Common Bond 44 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Computers

The Colossus was the British equivalent of the ENIAC Computer. It was built at a research lab in London in 1943 and used to help break German codes.

Answer: Stock Market

EBITDA is an acronym for Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization.

Answer: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

"Planes, Trains and Automobiles" (also written as "Planes, Trains & Automobiles") was written and directed by John Hughes. The movie is set at Thanksgiving and it revolves around transportation mishaps. The other films all starred Steve Martin.

Answer: Cymbals

Hi-hats are used by the drum set to keep time. Splash cymbals are smaller crash cymbals.

Answer: A spaceship

"Farscape" aired from 1999-2003. Astronaut John Crichton goes through a wormhole and is thrown into a distant galaxy. He ends up part of an alien space crew aboard the leviathan Moya, a living, breathing ship.

Answer: The Net

Sandra Bullock starred in the 1995 film as a computer expert who becomes entangled in espionage. The other films starred Meg Ryan.

Answer: Lightning

St. Pete Times Forum was home to the Tampa Bay Lightning. In 2012, the paper was renamed the "Tampa Bay Times" and so the arena was renamed. Tampa was awarded the franchise in 1992. The original owner was Hockey Hall of Famer Phil Esposito.

Answer: House of Cards

Tommy Lee Jones plays a Child Psychologist who believes that Kathleen Turner's daughter is exhibiting classic autistic symptoms.

Answer: Waves

Parts of a wave include wave the crest (the part that rises), the trough (the motion below the wave line), and the amplitude (the maximum distance from the wave line to the crest).

Answer: The Uninvited

Directed by Lewis Allen, the classic ghost story, "The Uninvited", stars Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey as a brother and sister, who buy a house on the Cornish cliffs and soon find out that it is haunted. They learn that the house is haunted by the ghost of the mother of a young local girl (played by Gail Russell) and in order to set things right they have to solve the mystery of her death.

Answer: Houseguest

Sinbad plays a con man who runs into trouble with the mob over an unpaid debt. To avoid the villains, he passes himself off as a dentist to an unsuspecting family. (From IMDB). Sort of a male version of "Sister Act."

Answer: For Dummies

The 'Books For Dummies' was began in 1991 with "DOS For Dummies," which was designed to help people understand computers. Today they revolve around any number of subjects: Cooking, Gardening, games, exercise, sports. You can type in almost any subject, then add the word 'dummies' and you are likely to get results back.

Answer: Glass

Mottle Glass - colored glass which is opaque in some areas and translucent in others. Beveled Glass - plate glass with edges ground at a sloping angle. Confetti Glass - during the blowing process chips of multi-colored glass are added to this hand-rolled glass to create its distinctive appearance. From Glass facts at http://www.auroraglass.com/glossary.html

Answer: Drug users

Tallulah Bankhead was a famous stage actress who appeared in a few movies including Alfred Hitchcock's 1944 thriller "Lifeboat". She also used cocaine. Sherlock Holmes, the great fictional detective created by Arthur Conan Doyle, also abused cocaine. And Lenny Bruce was a stand up comic who abused heroin.

Answer: crash

The common bond is things that CRASH. The clues include (1) COMPUTERS, which have been known to crash, specifically the hard drive. (2) The most famous financial crash in history is probably the STOCK MARKET crash of 1929, which led to the great depression. (3) PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES have been known to crash from time to time. (I got three in one clue. Pretty good huh?) (4) CYMBALS are crashed together.

In fact, one type of cymbal is the CRASH CYMBAL. (5) A common plot in Hollywood movies is a SPACESHIP crash landing on a lonely planet, with only one lone survivor. (6) In the game of hockey, players are said to CRASH THE NET, when they invade the space of the goalie.

The term is also used in basketball when players CRASH THE NET, looking for a rebound. (7) WAVES often crash on the shoreline. (8) During a thunderstorm, clouds crash together producing LIGHTNING, which crashes it's way to the ground. (9) If you build something on shaky grounds then your HOUSE OF CARDS could come crashing down. (10) Often it is at parties that THE UNINVITED crash. (11) Especially if they are uninvited HOUSEGUESTS who CRASH overnight. (12) You can learn a lot from Crash Test DUMMIES. (13) If you drop your GLASS coffee cup, it could come CRASHing down on the floor. (14) DRUG USERS who abuse illegal substances, such as cocaine, heroin and methamphetamines can experience a sensation of coming down, which is referred as a crash.