Professorjon's Common Bond Quiz 14

Answer: "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

"The Door Between" was written by Ellery Queen. "The Father Hunt" was written by Rex Stout and features his famous detective, Nero Wolfe. "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd" was written by Agatha Christie. The detective is Hercule Poirot. "The Hound of the Baskervilles" was written by Arthur Conan Doyle. The detective, Sherlock Holmes, investigates mysterious deaths caused by a family curse.

Answer: "All Quiet on the Western Front"

"All Quiet on the Western Front" was based on a novel by Erich Maria Remarque. It is the story of a young soldier named Paul Baumer (played by Lew Ayres) who becomes disillusioned by war. Fyodor Dostoyevsk wrote 'The Brothers Karamazov'. The other two were written by Leo Tolstoy.

Answer: "Gone With the Wind"

Prissy was played by Butterfly McQueen, whose given name was Thelma McQueen. Her character is the person in the film who utters the memorable line "I don't know nuthin about birthin no babies." The other three movies all starred Orson Welles.

Answer: Eileen Heckart

The play "Butterflies are Free", written by Gershe, was made into a movie in 1972 and starred Eddie Albert jr, former Oscar winner Goldie Hawn (who won in 1969 for "Cactus Flower") and Eileen Heckart. The movie is about a young blind man (Albert) who wants a place of his own away from his over- protective mother (Heckart) Goldie Hawn plays his neighbor, an actress, who helps Albert's character learn about himself.

Answer: "Papillon"

Steve McQueen stars as Henry Charriere who is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life at a French Penal colony in Guyana. Charriere is determined to escape, but his efforts are futile and he is eventually sent to Devil's Island. Henry Charriere was nicknamed Papillon because he has a large tattoo of a butterfly (papillon is the French word for butterfly).

The other three movies listed all starred James Coburn, who co-starred with Steve McQueen in "The Great Escape" and "The Magnificent Seven."

Answer: "Gilligan's Island"

John McGiver appears as Lord Beasley in episode 36 of "Gilligan's Island" entitled "Man With a Net".

Answer: Lt. B. F. Pinkerton

Nick Charles (and his wife Nora) was the detective from "The Thin Man", created by author Dashiell Hammett. Philip Marlowe was a hard boiled detective created by Raymond Chandler and portrayed on the screen by Humphrey Bogart. Bogart also played detective Sam Spade in "The Maltese Falcon" which was also written by Dashiell Hammett.

Although there was a real life detective named Allan Pinkerton (hence the Pinkerton Detective Agency created in 1852) the charcter of Lt. B. F. Pinkerton is a naval offiver who falls in lust with a young Japanese woman named Cho-Cho-San and then deserts her in "Madame Butterfly".

Answer: Stage Fright

Jane Wyman stars as Eve Gill who offers who hide her friend Jonathan who is wanted for murder. Jonathan claims that his mistress, actress Charlotte Inwood, (Dietrich) is the real killer. Eve decides to investigate for herself and she finds the killer. The movie was somewhat controversial because Hitchcock used false flashbacks to mislead the audience to the identity of the killer.

Answer: Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov (1899-1977) was born in St. Petersburg but left Russia after the 1917 revolution. He lived in England and Germany before coming to the United States in the 1940's. His most famous novel, "Lolita", was made into a movie in 1962 starring James Mason, Sue Lyon and Peter Sellers.

Answer: butterfly

Ok here goes. The first nine questions all have something to do with butterflies. Eileen Heckart won her Oscar for "Butterflies are Free". "Papillon" is the French word for Butterfly. The role of Prissy in "Gone With the Wind" was played by Butterfly McQueen.

In "All Quiet on the Western Front" the movie ends in an unforgettable scene with Paul Baumer (Ayres) reaching for a butterfly. Pinkerton is a character in the opera "Madame Butterfly". Vladimir Nabokov was an internationally recognized lepidopterist (butterfly expert). Lord Beasley in "Gilligan's Island" is a butterfly collector. So is the murderer in the Sherlock Holmes mystery "The Hound of the Baskervilles". And, please don't groan, people who get "Stage Fright" are said to have butterflies in their stomach.