Last evening Kalleh and I enjoyed a quiz given at a local pub, and it might be fun to repeat it here. The principle is simply that the last two letters of one answer must be the first two letters of the next answer.

I’ll start with a few questions and answers from last evening, and we can compose questions and answers from there.

• Author of The Scarlet Letter? Nathanial Hawthorne
  
• Oldest Greek warrior at Troy, and the only one to return home without incident? Nestor
  
• Its name means "man of the jungle." Oranutan
  
• First name of he who authored, "Had we but world enough, and time, / This coyness, Lady, were no crime." Andrew (Marvell)

Next?

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Those were questions in a pub quiz? Presumably the customers were mostly Oxford dons.

There's only one word I can think of off the top of my head that begins with "ew"; the clue to which is:

A female sheep.

(Not quite the same standard of question, I know...)

Which is "Ewe". (You could also have had "ewer").

But for my "WE" clue I would pose "...Bedford-based Brewers of the famous Bombardier bitter..."

Now come on, Richard! How do you expect anyone to come up with a word beginning with "ls"?

In the (admittedly unlikely) event of anyone not knowing the answer instantly, the brewers of Bombardier are Charles Wells Ltd.

In the absence of any posted rules, I had assumed that this was how you won - by coming up with something that "snookered" the opponent. Was I wrong?

Incidentally, the original post did say "...the last two letters of one answer must be the first two letters of the next answer...". The term "word" was not used so I would assume that abbreviations or even figures would be allowed.

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...Incidentally, the original post did say "...the last two letters of one answer must be the first two letters of the next answer...". The term "word" was not used so I would assume that abbreviations or even figures would be allowed.

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...which permits the next question to be

Identify a cigarette advertising slogan of the 1950s. (Hint: it makes the next question begin with "FT." Not much of a gain after all, I guess.)

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Identify a cigarette advertising slogan of the 1950s. (Hint: it makes the next question begin with "FT." Not much of a gain after all, I guess.)

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LSMFT, which means "Lucky Strike means fine tobacco", among other things.

Tinman

Absolutely right, and isn'[t it a shame to betray our ages like this.

But now it's YOUR job to come up with the next Linked Question! That may be harder...

Ooh. Actually, it's not that hard, now that I think of it.

Next in the series:

J. R. was shot in the chest several times on March 21st, 1980. In what nearby location was J. R. not shot?


For what it's worth, I enjoy both variations of this game and see no reason both can't go on indefinitely.

An infinity of usually reliable auhorities agree that J. R. was not shot in the vestibule.

Nor was he shot in the fracas.

Was he shot in Ft. Worth?

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Fine, but "vestibule" doesn't begin with the letters "ft."

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Originally posted by haberdasher:
Absolutely right, and isn't it a shame to betray our ages like this.

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No, I don't mind at all "betraying" my age. I'm happy to have lived this long and plan to live a lot longer.

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But now it's YOUR job to come up with the next Linked Question! That may be harder...

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OK. As I understand it, the answer has to begin with ft. Here goes!

If you want to have fresh flowers hand-delivered anywhere in the world, call your local ______ ____________.

Tinman

call your local FTD Florist

One who has overly-endowed buttocks is _________.

Steatopygous

Next word: the lending of money at an exorbitant rate of interest.

USury. And that means that my next word means "The closest that the Japanese come to a traditonal English boarding house"

OK, I admit it. Richard's question stumped me, so I searched one-look for words starting with ry- (just for illumination; I'd never post an answer found that way).

No success, but the search uncovered another ry- word:
......rypophagous: eating, or subsisting on, filth
What interesting things we find while looking for other things.

I admit that my first thought was Rye (the cereal) but I thought that too easy.

The Japanese boarding house is actually quite a well-known term amongst those looking for cheap accommodation in that notoriously expensive country. I'll leave it a day or so before I give the answer.

After eleven days I think drastic measures are allowed and so once more I invoke the trusty Google. And the answer is...

RYokan. That's one example.

Next challenge - name the slightly asymmetrical figure-of-eight loop in the Pacific Ocean on most globes!

PS looking backwards - the FT- continuation could also have proceeded with any fort, as in Ft. McHenry of Star-Spangled-Banner fame, or Ft. Ticonderoga of yellow-No.2-Pencil fame, et.al.

Paraphrasing the words of The Great Haberdasher, "After nine days I think drastic measures are allowed, indeed long overdue, and so once more I invoke the trusty Google. And the answer is ... analemma.

Next challenge - a legendary animal with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a dragon or scorpion

Google may be invoked after 24 hours.

Manticore

What we do with most of the words on the board.