Speed Quizzes Set 2
Out on Pens Again!!!!
Which member of England’s 2006 World Cup
squad…
1 Has a brother called Paul playing for
Yeovil
2 Has the middle name of Alexander
3 Has the real first name of Sulzeer
4 Was sent off in a 2002 FA Cup tie for throwing a coin into the crowd
5 Has a brother who played in the 2006 FA Cup final
6 Began his playing career at Calgary Foothills FC
7 Is nicknamed Roadrunner
8 Is the only player whose father played for England
9 Married Louise Bosnall in 2005
10 Is a distant relative of a former West Indian test cricketer
Rocking All Over the World
Which pop groups with locations in their names had hits with the following
songs?
1 The Final Countdown
2 Shang-a-lang
3 Chanson D’Amour
4 Woke Up One Morning, theme from The Sopranos
5 I Don’t Want a Lover
6 If You Leave Me Now
7 Take My Breath Away
8 Broken Down Angel
9 A Horse with No Name
10 Dr Beat
Doggy Dilemmas
Who created the following literary canines?
1 Cujo
2 Montmorency
3 Bullseye
4 Nana
5 101 Dalmatians
6 Hound of the Baskervilles
7 White Fang
8 Fluke
9 Scamper
10 Lassie
Answers to England players
1 John Terry, brother Paul
2 Gary Neville
3 Sol Campbell
4 Jamie Carragher
5 Rio Ferdinand, brother Anton
6 Owen Hargreaves
7 Aaron Lennon
8 Frank Lampard, father Frank Snr.
9 Michael Owen
10 Theo Walcott, distant relative of Clive Walcott
Answers to Rocking all Over the World
1 Europe
2 Bay City Rollers
3 Manhattan Transfer
4 Alabama 3
5 Texas
6 Chicago
7 Berlin
8 Nazareth
9 America
10 Miami Sound Machine
Answers to Dogs
1 Stephen King
2 Jerome K Jerome
3 Charles Dickens
4 JM Barrie
5 Dodie Smith
6 Arthur Conan Doyle
7 Jack London
8 James Herbert
9 Enid Blyton
10 Eric Knight
Eurovision
Identify the singers from their initials all of which represented the UK in the
Eurovision Song Contest
1 GG in 1996
2 CR in 1973
3 KK in 1965
4 JG in 2002
5 CR in 1971
6 MB in 1992
7 SJ in 1991
8 MH in 1970
9 MM in 1964
10 SF in 1988
1966 and all That
Identify the famous people from their
initials and short clues given. All 10 were born in the year that England
actually managed to win the World Cup
1 PT- Past winner of I’m A Celebrity Get Me
Out of Here
2 BZ- Starred in the film Titanic
3 MT- he became the youngest ever heavyweight world champ
4 SE- Former Wimbledon champion
5 KS- Famed for his role as Jack Bauer
6 EC- First foreign footballer to captain an FA CUP winnings side
7 RA- Chart topping star of the Stock Aitken and Waterman stable
8 SM- Lead vocalist for Garbage
9 TS- Oldest player in the 2006 FA Cup final
10 GW- First African to be voted World Footballer of the Year
In the City Where you Live
If Manchester equals Mancunian what adjective is applied to residents of the
following?
