Odd-One-Out Answers (2006)

January 2006

• January 2006 - ONE
  • Annie Hall
  • John Malkovich
  • Jerry Maguire
  • Billy Elliot
  • Vera Drake

• January 2006 - TWO
  • facetiously
  • hijack
  • Afghanistan
  • first
  • hymnody

• January 2006 - THREE
  • Harold is simply terrified of raspberry yoghurt.
  • Bernard is ogling lots of gooseberry yoghurt.
  • Hubert enjoys really excellent strawberry yoghurt.
  • Gordon eats organically grown rubbish and prefers huckleberry yoghurt.
  • Tristan, revelling in growing obesity, now often might eat two raspberry yoghurts.

• January 2006 - FOUR
  • Simon, son of John (one of the twelve disciples)
  • John Henry Holliday (dentist, gambler and gunfighter)
  • Dwayne Johnson (wrestler and actor)
  • Alcatraz Island (site of military fort and federal prison)
  • Gibraltar (UK overseas territory)

• January 2006 - FIVE
  • Sumatra
  • Borneo
  • Baffin Island
  • Isabela Island (the largest of the Galapagos Islands)
  • Ilha Caviana (an island in the mouth of the Amazon)

February 2006

• February 2006 - ONE
  • spider
  • bat
  • frog
  • super

• February 2006 - TWO
  • George Eliot
  • George Sand
  • George Kirrin
  • George Formby

• February 2006 - THREE
  • Dr. No
  • The Old Man of Lochnagar
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • Casino Royale

• February 2006 - FOUR
  • The founder of a brewer in Tadcaster which became known for its Yorkshire Bitter
  • The English captain who was captured by native Americans near Jamestown and attributed his safe release to the chief’s daughter, Pocahontas
  • The North Lanarkshire MP who was leader of the Labour party prior to Tony Blair
  • The Methodist minister who became the first president of Zimbabwe

• February 2006 - FIVE
  • heavy metal
  • philosophy
  • Jesus of Nazareth
  • King Arthur and his knights

March 2006

• March 2006 - ONE
  • Quality
  • Baker
  • Regent
  • Oxford
  • Fleet

• March 2006 - TWO
  • fish
  • sheep
  • deer
  • child
  • offspring

• March 2006 - THREE
  • Lust
  • Pride
  • Sloth
  • Gluttony
  • Blasphemy

• March 2006 - FOUR
  • a deliberately irrational cultural movement which began in Zurich around the end of the first World War, which set out to be anti-art in every possible sense
  • a national airline, which started operation in 1949, whose pilots are all ex-Air Force fighter pilots, whose planes are equipped with anti-missile countermeasures, and which is the only airline in the world to pass all its passengers’ luggage through a decompression chamber before loading
  • Florian Cloud de Bounevialle Armstrong, who sings under the name of a mythical Carthaginian queen, and whose début album was the best selling album of 2001 in the UK
  • the son of an Egyptian millionaire who was killed in a car crash in Paris on 31st August 1997, and who is one of the two persons commemorated in a memorial in Harrods department store
  • an extinct flightless bird, which used to inhabit the island of Mauritius

• March 2006 - FIVE
  • 7
  • 18
  • 486
  • 2112
  • 90125

April 2006

This month's puzzles were basically contributed by Hannah, but tweaked by her Dad.

• April 2006 - ONE
  • Hair
  • Clothes
  • Basil
  • Paint
  • California Gold

• April 2006 - TWO
  • The national flag of Niue (an island nation in free association with New Zealand)
  • Coldplay’s first top 10 hit single
  • The sea bordered by China, North Korea and South Korea
  • The little book called “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung”
  • A banana skin

• April 2006 - THREE
  • Diamond
  • Graphite
  • Coal
  • Carbon
  • Buckminsterfullerene

• April 2006 - FOUR
  • Ocean's Eleven
  • Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
  • The Italian Job
  • The Manchurian Candidate
  • The Producers

• April 2006 - FIVE
  • William Keith Kellogg
  • Elizabeth de Clare
  • The Right Reverend George Augustus Selwyn
  • Charles Darwin
  • Sir Winston Churchill

May 2006

• May 2006 - ONE
  • tidal wave
  • glacier
  • tornado
  • earthquake
  • volcanic eruption

• May 2006 - TWO
  • mermaid
  • troll
  • roc
  • mastodon
  • phoenix

• May 2006 - THREE
  • a dragon (particularly an angry one)
  • a hair-dryer
  • a black hole
  • Old Faithful
  • a clay pigeon trap (or whatever it’s called – one of those devices that springs into action when the man with the shotgun shouts “Pull!” – you know the thing I mean.....)

