Start by answering these questions and see if you can find a Connection…

(There is an explanation to how Connections works here and click Trivial Connections)

1. Who is an an African American singer-songwriter and blues guitarist, born in Mississippi who released… Anthology: 50 Years in 2009?

2. What ’G' is a small channel cut by running water?

3. Who played both Detective Chief Inspector Harry Hawkins in the BBC TV police drama Softly, Softly (and Softly, Softly: Taskforce)  and Frank Tate in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale?

4. What is a 1949 film, with a screenplay by Graham Greene, starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles?

5. What is a vertical rigid support?

6. A 1998 British crime film directed and written by Guy Ritchie and featuring Vinnie Jones?

7. Simply something that is 75%?

 8. A 1951 novel by J. D. Salinger?

 9. A brush, someone using it or perhaps a Dyson?

10. The actress who played both Paula Pokrifki in An Officer and a Gentleman and Emma Horton in Terms of Endearment?

What is the Connection?

The answers to these questions are after the next picture, the answer to the Connection is near the foot of the page.

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ANSWERS

1. John Lee Hooker

2. Gully

3. Norman Bowler

4. The Third Man

5. Prop

6. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

7. Three-quarter

8. Catcher in the Rye

9. Sweeper

10. Debra Winger

Can you get the Connection?

The answers are listed again after this picture with the CONNECTING WORDS HIGHLIGHTED.

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ANSWERS with CONNECTING WORDS HIGHLIGHTED

1. John Lee HOOKER

2. GULLY

3. Norman BOWLER

4. The THIRD MAN

5. PROP

6. LOCK, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

7. THREE-QUARTER

8. CATCHER in the Rye

9. SWEEPER

10. Debra WINGER

Have you solved it, do you know what the Connection is?

The answer to the Connection and an explanation are following this next picture.

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CONNECTION ANSWER

The Connection is SPORTS POSITIONS

1. HOOKER (Rugby)

2. GULLY (Cricket)

3. BOWLER (Cricket)

4. THIRD MAN (Cricket)

5. PROP (Rugby)

6. LOCK (Rugby)

7. THREE-QUARTER (Rugby)

8. CATCHER (Baseball)

9. SWEEPER (Football i.e. soccer)

10. WINGER (Football, hockey etc)

MORE CONNECTIONS

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