GuruNet Challenge

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Previous Challenges and winners:

Question: What topic connects Auld Lang Syne to James I?
Answer: Sir Robert Ayton
Winner: Elwira Buszewicz

Question: What topic connects hematite to Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
Answer: Minnesota
Winner: Susan Harper

Question: What topic connects The Amazing Kreskin to pineapple?
Answer: pip
Winner: Donna Radin

Question: What topic connects Huguenots to Alexandre Dumas?
Answer: Duc de Richelieu
Winner: Jim Cronin

Question: What topic connects Allentown to John Marshall?
Answer: Liberty Bell
Winner: David Moses

Question: What topic connects Hypnerotomachia poliphili to occult?
Answer: mysterious or Chaldean
Winner: Roger Mulligan

Question: What topic connects Benjamin Banneker to Hammurabi?
Answer: slavery
Winner: Yulia Ryzhik

Question: What topic connects Beryl Bainbridge to Loch Ness Monster?
Answer: Robert Falcon Scott
Winner: Nick and Erin Farber

Question: What topic connects mumbo-jumbo to Lewis Carroll?
Answer: jabberwocky
Winner: Leonard Probert

Question: What topic connects Act of God to scintillate?
Answer: lightning
Winner: Leon Morales

Question: What topic connects Bill Cosby to Aaron Carter?
Answer: Fat Albert
Winner: Diane Evans

Question: What topic connects snorkel to Mount Vesuvius?
Answer: Pliny the Elder
Winner: Yvette Fanith-Muñoz

Question: What topic connects Brunetto Latini to Isidore of Seville?
Answer: encyclopedia
Winner: Luis Vallespin

Question: What topic connects e-mail spoofing to ROKSO?
Answer: spam
Winner: Nisha Arora

Question: What topic connects Ansari X Prize to Alexis Carrel?
Answer: Charles Lindbergh
Winner: Debra Cannan

Question: What topic connects curling to Lucan?
Answer: Caledonia
Winner: Joe Yu

Question: What topic connects hyperbole to metaphysical poet?
Answer: Andrew Marvell
Winner: Randy Wohl

Question: What topic connects drop like flies to philology?
Answers: Jakob Grimm (the Grimm Brothers)
Winner: Shanqua Harrison

Question: What topic connects Barista to irredentism?
Answers: Trieste and Italy
Winner: Norman Cohen

Question: What topic connects Casey Jones to Sir Walter Scott?
Answer: ballad
Winner: Jean-Pierre Levac

Question: What topic connects dark horse to manifest destiny?
Answer: James Polk
Winner: Johnny Sims

Question: What topic connects Idaho to Kit Carson?
Answer: mountain men
Winner: Melissa Gist

Question: What topic connects bupkes to water lily?
Answer: bean
Winner: Samm Osborne

Question: What topic connects alpenhorn to William Tell?
Answers: ranz des vaches or Switzerland
Winner: Joe Ferrell

Question: What topic connects Fred Flintstone to forehead?
Answer: d'oh
Winner: Michael Anthony Lamb

Question: What topic connects Jack Nicholson to Robert Blake?
Answer: Jimmy Hoffa
Winner: Judah Harstein

Question: What topic connects OSHA to ERISA?
Answer: United States Department of Labor (DOL)
Winner: A.G. Powell

Question: What topic connects alliteration to Sir Robert Cotton?
Answer: Beowulf
Winner: Todor Petrov

Question: What topic connects charango to loofah?
Answer: gourd
Winner: Raquel Biritos

Question: What topic connects Libra to Bootes?
Answer: Arcturus, Virgo, or constellation
Winner: Henry Chou

Question: What topic connects Aaron Copland to Thomas Higginson?
Answer: Emily Dickinson
Winner: Keith Tran

Question: What topic connects Doppler Effect to Big Bang Theory?
Answer: Red Shift
Winner: Khaldoun Sweis

Question: What topic connects jukebox to knight?
Answer: carousel
Winner: Damon Jordan

Question: What topic connects jeremiad to Demosthenes?
Answer: philippic
Winner: Luis Vallespin

Question: What topic connects Bland-Allison Act to lemonade?
Answer: Rutherford Hayes
Winner: David Holtzinger

Question: What topic connects Mike Myers to Jim Carrey?
Answer: Dr. Seuss
Winner: Kurt Kleinmann

Question: What topic connects Prometheus to Frankenstein?
Answer: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Winner: JO McKemy

Question: What topic connects the die is cast to Cisalpine Gaul?
Answer: Rubicon
Winner: Christopher Pagels

Question: What topic connects amphimacer to Robin Williams?
Answer: Peter Pan
Winner: Diane Evans

Question: What topic connects baba ghanoush to drupaceous?
Answer: pistachio
Winner: Megan M. Bowes

Question: What topic connects Harry Potter to Benjamin Franklin?
Answer: Lightning
Winner: Joe Ferrell

Question: What topic connects Charles Schulz to romanticism?
Answer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Winner: Chris Sherman

Question: What topic connects Desiderius Erasmus to Tower of London?
Answer: Sir Thomas More
Winner: Ron Andrews

Question: What topic connects John Kerry to Cotton Mather?
Answer: Yale University or Massachusetts
Winner: Beverly Steele

