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*The A To Z Game

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For this game, we pick a subject category and we each, by going through the alphabet, post a word that fits the category.

Example category: Fruit and vegetables.
First person puts eg. apples, next person puts eg. bananas, the next eg. cherries, and so on.

When we get back to ’A’, someone nominates a new category and we do the same thing again.

First category: COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD.

Australia

Brazil

Czech Republic

Denmark

England

France

Germany

Hungary

Ireland

Japan

Korea

Latvia

Malaysia

Nigeria

Oman

Portugual

Qatar

Romania

Scotland

Tunisia

Uganda

edit: I’ll change my mind to... UK!

Vanuatu

Wales!

Hmmm, I think we’re a bit stuck. How about (lu)Xembourg??! Rich

Yugoslavia

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*clapping hands*

Let me start with fruit category :)

A. APPLE!!

Banana

Cranberry

durian

Elderberry

fig

Grapefruit

Honeydew melon

Ita Palm

Kiwi (an exotic fruit from New Zealand, with green pulp and very small black seeds).

If you don’t know it, pass to L:

Lemon

My favourite... Melon! (reminds me of Spain:-)

Here’s one for J: Jackfruit (similar looking to durian, but less spikey. No idea what either taste like)

Navel orange

Orange

Peach

Quince

Red berry

strawberry

Tayberry (for the Scots...)

Couldn’t find anything for U or V

Watermelon

Now Let’s get into a new topic: Male names

arnold

barry

Cuthbert

David

Eggbert

Fabio (my own name!!!)

George

Herman

Ivan

Jacob

Kevin

Lucas

Marshall

Neil

Oskar!

Peter

I wanna play too ! Uuummm Poppamagoo !

Quentin

Robbie

Stewart

Thomas

Ulf

VALENTINE!!

Warren

Xavier

yuri

Zdenek (a Czech name)

Ok, a new topic, this is very easy: European Rock/Pop bands from the 80/90...

ABBA

BON JOVI

Bon Jovi is American

Black Sabbath

Culture Club

Duran Duran

Sorry,Bon Jovi really American....
Than a European:
EUROPE:-))

Fine Young Cannibals

Gyllene Tyder !! hope i spelled that right.

Gyllene Tider?

That’s a seventies band!

80 or 90?

Gessle, Per

Housemartins

Gessle Per,isn’t band he is a person!

Iron Maiden

Judas Priest

Keane

Lighthouse Family

MODERN TALKING

Natural Gas

Oasis

Pet Shop Boys

Queen

edit: hmmmm, I wonder what could be next?!

ok i’ll say it.......

ROXETTE

;-)

OK, now for my favourite British band who split up recently: Shed Seven

Take That

U2

@oshtay I was waiting for that moment :)

sorry :)

Village People

Who, The

XTC

Yazoo

Z.Z. Top

NEW TOPIC: BODY PARTS!

Aorta

(that’s freaky, I was gonna suggest *exactly* the same thing!)

Bones

coc..... - erm

cochlea

di..... - erm

diaphragm

Esophagus

Funny bone

Erm, nate it’s OESOPHAGUS.

Great minds eh Rich!

Gall bladder

Horns

Index finger

Jaw

kidneys

Larynx

carrots

muscles

nose

optical nerve

Penis

LoL!!!

@alligator.....what the?

Quadriceps

d’oh!

right arm

spleen

Torso

Urinary tract

voice box

waist

X chromosome

Y chromosome

Zygomatic Bones :) OK I had to look that one up!

Alright - how about song titles!

“A day in the Life” - Beatles

“Bad Moon” - Marie Fredriksson

Crash Boom Bang Roxette

DANGEROUS-Roxette or Michael Jackson

Everybody Hurts - REM

Don’t use Roxette’s songs. That’s too easy to us!!!

Felicidad (Spanish version of “Happy New Year”) - ABBA

Gone- U2

Heart with a View - The Echoing Green

I Believe In A Thing Called Love - The Darkness

Jealous guy - John Lennon

Key to my life - Boyzone

Leaving Las Vegas by Sheryl Crow

Manic monday - The Bangles

No more I love you´s Annie Lennox

On Standby by Shed Seven

Poke Salad Annie by Tony Joe White

Past, Present and Future - Agnetha Fältskog

Someone was posting at the same time as me!!!

Queen of Hearts - by Agnetha, too.

Roll With It by Oasis

Stand REM

Take the power back -RATM

Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters

Victoria by The Kinks

Walk On By - Dionne Warwick

Xanadu by Olivia Newton-John

You Got Me by Sleeper

I can never find one by Z by the way lets change it to presidents name!!!

