What's the Kennection? #31
Welcome to Kennections, a weekly quiz created by Jeopardy! champion/co-host Ken Jennings. Here's how to play: All five answers to the questions below have something in common. Can you figure it out? (Note: We've given you a hint by showing you how many letters are contained within the answer, but this quiz is not interactive.)
1. What 380-foot coast redwood in Redwood National Park, named for a Titan of the sun from Greek myth, is the world’s tallest tree?
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2. In what 1994 song, his first top ten hit, does Coolio advise us to “slide slide slippity slide”?
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3. What year’s U.S. presidential primary debates featured bickering over the Wendy’s ad slogan “Where’s the beef?”
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4. In Exodus 2:22, Moses names his son Gershom (“sojourner”), explaining, “I have been a” what?
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5. The crescent-shaped “barchan” is one of the most common shapes of what sandy landform?
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1. What 380-foot coast redwood in Redwood National Park, named for a Titan of the sun from Greek myth, is the world’s tallest tree?
HYPERION
2. In what 1994 song, his first top ten hit, does Coolio advise us to “slide slide slippity slide”?
"FANTASTIC VOYAGE"
3. What year’s U.S. presidential primary debates featured bickering over the Wendy’s ad slogan “Where’s the beef?”
1984
4. In Exodus 2:22, Moses names his son Gershom (“sojourner”), explaining, “I have been a” what?
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
5. The crescent-shaped “barchan” is one of the most common shapes of what sandy landform?
DUNE
WHAT'S THE KENNECTION? ----->
What's the Kennection?
SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS