March Speed Quizzes 3
Before They Were Famous
Identify the movie stars from their initials and previous jobs
1 BH Circus fire eater
2 BC Pickle washer
3 GB Teddy bear eye installer
4 CG Lumberjack
5 CC Baseball professional
6 JS Yoga teacher
7 CN Marshall arts teacher
8 BL Circus acrobat
9 JB Coast guard
10 GS Italian interpreter
A Latin List
How do the following Latin phrases translate into English?
1 Bona fide
2 Ante bellum
3 Magnum Opus
4 Opus Dei
5 Anno Domini
6 Non sequitur
7 Corpus Christi
8 Mea culpa
9 Caveat emptor
10 Amor vincit omnia
Working Titles
Identify the films from their working titles
1 Rick’s Place
2 Kingdom of the Sun
3 Hare Jordan
4 The William Munny Murders
5 Pressure Point
6 Watch the Skies
7 The Babysitter Murders
8 Not Tonight Josephine
9 Would I Lie to You
10 People Like Us
Answers to Before they were Famous
1 Bob Hoskins
2 Bing Crosby
3 Gabriel Byrne
4 Clark Gable
5 Chuck Connors
6 James Spader
7 Chuck Norris
8 Burt Lancaster
9 Jeff Bridges
10 Greta Scaaci
Answers to Latin Phrases
1 In good faith
2 Before the war
3 Great work
4 The Work of God
5 In the year of our Lord
6 It does not follow
7 Body of Christ
8 My fault
9 Let the buyer beware
10 Love conquers all
Answers to Working Titles
1 Casablanca
2 The Emperor’s New Groove
3 Space Jam
4 Unforgiven
5 The World is Not Enough
6 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
7 Halloween
8 Some Like it Hot
9 Tootsie
10 Philadelphia
Hail to the Chief
Identify the US Presidents from their nicknames
1 Haberdasher Harry
2 Silent Cal
3 The Comeback Kid
4 The Great Humanitarian
5 The Idol of Ohio
6 The Preacher President
7 The Tennessee Tailor
8 Honest Abe
9 Big Bill
10 Old Hickory
Long Live the Queen/King
Identify the monarchs from their nicknames
1 The Virgin Queen
2 Hammer of the Scots
3 The Merry Monarch
4 The Sailor King
5 The Sun King
6 The Nine Day Queen
7 The Lionheart
8 Farmer George
9 The Widow of Windsor
10 The Huckster King
Home Runs
Complete the names of the following baseball teams from the initial letters
1 Houston A
2 Pittsburgh P
3 St Louis C
4 Detroit T
5 Minnesota T
6 San Diego P
7 Arizona D
8 Florida M
9 Cleveland I
10 Atlanta B
Answers to US Presidents
1 Harry S Truman
2 Calvin Coolidge
3 Bill Clinton
4 Herbert Hoover
5 William McKinley
6 James Garfield
7 Andrew Johnson
8 Abraham Lincoln
9 William Howard Taft
10 Andrew Jackson
Answers to Monarchs
1 Elizabeth I
2 Edward I
3 Charles II
4 William IV
5 Louis XIV
6 Lady Jane Grey
7 Richard I
8 George III
9 Victoria
10 Henry VII
Answers to Baseball Teams
1 Houston Astros
2 Pittsburgh Pirates
3 St Louis Cardinals
4 Detroit Tigers
5 Minnesota Twins
6 San Diego Padres
7 Arizona Diamondbacks
8 Florida Marlins
9 Cleveland Indians
10 Atlanta Braves
Only Fools and Actors
Who plays the following roles in Only Fools and Horses?
1 Uncle Albert
2 Rodney Trotter
3 Trigger
4 Denzil Tulser
5 Boycie
6 Raquel
7 Cassandra
8 Roy Slater
9 Marlene
10 Mickey Pearce
Down Walford Way
Who played the following roles in Eastenders?
1 Simon Wicks
2 Jack Dalton
3 Cindy Beale
4 Marge Green
5 David Wicks
6 Edwin Caldicot
7 Ros Thorne
8 Margaret Walker
9 Dr Legg
10 Harry Slater
What the Dickens
In which Dickens novels did the following characters appear?
1 Stephen Blackpool
2 Sally Brass
3 Uriah Heep
4 Newman Noggs
5 Sir Leicester Dedlock
6 Flora Finching
7 Seth Pecksniff
8 Canon Crisparkle
9 Herbert Pocket
10 Dolly Varden
Answers to Only Fools
1 Buster Merryfield
2 Nicholas Lyndhurst
3 Roger Lloyd Pack
4 Paul Barber
5 John Challis
6 Tessa Peake-Jones
7 Gwyneth Strong
8 Jim Broadbent
9 Sue Holderness
10 Patrick Murray
Answers to Eastenders
1 Nick Berry
2 Hwyel Bennett
3 Michelle Collins
4 Pat Coombs
5 Michael French
6 Ron Moody
7 Clare Grogan
8 Susan George
9 Leonard Fenton
10 Michael Elphick
Answers to Dickens
1 Hard Times
2 The Old Curiosity Shop
3 David Copperfield
4 Nicholas Nickleby
5 Bleak House
6 Little Dorritt
7 Martin Chuzzlewit
8 The Mystery of Edwin Drood
9 Great Expectations
10 Barnaby Rudge
The Sequel Set
Which novels spawned the following sequels?
1 Through the Looking Glass
2 The Edge of Reason
3 Be Cool
4 Claudius the God
5 The Clockwork Testament
6 The Lost World
7 Good Wives
8 Oliver’s Story
9 The Rocks Remain
10 Smiley’s People
The County Set
What are the county towns of the following?
1 Hampshire
2 Cornwall
3 Devon
4 Norfolk
5 Suffolk
6 Shropshire
7 Buckinghamshire
8 Somerset
9 Wiltshire
10 Essex
Birds of a Feather
Identify the official state birds from their initial letters
1 Michigan R
2 New York B
3 Vermont S
4 New Mexico R
5 Arkansas M
6 Minnesota L
7 Maine C
8 South Carolina W
9 Alabama Y
10 North Carolina C
Answers to Novel Sequels
1 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
2 Bridget Jones’s Diary
3 Get Shorty
4 I Claudius
5 A Clockwork Orange
6 Jurassic Park
7 Little Women
8 Love Story
9 Ring of Bright Water
10 Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Answers to County Towns
1 Winchester
2 Truro
3 Exeter
4 Norwich
5 Ipswich
6 Shrewsbury
7 Aylesbury
8 Taunton
9 Trowbridge
10 Chelmsford
Answers to State Birds
1 Robin
2 Bluebird
3 Seagull
4 Roadrunner
5 Mockingbird
6 Loon
7 Chickadee
8 Wren
9 Yellowhammer
10 Cardinal