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Quiz about Another common bond quiz Enjoy it Part E
Quiz about Another common bond quiz Enjoy it Part E

Another common bond quiz: Enjoy it: Part E


Hi! Here's another one of my "Welcome to the House of Commons" quizzes under the new name. The first 14 questions have something in common. In question 15, just tell us what that something is. Have fun.

A multiple-choice quiz by mickeygreeneyes. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
93,337
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
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Question 1 of 15
1. What 1972 western starred Paul Newman, with Victoria Principal in a minor role? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. What 2001 movie takes place mostly in Canada and stars Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. What Beatle song includes these lyrics: "Love you every day, girl/Always on my mind"? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Which of these plays was written by a playwright born in Ireland? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Which one of these movies was released in 1963 and starred Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett among many others? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. What is the chemical symbol for the element oxygen? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. When JFK's mom was a little girl, by which of these names would she most likely have been called? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Which of these novels is about two young boarding school students named Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. In the early James Bond movies with Sean Connery, what was the code name of the man who gave Bond his high-tech gadgets?

Answer: (Just one letter -- no quotes or other punctuation)
Question 10 of 15
10. Which of these station wagon models was produced by Chrysler in the 1940s and 50s? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. What movie, based on a true story, took place in Washington state and starred Robert De Niro and Leonardo Di Caprio? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. What song was a huge hit for Barbra Streisand in 1964? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. In the publishing industry, what abbreviation is most often used for the word "manuscript"? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Lincoln was a Kentuckian. Washington was a Virginian. What was FDR? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Ah! The moment of truth! After plowing through all these questions, did you get enough right answers to figure out what they have in common. Okay, give it a try. What type of common items have names that relate to all 14 answers?

Answer: (One word, nine letters __ read 'em but don't weep)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What 1972 western starred Paul Newman, with Victoria Principal in a minor role?

Answer: The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean

Roy Bean was a real-life outlaw who set himself up as a judge of sorts and was known as "the law west of the Pecos (River)." There was a TV series in 1956 called "Roy Bean." Newman starred in all the other movies, but "Cool Hand" wasn't a western, and the others were not made in 1972, and neither was "Cool Hand"!
2. What 2001 movie takes place mostly in Canada and stars Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench?

Answer: The Shipping News

Spacey plays a man who moves from the US to Newfoundland when he inherits his ancestral home. Spacey also starred in the other movies, but Dench wasn't in them.
3. What Beatle song includes these lyrics: "Love you every day, girl/Always on my mind"?

Answer: Eight Days a Week

"Help" and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" are both featured in the movie "Help," and "Eight Arms To Hold You" was the original working title of the movie.
4. Which of these plays was written by a playwright born in Ireland?

Answer: The Playboy of the Western World

John Millington Synge was born in Ireland in 1871 and, sadly, died young in 1909. His best known play, "The Playboy of the Western World," was a comedy, as were two of his other plays, "The Well of the Saints" and "In the Shadow of the Glen." He also wrote "Riders to the Sea," a tragedy.

He was one of the chief figures of the Irish literary renaissance, along with one of your favorite high school and college poets, William Butler Yeats. "Ape" was by Eugene O'Neill, American. "Dark" was by William Inge, American. "You Can't" was by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, Americans.
5. Which one of these movies was released in 1963 and starred Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney and Buddy Hackett among many others?

Answer: It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

"Mad World" was a crazy, hilarious comedy with a lot of very talented comedians. It probably holds the record for most comedians in a movie. One classic scene has Jonathan Winters completely destroying a brand new gas station owned by two schleps from Brooklyn (Arnold Stang and Marvin Kaplan). I mean Winters levels it to the ground! There's also a lot of excellent stunt driving. "Rat Race" was a very lame attempt at imitating "World."
6. What is the chemical symbol for the element oxygen?

Answer: O

Oy is used only for elements that are particularly troublesome. :>) In the formula for water, H2O, the O represents the one atom of oxygen that combines with each two atoms of hydrogen (H).
7. When JFK's mom was a little girl, by which of these names would she most likely have been called?

