Can you find the links that connect the rock band to the Glimmerglass Opera?

How could Britain’s former prime minister possibly be linked to the mute, bald, blue guys?

How is Vice President Dick Cheney connected to both the TV show Friends and Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzerelli, a character in the TV show Happy Days?

Rapper, actor and producer Snoop Dogg may be a convicted felon as well as a hip-hop impresario, but he is a well-connected one – boasting indirect ties to some of America’s most powerful bluebloods.

How is Speaker Nancy Pelosi connected to the actress Uma Thurman?

How is Major General George Patton’s African mission connected to Israel’s rescue of several dozen hostages in Uganda more than 30 years later?

Decades ago, Truman Capote invented a party game he called “International Daisy Chain.”

Politics, personality and time would have prevented them from ever becoming chums.

How is the aviation pioneer, accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, connected to the Jewish newspaper mogul?

The publisher of The New York Times is extremely well connected, but who knew he had ties to old-time Hollywood?

What does the svelte R&B diva have in common with the portly Food Network chef?

Barbara Walters doesn’t usually hang with British rockers, but it’s a short, straight line connecting her to Eric Clapton.

Cascadilla Creek cuts through one of Ithaca, New York’s famously gorgeous gorges and then moseys through residential downtown. On its northern bank, as it passes under North Aurora Street, sits a large, slate-roofed, circa-1913 house. In the 1970s it was Teen Challenge, a faith-based drug treatment center. Then, it passed into the hands of the Sherman family (including this writer), who sold it to an architect, who sold it, indirectly to the Dalai Lama.

The path from the material girl to the accused Communist sympathizer is a shameful one in American political history.

How is industrialist Cornelius Vanderbilt linked to swashbuckling actor Douglas Fairbanks?

Two rival newspaper publishing families, the Hearsts and the Pulitzers, can now be connected through fashion.