h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I borrow this format from the Grauniad Weekend magazine (answers on page 82). All you have to do is work out what connects the things mentioned; a bit of lateral thinking is often required. Whoever gets it sets the next one. So, what connects

The Thirty-Nine Steps
Tom & Viv
The Count Of Monte Cristo?

They all start with 'T' is the obvious answer but if it comes from the Grorniad - totally wrong - I will therefore have to think.

well, i'm stumped, who's Tom & Viv?

They're all films (Tom is TS Eliot).

so, go-on then, give us another

That's not the connection!

Okay. They're all films starring someone who has played Jesus.

Thirty-Nine Steps (Robert Powell)
Tom & Viv (Willem Dafoe)
Count Of Monte Christo (2002) (Jim Caviezel)

Try this one. What connects

Del-boy's car
Scottish river
US Film Festival?

They're all famous Americans called Williams:

Robin Williams (actor)
Don Williams (singer)
Oscar Williams (poet)

That's not what I've got on the card, sorry! Robin is correct though.

Well I won't hog it - I'll let someone else have a go

??

What connects

Del-boy's car
Scottish river
US Film Festival?

Now I would have gone with something to with Sundance. There's the Sundance film festival which Robert Redford organises, and isn't the car coloured Sundance Yellow I think I read somewhere. No idea about the river, though.


Geggs

It could be Butch & SUNDANCE, Bonnie & CLYDE, Batman & ROBIN?

Or is it double Rs? Reliant Robin, Robert Redford and whatever the river is called?


Geggs

right. so Robin as in Robin Reliant. ok. well.

Icy is correct, the answer is sidekicks. Though I had no idea how many answers it might have been...

Over to you Icy.

I know nothing about films, so on a different subject altogether, what links:

A town in Kent
A comic book author
A man with 50 sons

Icy

They're all things no-one ever hears about:
The county town of Kent is Maidstone which hardly anyone has ever heard of (I only know it because I live in Maidstone)
Nobody ever knows who writes comic books
Have you ever heard of a man with 50 sons?

No, not Maidstone, sorry.

The comic book author is Italian.

The 50-times dad is mythological.

Argus (not to be confused with Argos the catalogue shop).

- character in The Flash
- the myth of Danaus and Aegyptus with their 50 sons and daughters
- Argus, place in Kent