March Speed Quizzes 1
Identify the 10 novels from their sub-titles
1 A Tale of the Riots of Eighty
2 The Autobiography of a Horse
3 There and Back Again
4 The Parish Boys Progress
5 A Tale of Two Roses
6 Life Among the Lowly
7 A Novel Without a Hero
8 A Fairytale for a Land Baby
9 A Story of a Man of Character
10 A Tale for Young People of All Ages
Autobiographical
Who penned the following?
1 The Two of Us – My Life with John Thaw
2 Learning to Fly
3 Odd One Out
4 I Don’t Mean to be Rude But…
5 The Ragman’s Son
6 Moab is My Washpot
7 I Owe Russia $2000
8 And Why Not?
9 No Minor Chords
10 I Like What I Know
Home Sweet Home
Which foreign clubs play their home matches at the following football grounds?
1 San Siro
2 De Kuip Stadium
3 Bernabeu
4 Arnold Schwarzenegger Stadium
5 Nou Camp
6 Estadio Dragao
7 Stadio Olimpico
8 Stade Chaban-Delmas
9 Maracana
10 Fritz Walter Stadium
Answers to Novel Sub-titles
1 Barnaby Rudge
2 Black Beauty
3 The Hobbit
4 Oliver Twist
5 Black Arrow
6 Uncle Tom’s Cabin
7 Vanity Fair
8 The Water Babies
9 The Mayor of Casterbridge
10 The Prince and the Pauper
Answers to Autobiographies
1 Sheila Hancock
2 Victoria Beckham
3 Ronnie Biggs
4 Simon Cowell
5 Kirk Douglas
6 Stephen Fry
7 Bob Hope
8 Barry Norman
9 Andre Previn
10 Vincent Price
Answers to Football Stadiums
1 AC Milan and Inter Milan
2 Feyenoord
3 Madrid
4 Graz
5 Barcelona
6 Porto
7 Rome
8 Bordeaux
9 Rio de Janeiro
10 Kaiserslautern
Turn the Radio On
In which town/city are the following radio stations based?
1 Radio Wave
2 Silk
3 Ram
4 Mercia
5 Aire
6 Excalibur FM
7 Beacon
8 Oxygen
9 Broadland
10 Wire
Four Letter Words
Identify the number one hits of the following acts all of which have four letter
titles
1 Gary Numan
2 Deniece Williams
3 The Beatles
4 Dexy’s Midnight Runners
5 Kylie Minogue
6 Kalin Twins
7 Spandau Ballet
8 Irene Cara
9 Gabrielle
10 Shakespear’s Sister
From Novel to Oscar
Identify the novels of the following authors all of which went on to win Best
Film Oscar
1 Jules Verne
2 Michael Ondaatje
3 Larry McMurty
4 Thomas Harris
5 Margaret Mitchell
6 Avery Corman
7 Winston Groom
8 Lew Wallace
9 Richard Llewellyn
10 James Jones
Answers to Radio Stations
1 Blackpool
2 Macclesfield
3 Derby
4 Coventry
5 Leeds
6 Glastonbury
7 Wolverhampton
8 Oxford
9 Norwich
10 Warrington
Answers to Four Letter Song Titles
1 Cars
2 Free
3 Help
4 Geno
5 Slow
6 When
7 True
8 Fame
9 Rise
10 Stay
Answers to Novels to Oscars
1 Around the World in Eighty Days
2 The English Patient
3 Terms of Endearment
4 Silence of the Lambs
5 Gone With the Wind
6 Kramer vs Kramer
7 Forrest Gump
8 Ben Hur
9 How Green was my Valley
10 From Here to Eternity
Title Trivia
By what titles or posts are the following better known?
1 Primate of All England
2 Minister for the Civil Service
3 Secretary Lord of the Treasury
4 Primate of All Ireland
5 Primate of Ireland
6 President of the Senate
7 Trustee of St Paul’s Cathedral
8 Primate of England
9 Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury
10 Chairman of Ways and Means
Bridging the Gap
In which cities are the following bridges located?
