Odd-One-Out Answers (2004)

January 2004

This month's puzzles are all in some sense 'complete' lists, with the addition of an odd-one-out of course.

• January 2004 - ONE
  • Rome; Ephesus; Damascus; Corinth; Philippi; Thessalonica; Galatia; Colossae

• January 2004 - TWO
  • 100 metres; long jump; shot put; high jump; hammer; 400 metres; 110-metre hurdles; discus; pole vault; javelin; 1500 metres

• January 2004 - THREE
  • John Dryden; Thomas Shadwell; Nahum Tate; Nicholas Rowe; Laurence Eusden; Colley Cibber; William Whitehead; Thomas Warton; Henry James Pye; Sir Walter Scott; Robert Southey; William Wordsworth; Alfred, Lord Tennyson; Alfred Austin; Robert Bridges; John Masefield; Cecil Day Lewis; Sir John Betjeman; Ted Hughes; Andrew Motion

• January 2004 - FOUR
  • think; work; bring; buy; fight; win; seek; catch; teach

• January 2004 - FIVE
  • Guy Doleman; George Baker; Leo McKern; Colin Gordon; Eric Portman; Anton Rodgers; Patrick McGoohan; Colin Gordon; Georgina Cookson; Mary Morris; Peter Wyngarde; Patrick Cargill; Derren Nesbitt; John Sharpe; Clifford Evans; David Bauer; Kenneth Griffith; Leo McKern

February 2004

• February 2004 - ONE
  • Fred
  • Barney
  • Daphne
  • Velma
  • Shaggy

• February 2004 - TWO
  • Bobby Charlton
  • Geoff Hurst
  • Martin Peters
  • Geoff Hurst
  • Geoff Hurst

• February 2004 - THREE
  • Jerome David
  • Joanne Katherine
  • Clive Staples
  • James Robert Raoul
  • Alan Alexander

• February 2004 - FOUR
  • Gustav Holst (composer, e.g. of the Planet Suite)
  • Louis de Bernières (author, e.g. of Captain Corelli's Mandolin)
  • Rio Ferdinand (football player, currently with Manchester United)
  • Adrian IV (Pope, 1154-1159)
  • George I (King of England, 1714-1727)

• February 2004 - FIVE
  • Rossini (composer)
  • Noele Gordon (TV actress)
  • Frederic (a character in the Pirates of Penzance)
  • James Ogilvy (son of Princess Alexandra)
  • Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Shermann Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfeschlegelsteinhausenbergerdorft Senior (someone with a very long name - the longest in official use)

March 2004

• March 2004 - ONE
  • Galaxy
  • Milky Way
  • Mars
  • Eclipse
  • Flake

• March 2004 - TWO
  • 1967: Sandie Shaw, "Puppet on a String"
  • 1968: Cliff Richard, "Congratulations"
  • 1969: Lulu, "Boom Bang a Bang"
  • 1976: Brotherhood of Man, "Save Your Kisses For Me"
  • 1981: Bucks Fizz, "Making Your Mind Up"

• March 2004 - THREE
  • Scotland
  • The Manchester Ship Canal
  • Rapunzel
  • The Federal Prison on Alcatraz
  • The steering system of a Mini

• March 2004 - FOUR
  • wand
  • ford
  • date
  • tend
  • fortitude

• March 2004 - FIVE
  • hill
  • water
  • crown
  • before
  • after

April 2004

• April 2004 - ONE
  • Rovers Return
  • Queen Vic
  • Toadfish
  • Bull
  • Woolpack

• April 2004 - TWO
  • The French flag
  • The Libyan flag
  • The Netherlands' flag
  • The Union Jack
  • The Stars and Stripes

• April 2004 - THREE
  • Gunners
  • Pilots
  • Owls
  • Canaries
  • Wolves

• April 2004 - FOUR
  • "How were the receipts today at Madison Square Gardens?" P T Barnum
  • "Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." Oscar Wilde
  • "They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." General John Sedgwick
  • "Go away. I'm all right" H G Wells
  • "As I was saying...." The Dalai Lama

• April 2004 - FIVE
  • incredible
  • inedible
  • inflammable
  • invisible
  • invulnerable

May 2004

• May 2004 - ONE
  • Laa-Laa
  • Dipsy
  • Scampi
  • Tinky Winky
  • Po

• May 2004 - TWO
  • black
  • elder
  • goose
  • chick
  • straw

• May 2004 - THREE
  • Arkwright (from Open All Hours)
  • Ken (from A Fish Called Wanda)
  • Claudius (from I, Claudius)
  • Billy (from One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest)
  • Axel Foley (from Beverly Hills Cop)

• May 2004 - FOUR
  • A TALL ELF
  • A PYGMY
  • A KOBOLD
  • A DALEK
  • THE LITTLE FOLK KILLED AT A BLOODBATH OF DEATH

• May 2004 - FIVE
  • a right angle
  • the letter R in semaphore
  • "About face!"
  • 180 degrees
  • pi

June 2004

• June 2004 - ONE
  • Tuesday
  • Albion
  • Forest
  • Hotspur
  • Alexandra

• June 2004 - TWO
  • Mathematics
  • Physics
  • Medicine
  • Literature
  • Peace

• June 2004 - THREE
  • junk
  • humbug
  • trap
  • launch
  • tube

• June 2004 - FOUR
  • pans
  • loop
  • flog
  • e.g. dirt rap
  • Sth. Guard

• June 2004 - FIVE
  • Quentin Blake
  • Pauline Baynes
  • E H Shepard
  • John Tenniel
  • Eric Thompson

July 2004

• July 2004 - ONE
  • carbon
  • watertight
  • greaseproof
  • wall
  • news

• July 2004 - TWO
  • A man who serves at tables? Not I.
  • "the devil's only friend" (Don McLean)
  • "some sort of clear non-alcoholic liquid" (Barney Gumble)
  • HIJKLMNO
  • molten ice

• July 2004 - THREE
  • Punch and Judy
  • Bill and Ben
  • Sooty and Sweep
  • Basil Brush
  • Kermit the Frog

• July 2004 - FOUR
  • GOOGOL
  • HIT
  • SCORE
  • MIX
  • SIX

• July 2004 - FIVE
  • polish
  • basil
  • reading
  • job
  • dives

August 2004

• August 2004 - ONE
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • O
  • AB

• August 2004 - TWO
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Xe

• August 2004 - THREE
  • A
  • E
  • R
  • W
  • awe

• August 2004 - FOUR
  • E
  • I
  • S
  • O
  • H

For the above puzzle, I am going to take pity on you long enough to provide you with a clue: John Thaw

• August 2004 - FIVE
  • Birmingham
  • Edinburgh
  • Liverpool
  • Manchester
  • Sheffield

September 2004

For the first time in two years I somehow never got round to creating the monthly series of five puzzles. Even more disappointingly, there was a total lack of outcry from the web-surfing public at the missing puzzles.

October 2004

• October 2004 - ONE
  • Bablyon 5
  • Deep Space Nine
  • Voyager
  • Enterprise
  • The Next Generation

• October 2004 - TWO
  • York
  • Jersey
  • India
  • Orleans
  • Hampshire

• October 2004 - THREE
  • monument
  • fortification
  • embankment
  • temple
  • angel

• October 2004 - FOUR
  • Adenine
  • Cytosine
  • Guanine
  • Mytifine
  • Thymine

• October 2004 - FIVE
  • According to Tennyson, into whose mouth did the six hundred ride?
  • In the Sandman comic series, by Neil Gaiman, who is Dream’s older sister?
  • Who is the only character that appears in every book (27 at the latest count) of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series?
  • The main character in “Murder Must Advertise”, by Dorothy L Sayers, is a Mr. Bredon. What is his Christian name? (It turns out that Mr. Bredon is Lord Peter Wimsey working under cover using his two middle names - his full name being Peter something Bredon Wimsey)
  • According to the Revelation of St. John, who rides on a pale horse?

November 2004

• November 2004 - ONE
  • What is the name of the Scottish inventor famous for developing the steam engine?
  • What is the SI unit of power, equal to one joule per second?
  • What is the Christian name of the rebel, Tyler, who led the Kentish men in the 1381 Peasants' Revolt?
  • What is an archaic word meaning 'know'?
  • What is the name of the politician whose verbal attack was described by Dennis Healey as "rather like being savaged by a dead sheep"?

• November 2004 - TWO
  • mole
  • otter
  • toad
  • newt
  • badger

• November 2004 - THREE
  • Tea
  • Fish
  • Flick
  • Stanley
  • Jack

• November 2004 - FOUR
  • typewriter
  • flash
  • require
  • property
  • top row

• November 2004 - FIVE
  • kilobyte
  • kilogram
  • kilohertz
  • kilometre
  • kilowatt

December 2004

• December 2004 - ONE
  • a horizontal line
  • two horizontal lines
  • a horizontal line and a vertical line
  • a horizontal line with a dot on either side
  • two diagonal lines

• December 2004 - TWO
  • mince pies
  • loaf of bread
  • plates of meat
  • apples and pears
  • Barnet Fair

• December 2004 - THREE
  • Duck
  • Goose
  • Swan
  • Partridge
  • Turtle Dove

• December 2004 - FOUR
  • The Messiah (George Frideric Handel)
  • Dem Bones, Dem Bones, Dem Dry Bones (negro spiritual)
  • Turn! Turn! Turn! (The Byrds)
  • Rivers of Babylon (Boney M)
  • I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing (The New Seekers)

• December 2004 - FIVE
  • a broken bone
  • a bowl of jelly
  • Parliament
  • the sun at dusk
  • a gun dog