Answer: Rosie

Rose Kennedy's maiden name was Fitzgerald, and she lived to be 105! Born 1890, died 1995.
8. Which of these novels is about two young boarding school students named Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley?

Answer: Vanity Fair by William Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray published "Vanity Fair" in monthly installments in 1847-48. The entire text of the novel, and of many other books, can be found at bibliomania.com
9. In the early James Bond movies with Sean Connery, what was the code name of the man who gave Bond his high-tech gadgets?

Answer: Q

Desmond Llewelyn (1914-1999)played Q, who was never happy about Bond's attitude toward Q's beloved inventions or about the damage Bond caused to them. The most famous "gadget" is the classic Aston-Martin equipped with such toys as machine guns and an ejection seat.

The only problem was that, in "Goldfinger," the movie in which the car was introduced, Bond didn't have much of a chance to use the car's features before he was captured. The first James Bond movie was "Doctor No" (1962), but Q didn't make his first appearance until "From Russia with Love" (1963) the second Bond film. "Goldfinger" (1964) was the third.
10. Which of these station wagon models was produced by Chrysler in the 1940s and 50s?

Answer: the Town and Country

Once upon a time there were no SUVs, vans, or minivans, and the station wagon ruled. But then the Earth cooled and . . . Oh, sorry, wrong quiz! Uh, yeah, and there were many types of wagons, usually one for each make. One was the Chrysler Town and Country in the 40s and 50s.

Then you had the Chevy Nomad, the Ford Ranch Wagon, and the Buick Century Caballero, all in the 50s. Those were the days, my friend.
11. What movie, based on a true story, took place in Washington state and starred Robert De Niro and Leonardo Di Caprio?

Answer: This Boy's Life

The movie was based on a true story by Tobias Wolff about his boyhood. The family in the movie lived in a Washington town with the unlikely name of Concrete, a real town in the North Cascades country.
12. What song was a huge hit for Barbra Streisand in 1964?

Answer: People

"People" was the big hit song from the Broadway show "Funny Girl," in which Streisand starred as famed comedian (or comedienne if you prefer) Fanny Brice. The show had music by Jule Styne and lyrics by Bob Merrill. Streisand, of course, also starred in the movie version, tying with Katharine Hepburn for the Oscar.
13. In the publishing industry, what abbreviation is most often used for the word "manuscript"?

Answer: ms.

The literal meaning of "manuscript," based on its Latin roots, is "written by hand." Of course, most manuscripts submitted to publishers today are typed or word processed.
14. Lincoln was a Kentuckian. Washington was a Virginian. What was FDR?

Answer: A New Yorker

Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born in Hyde Park, New York, near Poughkeepsie, in 1882. His mother's name was Sara Delano. His family was extremely wealthy, patrician I guess you would say, and he was distantly related to President Theodore Roosevelt and to his own wife Eleanor, whose maiden name was actually Roosevelt! (Those must have been some interesting wedding invitations!) He was elected President in 1932, and re-elected three times, but when he was only three months into his fourth term, he died of a brain hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Georgia. Vice-President Harry S Truman became President, and the nation wept.
15. Ah! The moment of truth! After plowing through all these questions, did you get enough right answers to figure out what they have in common. Okay, give it a try. What type of common items have names that relate to all 14 answers?

Answer: magazines

Yes, mass market magazines are today's topic, trivia fans! Like Life (Question 1), Time (1), and Newsweek (2, 3). Then Playboy (4) and Mad (5). Also O (6) for Oprah fans and Rosie (7) for fans of, well, you know! Two more are Vanity Fair (8) and Q (9), a magazine you may not know unless you live in the UK, but it's Britain's biggest music magazine.

At least that's what it says on the cover! Some more are Town and Country (10) and Boy's Life (11), the magazine for Boy Scouts. To top it off, we have People (12), Ms. (13), and The New Yorker (14). Plenty of reading on this list! Hope you enjoyed my quiz and scored big. I found these sources very useful: infoplease.com, imdb.com, bibliomania.com, and awards.fennec.org
Source: Author mickeygreeneyes

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