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