• May 2006 - FOUR
  • a character from folklore who brings sleep and dreams
  • Barney McGrew, for example
  • a terrestrial (as opposed to an extra-terrestrial)
  • Biggles, for example
  • a river worker in London who would transfer passengers across the Thames (in the days when there were fewer bridges)

• May 2006 - FIVE
  • What's on?
  • No fish
  • Soft-hewn
  • I, Father
  • S.F. wino

June 2006

• June 2006 - ONE
  • Francis Urquhart
  • Harriet Jones
  • Jim Hacker
  • David (surname unspecified)
  • William Pitt the elder

• June 2006 - TWO
  • a ten pin bowling ball
  • a crown green bowling ball
  • The Belfry
  • a packet of Polo Mints
  • Swiss Emmental

• June 2006 - THREE
  • John Philip Sousa
  • Adolphe Sax
  • Joseph-Ignace Guillotin
  • Robert Moog
  • Leon Theremin

• June 2006 - FOUR
  • What three-letter prefix is missing from date, age, if old, go, get out, x, y?
  • If you add the letter I to TREAT (and rearrange the order of letters) you get ATTIRE. What three letters can be added (separately) to TREAT to make three words meaning chat, turn and goal?
  • What three letters satisfy the following requirements? If put in iron, it can cause acceleration, if put in thorium it can generate light and if arsenic is added you get whales.
  • What three letters are being described here? Using five matches I make the shape of the first letter. I remove two of the matches to make the second letter. I replace those two matches in their original positions and take away a different match to make the third letter.
  • What are the next three letters in this sequence - OTTFFSS?

• June 2006 - FIVE
  • 12:49
  • 3:00
  • 5:11
  • 6:49
  • 10:38

July 2006

• July 2006 - ONE
  • Beef Stroganoff
  • Peach Melba
  • Cheese Sandwich
  • Spotted Dick
  • Raspberry Pavlova

• July 2006 - TWO
  • new
  • high
  • harvest
  • full
  • blue

• July 2006 - THREE
  • Socks
  • Trousers
  • Knickers
  • Binoculars
  • Compasses

• July 2006 - FOUR
  • verisimilitudes
  • gypsy rhythms
  • Goran Ivanisovic
  • United Arab Emirates
  • A wise moral is: I do five minutes of evil over a lifetime – no more!

• July 2006 - FIVE
  • 15 x 93
  • 21 x 60
  • 21 x 87
  • 30 x 51
  • 38 x 42

August 2006

• August 2006 - ONE
  • Pepper
  • Polo
  • Mallet
  • Royal
  • Spear

• August 2006 - TWO
  • dog
  • croft
  • mine
  • current
  • growth
  • pants
  • go
  • stand
  • haul
  • study

• August 2006 - THREE
  • bear
  • head
  • time
  • all
  • night
  • drawn
  • cast
  • rule
  • tow
  • look

• August 2006 - FOUR
  • Finger exercise
  • Orange pips
  • Quarters of the orange
  • Characters in search of an author
  • Go adventuring again

• August 2006 - FIVE
  • coat
  • sight
  • hand
  • take
  • lay

September 2006

• September 2006 - ONE
  • Bikini
  • Jersey
  • Man
  • Dead
  • Easter

• September 2006 - TWO
  • The Lord of the Rings (BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, 1981)
  • Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (TV comedy, third series, 2002)
  • I Capture the Castle (film of the book, 2003)
  • State of Play (TV drama, 2003)
  • Love Actually (comic romance, 2003)
  • Underworld (horror adventure, 2003)
  • The Young Visiters (TV film of the book, 2003)
  • Shaun of the Dead (romantic zombie comedy, 2003)
  • The Magic Roundabout (film of the TV series, 2004)
  • The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (film of the book of the radio series, 2005)
  • The Girl in the Café (TV drama, 2005)
  • Batman Begins (adventure film prequel, 2005)
  • The Constant Gardener (film of the book, 2005)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (adventure film sequel, 2006)
  • Stormbreaker (film of the book, 2006)

