Masfon's Fifth Common Bond Quiz

Answer: 1939

Lee Majors is an American actor, with a career spanning nearly 60 years. He is best known for playing Colonel Steve Austin, a test pilot who is fitted with artificial bionic limbs and vision after a crash, in the television series "The Six Million Dollar Man". Paul Sorvino, who died in 2022, was also an American television and film actor, known for his numerous performances on both the law enforcement and the criminal sides of the law. Both actors were born in 1939.

In the same year, 1939, the German cargo ship SS Minden was going from Rio de Janeiro to Germany and it was believed that she carried four tons of gold from the Banco Germanico (a branch of Dresdner Bank). On September 24, 1939, while sailing between Iceland and Faroe Islands, she was intercepted by two British cruisers. According to the orders to be followed in this situation, the ship and all its cargo were scuttled by her crew. The shipwreck was discovered in 2017 off the coast of Iceland; after several forays into the remains of the ship, the report from the company in charge of operations stated: "It was confirmed that no items of value were found".

Answer: Erwin

Erwin Rommel (1891 - 1944) was a German army commander in World War II. He was known for his actions on the Italian Front, in France, with the Afrika Korps against the allies in North Africa, and other campaigns. He received the nickname "Desert Fox" for his audacious surprise attacks. He was very popular at home and was respected by his enemies. Because he was implicated in the July Plot to kill Adolf Hitler, he was forced to take poison, thus avoiding being sentenced to death by Hitler.

Erwin Schrödinger (1887 - 1961) was a theoretical physicist. He, along with Paul A. M. Dirac, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1933 for their work on quantum mechanics, the same year that he left Germany due to his opposition to Nazism. In 1938, he joined the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, where he remained until retirement in 1955. He also made contributions to philosophy and the history of science.

Answer: Anna

"Anna and the King of Siam" (1944) is a semi-fictionalized biographical novel by the American writer Margaret Landon. It was based on the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, a widow with two young children, who was invited by King Mongkut (Rama IV) king of Siam (now Thailand) to teach his children and wives the English language and introduce them to British customs. Anna wrote two volumes of memoirs about the five years she spent in the country in the early 1860s.

In 1956, the musical film named "The King and I", was released, directed by Walter Lang and starring Deborah Kerr, Yul Brynner, Rita Moreno and others. It was a critical and commercial success and was nominated for nine Oscars, winning five, including Best Actor for Yul Brynner.

Answer: Kusnacht

Küsnacht is a small municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland.

Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955) was a German writer, essayist, and social critic whose early novels were "Buddenbrooks", "Death in Venice" and "The Magic Mountain". According to The Novel Prize website, Thomas Mann received the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature primarily for his initial novel "Buddenbrooks", published in 1901. This fact is rare because the prize is usually awarded for an author's later work. When Hitler became chancellor in 1933, Mann took up residence in Küsnacht, Switzerland, where he lived until 1939.

Another distinguished resident of Küsnacht was Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961). He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology and whose work had much influence on psychology, anthropology, philosophy, etc. His clinic in Küsnacht attracted patients from all over the world. It was there that he died in 1961 and where the C.G. Jung House Museum was established.

Answer: Bullock

Bullock is the surname of the main actress in the movie "The Blind Side". Sandra Bullock, née Sandra Annette Bullock (1964 -), is an American actress and film producer. Her film debut was in "Hangmen" (1987) and on television she starred in "Bionic Showdown: The Six Million Dollar Man and the Bionic Woman" (1989). From there she began a very prolific and successful career in various genres. In 1995 she founded a film and television production company.

In 2010, Sandra Bullock received an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film "The Blind Side". She also received an Oscar nomination for her performance in the acclaimed drama "Gravity" (2013).

Answer: Ike

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower, was born David Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969), but his mother reversed his two forenames to avoid the confusion of having two Davids in the family (his father was also named David). Furthermore, he was nicknamed "Little Ike" and later just "Ike". The nickname was intended to be an abbreviation of the family's last name

Eisenhower was a military officer who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. His campaign was noted for the simple slogan "Ike for President" sometimes referred to as "We'll take Ike" or "I Like Ike".

The animated political television advertisement was conceived by Jacqueline Cochran, a campaign staff member, and Roy O. Disney, of the Walt Disney Company, and produced by Disney volunteers. The advertising jingle turned "Ike for President" into a famous catchphrase, an appeal that transcended the candidate's party. Time Magazine later ranked "Ike for President" at number eight on its list of top ten campaign advertisements. Eisenhower won the election by a large margin. As a reminder, by 1952 about 40% of Americans had television and the 1952 election was the first presidential election in which TV played an important role.

Answer: Queen

Queen was a British rock band formed by Brian May (guitar and vocals), Freddie Mercury (piano and lead vocals), Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), and John Deacon (bass), who joined the band later. Before the release of Queen's debut album in 1973, Freddie Mercury, who had attended art college, created the Queen's logo, called the "Queen Crest".

In this artwork, Mercury combined the Zodiac sign of all four band members: two lions for Roger Taylor and John Deacon, who are of Leo, a crab for guitarist Brian May, who is a Cancer, and a pair of fairies for Mercury, who was a Virgo himself. Part of the crest is visible on 2020 commemorative coins issued by the Royal Mint, celebrating the band's legacy.

Answer: Live Aid

On July 13, 1985, an international event was held with the aim of raising funds to ease the hunger of the Ethiopian population. The concert called "Live Aid" was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and at the John F. Kennedy Stadium in South Philadelphia.

In addition, some artists performed in Sydney, Moscow, and Japan. It is estimated that around two million people in over 100 countries watched the show live, an impressive number considering that the event took place in 1985.

Answer: The Best

The FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association - is an international entity, founded in 1904, which brings together football, beach soccer, and futsal associations and oversees international competitions among the national associations of more than 200 associated countries, that are aggregated in six regional confederations.

Since 2016, FIFA annually holds an awards ceremony, named "The Best" FIFA Football Awards, which recognizes the team and individual achievements in international association football. Individually, the top men's player and the top women's player are awarded "The Best": the best player, the best goalkeeper, and the best coach award.

Answer: Tina Turner

The fantastic singer, songwriter, actress, and writer Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock (answers 3 and 5). Tina was born on November 26, 1939 (answer 1) and died on May 24, 2023, in the municipality of Küsnacht, Zürich, Switzerland (answer 4). She was known as the "Queen of Rock'n'Roll" (answer 7).

Her success as a performer began as the lead singer of the "Ike & Tina Turner Duo" (answer 6); Ike Turner was her husband from 1962 to 1978. After the divorce, Tina began her successful solo career, not only in music but also in film and literature. One of Tina's most memorable performances took place in July 1985 in Philadelphia during the Live Aid concert (answer 8). At this time Tina joined Mick Jagger and the two sang "State of Shock" and "It's Only Rock'n'Roll", in front of 100,000 people. In 1989, Tina released the album "Foreign Affair", which sold over six million copies worldwide. This album includes the international hit single "The Best" (answer 9).

In 1986, Tina met the German music executive Erwin Bach (answer 2). Soon after they met they began dating and in July 2013 they married on the banks of Lake Zurich in Küsnacht, Switzerland, where they lived and where she passed away in 2023.