March Speed Quizzes 2
Who were the original presenters of the
following TV shows?
1 Grandstand
2 Juke Box Jury
3 Catchphrase
4 Blockbusters
5 Blankety Blank
6 Ask the Family
7 The Golden Shot
8 Room 101
9 You’ve Been Framed
10 The Old Grey Whistle Test
Catchphrases
Which TV shows are associated with the following catchphrases?
1 I’m free
2 Yabba dabba doo
3 I love it when a plan comes together
4 You dirty old man
5 I don’t believe it
6 Didn’t he do well?
7 Who loves ya baby?
8 Let’s be careful out there
9 This time next year we’ll be millionaires
10 And now for something completely different
Blackadder Back and Forth
Who played the following historical figures in Blackadder?
1 Charles I
2 Prince Albert
3 Oliver Cromwell
4 Elizabeth I
5 Richard IV
6 Richard III
7 William Shakespeare
8 Field Marshall Haig
9 Maid Marian
10 Robin Hood
Answers to Original Presenters
1 Peter Dimmock
2 David Jacobs
3 Roy Walker
4 Bob Holness
5 Terry Wogan
6 Robert Robinson
7 Jackie Rae
8 Nick Hancock
9 Jeremy Beadle
10 Bob Harris
Answers to Catchphrases
1 Are You Being Served?
2 The Flintstones
3 The A Team
4 Steptoe and Son
5 One Foot in the Grave
6 The Generation Game
7 Kojak
8 Hill Street Blues
9 Only Fools and Horses
10 Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Answers to Blackadder Roles
1 Stephen Fry
2 Jim Broadbent
3 Warren Clarke
4 Miranda Richardson
5 Brian Blessed
6 Peter Cook
7 Colin Firth
8 Geoffrey Palmer
9 Kate Moss
10 Rik Mayall
Meet the Managers
Identify the managers of the following pop acts from their initials
1 Westlife
LW
2 Sex Pistols MM
3 Spice Girls SF
4 Jimi Hendrix CC
5 Elvis Presley TP
6 The Beatles BE
7 Rolling Stones ALO
8 Velvet Underground AW
9 The Bay City Rollers TP
10 Abba
SA
Opening Chapters
Identify the novels from the title of their opening chapters
1 Mrs Rachel Lynde is Surprised
2 Playing Pilgrims
3 Marseilles-The Arrival
4 The Sound of the Shell
5 Dudley Demented
6 Peter Breaks Through
7 The Riverbank
8 Down the Rabbit Hole
9 The Cyclone
10 The Early Married Life of the Morels
Meet the Chairman
Which Premiership football clubs had the following chairman in 2005?
1 Bill Kenwright
2 Mohamed Al Fayed
3 Doug Ellis
4 Phil Gartside
5 Steve Gibson
6 Daniel Levy
7 Jeremy Peace
8 Freddy Shepherd
9 David Moores
10 Milan Mandaric
Answers to Pop Managers
1 Louis Walsh
2 Malcolm McClaren
3 Simon Fuller
4 Chas Chandler
5 Tom Parker
6 Brian Epstein
7 Andrew Loog Oldham
8 Andy Warhol
9 Tam Paton
10 Stig Anderson
Answers to Opening Chapters
1 Anne of Green Gables
2 Little Women
3 The Count of Monte Cristo
4 Lord of the Flies
5 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6 Peter Pan
7 Wind in the Willows
8 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
9 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
10 Sons and Lovers
Answers to Meet the Chairman
1 Everton
2 Fulham
3 Aston Villa
4 Bolton
5 Middlesbrough
6 Tottenham
7 West Brom
8 Newcastle
9 Liverpool
10 Portsmouth
Translations
How do the following foreign words translate into English?
1 Jihad
2 Taliban
3 Volvo
4 Ukulele
5 Ludo
6 Bidet
7 Judo
8 Blitzkrieg
9 Glasnost
10 Stiletto
Home Sweet Home
What are the home planets of the following fictional characters?
1 Superman
2 Mork
3 The Daleks
4 Dr Who
5 The Ewoks
6 Mr Spock
7 Luke Skywalker
8 Emperor Ming
9 The Jetsons
10 The Klingons
And the Winner Is…
Who won a Best Actress Oscar for the following films?
1 As Good As It Gets
2 Sophie’s Choice
3 Misery
4 Annie Hall
5 One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
6 Howards End
7 The Accused
8 Klute
9 Driving Miss Daisy
10 Places in the Heart
Answers to Foreign Translations
1 Conflict
2 Student
3 I roll
4 Jumping flea
5 I play
6 Small horse
7 The gentle way
8 Lightning War
9 Openess
10 Little dagger
Answers to Home Planets
1 Krypton
2 Ork
3 Skaro
4 Galifrey
5 Endor
6 Vulcan
7 Tatooine
8 Mongo
9 Venus
10 Qo’nos
Answers to Best Actress
1 Helen Hunt
2 Meryl Streep
3 Kathy Bates
4 Diane Keaton
5 Louise Fletcher
6 Emma Thompson
7 Jodie Foster
8 Jane Fonda
9 Jessica Tandy
10 Sally Field
Alphabetical
In an alphabetical list what is the first…
1 Book of the Bible
2 Country in Africa
3 Of the seven dwarfs
4 State in the USA
5 Sign of the zodiac
6 Nobel gas
7 Carry On film
8 Of King Lear’s daughters
9 Scottish football league club
10 Station on the London underground
Fair Maidens
What are the maiden names of the following Coronation Street characters?
1 Deirdre Barlow
2 Hayley Cropper
3 Gail Platt
4 Betty Turpin
5 Ena Sharples
6 Liz McDonald
7 Angela Harris
8 Janice Battersby
9 Sally Webster
10 Hilda Ogden
From Street to Stardom
In Coronation Street who played…
1 PC Wilcox and went on to star in Porridge
2 Jeff Bateman and went on to star in Eastenders
3 Leonard Swindley and went on to star in Dad’s Army
4 Ron Jenkins and went on to become an Oscar winning actor
5 Vera Hopkins and went on to star in Last of the Summer Wine
6 Eileen Hughes and went on to star in Fawlty Towers
7 DS Cross and went on to star in the film Brassed Off
8 Stanley Fairclough and went on to front a chart topping band
9 Mickey Malone and went on to star in Heartbeat
10 Colin Lomax and went on to make a Monkee out of himself
Answers to Alphabetical
1 Acts
2 Algeria
3 Bashful
4 Alabama
5 Aquarius
6 Argon
7 Carry On Abroad
8 Cordelia
9 Aberdeen
10 Acton Town
Answers to Maiden Names
1 Hunt
2 Patterson
3 Potter
4 Preston
5 Schofield
6 Greenwood
7 Nelson
8 Lee
9 Seddon
10 Crabtree
Answers From Street to Stardom
1 Richard Beckinsale
2 Peter Dean
3 Arthur Lowe
4 Ben Kingsley
5 Kathy Staff
6 Prunella Scales
7 Pete Postlethwaite
8 Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits
9 Bill Maynard
10 Davy Jones