By the strict criteria I used, these three are the only Postboot Legionnaires I can think of who would fit this triad.
If I relaxed the criteria somewhat, XS, Sensor and Triad could also fit.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Another hint: The triad conditions are tied to their origin stories.
Posted by Xben on :
Did it have to do with their parents being involved in giving them their powers? I can't remember the details for any of them, but I seem to remember Monstress parent (father?), Kinitex's mother, and certainly Brainiac 5's creepy mother all being involved.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Close, but not quite. Brainiac 5's mom passed on her genius genes to him, but other than that she didn't have anything to do with his powers.
You are on the right track, though.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Another hint:
It does have to do with their parentage - or apparent lack of it.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Another hint:
Reading their origin stories will reveal the answer.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Their second parent is not mentioned?
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Correct, Quis! Their second parent is never mentioned, while their first parent is apparently still alive.
XS, Sensor and Triad (I assume) all have one living parent and one dead parent; the difference is, the dead parent is confirmed dead.
You're up!
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
OK here goes:
Peru Holland Wales
Posted by Exnihil on :
Toughie. Maybe irregular word formation for the name of the local people... like you wouldn't just add "er" or "an" to refer to the residents, you'd say Peruvian, Welsh, and Dutch?
I'm sure that's not it. Clue?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Three nations that have open sea to their immediate wests.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Those all may be true, but it is not the triad I have in mind.
As for a clue..... Florida would work to replace any of the ones listed.
[ December 12, 2011, 05:01 PM: Message edited by: Quislet, Esq ]
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
besides being the names of more famous places, they are all the names of small towns in Upstate New York.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
No, they are not all names of small towns in upstate New York.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
actually, they are (Florida, too), but that's not what you are looking for...
they all have red on their flags?
That's probably my last guess until there is another clue, unless I'm hit by a stroke of semi-genius.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
the link is not that they have red in their flags.
Plus I would never use Up State New York for a Triad.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
your loss. Posted by Exnihil on :
Are they each traditionally associated with a "lost" mythological place?
Peru - El Dorado Wales - Avalon Florida - The Fountain of Youth
Holland - ??? No idea... the Silver City of Hans Brinker? Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Nope, that is not the link.
My commment to Kent was also a clue
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
Are they all street or district names somewhere?
Posted by Xben on :
Or are they all last names of famous DC comics characters? (This just guessed in case there are characters named Florida, Wales, and Peru that I have never heard of)
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Not street or district names nor names of DC Comics characters.
Look again at what Kent guessed and my response to him.
Posted by Xben on :
Are they all place names in Massachusetts, or the Boston area?
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Yes, they are all towns in Massachusetts
Posted by Xben on :
Ahh. I'm from New York, but I didn't catch onto your comment about upstate NY as a hint until you pointed it out.
New Triad soon.
Posted by Xben on :
OK, a pretty easy one, I think...
Element Lad Projectra Star Boy
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
three legionnaires who have joined/rejoined the Legion under different names: Mystery Lad, Sir Prize and Sensor Girl (who popped up in my dram last night, and was sort of part of a different trivia question within that dream, oddly enough).
Posted by Xben on :
Hm, true, but not what I had in mind.
To be more specific, the three characters I'm referring to are:
Element Lad - Postboot Projectra - Preboot Star Boy - Preboot
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all killed people?
Posted by Xben on :
Yup, that's it. You're up
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Balbo Mobil Blackwall
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no takers?
okay, "Mobil" should actually be "Mobil Ave."
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
no takers?
New Triad, then:
Waltham Abbey, Essex, UK Mae Klong, Thailand Rioverde, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
They are all the locations of major institutions? (royal gunpowder mills, street market, radio station)
PS, what was the answer for the triad of Balbo, Mobil ave and Blackwall?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
not what I was looking for. in fact, I had no idea about the ones you list.
the prior 3 were fictional subway/metro stations from film and TV. Mobil Ave was from the 3rd Matrix movie. Balbo was a Chicago station from the Harrison Ford Fugitive flick, and Blackwall from an old British TV series.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
No takers?
Okay, new batch.
Superman Terra Rorsach
Posted by Xben on :
Um, all died.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Not what I was looking for. Lots of characters ave died. These three have something in common that not too many others have.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Hint: the Rorsach aspect is probably the most obscure. The Superman one is reasonably well-known amongst people well versed in comics history. The Terra aspect is better known to people read Titans well aftter the main Perez era.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
No takers? For the Superman aspect, think "Reign."
