Invisible common bond Trivia Quiz

Answer: green

"The Color of Money" was a successful 1986 movie with Paul Newman and Tom Cruise. Of course it refers to green, the most common color on all US dollar bills. - Greenland is the world's largest island and, in spite of geographically being a part of America, is politically a part of Denmark.

Answer: eng

Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-1864) were the conjoined twins after whom the condition was named "Siamese Twins". In spite of their predicament, they both married and lived to age 63, never separated. Modern surgery techniques could easily have separated them. - England is, of course, the southern part of Great Britain and the name is often erroneously used to refer to the entire country.

Answer: Ice

Ice is of course frozen water. While typically, ice has the water molecules in a specific hexagonal arrangement, there are actually fifteen possible arrangements of ice crystals capable of existing under different temperatures and pressures. - Iceland is a North Atlantic country that has seen immense economic growth in the last years of the 20th century and the early 21st century, but was hit extremely hard by the 2008 financial crisis.

Answer: ire

The word ire can not only mean an extreme form of anger or fury, but there is also a mountain in France called Ire. IRE is also an acronym used for various organizations, including the Institute of Radio Engineers. - Ireland, called the Green Island, can for one refer to the Republic of Ireland, but also to the geographical entity that is the western one of the two major British Isles.

The Republic of Ireland covers 5/6 of the island, the remaining 1/6, called Northern Ireland, belongs to Great Britain.

Answer: scot

The term scot in the meaning of a tax originally came from Scandinavia. It refers to a municipal tax that was levied in the Middle Ages in England. The term today lives on in the idiom "to go scot free". - The connection between Scotland and the word scot is quite interesting considering the reputation Scottish people have for stinginess with their money.

The true etymology of Scotland however stems from Scoti, a Latin term for the Gaelic peoples.

Answer: Po

The river Po is longest river in Italy. It is in many places quite shallow and in the summer might even locally dry out completely. The plains surrounding it constitute a key agricultural and industrial area of Italy. Po is also the name of the red teletubby and, in German is a colloquial, non-objectionable word for the behind, similar to the English language "butt" in usage. - Poland has been a highly mobile country throughout history, often changing its borders at the whim of Russia and Germany.

In the 1790s, Poland was split completely between Prussia, Russia and Austria, only to be reconstituted in 1815. After World War II, a substantial part of eastern Poland was annexed by the Soviet Union but compensated for by taking land from Germany in the west.

Answer: grace

The word "grace" is based on the Latin "gratia", meaning thanks or thankfulness. This key meaning survived into the term "saying grace" to refer to the thanksgiving prayer said before a meal. - Graceland, of course, is the last home of Elvis Presley, where he lived from 1957 to his death in 1977.

The original reason for the purchase was that Mr. Presley required additional privacy and security, quite ironic in the light of the many tourists visiting the estate today.

Answer: Mary

Mary, the virgin mother of Jesus Christ, is not only recognized as such in Christianity, but also in Islam, under the Arabic name of Maryam. In fact, she is mentioned more often in the Qur'an than in the New Testament. - Maryland has developed from an early Chesapeake colony thriving on slave-powered tobacco farming to the (as of 2007) richest state of the United States, having an average annual household income of $68,080.

Answer: Disney

Walt Disney has won a total of 26 Academy Awards (Oscars), however, not one of them has ever been "best picture" or "best director". 18 of his awards were for "best short subject", four were "best documentary" one was the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award for consistent high quality work and the final three were specially created, one-time awards. - There are now four theme parks worldwide bearing the name of Disneyland.

They are the original Disneyland in Anaheim, California, and the three international franchises in Paris, Hong Kong and Tokyo. Walt Disney World (Florida), the largest Disney resort, is not called Disneyland nor does any part of it bear that name, its equivalent park based on fantasy movies and disney characters being called "Magic Kingdom".

Answer: land

By adding "land" you have turned each of the previous words into a new word and thus created the common bond. I hope you enjoyed this quiz; I'll make more of this kind if I see this type of brain twist being liked well.