JanIQ's Second Common Bond Quiz

Answer: CABG

The term CAD is not a medical term, but stands for Computer Aided Design. MRI is not a kind of surgery, but a diagnostic tool: the Magnetic Resonance Imaging. OHS is a common abbreviation for "Occupational Health and Safety", as in the South African "OHS Act" of 1993.

It is *not* the abbreviation for Open Heart Surgery. The Coronary Arterial Bypass Graft (abbreviated CABG, pronounced "cabbage") is a surgical procedure in which narrowing heart veins are replaced by other blood vessels. (Warning: this description is not the medical definition - I've tried to rephrase it for the uninitiated as myself).

Answer: The Cucumber King

Why would a Burmese king be nicknamed "The Greek"? In 964, communications between Burma and Greece were very scarce.

Nellie Melba was an Australian soprano singer. I can't imagine why a king's nickname would be the name of a woman.

Did you pick Campbell (thinking of Campbell's Soup)? I'm afraid Campbell is not a common name in Burma, especially not in 964 AD.

So King Nyaung would have to be nicknamed the Cucumber King. This was because he would have killed his predecessor in a quarrel over one stolen cucumber. The office building I refer to is 30 St. Mary's Axe, and is nicknamed "The Gherkin" - a small type of cucumber.

Answer: Albert Broccoli

Believe it or not, but all of these men had a notorious daughter called Barbara (or Barbra). You'll recognise, of course, Emanuel Streisand as the father of Barbra Streisand, the singer and actress. Neither her father nor she has ever produced a James Bond movie.

Winston Taylor was the father of Barbara Taylor Bradford, a very successful English novelist. Her debut "A Woman of Substance" is one of the best sold novels ever. There is no link whatsoever between Barbara Taylor Bradford (or her father Winston Taylor) and the James Bond movie series.

Howard Goldbach is the father of Barbara Bach, who was a Bond girl in "The Spy Who Loved Me". But neither Barbara Bach nor her father produced one of the Bond movies.

The legendary producer of the first Bond movies was Albert R. Broccoli, nicknamed Cubby. His daughter Barbara Broccoli succeeded him as producer of the James Bond movies, starting with "Tomorrow Never Dies".

Answer: Asperges me

"Te Deum" is the start of a classical hymn, which inspired (among others) the French composer Marc Antoine Charpentier. This song is especially performed on National Holidays.

"Ave verum corpus" is another catholic phrase set to music by classical composers. The best known version is probably the one composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791.

"De profundis" is the beginning of Psalm 129, about one's soul crying out for help. It is usually sung in the evening.

The sprinkling of the altar is accompanied by the song "Asperges me, Domine, hyssopo, et mundabor; Lavabis me, et super nivem dealbabor" which translates to "Sprinkle me, oh Lord, with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than pure snow". (I haven't found an official translation into English, so I made one myself).

Answer: Bean eater

Pinoy is the short for Filipino - an inhabitant of the Philippines or someone who was raised over there.

Bluenose is the nickname for inhabitants of the Canadian province Nova Scotia. This nickname might have been derived from the Bluenose schooner that sailed from Halifax.

The noose bearers are inhabitants of the Belgian city of Ghent. When Emperor Charles V subdued a major revolt in Ghent in 1540, he ordered the city administrators to come to trial with nooses tied around their necks.

I have found no original source for the nickname of the Florentines. Modern Florence boasts a restaurant called "Il Fagioli" ("The One with the Beans").

Answer: Patrick Poivre d'Arvor

Surely you didn't pick Yves Saint-Laurent as a news reporter! YSL (1936-2008) was a famous fashion designer.

Didier Pineau-Valencienne, also known as DPV, was the CEO of the French company Schneider Electric between 1981 and 1999. He was accused of insider trading and falsehood, but the alleged misdemeanours were extinguished by limitation.

Daniel Cohn-Bendit is a politician born in France and active both in France and in Germany. He rose to fame during May 1968 as one of the prominent leaders of revolting students in Paris.

Patrick Poivre d'Arvor is the journalist we were looking for. He started his career on a French radio station. Then he became television news reporter in 1975 and presented the television news over 4,500 times.

Answer: Fra Cipolla

You've probably guessed by now that Fra is the Italian word for friar. But which one should you choose?

Fra Tuck is exactly what his name sounds like: Friar Tuck, out of the Robin Hood stories. This fictitious character doesn't play any role in the "Decamerone".

Fra Diavolo is Brother Devil. This name was used as the title of a hilarious movie with Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, walking past a cemetery late at night.
Fra Angelico (Brother Angelic; 1395-1455) was a real person: an early Italian Renaissance painter. He was born in Tuscany and died in Rome.

Boccaccio wrote a story on Fra Cipolla (Brother Onion). If you ever want to get acquainted with the "Decamerone", start out with this story (the tenth tale told on the sixth day). It is one of the few stories that is not obsolete: one can still meet such talented preachers as Brother Onion.

Answer: Cauliflower ear

A medical condition involving a cat's tail would be very uncommon in human beings. Felines are known to raise their tail's hairs to make a fierce impression. Sometimes this is not enough to scare away the intruder, and then there is a fight.

Did you ever have a sore throat after a sporting event? Many fans do have this condition, because of their enthusiastic encouraging of their teams. However, it is not typical of martial arts.

A pink eye is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the outer layer of the eyeball. The origin of this condition might be an allergic reaction or an infection. There is, however, no relation with martial arts.

The condition we were looking for is the cauliflower ear, usually caused by a heavy blow on the external portion of the ear.

Answer: Black Eyed Peas

Remember I've told you in the introduction that all answers have something to do with the "Food and Drink" subcategory? Good job, but in this case it is not enough.

The English band Hot Chocolate was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1996. Their greatest successes were in the seventies and eighties.

The Cranberries are an Irish rock band started in 1989. Apparently they were nominated for a Swedish Grammy in 1992.

Kid Creole and the Coconuts is an American band. They won a BRIT Award in 1983, but apparently didn't win any Grammys.

Of the four options I gave, only the Black Eyed Peas won a Grammy in the years I've mentioned: 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Answer: Vegetables

Now you have it all. For those who would like to learn some foreign words (it might come in handy when you visit a restaurant abroad), I'll give you the French, German and Italian translations of all the vegetables contained in the first nine answers.

1) We started out with CABG, pronounced cabbage. This is chou in French, Kohl in German and cavolo in Italian.

2) Next we had the cucumber. In French it's a concombre, in German a Gurke and in Italian a citriolo.

3) The movie producer Broccoli shares his name with a vegetable in English, French, German and Italian: always the same answer. There is only one difference: the German language capitalizes all nouns, so broccoli is with a capital B in German and without a capital in the other languages.

4) Asperges is the French plural for the English asparagus. Germans call this vegetable Spargeln, and in Italian it is called asparaghi (plural).

5) The bean is called a fagiolo in Italian, as stated in the question. In French beans are haricots, and in German they are called Bohne.

6) Poivre (as in Patrick Poivre d'Arvor) is a French word meaning pepper or paprika (however, in this last meaning the French usually use the word 'poivron' - little pepper). A paprika in German is also a Paprika (mind the capital!), and in Italian it is a pepperono - plural pepperoni.

7) I've stated that an onion is a cipolla in Italian. In French it also is an onion. The Germans call this versatile vegetable Zwiebel.

8) The cauliflower is known to the French as chou-fleur, to the Germans as Blumenkohl and to the Italians as cavolfiori.

9) And finally peas are petits pois in French, Erbsen in German and piselli in Italian.

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