# Common denominators **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [December 17, 2008, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486 "2008-12-17T00:33:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/81 "2008-12-18T23:46:24Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Not according to Philadelphians! I definitely agree that in recipe books, the “traditional” ice cream is called Philadelphia style. How’s that? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/82 "2008-12-18T23:51:48Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Yes, maybe. At least, all were unmarried and had no longterm sweetie pookumses. > > How about: > > Henry Ford > Warren G. Harding > Thomas Edison I had to Google. They went camping together! ---
**Author:** ![Randy\_Seltzer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ee7513/32.png) [@Randy\_Seltzer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Randy_Seltzer)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/83 "2008-12-18T23:54:11Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Played Othello? Ding ding! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/84 "2008-12-19T01:36:46Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Dido > Annie Lennox > Barbara Mandrell I gave up and Wikied – they all have Christmas birthdays. (Good thing I checked – I’d still be stuck if I was working with the only Dido I knew, the mythology one.) ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/85 "2008-12-19T01:49:43Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > I’d still be stuck if I was working with the only Dido I knew, the mythology one. Well, if that’s the only one you knew, then you’ve led a blessed life. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/86 "2008-12-19T04:57:05Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I don’t know about Freud, but I think there was something hinky about Poe and Liston’s deaths. Sigmund Freud Edgar Allan Poe Sonny Liston The common link has nothing to do with the way any of them died. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/87 "2008-12-19T05:10:05Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > I had to Google. They went camping together! Correct! Quite a crew. Try these three: Henry Fonda Brendan Frasier Sam Waterston ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/88 "2008-12-19T12:16:19Z")
Charles G. Leland Jimi Hendrix Cher ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/89 "2008-12-19T14:04:42Z")
There are still a couple of older ones still pending: > [@twickster](#): > > Julia Child > Sylvia Plath > Nancy Reagan > [@Sternvogel](#): > > Eddie Arcaro > Cessna aircraft > Edsel automobile > [@astorian](#): > > Sigmund Freud > Edgar Allan Poe > Sonny Liston ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/90 "2008-12-19T14:13:01Z")
> [@Sternvogel](#): > > Eddie Arcaro > Cessna aircraft > Edsel automobile Cite? ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/91 "2008-12-19T14:50:57Z")
Hydrated silica Pensacola October ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/92 "2008-12-19T15:03:59Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > Sigmund Freud > Edgar Allan Poe > Sonny Liston Freud and Poe both married their cousins – can’t find anything on Liston’s wife, though. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/93 "2008-12-19T18:05:55Z")
> [@](#): > > I gave up and Wikied – they all have Christmas birthdays. (Good thing I checked – I’d still be stuck if I was working with the only Dido I knew, the mythology one.) You got it. I intentionally picked three female singers in an attempt to trick people into looking for some musical connection. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/94 "2008-12-19T18:25:58Z")
How about some easier ones? Jacob Marley Rebecca de Winter Hamlet’s father _The Last Tycoon_ _The First Four Years_ _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_ ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/95 "2008-12-19T18:47:16Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > How about some easier ones? > Jacob Marley > Rebecca de Winter > Hamlet’s father Ghosts - or people who haunted the story’s protagonist. (Rebecca didn’t actually appear as a ghost, did she?) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/96 "2008-12-19T18:49:27Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > … > _The Last Tycoon_ > _The First Four Years_ > _The Mystery of Edwin Drood_ Famous unfinished novels. ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/97 "2008-12-19T19:05:02Z")
> [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](#): > > Ghosts - or people who haunted the story’s protagonist. (Rebecca didn’t actually appear as a ghost, did she?) Not exactly what I was going for, but close enough. I’ll spoiler what I was going for in case anyone else wants to guess: characters who were dead before the story starts How about: _Great Expectations_ _A Clockwork Orange_ “Blade Runner” _Don Quixote_ _The Princess Bride_ _Eaters of the Dead_ ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/98 "2008-12-19T20:22:02Z")
> [@jsgoddess](#): > > _Great Expectations_ > _A Clockwork Orange_ > “Blade Runner” One I know without having to look it up, though I fear I’m going for the “too obvious” connection: All were based on Novels, though the last one changed the name. (Though, DADOES has been rereleased under the Blade Runner name now.) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/99 "2008-12-19T20:45:44Z")
Blade Runner, it looks like there was some ambiguity, so I’ll clarify: _Great Expectations_–novel _A Clockwork Orange_–novel “Blade Runner”–movie ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2008, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486/100 "2008-12-19T20:51:30Z")
Jesus, I called Hoopy Frood “Blade Runner.” I’m losing my mind! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/common-denominators/477486.md?page=6)