Another batch of questions with a Connection running through the answers.

Answer these ten questions and see if you can find the Connection?

1. What 1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger film co-starred Grace Jones as Zula?
2. What one word can mean both "to have the flavour of" and "to slap" but can also be slang for heroin?
3. What musical tells the story of a Scottish village that only appears and comes to life one day every 100 years?
4. What do the initials R.N.L.I., a British and Irish charity, stand for?
5. What, with the initials "JC", is Wesley Snipes character name in the film Passenger 57?
6. What "S" is a type of folk music influenced by jazz and blues?
7. What sport, which was in the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1920, features two teams of eight and a rope approximately 4 inches (10cm) in circumference?
8. What one word can mean both "rubbish" and "old or second-hand articles sold cheaply" but can also be slang for drugs especially heroin?
9. Who released Dylanesque, an album of Bob Dylan covers, in 2007?
10. What in Britain is a large sherry glass but in the U.S.A. a large beer glass?

What is the Connection?

For Connection answer and explanation see Connections 12

 

Yet another Connections challenge. Answer 10 questions and then try to find a connection running through all of the 10 answers.

Firstly here are the ten questions

1. Name the late singer Michael Jackson's three children?

2. In motor racing what Formula 1 World Championship race took place at Imola, Italy annually from 1981 until 2006?

3. What character appearing in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation between 2004 and 2007 was played by Louise Lombard?

4. If, in the NATO phonetic alphabet, SAS is Sierra Alpha Sierra what is KLM?

5. In To the Manor Born what were the names of the characters played by Penelope Keith and Peter Bowles?

6. What ocean liner, nicknamed the Great White Whale, provided transport for Royal Marines and Parachute Regiment during the Falklands War in 1982?

7. Who played Dr. Elizabeth Corday in ER?

8. Who wrote Rip Van Winkle?

9. Who directed the films 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999)?

10. What dish is this describing: beef tenderloin coated with pate and a paste made from onions, shallots, mushrooms and butter - all of which is then wrapped in pastry and baked?

Now what is the Connection?

For Answers and Connection see Connections 11

 

Another set of questions where the answers, or part of each answer, have a Connection. Can you find that Connection?

Start by answering these 10 questions

1. A cover of what 1960 Brian Hyland song was released by Bombalurina with Timmy Mallett in 1990?

2. What mountains which run north to south in western Russia are considered a natural border between Europe and Asia?

3. In men's tennis, and in the week starting Monday 14th September 2009, who was ranked as No.3 in the world?

4. Name the members of Take That in 1990?

5. Of what country is Asuncion the capital?

6. Who wrote and released the single American Pie in 1971?

7. Who was the heroine from Longstone Lighthouse who rescued survivors from the shipwreck of the SS Forfarshire in 1838?

8. What substance is associated with a 30th wedding anniversary?

9. Name three of The Wombles, one with a name starting with a 'T', one with an 'O' and one with a 'W'?

10. What is both a ballet, which was danced by Anna Pavlova about 4,000 times, and the title of a Tennyson poem?

What is the Connection?

For answers and Connection see Connections 10

 

Some more general knowledge questions to answer, and as before there is a link running through the answers forming a connection – see if you can solve it!

Start by answering these ten questions

1. Who won the World Snooker Championships in 1981, 1983, 1984, 1987,1988 and 1989?

2. What two breeds of dogs are crossbred to create a labradoodle?

3. What is the name of an island in Indonesia and a computer software platform?

4. Who was the first U.S. President to be assassinated?

5. By what name is The Beatles‘ninth album, a double album self-titled The Beatles and released in 1968, commonly known?

6. If silver represents a 25th and gold represents a 50th what represents a 35th wedding anniversary?

7. What two Scottish Football teams are collectively known as the ‘Old Firm‘?

8. Which British admiral created a wind force scale in 1805?

9. What was Supergirl’s original Kryptonian name?

10. What German battleship, sunk in the North Atlantic on 27th May 1941, shares its name with a U.S. State capital?

What is the Connection?

For Answers and Connection see Connections Nine

 

Another quiz with a Connection between the answers or at least between part of each answer.

Firstly some general knowledge questions to answer...

1. What direction is to the left if facing the rising sun?

2. What, first formed in May 1940 and disbanded in December 1945, was originally known as Local Defence Volunteers and became affectionately known as Dad's Army?

3. Where according to the Book of Genesis was the place where Adam and Eve first lived?

4. What is a British flat horse race for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies?

5. Who played Juan Trippe in the The Aviator (2004)?

6. Who is the narrator and main character of Robert Louis Stevenson's Kidnapped?

7. Which of The Wombles was the clever, scientific one?

8. What novel by John Godey (pen name of Morton Freedgood) was made into films starring Walter Matthau in 1974 and Denzel Washington in the 2009 remake?

