Connections

[David Williams]

What connects the United States of America, the London Underground and the English Football League? I'm looking for a one word answer. If you know that word, give it, but please do not give a reason. Let someone else have a go at that.

[Kai Laddiman]

Burgers?

[David Williams]

Nope.

[Jon Corby]

Hobgoblin?

[Kai Laddiman]

Me?

[Neil Zussman]

Lincoln?
I doubt it.

[David Williams]

Still nope. Sorry Kai.

[Matt Morrison]

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[David Williams]

What connects the United States of America, the London Underground and the English Football League?

Looks like no-one knows this one. The answer, obviously, is MACKEREL.

[Kirk Bevins]

What connects the United States of America, the London Underground and the English Football League?

Looks like no-one knows this one. The answer, obviously, is MACKEREL.

Ah yes!!! I knew the London Underground link with MACKEREL but not the other two.

[Ben Wilson]

What connects the United States of America, the London Underground and the English Football League?

Looks like no-one knows this one. The answer, obviously, is MACKEREL.

Ah yes!!! I knew the London Underground link with MACKEREL but not the other two.

Iirc there's only one team in the English Football League that doesn't contain any of the letters from the word MACKEREL.

Work it out for yourself. :p

[Kirk Bevins]

What connects the United States of America, the London Underground and the English Football League?

Looks like no-one knows this one. The answer, obviously, is MACKEREL.

Ah yes!!! I knew the London Underground link with MACKEREL but not the other two.

Iirc there's only one team in the English Football League that doesn't contain any of the letters from the word MACKEREL.

Work it out for yourself. :p

The same for the underground stations and the answer I'd never heard of!

[Kai Laddiman]

What connects the United States of America, the London Underground and the English Football League?

Looks like no-one knows this one. The answer, obviously, is MACKEREL.

Ah yes!!! I knew the London Underground link with MACKEREL but not the other two.

Iirc there's only one team in the English Football League that doesn't contain any of the letters from the word MACKEREL.

Work it out for yourself. :p

SWINDON TOWN!

[Phil Reynolds]

Iirc there's only one team in the English Football League that doesn't contain any of the letters from the word MACKEREL.

Work it out for yourself. :p

The same for the underground stations and the answer I'd never heard of!

St. John's Wood. And the US state would be Ohio.

That's quite fun. I'd heard the thing about MACKEREL v. London Underground stations before, which is amusing but not particularly strange - I even wrote a little C program to find other words in the dictionary that it applies to, and there are loads. But the fact that the same word has the same property when applied to two other such notable lists of names is certainly interesting.