#### Can You Solve These Five Kennections?
*CuriosityNews* presents a challenging set of trivia puzzles from the Kennection, a mix of problem-solving and general knowledge. Each of the five puzzles below contains five questions with a shared theme. Can you figure out the connection?
#### Question 1
1. In 1988, Curtis Strange became the first to win $1 million in a single season of which sport?
2. Which month is marked by a moustache-growing movement for men’s health and National Novel Writing Month?
3. Which Argentine dance, introduced in 1913, was denounced by the Vatican for being “offensive to purity”?
4. Shaka was the first ruler of which African empire that fought the British in 1879?
5. What was the name of Alan Harper’s rebellious brother on *Two and a Half Men*?
What’s the Kennection?
#### Question 2
1. Which Lewis Carroll character wears a label stating “In this Style 10/6”?
2. In *The Wizard of Oz* (1939), whom does Dorothy say she’ll miss most before clicking her heels?
3. “Leaves of three, let it be” refers to which plant with the irritant urushiol?
4. Which bird is the mascot for Linux and Sidney Crosby’s NHL team?
5. Which playing card was added to decks in the 1860s as the highest trump in euchre?
What’s the Kennection?
#### Question 3
1. What kind of item was King Arthur’s Excalibur or Beowulf’s Hrunting?
2. Which element, the most ductile metal, can be stretched into a 50-mile wire from just one ounce?
3. In a 2007 film, Elliot Page played a high schooler nicknamed “the cautionary whale.” What was the movie?
4. Which U.S. state’s capital has a three-word name?
5. Warren Buffett is often called the “Oracle of” which Midwestern city?
What’s the Kennection?
#### Question 4
1. Which body of water near northeastern Canada is named after Henry Hudson?
2. In *Rosemary’s Baby* (1968), what is the name of Mia Farrow’s pregnant character?
3. Which child in *To Kill a Mockingbird* was inspired by a young Truman Capote?
4. Which Russian saint is the namesake of Moscow’s onion-domed cathedral?
5. What is the highest collector’s grade for coins and comics?
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