The Ultimate QoD Challenge -- Final Week, Wednesday

[Pastor Fireball]

"4-by-4"

I've saved these two grids for the very end. Good luck. You're gonna need it. Foursomes and connections are due by Thursday 7/17 at 4 PM EDT.

Grid 1:

BEAST | BEEBS | BOO | BREAKDOWN
EAR | EARTH | EYE | FLOWER
GLOW | HEART | LAUGH | NELLY
NICK | PEACOCK | REX | TIC

Grid 2:

ALLURE | ANGEL | BALLOT | BANK
CROSSWORD PUZZLE | DEON COLE | EBONY | ESSENCE
EUCALYPTUS | JET | LOVER | MOUTH
PRIVATE | RUNOFF | SEXY | SOURCE

[ShamelessWeasel]

Spoiler

Grid 1:

BEAST | BEEBS | NELLY | PEACOCK - Bored Buddies Nicknames

Grid 2:

ALLURE | EBONY | ESSENCE | JET - Magazines

[Pastor Fireball]

Weasel was flying solo on the final grids. Did he get any points out of it?

Grid 1:

BEAST | BEEBS | BOO | BREAKDOWN
EAR | EARTH | EYE | FLOWER
GLOW | HEART | LAUGH | NELLY
NICK | PEACOCK | REX | TIC

How many current Bored Buddies did you spot? How many past Bored Buddies did you spot? There were seven altogether... and every single one of them went into a category that didn't involve the Bored. How did I pull off that feat? See below.

1. BEAST | BOO | FLOWER | REX

Characters in Disney/Pixar films. You have the main character in "Beauty and the Beast", the little girl in "Monsters, Inc.", the skunk in "Bambi", and the dinosaur in "Toy Story".

2. BREAKDOWN | LAUGH | NELLY | TIC

Nervous _____.

3. EAR | EARTH | GLOW | HEART

_____worm.

4. BEEBS | EYE | NICK | PEACOCK

Nicknames for TV networks. Eye (CBS), Nick (Nickelodeon), and Peacock (NBC) were the easy ones. Beebs is a nickname for the BBC... the family of networks that gave us "Only Connect", the quiz show on which this game is based.

Grid 2:

ALLURE | ANGEL | BALLOT | BANK
CROSSWORD PUZZLE | DEON COLE | EBONY | ESSENCE
EUCALYPTUS | JET | LOVER | MOUTH
PRIVATE | RUNOFF | SEXY | SOURCE

Ebony, Essence, Jet, and Source are all Black magazines. There was a "Black" category here, but it wasn't that one.

1. BANK | MOUTH | RUNOFF | SOURCE

Parts of a river.

2. ANGEL | EBONY | PRIVATE | SEXY

Hit songs called "_____ Eyes". The 1989 Jeff Healey hit, the 1978 Bob Welch hit, the 1981 Hall & Oates hit, and the 1980 Dr. Hook hit.

3. CROSSWORD PUZZLE | DEON COLE | EUCALYPTUS | JET

All are associated with the phrase "black box". Crossword puzzles have black boxes. Deon Cole hosted "Deon Cole's Black Box" on TBS. A species of eucalyptus is called "black box". A jet's flight recorder is called a "black box".

4. ALLURE | BALLOT | ESSENCE | LOVER

French "faux amis".

OK, I know all of you are giving me a strange look on that one. "What the **** is a faux ami?!"

In vocabulary, a "faux ami" is a word that appears in two languages, but has different meanings in each. All of these English words appear in the French language, but do not mean the same thing in English as they do in French. "Allure" means speed, "ballot" means package, "essence" means gasoline, and "lover" is a verb that means to coil.

7/14 + 7/15 + 7/16 scores (4 participants)
ShamelessWeasel - 16 + 24 + 16 = 56
Bob Juch - 16 + 20 + 0 = 36
franktangredi - 4 + 8 + 0 = 12
Bob78164 - 4 + 0 + 0 = 4