Aznar!

Bush (at least for today!)

Chirac

Davis (Jefferson, that is... of the Confederate States of America)

Eisenhower

Ford

Gorbacsov

Herbert Hoover

Had to do some digging!

Alia Izetbegovic (Bosnia-Herzegowina)

He is always on my mind / When him and me were runnin’ out of time / He was sure enough left behind / The cops came in and took him by surprise...
That night when Sally really showed her game / The neighbourhood would never be the same / Poor old THOMAS JEFFERSON got the blame...

Kennedy

Lincoln

Madison, James

Nixon

O’Dalaigh (Ireland)

Georges Jean Raymond Pompidou - France, 1969 to 1974.

Ronald REAGAN!!!!My favourite!!

Gerhard Schröder *g*

Harry Truman

Ola Ullstein (Sweden 1978-79)

van Buren

Woodrow Wilson

Li Xiannian (China 1983-88)

Boris Yeltsin

Zhiang Zemin (China 1993-2003)

New Topic: PERIODIC TABLE OF ELEMENTS.

Au (Gold)

B (Boron)

C(carbon)

Dy (dysprosium)... or D (deuterium) which I’ve used a bit recently (if that’s allowed as a variation of H)...

Eu (Europium)

F (Fluor)

Ga (gallium)

H (Hidrogen)

I (iodine)

J is the only letter not to appear in a chemical symbol, so...

K (potassium)

Li (lithium)

Mn (manganese)

Ni (nickel)

O (oxygen)

P(phosphor)

Q has no representative: Uuq (ununquadium) is the only one close so...

Ru (ruthenium)

Sn (Tin)

Te (tellurium)

U (uranium)

V(vanadium)

W (tungsten)

Xe (X-ray properties)?! I think is right?!

Not quite as Xe (xenon) is an inert gas...

Y (yttrium)

Zn - Zinc

How about Rivers of the World...........

A - Amazon

Brahmaputra

Congo

Donau

Elba

Forth

Ganges

Huang Ho - Yellow River

Indus

J?
K?
L?

Murray

Nile

and for L there’s Lena in Russia :-)

Oder

Potomac

J: Jangce

K: Kabul River

Sorry guys! The site I was looking at was obviously VERY uninformative!
I really can’t find one for Q.

Rhine

(Bridge Over The) River Quay

Clever Rich

Seine

Temse

River Usk (Wales)

Vltava

Wallooskee River

X isn’t river
Xau lake.

Yangtze River

Zambezi

..................formerly Roxer93

O.K the new topic:car brands

Audi

BMW

Chrysler

Dodge

Eagle

Ford

General Motors

Honda

Isuzu

Jaguar

KIA

Lamborghini

Maybach :D

Nissan

OPEL!!! It’s mine!

Peugeot

Q... I can’t think of one...

Renault

Saab

Toyota

Ultima Sports - never heard of them, but found it on the net, it must be true ;-)

coconut
soory:wrong room.He..he

Volvo

Wartburg

X... I can’t think of one...

Yugo

Zastava

A new category: Famous TV Series

starting with

Alf

Bless This House (UK with Sid James in 70s - really funny:-)

Good old Sid. Do you like the Carry On movies too?

Coronation Street

Dallas

Emmerdale (UK soap opera)

edit: @ Kazza - oh yes, very good - recently moved in with my Dad & we’re making our way through all his old videos - definitely some Carry On films on the cards soon :-)

I love ’em all!

Friends

Good neighbours

H H H... Hancock’s Half Hour

Iron side (I don’t know that I found on the old tv series site)

Just Good Friends

Kojak

Lost (Great show!!! Not certain if it’s playing outside the US yet.)

Malcolm In The Middle

Neighbours

Only Fools And Horses

Pensacola

Queenie’s Castle

Remington steele

Some Mothers Do ’Ave ’Em

Twin peaks

Up Pompeii!

Viper

Sorry, wrote nonsens.

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

X-files

Yes Minister

Zorro
@Rich!This was our game:-))))

:-))))

Yay! New category: Movies that are names.

Alexander

Batman:-))
Not right?

Cinderella

Dave

Emily

Frida

Godzilla

Hamlet

Inspector Gadget

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

>:)

Kate And Leopold

Lawrence of Arabia

*didn’t notice the names part, maybe I needed a fifth cup of coffee...or maybe i needed sleep?*

Where is the name?

L: Lucky Luke

M:Mad Max

*takes a break from her observational paper*

Napoleon Dynamite
(yes I know this was incorrect so I fixed it!)

Nell

Osmosis Jones

Priscilla

Q! Queenie!

Richie Rich

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