10 Question Average Common Bond Trivia

1. Which play (1922), motion picture (1928, 1946) and radio programme (1942-1945) was about the marriage of an Irish Catholic girl and a Jewish man?

From Quiz In Pursuit of the Wily Common Bond, No. 1

Answer: Abie's Irish Rose

Every production of Anne Nichols' play, "Abie's Irish Rose" evoked complaints from various quarters. Neither Jewish organizations nor Roman Catholic organizations responded well to what was perceived as a "mixed marriage." Yet the play ran on Broadway from 1922 to 1927 and enjoyed two revivals: 1937 and 1954. The movie gave rise to an important case in copyright law, Nichols v. Universal Pictures Corp., 45 F.2d 119 (2d Cir. 1930), written by Judge Learned Hand. The court held that copyright does not extend to stock characters.

From Quiz Sporty Common Bond

Answer: Diego Rivera

While in her teens, Frida Kahlo was in an accident in which the bus she was on hit a street trolley. The pain she suffered in that accident is a theme in many of her paintings.

From Quiz Afterwords

Answer: A River Runs Through It

"A River Runs Through It" is a 1992 film directed by Robert Redford and starring Brad Pitt. It begins with the story of the Maclean brothers, sons of a minister, and their life in rural Montana. The other choices are also directed by Robert Redford: "The Horse Whisperer" (1998), "Ordinary People" (1980) and "Quiz Show" (1994).

From Quiz A Novel Idea

Answer: Melville Dewey

Inventor and educator Melville "Melvil" Dewey (1851-1931) was responsible for developing the Dewey Decimal System to categorize books. He supported spelling reform as a young man and, to that end, changed the spelling of his first name to "Melvil"; for a while he even changed his surname to "Dui". He founded a club called the Lake Placid Club, from which he was ultimately forced to resign for his racism and antisemitism, not to mention the sexual harassment lawsuits.

From Quiz A Sporting Common Bond

Answer: Frankly, Mr Shankly

'Frankly, Mr Shankly' is an album track from the Smiths' third album, 'The Queen Is Dead', and is thought to be a dig at Geoff Travis, then head of the record label Rough Trade. Travis himself stated that the line in the question referred to a poem he had written for Morrissey. The original demo version featured a trumpet part, but this was dropped.

From Quiz Common Bond

Answer: 2008

In 1997 Lehman Brothers began originating mortgage loans. Money was borrowed to fund these loans and the subprime mortgage crisis resulted in substantial losses. In June of 2008 Lehman Brothers reported a quarterly loss of $2.8 billion, its first loss since being spun out of American Express. At the time of the bankruptcy filing it was the largest bankruptcy in the United States.

From Quiz Linked Up 2

Answer: Fish

Fish and chips is a classic British take-away option. The fish is battered in a mixture of water, flour, baking soda, and vinegar. Sometimes other ingredients like beer are added for taste, particularly on pub menus. In Britain, chips are usually thickly cut and very soft on the inside. The first fish and chip shops opened in England in the second half of the 19th century.

From Quiz An Amazing Common Bond Quiz

Answer: Pamela Stephenson

Pamela Stephenson was born in New Zealand in 1949 but started her acting career in Australia. She first came to prominence as a cast member on the 1980s British TV comedy show 'Not the Nine O'Clock News' and also appeared on 'Saturday Night Live' in the US. She had three daughters with her husband Billy Connolly and also trained as a psychologist in the US and set up a practice in Los Angeles. Question by Rockette: Fifiona81

From Quiz Wouldn't You Rather Be There?

Answer: Magic: the Gathering

"Magic: the Gathering" is the grandfather of all trading card games and still a strong brand going into its 26th year. Players buy packs containing collectible cards of various rarities, then pick at least 60 of them to make a custom deck from which to play. Cards represent magic spells that summon creatures or have various effects plus items (artifacts, vehicles and equipment) and lands whose mana powers all those spells. The game has over 15,000 different cards and each year adds at least another four sets. The other games have also been in the genre for many years and have high sales, but they weren't the first. This question was contributed by WesleyCrusher, ALEC-24's "C".

From Quiz And Then There Were Nine...

Answer: Chief Joseph

Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt was more commonly known as Young Joseph or Chief Joseph (1840-1904). He was the leader of the Nez Perce, a Native American tribe who lived in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, specifically, the Wallowa Valley in Oregon. In the late 1800s, the Federal Government forcibly removed the tribe to a reservation in the Idaho Territory. After resisting, Chief Joseph finally surrendered and died on a reservation in the state of Washington.

