# Let's Play Connections! (Easy version) **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 29, 2011, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479 "2011-08-29T07:53:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/41 "2011-08-31T02:31:36Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > OK, that’s ironic. I was considering looking them up to see if they were all the same artist, but then I said “Nah, there are a ton of songs titled “One”; it’d be a pain to try to track them all down”. I think Leona Lewis and Howie Day qualify. Both have a song called “Collide”. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/42 "2011-08-31T06:21:15Z")
A satellite A reverend Indecent exposure (Used to call these tribonds.) ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/43 "2011-08-31T07:39:32Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > I think Leona Lewis and Howie Day qualify. Both have a song called “Collide”. As do Sarah McClachlan and Jon Secada-“Angel” ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/44 "2011-08-31T08:07:53Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > A satellite > A reverend > Indecent exposure > > (Used to call these tribonds.) Each non-article has 2 "e"s. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/45 "2011-08-31T10:21:08Z")
> [@Jragon](#): > > Each non-article has 2 "e"s. True, but not the correct answer. Let’s also rule out “phrases”, “words”, and “made of letters”. ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/46 "2011-08-31T13:30:04Z")
Lou Reed, Mel Torme, Bobby Vinton Little Orphan Annie, Jim Morrison, dinosaurs Crops, car tires, planets Batteries, rivers, news stories A political party, a holiday, pregnancy Rapunzel, Panama Canal, keys Lord Byron poem, Moliere play, Mozart opera Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”, Philip K. Dick’s “Time Out of Joint”, Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” Tonto, the fleur-de-lys, Jean Louis Finch Steam locomotives, Winston Churchill at Westminster College, Otto von Bismark Bloomers, chauvinism, boycott ---
**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:** [August 31, 2011, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/47 "2011-08-31T15:49:57Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > A satellite > A reverend > Indecent exposure Goes over your head Talks over your head Shows some perv’s head > [@etv78](#): > > As do Sarah McClachlan and Jon Secada-“Angel” Anita Baker did, too. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/48 "2011-08-31T15:50:11Z")
A political party, a holiday, pregnancy - “Labor/Labour” Rapunzel, Panama Canal, keys - “locks” Tonto, the fleur-de-lys, Jean Louis Finch - “Scout” Bloomers, chauvinism, boycott - Words that come from real people’s names ---
**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:** [August 31, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/49 "2011-08-31T16:52:02Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > All were titles of two (or more) otherwise unrelated songs: > > Wish You Were Here: Eddie Fisher/Pink Floyd > > One: Three Dog Night/the cast of ‘A Chorus Line’/U2/Metallica > > Creep: Radiohead/TLC > > Bitch: The Rolling Stones/Meredith Brooks Correct. (And Creep was also a song done by Stone Temple Pilots.) ETA: And Aerosmith also had a song called “Angel”. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/50 "2011-08-31T21:01:46Z")
> [@etv78](#): > > John Tyler > Millard Fillmore > Calvin Coolidge > Harry S Truman I’m going to answer this for you: I was looking for “succeeded on the natural death of their predecessor.” ---
**Author:** ![42fish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/4/b487fb/32.png) [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)\ **Post date:** [August 31, 2011, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/51 "2011-08-31T21:40:08Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Agatha Christie’s “The Mousetrap”, Philip K. Dick’s “Time Out of Joint”, Tom Stoppard’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead” All have titles inspired by Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” ---
**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:** [September 1, 2011, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/52 "2011-09-01T00:41:44Z")
Cirdan the Shipwright Cmdr. Spock of the ISS _Enterprise_ King George V ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/53 "2011-09-01T01:40:24Z")
Beards? Also, the answers for my thus far are correct. A hint on “satellite, reverend, indecent exposure” is “lunatics”. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/54 "2011-09-01T03:04:20Z")
> [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Beards? > > Also, the answers for my thus far are correct. A hint on “satellite, reverend, indecent exposure” is “lunatics”. Ah, moon/Sun Myung Moon/mooning. As for some of your others: Little Orphan Annie, Jim Morrison, dinosaurs She says “leapin’ lizards”; he was the Lizard King; name means “thunder lizards” Crops, car tires, planets \<_Jeopardy!_ contestant\>What are things that are rotated, Alex?\ Batteries, rivers, news stories Things that have a flow? Perhaps not what you’re looking for. Lord Byron poem, Moliere play, Mozart opera _Don Juan_ (pronounced “joo-en”); _Dom Juan_; _Don Giovanni_ l(all about the same guy, who’d be “Don John” in English) Steam locomotives, Winston Churchill at Westminster College, Otto von Bismark Iron Horse; Iron Curtain: Iron Chancellor ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/55 "2011-09-01T04:26:00Z")
You got all yours right, Sternvogel, except the “Batteries, rivers, news stories” one, although you’re very close. The answer can be said to have flow. Rhett Butler, King David, Barry Lyndon Wasp, moon, cut House, style, star Up, down, charm Robocop, Gran Torino, The Crow Hint on “Lou Reed, Mel Torme, Bobby Vinton”: Prague '89. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/56 "2011-09-01T10:54:08Z")
_Batteries, rivers, news stories_ Things that have/are current. _Up, down, charm_ Types of quark. (Myself, for this, I’d have gone with ‘Ferengi, Strange, Cheese’…) _Robocop, Gran Torino, The Crow_ All set in Detroit (sort of - Gran Torino is in Highland Park) ---
**Author:** ![Dave\_Hartwick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7feea3/32.png) [@Dave\_Hartwick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dave_Hartwick)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/57 "2011-09-01T11:00:31Z")
WTG Tengu. ---
**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:** [September 1, 2011, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/58 "2011-09-01T13:23:02Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > Cirdan the Shipwright > Cmdr. Spock of the ISS _Enterprise_ > King George V > [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Beards? Correct! In fact, Cirdan is the only Elf whom Tolkien describes as bearded. > [@Dave\_Hartwick](#): > > Rhett Butler, King David, Barry Lyndon Loved women who were married to other men. ---
**Author:** ![Scuba\_Ben](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/278dde/32.png) [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/59 "2011-09-01T14:17:13Z")
Bernadette, Rowland, Solomon ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [September 1, 2011, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479/60 "2011-09-01T14:32:47Z")
_Bernadette, Rowland, Solomon_ ‘Song of…’ (Although Roland’s name doesn’t have a w in it.) Hmm. Might as well post one. Cheeze, Math, Comics [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-play-connections-easy-version/594479.md?page=4)