Nice, the route I found went throught “List of Comedic Science Fiction Movies”, which feels like cheating.
Here goes:
John Candy ->Space Balls -> Star Wars -> Could go direct to Christopher Lee via the cast table, but that’s cheating so…->Episode II: Attack of the Clones->Christopher Lee -> CStJ -> St. John Eye Hospital Group
Next challenge:
St. John Eye Hospital Group to
Eye of the Tiger
St_John_Eye_Hospital_Group -> Venerable_Order_of_St_John -> United_States -> Philadelphia ->Rocky -> Rocky_III -> Eye_of_the_Tiger
Feeling lucky?:
Eye_of_the_Tiger -> Tiger’s Eye
Eye_of_the_Tiger->MTV->Cell_phone->Conflict_minerals->Wolframite->Quartz->Tiger’s_eye
Tiger’s eye -> Namibia -> Zambia -> Lake Tanganyika -> Tanganyika sardine -> Tigerfish -> Goliath tigerfish
Let’s make a movie:
Goliath tigerfish -> David and Goliath (2013 film)
Goliath_tigerfish->River_Monsters->Gharial->India->Malayalam_cinema->Jayasurya->David_and_Goliath_(2013_film)
David & Goliath (film) > Malayalam cinema > Kerala > India > Empress of India > Queen Victoria > Victoria Medal of Honor > Charles Maries > Acer davidii
Next round:
Acer davidii > Stroker Ace
Probably ridiculously overcomplicated, but:
Acer davidii -> Maple -> Canada -> Sports in Canada -> NASCAR -> Charlotte Motor Speedway -> Speedway Motorsports -> Atlanta Motor Speedway -> Stroker Ace.
Whew!
No, that looked pretty straightforward to me. Nicely done.
Stroker Ace > Jack Nicholson > Academy Award > Academy Award for Best Picture > Wings (film) > The Red Baron in popular culture > Manfred von Richthofen
Manfred von Richthofen > Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
No nations or cities were used in this.
Using the Category Feature (7 steps)
Manfred von Richthofen
The Red Baron in popular culture
Tori Amos
Atlantic Records
Warner Bros Records
Category: Warner Bros Records
Category: Warner Bros Records Artists
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Not using the Category Feature (8 steps)
Manfred von Richthofen
The Red Baron in popular culture
Tori Amos
Atlantic Records
Columbia Records
List of Columbia Records Artists
Bruce Springsteen
Spirit in the Night
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band
Next up:
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band ----> Eriodictyon crassifolium
It can be done in 4 steps.
Resurrecting this game because I had fun with it and why not!
But I’m stumped on this one. The articles might have changed in the mean time.
Here’s a new one:
Liverpool City Council –> Baikushev’s pine
Can be done in 3 clicks.
Liverpool City Council –> Joe Anderson (politician) –> Bulgaria –> Baikushev’s pine
…and using the Random article link:
Baikushev’s pine –> List of oldest trees –> Scotland –> Rangers F.C. –> List of Rangers F.C. seasons –> 1892–93 Rangers F.C. season
next:
You’ll forgive me for not hyperlinking everything:
1892–93 Rangers F.C. season -> Kinning Park -> News UK -> News Corp -> Mass media -> BBC One -> Television channel -> Lists of television channels -> List of Nepali television stations -> Image Channel
Had to go through a few lists, so negative points to Johnny Bravo.
Next:
Image Channel -> Look at Yourself
I assume that it’s not cheating to work the problem from both ends? I’ve never heard of Look at Yourself, nor its band, nor its members. But, once I saw that it was an album, I figured I could get to it geographically. Town pages often list the famous people from that place. Once I identified such an example, it wasn’t too hard to find a path through.
Image Channel -> English Language -> English Language in England -> Countries of the United Kingdom -> London -> Essex -> Epping Forest District -> Epping, Essex -> David Byron -> Uriah Heep -> Look at Yourself
I’m sure there’s a shorter path from English Language to London, but the OP doesn’t seem to require brevity.
Anyways, the new one is:
Limes > Fields > Arable Land > Food and Agriculture Organization > Agriculture > Fossil Fuel > Ecosystem > Earth > Planetary System > Red Giant > Sakurai’s Object
Ouch my head…
Planck Constant to Kevin Bacon
Planck constant –> Continuous function –> Mathematics –> History of mathematics –> Erdös number –> Kevin Bacon
There were a lot of paths for the latter part (I could have replaced History of Mathematics with Paul Erdös, for instance), but it was surprisingly hard to find the connection between Planck constant and mathematics.
EDIT:
Oh, and using one I looked up recently, Kevin Bacon to Christmas in the Trenches
Though there’s probably a path within the entertainment industry.
Kevin Bacon > Kevin Bacon filmography > Frost/Nixon (film) > Richard Nixon > World War II > Nazi Germany > German Empire > Western Front (World War I) > Joyeux Noël > Christmas truce > Christmas in the Trenches
The next one would be:
Christmas in the Trenches >>> Cabaret Mechanical Theatre
(I have verified that there is a couple paths through to it.)