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John's Common Bond #3 Trivia Quiz

Cudgel thy brains and try to determine the common bond in this quiz. If trivia be the food of love, play on!

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

Author
john_sunseri

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
319,507

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

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Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

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848

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Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. This 1962 novel by Ray Bradbury features Jim Nightshade and Will Halloway as they encounter the mysterious and dangerous Cooger & Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show. What is this book that also introduces the Dust Witch and the Illustrated Man? Hint

Dandelion Wine

Something Wicked This Way Comes

The Martian Chronicles

Fahrenheit 451

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Question 2 of 10

2. At the end of "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), Detective Polhaus (Ward Bond) picks up the falcon and asks Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) what it is. What is Spade's response? Hint

The world's most expensive paperweight

A fake damned bird

The stuff that dreams are made of

Seventeen wasted years

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Question 3 of 10

3. In 2001, HBO ran a miniseries produced by Spielberg and Hanks and based on a book of the same name by Stephen Ambrose. What was this series that focused on Easy Company of the Second Battalion during World War II? Hint

Battle of the Bulge

Inglourious Basterds

Band of Brothers

Undaunted Courage

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Question 4 of 10

4. If a buddy of yours sets up a complicated practical joke, but then inadvertently triggers it and springs it on himself, what would you say he was? Hint

Hoist with his own petard

Pining for the fjords

Tripping the light fantastic

Painted with a broad brush

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Question 5 of 10

5. What is the music played during the procession at practically every high school and college graduation ceremony in America? Hint

Hail to the Chief

Pomp and Circumstance

The 1812 Overture

Here Comes the Bride

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Question 6 of 10

6. What is the English translation for Marcel Proust's massive masterpiece "� la recherche du temps perdu"? Hint

Less Miserable

Remembrance of Things Past

The Count of Mount Christ

The Three Guys With Muskets and Funny Names

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Question 7 of 10

7. The title of what song by Nick Lowe (a hit in the summer of 1979) is left out of each line of this chorus:

"___ in the right measure
___ it's a very good sign
___ means that I love you
Baby, you got to be ___"? Hint

Back in Black

High on Life

Tiny Dancer

Cruel to Be Kind

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Question 8 of 10

8. In what 1959 Hitchcock film does Cary Grant find himself the victim of mistaken identity, framed for murder at the United Nations building, buzzed by a crop duster and finally hanging from a face on Mt. Rushmore while the bad guy steps on his fingers? Hint

Psycho

Strangers on a Train

The Birds

North by Northwest

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Question 9 of 10

9. What is the name of the 1932 Aldous Huxley dystopian novel that introduced the world to the Bokanovsky Process, the drug 'soma' and the College of Emotional Engineering? Hint

Brave New World

Tobacco Road

Light in August

Cold Comfort Farm

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Question 10 of 10

10. Okay, time for the be-all and the end-all. Screw your courage to the sticking point and come up with the Common Bond for all these answers!

Answer: (One Word, 11 letters)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Something Wicked This Way Comes

The book was filmed in 1983 by Disney, and starred Jason Robards as Charles Halloway and Jonathan Pryce as Mr. Dark. The movie won the Saturn Award in 1984 for Best Fantasy Film. The book is a favorite of Stephen King's, and he spent some time in "Danse Macabre" analyzing it.

2. At the end of "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), Detective Polhaus (Ward Bond) picks up the falcon and asks Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) what it is. What is Spade's response?

Answer: The stuff that dreams are made of

"The Maltese Falcon" is considered by many (including Roger Ebert and me) to be one of the greatest films of all time. It's full of quotable material: "I won't play the sap for you"; "When a man's partner is killed, he's supposed to do something about it"; and "When you're slapped, you'll take it and like it".

Answer: Band of Brothers

The series won six Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries. It starred Damian Lewis, but it had a very large cast which included David Schwimmer, Donnie Wahlberg and Tom Hanks' son Colin.

4. If a buddy of yours sets up a complicated practical joke, but then inadvertently triggers it and springs it on himself, what would you say he was?

Answer: Hoist with his own petard

A petard was a bomb used to knock holes in a castle's walls or gates, so to say that someone was hoist with his own petard is to say that he took the brunt of the explosion he intended for someone else. This falls under the category of 'poetic justice'.

5. What is the music played during the procession at practically every high school and college graduation ceremony in America?

Answer: Pomp and Circumstance

Sir Edward Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D is that music Americans always hear when the happy grads are lining up to get their diplomas. He wrote it in 1901, and it was performed at Yale in 1905 at their graduation when they honored Elgar with an honorary doctorate.

6. What is the English translation for Marcel Proust's massive masterpiece "� la recherche du temps perdu"?

Answer: Remembrance of Things Past

It's also been translated as "In Search of Lost Time", and is a monstrous, seven-volume beast of a book. Harold Bloom calls it "widely recognized as the major novel of the twentieth century", and it's on multiple 'best books of all time' lists. This is the book in which the narrator meditates upon a madeleine.

7. The title of what song by Nick Lowe (a hit in the summer of 1979) is left out of each line of this chorus: "___ in the right measure ___ it's a very good sign ___ means that I love you Baby, you got to be ___"?

Answer: Cruel to Be Kind

It hit number twelve on the U.S. Top 40 chart, and is insidiously catchy. The band Letters to Cleo covered the song in 1999 for the soundtrack to "10 Things I Hate About You".

Answer: North by Northwest

In 2006, GQ got a panel of fashion experts together and they determined that the suit Grant wore throughout the movie was "the best suit in film history". The actors weren't really on Mt. Rushmore--it was a reproduction built in Hollywood.

9. What is the name of the 1932 Aldous Huxley dystopian novel that introduced the world to the Bokanovsky Process, the drug 'soma' and the College of Emotional Engineering?

Answer: Brave New World

The Modern Library placed "Brave New World" at number five on its list of the best hundred English-language novels of the 20th century. In the 1993 film "Demolition Man", Sandra Bullock's character is named 'Lenina Huxley', paying tribute to the main female character (Lenina Crowne) from "Brave New World", as well as the book's author.

10. Okay, time for the be-all and the end-all. Screw your courage to the sticking point and come up with the Common Bond for all these answers!

Answer: Shakespeare

All these answers are quotations from Shakespeare. "Something Wicked..." is from "Macbeth". "The stuff that dreams..." is from "The Tempest" (though it's actually "SUCH stuff as dreams are made ON"). "Band of Brothers" comes from "Henry V". "Hoist with his own petard" is from "Hamlet". "Pomp and circumstance" is from "Othello". "Remembrance..." is from Sonnet #30. "Cruel to be kind" is from "Hamlet" (lotta great quotes from the melancholy Dane!). "North by Northwest" comes from (where else?) "Hamlet". And "Brave New World" is from "The Tempest", Shakespeare's last play.

Source: Author john_sunseri

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