Professorjon's Common Bond Quiz 39

Answer: ABC

"ABC" peaked at number 1 for the Jacksons in March of 1970. The other three songs were hits in the early 1970s by the Osmonds.

Answer: Surprise

The Texas Rangers played in the Grapefruit League for spring training. Their home facilty (for 17 straight years) was in Port Charlotte Florida. After 2002, the Rangers moved to the Phoenix suberb, Surprise Arizona, and joined the Cactus League.

Answer: Star Trek Nemesis

In the 2002 film "Star Trek Nemesis", Captain Picard learns that the Romulans are planning an attack on Earth. Their leader is his clone.

Answer: Underdog

"Underdog" ran from 1964-1973. Wally Cox provided the voice for Underdog, a superhero who posed as a shoe shine boy. His catch phrase was "There's no need to fear, Underdog is here."

Answer: Clocks

The former Nazi Franz Kindler (Welles) is hiding out as Professor Charles Rankin, in a sleepy Connecticut town, teaching school and about to marry a socialite, played by Loretta Young. Robinson begins to suspect that the professor and the Nazi are one and the same because of Rankin's fondness for clocks, a trait that Kindler was also known for.

Answer: The Labors of Hercules

Hercules ran afoul of the Goddess Hera, who made Hercules lose his mind. When Hercules awoke from his temporary insanity, he discovered that he had killed his own children. As part of his sentence, Hercules had to perform twelve Labors, feats so difficult that they seemed impossible.

The second of these feats was the task of killing the Lernean Hydra. The Hydra was monstrous serpent with nine heads which attacked with poisonous venom. Hercules lured the creature out of its lair with flaming arrows and then chopped off its heads.

However whenever one head was chopped off two more would grow in its place. So Hercules called on his nephew Iolaus to help him. Every time Hercules chopped off a head, Iolaus seared the body with a torch preventing the growth of replacement heads and Hercules was able to finally get the better of the beast.

Answer: Birman

The Birman has blue eyes, a luxurious, color-pointed coat. The other three are breeds of pigeons.

Answer: Behold a Pale Horse

Directed by Fred Zinneman, "Behold a Pale Horse" starred Gregory Peck as Manuel, a famous bandit in the Spanish Revolution, who was forced to flee and live in exile in France. Anthony Quinn plays the villain who awaits Manuel's return to Spain. Peck and Quinn also starred together in the World War II thriller "The Guns of Navarone".

Answer: Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase star in the 1985 movie "Spies Like Us" as a couple of government spies who are sent on a dangerous mission unaware that they have been set up as decoys. The movie also starred Donna Dixon and was saved by an appearance by Bob Hope.

Answer: Agatha Christie

The common bond is the British mystery author AGATHA CHRISTIE. Agatha Miller was born in Torquay, England on September 15, 1890. In 1914 she married Colonel Archibald Christie, an aviator in the Royal Flying Corps. Christie's first novel, "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" (1920), was also the first to feature her eccentric Belgian detective HERCULE Poirot. Surely one of the most famous fictional creations of all time, Poirot's "little grey cells" triumphed over devious criminals in 33 novels and many dozens of short stories. Christie's last published novel, "Sleeping Murder" (1976), featured her other world-famous sleuth, the shrewdly inquisitive Miss Jane Marple of St. Mary Mead. Miss Marple appeared in twelve novels, beginning with The Murder at the Vicarage in 1930.

She also published the mystery novel "DESTINATION UNKNOWN" in 1954. (for more info check out http://www.agathachristie.com/) The answers to the quiz are all book titles and they include (1) "The A.B.C. Murders," a mystery which featured her famous detective Hercule Poirot. (2) "SURPRISE, SURPRISE," a 1965 collection of short stories that were previoulsy published in earlier volumes . (3) The 1971 novel "NEMESIS" features Christie's spinster detective Jane Marple. (4) "The UNDERDOG and Other Stories" was a series of short stories that were written by Christie much earlier. (5) Christie's 1963 novel "The CLOCKS" also featured Poirot. (6) "The LABOURS OF HERCULES" was a collection of short stories featuring Hercule Poirot. (7) I hope you were able to pick out "THE CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS," a 1959 mystery featuring Poirot. (8) Christie published "THE PALE HORSE," a 1961 mystery that featured writer/detective Ariadne Oliver (the only novel that she appears in without Hercule Poirot) (9) One of Agatha Christie's best known works was her 1926 masterpiece "The Murder of Roger ACKROYD." Her seventh novel, "Ackroyd" featured Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and is noted as the book that made her internationally famous.

Her detective, Poirot, is also a famous character often portrayed on the big screen. Among the actors who have portrayed Poirot are Tony Randall, Peter Ustinov and Albert Finney, all of whom are incorrect answers in question.