Common Bond 24 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Moon

Keith Moon was the drummer for the Who before his death in 1978. While he is often remembered for his decadent party lifestyle, about which there are many stories, he was also a supremely talented drummer, who also worked on tracks with the Yardbirds and the Beatles.
The song, "Moon River" which became well known as Andy Williams' theme song was written for, and originally performed by, Audrey Hepburn in the movie "Breakfast At Tiffany's" (1961). The song was a hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in USA in 1961 for Henry Mancini and his orchestra, while in UK, it reached number one in the same year, recorded by Danny Williams.
Sun Myung Moon was the founder of the Unification Church, commonly referred to as the Moonies. He attracted wide spread interest for officiating at church blessing ceremonies, also referred to as "mass weddings" at which he would personally match couples together. One of the largest of these ceremonies occurred in Washington D.C. in 1997, when Moon presided over 30,000 couples.

Answer: Cannonball

Mons Meg is the name given to the cannon which sits outside St Margaret's Chapel at the castle. With an immense barrel diameter of 510 mm (20 inches), it is one of the largest cannons in the world by calibre, capable of firing cannonballs weighing in at 175 kilograms (386 lb) over a distance of two miles.
Mons Meg was retired from active duty in the 1540s and after a brief time spent in England, was returned to Edinburgh in 1829 by order of George IV.
She is now fired on ceremonial occasions only, although not actually discharged, and is used to mark the start of Scotland's annual Hogmanay celebrations.

Answer: Compass

Early compasses were made of lodestone, a naturally magnetized stone of iron, while later examples used iron needles, magnetized by striking them with a lodestone.
By the late 12th century, compasses were mentioned in medieval European writings and by the early 13th century in writings of the Muslim world.
While compass use has fallen by the wayside as GPS becomes more prevalent, one of my fondest memories from my school days was making a compass from a bowl of water, a needle and a magnet.

Answer: Lion's Mane

Not only are these two the only Holmes cases narrated by the great man himself, neither of them feature Watson at all, although "The Adventure Of The Lion's Mane" has been dramatised several times for radio broadcasts, many of which do feature Dr Watson.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a total of four novels and 56 short stories about Holmes and Watson during his lifetime, starting with "A Study In Scarlet" in 1887 and ending with "The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place" in 1927.

Answer: Immortal

Immortal were formed in 1991 by vocalist and guitarist, Abbath Doom Occulta (real name Olve Eikemo) and guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta (Harald Nævdal) and released eight albums, although following 1997s "Blizzard Beasts", Demonaz retired from playing due to tendonitis in his hands, and became the primary lyricist for the band.
In 2015 Abbath left the band and Demonaz returned to playing and for the first time, sang vocals, on the "Northern Chaos Gods" (2018) album, which has been called, "huge, powerful and melodic" by reviewers and was also cited as the finest Immortal album to date.
As well as their German chart success, the album also hit the top 40 in the album charts of Hungary, Switzerland, Finland and Austria.
All of the possible answers apart from Immortal are English bands, with Cradle Of Filth being from Suffolk, Anaal Nathrakh (Gaelic for "snake's breath") from Birmingham and Svalbard hailing from Bristol.

Answer: Blue

"The Old Guitarist" (1903-04) is one of the wonderful works of art painted by Pablo Picasso during his "blue period" while Levi Strauss was the man who, in 1873, along with his partner Jacob W. Davis, first made blue jeans. The Gershwin rhapsody is "Rhapsody In Blue" (1924), written by George Gershwin for solo piano and jazz band and is instantly recognisable for the way it combines classical music with jazz.

Answer: Box

The juggling pattern for three objects, where each hand throws an object vertically, while a third object is thrown horizontally between hands is called a box pattern.
Mick Box is the very talented guitarist that has appeared on every Uriah Heep album from "...Very 'Eavy ...Very 'Umble" in 1970 to "Living The Dream" in 2018, and is the only original member of the band left after keyboard player and guitarist Ken Hensley left the band in 1980.
A cricket box is a hard plastic jockstrap, used to protect the genitals in the event a wayward cricket ball strikes that area.

Answer: Comb

The simple comb has a long history and can be found in a variety of shapes and styles depending on its intended use, for example pick combs, used to tease out afro hair styles, rake combs, used to sort out knotted hair with a minimum of pain, rat tail combs, ideal for making precision partings in hair or nit combs, used to remove parasites from hair.

Sadly my need for a comb ended many years ago.

Answer: Barrel

The word "cooper" has its origin in the Latin "cupa" meaning 'tun' or 'barrel' and while the art of barrel making dates back to Roman times, it has been in decline since major breweries started switching to metal kegs in the 1960s, although has in recent times seen a slight increase in popularity due to the many microbreweries which utilise wooden barrels.
While there were once thousands of master coopers in England, this number dropped to just one in 2009, when the retirement of Lee Skinner left Alastair Simms of Yorkshire as the only master.

Answer: Jellyfish

All are types of jellyfish, those fascinating creatures which are 95% water, have no blood, brain or heart but do possess reproductive organs, stomachs and an ability to sting. Starting from the top, the moon jellyfish is extremely common throughout most of the earth's oceans and grows to be about the size of a dinner plate, while the cannonball jellyfish is smaller than the moon, but instantly recognisable due to its cannonball shape. It is capable of giving humans a mild sting, usually just enough to cause mild irritation and is bred commercially as one of the main foods of leatherback sea turtles. The cannonball are usually found in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans and are quite common off the southeastern coast of USA.
The compass jellyfish can be found in the northeast Atlantic and is a common summer visitor to UK shores. The compass-like markings on the bell of the jellyfish make this one easy to identify and avoid, as it can give a nasty sting, much like the lion's mane jellyfish whose stings are particularly painful, though rarely fatal. This jellyfish, which can have a bell diameter of 210 centimetres (7 feet) and tentacles 36 metres (120 feet) long, is found in the colder waters of the Arctic and northern Atlantic oceans and is common in the English Channel as well as the Irish Sea and North Sea, both off the coast of UK.
The immortal jellyfish meanwhile is found in temperate and tropical waters and takes its name from its incredible ability to replenish cells after sexual reproduction, meaning it can revert completely to a sexually immature, colonial stage after having reached sexual maturity as a solitary individual. The blue jellyfish is colourless when young, and often confused with the lion's mane jellyfish, but on reaching maturity develops a striking blue purple colouration. Blue jellyfish are common in UK waters, found off the coast of Scotland and in North Sea, Irish Sea and English Channel.
The box jellyfish is one of the better known species, due to its cube like shape, and the oft repeated tales involving them and human fatalities, leading to its nickname of "the world's most venomous creature". As with all jellyfish, the tentacle can continue to sting, even when separated from the body, and the venom from the box jellyfish, along with the fact that each tentacle contains about 500,000 sting cells, can make this a particularly unpleasant experience, though it is not as fatal as urban legend would like us to believe.
Comb jellyfish are found in most waters, from polar waters to tropical waters and are one of the few jellies that don't sting, instead using sticky cells called colloblasts on their tentacles to capture prey.
Barrel jellyfish are found in the northeastern Atlantic Ocean as well as in the Black and Mediterranean Seas and are very common in the Irish Sea. They are also known as the dustbin lid jellyfish, and their bell size, which can reach 150 centimetres (59 inches) makes them the largest jellyfish found in British waters.