New Grid From Dan
Sunday, July 26 2009
This is my effort. It’s definitely an easy one you can probably get without the internet. (Dan)
LOST / DANCE / NEW / STONE
AQUAPHOBIA / WIRE / SOCIOLOGY / TELEPHONE
INFORMATION / LIPOSUCTION / X / Y
SPACE / TELEVISION / BEAT / ROOT
Comments
Jamie says:
July 26th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Age? I’d go with Space Age, Stone Age, New Age and .. Information Age?
Andrew H says:
July 26th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Sorry, I must have missed something. What is this supposed to be?
Dan says:
July 26th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Jamie is right. (I thought we needed a slightly easier one.)
Victoria Coren says:
July 26th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
Andrew H: I host a quiz show called Only Connect, Monday nights on BBC Four. The final round of the quiz is the “connecting wall” and posters have been creating their own walls (or grids) and putting them up on this blog. The idea is, you have to divide 16 clues into four CONNECTED groups of four. There might be all sorts of groups that can be made but - in the perfect connecting wall - there is only one correct four-way solution. So if you want to join in, you need to try and spot connected groups of four clues in Dan’s grid and either post individual groups to see if they’re right, or go for the full four-part answer.
And Dan, you’re right, we definitely needed an easier one, thanks!
adam says:
July 26th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
sociology, aquaphobia, telephone and television all have mixed roots i.e. latin and greek
Dan says:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
No Latin in telephone, but the others are Latin-Greek hybrid words.
Terylene says:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
with liposuction? Is that the group?
Pete J says:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:42 pm
Lost, X, Y, Beat, GENERATION
Dan says:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Yes liposuction is the deliberately obscure hybrid word, and exactly right Pete J on generation!
Victoria Coren says:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
Hmm, so that leaves root, dance, wire and telephone. A curious little group…
adam says:
July 26th, 2009 at 10:57 pm
leaving tap
telephone tap, wire tap, tap dance and tap root
like it nice one dan
Dan Boxall says:
July 26th, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Looks like TAP
Victoria Coren says:
July 26th, 2009 at 11:35 pm
Aha! It seems the grid might be solved. Well done Dan, excellent clues, well pitched. We should maybe have a little rest from connecting walls for a while, it’s making me lazy about writing proper blog entries…
Dan says:
July 26th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Thanks Adam well done you and Dan. I worried someone would solve it straight away, but you definitely have to err on the side of easiness with these.
Dan says:
July 26th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
Thanks Vicky! More blogging would be welcome.
Victoria Coren says:
July 27th, 2009 at 9:13 am
All I managed to do was post a picture of a fish. It’s a great fish, but still. No more content-control from me, if anyone wants to post a grid they’re welcome! If not I might put up a new one myself in a little while.
Andy W says:
July 27th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
I was inspired by these posts to watch one of the shows on BBC4 Online. It was quite fun. I got “pi” before the mathematicians, woo hoo !
Oh no wait, that makes me a nerd :-(
Andrew H says:
July 27th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I’m sorry to let the side down, but that was supposed to be easy?? Even with the answers it still doesn’t make sense to me. You can tell I never went to college/university. I have the same trouble trying to understand poker!
Dan says:
July 29th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Glad you found it challenging. Admittedly it would be difficult if you’d never thought about word origins. Some linguists dislike hybrid words. CP Scott: “Television? The word is half Greek, half Latin. No good can come of it.” But he’d never seen Only Connect of course.
Andrew H says:
July 29th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
All this talk of hybrid words makes my head hurt! Half Greek, half Latin - where do you people learn this stuff? As for quotations, I’m with Winnie The Pooh - “I am a bear of little brain.”