1. FINAL / FOR FEAR THAT / SERIES /
(e.g.) DIDN'T WIN
Last, lest, list, lost.
2. SCARLETT PAPAVA / STUART THOMAS / JACK GIDDINGS /
JAMES BOND
MI6 agents 004, 005, 006, and 007 in the James Bond series. I bet that most of you didn't even know that the fictional MI6 had other agents besides James Bond.
3. A: ONE THOUSAND (OR ONE HUNDRED AND ONE) / B: ONE BILLION / C: ONE OCTILLION /
D: ONE HUNDRED
First numbers whose written names contain A, B, C, and D.
4. EDWARD BURGH / JOHN NEVILLE / HENRY VIII /
THOMAS SEYMOUR
Successive husbands of Catherine Parr. And yes, Thomas Seymour was the brother of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII's third wife.
5. STOCKTON, CA / MAMMOTH LAKES, CA / SAN BERNARDINO, CA /
DETROIT, MI
The four most recent municipal bankruptcies in the U.S. I don't know if any U.S. cities have gone bankrupt since Detroit, but given how much red there is in Detroit, anything after that probably wouldn't have been newsworthy enough. After all, I did write this question a few weeks after Detroit declared.
6. TOP 2ND / BOTTOM 2ND / TOP 6TH /
BOTTOM 1ST
Relative positions of W, X, Y, and Z on a QWERTY keyboard.
7. UCONN: 4 & 9 / UNC: 5 & 1 / STANFORD: 1 & 2 /
MARYLAND: 1 & 1
The only four universities that have won men's and women's NCAA basketball championships.
8. SANK / CEASE / SET /
WHEAT
Homophones of the French numbers 5, 6, 7, and 8. Cinque, six, sept, and huit.
9. PETER GABRIEL / PETER GABRIEL / PETER GABRIEL /
PETER GABRIEL
No, it wasn't just Peter Gabriel's name four times. This was a legitimate sequence. Probably one of the most brilliant questions ever asked on the Bored.
Peter Gabriel's first four solo albums in chronological order. You could have gone second through fifth solo albums (as Frank did) and still made a legit sequence with "So".
10.
http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b160/ ... 2d655a.jpg
Picture #1 was some delicious Genoa salami. Picture #2 was quarterback Geno Smith. Picture #3 was Gen from the "Street Fighter" video game. So the sequence was GENOA, GENO, GEN. For picture #4, I could have accepted a GE light bulb, Bishop G.E. Patterson, or G.E. Smith of "Saturday Night Live".
Subtract the last letter in a name to get the name of the next picture.
7/14 + 7/15 scores (4 participants)
ShamelessWeasel - 16 + 24 = 40
Bob Juch - 16 + 20 = 36
franktangredi - 4 + 8 = 12
Bob78164 - 4 + 0 = 4
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