What's the Kennection? #63
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. In a Greek legend from antiquity, the Phrygians got a new king after the slicing of what knot?
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2. A Martian comes from Mars, but what would an alien from Jupiter be called?
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3. On what dark Fox sitcom did Stacy Keach play the title character’s alcoholic father Ken?
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4. What’s the name of Hamlet’s evil, usurping uncle—though no one in Shakespeare’s play ever calls him by his name?
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5. What does the “T” stand for in the name of Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk?
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1. In a Greek legend from antiquity, the Phrygians got a new king after the slicing of what knot?
GORDIAN
2. A Martian comes from Mars, but what would an alien from Jupiter be called?
JOVIAN
3. On what dark Fox sitcom did Stacy Keach play the title character’s alcoholic father Ken?
TITUS
4. What’s the name of Hamlet’s evil, usurping uncle—though no one in Shakespeare’s play ever calls him by his name?
CLAUDIUS
5. What does the “T” stand for in the name of Star Trek’s Captain James T. Kirk?
TIBERIUS
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What's the Kennection?
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