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BIG LINKS ROUND 1
This was devised as a table round to be left with competitors or teams at the start of the quiz and completed at their leisure. Obviously, answers are to be withheld.
What links the members of the following groups?
1.
You ain't seen nothing yet
Crick and Watson
Renshaw and Renshaw in 1884, Godfree and Godfree in 1926, Williams and Williams in 2000
Double. (D. negative. D. Helix - structure of DNA. Wimbledon doubles champions - respectively Wimbledon men's, mixed and women's doubles champions; Renshaw and Renshaw won again in 1885, 1886, 1888, 1889.)
2.
Treasure Island
The structure that "arose in scarred and lofty sovereignty" over the remainder of Gormenghast
County in NE Wales
Flint. (Captain Flint. Tower of Flints. Flintshire.)
3.
Atlantic crossing
Kentucky music
Favourite
Blue. (B.Riband awarded to fastest ship crossing Atlantic. Bluegrass music. Blue-eyed boy or girl.)
4.
The last years of the farthing (1/4 of a penny)
Female matelots
St Paul's
Wren. (In its final period the figure of Britannia was replaced on the farthing coin by a wren. The WRNS or Wrens, the Women's Royal Naval Service. Sir Christopher Wren.)
5.
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
The Fords, the Youngers and the others…
Lavender Hill
Bank robbery. Stalin, the James Gang and the Lavender Hill mob (Ealing comedy 1951) all did it.
6.
Köchel
Deutsch
Kirkpatrick
Catalogues or cataloguers of the music of Mozart, Schubert and Scarlatti respectively
7.
Gone with the Wind
A novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Emma Magdalena Rosalia Maria Josefa Barbara Orczy
Scarlet. (Scarlet O'Hara. The Scarlet Letter. Baroness Orczy's Scarlet Pimpernel.)
8.
Rembrandt's 'The Militia Company of Captain Frans Banning Cocq'
John Harrison
William Paley
Watch or clock. (The painting is better known as The Night Watch. Harrison's chronometers are particularly associated with the solving of the problem of longitude. Paley is the 18th century Christian apologist and philosopher associated with the so-called watchmaker proof of god - only an intelligent designer could have created the universe, just as only an intelligent watchmaker can make a watch.)
9.
The Green Fairy
A short line from Hamlet
Letters from a senior devil
Wormwood. ( The Green Fairy or La Fée Verte is absinthe made with wormwood, artemisia absinthium. Hamlet Act 3,scene 2: Player Queen - None wed the second but who kill the first. Hamlet - That's wormwood. The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis: letters from Screwtape to Wormwood)
10.
The founding of Rome
The Jungle Book
Edgar Rice Burroughs
Feral children - brought up by non-human animals. (Romulus and Remus and the she-wolf. Mowgli. Tarzan.)
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