What's the Kennection? #17

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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.)

Boston baker Samuel German is best remembered as the namesake of a chocolate-coconut-pecan type of what?

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What showy autumn flower has been the symbol of the Japanese imperial family for almost one thousand years?

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What watery name did avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp use for his 1917 "sculpture" that was just a urinal turned upside down?

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What rotating medieval torture device is named for the Alexandrian maiden and saint said to have been martyred on one in the fourth century?

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Luke and Owen Wilson made their movie debuts as the two hapless criminals in what 1996 Wes Anderson film?

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Boston baker Samuel German is best remembered as the namesake of a chocolate-coconut-pecan type of what?

CAKE

What showy autumn flower has been the symbol of the Japanese imperial family for almost one thousand years?

CHRYSANTHEMUM

What watery name did avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp use for his 1917 "sculpture" that was just a urinal turned upside down?

FOUNTAIN

What rotating medieval torture device is named for the Alexandrian maiden and saint said to have been martyred on one in the fourth century?

CATHERINE WHEEL

Luke and Owen Wilson made their movie debuts as the two hapless criminals in what 1996 Wes Anderson film?

BOTTLE ROCKET

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

What's the Kennection?

Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular
Macy's Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular / Noam Galai/GettyImages

TYPES OF FIREWORKS

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