Speed Quizzes 2

Cricket Capers

From the initial letters given complete the names of the limited overs county teams

1 Middlesex C

2 Yorkshire P

3 Lancashire L

4 Sussex S

5 Warwickshire B

6 Glamorgan D

7 Somerset S

8 Worcestershire R

9 Essex E

10 Hampshire H

 

A Motto Lotto

Which organisations/companies etc have the following logos?

1 Let not the deep swallow me up

2 Spirit in motion

3 Pray and work

4 Nation shall speak peace unto nation

5 Sure and Steadfast

6 Where do you want to go to today?

7 Art for arts sake

8 All things for all people, everywhere

9 For Home and Country

10 A mind is a terrible thing to waste

 

A Motto Lotto II

Identify the British counties from their mottos
 

1 Let Salop flourish

2 No stepping back

3 The strength of Gwynedd

4 One and all

5 By divine aid

6 Dare to be wise

7 Through waves, through fields

8 By the right and dignity of the sword

9 Unconquered

10 The knot unites

 

Answers to Cricket Capers

1 Crusaders

2 Phoenix

3 Lightning

4 Sharks

5 Bears

6 Dragons

7 Sabres

8 Royals

9 Eagles

10 Hawks
 

Answers to Mottos

1 RNLI

2 Paralympic Games

3 Benedictine Monks

4 BBC

5 Boys Brigade

6 Microsoft

7 MGM

8 Harrods

9 Women’s Institute

10 United Negro College Fund

 

Answers to County Mottos

1 Shropshire

2 Buckinghamshire

3 Caernarvonshire

4 Cornwall

5 Devon

6 Oxfordshire

7 Cambridgeshire

8 Cheshire

9 Kent

10 Staffordshire


 

The Villain of the Piece

Which novels feature the following villains?
 

1 Wicked Witch of the West

2 Captain Hook

3 Nurse Ratched

4 Bill Sikes

5 Simon Legree

6 Hannibal Lecter

7 Shere Khan

8 Archdeacon Frollo

9 Karl Stromberg

10 Annie Wilkes

 

Occupational Hazards

Identify the songs from the lyrics given.
 

1 If I were a sculptor but then again no

2 Then the fireman rushes in from the pouring rain

3 And the operator says “forty cents more for the next three minutes”

4 Young teacher the subject of schoolgirl fantasy

5 While shepherds watched their flocks by night they see a bright new shining star

6 I gave a letter to the postman, he put it in his sack

7 Bus driver please look for me

8 Just like the girl in Dr No no no no

9 The cowboys take positions in the bushes and the grass

10 Sailors fighting in the dance hall

 

Rhyme and Reason

The answers to the following 10 questions all rhyme with each other
 

1Who connects the films An Officer and a Gentleman and Yanks?

2 Which song ends with the line, “You’ll go down in history”?

3 Which Shakespeare character said, “The feather stirs. She lives”?

4 What was the sub-title of the film Star Trek V?

5 What opposed a Roundhead in the English Civil War?

6 Who wrote the Female Eunuch?

7 What is an assegai?

8 Which song won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1980?

9 Which George Orwell work describes the working class life of the Brooker family?

10 Which song contains the lyric, “The marble statuettes are standing stately in the hall”?

 

Answers to Villain of the Piece
 

1 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

2 Peter Pan

3 One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest

4 Oliver Twist

5 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

6 Silence of the Lambs (amongst others)

7 The Jungle Book

8 The Hunchback of Notre Dame

9 The Spy Who Loved Me

10 Misery

 

Answers to Occupational Lyrics

1 Your Song

2 Penny Lane

3 Sylvia’s Mother

4 Don’t Stand So Close To Me

5 Mary’s Boy Child

6 Return To Sender

7 Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree

8 I’m Mandy Fly Me

9 Cool For Cats

10 Life On Mars

 

