Ken you solve it? Are you a match for the world’s greatest TV quizzer? | Education
Sweet! Is the long-standing show quiz where the candidates receive an answer and must answer with a question for this answer.
“Ken Jennings”, for example, is the right answer to the following question:
Which holds the record for most dangers! Gagnie A Row – 74 episodes in 2004 – and since 2023, is that his only presenter?
And it is also the answer to this question:
What personality of American television is the author of the Kennection, a pleasant enigma which mixes anecdotes and problem solving and which appears in this column today?
You will find below five Kenne. Everyone consists of five questions, the answers of which share a common theme. Can you find it? You don’t need to answer all questions correctly, but it helps.
Question 1
1. In 1988, Curtis Strange became the first person to win $ 1 million in a single season of what sport?
2. What month is celebrated each year with a mustache growth movement for the health of men as well as the national month of writing novels?
3. What new Argentinian dance was condemned by the Vatican in 1913 as “offensive to the purity of each right person”?
4. Shaka was the first king of what faced the British in 1879?
5. What was the name of Alan Harper’s living brother on television Two and a half men?
What is the Kennection?
Question 2
1. Which Lewis Carroll character is drawn bearing a label reading “in this 10/6 style”?
2. At the end of the 1939 film The Oz assistant, Who Dorothy he says, “I think you will miss you especially?”
3. “The leaves of three, whether it is”, is a reminder of what plant that produces a natural irritant called Urushiol?
4. What type of bird is the mascot of the Linux computer operating system as well as the NHL Sidney Crosby team?
5. What card to play was presented for the first time at the decks in the 1860s as Top Trump in the Euchre game?
What is the Kennection?
Question 3
1. What kind of possession was the excalibur of King Arthur or the Hrunting of Beowulf?
2. What precious element is the most ductile medal, because a single ounce can be trained in a 50 miles long thread?
3. In which film 2007 Elliot Page played a Junior Spuny high school student whom friends call “the edifying whale”?
4. What is the only American state whose capital has a name of three words?
5. The financier Warren Buffet is often called “Oracle de” which city in the Midwest?
What is the Kennection?
Question 4
1. What type of water in northeast Canada bears the name of Explorer Henry Hudson?
2. What is the name of the pregnant wife of Guy Woodhouse, played by Mia Farrow, in the classic horror film of Roman Polanski in 1968?
3. What a seven -year -old character in the book To kill a mocking bird Was based on a young Capote Truman?
4. The famous cathedral with a lot of the onion on the Red Square of Moscow bears the name of which Russian Holy Orthodox?
5. For collectors, what is the highest quality note of coins and comics called?
What is the Kennection?
Question 5
1. What Australian city is home to an emblematic port bridge as well as the famous Jørn Utzon opera?
2. What destructive Labrador Retriever is the subject of the Memoirs of John Grogan in 2005 subtitled Life and love with the worst dog in the world?
3. What is the specific name for a point on dominoes and dice?
4. Who had an improbable blow in 1968 with his Ukelele coverage of “Tipsoe through the tulips”?
5. Which illusionist and Claudia Schiffer Ex was the first magician living with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame?
What is the Kennection?
I will be back at 5 p.m. in the United Kingdom with the answers. Please don’t spoilers. Instead, you make your own similar Kenundrums.
The examples of today are taken from the new Jennings book, Complete hearts, who has a thousand. His knowledge of anecdotes is unrivaled, but what I liked most is his ingenuity and his mind in the choice of themes.
Complete Kennections: 5,000 questions in 1,000 puzzles came out on July 29 in the United States.
I have been putting a puzzle here on alternative Mondays since 2015. I am still looking for big puzzles. If you want to suggest one, send me an email.