9. What band released Hoots Mon, which included the line "Hoots mon, there's a moose loose aboot this hoose!", and was a U.K. number one for three weeks in 1958?

10. Who played Ennis del Mar in the film Brokeback Mountain?

What is the Connection?

For answers and connection see Connections: Part Eight

 

As with the previous Connections in this series there is a link running through the answers of ten general knowledge questions providing a Connection. The link may relate to the entire answer or just part of it.

Ten questions to get you started - answer these and try to find a theme connecting the various answers

1. What was the title character's name in the TV series Frasier?
2. Who, a music producer born in 1926, was often called the fifth Beatle?
3. What were the names of the three brothers in the Bee Gees?
4. Who was the author of Beau Geste?
5. Who released these albums: Reasonable Doubt in 1996 and Kingdom Come in 2006?
6. What country has land borders with all of the following: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Iran, Iraq, and Syria?
7. Who is the longest serving broadcaster on BBC Radio 1?
8. Who wrote Gulliver's Travels?
9. What fruit is also known as the Chinese gooseberry?
10. Who was Jodie Foster's character in The Silence of the Lambs?

What is the connection?

For answer see Connections: Part Seven

Another little connecting mind game to solve. Answer ten questions on various subjects then try to identify a connection running through the answers.

The first thing to do is answer these ten questions

1. Who had U.K. number one hits with “Saving All My Love for You” (1985) and “I Will Always Love You” (1992)?

2. What “A”, regarded as one of the greatest National Hunt horses of all time, won three consecutive Cheltenham Gold Cups between 1964 & 66?

3. Who played Lincoln Rhyme in the 1999 film “The Bone Collector” and Ben Marco in the 2004 film “The Manchurian Candidate”?

4. What “R” is a member of the House of Grimaldi who ruled Monaco from 1949 until his death in 2005?

5. In what country is Nairobi the largest city and capital?

6. What “S” on Merseyside is home to the rugby league club that won the World Club Challenge in February 2007?

7. Which “E” was the English nurse shot by the Germans in 1915 for helping hundreds of allied soldiers escape from occupied Belgium?

8. Who was the European who during the eighteenth century made the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand?

9. What “L” is the largest inland body of water in Great Britain?

10. In what sport are Wang Hao and Zhang Yining respectively the reigning men’s and women’s world champions?

What is the connection?

For answer see Connections – Part 6

 

Another set of questions with a connecting link running through the answers. Again the questions themselves have nothing to do with the connection.
Firstly ten general knowledge questions

1. What book written by Charlotte Bronte opens with this line: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day."?

2. Who replaced John F. Kennedy as the president of the U.S.A.?

3. What type of animal describes the fictional Cupid, Comet, Dancer, Dasher, Prancer, Vixen, Donner and Blitzen?

4. What 1982 musical comedy film was directed by Blake Edwards and starred Julie Andrews and James Garner?

5. Who was the captain of the England cricket team for 45 Test matches from 1999 to 2003?

6. What Italian-American singer made Christmas Specials for television from 1948 until 1994, many of which were filmed in various locations throughout North America and Europe?

7. What role was played by Maggie Smith in both the 1992 film "Sister Act" and "Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit" the following year?

8. What is the English name of the constellation Ursa Major?

9. What Canadian province has Toronto as its capital?

10. What role did Kevin Costner play in "The Untouchables"(1987)?

What is the connection?

For answer see here Connections - Part 5

As with my other connection postings you have to answer ten questions on various subjects and then try to find a connection between those answers, or at least between part of each answer. The connection is not necessarily anything to do with the initial ten questions simply a theme or link running through the original answers.

So here we go, in the first instance simply try to answer these ten questions

1. Which singer was born Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. in 1943?
2. The current Member of Parliament for the British constituency of Hampstead and Highgate has two Academy Awards, who is this MP?
3. Which US president was assassinated in 1865 in Washington DC?
4. At what London Palace did Queen Elizabeth I die?
5. What singer had a UK number one in 1966 with 'You Don't Have to Say You Love Me'?
6. What 1997 film tells the story of a 1960s secret agent who is brought out of cryogenic freezing to fight his greatest enemy?
7. Who played Mike Waters in 'My Own Private Idaho' in 1991 and then two years later died of drug-induced heart failure at the age of 23?
8. What navigator and explorer set sail from Spain in 1492 with the Santa Maria, the Nina, and the Pinta?
9. What name was shared by the Apollo 11 command module and the first space worthy space shuttle which disintegrated during re-entry over Texas, on its 28th mission?
10. Which Frenchman is often described as the 'Founder of the Modern Olympics'?