Posted by Xben on :
Is it to do with the fact that the character appeared before you knew who it was you were looking at? I don't know if this could be it, but Rorshach was walking around holding that sign before the reader knew who he was. During the Reign of the Supermen story, the real Superman appeared prominently for an issue in such a way that the reader would likely be misled about who he was.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
That's not it. Big hint: not that Reign story. One letter off from that four-word title.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Probably my last. Hints, unless we see more guesses: Science Fiction: The Advance Guard of Future Civilization, 2000 AD, Team Titans.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
People from the future changing their past and thus cannot go back to their own time?
Posted by Xben on :
OK, still feeling my way around this after doing some research, but does it have to do with the name being reused by the same writer for both a villain and a hero?
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Pretty much! I actually wasn't looking for the hero/villain dichotomy, just the same writer using the same name for two different characters. In each set, one is more popular/known than the other as well, but I was not requiring that part in my answer.
Go, xben! And thank you finally for stealing this thread from me. i hope you breath more life/interest into it than I managed. Posted by Xben on :
OK, let's try a Legion one.
Ultra Boy Star Boy Colossal Boy
I can't say for sure, but off the top of my head these are the only three characters I can think of who fit this criteria, pre-crisis. If there are others there certainly aren't many others.
Posted by Xben on :
Hint: the connecting event for each of these characters occurred during the Adventure-era
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Each was expelled from the Legion?
Posted by Xben on :
That's it! Were there others that I haven't thought of? I mean,real main Legionnaires, not like Nemesis Kid or whatever.
In any case, you're up Quislet.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Saturn Girl Chameleon Boy Sun Boy
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
quote:Originally posted by Xben: That's it! Were there others that I haven't thought of? I mean,real main Legionnaires, not like Nemesis Kid or whatever.
Actually pretty much the whole team is expelled at one point or another during the Adventure Era, if you include things like Dynamo Boy's takeover of the Legion. Dream Girl gets several members expelled as well.
Posted by Xben on :
True. But I guess I was trying to think of times that I'd describe as the Legion properly expelled proper members, if you know what I mean.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Hmmm..... no guesses? What would be a good clue?
Look to the past and to the future.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Just a guess, because I'm unsure of the details on the last, but did they each have a relative displaced in time?
Saturn Girl's son, Garridan, sent backward to become Validus
Cham's dad, R. J. Brande, actually the 20th century Durlan from L.E.G.I.O.N.
The one I'm unsure of is Sun Boy. I seem to recall hearing about a female Morgna being a member of the Titans... but I don't know what her story is... or even if there was a connection to Dirk at all.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
No, that is not the link.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
each made their comics debut during different try-out for a member of the El family: Imra for Kal's initiation, Cham for Kara's first try, and Dirk for her second.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Nope. I am pretty sure that I talked about this previously on these boards.
Posted by Xben on :
I had a dream last night where I stumbled across the fact that the answer to this Triad is that they'd all been to Daxam! Of course, I'm sure that that's not it, and I think in my dream the three characters weren't precisely the same, but I thought it was funny that it entered my dreams at all!
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
each of them abused power? Sun Boy in the 310s of Adventure, on the refugee mission; Saturn Girl cheated to become leader (even if it was to save Garth) and mindwiped Rokk; and Cham led the disastrous Khundia mission because he was mad at dad.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
No, that's not it. There is a clue in Adventure 247.
Posted by Xben on :
Did their origins all originally include the idea that they'd been trained by the scientists of Saturn?
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Nope. I'm going to give the answer and start a new triad.
They all had powers that evolved but not as part of a story.. Saturn Girl's original power was "Super thought casting" which evolved into telepathy. Chameleon Boy's original power was "Super disguise" which evolved into shape changing. Sun Boy's original power was "Super Brilliance" which evolved to include his heat powers.
Here is a new and hopefully easier Triad
Franklin George James
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
All were names of U.S. presidents?
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
That is part of the right answer.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
They were the given names of at least two presidents apiece: Franklin Pierce/Roosevelt, George Washington/H.W. Bush/W. Bush, and James Madison/Monroe/Polk/Buchanan/Garfield/Carter.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
That is correct
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Next triad:
The Legion of Super-Heroes Styx (band) The Shangri-Las
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Clue time, already?
I could easily have added The Avengers to the list. Infinity Inc., too.
