Down by the Riverside
On which rivers do the
following cities/towns stand?
1 Chester
2 Nantes
3 Turin
4 Rome
5 Canterbury
6 St Petersburg
7 Gillingham
8 Pittsburgh
9 Baton Rouge
10 Adelaide
First Name Terms
What are the first names of
the following literary characters?
1 Little Dorrit
2 Dr Watson
3 Professor Dumbledore
4 Hagrid
5 Professor McGonagall
6 Miss Marple
7 The Great Gatsby
8 Lady Chatterley
9 Her lover Mellors
10 Captain Smollet in Treasure Island
Sing a Rainbow
From the initials provided identify the
titles of the UK number one hits. Each song has a colour in the title
1 YS in 1966
2 LTP in 1968
3 PIB in 1966
4 TGGGOH in 1966
5 BOW in 1991
6 LIR in 1986
7 TB in 1986
8 RRW in 1983
9 AWSOP in 1967
10 LRR in 1964
Answers to Rivers
1 Dee
2 Loire
3 Po
4 Tiber
5 Stour
6 Neva
7 Medway
8 Ohio
9 Mississippi
10 Torrens
Answers to First Names
1 Amy
2 John
3 Albus
4 Rubeus
5 Minerva
6 Jane
7 Jay
8 Constance
9 Oliver
10 Alexander
Answers to Sing a Rainbow
1 Yellow Submarine
2 Lily the Pink
3 Paint it Black
4 The Green Green Grass of Home
5 Black or White
6 Lady in Red
7 True Blue
8 Red Red Wine
9 A Whiter Shade of Pale
10 Little Red Rooster
Go Ahead Make My Day
Who played the leading lady to
Clint Eastwood in the following films?
1 Million Dollar Baby
2 Two Mules for Sister Sarah
3 The Gauntlet
4 The Bridges of Madison County
5 The Enforcer
6 Paint Your Wagon
7 Tightrope
8 In the Line of Fire
9 A Perfect World
10 Pink Cadillac
A Supermodel Set
Which supermodel...
1 Is the executive producer of the TV reality show America’s Next Top Model?
2 Married and divorced Billy Joel?
3 Married and divorced Richard Gere?
4 Is nicknamed the Chameleon?
5 Carried out her community service for the New York Sanitation Department in 2007?
6 Wrote the book Living Yoga: Creating a Life Practice?
7 Played Ursula Andress in the film The Life and Death of Peter Sellers?
8 Played Carol in Love Actually?
9 Became the first living Australian entertainer to be depicted on an Australian postage stamp?
10 Was voted Britain’s Model of the Year in
2006?
Family Affairs
Give the surnames of the
fictional and real life families from the members provided
1 William, Jack, Elizabeth, Ernst, Fritz and Francis
2 Morticia, Gomez, Fester, Pugsley, Wednesday
3 Keith, Danny, Shirley, Laurie, Tracy, Chris
4 Baxter, Virgil, Wyatt, James, Newton, Morgan
5 Wayne, Merrill, Donny, Jay, Alan, Jimmy, Marie
6 Emily, Anne, Charlotte
7 Wendy, John, Michael
8 Amy, Jo, Beth, Alma
9 Clifford, Denise, Rudy, Theo, Clair, Vanessa, Sondra
10 Jeff, Lloyd, Beau
Answers to Clint’s Leading Ladies
1 Hillary Swank
2 Shirley Maclaine
3 Sondra Locke
4 Meryl Streep
5 Tyne Daly
6 Jean Seberg
7 Genevieve Bujold
8 Rene Russo
9 Laura Dern
10 Bernadette Peters
Answers to Supermodels
1 Tyra Banks
2 Christie Brinkley
3 Cindy Crawford
4 Linda Evangelista
5 Naomi Campbell
6 Christy Turlington
7 Heidi Klum
8 Claudia Schiffer
9 Elle MacPherson
10 Kate Moss
Answers to Family Affairs
1 Swiss Family Robinson
2 Addams Family
3 Partridge Family
4 Earp
5 Osmond
6 Bronte
7 Darling
8 March in Little Women
9 Huxtable in the Cosby Show
10 Bridges
Fine Pairs
Which sporting pairs would be
in opposition if…
1 The Viking scored a nine dart finish against the Milky Bar Kid
2 The Big Easy played El Nino at golf
3 The Broncos scored a touchdown against the Oilers
4 The Crusaders bowled out the Outlaws
5 The Clones Cyclone knocked out the Dark Destroyer
6 The Wishaw Wizard snookered the Tornado
7 The Hatters played the Hatters at football
8 The Divine Ponytail scored a goal against the Black Spider
9 The Choirboy pipped the Kentucky Kid in a photo finish
10 The Blue Jays scored a home run against
the Cardinals
A Lotto Motto
Which organisations/companies
etc employ the following mottos?
