Six Degrees of Wikipedia

This game was played on the board once before, and for whatever reason I got an immense amount of amusement out of it. I’m sure everyone is familiar with the old time-killer Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon – this is the Information Age’s twist.

The game is played as such:

The poster above you will present two, entirely unrelated (or so it seems!) Wikipedia links. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to link those two pages with as few clicks as possible. The only acceptable method of doing so is by finding a link on the first page, clicking it, finding a link on the second page, clicking it, and so forth, until you manage to navigate your way to the final page.

For instance, if the puzzle “Dalmatian to Cleavage” was presented, one could click the link to “toes” on the Dalmatian page. From there, one could click “toe cleavage,” then “breast cleavage” which redirects to “Cleavage (breasts).” The solution to “Dalmatian to Cleavage” would be Dalmatian > Toe > Toe Cleavage > Breast Cleavage > Cleavage (Breasts).

Special Notes:
You may not use the Wikipedia search function to find useful pages. You must navigate solely through the use of in-text links.

Clicking a picture is an acceptable way of moving from one topic to another (for instance, if a picture is linked to more than one article, you may use that picture to get from article one to article two). If you do this, please note it in your solution.

The title of this post is misleading in a way – the specific number of degrees isn’t all that important, excepting that a solution with fewer steps is preferred.

My MPSIMS thread started mere minutes ago reveals that I am, at the moment, a nervous wreck, so be aware that hilarious puzzles and fun solutions will calm me down, amuse me, and possibly help me to nail a job interview tomorrow. My fate is in your hands.
For your first challenge, I defy you to link:

Strange Quark to Candy Corn

Okay, here goes. I hope that the inclusion of the “holiday portal” isn’t technically breaking the rules, but since it’s still in the wikipedia.org domain, I figured it would be okay.

Strange quark links to:
Murray Gell-Mann, which links to:
Jewish, which links to:
Jewish holiday, which links to:
religious festivals, which links to:
portal: Holidays, which links to:
holidays, which links to:
Halloween, which links to:
Candy corn.

Phew. I feel like someone could probably do that in fewer links.

Am I supposed to give out a new challenge? If so, here it is:

Smocking to Lego

Whoops, yes! I forgot to mention that, and you’re right MsWhatsit, I hoped each solution would be followed by the solver’s idea for the next puzzle. Thanks for doing that!

And yes, the portal link is fine. Staying within the Wikipedia domain is the important part. Great solution!

I figured clicking on the Contents or main page links and navigating from there was against the spirit of the idea, if not, that could be the easier way since the physics articles are pretty isolated to their own area for links. So I followed the rule of only using links in the body of the article itself including sidebars but not the wiki standard links on the left.

Strange Quark
Linear Combination
Zero
English Language
United States
Cuisine of the United States
Pumpkins
Halloween
Candy Corn
Edit: I see I was abit late with my answer but if someone wants a new puzzle to try:

Leo (astrology) to Chocolate

Smocking to England to Denmark to Lego.

Darth Vader to Irish Whiskey

Darth Vader - Wikipedia to
Ewan McGregor - Wikipedia to
Irish Film & Television Academy - Wikipedia to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_culture to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_cuisine to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Irish_Whiskey to
Irish whiskey - Wikipedia
Next up: Robert The Bruce to Nikki Sixx.

Nice! I was looking for a Alec Guiness to Sinn fein to (?) link.

So this one isn’t left hanging: Leo (astrology) to Gold to Cental America to Mexico to Chocolate.

(Back to Robert the Bruce to Nikki Sixx)

Hoo boy: Robert the Bruce to Braveheart to Mel Gibson to Alcoholism to Driving Under the Influence to Drugs to Heroin to Nikki Sixx.

Pulsars to the Dropkick Murphys.

Pulsar
1990
1990 in music
Southern Culture on the Skids
Punk
Punk Rock
Celtic punk
Dropkick Murphys

board book to Maronite church

Board book (cruel beginning!) to binding to Karl Binding to Friedrich Nietzsche to Christianity to Eastern Christianity to Maronite Church. Whew.

Next up: Errol Morris to quipu.

Board book
Binding
Flax
Vermont
Christian
Roman Catholic
Eastern Catholic
Maronite Church

Karate to Border Collie.

New one:
Flodafors to Raisin Bran

Almost cruely unfair, but I decided to go with the first two enties I got from clicking on “Random Article”.

Errol Morris
United States
U.S. Census
Census
Quipu

Back to: Flodafors to Raisin Bran.

Flodafors
Sweden
French Cuisine
Grape
Raisin
Raisin Bran

Marshmallow to Jung Koo Chang

Curse you! I got it in six by going Errol Morris - Werner Herzog - Aguirre, the wrath of God - Pizarro - Inca Empire - Quipu. That’s what I get for going the obvious route…

That got almost comically long:

Marshmallow
Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
McDonald’s
South Korea
Sport in South Korea
boxing
World Boxing Council
List of WBC world champions
Jung Koo Chang

Next challenge:
grains of paradise (a.k.a. Aframomum melegueta) to Ken Jennings

grains of paradise (a.k.a. Aframomum melegueta) to Ken Jennings
Grains of Paradise Aframomum melegueta - Wikipedia
Beer Beer - Wikipedia
Alcoholic Beverage Alcoholic beverage - Wikipedia
Utah Utah - Wikipedia
Ken Jennings Ken Jennings - Wikipedia

Next challenge:
Rami Fortis ( Rami Fortis - Wikipedia ) to Subaru (Subaru - Wikipedia)

Discographies make it easy: years.

Challenge:

to

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_reaction_(disambiguation)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Reaction_(artscene_group)

Jesus, that was a long walk for a short drink!

Hmmm…okay:

to