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

It would help if I knew which 2 and a half they were!

OK, I think the Plates is pretty safe ( armour, tin, boiler, license)

and I reckon the Shakesperean fairies is the other correct group (moth, mustard, ariel, cobweb)

And I'll say the palaces one was half right. Hands up, I didn't google, but I did search h2g2, and learned that Hasselblad is the make of camera that was used during the moon landings. So it comes out of palaces, and in goes DIANA, temple of.

So my final grouping is cameras: Hasselblad, Keystone, Pearl, and erm...Memory

Does world war 2 come into this? Ariel/Pearl/Keystone can certainly link...

Interesting idea: could we add VERSAILLES to that group as some historians cite the treaty of as the real starting point of WW2?

So if we had the plates, and the WW2s, that leaves

Diana, Alexandra, Crystal, Memory, Moth, Cobweb and Mustard. And Hasselblad.

The first 2 were in last year's X-factor...

Things to do with the moon: Hasselblad, Diana, Moth

Football teams: Alexandra (Crewe), Crystal (Palace)

Cobweb, mustard and memory proving elusive.

Hasselblad (being a camera) has a photographic plate so could it go in the plate group?

Mustardseed (rather than mustard) is the fairy.

Alexandra, Diana and Ariel are all princesses.

Tin, Crystal and Pearl are wedding anniversaries.

Are Alexandra, Diana, Ariel and Pearl all princesses?

Not sure about Princess Pearl.

It's the memory one that I cannot get my head round, unless it's to do with loss, in which case it could go with license. But what else do you lose? There's no marbles or virginity listed...

There's such a thing as a memory palace. It's a way of remembering lots of things by imagining them in various rooms in your imaginary palace. Hannibal Lecter uses the technique in the novel 'Hannibal'.

So four palaces:

Crystal, Alexandra, Versailles and memory.

You know what?

I need a spreadsheet.

Talk amongst yoursleves.

OK, bit of guesswork to fill in the blanks, but here goes:

Shakespeare faeries: MUSTARD MOTH COBWEB ARIEL
Palaces: CRYSTAL VERSAILLES ALEXANDRA MEMORY
Plate: ARMOUR TIN BOILER LICENSE
Camera: HASSELBLAD PEARL KEYSTONE DIANA

Well worked out. Would you like to split the points 50-50?

Another one?

B

Share and enjoy - there's no way I'd have got that lot alone.

Yeah, go on then, let's go round again.