Speed Rounds 1


Rocking All Over the World

Identify the songs from a line of their lyrics


1 From Soho down to Brighton

2 Not for all the tea in China or the corn in Carolina

3 Take a look up the rail track from Miami to Canada

4 Tell all the folks in Russia and China too

5 Jojo left his home in Tucson Arizona

6 LA proved too much for the man

7 I dig a French bikini on Hawaii Island

8 I’ve been meaning to phone you but from Minnesota

9 When I called you last night from Glasgow

10 He had a woman who lived in Saigon


Football Crazy

Identify the football teams that won the European Champions Cup from the given years and their nationality


1 Dutch in 1970

2 Spanish in 1966

3 Italian in 1963

4 Portuguese in 1961

5 English in 1982

6 English in 1999

7 Romanian in 1986

8 Italian in 1996

9 German in 2001

10 Dutch in 1988




Keeping Up with the Jones’s

Identify the singers with the surname of Jones that had hits with the following songs


1 Walking in the Air in 1985

2 What is Love in 1983

3 Pull Up to the Bumper in 1981

4 Good Timin’ in 1960

5 Help Yourself in 1968

6 Don’t Know Why in 2002

7 Chuck E’s In Love in 1979

8 Ai No Corrida in 1981

9 High Time in 1966

10 The Rain in 1986


Answers to Rocking All Over the World

1 Pinball Wizard

2 The Land of Make Believe

3 Letter From America

4 Love Train

5 Get Back

6 Midnight Train to Georgia

7 California Girls

8 You Wear It Well

9 Super Trouper

10 Born In the USA

 

Answers to European Champions

1 Feyenoord

2 Real Madrid

3 AC Milan

4 Benfica

5 Aston Villa

6 Manchester Utd

7 Steaua Bucharest

8 Juventus

9 Bayern Munich

10 PSV Eindhoven


Answers to Jones

1 Aled Jones

2 Howard Jones

3 Grace Jones

4 Jimmy Jones

5 Tom Jones

6 Norah Jones

7 Rickie Lee Jones

8 Quincy Jones

9 Paul Jones

10 Oran Juice Jones


 

Eurovision

Identify the Eurovision winning songs from the lyrics provided


1 I’ve been praying such a long time

2 Light up the magic for every boy and girl

3 Trust your inner vision don’t let others change your mind

4 Your smile is so warm and inviting

5 The history book on the shelf is always repeating itself

6 Just like a bird that can no longer fly

7 But I count the seconds till I’m home with you

8 Wishing wells, wedding bells, early morning dew

9 Lost are the lambs with no guiding light

10 Love is just like a merry-go-round


Creature Comforts

Which animals have the following nicknames?


1 Washing bear

2 Ship of the desert

3 Pricklepig

4 Laughing jackass

5 Honey bear

6 Goony bird

7 Mother Carey’s chicken

8 Skunk bear

9 Sun fish

10 Giant bear cat


Going Underground

Which station on the London underground shares its name with…


1 A children’s TV series set in a school

2 A hit record for Gerry Rafferty

3 A Mediterranean island

4 A female pop group

5 A cricket stadium

6 A tree with a six letter name

7 A premiership football club

8 A car manufacturer

9 A religious building

10 A Eurovision winning song


 

Answers to Eurovision lyrics

1 What’s Another Year

2 Love Shine a Light

3 Making Your Mind Up

4 Boom Bang a Bang

5 Waterloo

6 A Little Peace

7 Save Your Kisses for Me

8 All Kinds of Everything

9 Hard Rock Hallelujah

10 Puppet On a String


Answers to Animal Nicknames

1 Raccoon

2 Camel

3 Porcupine

4 Kookaburra

5 Sloth

6 Albatross

7 Storm petrel

8 Wolverine

9 Basking shark

10 Panda


Answers to Going Underground

1 Grange Hill

2 Baker Street

3 Cyprus

4 All Saints

5 Oval

6 Poplar

7 Arsenal

8 Vauxhall

9 Temple

10 Waterloo


 

The State of Things

Which American state capital shares its name with…


1 A mythical bird

2 The home town on the Simpsons

3 A seafarer who sailed on the Santa Maria

4 A hit record for Middle of the Road

5 The French version of Peter

6 The rock band that had a hit with More than a Feeling

7 The surname of a singer who perished in a plane crash in 1997

8 An English seafarer associated with potatoes

9 A dance

10 An American Indian tribe


 

Four letter S Words

The answers to the next ten questions are all four letter words beginning with S


1 What is the surname of the character played by Harrison Ford in the Star Wars films?

2 What does a pedologist study?

3 What is the real first name of Puff Daddy?

4 What name is given to the hoof print of a deer?

5 In December 1962 news headlines claimed that what had caused the deaths of 28 Londoners?

6 Which part of the body is affected by psoriasis?

7 In the bible what was Lot’s wife turned into?

8 What is the name of the owl in the children’s TV series The Herbs?

9 Which disease affecting crops blackens the ears of corn?

10 What title was given to a king in Persia?




Quite Capital

Of which countries were the following former capital cities?


1 Toledo

2 Turku

3 Alexandria

4 Entebbe

5 Kaunas

6 Gondar

7 Quezon City

8 Agra

9 Krakow

10 St George




Answers to the State of Things

1 Phoenix

2 Springfield

3 Columbus

4 Sacramento

5 Pierre

6 Boston

7 Denver

8 Raleigh

9 Charleston

10 Cheyenne


Answers to Four Letter S Words

1 Solo

2 Soil

3 Sean

4 Slot

5 Smog

6 Skin

7 Salt

8 Sage

9 Smut

10 Shah


Answers to Former Capitals

1 Spain

2 Finland

3 Egypt

4 Uganda

5 Lithuania

6 Ethiopia

7 Philippines

8 India

9 Poland

10 Bermuda


Mountain Mayhem

In which countries are the following mountains located?


1 Mount Etna

2 Adams Peak

3 Eiger

4 Tambora

5 K2

6 Sugar Loaf Mountain

7 Cristobal Colon

8 Athos

9 Ararat

10 Juliana




Connecting Years

Which year connects the deaths of the following famous pairs?


1 Phil Lynott and James Cagney

2 Robert Maxwell and Dr Seuss

3 Richard Beckinsale and Sid Vicious

4 Stanley Matthews and Barbara Cartland

5 John Thaw and Spike Milligan

6 Dwight D Eisenhower and Judy Garland

7 Agatha Christie and Syd James

8 Peter Ustinov and Ray Charles

9 Lou Costello and Errol Flynn

10 Jack Wild and Peter Osgood


Connecting Years

Which year connects the births of the following famous pairs?


1 Princess Eugenie and Emma Watson

2 Drew Barrymore and David Beckham

3 Elijah Wood and Paris Hilton

4 Didier Drogba and Rachel Stevens

5 Mark Lamar and Pamela Anderson

6 Ben Affleck and Cameron Diaz

7 Joss Stone and Maria Sharapova

8 Ruby Wax and Tony Blair

9 Stefan Edberg and Eric Cantona

10 Jensen Button and Chelsea Clinton


 

Answers to Mountains

1 Italy

2 Sri Lanka

3 Switzerland

4 Indonesia

5 Pakistan

6 Brazil

7 Colombia

8 Greece

9 Turkey

10 Suriname


Answers to Death years

1 1986

2 1991

3 1979

4 2000

5 2002

6 1969

7 1976

8 2004

9 1959

10 2006


Answers to Birth years

1 1990

2 1975

3 1981

4 1978

5 1967

6 1972

7 1987

8 1953

9 1966

10 1980