Connections by BillPennington

1. The business of Star Trek 2. Home of Shakira and Escobar 3. Contender for the title 4. The original Natural History TV channel 5. Some say it was actually the Greek island of Santorini 6. Captain James Cook tried hard

1. A dominant male 2. Sony’s video format 3. High energy ionising radiation 4. Robert Johnson’s blues 5. The fifth brightest star in a constellation

1. Places for horses in a barn or stable 2. The Tour de France is divided into these 3. In Rugby Union, these players usually wear numbers 11 and 14 4. Where a fashion model struts his or her stuff 5. To seek to influence a legislator on an issue

1. New York Harbour, USA - one from 1886 2. Trafalgar Square, London - one each year from 1947 3. Ottawa, Canada - 20,000 per year since 1953 4. National Zoo, Washington DC - two since 1972 5. Left outside the city walls - one circa 1200 BCE

1. Medium sized, burrowing nocturnal mammal native to Africa 2. US Secretary of State from 2005-2009 3. Means of transport on snow 4. British battlecruiser sunk by the German raider Bismarck in the Battle of the Denmark Strait, 1941 5. Space devoid of air or matter

1. American crooner, TV and movie performer, born with the first name Pierino, famous for Dream Along with Me 2. English nurse who was also one of the world’s first health statisticians and epidemiologists 3. Czech-born writer of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Joke 4. Type of egg-shaped and firm plum tomato 5. District of Los Angeles and the home of Muscle Beach

1. In low melting point alloys 2. As a poison 3. “O for a muse of fire” 4. Be present in gemstones 5. He was found in the sun

1. Bob Marley’s female backing singers (Germany) 2. The main organ of transpiration and photosynthesis (Japan, USA and Britain) 3. Serbian-American physicist (USA, China) 4. District on the western coast of Hawaii, meaning “leeward” (Korea)

1. Mr Mojo Risin’ 2. Author of The Ballad of Reading Gaol 3. The Little Sparrow 4. Lover of George Sand 5. The Divine Sarah

1. Roman equivalent of Eros 2. For example: Hale-Bopp, Kohoutek and Halley 3. A female fox 4. Nureyev (two possible answers)

1. The American seismologist who proposed a scale to measure the relative strength of earthquakes, which was introduced in 1935 and named after him. 2. A measure of the acidity or alkalinity of a solution. 3. The unit of sound intensity, named after the inventor of the telephone. 4. The name for the brightness of stars, either apparent or absolute.

1. 1947 Broadway musical, made into a 1968 film starring Fred Astaire, Tommy Steele and Petula Clark, and directed by Francis Ford Coppola 2. Band formed in 1975 by guitarist Richie Blackmore 3. Oscar, 52nd Academy Awards (The Muppet Movie) 4. Oscar, 12th Academy Awards (Wizard of Oz)