MISSING LINK CLI

Each trio of words below shares a Missing Link - that is, its members have something in common, obvious or not. For example, RIVERS, NOSES, & VIOLINS can all have BRIDGES.

1. Age..........Name..........School
2. Oreo..........Penguin..........Clear choice
3. Speed..........Fire.........Sand
4. Bed..........Score..........Balance
5. War..........Word..........Work
6. Social..........Monarch..........Madame
7. Gene..........Office..........Lap
8. Axis..........Ray..........Chromsome
9. Steak..........Bank..........Knife
10. Silas Marner.....Star Wars.....Rhapsody in Blue

Answers:

1. Middle
2. Things that are black and white
3. Kinds of traps
4. Kinds of sheets
5. Dirty
6. Butterfly
7. Kinds of pools
8. X
9. Swiss
10. By George  (Eliot, Lucas, Gershwin)