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
No guesses?
Where are all you classic rock fans (or girl-group fans)?
Last clue: The Bee Gees would certainly qualify, as might Elvis Presley, in an alternate universe.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
All have siblings as members?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
To quote someone, "That is part of the right answer." Posted by Xben on :
Did they all have twins for members?
Posted by He Who Wanders on :
Twins it is!
Styx featured Chuck (bass) and John Panozzo (drums); The Shangri-Las included Marge and Mary Ann Ganzer; The Bee-Gees had Robin and Maurice Gibb. (Sadly, at least one of each set of twins has passed on.)
Elvis Presley's twin, Jesse, was stillborn. In an alternate universe, they would have grown up together and become The Presley Brothers.
Each of the comic book teams I mentioned also had twins for members: Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch (The Avengers), Jade and Obsidian (Infinity, Inc.), and, of course, Lightning Lad and Light(ning) Lass (the LSH).
Posted by Xben on :
Wow. Well, I would never have gotten that it if it hadn't been for Quis' guess about siblings.
OK, let's try this:
Simon Jones Ian Holm Edward Hardwicke
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
quote:Originally posted by Quislet, Esq: Nope. I'm going to give the answer and start a new triad.
They all had powers that evolved but not as part of a story.. Saturn Girl's original power was "Super thought casting" which evolved into telepathy. Chameleon Boy's original power was "Super disguise" which evolved into shape changing. Sun Boy's original power was "Super Brilliance" which evolved to include his heat powers.
wow, and you complained MY triads were too hard! Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
back to the Q:
All have played Richard III?
Posted by Xben on :
Er...I don't know, is that true? It's not what I was thinking of. You're on the right track that it does have to do with roles the actors have played, but it is three different roles.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I saw it was true for 2 of them. Okay, another guess based on two:
They have all been in Terry Gilliam movies?
Posted by Xben on :
Again, that might be true, but that's not it.
It has to do with three characters that they have played, rather than three movies they've been in. For at least two of them, I'd say it's the character they are most well known for.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
they all played characters specifically written for them?
Posted by Xben on :
I know that's true about Simon Jones. I don't know that about the other two. It's not what I had in mind.
Hints: • It's nothing to do with the actors personal lives • It's to do with specific characters they've played, but it's a different character for each actor • In the cases of two of the actors, it's about the character most would agree they are best known for. For the third, it'd be arguable who he is best known for. • For Simon Jones, the Triad is about the character that I know was written for him. For the other two, the character was not created for them.
Posted by Xben on :
Another hint: The Triad really has to do with another, not named, actor.
Posted by Xben on :
Repeating:
The Triad: Simon Jones Ian Holm Edward Hardwicke
Hints: • It's nothing to do with the actors personal lives • It's to do with specific characters they've played, but it's a different character for each actor • In the cases of two of the actors, it's about the character most would agree they are best known for. For the third, it'd be arguable who he is best known for. • For Simon Jones, the Triad is about the character that I know was written for him. For the other two, the character was not created for them. • The Triad really has to do with another, not named, actor. • Technically, "Ian Holm" isn't true yet, but we all anticipate it will be true before the year is out.
Other names that could fit this Triad: Nigel Bruce, David Burke, Jude Law, Orson Bean.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
They all played sidekicks?
i.e. Dr. Watson to Sherlock Holmes
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Given how tough it i to sustain questions/interest on this thread, it may be time to consider revamping the rules. It can be quite frustrating to have some brilliant idea that no one gloms onto.
Posted by Xben on :
Dr. Watson is the character I was thinking of for Edward Hardwicke (as well as Bruce, Burke, and Law) but the Triad is not about sidekicks.
I will go ahead and give the name of all three characters. There is something they all have in common: - Dr. Watson (Edward Hardwicke - Sherlock Holmes) - Arthur Dent (Simon Jones - Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy) - Bilbo Baggins (Ian Holm - Lord of the Rings)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
All three actors played characters also played by Martin Freeman.
Posted by Xben on :
Hey, yeah! Wow, I didn't expect to see this come up again. But you're turn, EDE.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Let's try:
Alan Arkin Roger Moore Steve Martin
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
All have played dentists?
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Not what I was looking for, though it is along the lines of "All have played x".
Posted by Xben on :
All have played Inspector Clouseau!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's it! They're the three actors who've played Clouseau who aren't Peter Sellers!
