Dec speed 1

SPEED QUIZZES 1

Days Like These

The answers to the next 10 questions all contain a day of the week

1 How is January 30, 1972 referred to in the Irish city of Derry?

2 In which film did Bob Hoskins kill Derek Thompson?

3 Which discussion group was Miss Marple a member of in the village of St Mary Mead?

4 In which 60s TV series did Kathleen Harrison play a cleaning lady who inherits a fortune?

5 What is the first day of Lent?

6 How is October 19, 1987 known in the world of finance?

7 Which film featured rival gangs called the Faces and the Barracudas?

8 On what day of the week was Solomon Grundy took ill?

9 Which song contains the line, “I got the blues, please come see, what your loving means to me”?

10 Which song contains the line, “When you change with every new day, still I’m gonna miss you”?

Building Blocks

Which TV shows/films/novels feature the following fictional buildings?

1 Bates Motel

2 Dagmar Wine Bar

3 Sunnydale High School

4 Wayne Manor

5 Overlook Hotel

6 Bada Bing Strip Club

7 Castle Grayskull

8 Springfield Elementary School

9 Manderley, home of Max De Winter

10 Marlinspike Hall

Founding Fathers

The following 10 people of the past are known as the Father of…

Identify the missing words from the initial letters

1 John Logie Baird, the Father of T

2 Clarence Birdseye, the Father of FF

3 William Caxton, the Father of English P

4 Scott Joplin, the Father of R

5 Josiah Wedgewood, the Father of English P

6 George Stephenson, the Father of the R

7 Robert Oppenheimer, the Father of the AB

8 Richard Arkwright, the Father of the FS

9 Jacques Cartier the Father of C

10 Franz Josef Haydn, the Father of the S

Answers to Days Like These

1 Bloody Sunday

2 The Long Good Friday

3 The Tuesday Club

4 Mrs Thursday

5 Ash Wednesday

6 Black Monday

7 Saturday Night Fever

8 Thursday

9 Sunday Girl

10 Ruby Tuesday

Answers to Building Blocks

1 Psycho

2 Eastenders

3 Buffy the Vampire Slayer

4 Batman

5 The Shining

6 The Sopranos

7 He Man

8 The Simpsons

9 Rebecca

10 Tin Tin, the home of Captain Haddock

Answers to Founding Fathers

1 Television

2 Frozen food

3 Printing

4 Ragtime

5 Pottery

6 Railway

7 Atomic bomb

8 Factory system

9 Canada

10 Symphony

City Sets

In which city are the following films set?

1 Caligula

2 The King and I

3 The Alamo

4 The Untouchables

5 The Commitments

6 Evita

7 A Room With A View

8 The Sound of Music

9 Cabaret

10 Pretty Woman

What’s In A Name

Which pop group took its name from…

1 A contraction of the Brothers Gibb

2 Its co-founders Tracci and Axl

3 A river in Greek mythology

4 The last name of the character played by Michael J Fox in Back To The Future

5 A character played by Milo O’Shea in Barbarella

6 The inventor of the seed drill

7 A World War II nickname for UFOs

8 A 1963 horror film starring Boris Karloff

9 A South African football team from which Leeds signed Lucas Radebe

10 A lesbian sex position

Anagramatically – As easy as ABC

Unravel the anagrams to give the titles of TV shows. All have two word titles and begin with either A, B or C

1 CALMLY ABLE

2 TUB PEELER

3 BOTHERS RUSKS

4 BRIGHT ROBE

5 MENACING COD

6 EARTHT FERN

7 MEND A CARDIAC

8 ZITS ITCH IN ME

9 CHARMING GOONS

10 BERYL MINERAL

Answers to City Sets

1 Rome

2 Bangkok

3 San Antonio

4 Chicago

5 Dublin

6 Buenos Aires

7 Florence

8 Salzburg

9 Berlin

10 Los Angeles

Answers to What’s In A Name

1 Bee Gees

2 Guns N Roses

3 Styx

4 McFly

5 Duran Duran

6 Jethro Tull

7 Foo Fighters

8 Black Sabbath

9 Kaiser Chiefs

10 Scissor Sisters

Answers to TV Anagrams

1 Ally McBeal

2 Blue Peter

3 Brush Strokes

4 Big Brother

5 Come Dancing

6 After Henry

7 Candid Camera

8 Citizen Smith

9 Changing Rooms

10 Barney Miller

The Winter Olympics

To date (2006), name the 10 countries that hosted the Winter Olympic Games

Wild Wild West

Which TV westerns featured the following characters?

