Common Bond - Name That Tune Trivia Quiz

Answer: Turtle

The Turtle was invented by David Bushnell. It was a one man machine and was designed to allow the submariner to drill a hole into the hull of enemy ships, into which gunpowder could be inserted. There is no record of any successful attacks by using this method.

Answer: The Milkmaid

"The Milkmaid" was painted c. 1658 and has been on display in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Thanks largely to the book and film of the same name, Vermeer is perhaps best known for his portrait "Girl With a Pearl Earring".

Another Vermeer painting, "Girl Interrupted at Her Music" provided the inspiration for the book and film titled "Girl, Interrupted".

Answer: Swans

Aoife was jealous of her stepchildren but lacked the courage to kill them. They were condemned to live as swans for 900 years. There are various endings to the tale, but all centre on the fact that at the end of 900 years, the swans transformed back into human beings and promptly died due to extreme old age.

Answer: Drummers

John Bonham was the drummer for Led Zeppelin. He died in 1980 after ingesting approximately forty shots of vodka in 24 hours.

Cozy Powell was considered as John Bonham's replacement. He featured as a session musician for many groups, including Emerson, Lake and Palmer and Black Sabbath. He died in a car crash in April 1998.

Keith Moon was the drummer for The Who. He died in 1978 of an overdose of a sedative, prescribed to help with his alcohol withdrawal symptoms.

Anyone who is invited to stay at flat No.12 at 9 Curzon Place, London, would do well to book into a hotel instead. This was the flat that Keith Moon was staying in when he died, and also the flat in which Mama Cass Elliot had been found dead some four years earlier.

Answer: Partridge Berry

The Partridge Berry is a perennial plant that is native to North America. Other names include Twinberry, Twinflower and Running Box. Native Americans used it as a remedy for various ailments as diverse as rheumatism, urinary complaints and sore nipples!

Answer: Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie (real name Rosetta Jacobs) earned an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of the religious zealot Margaret White.

The other three actresses have also portrayed some rather disturbed and disturbing characters. Billie Whitelaw played Mrs Baylock, perhaps literally the Nanny from Hell, in the 1976 film "The Omen". Louise Fletcher played nasty Nurse Mildred Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975) and Betsy Palmer played Pamela Vorhees in Friday the 13th (1980).

Answer: Ladies

Both women belonged to the Anglo Irish gentry, and were expected to make suitable marriages. They eloped together and settled in rural bliss in Plas Newydd, near Llangollen in Wales. Although they lived a very quiet life, they entertained such visitors as poets Shelley and Byron, and the Duke of Wellington.

They lived together for around fifty years. Lady Eleanor died aged 90 in 1829, and Sarah Ponsonby died in 1831, aged 76. Their house and garden are now a museum.

Answer: Geese

Saint Martin was a Roman soldier, who was not baptised until he was 18. According to legend, when he was serving in Amiens, he cut his cloak in two and gave one of the pieces to a beggar. When he woke the next morning, the cloak had been made whole again.

Saint Martin is the patron saint of many things, among them soldiers, beggars and geese.

Answer: Gold

In those days record companies awarded their own gold discs. "Chattanooga Choo Choo" received the gold disc for selling 1,200,000 copies.

Nowadays the criteria used for awarding various discs is that of the Recording Industry Association of America. The qualification criteria has changed over the years, but currently stands at 500,000 sales for a Gold Album, 1,000,000 sales for a platinum album and 10,000,000 sales for a diamond album.

Answer: The Twelve Days Of Christmas

Twelve DRUMMERS drumming (Q4)
Eleven PIPERS piping (Q6)
Ten Lords a Leaping
Nine LADIES dancing (Q7)
Eight MAIDS A MILKING (Q2)
Seven SWANS a swimming (Q3)
Six GEESE a laying (Q8)
Five GOLD rings (Q9)
Four Calling Birds
Three French Hens
Two TURTLE doves (Q1)
and
A PARTRIDGE in a pear tree (Q5)