Commonalities
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The words in each set have a common connection, something that bonds all three of them in some way, shared features or characteristics...a manifestation of common attributes. Can you find a Commonality?  = 1. RUBBER..VULNERABLE..SLAM = 2. COPERNICUS..BRAHE..KEPLER = 3. MONKEY WRENCH..MASON JAR..MORSE CODE = 4. FINE..HOWARD..HOWARD = 5. SUNDAY..RABBIT..KIDNEY = 6. RIN..SEN..YEN = 7. NAIL..CAR..GOLF BALL = 8. REGULAR..PREMIUM..UNLEADED = 9. STROMBOLI..CLEO..GEPPETTO = 10. GRANATELLI..FITTIPALDI..SULLIVAN 
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Re: Commonalities
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Re: Commonalities
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3. items named after their inventors
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Re: Commonalities
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Hints...  First televised in 1921 Really popular in the 50s 
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For #3, it seems there is some controversy about the inventor of the monkey wrench. I found this info in Wikipedia.
This story can be found in various publications from the late 19th and early 20th centuries:
"That handy tool, the 'monkey-wrench', is not so named because it is a handy thing to monkey with, or for any kindred reason. 'Monkey' is not its name at all, Charles Moncky, the inventor of it, sold his patent for $5000, and invested the money in a house in Williamsburg, Kings County, where he now lives."
Although this story was refuted by historical and patent research in the late 19th century, it appears to have been inspired by a real person. A Charles Monk (not Moncky) lived in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn in the 1880s where he made and sold moulder's tools, not mechanics' tools like a monkey wrench. He could not have invented or named the monkey wrench because he was born after the term first appeared in print.
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