{"id":2347,"date":"2010-10-19T12:11:43","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T11:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2347"},"modified":"2010-10-19T17:56:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:56:21","slug":"questions-to-esoteric-for-only-connect-double-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2347","title":{"rendered":"Questions too Esoteric for Only Connect DOUBLE BILL!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do we fall back on when we can&#8217;t be bothered to have an opinion on something? Why Questions Not Good Enough For Only Connect of course! And today it&#8217;s a DOUBLE BILL!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 1<\/strong>: What connects the following?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Bill Cullen<\/li>\n<li>Tokyo Sexwale<\/li>\n<li>Martha Stewart<\/li>\n<li>Alan Sugar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The correct answer is, of course, they are <strong>all Apprentice bosses<\/strong> &#8211; Bill Cullen is the Irish one (I was hoping you might have gone down the US game show host route, but I under\/overestimated you), Mosima Gabriel &#8220;Tokyo&#8221; Sexwale is the South African boss, Martha Stewart was the boss for one series of the US show (usually it&#8217;s Donald Trump, obviously) and, of course, grumpy grumpy Alan Sugar is the UK boss.<\/p>\n<p>Dave was the first person to get a correct answer in, so well done to him. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.puzzgrid.com\/grid\/552\">He has done a fun Puzzgrid<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Question 2<\/strong>: What comes fourth in the sequence?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Birmingham<\/li>\n<li>Carlisle<\/li>\n<li>Dublin<\/li>\n<li><strong>?????<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This stumped all of you for a long time, although it is a bit cruel. It is, of course, Panic by The Smiths where there was &#8220;panic on the streets of London, panic on the streets of <em>Birmingham<\/em>,&#8221; then some other stuff, &#8220;but there&#8217;s panic on the streets of <em>Carlisle<\/em>, <em>Dublin<\/em>, <strong>Dundee<\/strong>, Humberside&#8230;&#8221; they are <strong>the named places where there is panic on the streets<\/strong> in Panic by The Smiths and the fourth in this sequence is therefore <strong>Dundee<\/strong> because I was mean in starting partway through the song.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to last year&#8217;s Fantasy X Factor winner Mark D for working that out after three clues.<\/p>\n<p>I have a stormer of a connection for tomorrow, but it&#8217;s so good (or I think so anyway)\u00a0I might have to offer it to David B first this evening, once I&#8217;ve sourced the pictures. 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Bill Cullen Tokyo Sexwale Martha Stewart Alan Sugar The correct answer is, of course, they are\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=2347\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-questions-that-are-a-bit-too-esoteric-for-only-connect"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-BR","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}