Quiz Guy John Chaneski’s puzzle is about common bonds that connect three things. For example, what’s the one word that links the following trio of terms? A report card, USDA inspected beef, and an incline. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Common Bond Word Puzzle”
You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it.
I’m Martha Barnette.
And I’m Grant Barrett, and we’re joined from New York City by our quiz guide, John Chaneski.
Hey, Grant. Hey, Martha. How you guys doing?
Hey, bud.
All right.
What’s up?
Good to hear from you. You know, we’re going to do a little quiz that we’ve done before today.
It’s called Common Bonds. I’ll give you three things, and you tell me what they have in common.
Now, there’s lots of names for these.
If you come to a pub quiz at Trivia NYC, we call it the Name Three Round.
If you’ve played the game called Tribond, it’s the same thing.
If you’re a fan of the UK game show Only Connect, that’s the same thing.
For example, if I said a report card, USDA inspected beef, and an incline, you would say…
Grade A.
Grades, grades.
Grades.
Yeah, so I’ll give you three things.
You tell me what they have in common.
All right, here we go.
Whistle, ear, foil.
Tin.
T-I-N.
Tin.
Tin.
Right off the bat.
Very good.
Right at the gate, Grant.
Well done.
Tin whistle, tin ear, tin foil.
Good.
How about this one?
Crash, golf, pastry.
Cart.
Cart is right.
C-A-R-T, cart.
C-A-R-T, cart.
Crash cart, golf cart, pastry cart.
Very good.
How about this one?
Hotter, beagle, craven.
Well, you can take off the first letter of each and come up with a different animal.
That’s what it is.
Yes, very good, Martha.
Hotter becomes an otter.
Beagle becomes an eagle.
Craven is a raven.
All right, let’s try this one.
Set, run, go.
These are the entries in the Oxford English Dictionary with the most definitions.
Yes, very good.
Words with over 450 definitions each.
430 for set, 396 for run, 368 for go on average.
Actually, though, run was recently revised and passed set.
Oh, really?
Okay, that’s great.
Good to know.
How about this one?
Martin Amos, Joseph Hillman King, Tessa Dahl.
Martin Amos, Joseph King, and Tessa Dahl.
Right.
How do you spell Dahl?
D-A-H-L.
They are all children of famous writers who are also writers themselves.
Yes, exactly.
Martin Amos’ dad is Kingsley Amos.
Joseph Hillman King is Stephen King’s son.
And Roald Dahl was Tessa Dahl’s dad.
Here’s the last one.
Discord, Slack, Overtone.
These are all chat apps for group communication.
They are voice and text chat apps.
So very good.
Mostly my kids use Discord for gaming chat.
I’m going to go check on what they’re doing right now.
You guys did absolutely very, very well in this common bond quiz.
Nicely done.
Thanks, bud.
Take care of yourself.
Thanks, John.
Talk to you next time.
Bye-bye.
Bye-bye.
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