1 Tonto

2 Big John Cannon

3 Victoria Barkley

4 Rowdy Yates

5 Jason McCord

6 Trampas

7 Ben Cartwright

8 Seth Bullock

9 Kid Curry

10 Lucas McCain

Sounds of the 70s

Identify the number one hits of the 70s from their lyrics

1970 – We’ll fight until the whistle goes

1971 – He tempted her with his treacle tarts

1972 – Silver bells hanging on a string

1973 – Come on in and close the door

1974 – Don’t look Ethel

1975 – Coconut Airways flight 372

1976 – I got twenty acres an’ you got forty three

1977 – The truth is I never left you

1978 – Like my jealousy, too hot, too greedy

1979 – And I ain’t counting sheep

Answers to Winter Olympic countries

1 France

2 Switzerland

3 USA

4 Norway

5 Italy

6 Japan

7 Canada

8 Austria

9 Germany

10 Yugoslavia

Answers to Wild Wild West

1 The Lone Ranger

2 The High Chaparral

3 The Big Valley

4 Rawhide

5 Branded

6 The Virginian

7 Bonanza

8 Deadwood

9 Alias Smith and Jones

10 The Rifleman

Answers to Sounds of the Seventies

1970 – Back Home

1971 – Ernie

1972 – My Ding A Ling

1973 – Welcome Home

1974 – The Streak

1975 – Barbados

1976 – I Got a Brand New Combine Harvester

1977- Don’t Cry For Me Argentina

1978 – Wuthering Heights

1979 – We Don’t Talk Anymore

Novel Ideas

In which countries are the following novels set?

1 The Hunchback of Notre Dame

2 The Jungle Book

3 Heidi

4 Don Quixote

5 Our Man in Havana

6 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin

7 How Green Was My Valley

8 Anne of Green Gables

9 The Last Days of Pompeii

10 Rip Van Winkle

Most of what follows is true

In the given years name the famous people that were the subject of the following biopics

2005 – Walk The Line

2004 - Beyond the Sea

2004 – Finding Neverland

2004 – De-Lovely

2004 – The Aviator

2004 - Ray

2001 – A Beautiful Mind

1981 – Mommie Dearest

1980 – Coal Miners Daughter

1974 - Lenny

Rocking All Over the USA

Identify the songs from the lyrics. All 10 songs have an American location in the title

1 Every night I’ve been hugging my pillow

2 I wanna wake up in a city that never sleeps

3 The mid west farmer’s daughters really make you feel alright

4 Touched down in the land of the delta blues

5 She’ll put a spell on you

6 I walked the avenue till my legs felt like stone

7 Dinner in the diner nothing could be finer

8 Bought a one way ticket back to the life he once knew

9 On highway number nineteen

10 Got a whole lot of money that’s ready to burn

Answers to Novel Ideas

1 France

2 India

3 Switzerland

4 Spain

5 Cuba

6 Greece (Cephalonia island)

7 Wales

8 Canada (Prince Edward Island)

9 Italy

10 USA

Answers to Biopics

1 Johnny Cash

2 Bobby Darin

3 JM Barrie

4 Cole Porter

5 Howard Hughes

6 Ray Charles

7 John Nash

8 Joan Crawford

9 Loretta Lynn

10 Lenny Bruce

Answers to American songs

1 Is This the Way to Amarillo

2 New York New York

3 California Girls

4 Walking In Memphis

5 Witch Queen of New Orleans

6 Streets of Philadelphia

7 Chattanooga Choo Choo

8 Midnight Train to Georgia

9 Nutbush City Limits

10 Viva Las Vegas