Take a shot at figuring out this week's Secret Themes

Each group of 10 otherwise unrelated questions has a theme running through their answers. Can you answer the questions and figure out the theme? Answers will be posted in a few days.

Ray's:

1) What's the vitamin Thiamine better known as?
2) What psychologist became nationally famous in 1955 by appearing on The $64,000 Question quiz show as a boxing expert?
3) What American colony, one of the original 13, had its original capital at Charlestown?
4) In what year did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor?
5) What R'n'B chart hit for Little Willie John in 1956 became Peggy Lee's biggest hit song of her career as a cover in 1958?
6) According to author A.A. Milne, who lives "at the other end of the Forest?"
7) According to the Steve Miller Band's 1973 hit "The Joker," what do people call me... 'cause I speak of the pompitous of love?
8) What successful American singer-songwriter wrote a number of commercial jingles, including "You Deserve a Break Today" for McDonald's?
9) What country's mainland was first spotted by Europeans in 1606, by a Dutch navigator named Willem Janszoon?
10) What mystery location might or might not have been discovered by Dr. Ernst Gräfenberg?

... and what theme links the 10 answers?

Frank's:

1) Who played Chief Bill Gillespie on the TV series In the Heat of the Night?
2) What is the plant Camelia sinensis better known as? You likely have some at home right now.
3) What backyard game has rule variations known as Snake, Zombie and Poison?
4) What mythical creature has the body of a lion and the head, wings and talons of an eagle?
5) In 2005 the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food Safety released a controversial report that stated a certain animal probably can't feel pain - what animal?
6) What 1994 movie was a vehicle for Saturday Night Live's Julia Sweeney?
7) In 1995, after a 17 month strike, the United Auto Workers suffered one of their worst strategic defeats in history. What company were they striking against?
8) In what 2004 film does David Carradine play a character codenamed Snake Charmer?
9) What Jefferson Airplane album, recorded in 1966 and released in 1967, was the first to feature vocalist Grace Slick?
10) Since 1972, this event has been the first electoral event in choosing a US president - what is it?

... and what theme links the 10 answers?