Polaris's Common Bond 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Francis

Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (1896-1940) also wrote the novels "This Side of Paradise", "The Last Tycoon" and "Tender is the Night", as well as writing many short stories.

Answer: Stripes

John Winger (Bill Murray) loses his job and girlfriend in the same day, and convinces his friend Russell that the best thing they can do is join the Army. Harold Ramis, Warren Oates and John Candy also starred in "Stripes".

Answer: stars

Betelgeuse and Rigel are stars in the constellation Orion. Orion the hunter is easy to spot in the night sky by the three stars which form his belt. Just below the belt is the Orion nebula as well as the Horsehead nebula. A star, such as our Sun, is a gaseous body which emits light due to nuclear fusion.

Answer: June

Operation Overlord, or the Battle of Normandy, was intended by the Allies to begin a second front in the war against Germany. D-day for the Normandy invasion was June 6, 1944, and it was the largest seaborne invasion in history. The assault phase of Overlord was called Operation Neptune, and its goal was to establish a firm foothold in Normandy.

This phase ended on June 30, 1944. The battle of Normandy was considered to be over in August 1944 after Allied forces crossed the Seine River. Less than a year later, Germany surrendered.

Answer: American

The Grateful Dead's "American Beauty" album contains "Ripple", "Box of Rain" and "Truckin'", among other songs.

Answer: 13

Apollo 13, launched on April 11, 1970, suffered an explosion of its No. 2 oxygen tank on April 13. Not only was the moon landing aborted, but the safe return of the crew was in doubt. After the mission was over, it was deemed a "successful failure", because the mission goals were not accomplished, but the crew was returned safely to earth. Apollo 8 was the first manned mission to orbit the moon; Apollo 11 was the first moon landing; and Apollo 15, the fourth moon-landing mission, explored the moon in the Hadley-Apennine region.

Answer: red and white

Types of red wines include Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and are normally paired with red meat, pasta and red sauces. White wines include Riesling and Chardonnay, and go better with fish or chicken. Red wine gets its color because the skins, seeds and stems are left with the grape juice during fermentation, making a heavier wine. White wines are made with the skins removed shortly after pressing, and tend to be sweeter. Because of this process, a white wine can be made from red grapes.

Answer: 50

Yahtzee is played with dice, and is similar to poker. With the five dice, the player attempts to roll three of a kind, four of a kind, a full house, small and large straights, as well as five of a kind, or Yahtzee. Each roll is assigned a point value, and at the end of the game, the player with the most points wins. According to Hasbro, Yahtzee was invented by a wealthy Canadian couple who played the game with their friends aboard their yacht.

Answer: blue

The more modern rule calls a second full moon within the same calendar month a Blue Moon. The traditional rule (also called the Farmer's Almanac rule) describes a Blue Moon as the third full moon of four within a fixed season that usually has three. Approximately once every 19 years there are two Blue Moons in the same calendar year.

The expression "once in a blue moon" means that something occurs rarely.

Answer: flag

On JUNE 14, 1777, the Continental Congress of the United States of America officially adopted the Stars and Stripes, the flag designed by FRANCIS Hopkinson, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, as the national flag. FRANCIS Scott Key is the author of the "Star Spangled Banner", which he wrote when he saw the flag still flying over Ft. McHenry after the British bombardment in 1814. Flag Day has been celebrated on JUNE 14 since 1877, and was made a national observance by President Harry Truman in 1949.

The configuration of the AMERICAN flag at the beginning of the 21st century is 13 RED AND WHITE STRIPES, symbolizing the thirteen original colonies, with a field of BLUE on the top left containing 50 STARS symbolizing the fifty states.