I think we’ve played this game, or something similar, before:
List three people (or things, or a combination of both). The next player states what they have in common, and gives a new trio. Make 'em as easy or as hard as you want.
For instance:
Thomas Jefferson
Elizabeth I
Danny Bonaduce
They’re all redheads.
Okay? Here’s the first list:
Elvis Presley
Jack LaLanne
Emma Peel
Tough way to start!
Were you thinking of the fact they’re all often seen wearing jumpsuits?
Here’s a new one:
George Patton
Benjamin Spock
Buster Crabbe
Too hard? not for anyone over the age of 50! :smack:
Yours – all Olympic athletes? (Knew that about Buster Crabbe, had a vague recollection on Patton, and thus started by googling Spock on it.)
I had a second one in mind, but it was harder than jumpsuits, so let me think of something a little less obnoxious.
Fred Astaire
Malcolm X
Marlon Brando
I’m enjoying this. My word-manipulation puzzles never go more than ten minutes.
Leonardo da Vinci
Alexander Hamilton
Marilyn Monroe
So did the time pass for post #4? If so, can you give away the answer?
All three of them were living in a country that was in a war at some point of their lifetimes. Doesn’t seem like the right answer but it’s true.
Nope – still leaving #4 hanging. Bwah ha ha ha!
BTW – “they’re all dead” is also true and also irrelevant, for both #4 and #5.
does my war answer work for 5?
I guess I need a little clarification. Do I have to guess what you’re thinking or can anything they all share in common work?
Arthur Conan Doyle
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Baroness Emmuska Orczy
Well, since there’s no one on the planet, past or present, who’s ever lived in a place that has never been at war, I don’t think that’s a particularly helpful answer.
And “never been in Cliff Claven’s kitchen” is also a little too all-inclusive.
So, yeah, the thing I’m looking for is probably best, unless you come up with something of an equivalent level of specificity (as determined by me).
Authors.
Dan Akroyd
Wayne Gretzky
Cobie Smulders
Significantly more specific.
They’re all Canadian – did you have something more specific than that in mind?
They were all born out of wedlock?
All wrote historical fiction. 
Nope, you got it right!
Martin Luther King Jr.
Desmond Tutu
Woodrow Wilson
Horatio Nelson
Red Pollard
Sandy Duncan
They all have Nobel Peace Prizes.
They’re all blind in one eye.