Six Degrees of Wikipedia

[Zombie Protestor]

This should be fun! Someone issues two things as a challenge, and the first to come up with a series of links that takes you from the Wikipedia page of the first thing to the Wikipedia page about the second thing in 6 or less steps wins, and in turn, issues their own challenge. The starting point does not count as a step.

Example: Dog --> Paperclip.

Answer: Dog --> Police Dogs --> Police --> Rudy Giuliani --> World Trade Center Site --> Paperclip

So, first challenge:

Newspaper --> Zeus

EDIT: Edited for clarity.

[Nik]

Newspaper -> horoscope -> astrologer -> Mesopotamia-> Zeus


Do I get a bonus for doing it in only 5 degrees?

[EvilJekyll]

Answer: Newspaper --> Weather --> Thunderstorm --> Lightning --> Zeus

New one:

Chili Peppers --> GTA3

[Nik]

Okay, my challenge is Coconut -> Judy Garland

Good luck!

[Nik]

Dammit, now who gets it?

[EvilJekyll]

ZP needs to decide as he is contest manager.

[Nik]

I like my challenge better. But it's harder.

Also, someone should keep score for this game, dammit. I like scores. Makes me feel important.

[Zombie Protestor]

Chili Pepper --> Endorphin --> Morphine --> Heroin --> Illegal Drug Trade --> Grand Theft Auto (Series) --> Grand Theft Auto III

Um... my challenge is Coconut --> Judy Garland, as Nik suggested.

There, problem solved.

[giantsfan97]

Coconut --> California --> Hollywood --> Hollywood Walk of Fame --> List of stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame --> Judy Garland

I hope I did that right.



Dunkin Donuts --> First Law of Thermodynamics

[Zombie Protestor]

Alternately, Coconut --> Tropical/Tropics --> Madagascar --> Dreamworks --> The Walt Disney Company --> Beauty and the Beast --> Judy Garland.

Anyways, proceed. Hope you guys are enjoying this little game I've made.

[Nik]

I did it an even more complicated way, heh, so good job guys for making it easier. I too like this game quite a lot.

[EvilJekyll]

Hm, is this one over?
Dunkin' Donuts --> Hash Browns --> Toaster --> Fire --> Thermal Energy --> Thermodynamics --> First law of thermodynamics

[pitnyelder]

Hm, is this one over?
Dunkin' Donuts --> Hash Browns --> Toaster --> Fire --> Thermal Energy --> Thermodynamics --> First law of thermodynamics

Don't finish one without suggesting a new one!

Since you didn't, I will, courtesy two random things on my desk.

Calculator --> Dr Pepper

[Portals]

Calculator --> Private Label --> Store Brand --> Dr Pepper

I got it in four... Is that okay?

Here's my suggestion:
Backpack --> Thermometer

[Itszutak]

backpack-->thermal pad-->body heat (Not counting the disambiguation here. Is that allowed?)-->temperature-->Fahrenheit-->thermometer.

>_>

Also: Headphone-->John Logie Baird

[Chrono Crow]

Backpack -> Metal -> Periodic Table (is that cheating?) -> mercury -> Thermometer

[DarthCat]

Out of curiosity, is everyone making sure these actually work before suggesting them? Because if not these are some rather impressive coincidences.

[Itszutak]

DO NOT DOUBT THE POWER OF WIKIPEDIA

IT WILL CRUSH YOU

actually, it seems to me that most of these can be done in many ways; and if you can't find a way, there's always editing wik-nevermind. >_>

[Chrono Crow]

Yeah, let's not start out on a stub page, please.

I HATE stub pages.

[Itszutak]

(Before issuing a challenge, make sure that it can be accomplished.)

>_>;

And, in accordance to the rules, I changed my challenge.

[sum yun gai]

even better challenge: actually read each article you link to and don't just jump from one to the next trying to make the connection! there *will* be a quiz later.

[kzager]

Headphone-->John Logie Baird

(Is that cheating?)

[Chrono Crow]

even better challenge: actually read each article you link to and don't just jump from one to the next trying to make the connection! there *will* be a quiz later.

fork that.

[EvilJekyll]

Argh, one over:
Headphone --> Telephone --> Western Union --> Category:Companies_listed_on_the_New_York_Stock_Exchange --> Category:Companies_listed_on_the_New_York_Stock_Exchange&from=K --> Kimberly- Clark --> Kleenex

If this is acceptable then my next challange is:
St. Bartholomew --> mitocondria.

[kzager]

St. Bartholomew --> St. Bartholomew's Hospital --> Molecular biology --> Cell --> Cell (biology) --> Mitochondrion

Hippopotamus --> Kettle