Answers to Rhyme and Reason
 

1 Richard Gere

2 Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

3 King Lear

4 The Final Frontier

5 Cavalier

6 Germaine Greer

7 A spear

8 What’s Another Year?

9 Road to Wigan Pier

10 The Crystal Chandelier

 

VIVA LA FRANCE

What is the French word for…

1 Christmas

2 Fish

3 Cheese

4 Twenty

5 Library

6 House

7 Horse

8 Dog

9 Saturday

10 Egg

 

Death in Walford

Identify the Eastenders characters from their cause of death and year in which they died
 

1 Murdered September 10, 1991

2 Brain haemorrhage May 21, 1996

3 Murdered in the woods, July 18, 2003

4 Assisted suicide by Dot Cotton, September 7, 2000

5 Hit over the head with an iron door stop, February 18, 2005

6 AIDS, April 12, 2004

7 Exploding car following a crash, March 1, 2002

8 Hit by a car , Christmas Day 2002

9 Stabbed to death New Year’s Eve, 2005

10 Died in prison November 5th, 1998

Its All Greek to Me

Which elements are named after the Greek for…
 

1 Violet

2 Light bearer

3 Heavy

4 Hidden

5 Stench

6 Pale green

7 Inactive

8 The Sun

9 Stone

10 New

Answers to French words

1 Noel

2 Poisson

3 Fromage

4 Vingt

5 Bibliotheque

6 Maison

7 Cheval

8 Chien

9 Samedi

10 Oeuf

 

Answers to Death in Walford
 

1 Eddie Royle

2 Arthur Fowler

3 Jack Dalton

4 Ethel Skinner

5 Dennis Watts

6 Mark Fowler

7 Steve Owen

8 Jamie Mitchell

9 Dennis Rickman

10 Cindy Beale

 

Answers to Elements

1 Iodine

2 Phosphorous

3 Barium

4 Krypton

5 Bromine

6 Chlorine

7 Argon

8 Helium

9 Lithium

10 Neon





 

A Spielberg Set

Identify the Spielberg films from the brief synopsis
 

1 Archaeologist is hired by the US government to find a relic containing the Ten Commandments

2 The life and trials of a young African American called Celie

3 An adult Peter Pan returns to Neverland to reclaim his youthful spirit

4 The aftermath of the murder of eleven Israelis

5 John Anderton sets out to prove his innocence for a crime he has not yet committed

6 Carl Hanratty in pursuit of Frank Abagnale Jnr

7 An Eastern immigrant finds himself stranded at JFK Airport

8 One mans quest to save over 1000 Jews from certain death

9 A group of children befriend a stranded alien botanist

10 1839 mutiny aboard a slave ship bound for America

 

A Sitcom Set

Which sitcoms featured the following characters?
 

1 Wilberforce Humphries

2 Major Tony Nelson

3 Cousin Itt

4 Sandra Hutchinson

5 Potsie Weber

6 Cyril Blake

7 Jean Warboys

8 Agent 99

9 Albert Arkwright

10 Martin Bryce

 

A County Set

What are the county towns of the following?

1 Cornwall

2 Kent

3 Hampshire

4 Somerset

5 Suffolk

6 Buckinghamshire

7 Essex

8 Derbyshire

9 Devon

10 Wiltshire

 

Answers to A Spielberg Set
 

1 Raiders of the Lost Ark

2 The Color Purple

3 Hook

4 Munich

5 Minority Report

6 Catch Me If You Can

7 The Terminal

8 Schindler’s List

9 ET

10 Amistad
 

Answers to a Sitcom Set
 

1 Are You Being Served?

2 I Dream of Jeannie

3 The Addams Family

4 The Liver Birds

5 Happy Days

6 On the Buses

7 One Foot in the Grave

8 Get Smart

9 Open All Hours

10 Ever Decreasing Circles

 

Answers to a County Set

1 Truro

2 Maidstone

3 Winchester

4 Taunton

5 Ipswich

6 Aylesbury

7 Chelmsford

8 Matlock

9 Exeter

10 Trowbridge