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

Fellowship of the ring - boxing ring
return of the king - charles II returned to England after the English Civil War

(Posting for the new page)

What connects:

Shirley Williams,
A nasty rash,
A Georgian trend-setter, and
Unchained Melody.

Shirley Williams was MP for Crosby, and Unchained Melody was once covered, I discover, by Jimmy Young... so I would guess there's a sort of rash called Stills and a Georgian Dandy called Nash?

That's the one, Chris

Stills disease and Beau Nash were the other two.

(Jimmy Young had the original UK number 1 with the hit)

Over to you...

Princess Leia
Computers
An MPs wife
Haile Gebrselassie
Depression
Yin
Daltrey's critics?


No particular order

At first glance, I can link four of them to the colour blue...

Scrub that - it's Stephen King novels, of course.
Starts with Carrie (Fisher), ends with Tommyknockers. I'll have a think about the others...

Princess Leia - "Carrie"
Computers - can't decide between "Rage", "Misery", "Needful Things", and "Desperation" (It's "It" of course)
An MPs wife - "Christine" (Hamilton)
Haile Gebrselassie - "The Running Man"
Depression - "Misery" (presumably)
Yin - "The Dark Half"
Daltrey's critics? - "Tommyknockers"

All correct Nice bit of commentary on computers

Sorry for the delay

OK, what connects...

someone who told his employer to go fly a kite,
Borat,
a UK Prime minister,
animal-proof gates,
Ben Hur,
a British sculptor,
x² + y² + z² = r²,
someone who died on 14 March 2007,
the inhabitants of a sinking valley,
an original contestant on "They Think It's All Over", and
a guy whose Tornado was shot down over Iraq.

I was going to do this one! Not quite as completely though...

So far I've got

Go fly a kite - George BANKS (Merry Pawpins)
Borat - Sacha Baron COHEN
UK Prime Minister - Harold WILSON
Animal-proof gates - STILES
Ben Hur - CHARLTON Heston
British Sculptor - Henry MOORE
x² + y² + z² = r² - A. BALL
d. 14 March 2007 - Gareth HUNT
Contestant on TTIAO - Lee HURST

I'm missing Peters and Ramsey, but can't get anything concrete from Google. It's the '66 England team.

Henry Fonda
Robert De Niro
Antonio Banderas
Ricky Tomlinson?

Well done, Chris.

The missing ones were CHARLTON Athletic and John PETERS. No Ramsay in there.

I'll look at your connection later

Sinking valley, I get it now.

42. what connects with that?

(HINT: hitchikers guide to the galaxy)

Hi Hazel, and welcome to the game

We're solving Chris's one from Posting 132:

What connects:

Henry Fonda
Robert De Niro
Antonio Banderas
Ricky Tomlinson?

Icy

Let's try a little resurrection:-

What connects the following years; and whose name appears by each.


1. 1958

2. 1962

3. 1963

4. 1964

5. 1965

6. 1968

7. 1971

8. 1973

9. 1976

10. 1992

11. 1996

Is this a musical connection?

It's certainly music to some people's ears; but no!

is it prime ministers or presidents