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Earlier today I set you five \u201cKennections\u201d, a puzzle devised by legendary US quiz show contestant and host Ken Jennings.<\/p>\n
Each challenge consists of five trivia questions, whose answers share a common theme.<\/p>\n
Here they are again. Immediately below each Kennection I have put the answers to the trivia questions. To find the common theme, however, you need to scroll all the way down to the bottom. Hopefully, this gives you the fun of trying to find the theme if the questions left you scratching your heads.<\/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 Answers: 1. Golf 2. November 3. Tango 4. Zulu 5. Charlie<\/strong><\/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 ANSWERS: 1. The Mad Hatter 2. Scarecrow 3. Poison Ivy 4. Penguin 5. Joker<\/strong><\/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 metal, 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 ANSWERS 1. Sword 2. Gold 3. Juno 4. Utah 5. Omaha<\/strong><\/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 Answers: 1. Bay 2. Rosemary 3. Dill 4. Basil 5. Mint<\/strong><\/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 Answers 1. Sydney 2. Marley 3. Pip, 4. Tiny Tim 5. David Copperfield<\/strong><\/p>\n KENNECTIONS: <\/strong>D-Day beaches; Batman villains; Letters in the phonetic radio alphabet; Herbs; Dickens characters.<\/p>\n Today\u2019s examples are taken from Jennings\u2019 new book, The Complete Kennections: 5,000 Questions in 1,000 Puzzles, which 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":" Earlier today I set you five \u201cKennections\u201d, a puzzle devised by legendary US quiz show contestant and host Ken Jennings. Each challenge consists of five trivia questions, whose answers share a common theme. Here they are again. Immediately below each Kennection I have put the answers to the trivia questions. 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