From Quiz Classic Common Bond: Part III

Answer: Doyle

Gene Hackman played the role of Det. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the 1971 movie "The French Connection". The movie won the Academy award for Best Picture in 1972 and Hackman won the Academy Award for Best Actor. Hercule Poirot was a fictional sleuth created by Agatha Christie. Inspector Jacques Clouseau is in the "Pink Panther" series and Detective Jules Maigret was a fictional detective created by Georges Simenon.

From Quiz Common Bond: Literary Character

Answer: Clock

To punch a clock means to record when you start and end work. In a timed sport (such as basketball or football), you can try to take up as much time as possible, to avoid giving the other team a chance to score. That technique is called running down the clock. Bill Haley and the Comets recorded "Rock Around the Clock" for Decca records in 1954.

From Quiz Classic Common Bond: Part II

Answer: Renault

The Renault "Duster" is a joint venture with their Romanian subsidiary Dacia. Ford had a car models called the Durango. In North America at one time in the 1970s Dodge and Chrysler(Plymouth) did have a vehicle named "Duster". However, I have excluded this from the optional answers.

From Quiz Comedy Common Bond

Answer: Tony

The Tony Awards are presented by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League. The award is named after a co-founder of the ATW Antoinette "Tony" Perry. The Emmy Awards are presented for excellence in various sectors of the American television industry. The Grammy Awards are presented for outstanding achievements mainly in the English-language music industry and are awarded by The Recording Academy. The Logie Awards are presented as an annual celebration of achievement in Australian television (similar to the Emmy awards in the USA). The award in Australia is named after the inventor of television John Logie Baird.

From Quiz Another Common Bond? Oh Yes It Is!

Answer: Aladdin Sane

'Aladdin Sane' was Bowie's follow-up to his hugely successful 1972 album 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars' and, compared to its critically lauded predecessor, 'Aladdin Sane' was met with more lukewarm reviews on its release. However, it has gone on to be widely regarded as one of Bowie's greatest album. Although Bowie created Aladdin Sane as a new character to accompany this album, he did have thematic and aesthetic connections to Bowie's previous character, with the star describing Aladdin Sane as 'Ziggy goes to America'.

From Quiz There's a Common Bond

Answer: Their first name

Margaret Atwood, the author of "The Handmaid's Tale", a Canadian, won the Booker Prize in 2000 for "The Blind Assassin". Margaret Mitchell, from Atlanta, Georgia, only published "Gone With the Wind" in her lifetime, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1937. Brooklyn-born Margaret Wise Brown's 1942 publication, "The Runaway Bunny", illustrated by Clement Hurd, has been in print ever since and loved by generations of children and parents.

From Quiz Nine Leading Questions...

Answer: Artemis

Artemis and her brother Apollo, the children of Zeus and Leto, were born on the island of Delos. Orion, the hunter, was the only man she loved.

From Quiz Reach For The Sky

Answer: Willie McCovey

The situation: game seven, two out, bottom of the ninth inning, Alou on third base, and Mays on second having just doubled. With the Giants' Candlestick Park home crowd roaring, McCovey, the big power hitting first baseman/outfielder, ripped a line drive toward second base that surely would have scored two and won the Giants the series. Instead, Richardson moved a step left, speared it at his shoe tops and the New York Yankees won their twentieth World Series title. The Giants would have to wait 48 more years until finally winning their first title in San Francisco in 2010. Ott died in 1958 and Mathewson died in 1925. Both were Hall of Fame players for the New York Giants. If you guessed Mays, "the say hey kid", you've got the wrong nickname.

From Quiz Deduce the Common Bond

Answer: Wind Chill Factor

The first wind chill calculations were made by scientists working in the Antarctic prior to WWll. The National Weather Service uses various models to calculate wind chill factors in the USA and Canada, and were first made available by the 1970s.

From Quiz A Seasonal Sensation

Answer: March

"As mad as a March hare" refers to the behaviour of hares at the start of the breeding season, when they are overexcited and can be seen leaping around, boxing each other, and generally showing off. "Hare brained" refers to the same sort of behaviour. Both sayings are very old. "Hare brained" goes back to Edward Hall's chronicle of 1548 and "Mad as a March hare" to around 1500.

From Quiz Common Bond Goes to College

Answer: Colin Powell

Colin Luther Powell served in the US Army from 1958-1993 rising to the rank of a four star General. Powell became the first African-American Secretary of State while serving President George W Bush from 2001 to 2005. While still in the military Powell also served as National Security Advisor (1987-1989) and as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (1989-1993) for President George H.W. Bush. Powell was Joint Chiefs Chairman during the first Persian Gulf War. In 1982, General Robinson became the first African-American to rise to the four-star rank. Alexander Haig also served as both a four-star general and Secretary of State. Ann Elizabeth (AE) Dunwoody is the first female officer to achieve four-star rank. General Dunwoody received her fourth star in 2008 and retired in 2012.

