Listener Quiz! Categorical Allies or Dandy Dyads

This week puzzle-guy Greg Pliska gave a quiz called Categorical Allies or Dandy Dyads. He gave a word and Martha and Grant had to come up with the second word that was in the same category as the first and began with the same two letters that the first one ends with.

So, French was a clue, to which we responded Chinese, the category being languages (though it would work as cuisine, too). The two letters CH end FrenCH and start CHinese.

At the end of the quiz, Greg proposed that listeners come up with a string of more than four items in a specific category that follow the same rules. Greg gave the example of American states. His clue was Alabama. We followed it with Maine, Nebraska, Kansas. Or Maine, New Mexico, Colorado. Each word ends with the same two letters that the next word starts with.

So, to play this here in the forums, come up with a fairly narrow category, such as French authors, computer parts, insects, American presidents, or anything else, and then come up with four items that can be linked together by the pairs of last and first letters. Give everyone else the first clue on the forum and the guessing will commence!