1 Rialto
2 Mathematical Bridge
3 Bosporus
4 Brooklyn
5 Clifton Suspension
6 Golden Gate
7 Forth Railway Bridge
8 Pont Neuf
9 Verranzo Narrows
10 Ponte Vecchio
Second Choices
Which film role was turned down by and accepted by the following?
1 Turned down by Harrison Ford accepted by
Kevin Costner
2 Turned down by Frank Sinatra accepted by Clint Eastwood
3 Turned down by Al Pacino accepted by Dustin Hoffman
4 Turned down by Michelle Pfeiffer accepted by Jodie Foster
5 Turned down by Cary Grant accepted by Sean Connery
6 Turned down by Warren Beatty accepted by Al Pacino
7 Turned down by Tom Hanks accepted by Tom Cruise
8 Turned down by Ronald Reagan accepted by Humphrey Bogart
9 Turned down by Robert Redford accepted by Dustin Hoffman
10 Turned down by Telly Savalas accepted by George C Scott
Answers to Alternative Titles
1 Archbishop of Canterbury
2 Prime Minister
3 Chancellor of the Exchequer
4 Archbishop of Armagh
5 Archbishop of Dublin
6 Vice President of the USA
7 Lord Mayor of London
8 Archbishop of York
9 Government Chief Whip
10 Senior Deputy to the Speaker of the House of Commons
Answers to Bridges
1 Venice
2 Cambridge
3 Istanbul
4 New York
5 Bristol
6 San Francisco
7 Edinburgh
8 Paris
9 New York
10 Florence
Answers to Film Roles
1 Jim Garrison in JFK
2 Dirty Harry
3 Ted Kramer
4 Clarice Starling in Silence of the Lambs
5 Dr No
6 Michael Corleone in The Godfather
7 Jerry Maguire
8 Rick Blaine in Casablanca
9 Benjamin Braddock in The Graduate
10 General Patton
Husbands and Wives
Identify the husbands and wives that co-starred in the following films
1 1941 That Hamilton Woman
2 1991 Mortal Thoughts
3 1987 Rocky IV
4 1958 The Vikings
5 1966 Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf
6 1987 Assassination
7 2001 Ali
8 2000 Traffic
9 1991 LA Story
10 1969 Goodbye Mr Chips
The Royal Film Performance
Identify the films from their initials and the years in which they were chosen
for the Royal Film
1 2002 DAD
2 1988 E of the S
3 1970 A of the TD
4 1985 A P to I
5 1981 C of F
6 2004 L in L
7 1978 CE of the TK
8 1976 The S and the R
9 1966 BF
10 1969 The P of MJB
Shared Roles
Identify the films/remakes that starred each pair of actors in the given years?
1 John Wayne in 1960 and Billy Bob Thornton
in 2004
2 Rex Harrison in 1967 and Eddie Murphy in 1998
3 Robert Mitchum in 1962 and Robert DeNiro in 1991
4 Michael Caine in 1971 and Sylvester Stallone in 2000
5 Hayley Mills in 1961 Lindsay Lohan in 1998
6 Charlton Heston in 1968 and Mark Wahlberg in 2001
7 Faye Wray in 1933 and Naomi Watts in 2005
8 Frank Sinatra in 1960 and George Clooney in 2001
9 Katharine Ross in 1975 and Nicole Kidman in 2004
10 Vincent Price in 1958 and Jeff Goldblum in 1986
Answers to Husbands and Wives
1 Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh
2 Bruce Willis and Demi Moore
3 Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte Nielsen
4 Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh
5 Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
6 Charles Bronson and Jill Ireland
7 Will Smith and Jada Pinkett-Smith
8 Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones
9 Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant
10 Peter O’Toole and Sian Phillips
Answers to Royal Film Performances
1 Die Another Day
2 Empire of the Sun
3 Anne of the Thousand Days
4 A Passage to India
5 Chariots of Fire
6 Ladies in Lavender
7 Close Encounters of the Third Kind
8 The Slipper and the Rose
9 Born Free
10 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Answers to Films/Remakes
1 The Alamo
2 Dr Doolittle
3 Cape Fear
4 Get Carter
5 The Parent Trap
6 Planet of the Apes
7 King Kong
8 Ocean’s Eleven
9 The Stepford Wives
10 The Fly