• September 2006 - THREE
  • 3.1
  • 81
  • 95
  • 98
  • ME

• September 2006 - FOUR
  • sloth
  • beaver
  • ferret
  • wolf
  • squirrel

• September 2006 - FIVE
  • “And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor” (Joshua 7:24)
  • “And Adonijah slew sheep and oxen and fat cattle by the stone of Zoheleth, which is by En-Rogel, and called all his brethren the king’s sons, and all the men of Judah the king’s servants:” (1 Kings 1:9)
  • “Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and the gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.” (Ezekiel 28:13)
  • “Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgement: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase.” (Daniel 4:37)
  • “and profited in the Jew’s religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.” (Galatians 1:14)

October 2006

• October 2006 - ONE
  • Amadeus
  • Gottlieb
  • Reuel
  • Lucifer
  • Theophilus

• October 2006 - TWO
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Lake Nyasa
  • River Avon
  • Sahara Desert
  • Sierra Mountains

• October 2006 - THREE
  • Methodists
  • Impressionists
  • Whigs and Tories
  • Greenland
  • The Big Bang

You may need a little help with this next one. Experts in American history will spot an obvious link between four of the states listed. This would give you the right odd one out, but for a less interesting reason. The answer I'm looking for will involve making a distinction between two European nations.

• October 2006 - FOUR
  • Georgia
  • Louisiana
  • South Carolina
  • Virginia
  • New York

• October 2006 - FIVE
  • Sauron
  • Antonia
  • Shylock
  • Edmond Dantès
  • Don Vito Corleone

November 2006

• November 2006 - ONE
  • spend a penny
  • cash in your chips
  • kick the bucket
  • push up the daisies
  • bite the dust

• November 2006 - TWO
  • phone
  • line
  • tap
  • clog
  • Morris

• November 2006 - THREE
  • feline
  • canine
  • calf
  • pupil
  • nail

You can try doing this next one just from the titles of the works, or you can click on the links to hear about one minute worth of music.

• November 2006 - FOUR
  • Theme tune from Mission Impossible (Cult TV programme)
  • Mars by Gustav Holst (from The Planet Suite)
  • Money by Pink Floyd (from the album Dark Side of the Moon)
  • Everything's Alright by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice (from the musical Jesus Christ Superstar)
  • Take Five by Dave Brubeck (a classic jazz work)

• November 2006 - FIVE
  • 24 (TV series)
  • 2001 A Space Odyssey (film and book)
  • Ulysses by James Joyce (book)
  • The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown (book and film)
  • Days of Future Passed by The Moody Blues (album)

December 2006

• December 2006 - ONE
  • sparrow
  • flint
  • hook
  • blood
  • sensible

• December 2006 - TWO
  • a breve
  • two semibreves
  • eight quavers
  • two dotted minims and two crotchets
  • two hundred and forty demisemidemisemiquavers and one quaver

• December 2006 - THREE
  • Dirk Benedict; George Peppard; Dwight Schultz; Mr. T
  • Charles Bronson; Yul Brynner; Horst Buchholz; James Coburn; Brad Dexter; Steve McQueen; Robert Vaughn
  • Captain Wilton Parmenter; Sergeant Morgan O’Rourke; Corporal Randolph Agarn; Corporal Hannibal Dobbs; Private Vanderbilt; Private Duffy; (and others)
  • Tina Barrett; Jon Lee; Bradley McIntosh; Jo O’Meara; Hannah Spearritt; Rachel Stevens
  • Bobby Drake; Jean Grey; Logan; Marie; Dr McCoy; Ororo Munroe; Scott Summers; Charles Xavier; (and many more)

• December 2006 - FOUR
  • “I’m already equipped to be a lumberjack; I ______ my own ____.”
  • “I wanted to be a barber for chimpanzees, but there’s no call for anyone to ______ an ____.”
  • “I’m parched, landlord; I desperately ______ some ____ .”
  • “If asked, she ______ her ____ as 21.”
  • “Not satisfied with simply playing the winning card he would triumphantly ______ the ____ in my face.”

• December 2006 - FIVE
  • 14th October 1066
  • 15th June 1215
  • 8th September 1752
  • 4th July 1776
  • 6th June 1944