Hapagirl's Common Bond II Trivia Quiz

Answer: Cornelius

Born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall, (wow, I can't imagine having to spell all of that as a child), in 1928, Roddy McDowall played the part of Cornelius in "Planet of the Apes" (1968). He reprised this role in "Escape From the Planet of the Apes" (1971), "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" (1972) and "Battle for the Planet of the Apes" (1973).

Answer: Bob Crane

Bob Crane more-or-less began his acting career as a neighbor of Donna and Alex Stone on "The Donna Reed Show" in 1963. Then, after filming "Man-Trap" and "Return to Peyton Place" (both in 1961) he moved on to star as Col. Hogan on "Hogan's Heroes". His life was tragically cut short when he was murdered in Scottsdale, Arizona on June 29, 1978.

His life and death became the subject of the 2002 film "Auto Focus".

Answer: New York City

The first mayor of New York City, Thomas Willett, was appointed by the governor in 1665. An amendment to New York State's constitution passed in 1834 provided direct popular election to the office of mayor. New York City and its Mayor's Office made their way into pop culture via "Spin City" (1996), a sitcom starring Michael J. Fox and several crime dramas including "Law & Order" (1990), all of its spin-offs, "NYPD Blue" (1993) and "CSI: New York" (2004).

Answer: National Lampoon

"Harvard Lampoon" alumni Douglas Kenney, Henry Beard and Robert Hoffman began the magazine in 1969. "National Lampoon" branched out to radio and the stage where many of the cast members went on to the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" in the early days of "Saturday Night Live" (1975).

These included John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Chevy Chase, Garrett Morris, Jane Curtin, Gilda Radner and Laraine Newman.

Answer: Saturday Night

This song was debuted on Howard Cosell's variety show "Saturday Night Variety Show" on September 20, 1975 and hit the top of the charts on January 3, 1976. After running through several names the Edinburgh-based band randomly pointed to a spot on the map, Bay City, Michigan and thus became the Bay City Rollers.

Answer: Spies

Born Margaretha Grietje Zelle in 1876, Mata Hari was both a prostitute and exotic dancer. She gained fame, however, during World War I as a spy.
Giacomo Casanova - born in 1725 - was renowned as a great lover and was also a lawyer, acquiring his education from gifts given to his mother who was an actress. He was also a spy for the Venetian Inquisitors.
Born Maria Isabella Boyd in 1844, Belle Boyd was thrust into espionage when Union soldiers broke into her parents' home. While imprisoned for shooting one of the soldiers, she was able to gather information from some of her guards and pass it to the Confederates through her slave Eliza Hopewell.

Answer: Fletch

The name Fletcher is an occupational surname meaning arrow maker. Other occupational surnames include Cooper (barrel maker), Carpenter, Carter (someone who transported goods on a cart) and Harper (harp maker or minstrel). Some notable Fletchers were Fletcher Christian (first mate on the Bounty), Louise Fletcher (an American actress), Jessica Fletcher - Angela Landsbury's character in "Murder, She Wrote" (1984) and Irwin Maurice "Fletch" Fletcher, the main character of books and films, "Fletch"(1974).

Answer: Funny Farm

Popular belief holds that the term began from the word "funny" being used to refer to people who were weird, unusual or mad. One of the early references to the term "funny farm" was in John Knowles' 1959 novel "A Separate Peace".

Answer: Vacation

Born Concetta Rosemarie Franconero, Connie Francis had at least 16 top ten hits on the Billboard Pop Singles chart. These included "Lipstick on Your Collar" (1959), "Where the Boys Are" (1961) and "Who's Sorry Now" (1958). She had three number one hits with "Don't Break the Heart That Loves You" (1962), "Everybody's Somebody's Fool" (1960) and "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" (1960).

The closest The Go-Go's got to the top of the chart was their number two hit "We Got The Beat" (1980). Band member Belinda Carlisle, however, scored several Hot 100 hits with songs such as "Mad About You" (1986) and "Heaven is a Place on Earth" (1987).

Answer: Chevy Chase

Born CORNELIUS (Q1) CRANE (Q2) Chase on October 8, 1943 in NEW YORK CITY (Q3), Chevy Chase garnered his nickname from his grandmother who said it referred to Chevy Chase, an affluent community near Bethesda, Maryland. As a part of "NATIONAL LAMPOON's (Q4) radio and stage shows Chevy Chase gained notoriety as one of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" in the early seasons of a show whose opening segment always ended with the line "Live, from New York, it's SATURDAY NIGHT" (Q5), yes, "Saturday Night Live".

He went on to star in such films as "SPIES (Q6) Like Us" and "FLETCH" in 1985 (Q7), "FUNNY FARM" in 1988 (Q8) and "National Lampoon's VACATION" (Q9 ) in 1983.