Posted by Xben on :
OK, how about
Doctor Who (1963) Mission: Impossible (1966) Law & Order (1990)
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Series Premier year?
Posted by Xben on :
The years are the series premier years, but I mention them just to distinguish between other versions of the various franchises. So the Triad I have in mind has nothing to do with the series premier year.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
I don't think Steven Hill ever had any Dr Who appearances... So I will guess that all three shows had complete changeovers from their original casts, and had successful runs even afterward.
Posted by Xben on :
You got it, Kent. That was what I was after.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
okay, then. I always think of great ones when it isn't my turn! Hopefully I can recall one of those and post it later today...
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
Christopher Lloyd Anne Hathaway Mr. T
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
No takers? And here I thought this one was too easy!
Clues will start on Friday. Posted by Xben on :
Ah, they were all the villain / nemesis in the third installment of a franchise (Star Trek III, Dark Knight Rises, Rocky III).
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
You've got it!
Posted by Xben on :
OK, how about
Monarch Darkseid Superboy Prime
Of course, they are all big-time DC villains - but there is a specific thing they all share that may not be unique to them, but is certainly rare amongst villains in general (I can't think of anyone else for whom it is true).
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
They were all based upon real-world sources?
Dunno about Monarch, but Darkseid was originally based on Nixon (complete with cabinet), and S-Prime of recent years on the generic annoying fanboy.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
They all killed their fathers?
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
They came from a dimension different from the one they wreaked havoc in?
Posted by Xben on :
None of those are the answer I'm looking for, and I think only IB's could be argued to be true for all three.
The thing I'm thinking of (which again, is pretty rare for villains, though not necessarily unique to these guys) are incidents which take place in three specific stories. Two of those stories are Legion stories (should be pretty easy to guess which two villains that refers to).
Posted by Exnihil on :
Were they each murdered by their younger self?
Superboy Prime in Lo3W, Darkseid in Foundations, and... well, honestly, I have no idea about Monarch, but I'm guessing given his "time-travely" nature, that might have happened at some point.
Posted by Xben on :
That's basically it. I couldn't remember if Darkseid in Foundations had been actually murdered by his younger self, but his younger self definitely attacked him or tried to kill him. Superboy Prime had the same thing in Lo3W, as you mention.
As for Monarch, it's basically his origin back when he was Hank Hall, aka Hawk. It happens in Armageddon 2001 #2 (the closing bookend of that Summer Annual event) - the difference being that the older Monarch is pretty happy about it, even setting it up to ensure his own creation. (Ugh, what a story. I wasn't a Hawk & Dove reader, but I can only imagine how that would have felt at the time).
Posted by Exnihil on :
I'll bet a bunch of Captain Atom readers were pretty pleased, though.
OK, this is one that hits me right at home:
George Perez The Edge from U2 and... me!
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
all awesome beyond belief?
but seriously... talented people who have played second fiddle to other talented people?
Posted by Exnihil on :
Second fiddle? Please. There's only one person in this world that I'd ever play second fiddle to...
...and it's a particular facet of her life that's the key to this Triad.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
All three associated with longstanding teams of a sort?
Posted by Xben on :
Is it something to do with each of your spouses? Are you all married to people who share the same birthday?
Posted by Exnihil on :
It is, indeed, something related to our spouses, though it's not something intrinsic to who they are, but rather something they do.
With regard to my particular wife, as a hint, I will say that I've alluded to this a couple of times on the MMB board in the last year or so.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Your wives are all belly-dancers.
Posted by Exnihil on :
And Eryk's got it!
Yep, following in the footsteps of Mrs. Perez and Mrs. Edge (?), Mrs. Nihil, a former ballroom dance instructor, has branched off into bellydancing over this past year, performing with a group called "Tribe Mayabelles".
The coolest thing - apart from, you know, being married to a bellydancer - is that every time I hear the group name announced, my brain does a quick leap and hears it as, "Tribe Mayavale". You do not want to betray those ladies.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Okay, then:
Mandrake the Magician The Spirit Captain Marvel
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
All three were ripped off by DC, in some manner? Zatara, Midnight, and the 50s lawsuit against Fawcett that led to DC having exclusine use of CM by the70s? Or even the early 70s Captain Thunder variant.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Midnight was actually by Quality, I believe, but it wouldn't surprise me if there was a DC clone of the Spirit, since pretty much every other comic company had one.