1 Canterbury
2 Newcastle
3 Stockport
4 Sydney
5 Moscow
6 Oxford
7 Melbourne
8 Venice
9 Los Angeles
10 Galway
Answers to Eurovision Acts
1 Gina G
2 Cliff Richard
3 Kathy Kirby
4 Jessica Garlick
5 Clodagh Rodgers
6 Michael Ball
7 Samantha Janus
8 Mary Hopkin
9 Matt Monro
10 Scott Fitzgerald
Answers to Born in 1966
1 Phil Tufnell
2 Billy Zane
3 Mike Tyson
4 Stefan Edberg
5 Kiefer Sutherland
6 Eric Cantona
7 Rick Astley
8 Shirley Manson
9 Teddy Sheringham
10 George Weah
Answers to City Residents
1 Cantabrian
2 Novocastrian
3 Stopfordian
4 Sydneysider
5 Muscovite
6 Oxonian
7 Melburnian
8 Venetian
9 Angeleno
10 Galwegian
Opening Lines
Identify the UK number one hits of the 60s from the opening line of their lyrics
1 When I was young my father said,” Son I
have something to say”
2 There she was just a walking down the street
3 Baby’s good to me you know she’s as happy as can be
4 You to me are sweet as roses in the morning
5 Now here’s a little story, to tell it is a must
6 When I said I needed you, you said you would always stay
7 I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack
8 You keep saying you’ve got something for me
9 I wonder if one day that you’ll say that you care
10 I wondered should I go or should I stay
Opening Lines
Identify the UK number one hits of the 70s from the opening line of their lyrics
1 You better beware, you better take care
2 Oh is he more too much more than a pretty face
3 You went away left long time ago
4 Sometimes its hard to be a woman
5 I would have given you all of my heart
6 Well you call your mama tiger
7 So long boy you can take my place
8 Listen to the ground there is movement all around
9 Father said to me,” We gotta have your life run right”
10 Just a castaway an island lost at sea
Opening Lines
Identify the UK number one hits of the 80s from the opening line of their lyrics
1 Sometimes I feel I’ve got to run away
2 You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar
3 Don’t you ever don’t you ever stop being dandy
4 He walked into my life and now he’s taken
5 The whispers in the morning of lovers sleeping tight
6 Watching every motion in my foolish lover’s game
7 We’ve been broken down to the lowest turn
8 Like a warrior that fights and wins the battle
9 A few stolen moments is all that we share
10 Life is a mystery everyone must stand alone
Answers to 60s Songs
1 Bachelor Boy
2 Do Wah Diddy Diddy
3 I Feel Fine
4 Concrete and Clay
5 My Old Man’s a Dustman
6 You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me
7 Return to Sender
8 These Boots are Made for Walkin’
9 Puppet on a String
10 The Last Waltz
Answers to 70s Songs
1 Blockbuster
2 Gonna Make You a Star
3 I Hear You Knocking
4 Stand by Your man
5 First Cut is the Deepest
6 Can the Can
7 Yellow River
8 Night Fever
9 Son of my Father
10 Message in a Bottle
Answers to 80s Songs
1 Tainted Love
2 Don’t You Want Me
3 Prince Charming
4 Together we are Beautiful
5 Power of Love (J Rush)
6 Take My Breath Away
7 The Only Way is Up
8 I knew You Were Waiting
9 Saving All My Love for You
10 Like a Prayer
All Creatures Great and Small
Who penned the following “beastly” books?
1 Lord of the Flies
2 The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
3 To Kill a Mockingbird
4 The Cat in the Hat
5 Swallows and Amazons
6 The Eagle has Landed
7 The Day of the Jackal
8 The Silence of the Lambs
9 The Plague Dogs
10 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Literature Around the World
Who wrote the following?
1 Funeral in Berlin
2 Out of Africa
3 The Dubliners
4 The Boys from Brazil
5 The Tailor of Panama
6 A Passage to India
7 Jamaica Inn
8 The Napoleon of Notting Hill
9 The Bridge on the River Kwai
10 Last Exit to Brooklyn
What a Carry On
Name the nine Carry on films that Barbara Windsor starred in. For the 10th point
in which of the nine did she make her Carry On film debut?
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Answers to Beastly Books
1 William Golding
2 CS Lewis
3 Harper Lee
4 Dr Seuss
5 Arthur Ransome
6 Jack Higgins
7 Frederick Forsyth
8 Thomas Harris
9 Richard Adams
10 Ken Kesey
Answers to Books around the World
1 Len Deighton
2 Karen Blixen
3 James Joyce
4 Ira Levin
5 John Le Carre
6 EM Forster
7 Daphne Du Maurier
8 GK Chesterton
9 Pierre Boule
10 Hubert Selby
Answers to Carry On Babs
1 Carry on Spying
2 Doctor
3 Camping
4 Again Doctor
5 Henry
6 Matron
7 Girls
8 Abroad
9 Dick
10 Debuted in Carry On Spying