Classic Common Bond: Part III Trivia Quiz

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.

Answer: Greenwich

The Universal standard time is Greenwich Mean Time.

Answer: Miss Lonelyhearts

"Miss Lonelyhearts" (1933) was a book written by Nathanael West, a black-comedy set in New York City during the depression. In the book Miss Lonelyhearts is an unnamed male newspaper columnist writing an advice column. The novel was loosely adapted into a movie in 1933 called "Advice to the Lovelorn". In 1957 the novel was adapted into a stage play called "Miss Lonelyhearts".

"The Dream Life of Balso Snell" (1931), "A Cool Million" (1934) and "The Day of the Locust" (1939) were all novels by Nathanael West. Although "A Cool Million" was to be adapted into a movie it did not eventuate and "The Day of the Locust" was adapted into a movie in 1975.

Answer: Stella

Stella McCartney is an English fashion designer. She is the daughter of Paul McCartney and his late wife Linda McCartney (née Eastman). Linda and Paul were married from 1969 until her death in 1998.

Heather was the first name of Paul McCartney's second wife (Heather Mills). Mary McCartney is eldest daughter to Paul and Linda.

Answer: photographer

Robert Capa (1913-1954) was born Endre Freidmann but changed his Jewish name to Capa in the 1930s. He was born in Hungary and became the most famous combat and adventure photographer in history. His first published photograph was of Leon Trotsky in 1932.

As a photographer he covered the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and the First Indo China War. It was in this last war that he stepped on a mine and lost his life at 40 years of age.

Answer: torso

The chest and abdomen make up the torso to which the arms and legs are attached. It can also be called the trunk of the body. The abdomen is that part of the body between the thorax (chest) and the pelvis (less formally called the belly, stomach).

The human skeleton is the internal framework of the body consisting of 206 bones at adulthood. The human body is the entire structure of a human being.

Answer: Fremont

Fremont is a city in Dodge County, Nebraska, a city in Alameda County, California, a city in Sandusky County, Ohio, a city in Newaygo County, Michigan and a city in Mahaska County, Iowa.

Freetown is the capital city of the African country of Sierra Leone. Freeland is an unincorporated community in Saginaw County, Michigan. Free was an English rock band formed in 1968 with their biggest hit "All Right Now" reaching number four on the US Billboard Hot 100 list in 1970.

Answer: Raymond

Raymond Chandler (1888-1959) was a British-American novelist and screenwriter. He created the character of the Private Investigator, Philip Marlowe, in his novels who has been portrayed on the big screen by Dick Powell, Humphrey Bogart, James Garner, Robert Mitchum, Elliott Gould and James Caan to just name a few.

Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961) introduced us to the enduring character Sam Spade. Mickey Spillane (1918-2006) created that hard boiled detective, Mike Hammer. Henning Mankell(1948-2015) was a Swedish author who created the character Inspector Kurt Wallender who we have seen in his novels and on film.

Answer: Jeffries

James J. Jeffries (1875-1953) was a professional boxer and World Heavyweight Champion from 1899-1904. He came out of retirement and lost to Jack Johnson (1878-1946) in 1910. Jeffries won the World Heavyweight Championship in 1899 by knocking out the holder of the title Bob Fitzsimmons (1863-1917). Jeffries also beat a former World Heavyweight Champion in James J. Corbett (1866-1933) in 1900.

Answer: Rear Window

Question 1. Wendell Corey played the role of the NYPD Det. Lt. Thomas "Tom" J. DOYLE
Question 2. The movie was set in an enormous indoor set to replicate a GREENWICH Village courtyard.
Question 3. Judith Evelyn played the role of a middle-aged woman called Miss LONELYHEARTS.
Question 4. The insurance company's nurse played by Thelma Ritter was known as STELLA.
Question 5. L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries played by James Stewart was a professional PHOTOGRAPHER.
Question 6. Georgine Darcy played the role of the flamboyant dancer nicknamed Miss TORSO.
Question 7. Grace Kelly played the role of the sophisticated and beautiful socialite Lisa Carol FREMONT.
Question 8. RAYMOND Burr played the role of Lars Thorwald, the killer that Jeffries (James Stewart) has been watching.
Question 9. James Stewart plays the role of the main character L. B. "Jeff" JEFFRIES.