Speed Quiz 2
Politically Correct
In which film did each actor play the given Presidents of the USA?
1 Jack Nicholson play President James Dale
2 Gene Hackman play President Allen Richmond
3 Michael Douglas play President Andrew Shepherd
4 Harrison Ford play President James Marshall
5 Kevin Kline play President William Harrison
6 Lloyd Bridges play President Tug Benson
7 Bill Pullman play President Thomas J Whatmore
8 Anthony Hopkins play the 37th President of the USA
9 Anthony Hopkins play John Quincy Adams
10 Morgan Freeman play President Tom Beck
Fair Maidens
What were the maiden names of…?
1 Hillary Clinton
2 Cherie Blair
3 Barbara Bush
4 Ivana Trump
5 Linda McCartney
6 Billie Jean King
7 Jacqueline Kennedy
8 Margaret Court
9 Gloria Estefan
10 Hilda Ogden
In Good Company
What are the full names of the people that the following companies were named
after?
1 Rolls Royce
2 Renault
3 Hanna- Barbera
4 20th Century Fox
5 Wal-Mart
6 Adidas
7 Chrysler
8 Suzuki
9 Ikea
10 A & M Records
Answers to Politically Correct
1 Mars Attacks
2 Absolute Power
3 The American President
4 Air Force One
5 Dave
6 Hot Shots Part Deux
7 Independence Day
8 Nixon
9 Amistad
10 Deep Impact
Answers to Fair Maidens
1 Rodham
2 Booth
3 Pierce
4 Zelnickova
5 Eastman
6 Moffit
7 Bouvier
8 Smoith
9 Fajardo
10 Crabtree
Answers to Company names
1 Charles Rolls and Henry Royce
2 Louis Renault
3 William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
4 William Fox
5 Sam Walton
6 Adolf Dassler
7 Walter Chrysler
8 Michio Suzuki
9 Ingvar Kamprad
10 Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss
Death on the Street
Identify the Weatherfield residents from their initials and year and cause of
their deaths
1 1978 EB Shot dead in a wages snatch
2 2003 MP Murdered by Richard Hillman.
3 1971 VB Electrocuted by a dodgy hairdryer
4 1999 JM Pegged out whilst pegging out clothes
5 1983 LF Killed in a motorway accident
6 1964 ML Of an heart attack in the snug at the Rover’s Return
7 1989 BT Stabbed outside a nightclub
8 1989 AB Lost an argument with a Blackpool tram
9 1975 EG Killed in a warehouse fire
10 1998 AM Locked in a supermarket freezer
TV Across the Ocean
Which British TV shows were adapted for the US market under the following
titles?
1 All in the Family
2 Not Really the News
3 Trading Spouses
4 The Ropers
5 Three’s Company
6 Sanford and Son
7 Trading Spaces
8 Beanes of Boston
9 Junkyard Wars
10 Hope Island
What are the following “ologies” the study of?
1 Gerontology
2 Nephology
3 Etymology
4 Cytology
5 Oncology
6 Hydrology
7 Seismology
8 Graphology
9 Vexillology
10 Pedology
Answers to Death on the Street
1 Ernie Bishop
2 Richard Hillman
3 Valerie Barlow
4 Judy Mallett
5 Len Fairclough
6 Martha Longhurst
7 Brian Tilsley
8 Alan Bradley
9 Edna Gee
10 Anne Malone
Answers to TV across the Ocean
1 Till Death Us Do Part
2 Not the Nine O’clock News
3 Wife Swap
4 George and Mildred
5 Man about the House
6 Steptoe and Son
7 Changing Rooms
8 Are You Being Served?
9 Scrapheap Challenge
10 Ballykissangel
Answers to Ologies
1 Old age
2 Clouds- Note Nephrology (with an R) is the study of the kidneys
3 Words or word origins
4 Cells
5 Cancer
6 Water
7 Earthquakes
8 Handwriting
9 Flags
10 Soil
What’s in a Nickname
Identify the famous people from their nicknames
1 US President - The Comeback Kid
2 Entertainer- Two Ton Tessie
3 Inventor- The Father of Television
4 Entrepreneur- The Bouncing Czech
5 Singer- Lady Day
6 Leader- The Scourge of God
7 Film star- Hollywood’s Mermaid
8 Chef- The Galloping Gourmet
9 Singer- The Brazilian Bombshell
10 Businessman- The Father of Frozen Food
TV TEST
Identify the TV shows from one of their central characters
1 Arthur Fonzarelli
2 Robert McCall
3 Pippa Trench
4 Barry Taylor
5 Kevin Arnold
6 Jonathan Quayle Higgins
7 Ling Woo
8 Latka Gravas
9 Boss Hogg
10 Dr Sam Beckett
Which characters had the following badge numbers in the given TV shows?
1 340 in Cagney and Lacey
2 JTT047101111 in The X Files
3 990 in NYPD Blue
4 11 in The Man from UNCLE
5 1 in The Man from UNCLE
6 2 in The Man from UNCLE
7 8712 in CHIPS
8 452 in Camberwick Green
9 163 in Hill Street Blues
10 714 in Dragnet
Answers to Nicknames
1 Bill Clinton
2 Tessie O’Shea
3 John Logie Baird
4 Robert Maxwell
5 Billie Holliday
6 Attila the Hun
7 Esther Williams
8 Graham Kerr
9 Carmen Miranda
10 Clarence Birdseye
Answers to TV Shows
1 Happy Days
2 The Equaliser
3 One Foot in the Grave
4 Auf Wiedersehen Pet
5 The Wonder Years
6 Magnum PI
7 Ally McBeal
8 Taxi
9 The Dukes of Hazzard
10 Quantum Leap
Answers to Badges
1 Mary Beth Lacey
2 Fox Mulder
3 Andy Sipowitz
4 Napoleon Solo
5 Alexander Waverly
6 Ilya Kurayakin
7 Officer Jon Baker
8 PC McGarry
9 Sergeant Philip Esterhaus
10 Sergeant Joe Friday
What do the following music terms indicate?
1 Lento
2 Da Capo
3 Subito
4 Con lancio
5 Ritardandon
6 Tacet
7 Allegro
8 Forte
9 Dolce
10 Giocoso
First Name Terms
What first names were the following people born with? Initial letters of the
names given
1 Bing Crosby H
2 John Wayne M
3 Boris Karloff W
4 Rita Hayworth M
5 Tony Curtis B
6 Ava Gardner L
7 Roy Rogers L
8 Cary Grant A
9 Edward G Robinson E
10 Judy Garland F
Closing Lines
Identify the songs from the last line of their lyrics
1 I want to shoot the whole day down
2 And the world will be as one
3 Bless my homeland forever
4 You better run you better take cover
5 Sending out a SOS
6 Its a rich man’s world
7 And I don’t cause all I want is you
8 Come home I’m so cold
9 I’ll be yours through all the years till the end of time
10 Planet Earth is blue and there’s nothing I can do
Answers to Music Instructions
1 Slow
2 From the beginning
3 Suddenly, at once
4 With verve
5 Gradually slower
6 Stop playing
7 Quickly, lively
8 Loud
9 Sweetly
10 Merry, playful
Answers to First Name Terms
1 Harry
2 Marion
3 William
4 Margarita
5 Bernard
6 Lucy
7 Leonard
8 Archibald
9 Emmanuel
10 Frances
Answers to Songs
1 I Don’t Like Mondays
2 Imagine
3 Edelweiss
4 Down Under
5 Message in a Bottle
6 Money Money Money
7 Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
8 Wuthering Heights
9 Love Me Tender
10 Space Oddity