From Quiz Double Space - a Common Bond Quiz

Answer: Dice

Both fruit and vegetables may be cut into a dice. To 'julienne' vegetables is to cut them into strips.

From Quiz What's in These Names?

Answer: Katrina and the Waves

Katrina and the Waves, originally from Cambridge, England, were active from 1981-1999. The group was composed of Alex Cooper, Vince de la Cruz, Kimberly Rew, and Katrina Leskanich. They broke out with their self-titled album in 1985, which broke through the top 30 in both the UK and US charts. Featured on it was "Walking on Sunshine", which reached #8 on the UK charts and #9 on the US charts. Their final hit song, "Love Shine a Light", won them the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest.

From Quiz Find the Common Link

Answer: Bo Peep

"Toy Story" was released in 1995. This excellent animated tale featured the voices of Tom Hanks as Woody and Tim Allen as the hilarious Buzz Lightyear. The plot revolved around a group of toys belonging to a young boy named Andy, whose birthday is fast approaching. Woody, a cowboy doll that is worked by pulling a string, has been Andy's favourite toy for a long time. On Andy's birthday however, he is replaced in the boy's affection by a new toy usurper, a Buzz Lightyear space action figure. Woody's subsequent jealousy leads to a series of hilarious misfortunes for himself, Buzz, and all the other toys in the nursery. The gentle and sweet Bo Peep, whose voice is provided by actress Annie Potts, is one of those toys. She and Woody are coyly very fond of each other, and she is the only toy who stays true to Woody during all of the misfortunes that befall him during the course of the movie.

From Quiz Bonding Through Achievements

Answer: Marie Curie

Marie Curie, along with her husband Pierre Curie and colleague Henri Becquerel, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 for their discoveries in radioactivity. Marie was the first women to win a Nobel Prize. She was again awarded a Nobel Prize in 1911, this time in the field of Chemistry.

From Quiz Common Bond: Find The Missing Person!

Answer: Ronald

McDonald's is a chain of fast food restaurants, founded in the USA in 1940 by brothers Richard and Maurice McDonald. Businessman Ray Kroc bought the chain and built it into the worldwide chain we all know and love, with restaurants in over 100 countries. It primarily sells typical American food, with hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries, and chicken items on the menu. Mascot Ronald McDonald first appeared in 1963 on TV commercials, based on Bozo the Clown and portrayed by Bozo's creator. Actors often dress as him, performing such duties as visiting children in hospital. The Ronald McDonald House Charities have houses in over 50 countries, providing a "home away from home" for families of sick children.

From Quiz Running Like Quicksilver

Answer: May

It is also possible the month of May was named after the 'maiores' or 'maior' (the 'greater' in Latin). Maia's name also derives from this Latin term, since she embodies growth. In Greek mythology, there is also a Maia. She was said to be the eldest of the seven Pleiades (nymphs) and was a daughter of Atlas - the Titan who was punished and had to hold Earth on his shoulders.

From Quiz I Can Be Sweet or Savoury

Answer: Christmas

Christmas is a name also given to an island in the Indian Ocean, named on Christmas Day 1643. Although it is an Australian territory, it is not part of that country's migration zone (meaning asylum seekers cannot claim refugee status straight away). An 800-bed Immigration Detention Centre was constructed in 2006 for the Department of Immigration.

From Quiz Lost Box Never Found

Answer: Pandora

In Greek mythology, Pandora was the first woman (as opposed to Goddess) on Earth, created by Hephaestus, the God of craftsmanship, on orders by Zeus. She was given the jar of resident evil and instructed never to open it. However curiosity got the better of her and upon opening the jar, all evil was released.

From Quiz My First Common Bond Quiz

Answer: The Police

The Buggles were the first band to be shown on MTV with 'Video Killed the Radio Star'. Yes and Cream were British rock bands formed in the 1960s. The Police were the world's highest earning musicians in 2008, and 'Rolling Stone' magazine ranked them at number 70 on their list of the '100 Greatest Artists of All Time'. They are remembered for songs such as 'Message in a Bottle', 'Roxanne', 'Every Breath You Take' and, my own personal favourite, 'Walking on the Moon'. With 13 singles in the US Hot 100 and 20 in the UK Top 50 charts, they were a very successful group recording from the 1970s until 1984 when they split up. They did reunite in 2007 for a 30th anniversary tour.

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