A Common Bond You Can Sing With Quiz

Answer: Wallsend

Wallsend is located in North Tyneside, Tyne and Wear, England, about three miles east of Newcastle. The name comes, obviously, from the fact that the settlement is located at the end of Hadrian's Wall, built by the Romans to protect themselves from northern invasions. Wallsend has been known for its coal mining as well as its ship building industries.

Interestingly, the RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued those that survived the sinking of the Titanic, was built there.

Answer: Last Exit to Brooklyn

While a cult classic, "Last Exit to Brooklyn" is also quite controversial because of many of its subjects, such as domestic abuse, drug use, prostitution, homosexuality, etc. Another of the six stories contained within the novel is about a married man who struggles with his homosexuality and beats his wife and gets into fights with other men to convince himself that he is truly a man.

A film version starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as Tralala was released in 1989.

Answer: turtles

Apparently, turtles can also perceive colors. In fact, certain colors seem to be more appealing to them than others. For example, reds, oranges, and yellows tend to evoke curiosity among many turtles, who will investigate objects of these colors to determine whether they are edible.

Another interesting fact about turtles is that, although they are air-breathing creatures, they have no diaphragms. They couldn't use these muscles anyway because of the rigidity of their shells. Instead, they must move their neck and limbs and rely on other muscles to assist their breathing.

Answer: dune

Sub-aqueous dunes are formed underwater, lithified dunes are consolidated sandstone formed when marine dunes are compacted, and coastal dunes are what most people are probably familiar with, thanks to movies like "Lawrence of Arabia". Dunes can also be classified according to shape, such as crescentic, dome, linear, parabolic, and star.

The highest dune in the world in 2013 could be found in Argentina; Duna Federico Kirbus is around 4,035 feet high from its base to its top.

Answer: nothing like the sun

"Sonnet 130" is known as an anti-Petrarchan sonnet, which is a parody of the typical Petrarchan sonnet. Petrarchan sonnets often compared women to everything beautiful in existence, as well as to things divine and godly. An anti-Petrarchan sonnet seeks to establish that such praise is exaggeration and that women cannot possibly occupy such an unrealistic station in life as that of a goddess. Thus, the speaker of Shakespeare's sonnet argues his lover's eyes are not as brilliant as the sun, her breasts are not as white as snow, her breath does not smell like perfume, and her hair is like wires.

He argues that when he sees her walk, he does not see a floating goddess, but rather a woman whose feet are firmly planted upon the ground.

Answer: Desert Rose

Desert rose crystals usually form in dry, sandy areas such as deserts. They are also known as sand roses, rose rocks, gypsum roses, and barite roses. Desert-rose is also an alternative name for the adenium flowering plant found in Arabia and tropical Africa. "Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King" was published in 2012, one year after the death of the author Edythe Scott Bagley, Coretta's sister.

Answer: Gordon

After being inspired by the exploits of Buck Rogers, Alex Raymond created Flash Gordon to compete with the character created by Philip Francis Nolan. Raymond drew the strip as a Sunday serial from 1934 to 1943, and various artists kept the strip, or variations of it, running until 2003. During the 1930s, a few film serials were produced, and some of these were compiled into feature-length movies, but the most well-known film is 1980's "Flash Gordon", starring Sam J. Jones, a former "Playgirl" model, as Gordon.

The film's soundtrack was composed by Queen.

Answer: synchronicity

Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, created the term "synchronicity" in the 1920s to describe phenomena he defined as "temporally coincident occurrences of acausal events". Synchronicity became an integral piece of Jung's arguments for the existence of archetypes and the collective unconscious. One of Jung's most famous examples of the occurrence of synchronicity is derived from one of his own personal experiences.

He tells of providing therapy for a woman who was telling him of a dream she had of a golden scarab beetle.

While she spoke, Jung heard a tapping at his window, turned to see an insect trying to get into the room, opened the window, and then caught the insect, which turned out to be the closest thing to a scarab in his part of the world--a rose chafer. Why was the creature this kind of beetle? And why was it determined to enter that room at that exact moment?

Answer: Roxane

The play "Cyrano de Bergerac" is a fictionalized account of the real Cyrano de Bergerac, who like the character of the play is a writer and a duelist who possessed an enormous nose. In the play, his nose is the source of his self-doubt that plagues him and causes him to believe that Roxane could never be interested in him.

The 1987 film "Roxanne" is a modern interpretation of the play with Steve Martin playing C.D. Bales and Daryl Hannah playing Roxanne. There are many parallels, like C.D B.'s big nose and his writing love letters to Roxanne for another man who is too dim-witted to express his devotion to her.

Answer: Sting

The answer is Sting.

1. Wallsend is the town where Sting grew up. Scenes from it and the nearby Newcastle figure prominently in many of his songs, particularly in those from 1991's "The Soul Cages" and 2013's "The Last Ship" albums.
2. Last Exit is the name of the jazz fusion band from Newcastle that Sting was a member of prior to his joining Stewart Copeland to form The Police.
3. Sting's first solo album, published in 1985, was "Dream of the Blue Turtles".
4. Sting played Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen in the 1984 film "Dune", based on Frank Herbert's book.
5. "...Nothing like the Sun" is the title of Sting's second solo album, which he released in 1987. Yes, the title is from Shakespeare's Sonnet # 130.
6. "Desert Rose" is the title of one of Sting's hit songs from his 1999 solo album "Brand New Day".
7. Gordon is Sting's given first name, his whole name being Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner.
8. "Synchronicity" is the title of The Police's final studio album, released in 1983. Sting was highly influenced by Junian theory and Arthur Koestler's book "The Roots of Coincidence".
9. "Roxanne" is the name of an early hit by The Police and one of their most critically acclaimed songs. Sting was inspired to use the name "Roxanne" after seeing an old poster advertising the play "Cyrano De Bergerac".