Tough 2 (27 August)

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Sat Aug 26, 2023 10:07 pm

What links:

9 Al-Idrisi; Behaim; D’Anville; Mercator; Ptolemy?
10 Bong; farang; tom yam; tuk-tuk; wai; wat?
11 Pluto; Ceres; Haumea; Makemake; Eris?
12 Grain crops; mayflies; octopus; salmon; squid; spiders?
13 Dick Powell; Humphrey Bogart; Elliott Gould; Robert Mitchum?
14 Enron; Theranos; Wirecard; WorldCom?
15 Cardinals; Giants; Kings; Panthers; Rangers?

OurCreature · Post by **OurCreature** » Sun Aug 27, 2023 8:54 am

9 Al-Idrisi; Behaim; D’Anville; Mercator; Ptolemy? I think they all made maps - the last 2 certainly did.

11 Pluto; Ceres; Haumea; Makemake; Eris? Dwarf planets in order of size?

14 Enron; Theranos; Wirecard; WorldCom? All went spectacularly bust after years of fraudulent accounting etc caught up with them. Enron killed the accountants/auditors Arthur Andersen who happened to not notice what was going on despite being their auditors.

Post by **merry** » Mon Aug 28, 2023 9:34 pm

I thought, o great I can have a go at these since I haven't seen the answers this week.

I don't know any

Thank you. Daisy, for posting these in my absence!

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 7:58 am

merry wrote: ↑Mon Aug 28, 2023 9:34 pm Thank you. Daisy, for posting these in my absence!

I hope you and Mr Merry (and little Merries) are all well?

eccles · Post by **eccles** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 11:45 am

10 Bong; farang; tom yam; tuk-tuk; wai; wat?
There was a tuk-tuk featured on Dragon's Den a while back with a pair of Thai entrepreneurs. It's a type of motor-driven rickshaw. Are these forms of Thai transport?

Wildrover · Post by **Wildrover** » Tue Aug 29, 2023 1:10 pm

10. Tom yam is a spicy Thai soup so I think Eccs is on the right track but I think it's a simpler answer - they're just words of Thai origin.
15. These are US sports teams where the same name is shared by teams in two different cities playing two different sports e.g. St. Louis Cardinals play baseball and Arizona Cardinals play American Football.

Post by **merry** » Sat Sep 02, 2023 10:18 am

Thank you. Daisy; I am well and the girls too and Mr M isn't too bad. I was away last weekend and just plain forgot!

9 Love interests of Disney princesses: Belle; Ariel; Anna; Aurora; Pocahontas.
10 Types of cactus.
11 Hosted (men’s) World Cup final: football, cricket and rugby union.
12 Main components of blood.
13 Hazardous substances pictograms.
14 Saints giving their names to Caribbean countries: Dominican Republic; Saint Lucia; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
15 Books by various Trollopes: Frances Milton; Anthony (her son); Thomas (his brother); Joanna (distantly related).

DaisyNinjaGirl · Post by **DaisyNinjaGirl** » Mon Sep 04, 2023 9:34 am

And.... 5/7

9 Cartographers. y
10 Thai words (in the OED). y
11 Dwarf planets. y
12 Semelparous (reproduce only once, in certain species).
13 Played Philip Marlowe on screen.
14 Companies involved in fraud scandals. y
15 Big US sports teams that share names: Arizona and St Louis; San Francisco and New York; LA and Sacramento; Florida and Carolina; New York and Texas. y