Dual Purpose Common Bond Online Trivia | Common Bond 10 Questions

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1. What first name, from Norse components meaning 'fame' and 'spear', is common to a member of the rock group The Who, one of the actors who played James Bond and a baseball player nicknamed 'The Rocket'?

Answer: Roger

Roger Daltrey was the founder and vocalist of The Who. Roger Moore portrayed James Bond in several movies in the series, including 'Live and Let Die' and 'Moonraker'. Roger 'The Rocket' Clemens 'retired' at the end of the 2003 season, after 20 seasons with Boston, Toronto and the Yankees, only to reappear as a Houston Astro in 2004.

2. What measure, typically used for containers for fruit, is equal to 36.4 litres if British, but 35.3 litres if American?

Answer: Bushel

The American bushel is used only for dry measurement, whereas the British system did not differentiate between liquid and dry measure. The American dry pint is slightly smaller than its British equivalent, with a corresponding difference in the larger measures. In both cases 4 pecks make a bushel, but the American peck is smaller.

3. In the early days of television advertising, what euphemism was used to avoid naming the competitor's product?

Answer: Brand X

In later years, various products have actually called themselves 'Brand X' to trade on the easily recognisable name.

4. Which British comedy team comprised Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Spike Milligan?

Answer: The Goons

'The Goon Show' began on BBC radio in 1951, and a 30-minute TV programme was aired in 1968. John Cleese (of Monty Python) replaced Bentine in the latter.

5. Which animal, of the family Mustelidae, has been kept in the past as a working animal for rodent control, but more recently also as a domestic pet?

Answer: Ferret

Historically, ferrets were kept for hunting rabbits to keep the rabbit population of an area under control. As carnivorous animals, they also proved to be good 'mousers' in a domestic situation. Cats, although often kept to control rodents, are of the family Felidae.

6. Which of the following is a mildly derogatory term meaning 'anybody at all'?

Answer: Tom, Dick and Harry

'Tom, Dick and Harry' was also the title of a 1941 comedy movie starring Ginger Rogers and George Murphy.

7. Jerry Springer was born. The Battle of Monte Cassino was fought. The first jazz concert was held at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. In which year did these events all occur?

Answer: 1944

Springer was born on 13th February 1944. The battle for Monte Cassino raged from January until May of that year. Louis Armstrong and Benny Goodman were among the participants in the 18th January concert.

8. Outfielder Benny Agbayani, who appeared in the 2000 World Series with the New York Mets, wore what uniform number in honour of his home state?

Answer: 50

Agbayani, who was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1971, played for the Mets from 1998 until 2001. He started wearing the number 50 in 1999, his first full season with the team. He split 2002 between Boston and Colorado, spent 2003 at Triple A Omaha of the Pacific Coast League, and signed to play in Japan in 2004.

9. Which of the following songs is NOT the work of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe?

Answer: Seventy-Six Trombones

'Seventy-Six Trombones' is from Meredith Willson's 'The Music Man'. 'If Ever' from 'Camelot', 'Bonnie Jean' from 'Brigadoon' and 'Thank Heaven' from 'Gigi' are all the work of Lerner and Loewe.

10. What name is given to the event, and later to a book and a movie, that is the common bond?

Answer: The Great Escape

Roger Bushell (Qs 1 and 2), was the head of the escape, or X organisation at Stalag Luft III, and was known as 'Big X' (Q3). In order to hide them from the guards, known as goons (Q4) and the special anti-escape guards, known as ferrets (Q5), the tunnels were given the code names Tom, Dick and Harry (Q6). In March 1944 (Q7) the break was made from tunnel Harry. The Gestapo executed fifty (Q8) of the 76 (Q9) escapers. Only three got clean away, two via Sweden and one via Spain.

The 1963 movie took some liberties with the timeline, making it appear that the escape took place in late summer, of an unspecified year. Most characters were composites, and although Big X retained the first name Roger, his surname was changed to Bartlett.

In March 2004 some of the very few survivors of the escape met at the Imperial War Museum in London to commemorate the 60th anniversary. Actor John Leyton, who played Willie the Tunnel King in the movie, was also in attendance.

Source: Author spanishliz

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Dual Purpose Common Bond Trivia Quiz

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