In each set below, one entry does not belong. Can you name that entry and explain why? (One answer per person every 24 hours, please. If you answer one correctly at noon, you may answer another at noon the next day.)

-1. Joseph, Daniel, Ralph, James, Nathan, David
-2. Siamese, Pekinese, Burmese, Kashmir, Balinese
-3. Light, fight, might, night, bright (think song)
-4. Our Miss Brookes, Hangin' With Mr. Cooper, Mr. Belvedere, Mr. Peepers, Mr. Novak
-5. Emu, kudu, shrike, bobolink, plover
-6. Kinshasa, Alexandria, Mogadishu, Rabat, Tripoli, Gabarone
-7. Calgary, Geneva, Sapporo, Oslo, Lake Placid
-8. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Modest Mussorgsky, Aleksandr Borodin, Fyoder Dostoevsky, Sergei Rachmaninoff
-9. Mindy, Sally, Rerun, Spike, Frieda
-10. Cream of Broccoli, Cream of Potato, Cream of Shrimp, Cream of Spinach, Cream of Celery (think Campbells)
-11. Freedom of the press, free exercise of religion, freedom from self-incrimination, right to assemble peacefully, right to petition the government for redress of grievances
-12. Death on the Nile, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Curtain, Murder on the Links, Sleeping Murder
-13. Nelson Mandela, Mikhail Gorbachev, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas K. Gandhi, Kofi Annan
-14. Argentina, Cuba, Panama, Venezuela, Suriname (think equator)
-15. My Fair Lady, The King and I, South Pacific, Flower Drum Song, Annie Get Your Gun
-16. Spruce, juniper, cedar, aspen, sequoia
-17. Nowhere Man, Norwegian Wood, You Won't See Me, Act Naturally, Michelle
-18. Cressida, Goneril, Electra, Bianca, Isabella

1. Ralph

10. Shrimp - a seafood whilst others are vegetables

Bernie

2. Pekinese is a dog breed, the others are cat.

18 - Isabella - she is not a vilain

11. freedom from self incrimination: not one of the 5 freedoms in the 1st amendment of the Constitution

4. Mr. Belvedere - he was a butler, the others were teachers

soot - you got it but forgot to give the reason.

Bernie, I guess that's true but try again.

OB, same as Bernie. I'm looking for a different answer.

curly and jboliver and Redz

17. Act Naturally - not a song by The Beatles

12. Sleeping Murder

It is an Agatha Christie book with the detective being Miss Marple; the other titles are Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot mysteries.

5. kudu - it isn’t a bird

7. Geneva has not hosted the Olympic games

15. I'll guess My Fair Lady because it's the only musical based on a play, not a book.

michele, yes! It's not a song on the Rubber Soul album.

Marian, flotsam, manxman

LadyK, right answer! It's the only Lerner & Loewe play. (fixed)

8. Dostoevsky is a writer, the others are composers

18. All Shakespearean characters except Electra ??

I certainly did miss that Pandora

1. Ralph is not a biblical character noted in the bible

All correct!

6. Gabarone is not a city in Africa. All others are.

sorry I thought after noon would count

Sorry manxie, but Gabarone is the capital of Botswana. Which gives you a huge hint.

14. Suriname. Dutch language.

I have no idea, curly. If you researched it, I'll buy it.

BUT

My answer is all about geography.

6. Alexandria is the only one that is not a Capital City of the Independent African Countries.
Wow, that was a tough one Pandie

Pandora,
My Fair Lady was done by Lerner and Lowe.

16. aspen - deciduous - others are coniferous

9. Mindy, the only one of the group who is not a Peanuts comic strip character.

Whoops! Got that one backward, LadyK. All fixed now and thanks for the assist.

manxman, Redz and Marian, good answers!

Do you remember BacardiJim? He once researched an answer by looking up the names of the counties in Ohio, I think. It had nothing to do the the actual answer but I was impressed by his determination.

13. Mohandas K. Gandhi - all others Nobel Peace prize recipients

Sue, I remember BacardiJim very well.

Yes, michele! He was nominated five times but never won the award.

Marian, he certainly livened up the party.

14. Argentina is below the equator. Thanks for the tip Sue.

Correct! I added hints for the last two as well.

3. Might is not part of the lyrics of The Star Spangled Banner.

10. no cream of spinach soup

Nicely finished off!