Now what is the connection?

 

For answers see Connections Part 4

Start by trying to answer these questions, once you have done that try to FIND THE CONNECTION between the answers (or at least between parts of all the answers)
1. What 'S' is an 8 letter word for the yarmulka worn by Jews or the Zucchetto worn by catholic clergy?
2. What four plants are the national symbols of Scotland, Ireland, England and Wales?
3. What TV cook's father was British Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1983 and 1989?
4. Who used the alias 'The Joan Collins Fanclub'?
5. What 'G' was the name of a character in both 'Just William' and the 'Biggles' stories?
6. What UK executive agency, which was once in the Tower of London, is now based at Llantrisant, South Wales?
7. What was Julia Sawalha character's full name in 'Absolutely Fabulous'?
8. What ceremonial item is carried in front of the Speaker when he enters or leaves the House of Commons?
9. What was John Cleese's character name in 'Fawlty Towers'?
10. What 'R' is a 1968 American horror film written and directed by Roman Polanski, which was based on a novel of the same name by Ira Levin?

 

Now what is the connection?
(Hint as to how this works: if you had three answers as follows:
1) President James Garfield,
2) Sylvester Stallone and
3) Uranus, Neptune and Pluto
The connection could be cartoon characters as GARFIELD, SYLVESTER and PLUTO are all CARTOON CHARACTERS.)

So what is the connection?

For answer see Connections Revisited

 

The holder of what British post is also referred to as the First Commoner of the Land, and who is the current incumbent of that post?

For answer see Who is Commonest?

 

 

Answer ten general knowledge questions and then try to solve what connects the answers (or parts of the answers) to each other.
So start by trying to find answers to these ten questions...
1. What group's first album, released in 1970, was called 'Very 'eavy...Very 'umble'?
2. What surname is shared by an Irish snooker player, a onetime manager
of Liverpool FC and a 1982 intruder to the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace?
3. The author and star of the 1967 silent comedy 'The Plank' shares his surname with the bikini-clad girl from the Boddingtons beer adverts of the 1990s, what is the name?
4. Who was Stan Laurel's comedy partner?
5. Who had a hit record with 'Tiptoe Through The Tulips', sung in a distinctive high falsetto voice?
6. Who is David Seth Kotkin, who has apparently walked through the Great Wall of China and made the Statue of Liberty disappear, better known as?
7. What had a sixties hit with 'These Boots Are Made for Walkin' '?
8. What 'B' which is a type of bee also means "to move or do something in an awkward or clumsy way" or "to speak in a confused or confusing way"?
9. What 'S' is a seven letter word meaning "a miserly person"?
10. What was the title of Pink Floyd's second single which reached number 6 in the UK charts in 1967?

 

Now you have answers to the above questions what is the connection?
(By way of an example if your answers were Ford Capri, Lewis Carroll and New Jersey your connection could by ISLANDS as CAPRI, LEWIS and JERSEY are all ISLANDS)

For answer see Connections

Answer these eight general knowledge questions and then find a connection between the answers (the correct connection is slightly more than it at first seems!).
Firstly answer these questions
1. Who was the U.S. astronaut, one of the three to die in the Apollo 1 launch pad fire, who was the first American to perform a space walk?
2. What is the county flower of Lancashire?
3. The Huang He is the second longest river in China, what is it known as in English?
4. What was Jennifer Aniston's character name in the early episodes of Friends?
5. What senior British government figure is Member of Parliament for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath?
6. What type of parrot featured in Monty Python's Dead Parrot Sketch?
7. Who released the albums I'm Not Dead and Funhouse in 2006 and 2008 respectively?
8. What 1999 book and 2001 film based on that book related the events of 3rd and 4th October 1993 in Mogadishu, Somalia?

Secondly What is the connection?

The answers to the above eight questions have, at least in part, a fairly obvious connection but it is more specific than it perhaps first appears.
For answers see Connections

What one name can connect all of the following:
1. An African lake also known as Nalubaale & Ukerewe
2. A provincial capital on an island overlooking the Pacific’s Juan de Fuca Strait
3. The Roman version of the Greek goddess Nike
4. A spectacular water feature which is known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya.

For answer see here

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A sport, known as the roaring game, suffered a setback in Australia recently when more than one-third of the nation’s entire supply of a vital piece of equipment was stolen. What sport was involved and what equipment was stolen?

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What one name can be all of the following: 1. Surname of the bass player who was a founder member of Manfred Mann, 2. A commonwealth capital, 3. Palace where England’s Elizabeth I died, 4. First name of an actor born in 1963, the brother of Alexis, David, Patricia & Rosanna Arquette & 5. A Yorkshire castle.

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