Before and After
Board and Card Games
Birds
Artists with No.1 Singles
Metals of Antiquity
200

The UK Prime Minister during the Suez Crisis, who has the largest indoor rainforest in the world.

Who is Anthony Eden Project?

200

The board game which takes its name from the economic concept of a market's domination by a single entity.

What is Monopoly?

200

The national bird of New Zealand, to which it is endemic and has become a label for the country's human population.

What is the kiwi?

200

Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, and Last Christmas.

Who are Wham!?

200

The metal which was first produced, from 7000 BC, as a by-product due to the presence of silver in its ores. It would later be used for making water pipes in the Roman Empire.

What is lead?

400

The show John Noakes was the longest-serving presenter of, which directed the Lord of the Rings trilogy. 

What is Blue Peter Jackson?

400

A game in which players take turns to draw and place tiles, each featuring a piece of southern France landscape, possibly adding a meeple to a feature on the tile.

What is Carcassonne?

400

The material which feathers on a bird are made of.

What is keratin?

400

Saving All My Love For You, and I Will Always Love You.

Who is Whitney Houston?

400

The metal which the Aztecs believed was the product of the gods, referring to it literally as 'god excrement'. 

What is gold?

600

The group that Jesse, James, and Meowth are a part of, which is the branch of aerospace engineering which could help the trio safely blast off again.

What is Team Rocket Science?


600

Two-player game with many possible openings, such as: Bishop's Opening, Giuoco Piano, and Sicilian Defense.

What is Chess?

600

The bird which boasts the longest migration of the whole animal kingdom. 

What is the Arctic Tern?

600

Barbie Girl, and Turn Back Time.

Who are Aqua?

600

The compenent in all metals which gave them their 'metal-ness', or so alchemists believed in the 4th century BCE. It is in fact a metal element of its own, despite being a liquid at room temperature (and pressure).

What is mercury?

800

The Best Picture winner at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018, which can't be changed now because it is in the past. 

What is The Shape of Water under the bridge?

800

A card game, with variations such as 'dummy' and 'duplicate'. In the basic format, four players play in two competing partnerships, with partners sat opposite each other around a table.

What is Bridge?

800

The bird which is the most common in the UK, with an estimated 11 million breeding pairs in 2020.

What is the (Eurasian) Wren?

800

Burn, and River.

Who is Ellie Goulding?

800

The most abundant in the Earth's crust of the ancient metals, and yet the last to be readily available, due to its relatively high melting point of 1538°C.

What is iron?

1000

The women who worked for the WLA during the two world wars, who are Duran Duran's first UK Top 10 Single.

Who are the Land Girls on Film?

1000

A board game, which is at least 5 000 years old, played by two players, each with 15 'men', who move between 24 'points', according to the roll of two dice.

What is Backgammon?

1000

A species of pigeon which was once the most abundant bird in North America, numbering between 3 and 5 billion, before being hunted to extinction after European colonization of America. Its name refers to its migration: it does not mean it rode on something else.

What is the passenger pigeon?

1000

Millenium, and Candy.

Who is Robbie Williams?

1000

The metal which, when mixed with tin, is used to make the alloy, bronze. 

What is copper?

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