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Connections 12

Published by Quizologist in Quizzes
September 26, 2009

Another batch of questions with a Connection running through the answers.

Answer these ten questions and see if you can find the Connection?

1. What 1984 Arnold Schwarzenegger film co-starred Grace Jones as Zula?

2. What one word can mean both “to have the flavour of” and “to slap” but can also be slang for heroin?

3. What musical tells the story of a Scottish village that only appears and comes to life one day every 100 years?

4. What do the initials R.N.L.I., a British and Irish charity, stand for?

5. What, with the initials “JC”, is Wesley Snipes character name in the film Passenger 57?

6. What “S” is a type of folk music influenced by jazz and blues?

7. What sport, which was in the Olympic Games between 1900 and 1920, features two teams of eight and a rope approximately 4 inches (10cm) in circumference?

8. What one word can mean both “rubbish” and “old or second-hand articles sold cheaply” but can also be slang for drugs especially heroin?

9. Who released Dylanesque, an album of Bob Dylan covers, in 2007?

10. What in Britain is a large sherry glass but in the U.S.A. a large beer glass?

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. Conan the Destroyer

2. Smack

3. Brigadoon

4. Royal National Lifeboat Institution

5. John Cutter

6. Skiffle

7. Tug-of-war

8. Junk

9. Bryan Ferry

10. Schooner

Can you get the Connection?

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

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ANSWERS with CONNECTING WORDS HIGHLIGHTED

1. Conan the DESTROYER

2. SMACK

3. BRIGadoon

4. Royal National LIFEBOAT Institution

5. John CUTTER

6. SKIFFle

7. TUG-of-war

8. JUNK

9. Bryan FERRY

10. SCHOONER

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 BOATS (i.e. TYPES OF BOATS)

1. DESTROYER

2. SMACK

3. BRIG

4. LIFEBOAT

5. CUTTER

6. SKIFF

7. TUG

8. JUNK

9. FERRY

10. SCHOONER

MORE CONNECTIONS

There are more of these at

Connections  Revisited  Connections Three  Connections Four  Connections Five  Connections Six Connections Seven  Connections Eight  Connections Nine  Connections Ten Connections 11

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