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Pub quiz question 6485 by pjh2

Question: Q: What links cleave, to bolt, oversight, model, to lease, impregnable, to scan?
Answer: A: They're Autoantonyms - words that have two opposite meanings
Notes: *: cleave: 'to cling' 'to split', bolt: 'leave quickly' 'fixed, oversight: 'supervision' 'to miss something', model: 'archetype' 'copy', to lease: 'to loan (for money)' 'to borrow (for money)' impregnable: 'not pregnable' 'capable of being impregnated', scan: 'examine closely' 'look over hastily'
Categories: Connections (9) Language (8)

Pub quiz question 7989 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Desserts; dog; reward; mined; live; tug; mood; trams?
Answer: A: Spell other words backwards: stressed; god; drawer; denim; evil; gut; doom; smart.
Categories: Connections (7) Language (5)

Pub quiz question 7389 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Changes; My Generation; You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet; Psycho Killer; I Feel For You?
Answer: A: Songs featuring stuttering
Notes: *: David Bowie; the Who; BTO; Talking Heads; Chaka Khan
Categories: Music (5) Language (5) Connections (6) Entertainment (5)

Pub quiz question 7403 by pjh

Pub quiz question 8019 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I; Ottoman admiral Hayreddin Pasha; German invasion of the USSR?
Answer: A: Barbarossa
Notes: *: byname; nickname in Europe; codename of 1941 attack.
Categories: Connections (9) Names (8)

Pub quiz question 7494 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: (as of 2022) Denmark and UK (2); Norway (5); Spain and Morocco (6); Sweden (16)?
Answer: A: Regnal numbers of their current monarchs
Notes: *: 2: Margarethe II, Elizabeth II 5: Harald V 6: Felipe VI, Mohammed VI 16: Carl XVI Gustaf
Categories: Connections (7) Royalty (3) People (5)

Pub quiz question 7493 by pjh

Pub quiz question 7372 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: The Enchanted Island; Forbidden Planet; Prospero's Books?
Answer: A: The Tempest
Notes: *: Dryden play; sci-fi film; Peter Greenaway film
Categories: Literature (5) Film/Movies (5) Connections (3)

Pub quiz question 8108 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: Grant Wood; his sister and his dentist; Dibble House, Iowa?
Answer: A: American Gothic painting
Notes: *: The artist; the models; and the house at the back.
Categories: Connections (8) Art (7)

Pub quiz question 7342 by pjh

Question: Q: What links: George Lawson and Wayne Sleep; Celia Birtwell and Ossie Clark; Don Bachardy and Christopher Isherwood?
Answer: A: David Hockney double portraits
Categories: People (9) Connections (8) Art (6)