1 Courtesy and Care
2 By Strength and Guile
3 Art for Arts Sake
4 For Home and Country
5 Spirit in Motion
6 Victory Comes from Harmony ( football club)
7 Vorsprung Durch Technik
8 Just Do It
9 Connecting People
10 Never Again
The Good Book
The answers to the next ten
questions all contain a book of the Bible
1 Under what name did The Who originally record?
2 Who played Gladys Pugh in Hi-De-Hi?
3 Who won an Oscar for his role as Christy Brown?
4 Who founded Childline?
5 Which Italian group’s line-up consists of members of the Reyes family and the Baliardo family?
6 Who recorded the album The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway?
7 Which TV publican was played by Ronald Magill?
8 Which song contains the lyric, “The movement you need is on your shoulder”?
9 Which cricket star was nicknamed Big Bird?
10 In Alias Smith and Jones, what was the
full alias of Hannibal Heyes?
Answers to Sporting Pairs
1 Andy Fordham & Keith Deller
2 Ernie Els & Sergio Garcia
3 Denver Broncos and Houston Oilers
4 Middlesex and Nottinghamshire
5 Barry McGuigan & Nigel Benn
6 John Higgins & Tony Drago
7 Luton Town & Stockport County
8 Roberto Baggio & Lev Yashin
9 Walter Swinburn & Steve Cauthen
10 Toronto Blue Jays & St Louis Cardinals
Answers to Mottos
1 Automobile Association
2 Special Boat Services
3 MGM
4 Women’s Institute
5 Paralympic Games
6 Arsenal FC
7 Audi
8 Nike
9 Nokia
10 Jewish Defence League
Answers to the Good Book
1 The High NUMBERS
2 RUTH Madoc
3 DANIEL Day Lewis
4 ESTHER Rantzen
5 The Gypsy KINGS
6 GENESIS
7 AMOS Brearley
8 Hey JUDE
9 JOEL Garner
10 JOSHUA Smith
Rhyme and Reason
Which nursery rhymes were
inspired by…?
1 The death of Robin Hood
2 The daughter of a famous entomologist who penned the First Catalogue of British Insects
3 An 18th century at the Cock public house on Fleet Street
4 A 16th century English pirate who constantly evaded the authorities
5 A colloquial term used to describe orphans
6 The ineptitude and boastfulness of Cardinal Wolsey
7 Queen Caroline, the wife of King George II who bore him eight children
8 A large cannon in the English Civil War
9 A steward to the Bishop of Glastonbury
10 The fall of King Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette
The Foreign Invasion
Who was voted Football Writers Footballer of
the Year in England in the given years?
1 A French man in 2006
2 French in 2002
3 Irish in 2000
4 French in 1999
5 Dutch in 1998
6 Italian in 1997
7 French in 1996
8 German in 1995
9 Welsh in 1984
10 Dutch in 1981
Good Companies
Identify the film stars from their initials
and the production companies that they founded
1 Egg Pictures by JF
2 Blossom Films by NK
3 Flower Films by DB
4 Irish Dreamtime by PB
5 Fontis Films by SB
6 Type A by RW
7 Tig Productions by KC
8 Saturn Pictures by NC
9 Pit Bull Productions by JC
10 Playtone Company by TH
Answers to Nursery Rhymes
1 Who Killed Cock Robin
2 Little Miss Muffett
3 Lucy Lockett Lost Her Pocket ( Kitty Fisher found it, an 18th century prostitute)
4 Jack be Nimble
5 Little Tommy Tucker
6 Little Boy Blue
7 There Was An Old Woman Who Lived In a Shoe
8 Humpty Dumpty
9 Little Jack Horner
10 Jack and Jill
Answers to Footballers
1 Thierry Henry
2 Robert Pires
3 Roy Keane
4 David Ginola
5 Dennis Bergkamp
6 Gianfranco Zola
7 Eric Cantona
8 Jurgen Klinsmann
9 Ian Rush
10 Franz Thijssen
Answers to Film Stars
1 Jodie Foster
2 Nicole Kidman
3 Drew Barrymore
4 Pierce Brosnan
5 Sandra Bullock
6 Reese Witherspoon
7 Kevin Costner
8 Nicolas Cage
9 Jim Carrey
10 Tom Hanks