Here’s another: Switzerland, Thailand, Belgium, Romania.
Bonus: same list, with the addition of Ireland
As far as the Sammy Davis Jr, Sandy Duncan, Moshe Dayan, etc thread I believe the correct wording should be they have only one functioning eye. Sammy Davis Jr did have a glass eye, Moshe Dayan I believe was missng an eye. Sandy Duncan has both of her eyes but she is blind in one.
Funny. I was so sure she had a glass eye that I googled “Sandy Duncan Glass Eye”. This text was in the first result:
http://www.dirtynerdluv.org/2004/07/sandy_duncan.html
I feel so predictable.
Yes, and their “official” first names were actually middle names. Besides Thomas Woodrow Wilson, the presidents were Stephen Grover Cleveland, John Calvin Coolidge, and Hiram Ulysses Grant (who didn’t like the fact that his initials were HUG, and became Ulysses Simpson Grant both to honor his mother’s maiden name* and because he’d then be U.S. Grant).
Maybe not what you’re looking for, but the four countries in your recent post all have capital cities beginning with B – Bern, Switzerland; Bangkok, Thailand; Brussels, Belgium; and Bucharest, Romania. Ireland also fits the pattern if the native name for Dublin, Baile Atha Cleath, is used.
*or, as the World Almanac claims, his name was erroneously transcribed as “Ulysses Simpson Grant” when he enrolled at West Point
Correct and correct! Nice job on the Ireland part.
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Nobody has answered mine yet:
H.G. Wells, Vasco da Gama, Chaucer, Plato, Marco Polo.
I’ll add another: Julius Caesar.
Apologies for my tardy reply… you’re correct of course; Kennedy, Lennon, da Vinci and de Gaulle all have airports named after them.
They all wrote about travelling? H.G. Wells wrote The Time Machine among others, Vasco da Gama wrote his journals, Chaucer wrote Canterbury Tales, Plato wrote about travels to Atlantis, Marco Polo wrote about his journeys to China, and Julius Caesar wrote his war diaries from Germany.
Great, but not what I had in mind. Maybe we should start a thread, “What **two **things do the following have in common?”
Ok, I’ll add another:
H.G. Wells, Vasco da Gama, Chaucer, Plato, Marco Polo, Julius Caesar, Schrödinger.
They all had cats? Really, I’m just reaching now. I can’t for the life of me figure out what Schrödinger would have to do with the rest of them.
They all wrote about pacifism. Kennedy in his 1943 effort Why England Slept blames pacifists and supporters of unilateral disarmament for Britain’s delay in preparing for war with Germany. Lewis gave an address at Oxford in 1940 (later reproduced as an essay) entitled ‘Why I am Not a Pacifist’. And, of course, all his life (when he wasn’t spaced out on LSD or spreading his seed about), Huxley crusaded for pacifism, a theme which influenced many of his writings.
What have the following in common?
Alan Ayckbourn, Stirling Moss, John McCarthy, Clement Attlee, Martin Webb-Bowen
I think I’ll move away from the “people” thing. What do the following songs have in common?
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- “How Can I be Sure?” - The Rascals
- “Go Now” - The Moody Blues
- “Kiss From A Rose” - Seal
- “Green” - Edie Brickell
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So is this thread going to die with all these unanswered questions?
No answers, but a couple more questions:
Millipedes, tidal waves, radiators and cors anglaises.
Sodium, gold, antimony and mercury (other than all being metals).
[sings]“One of these things is not like the others; one of these things just isn’t the same…”[/sings]
Their atomic symbols contain letters that are not contained in their name.
Sodium = Na , Gold = Au, Antimony = Sb, Mercury = Hg
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Those elements were discovered in early historic times.
George Lazenby, Benjamin Harrison and Hugh Downs
[spoiler]All had jobs where the person they replaced wound up replacing them.
George Lazenby did one James Bond film, then Sean connery returned to the role.
Benjamin Harrison was U.S. president in between Grover Cleveland’s two terms.
Hugh Downs became host of the Tonight Show when Jack Parr walked out in protest of the censorship of a joke he wanted to tell. Parr came back after about a month.[/spoiler]
Were the guesses correct?
How about some answers?