Common Bond Quiz 18

Answer: Toothbrush

Addis was the first to mass produce the toothbrush, an item of which there are recorded accounts dating back to 1223, used by Chinese monks. Brushes made by Addis used pig bristles for their standard brushes and badger hair for their more expensive brushes. Toothbrushes were not mass produced in USA until 1885 and used bristles from Siberian boars, although teeth brushing didn't become popular in USA until after WWII, around the same time that toothbrushes started being mass produced with synthetic bristles.

Answer: Hungarian

My starter of krumplileves is a potato broth, often with some wonderful Hungarian sausage included, and it sounded more appetising than the pacalleves or tripe soup that was on offer. For my main course I went with the fasirozott, a heavenly combination of minced pork and paprika combined in a meatball, and I finished with the toru rudi, which is a chocolate covered quark cheese bar. Of course I washed it all down with a few drinks of Unicum, a very tasty Hungarian digestif, similar to Jägermeister.

Answer: Zappa

"Freak Out" was Zappa's debut album and was the first debut double album by an artist. It contained tracks such as "Who Are The Brain Police?" and "Trouble Every Day" but failed to achieve any great chart success when released. It did however gain a large cult following, with many fellow musicians appreciating the album. One such person was Paul McCartney who has said that The Beatles album, "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" (1967) was greatly influenced by "Freak Out!"

Answer: Pencil

Pencil skirts work alone or as part of a suit, either formally or informally and usually taper as they go down. I have never worn one myself, but according to my research, they work well on ladies with pear shaped bodies and exceptionally well on hourglass figures. The modern pencil skirt first graced the catwalk in 1954, courtesy of Christian Dior.

Answer: English

All four are English. West played the part of Detective Jimmy McNulty in "The Wire" between 2002 and 2008 and had to trade his South Yorkshire accent for a Baltimore accent, while co-star Idris Elba, who played the part of Stringer Bell, was in the show from 2002-2004 and is from London. From "The Walking Dead" cast, Andrew Lincoln who played the part of Rick Grimes from 2010 to 2018 is also a London lad while Lennie James, who between 2010 and 2018 played Morgan Jones, is from Nottingham.

Incidentally, one of the show's best remembered bad guys, Philip Blake, aka The Governor, is played by David Morrissey, a Scouser, hailing from Liverpool.

Answer: Horseshoe

Around half a million horseshoe crabs are bled in specialist facilities each year, as a clotting agent in their blood is perfect for making Limulus Amoebocyte Lysate (LAL), which turns from a liquid into a clotted gel when it comes into contact with endotoxins contained in E.coli.

This LAL is used to check the safety of implantable medical devices such as hip and knee replacements as well as hospital instruments such as scalpels and IVs. The crabs "donate" about 30% of their blood before being returned to the site at which they were caught and horseshoe crab blood is one of the most expensive liquids there is, with prices averaging around $15,000 per litre in 2018.

Answer: Dali

Dali's painting, often referred to as the melting clock painting, was heralded by art critics as evidencing Albert Einstein's theory of special relativity, although Dali himself insisted it was inspired by watching Camembert cheese melt in the sun. The original painting can be found in The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Answer: The Walrus

The poem "The Walrus And The Carpenter" is read to Alice in the book, by Tweedledum and Tweedledee. It tells of the pair happening across an oyster bed and persuading some of the creatures to accompany them on a walk, at the end of which they are eaten. The poem was John Lennon's inspiration for the Beatles song, "I Am The Walrus" (1967).

Answer: Chevron

Chevrons are found on many instantly identifiable products such as Marlboro cigarettes, the shirts of the Australian rugby league team, and of course, the Chevron oil and gas company. The chevron is one of the earliest heraldry symbols and appears on coats of arms all around the world, including the arms of Cardinal Richelieu of France, the city of Newport in Wales and the arms of John FitzRobert, who signed the Magna Carta in 1215.

Answer: Moustaches

All are styles of moustache, with some famous wearers offering well known examples. The toothbrush was popularised by Charlie Chaplin and then made less popular by Adolf Hitler, while the Hungarian is a sub category at the World Beard and Moustache Championships and was made famous by Kaiser Wilhelm.

The Zappa is a downward curving moustache coupled with a soul patch, as worn by none other than Frank Zappa, and the pencil is a very narrow moustache, associated with actors Errol Flynn and Clark Gable.

The English moustache is another sub category at the World Beard and Moustache Championships and can be seen on the top lip of horror master Vincent Price as well as Walt Disney. The horseshoe moustache is in the shape of an upside down horseshoe and has been famously sported by wrestler Hulk Hogan for many years while Salvador Dali also sported his trademark moustache, with its long narrow points extending almost to his eye sockets, for many years. Dali once remarked that his moustache was the only serious thing about him, while the walrus was a style worn by serious people such as Mark Twain and Friedrich Nietzsche as well as Jamie Hyneman of TV show, "Mythbusters". Finally the chevron is a style best displayed by Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury and star of TV show, "Magnum P.I.", Tom Selleck.