Quiz Guy John Chaneski has a quiz similar to the board game Tribond, in which the object is to figure out the bond that links three things. For example, what’s the common bond that links the words playground, trombone, and microscope? This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Linking Three Things Word Game”
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 here he is, that handsome quiz guy, John Janeski.
Hi, John.
Oh, hi.
Thank you, Grant.
Hey, John. Looking good.
Hi, Martha. Thank you so much.
I have a great quiz today.
This is sort of one of the things we do at Trivia NYC, one of our pub quiz nights.
One of our rounds is called Name Three.
It’s sort of a common bonds round.
We’ve done this before.
It’s sort of like the board game Try Bond, where you’re given three items and ask to figure out what they have in common.
For example, if I say a playground, a trombone, a microscope, what do those have in common?
They all have a slide.
Slides, right.
Slides in a playground, a trombone slide, and a microscope, you look at slides.
Now, I’ll give you three things.
You tell me what they have in common, what they share, what the tie is that binds them together.
Here we go.
All right.
An incline, a report card, USDA inspected beef.
Agreed.
Great.
Oh, nice.
Yes.
Very good.
Right.
A criminal, your phone, an ion.
A charge.
A charge.
Things that you charge, yes.
Nice.
How about dip, drum, joy?
Dip, drum, joy.
So you have a road in the dip.
You have an ice cream dip.
You have dipstick.
I think you got them, Martha.
Stick.
Say it loud.
Yes, sticks.
Dipstick, drumstick, joystick.
Yes.
How about, speaking of sticks, stick, pat, tub.
Butter.
Yeah, butter.
They serve butter.
How about, speaking of which, Dagwood, Cuban, banh mi.
Sandwiches.
Sandwiches.
Yummy.
Jib, spinnaker, latin.
Those are sales or new cryptocurrencies?
You never know.
There’s so many of them.
That’s right.
You turn around and the next thing you know, it’s a cryptocurrency.
Yes.
How about this one?
Nuclear fission, a gymnast, a banana.
Nuclear fission, a gymnast, a banana.
Splits.
Ruse.
Splits is right.
Grant’s got it.
Splits.
Splits.
Splits.
Splits.
Splits.
Splits.
Splits.
Okay, yeah.
Splits.
Splits.
And you split.
How about…
Yeah.
Sorry, let me say that again.
So banana split, a gymnast split, and then fission split.
Right, splitting the atom.
How about if I say land, house, sleeves?
Land, house, sleeves.
Long, roll up, flip.
Land, what was the second one?
Land, hoe, house.
House, sleeves.
This is definitely a blank land, blank house, blank sleeves.
Brick.
Home sleeves.
Wow.
The last one is an old song.
Green.
Green.
Yes.
Green land.
Green house.
Green sleeves.
Finally, if I said ghost, doctor, sergeant, what would you say?
Sergeant Peppers.
Pepper.
Oh.
Yes.
Ghost Pepper.
Dr. Pepper.
And Sardar Pepper.
Yes, that was tough.
Yeah, but you guys did fantastic.
Nice work.
That’s cool.
Is it Bond?
B-O-N-D?
B-O-N-D.
Tri-Bond, yes.
Oh, I want to do those every day just to keep my brain supple.
I bet if we Google that, we’ll find a bunch, right?
I’m sure you will.
John, thank you for another wonderful quiz.
We really appreciate it, and we will see you next week.
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