Not what I was looking for, however.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Did they each have a sidekick which, in retrospect, is viewed as a racial caricature?
I know that Captain Marvel and the Spirit suffer this, but I'm not 100% on Mandrake. (I seem to recall a cartoon in the 80's that teamed Mandrake, the Phantom, Flash Gordon, and a fourth character that I think was African, so I'm thinking that might be an updated version of Mandrake's sidekick)
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
That's basically what I was going for.
The Spirit was often assisted by Ebony White and Captain Marvel by Steamboat, both of whom fall into the racial caricature category. For the record, I never thought Ebony was that bad, but have been pretty shocked reading some of the Captain Marvel stories recently.
Mandrake's crimefighting companion Lothar was an African prince who spoke in broken English for the first thirty years or so of his existence before being updated in the sixties to modern dress and fluency in the language. And, yeah, he was a main character in Defenders of the Earth. Posted by Exnihil on :
Defenders of the Earth, yes! What a cool crossover idea. That was actually the first time I'd ever heard of Mandrake.
OK, how about:
Nathan Lane Louise Lasser and Matt Frewer
Posted by Exnihil on :
No takers? OK... a hint:
If I had to sub in a different name into this Triad, I'm not sure whether it would be more appropriate to replace one of the above names, or two - the reason being that the only other names I can think of that fit this commonality are a set of twins.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Hmm... this might be harder than I thought.
OK, clue number two... this being the second clue... and not at all a duplicate of the first:
The twins I was referring to in the previous post were Tia and Tamera Mowry.
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
They... guest starred on the same episode of Saturday Night Live?
Posted by Xben on :
I'm guessing that I have the answer after looking up Louise Lasser - a name I was familiar with but had no idea who she was.
They all starred in TV series whose titles were the same word or name or phrase repeated?
The twins starred in Sister Sister Louise Lasser in Mary Hartman Mary Hartman Matt Frewer in Doctor Doctor
I'm not actually familiar with the show for Lane, but that's my guess.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Yep, you got it.
The Nathan Lane one was a show that I don't think I ever even saw, called "Encore Encore"
Posted by Xben on :
OK, how about...
Stargate Atlantis The American President Lost
Posted by Xben on :
OK, small hint - the triad has nothing to do with anything external in the production at all. It's to do with something in-story in each movie / tv show.
Posted by Exnihil on :
Hmmm... never seen the first two, so this is just a wild guess:
Do they all have "acronym-ic" organizations associated with them, ala the D.H.A.R.M.A. Initiative?
Posted by Xben on :
Was Dharma an acronym? Anyway, no, that wasn't it. The connection had to do with something about characters from each show.
Posted by Exnihil on :
"Department of Heuristics and Research on Material Applications"... the more you know...
Hmm... so, still just blind stabbing here but, howzabout...
Shows with characters who secretly had a shared parentage (like Jack and Claire from Lost)?
Posted by Xben on :
Wow - I watched Lost but didn't retain that bit of knowledge (about Dharma).
No, it's not the shared parentage thing.
I'll give quite a big hint, but which still might not be helpful if you've only seen one of the shows / movies.
Matthew Fox in Lost Michael Douglas in The American President Joe Flanigan in Stargate Atlantis
Posted by Exnihil on :
Sorry that I'm still just guessing (I always try to get these through clues, not actually trying to look them up) but let's try...
Shows with a lead character that have prominent tattoos?
Posted by Xben on :
No problem with guessing. I think only Jack from Lost had a prominent tattoo of these three (one of them is a career military officer and the other one the US President, so they didn't highlight tattoos). So that's not it.
Here's another hint, sort of - if you read up (even slightly) on these three movies/shows, or even watch them with intense scrutiny, the Triad isn't quite as strong as it is if you just watch them casually, or even better, just listen to them.
Make of that what you will.
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Their characters all have the last name of shepherd
Posted by Xben on :
That's it - or rather some variation of shepherd, hence the odd clue about listening rather than watching too intensely.
Joe Flanigan plays John Sheppard Michael Douglas plays Andrew Shepherd Matthew Fox plays Jack Shephard
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
Helen Keller Jack London Upton Sinclair
Posted by Quislet, Esq on :
No guesses?
One hint.
President Obama would not be part of this triad even though some people think he would.
Posted by Kent Shakespeare on :
famous socialists that are famous for other reasons than being socialist?
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Not the answer I was looking but a damn good one.
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