ROUND 4: Miscellaneous - Common Factors
For each question we'll give you three or more people or things, and
you'll tell us what specific feature they most notably have in common.
For example, if we said "the Ontario towns of Preston, Weston, and York",
you would say, "they were all merged into larger municipalities".
In all cases QMs should accept answers that are overly specific, ask
for "more specific" where applicable, and be lenient on close answers.
But, as usual, anything underlined is required.
1. George Burns, Alanis Morissette, Ralph Richardson, and Annie Sprinkle
Played God in movies
[respectively: "Oh God", "Dogma", "Time Bandits", "Bubbles Galore"]
2. Joe DiMaggio, James Dougherty, Arthur Miller, and -- allegedly --
Robert Slatzer
married to Marilyn Monroe
3. Andre Dawson, Alfredo Griffin, Eric Hinske, Carl Morton
baseball rookie of the year award winners on Canadian teams
(acceptable if a specific Canadian team is given instead of "Canadian")
4. The movies "The Bridge on the River Kwai" (1957), "Planet of the Apes"
(1968), and "Le Point de mire" (1977) (or in English, "Focal Point")
based on novels by Pierre Boulle
5. Archibald Butt, who was the aide to the US president; Jacques Futrelle,
who wrote mysteries; Benjamin Guggenheim, who was a steel magnate;
Wallace Hartley, who was a bandleader; and Isidor Straus, who owned
the Macy's store.
died in Titanic disaster
6. Ernst Alexanderson, John Logie Baird, Philo Farnsworth, Francis
Jenkins, Paul Nipkow ("nip-koff"), and Vladimir Zworykin
invented television
[that is, each one is/was hailed as the principal inventor of TV
by his associates, fans, and/or fellow countrymen]
7. Ralph Ellison, H.F. Saint, and H.G. Wells
wrote books with Invisible Man in the title
8. John Bardeen, Marie Curie, Linus Pauling, Frederick Sanger, and
the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees
won two (or multiple) Nobel Prizes
[Respectively: physics 1956 & 1972; physics 1903 & chemistry 1911;
chemistry 1958 & 1980; chemistry 1954 & peace 1962; peace 1954 & 1981.]
9. Steve Bowers, Gordon Sumner, and the sword of Frodo Baggins
known as Sting
10. The last question in the round is an audio question. Listen to
the tape, and when it finishes, name the thing in common.
each song has the same title: The Power of Love