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Jeopardy! is the long-running US quiz show where contestants are given an answer and must respond with a question for that answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cKen Jennings\u201d, for example, is the correct answer to the following question:<\/p>\n
Who holds the record for most Jeopardy! wins in a row \u2013 74 episodes in 2004 \u2013 and since 2023 has been its sole presenter?<\/em><\/p>\n And it is also the answer to this question:<\/p>\n Which US TV personality is the author of the Kennection, a pleasurable conundrum that mixes trivia and problem solving and which appears in this column today?<\/em><\/p>\n Below are five Kennections. Each one consists of five questions, whose answers share a common theme. Can you find it? You don\u2019t need to answer all the questions correctly, but it helps.<\/p>\n QUESTION 1<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. In 1988, Curtis Strange became the first person to win $1 million in a single season of what sport?<\/p>\n 2. What month is celebrated every year with a moustache-growing movement for men\u2019s health as well as National Novel Writing Month?<\/p>\n 3. What new Argentine dance was condemned by the Vatican in 1913 as \u201coffensive to the purity of every right-minded person\u201d?<\/p>\n 4. Shaka was the first king of what African empire that clashed with the British in 1879?<\/p>\n 5. What was the name of Alan Harper\u2019s hard-living brother on TV\u2019s Two and a Half Men?<\/em><\/p>\n WHAT\u2019S THE KENNECTION?<\/p>\n QUESTION 2<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Which Lewis Carroll character is drawn wearing a label reading \u201cIn this Style 10\/6\u201d?<\/p>\n 2. At the end of the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, <\/em>whom does Dorothy tell, \u201cI think I\u2019m going to miss you most of all?\u201d<\/p>\n 3. \u201cLeaves of three, let it be\u201d is a reminder about what plant that produces a natural irritant called urushiol?<\/p>\n 4. What kind of bird is the mascot for the Linux computer operating system as well as for Sidney Crosby\u2019s NHL team?<\/p>\n 5. What playing card was first introduced to decks in the 1860s as the top trump in the game of euchre?<\/p>\n WHAT\u2019S THE KENNECTION?<\/p>\n QUESTION 3<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. What kind of possession was King Arthur\u2019s Excalibur or Beowulf\u2019s Hrunting?<\/p>\n 2. What precious element is the most ductile medal, since just one ounce of it can be drawn into a 50-mile-long wire?<\/p>\n 3. In what 2007 film did Elliot Page play a spunky high school junior whom friends call \u201cthe cautionary whale\u201d?<\/p>\n 4. What\u2019s the only US state whose capital has a three-word name?<\/p>\n 5. Financier Warren Buffet is often called the \u201cOracle of\u201d what Midwestern city?<\/p>\n WHAT\u2019S THE KENNECTION?<\/p>\n QUESTION 4<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. What kind of body of water off northeastern Canada is named for explorer Henry Hudson?<\/p>\n 2. What\u2019s the name of Guy Woodhouse\u2019s pregnant wife, played by Mia Farrow, in Roman Polanski\u2019s classic 1968 horror film?<\/p>\n 3. What seven-year-old character in the book To Kill a Mockingbird <\/em>was based on a young Truman Capote?<\/p>\n 4. The famous onion-domed cathedral in Moscow\u2019s Red Square is named for what Russian Orthodox saint?<\/p>\n 5. For collectors, what is the highest-quality grade of coins and comic books called?<\/p>\n WHAT\u2019S THE KENNECTION?<\/p>\n QUESTION 5<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. What Australian city is home to an iconic Harbour Bridge as well as J\u00f8rn Utzon\u2019s famous opera house?<\/p>\n 2. What destructive Labrador retriever is the subject of John Grogan\u2019s 2005 memoir subtitled Life and Love with the World\u2019s Worst Dog?<\/em><\/p>\n 3. What\u2019s the specific name for a dot on dominoes and dice?<\/p>\n 4. Who had an unlikely hit in 1968 with his ukelele cover of \u201cTiptoe Through the Tulips\u201d?<\/p>\n 5. What illusionist and Claudia Schiffer ex was the first living magician with a star on the Hollywood Walk of fame?<\/p>\n WHAT\u2019S THE KENNECTION?<\/p>\n I\u2019ll be back at 5pm UK with the answers. PLEASE NO SPOILERS. Instead kentribute your own similar kenundrums.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s examples are taken from Jennings\u2019 new book, The Complete Kennections, <\/em>which has one thousand of them. His knowledge of trivia is unparalleled, but what I loved more is his ingenuity and wit in choosing the themes.<\/p>\n The Complete Kennections: 5,000 Questions in 1,000 Puzzles is out on July 29 in the US.<\/em><\/p>\n I\u2019ve been setting a puzzle here on alternate Mondays since 2015. I\u2019m always on the look-out for great puzzles. If you would like to suggest one, email me.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jeopardy! is the long-running US quiz show where contestants are given an answer and must respond with a question for that answer. \u201cKen Jennings\u201d, for example, is the correct answer to the following question: Who holds the record for most Jeopardy! wins in a row \u2013 74 episodes in 2004 \u2013 and since 2023 has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11523,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[496,4921,1132,1978,4922,1649,4742],"class_list":{"0":"post-11522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-greatest","10":"tag-ken","11":"tag-match","12":"tag-quizzer","13":"tag-solve","14":"tag-worlds"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}