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[hobbitomm]

What links…..?

1) Christopher Reeve, Stalin, David McCallum
2) Clark Savage Jr MD, Roger Bacon, Homer’s sky
3) The US’ first manned space project, The third movement of the Planets
4) The Paradoxes of Defence, an Orienteering tool
5) Cyprus and a Policeman?
6) A Navigation aid, a form of display and a Heavy (?metal?) balloon?
7) 5c and the base of a policeman?
8) A treatment for Rheumatism with the ultimate Olympian accolade?
9) An unelected leader of a minor state and a can of food.
10) Oberon’s Queen, and the giant enemies of Zeus?

And what connects them all?

Comments

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

Ungoogled. I'll post in a bit after I've had a good Google :-)
1. Superman/Kryptonite, ?, Man from UNCLE?.
2. ?, alchemist/philosopher , crystal spheres?
3. Mercury?, Mercury
4. ?, map/compass?
5. ?, copper.
6. Lead (as in dog: guide dog), LED?, Led (Zeppelin)
7. Nickel, the nick
8. Gold? bracelet, Gold medal.
9. Tinpot dictator, tin.
10. Titania, Titans.
Connection: I feel a certain periodicity coming on ;-)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Quite so ;)

You're right on 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 1 2 and 4 are heading in the right direction :)

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

1. Er, apparently Superman once captured Stalin. Or is it Iron curtain? Sapphire and Steel?
2. Bronze. Doc Savage, Man of Bronze; RB was supposed to have Bronze head spouting prophecies (that's a bugger to find, Tom!), spheres of BRONZE.
3. Mercury
4. Silver (author; orienteering? compasses used to be floated in quicksilver...but that's mercury...)
5. Copper (main export of; nickname for)
6. Lead
7. Nickel
8. Gold
9. Tin
10. Titania

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

*cackle*

All correct.
4 you might want to try spelling badly :)

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

*reads the other answers*
Silva. Grrr :-)

[juanfandango.livejournal.com]

I mean of course titanium!

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Now try the next quiz :)

[hobbitomm.livejournal.com]

Oh, and the Copper/Cyprus link is 'Cuprum', the name for Cyprus, as well as the source for the symbol 'Cu'