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John's Common Bond #2 Trivia Quiz

Sit down, have a nice glass of wine, and devour my second Common Bond quiz!

A multiple-choice quiz by john_sunseri. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
john_sunseri

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
319,186

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. This Old West hunter earned his nickname by killing over four thousand animals in eight months. What was that nickname? Hint

Buffalo Bill

The Shootist

Deadeye Dick

The Prairie Dog Pugilist

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Question 2 of 10

2. This actor played Commander Mancuso in "The Hunt for Red October" and astronaut Alan Shepard in "The Right Stuff". Who is he? Hint

Sam Neill

Scott Glenn

Alec Baldwin

Ed Harris

3. In 1964's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" television special, Rudy had a crush on one particular doe. She was cute, with a polka-dot bow on her head, and she eventually got kidnapped by the Bumble. What was her name? Hint

Fireball

Zoey

Clarice

Jacqueline

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which actor born in Wales has played roles as diverse as Abraham Van Helsing, Zorro and Richard Nixon? Hint

Antonio Banderas

Tom Jones

Sir Anthony Hopkins

Ewan McGregor

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Question 5 of 10

5. In 1977, a movie thriller was released that had Bruce Dern trying to blow up the Super Bowl and Robert Shaw trying to stop him. What was the name of this movie? Hint

North Dallas Forty

Semi-Tough

The Longest Yard

Black Sunday

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Question 6 of 10

6. There are over 200 million of these kinds of birds in America. They're all descended from about a hundred that were released in Central Park in 1890-1891, because a guy named Schieffelin wanted to bring all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays to America. What is this fast-flying, robin-sized bird? Hint

Hummingbird

Starling

Auk

Archaeopteryx

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Question 7 of 10

7. 1975's film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" did something unusual in film history. What was it? Hint

Had all of its characters die at the end

Won all five of the major Academy Awards

Didn't have any music

Was shown upside down

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Question 8 of 10

8. Who was the Carthaginian military genius who (with the assistance of some elephants) occupied huge areas of Italy for years during the Second Punic War? Hint

Hannibal

Hamilcar Barca

Hasdrubal

Mago

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Question 9 of 10

9. Who is the director of the Oscar-winning "Philadelphia" and the Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense"? Hint

Robert Zemeckis

Steven Soderbergh

Anthony Minghella

Jonathan Demme

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Question 10 of 10

10. "Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?" Well, what's the nature of this quiz? What's the common bond?

Answer: (5 Words - 3,7,2,3 and 5 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This Old West hunter earned his nickname by killing over four thousand animals in eight months. What was that nickname?

Answer: Buffalo Bill

William Frederick Cody had to defend the nickname, though. There was a fellow named Bill Comstock who was also called 'Buffalo Bill', and the two men had a sharpshooting contest to determine who would keep the nickname. Cody won, and he's remembered to this day.

2. This actor played Commander Mancuso in "The Hunt for Red October" and astronaut Alan Shepard in "The Right Stuff". Who is he?

Answer: Scott Glenn

Scott Glenn was also in "Backdraft", "Apocalypse Now" and "Courage Under Fire". He was a United States marine for several years, and in his career he's played plenty of tough-guy roles.

Answer: Clarice

"I think you're cute". I kinda had a crush on her myself, to tell you the truth. Janet Orenstein provided Clarice's voice. Other characters from the film were Hermey the Misfit Elf and Yukon Cornelius.

4. Which actor born in Wales has played roles as diverse as Abraham Van Helsing, Zorro and Richard Nixon?

Answer: Sir Anthony Hopkins

Hopkins played Professor Van Helsing in 1992's "Bram Stoker's Dracula", Zorro in 1998's "The Mask of Zorro" (though he passed the mantle--and the mask--on to Banderas in that movie) and Tricky Dick in 1995's "Nixon". He became an American citizen in 2000.

5. In 1977, a movie thriller was released that had Bruce Dern trying to blow up the Super Bowl and Robert Shaw trying to stop him. What was the name of this movie?

Answer: Black Sunday

Much of the filming for this John Frankenheimer film was actually done at the 1976 Super Bowl in Miami. The Goodyear company allowed their blimps to be used for the filming as well, even though it might have seemed that exploding blimps could have been bad publicity for them.

Answer: Starling

The starling is considered an invasive species in America, and I can see why--200 million of the little bug-eaters in a hundred years? They must be competing pretty well against the natives. They belong to the Sturnidae family of birds.

7. 1975's film "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" did something unusual in film history. What was it?

Answer: Won all five of the major Academy Awards

"Cuckoo's Nest" won Oscars for Jack Nicholson (Best Actor), Louise Fletcher (Best Actress), Milos Forman (Best Director), Lawrence Hauben and Bo Goldman (Best Screenplay) and, of course, the statue for Best Picture. At that point, only "It Happened One Night" (in 1934) had managed such a sweep.

8. Who was the Carthaginian military genius who (with the assistance of some elephants) occupied huge areas of Italy for years during the Second Punic War?

Answer: Hannibal

Hannibal was eventually forced out of Italy and beaten in Carthage by Scipio Africanus. In spite of the loss, he's still considered one of the greatest military minds in history. He thought so himself, too. Someone asked him once who the greatest generals ever were, and he said Alexander, Pyrrhus or himself.

9. Who is the director of the Oscar-winning "Philadelphia" and the Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense"?

Answer: Jonathan Demme

Tom Hanks won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1993 for his role as Andrew Beckett, the lawyer dying of AIDS, and then won again the next year for playing some guy named Gump. Demme went on to direct "Rachel Getting Married" and a remake of "The Manchurian Candidate".

10. "Read Marcus Aurelius. Of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? What is its nature?" Well, what's the nature of this quiz? What's the common bond?

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs

It's "The Silence of the Lambs". Answers "Clarice" and "Starling" give you the name of Jodie Foster's FBI trainee character. "Hannibal" is the first name of Anthony Hopkins' cannibalistic Dr. Lecter. "Buffalo Bill" is the nickname given to Ted Levine's serial killer. Scott Glenn played Starling's boss Jack Crawford and the movie, like "Cuckoo's Nest", won all five of the major Academy Awards. Jonathan Demme directed the film, and "Black Sunday" is another book by "Silence" author Thomas Harris.

Source: Author john_sunseri

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