Speed Quizzes Set 1


Working Titles

Which films had the following working titles?

1 $3000

2 Rick’s Place

3 Black Mask

4 Watch the Skies

5 RKO 281

6 Not Tonight Josephine

7 Would I Lie To You

8 The Adventures of Luke Starkiller

9 How the Solar System Was Won

10 Pacific Air Flight 121

 

Football Crazy

Which two English football teams would be in opposition if…
 

1 The Villains played the Red Devils

2 The Eagles played the Throstles

3 Posh played Pompey

4 The Black Cats played the Tigers

5 The Toffees played the Biscuitmen

6 The Cottagers played the Minstermen

7 The Saddlers played the Cobblers

8 The Canaries played the Owls

9 The Trotters played the Bantams

10 The Rams played the Stags

 

Train Trivia

Identify the 10 London train stations from their initial letters
 

1 P

2 SP

3 W

4 CC

5 CJ

6 V

7 LS

8 B

9 KC

10 E
 

Answers to Working Titles

1 Pretty Woman

2 Casablanca

3 Pulp Fiction

4 Close Encounters of the Third Kind

5 Citizen Kane

6 Some Like It Hot

7 Tootsie

8 Star Wars

9 2001: A Space Odyssey

10 Snakes On A Plane

 

Answers to Football Crazy
 

1 Aston Villa vs Manchester United

2 Crystal Palace vs West Bromwich Albion

3 Peterborough vs Portsmouth

4 Sunderland vs Hull City

5 Everton vs Reading

6 Fulham vs York City

7 Walsall vs Northampton

8 Norwich City vs Sheffield Wednesday

9 Bolton Wanderers vs Bradford

10 Derby County vs Mansfield Town
 

Answers to Train Trivia
 

1 Paddington

2 St Pancras

3 Waterloo

4 Charing Cross

5 Clapham Junction

6 Victoria

7 Liverpool Street

8 Blackfriars

9 Kings Cross

10 Euston

 

What’s In a Nickname?

Identify the singers from their nicknames

1 The Godfather of Soul

2 The First Lady of Country Music

3 The Thin White Duke

4 The Lizard King

5 The Swedish Nightingale

6 The Little Sparrow

7 Mr Pitiful

8 The Nabob of Sob

9 The Hump

10 The Bardot of Pop
 

OK for the USA

Which American city is home to…
 

1 Sears Tower

2 Buena Vista Park

3 John Hancock Tower

4 Cadillac Place

5 Griffith Observatory

6 Wells Fargo Bank Plaza

7 Tovrea Castle

8 Torrey Pines Golf Course

9 JP Morgan Chase Tower

10 The Liberty Bell
 

The State of Things

Which American state is nicknamed…
 

1 The Hawkeye State

2 The Peach State

3 The Beehive State

4 The Badger State

5 The Bear State

6 The Nutmeg State

7 The Beaver State

8 The Pelican State

9 The Wolverine State

10 The Gopher State
 

Answers to Pop Nicknames
 

1 James Brown

2 Tammy Wynette

3 David Bowie

4 Jim Morrison

5 Jenny Lind

6 Edith Piaf

7 Otis Redding

8 Johnny Ray

9 Englebert Humperdinck

10 Kim Wilde
 

Answers to US Cities

1 Chicago

2 San Francisco

3 Boston

4 Detroit

5 Los Angeles

6 Houston

7 Phoenix

8 San Diego

9 Dallas

10 Philadelphia
 

Answers to State Nicknames

1 Iowa

2 Georgia

3 Utah

4 Wisconsin

5 Arkansas

6 Connecticut

7 Oregon

8 Louisiana

9 Michigan

10 Minnesota

 

Football Around the World

Which nations did the following famous players of the past represent?
 

1 Eusibio

2 Uwe Seeler

3 Carlos Alberto

4 Grzegorz Lato

5 Mario Kempes

6 Hugo Sanchez

7 Jesper Olsen

8 Jean Tigana

9 Teofilo Cubillas

10 Henrik Larsson
 

Meet the Managers

Which 2006/2007 Premiership managers..
 

1 Penned an autobiography entitled Psycho

2 Is the father-in-law of the singer who recorded the album Changing Faces

3 Joined the Premiership in 1996 from Nagoya Grampus Eight

4 Was nicknamed Captain Cookie in his playing days

5 Has the middle name of Chapman

6 Has the middle name of Cornelis

7 Was born in Setubal in 1963

8 Was born in Crawley in 1970

9 Made his managerial debut as boss of Limerick in 1991

10 Was nicknamed Sparky in his playing days

A Rogues Gallery

By what nicknames were the following criminals/ gangsters otherwise known?
 

1 Timothy McVeigh

2 John George Haigh

3 Peter Sutcliffe

4 David Berkowitz

5 George Joseph Smith

6 Arthur Flegheimer

7 Charles Arthur Floyd

8 George R Kelly

9 Albert de Salvo

10 John Kaczynski

 

Answers to Football Around the World

1 Portugal;

2 West Germany

3 Brazil

4 Poland

5 Argentina

6 Mexico

7 Denmark

8 France

9 Peru

10 Sweden


Answers to Premiership Managers

1 Stuart Pearce

2 Harry Redknapp

3 Arsene Wenger

4 Chris Coleman

5 Alex Ferguson

6 Martin Jol

7 Jose Mourinho

8 Gareth Southgate

9 Sam Allardyce

10 Mark Hughes


Answers to Criminal Nicknames


1 The Oklahoma Bomber

2 The Acid Bath Murderer

3 The Yorkshire Ripper

4 The Son of Sam

5 The Brides in the Bath Murderer

6 Dutch Shultz

7 Pretty Boy Floyd

8 Machine Gun Kelly

9 The Boston Strangler

10 The Unabomber

 

A Costume Party

What is the country of origin for the following articles of attire?

1 Fez

2 Tam O Shanter

3 Fustanella

4 Dungarees

5 Kimono

6 Stetson

7 Sombrero

8 Mantilla

9 Babushka

10 Lederhosen

 

A Sponsorship Set

Who are the shirt sponsors for the following Premiership clubs in the 2006/07 season?
 

1 Everton

2 Manchester City

3 Manchester United

4 Fulham

5 Liverpool

6 Wigan

7 Blackburn Rovers

8 Chelsea

9 Newcastle United

10 Sheffield United


 

The All Star Ten

Identify the footballers from their initials. Each was included in the 2006 FIFA World Cup All Star Squad


1 GB

2 JT

3 ZZ

4 MB

5 TH

6 RC

7 LF

8 PV

9 MK

10 GG

 

Answers to A Costume Set


1 Morocco

2 Scotland

3 Greece

4 India, named after Dungri a suburb of Bombay

5 Japan

6 USA

7 Mexico

8 Spain

9 Russia

10 Germany/Austria

Answers to Shirt Sponsors


1 Chang Beer

2 Thomas Cook

3 AIG

4 Pipex

5 Carlsberg

6 JJB

7 bet 24

8 Samsung

9 Northern Rock

10 Capital One


Answers to All Star Squad


1 Gianluigi Buffon

2 John Terry

3 Zinedine Zidane

4 Michael Ballack

5 Thierry Henry

6 Ricardo Carvalho

7 Luis Figo

8 Patrick Viera

9 Miroslav Klose

10 Gennaro Gattuso