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Can you solve the connection? Or, should we say, the Kennection?

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Ken Jennings: Hi, I'm Ken Jennings, and this is the... MENTAL FLOSS MINUTE QUIZ: KENNECTIONS EDITION. I'm going to ask you a few questions, and it's your job to figure out what the answers all have in common. Leave your guess in the comments below. Ready? Let's go. What thin material is the traditional gift for a first wedding anniversary? 

Countdown: 3.2.1.

Ken: It's paper. In 1948, a rhesus monkey named Albert I became the first mammal ever to go where?

Countdown: 3.2.1.

Ken: Albert went to space. In The Scarlet Letter,  what does Hester Prynne name her illegitimate child, whom she calls a gem purchased at "great price"?

Countdown: 3.2.1.

Ken: She named her kid Pearl. The greeting called a "Bronx cheer" is also known by the name of what fruit?

Counter: 3.2.1.

Ken: Raspberry, of course. And, what 2000 Steven Soderbergh movie about the drug trade is the only Best Picture nominee ever based on a TV mini-series?

Countdown: 3.2.1.

Ken: It was called Traffic. Can you figure out the Kennection? Leave your answer in the comments below, and pick up The Complete Kennections at a bookstore near you.