Can you figure out this week's Secret Theme rounds, or are you some sort of bananahead?

Each group of 10 otherwise unrelated tough questions has a theme running through its answers. Can you answer the questions and figure out the themes? Answers will be posted early next week.

Lyon's Den:

1) Which current NHL franchise began as the Kansas City Scouts in 1974?

2) What comic strip, many say the world's first daily, was created by Bud Fisher in 1907?

3) What singer has been backed by The Grease Band since 1966?

4) What 1984 movie, set in Nebraska, was based upon a Stephen King story?

5) Singers named Ruth, Anita and Issa are better known collectively as what act?

6) What do you call the type of logically absurd statement which reveals a paradoxical truth which is traced back to Sir Boyle Roche, but also popularized by Yogi Berra and Sam Goldwyn?

7) Who played Richie Valens in the 1987 movie La Bamba?

8) What English county is known as "Bronte Country"?

9) With what single did former New York Doll David Johansen have a huge hit in 1987?

10) In what 1998 movie did Robin Williams play the real-life founder of the Gesundheit! Institute?

... and what theme links the ten answers?

Drinker's Tavern:

1) What powerful Alaskan senator is the longest-serving current US Senator, having been elected first in 1968?

2) What 1981 David Cronenberg sci-fi film claimed that only 237 of Earth's 4 billion people held the most terrifying power ever?

3) According to Mick Jagger, what happens to troubadours for whom traps are laid?

4) How do you say "left" and "right" in Thai (this is easier than you would expect if you think about it...)?

5) What country did fascist Italy invade in 1935-36?  The name of the country at the time helps with the theme.

6) What real-life Western pioneer was depicted in the 1977 live-action Disney movie ___________ and the Mountain Men?

7) The 23rd state broke off from Massachusetts in 1820; name it.

8) What prime time show, which debuted in 2003, follows the careers of Dr. Dylan Walsh and Dr. Sean McNamara?

9) What male first name means "happy" or "fortunate" in Latin?

10) What classic TV character, an employee of fictional WJM-TV, was partial inspiration for Simpsons character Kent Brockman?

... and what theme links the ten answers?