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What links…..?

1) Christopher Reeve, Stalin, David McCallum

Steel: 'Man of...', 'Man of...', and 'Sapphire and....'

2) Clark Savage Jr MD, Roger Bacon, Homer’s sky

Bronze: 'Doc Savage, the Man of...', Roger Bacon had a Bronze prophetic head, Homer describes the sky as 'Bronze'

3) The US’ first manned space project, The third movement of the Planets

Mercury, for obvious reasons

4) The Paradoxes of Defence, an Orienteering tool

Silver: Sir George Silver wrote the Paradoxes of Defence. Silva Compass

5) Cyprus and a Policeman?

Copper: Cuprum=Cyprus and Copper. Copper=Policeman.

6) A Navigation aid, a form of display and a Heavy (?metal?) balloon?

Lead: Sounding Lead, LED, Led Zepplin

7) 5c and the base of a policeman?

Nickel: Nickel, and 'Nick'

8) A treatment for Rheumatism with the ultimate Olympian accolade?

Gold: Injectable gold and Gold Medal

9) An unelected leader of a minor state and a can of food.

Tin: Tinpot dictator and tin can

10) Oberon’s Queen, and the giant enemies of Zeus?

Titanium: Titania and the Titans

And what connects them all?: Duh ;)





1) B818 Fintry to Denny Road, going via the Banks?

Crow Road: Street name and novel by Ian Banks

2) M25 or possibly a misspelled A63? Paved with good intentions?

The Road to Hell: Source of Chris Rea album, and of course Gaiman and Pratchett's infernal prayer wheel. The A63 is the Road to Hull.

3) Fictionally in Salford in 1837 or 1901?

Coronation Street

4) Where the flying fishes play

The Road to Mandalay: Poem by Kipling

5) The (Orwellian?) A577 and A49 from the M6

The Road to Wigan Pier. I used to drive past the signposts regularly when I was a medstudent in Wigan. Book by Orwell.

6) A U2’s eye view of New York?

Where the streets have no name.

7) Constantinople to Cambaluc, by way of Bokhara and Samarkand

The Silk Road

8) Brought to you by the number 3, and the letters T, O and M.

Sesame street. Okay, I was struggling

9) Where you could find Frank ‘Pizza Man’ Furillo, and Detective ‘Sit Hairball!’ Belker

Hill Street Blues: Struggling a lot.

10)The tale of Blanche Dubois.

A Streetcar named Desire: Absolutely stuck ;)






1) Does Nik support?

Liverpool: I believe it has an FC. ;) And Lord Liverpool, of course

2) Got the boots?

Wellington: Duke of, and Boots.

3) Hamnet?

Wilson: Hamnet Shakespeare was 'Will's Son' ;)

4) Blasted?

Heath: MacBeth reference, but I suspect probably used at the time for political comment ;)

5) Original coal mine?

Pit(t) the Elder

6) And a later coal mine?

Pit(t) the Younger

7) Highly elevated temple?

Churc(h)ill ;) And not, I'm afraid 'Pitt the Gleam in the Milkman's eye' :)

8) Knew my father?

Lloyd George. Title of Song. I thought refering to the Old Age pension, or indeed, GP's paper notes would have been a bit mean.

9) Possibly from Tel Aviv?

Disraeli, originally called d'Israeli, of course.

10) Not italian cheese, and not Ollie.

Palmeston. So, not Parmesan, and not Stan either. (as in Laurel and Hardy :)