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Re: Only Connect

Postby jmarkb » Wed Feb 08, 2017 9:36 am

crfishwick wrote: there is me trying to figure this out and today noticed someone beat me to it


Well, perhaps at least you had fun doing it! (Actually your solution is slightly different, and matches mine, but I think both are maybe justifiable...)
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Re: Only Connect

Postby jmarkb » Wed Feb 08, 2017 9:43 am

Good team effort so far! I'm obviously not the only one with nothing better to do on a Tuesday evening :wink:

No correct solutions so far to:

2. Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond, Ben Hope, Ben Avon - thought this would be easy!
5. An Stuc, Sgurr a'Bhac Chaolais, Carn Liath, Cruachan Dearg - malky_c is on the right lines with promotion/demotion, but there 's something more specific.
6. Lurg Mhor, Bidein a'Chabair, An Stac, Larg Hill - tough and maybe unfair. The solution is on this site (but nowhere else).


4. NN041853 (97m), NM996864 (98m), NG877651 (102m), ? - it's to do with what's lacking at these locations.....
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Re: Only Connect

Postby johnkaysleftleg » Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:33 am

jmarkb wrote:Good team effort so far! I'm obviously not the only one with nothing better to do on a Tuesday evening :wink:

No correct solutions so far to:

2. Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond, Ben Hope, Ben Avon - thought this would be easy!
5. An Stuc, Sgurr a'Bhac Chaolais, Carn Liath, Cruachan Dearg - malky_c is on the right lines with promotion/demotion, but there 's something more specific.
6. Lurg Mhor, Bidein a'Chabair, An Stac, Larg Hill - tough and maybe unfair. The solution is on this site (but nowhere else).


4. NN041853 (97m), NM996864 (98m), NG877651 (102m), ? - it's to do with what's lacking at these locations.....


6. The least climbed Munro, Corbett, Graham and Donald :)
4. The most proment tops that don't have there own name? all are East or Norht top of such and such???
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Re: Only Connect

Postby malky_c » Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:40 am

I need to do some work instead of thinking about this :shifty:

Great quiz though - cheers :D
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Re: Only Connect

Postby mamoset » Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:43 am

2. Nevis, Lomond, Hope and Avon. Names also Lochs
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Re: Only Connect

Postby jmarkb » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:12 am

johnkaysleftleg wrote:6. The least climbed Munro, Corbett, Graham and Donald :)


Yes!

johnkaysleftleg wrote:4. The most proment tops that don't have there own name? all are East or Norht top of such and such???


So the missing one is....

mamoset wrote:2. Nevis, Lomond, Hope and Avon. Names also Lochs


Yes!
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Re: Only Connect

Postby johnkaysleftleg » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:17 am

NN475332 (107.5m) Sgiath Chuil East Top
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Re: Only Connect

Postby jmarkb » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:18 am

johnkaysleftleg wrote:NN475332 (107.5m) Sgiath Chuil East Top


:clap:
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Re: Only Connect

Postby johnkaysleftleg » Wed Feb 08, 2017 11:20 am

jmarkb wrote:
johnkaysleftleg wrote:NN475332 (107.5m) Sgiath Chuil East Top


:clap:


Really need to do some work now :lol:
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Re: Only Connect

Postby rockhopper » Wed Feb 08, 2017 1:43 pm

jmarkb wrote:
johnkaysleftleg wrote:6. The least climbed Munro, Corbett, Graham and Donald :)


Yes!
I'd been thinking of the An Stac Corbett not the An Stac Graham :roll:
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Re: Only Connect

Postby jmarkb » Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:52 pm

Well, that seems to just about wrap it up - hope you all had as much fun playing as I did creating it. :D

Here are the solutions:

What connects the following:

1. MacKenzie, Collie, Pilkington, Nicolson
All have peaks in the Skye Cuillin named after them
2. Ben Nevis, Ben Lomond, Ben Hope, Ben Avon
All share their name with a loch
3. Sgoran Dubh Mor, Sgurr Bhreac, Sgurr Dhomhnuill, Meall Horn
All have repeated digit heights in metres (1111,999,888,777)
4. NN773308, NO579702, NX820968, NT149312
All are summits of hills with a Z in their name
5. An Stuc, Sgurr a'Bhac Chaolais, Carn Liath, Cruachan Dearg
All former twin Marilyns, since resurveyed and demoted.
6. Lurg Mhor, Bidein a'Chabair, An Stac, Larg Hill
All are the least climbed hill in their list, according to WH stats.

What comes next in the sequence:

1. Skye, Mull, Arran, Rum
Islands in descending order of highest point
2. 1901, 1923, 1927, 1930
Years of first Munro compleations
3. Ben Nevis, Carn Eighe, Sgurr Alasdair, Ben More (Crianlarich)
Scottish hills in descending order of prominence
4. NN041853 (97m), NM996864 (98m), NG877651 (102m), NN475332 (106m)
Nameless tops in ascending order of prominence
5. Green, Corrieyairack, Finalty, Monega
Scottish hills called "Hill" in ascending height order
6. Loch Ness, Loch Lomond, Loch Morar, Loch Tay
Scottish lochs in order of decreasing volume


Sort the following into four connected groups, and give the connections:

Robertson, Burn, Parker, Corbett (earliest Munroists)
Munro, Graham, Donald, Hewitt (hill categories)
Beck, Gill, Allt, Syke (words for stream)
Wainwright, Poucher, Butterfield, Bennet (guidebook writers).

I have found a site where you can upload the "wall" questions - I'll post a couple more on a separate thread.
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Re: Only Connect

Postby johnkaysleftleg » Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:55 pm

Thank you very much, most entertaining :clap:
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Re: Only Connect

Postby jmarkb » Wed Feb 08, 2017 7:22 pm

johnkaysleftleg wrote:Thank you very much, most entertaining :clap:


You're very welcome!
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Re: Only Connect

Postby Sgurr » Wed Feb 08, 2017 9:06 pm

Excellent, managed to send me off on several wild goose chases simultaneously. Did a bit better on one of the walls.
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Re: Only Connect

Postby crfishwick » Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:14 pm

jmarkb wrote:Well, that seems to just about wrap it up - hope you all had as much fun playing as I did creating it. :D


A good laugh :lol: . Thanks, I must digest all the answers and baffle someone some day :lol: Brilliant! Whens the next one? :clap:
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