Inquizition's 'Sequences' 2

Answer: Adam

All these people appeared in the Old Testament of the Bible. Aaron was the brother of Moses. Abel was the second son of Adam and Eve. Abraham was the founder of the Hebrew people and the father of Isaac. Absalom was the third son of David. Andrew was one of the twelve apostles of Jesus who appeared in the New Testament.

Answer: Rich man

This comes from a nursery rhyme:
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich man, poor man, beggarman, thief.

Answer: Crow

All are members of North American Indian people.

Answer: Lacrosse

Lacrosse is a team sport played in North America as early as the 12th century using a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball and is alphabetically the correct answer. A luge is a small one or two-person sled. Longboarding is a variation of skateboarding.

Answer: Doe

These are a progressive series of homophones which are words which are pronounced the same way but different in meaning or spelling or both.

Answer: D

Progressive Roman numerals: I (=1), V (=5), X (=10), L (=50),
C (=100), D (=500), M (=1000).

Answer: 31

Just a progressive sequence of days in the months of the year:
January (31), February (28) in a non leap year, March (31) etc.
Hence August is (31)

Answer: Mexico

All the following can have the word 'New' in front of them:
New Dehli, New England, New Guinea etc. Hence the next of the chosen options in alphabetical order is New Mexico.

Answer: Triangle

These are all geometric figures therefore 'triangle' appears next. Trichology is the branch of medicine concerned with the hair.

Answer: Ragworm

These are all plants in reverse alphabetical order. Woad is a European plant, formerly cultivated for its leaves, which yield a blue dye. This dye was used by the ancient Britons, as a body dye. Upas is a large tree of Java whose poisonous milky sap is used as an arrow poison. Sisal is a Mexican agave plant whose leaves are used for making rope. Red-hot poker (kniphofia) has spikes of bright red or yellow drooping tubular flowers.

Answer: Pickwick Papers

All are books by Charles Dickens. 'Persuasion' was a novel title by Jane Austen, 'Pericles' was a play title by William Shakespeare and 'Portrait of a Lady' was written by Henry James.

Answer: The Acts

The 'Acts of the Apostles' is the fifth book of the New Testament and often shortened to 'Acts'.

Answer: Emerald

These are all gemstones. Amethyst is purple in colour whereas beryl can be white, yellow, green, blue or pink. The green variety of beryl is emerald, the blue is aquamarine. Citrine is a yellow variety of quartz. Diamonds are usually colourless, although natural pink, purple, yellow, green and blue diamonds do exist, they are extremely rare and expensive.

The next in the sequence is emerald which is green in colour. Erbium and Einsteinium are a soft malleable silvery-white and a metallic element respectfully.

Answer: Flutterboard

A flutterboard is an American and Canadian term for a piece of polystyrene plastic used by swimmers in training or practice. The British word is a float. A fife is a small high-pitched flute used in military bands. A flugelhorn is a type of valved brass instrument.

Answer: North

The list comprises of seas. The Kara Sea is a shallow arm of the Arctic Ocean off the north coast of Russia. The Ligurian sea is an arm of the Mediterranean. The North Sea is between Great Britain and the north European mainland and was formerly called the German Ocean.

Answer: Rotor

This is a list of palindromes which are a word or phrase the letters of which when taken in reverse order, give the same word or phrase. Such a word is 'Malayalam', a language of southwest India.

Answer: Claret

Chablis (a dry white burgundy wine), champagne (a white sparkling wine), chianti (a dry red or white wine produced in the Chianti region of Italy) and claret ( a red wine from the Bordeaux district of France). Cassis is a blackcurrant cordial and Curacao is an orange flavoured liqueur originally made on the island of Curacao in the Caribbean. Gaspare Campari was a master drink maker born in 1828 in the province of Lombardy, Italy.

Answer: Scooter

All the words have the name of a bird within their name:
b(owl), Bot(swan)a, (Dodo)ma, (emu)lsion, popin(jay), s(coot)er, Dodoma is the capital of Tanzania and a popinjay is an excessive talkative person or an archaic word for parrot.

Answer: Mocking

All can be followed by the word 'bird': butcherbird (a shrike), ladybird, lovebird, lyrebird and mockingbird. The lyrebird is an Australian bird, the male of which spreads its tail into the shape of a lyre during courtship displays. The mockingbird is an American songbird that is noted for its mimicry of the songs of other birds.

Answer: Vessels

The next word begins using the last three letters of the previous word. For example Islama(bad), (bad)ger, (Ger)man etc.
ner(ves), (ves)sels

Answer: Patrick

All are boy's names. Lancelot (Capability) Brown, Mortimer Mouse (the original name for Mickey Mouse), Napoleon Bonaparte and Orlando Bloom. Mickey Mouse's original name was Mortimer but Lillian Bounds Disney, Walt's wife, convinced him to change it to the less formal name of Mickey.

Answer: Concord

All are American state capitals:
Carson City (Nevada), Charleston (West Virginia) Cheyenne (Wyoming) Columbia (South Carolina) Columbus (Ohio) and Concord (New Hampshire).

Answer: Loving and giving

These are words from a nursery rhyme:
Monday's child is fair of face,
Tuesday's child is full of grace,
Wednesday's child is full of woe,
Thursday's child has far to go,
Friday's child is loving and giving,
Saturday's child works hard for his living,
And the child that is born on the Sabbath day
Is bonny and blithe, and good and gay.

Answer: Wimple

A ruff is a circular pleated collar worn by both men and women in the 16th and 17th centuries. A sarong is a draped skirtlike garment worn by both sexes in the Malay Archipelago, Sri Lanka and the Pacific Islands. An ulster is a man's heavy double-breasted overcoat with a belt at the back, so called because it was first produced in Northern Ireland.

A wimple is still part of the habit of some nuns and is a piece of cloth draped around the head to frame the face.

Answer: 164

The solution is (3x - 4) or three times the number then deduct 4.
(3 x 4) - 4 = 8
(3 x 8) - 4 = 20
(3 x 20) - 4 = 56
(3 x 56) - 4 = 164
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