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Here's my first Common Bond quiz, and I hope I haven't made it too easy!

A multiple-choice quiz by tjoebigham. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
tjoebigham

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
93,556

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Very Difficult

Avg Score
3 / 10

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1248

Question 1 of 10

1. What author doesn't belong here? Hint

Kafka

Bagehot

Hazlitt

Holmes

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who wrote a novel about Daedulus, the mythological Greek genius? Hint

Michael Ayrton

Taylor Caldwell

Mary Stewart

Edith Hamilton

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Question 3 of 10

3. What movie here is the odd one out? Hint

The Big Sleep

What Dreams May Come

Somewhere In Time

Dreamscape

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Question 4 of 10

4. Who wrote such novels as "Kill The Boss Good-Bye" and "The Out Is Death"? Hint

Mickey Spillane

Jim Thompson

Peter Rabe

Davis Goodis

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Question 5 of 10

5. Who created Inspector Hanaud? Hint

Agatha Christie

Georges Simenon

Robert Barr

A. E. W. Mason

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Question 6 of 10

6. Who wrote the suspense classic "Rogue Male"? Hint

Graham Greene

John LeCarre

Eric Ambler

Geoffrey Household

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Question 7 of 10

7. What fictional woman is thought to be Nero Wolfe's mother? Hint

Bridgid O'Shaughnessy

Della Street

Rebecca DeWinter

Irene Adler

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Question 8 of 10

8. Whose suspense story was filmed by Nicholas Roeg? Hint

Daphne DuMaurier

Carl Stephenson

Richard Connell

Jack Finney

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Question 9 of 10

9. What novel did Sinclair Lewis write about doctors? Hint

Dodsworth

Babbit

Elmer Gantry

Arrowsmith

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Question 10 of 10

10. What is the Common Bond?

Answer: (One Word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. What author doesn't belong here?

Answer: Kafka

The other three are English language essayists or non-fiction writers: England's William Hazlitt and Walter Bagehot, and America's Oliver Wendell Holmes. Franz Kafka, the great Czech writer of surrealistic fiction, is the odd one out.

2. Who wrote a novel about Daedulus, the mythological Greek genius?

Answer: Michael Ayrton

Michael Ayrton was an artist as well as writer, and mazes cropped up in many of his artworks. Daedulus is the subject to Ayrton's "The Maze Maker", a fictional "autobiography" of the Greek artisan. Stewart wrote romantic fantasies, Caldwell historical novels and Hamilton was a non-ficton writer on mythology.

3. What movie here is the odd one out?

Answer: The Big Sleep

"The Big Sleep" is the famed 40's adaptation of the Raymond Chandler mystery starring Humphrey Bogart. The rest are fantasies about dreams, the afterlife and time travel.

4. Who wrote such novels as "Kill The Boss Good-Bye" and "The Out Is Death"?

Answer: Peter Rabe

Spillane is Mike Hammer's creator, Goodis gave us "Dark Passage", and Thompson is best known for "The Killer Inside Me". Rabe's novels appeared at the same time as the others.

5. Who created Inspector Hanaud?

Answer: A. E. W. Mason

Christie's sleuth, Hercule Poirot, is Belgian, Barr created Eugene Valmont and Simenon created Inspector Maigret. Mason was Hanaud's creator.

6. Who wrote the suspense classic "Rogue Male"?

Answer: Geoffrey Household

Household's 1939 "Rogue Male" made him an overnight success. Greene wrote "This Gun For Hire", Ambler "Journey Into Fear" and LeCarre is famed for his tales of realistic espionage.

7. What fictional woman is thought to be Nero Wolfe's mother?

Answer: Irene Adler

Some Sherlockians suspected Adler, the woman who outwitted Holmes in "Scandal In Bohemia", as being Nero Wolfe's mother. Bridgid tangled with Hammett's Sam Spade, Della is Perry Mason's faithful secretary and Rebecca is the (dead) title character of the famed novel and movie.

8. Whose suspense story was filmed by Nicholas Roeg?

Answer: Daphne DuMaurier

DuMaurier's "Don't Look Now" was filmed by Roeg. Stephenson's "Leiningen Versus The Ants" was lensed as "The Naked Jungle". Connell's classic "The Most Dangerous Game" has been filmed many times. Among Finney's work filmed are "Assault On A Queen" and "Five Against The House".

9. What novel did Sinclair Lewis write about doctors?

Answer: Arrowsmith

"Elmer Gantry" is about a corrupt evangelist, "Dodsworth" about a retired businessman and "Babbit" a study of a small-town tycoon. "Arrowsmith" is about a doctor.

10. What is the Common Bond?

Answer: Birds

"Kafka" and "Rabe" mean raven in Czech and German, and "Adler" is German for eagle. "Rogue Male" was filmed as "Man Hunt" starring Walter Pidgeon, and Howard Hawks directed "Big Sleep". DuMaurier's horror story "The Birds" was memorably lensed by Hitchcock. Mason's best known book is "The Four Feathers"; feathers (found only on birds) were used by Daedulus in his and his son Icarus' disastrous attempt at flight, and feather is the basis of the word "fletcher", another term for arrowsmith (since feathers are used on arrow butts).

Source: Author tjoebigham

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