My First Common Bond Quiz

Answer: Clue

The 1985 film "Clue" invites viewers to a 1954 dinner party in which six random strangers are given a pseudonym name by the butler. A seventh guest, "Mr. Boddy" arrives and is revealed to have been blackmailing others. Throughout the course of the movie a chain of events occur including the murder of Mr. Boddy, the cook, and a motorist.

In the home media versions of the film, three endings (Ending A, B, and C) were shown as what motives and possibilities had really occurred.

Answer: Monopoly

Corporate monopolies are a situation where one producer or group of producers control the supply of goods and services. Often they have little to no regard for their customers and their sole goal is profit. Companies that have often engaged in this concept include railroad corporations, natural gas and hydro or trucking industries. Governments attempt to control corporate monopolies by introducing price controls, breaking them up into smaller firms and even by trying take over ownership on their own.

Answer: a risk

A risk is a situation in which a person may put their lives in jeopardy for enjoyment, thrill or patriotism. Examples of this include skydiving, scuba diving or joining the military. Risk taking is not limited to human life. Making risky investments can cost people thousands (or even millions) of dollars and place them into bankruptcy. Sports such as football, hockey and rugby pose a risk to the human body such as broken bones or other injury.

Answer: Operation

An operation is typically carried out by a professionally trained doctor or surgeon. Common examples of operations include heart surgery or gall bladder and appendix removal in which a patient must be put out under anesthetics. Some surgeries such as a root canal or the removal of a tooth can be done while a patient is awake. Humans are not the only species that undergo surgery as veterinarians perform surgeries on animals.

Answer: Pandemic

Throughout the course of history various pandemics have occurred and have had severe consequences to the human race. For example, the Black Plague that occurred across Europe between 1347 and 1353 is estimated to have taken up to 200 million lives. The Spanish flu of 1918-19 is estimated to have infected up to 500 million people worldwide.

More recent pandemics have included the Ebola and Zika virus which have spread rampant across the African continent.

Answer: Carcassonne

Carcassonne is a fortified city that is found in the Occitanie region of Southern France. The Celts had initially built a fort in this location as early as 500 BCE. As the Romans conquered Gaul around 100 BCE, they built a stronger fort of which remnants can still be seen today. Throughout the course of history, many changes to the fort and city were made by the Visigoths, Merovingian kings and French kings. Today, Carcassonne has a population of around 50 000 people and is visited yearly by thousands of tourists who can see the various towers, drawbridges and fortified walls that were once used over a thousand years ago.

Answer: Payday

A "payday or pay day" is a specified day of the month or a month in which a person(s) receive their wage or salary. These wages and salaries are collected from their employers for work completed. Some people are paid based on hourly work while others may be paid by completing pieces of work (e.g. furniture makers). Common pay days in North America are bi-weekly payment or payment received on the 15th and last working day of the month.

Answer: Battleship

The USS South Dakota (BB-57) was a famous American battleship that was active from 1942 to 1947 and was used during the Second World War. In particular, it was used during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands as well as the Battle of Guadalcanal. The USS Pennsylvania (BB-38) was also an American battleship that was commissioned during World War One but saw limited action. During the Second World War, it was one of the first ships to open fire during the Pearl Harbor attack. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor, it was used as a key ship during the Aleutian Campaign, the Battle of Kwajalein, and spent time in the South China Sea near the Lingayan Gulf.

In 1948, it was sunk off of the coast of the Kwajalein Atoll. Two 14-inch guns were kept and can be viewed at the Pennsylvania Military Museum in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania.

Answer: Ticket to Ride

"Ticket to Ride" became the seventh consecutive Beatles track to top the charts in the United Kingdom and became the third of six number one tracks in a row in the United States. Oddly enough, it became the first Beatles number one song to have a track length of over three minutes.

Answer: Board games

Here's how they all bond together:

Q1 - 'Clue/Cluedo' is a mystery board game published in 1949 in which players must collect clues to determine who the killer is.
Q2 - 'Monopoly' is a property trading game released by Parker Brothers in 1935.
Q3 - 'Risk' is a territory control and war game invented in 1957.
Q4 - 'Operation' is a battery operated skill game in which players attempt to remove objects from a body using tweezers, released in 1964.
Q5 - 'Pandemic' is a cooperative game in which players try to prevent disease from spreading across the board, released in 2008.
Q6 - 'Carcassonne' is a tile-based game in which players build a landscape or city, released in 2000.
Q7 - 'Payday/Pay Day' is a money simulation game released by Parker Brothers in 1975.
Q8 - 'Battleship' is a strategic guessing game in which players attempt to sink each others ships, first released as "Salvo" in 1931.
Q9 - 'Ticket to Ride' is a train laying route building game released by Days of Wonder in 2004.