Withington Pub Quiz League - ACQ - ConnWall - 29/10/18

Date of compilation	Title	Description	Links
29/10/2018	Connecting Wall	The answers can be arranged into 5 groups, each comprising a different number of members, whereby each answer in a group has a word or part of a word (sometimes in sound, rather than spelling) in common with the other answers in that group. When considered alongside the numbers of members of each group the 5 shared words/part-words indicate an overall theme.	Questions without Answers
Format index


A		B	Nickname of German Nazi SA paramilitaries	C	Links Valencia, Bordeaux, Accra, Brighton, London	D
	Yellowhammer		Brownshirts		Greenwich Meridian (they all lie on it)		Lord John Browne (formerly boss of BP)
E	Film series (1963-93) named after a diamond	F	Which band's last studio album was The Endless River recorded in 2014?	G	Ali lost to Berbick, Holmes, Norton and whom	H	Rattigan play about a Classics teacher
	The Pink Panther series		Pink Floyd		Leon Spinks		*The Browning Version*
I	Music that inspired Woody Allen’s Manhattan	J	Capital of Canada’s North West Territories	K	Non-profit US sports team from Winconsin	L	Band featuring Lorraine McIntosh & Ricky Ross
	*Rhapsody in Blue* (by George Gershwin)		Yellowknife		Green Bay Packers		Deacon Blue
M	Scottish-born detective and spy who set up NDA	N	Misheard lyrics; Ps23 “Surely good Mrs Murphy….”	O	Brendan O’Carroll	P	Drink based on Venezuelan herbal product
	(Allan) Pinkerton (founder of Pinkerton’s Detective Agency)		Mondegreen (Psalm 23: “surely goodness and mercy….”)		Mrs Brown (actor who plays the part in Mrs Brown’s Boys)		Pink gin (town is Angostura of Angostura Bitters fame)
Q		R	19th C inventor of compound to ease period pains	S	David Lynch film noir starring Kyle MacLachlan	T
	Bluegrass State (nickname of Kentucky)		Lydia Pinkham (known in song as ‘Lily the Pink’)		*Blue Velvet*		Kerry Blue terrier

Yellow: A – Yellowhammer; J - Yellowknife
Green: C – Greenwich Meridian; K – Green Bay Packers; N – Mondegreen
Brown: B – Brownshirts; D – Lord John Browne; H – The Browning Version; O – Mrs Brown
Blue: I – Rhapsody in Blue; L – Deacon Blue; Q – Bluegrass State; S – Blue Velvet; T – Kerry Blue terrier
Pink: E – The Pink Panther series; F – Pink Floyd; G – Leon Spinks; M – (Allan) Pinkerton; P – Pink gin; R – Lydia Pinkham

2x Yellow; 3 x Green; 4 x Brown; 5 x Blue; 6 x Pink Snooker (number of occurrences in each group explained by the number of points scored when each colour potted in a game of Snooker)