[Tregard]

What's this? My trove of tricky trivial trials has re-opened and is willing to take you all on a quizzical quest once more. The questions are just as tricky, just as ridiculous and just as nonsensical as before, and as always all you have to do to win is correctly find the connections between apparently random clues.

It's all to play for as we start round one, where things usually start. In this round I want the link between four clues, standard procedure. Without too many theatrics then, let's get things started!

Question 1 starts a little something like this:

[Shaun]

things that are on the front of Arctic Monkeys albums

[Tregard]

[Kate!]

Scooby Doo?!

and yay ! Only Connect is back

[Kate!]

Hearing tests?

[Kate!]

Bumps impatiently

[T*]

The genre of rock? (Artic monkeys, Zounds)
Post punk?

[Tregard]

[Livia]

Used to express sounds.

[Livia]

Can I have another guess, Tregard...?

[Livia]

I'm going to anyway... swearing. 1 is the sound that bleeps swearing, the others are used to express oaths or swear words.

[Tregard]

Originally Posted by Livia

I'm going to anyway... swearing. 1 is the sound that bleeps swearing, the others are used to express oaths or swear words.

Go on then, I'll let you have it since I've been hard on you so many times before :P



As you said there, a 1 kilohertz sine wave is the famous "Bleep" noise you'll have no doubt heard many a time on various talk shows. "Zounds!" is a famous replacement word used instead of swearing, which means "God's wounds". Grawlixes are the series of symbols you'll see a comic character using (e.g. $£@*&!), and pixelation, quite simply, covers bits people aren't supposed to see. 2 points to you, Livia, which squares you up with Shaun!

Onto question 2, had this one in the oven for a while, what connects them? :

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Livia

Can I have another guess, Tregard...?

Are we only allowed one guess?

[Tregard]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

Are we only allowed one guess?

One guess per clue, but in this case, because she was along the right lines with the first guess, I'll allow the second guess.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Tregard

One guess per clue, but in this case, because she was along the right lines with the first guess, I'll allow the second guess.

OK

[Livia]

People impersonating machines?

... and thanks, Tregard.

[GiRTh]

Industrial disputes

[Kate!]

Livia

[Tregard]

Originally Posted by Livia

People impersonating machines?

...



Maybe I'm slipping again. Yes, with just one clue you're right yet again Livia, bagging you 5 points. Carlisle Civil Servants were once asked to pretend they were answering machines, horse_ebooks was a twitter account people believed to be random generated strings of words but was really being controlled by an actual person. The Chinese Room is a thought experiment in which someone acts as if they were a computer translating English to Chinese, and AWESOMEO 4000 is the robot Cartman pretends to be in South Park. Incredibly impressive.

Onto question 3, these are going to be picture clues, what connects these four images? Here is the first:

[Livia]

Food that has a brand name that includes the proprietor's name. Like Ben & Jerry's for example?

[GiRTh]

WHo is it

[Livia]

Originally Posted by GiRTh

WHo is it

It's either Ben... or Jerry.

[Shaun]

In that case... I'll try celebrities who share the same name with other celebrities (Ben Cohen = a rugby player too)

[Livia]

Hey Shaun... I overtook you again. I hear the winner this time gets a hot tub party with Tregard so I'm pulling out all the stops.

[GiRTh]

Originally Posted by Livia

Hey Shaun... I overtook you again. I hear the winner this time gets a hot tub party with Tregard so I'm pulling out all the stops.

I'm not sure who would enjoy that more out of the two of you