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Ken Jennings Challenges You: Can You Figure Out the Kennection? #quiz #trivia #jeopardy
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Jeopardy! host Ken Jennings brings his Kennections quiz to the Mental Floss Minute Quiz. Can you answer all five questions—and figure out what they have in common? Leave your guesses in the comments.
If you want to take even more Kennections quizzes, visit https://www.mentalfloss.com/kennections or pick up Ken's new book, 'The Complete Kennections,' at your local bookstore.
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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 kind of iron golf club is used for hitting the ball out of a sand bunker or "pitching" it onto the green?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: It's a wedge. In Greek mythology, Tantalus was punished by the gods for stealing what divine food from Mount Olympus?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: He stole ambrosia. What New York hotel was connected to its neighbor, the Astoria, when the Peacock Alley between them was opened in 1897?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: Answer: Waldorf. What did Yankee Doodle call the feather he stuck in his hat?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: He called it "macaroni." And, what's the name of the chimpanzee that all the apes bow down to at the end of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: His name is Caesar. So we have wedge, ambrosia, Waldorf, macaroni, and Caesar. Can you figure out the Kennection? Leave your answer in the comments below, and pick up The Complete Kennections at a bookstore near you.
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: It's a wedge. In Greek mythology, Tantalus was punished by the gods for stealing what divine food from Mount Olympus?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: He stole ambrosia. What New York hotel was connected to its neighbor, the Astoria, when the Peacock Alley between them was opened in 1897?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: Answer: Waldorf. What did Yankee Doodle call the feather he stuck in his hat?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: He called it "macaroni." And, what's the name of the chimpanzee that all the apes bow down to at the end of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes?
Countdown: 3.2.1.
Ken: His name is Caesar. So we have wedge, ambrosia, Waldorf, macaroni, and Caesar. Can you figure out the Kennection? Leave your answer in the comments below, and pick up The Complete Kennections at a bookstore near you.