Question: What topic connects mithridate to Pompey?
Answer: Mithridates VI
Winner: Felix Chua Oen Peng

Question: What topic connects Alan Greenspan to Frank Lloyd Wright?
Answer: Ayn Rand
Winner: Jerry Simons

Question: What topic connects preterition to apophasis?
Answer: paraleipsis
Winner: Sam Freedenberg

Question: What topic connects Richard Nixon to Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.?
Answer: Alger Hiss or Supreme Court
Winner: Daniel Roberts

Question: What topic connects daedal to pendentive?
Answer: Byzantine
Winner: Jom Jose

Question: What topic connects carpe diem to Marcus Junius Brutus?
Answer: Horace
Winner: Chris Warber

Question: What topic connects hornswoggle to abscond?
Answer: absquatulate
Winner: Teresa Hansen

Question: What topic connects Kathleen Turner to Bugs Bunny?
Answers: Jessica Rabbit, Roger Rabbit, or Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Winner: Newt MacCormack

Question: What topic connects Peace to Earth?
Answers: World
Winner: Rangaprabhu Narayana

Question: What topic connects goodwill to mankind?
Answers: philanthropy
Winner: Patrick Brady

Question: What topic connects haiku to Marc Chagall?
Answers: nature
Winner: Luis Vallespin

Question: What topic connects Muhammad Ali to dolphin kick?
Answers: butterfly
Winner: Sally Basile

Question: What topic connects Theodosius II to Corpus Juris Civilis?
Answers: Theodosian Code or Roman Law
Winner: Claudia Vinacur

Question: What topic connects Sydney to Copenhagen?
Answers: Jorn Utzon
Winner: Willo Boe

Question: What topic connects citron to nanometer?
Answers: orange, yellow, or green
Winner: Catherine Lewis

Question: What topic connects Andes to Britain?
Answers: Falkland Islands
Winner: Odessa Swan

Question: What topic connects Catherine Zeta-Jones to Queben Elizabeth II?
Answers: Sir Sean Connery
Winner: Barbara Biggs

Question: What topic connects Bladensburg Pike to "We have met the enemy, and they are ours"?
Answers: War of 1812
Winner: Sly Petit

Question: What topic connects Doric Order to acropolis?
Answers: Parthenon, Greek Architecture, or Athens
Winner: Mark Harpe

Question: What topic connects Arwen Evenstar to Ben Affleck?
Answer: Liv Tyler
Winner: Candace Elmhirst

Question: What topic connects Samuel Gridley Howe to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"?
Answer: Julia Ward Howe
Winner: James L. Richey

Question: What topic connects cyclotron to atom smasher?
Answer: particle accelerator
Winner: Anshul Joshi

Question: What topic connects chaos to Warsaw?
Answer: Benoit Mandelbrot
Winner: David Hale

Question: What topic connects Mel Gibson to The Taming of the Shrew?
Answer: Heath Ledger
Winner: Susan Harper

Question: What topic connects Louis Armstrong to Cary Grant?
Answers: Grace Kelly or High Society
Winner: Jennifer Rakow

Question: What topic connects jiffy to ohnosecond?
Answers: millisecond or nanosecond
Winner: Johnny C. Sims

Question: What topic connects R2-D2 to Anne Frank?
Answer: Natalie Portman
Winner: John Houck

Question: What topic connects Annie Oakley to ZaSu Pitts?
Answer: Ethel Merman
Winner: Luis Fontes

Question: What topic connects mugwump to vulcanize?
Answer: Grover Cleveland
Winner: Mayank Mehrota

Question: What topic connects doomsayer to Trojan War?
Answer: Cassandra
Winner: Steve Eagleson

Question: What topic connects Virginia Woolf to John Maynard Keynes?
Answers: Bloomsbury Group or Leonard Woolf
Winner: Elka Popova

Question: What topic connects ignis fatuus to eidolon?
Answer: phantasm or phantasma
Winner: Steven Lazare

Question: What topic connects mandamus to John Marshall?
Answers: Marbury v. Madison or Supreme Court
Winner: Max Holloway

Question: What topic connects dialectic to Stuttgart?
Answer: Georg Hegel
Winner: Nga Ma

Question: What topic connects Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Gates?
Answers: Monopoly or Sherman Antitrust Act
Winner: Alex Vinokur

Question: What topic connects Anthony Hopkins to J.R.R. Tolkein?
Answer: C. S. Lewis
Winner: Susan Harper

Question: What topic connects civil disobedience to transcendentalism?
Answer: Henry David Thoreau
Winner: Jeff Cheung

Question: What topic connects Beethoven to rheumatic fever?
Answer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Winner: Elizabeth Gengl

Question: What topic connects comedy to black bile?
Answer: humor
Winner: Alston D'Silva

Question: What topic connects Dr. Seuss to Mark Twain?
Answer: nom de plume
Winner: Robert Clark 

Question: What topic connects Harrison Ford to Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.?
Answer: clear and present danger
Winner: Kirill Katsnelson 

Question: What topic connects tofu to limestone?
Answer: calcium
Winner: James Banaszak 

Question: What topic connects King Arthur to John F. Kennedy?
Answer: Camelot
Winner: Christina Mahaffey 

Thanks for playing,
The GuruNet Team