ODDS AND ENDS

What do the following categories have in common?

MATH

MUSIC

GAMES

SPORTS

ANIMALS

WEATHER

PROVERBS

MYTHOLOGY 

GOVERNMENT

HINT: It's a number.

Answer:

 

Each category has at least one thing in it that involves the number 9:

 

MATH - Casting out nines

MUSIC - Nine symphonies by Beethoven

GAMES - Nine squares in Tic-Tac-Toe

SPORTS - Nine men on a baseball team/nine innings

ANIMALS - Nine lives of a cat

WEATHER - On Cloud Nine 

PROVERBS - A stitch in time saves nine

Mythology - Nine Muses

Government - Nine judges on Supreme Court/Nine digits in a SSN.

 

Credit:

Joseph Appel