QuizWhat's the Kennection? #38

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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. A national hero on two continents, Lafayette held what title in the French nobility, higher than a comte but lower than a duc?

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2. What Fort Worth-based carrier used the ad slogan “Something special in the air” for over 15 years?

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3. As They Might Be Giants reminded us, New York was known by what name when it was a Dutch colony?

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4. The Cocoanut Grove was located in what Los Angeles hotel, where Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968?

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5. What playwright fictionalized his own youth in his “Eugene trilogy,” beginning with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues?

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1. A national hero on two continents, Lafayette held what title in the French nobility, higher than a comte but lower than a duc?

MARQUIS

2. What Fort Worth-based carrier used the ad slogan “Something special in the air” for over fifteen years?

AMERICAN AIRLINES

3. As They Might Be Giants reminded us, New York was known by what name when it was a Dutch colony?

NEW AMSTERDAM

4. The Cocoanut Grove was located in what Los Angeles hotel, where Robert Kennedy was assassinated in 1968?

AMBASSADOR

5. What playwright fictionalized his own youth in his “Eugene trilogy,” beginning with Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues?

NEIL SIMON

WHAT'S THE KENNECTION? ----->

What's the Kennection?

Barbra Streisand outside The New Amsterdam Theatre. / Hulton Archive/GettyImages

BROADWAY THEATERS

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