Metrophiles v Whitley Baes

Series 21, Episode 22

Jump To: Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4

Round 1

𓇌 Two Reeds

Ferry across the Mersey

Cathedral on Hope Street

Clue 2

Premier League football ground next to Stanley Park

Clue 3

Bird on top of the Royal Liver building

Clue 4

Liverpool has two of them

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Clue 2

Clue 3

Clue 4

Operas and composers

Frances BARBER and ROSSINI, DIDO and PURCELL, a HERRING and BRITTEN, FIGARO and MOZART

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

1:1

in lacrosse

3:2

in ice hockey

Clue 2

3:1

in football

Clue 3

10:3

in water polo

Clue 4

What? A goal!

Proportions of the goal

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

বিবি (the sound of crickets)

Sockerdrickskänsla (soda feeling)

Clue 2

전기가 찌릿찌릿 흐르는 기분이다 (feels like electricity is flowing through me)

Clue 3

Formigamento (ants crawling)

Clue 4

Pins and needles

Bengali, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese

Answer

𓈗 Water

Russia (under Peter the Great)

New York Yankees (1976-2025)

Clue 2

Olympic boxers

Clue 3

Police Scotland (briefly in 2023)

Clue 4

Beard bans

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Auditions

Electricity from Billy Elliot, Cups (When I'm Gone) from Pitch Perfect, I Hope I Get It from A Chorus Line, Flashdance...What A Feeling by Irene Cara

Answer

Round 2

𓇌 Two Reeds

Ross

Stoke

Clue 2

Henley

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Stourport

Settlements "on" progressively longer UK rivers. Ross-on-Wye, Stoke-on-Trent, Henley-on-Thames, Stourport-on-Severn.

Answer

𓃭 Lion

Philipsburg

Oranjestad

Clue 2

Willemstad

Clue 3

?

Amsterdam

Capital of constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Sint Maarten, Aruba, Curaçao, the Netherlands.

Answer

𓎛 Twisted Flax

1/4 Dame Adeline Genée

2/4 Dame Margot Fonteyn

Clue 2

3/4 Dame Antoinette Sibley

Clue 3

?

4/4 Dame Darcey Bussell

Presidents of the Royal Academy of Dance

Answer

𓆑 Horned Viper

Tell it like it is

Show your emotions very openly

Clue 2

Worthy but unrefined

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) Pregnant

Card suits idiomatically. Call a spade a spade, wear your heart on your sleeve, diamond in the rough, in the pudding club.

Answer

𓈗 Water

Clue 2

Clue 3

?

A DVD

AVA Gardner, Borussia Dortmund (BVB), CVC, DVD

Answer

𓂀 Eye of Horus

Brian Lara’s 2nd highest score at Antigua Rec vs England

Holder of UK rail speed record (1979-2003)

Clue 2

“brat” track (days of all year round partying)

Clue 3

?

(e.g.) "brat" track (degrees)

375-370-365-360

Answer

Round 3

𓃭 Lion

Limerick

Olivetti

Jadeja

Peacock

Begin with shades of green

Answer

Hulu

Nebula

Max

DAZN

Streaming services

Answer

Delap

Stewart

Kinnear

Sutherland

Rorys

Answer

Adler

Remington

Underwood

Olympia

Typewriter brands

Answer

𓈗 Water

Kawai

Casio

Hammond

Yamaha

Musical keyboard brands

Answer

Splinter

Remy

Templeton

Roland

Fictional rats

Answer

Skelf

Shard

Gallet

Chip

Small piece of something

Answer

Rizzo

Aurally

Lurex

Charmian

Begin with charismatic traits

Answer

Round 4

Time magazine's People of the Century and their centuries

WL LMT HC NQRR NDL VNTH

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR AND ELEVENTH

SCNW TNN DS VN TN TH

ISAAC NEWTON AND SEVENTEENTH

GN GHSK HN NDTH RTNTH

GENGHIS KHAN AND THIRTEENTH

QNL ZBT HT HFR STN DSX TNTH

QUEEN ELIZABETH THE FIRST AND SIXTEENTH

Book titles with inverted colours

CLC KWR KBL

A CLOCKWORK BLUE

NN FR DG BLS

ANNE OF RED GABLES

NFS H TWFS H GRNFS HRNGFSH

ONE FISH, TWO FISH, GREEN FISH, ORANGE FISH

B LCKTT H

BLACK TEETH

They are known for spinning things

LS TRC MP BLL

ALASTAIR CAMPBELL

SH NW RN

SHANE WARNE

WS HN GM CHN

(A) WASHING MACHINE

FTB YS LM

FATBOY SLIM

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