The link is birds. Katharine Hepburn: Maltese Falcon Julia Roberts: Pelican Brief Eric Bana: Black Hawk Down Robert Redford: Legal Eagles Uma Thurman: Batman & Robin To wrap up the challenge, can you name two more movies that not only feature birds in their title, but also feature lead actors with bird surnames? One surname [...]
So what’s the movie link [see previous post] between today’s extended list? Katharine Hepburn Julia Roberts Eric Bana Robert Redford Uma Thurman Still no takers. Be the first to spot the connection.
Every few days I’ll be adding to a list of film stars. Your challenge is to work out the link that exists between the actors – before the set grows too large. As a clue, the answer won’t rely on each actor’s personal details so much as what films they have appeared in. To start [...]
A peculiar echo runs through this list – the answers to last week’s Celebrity Forum: LLOYD COLE & DIDO OVID DAVID DALE ADAM DALE DAVID LLOYD DAVID VILLA EMILY COX EMMA CALVE Fossicking the Net, I also found MALCOLM BOYD (the so-called Espresso Priest of gay rights), Australian singer/songwriter ALEX LLOYD, DAVID MALCOLM (the Chief [...]
MILLI VANILLI, MOLLY MELDRUM, ERIC IDLE and CLEO LAINE go oh-so close to boasting only Roman numberals as their consonants. In all four cases, the celebs are betrayed by a lousy letter. To give you a brain strain over the weekend, can you identify the clued names below, all of whom possess Roman numerals – [...]
Quaint was my very faint clue. Each name – ADA LOVELACE, LADY DI, LEE IACOCCA, VLADE DIVAC and MALCOLM X – owns Roman numerals as its only consonants. ADA LOVELACE, as seen here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace on Wiki, has a special place in both computing and puzzling. Only true verbal tragics will relish the fact that all-Roman [...]
American crossword maestro, Brendan Emmett Quigley is evasively wriggly when it comes to themes. In a recent puzzle, published within the spoof rag The Onion, BEQ featured the following key entries: Ada Lovelace – reputedly the world’s first computer programmer Lady Di Ex-Ford exec, Lee Iacocca Slavic Laker star, Vlade Divac and civil rights activist [...]
To wrap up the series of Hazy Definitions, here’s a treble. This week’s challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to use all three in casual conversation: velarise: to produce with velar articulation [and velar, as we know, describes the tongue curled toward - or touching - the soft palate] So what is a [...]
Blackman’s potatoes are also known as early Nancy. At least that’s the insight the Macquarie blindly provided the hapless gardener. Deeper lost I went looking for early Nancy, and order was restored: a wildflower of the lily family found throughout Australia, the white flower of which has a purple band around the base of each [...]
Fear not mariners, SIAL is not a misspelt SAIL but a term from geology – at least I think. A trip to the dictionary revealed the following Hazy Definition: sial: a grantie layer of lithosphere Care to trump this Hazy Definition? Tomorrow I’ll tell you all about blackman’s potatoes.