1. Before maple became popular in the late 1990s, nearly all Major League Baseball bats were made of what wood?

2. In what 1997 Mariah Carey hit does she sing that “sugar never ever was so sweet” as her baby’s love?

3. What hurricane, which made landfall near Atlantic City, N.J., in October 2012, was the second most destructive in U.S. history?

4. What fruit flavor is the third stripe in a container of Neapolitan ice cream?

5. What is the rarest of all the speculatively traded precious metals, 30 times scarcer than gold?

What’s the "Kennection" between all five answers?