QUIZZING IN THE RAIN

1 Which song opens with the line, “You get a shiver in the dark it’s raining in the park”?

2 What name is given to precipitation with a high level of sulphur dioxide?

3 In which film did Dustin Hoffman play the brother of Tom Cruise?

4 Which musical features the song, The Rain in Spain?

5 Which musical features the song, Don’t Rain on My Parade?

6 What O is the morbid fear of rain?

7 Which organisation was founded in 1989 by Sting and his wife Trudie Styler?

8 Who had a 1998 hit with the song, Kiss the Rain?

9 Waialeale suffers over 300 days of rain each year. In which US state is it located?

10 Who played the role of Kathy Selden in Singin in the Rain?

11 In which African country is the Pula Festival held, a national ceremony in deference to the importance given to rain towards the national economy?

12 Which Disney animation features the song Little April Showers?

13 The martial arts exponent Rain is a character in which computer game?

14 The children’s nursery rhyme Rain Rain Go Away is thought to be a reference to which fleets invasion of Britain, an invasion that failed partly due to inclement weather?

15 What P is an instrument for measuring levels of rain fall?

 

SINGING IN THE RAIN

Identify the “rainy songs” from the lyrics

1 According to all sources the streets the place to go

2 I never meant to cause you any pain

3 There’s not a cloud to spoil the view

4 I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests

5 The weather here has been as nice as it can be

6 The only girl I care about has gone away

7 The blues they send to meet me won’t defeat me

8 Walking around some kind of a lonely clown

9 Well I never meant to cause you no pain but it looks like I did it again

10 I walk down the lane with a happy refrain
 

Answers

1 Sultan of Swing

2 Acid rain

3 Rainman

4 My Fair Lady

5 Funny Girl

6 Ombrophobia

7 Rain Forest Foundation

8 Billie Myers

9 Hawaii

10 Debbie Reynolds

11 Botswana

12 Bambi

13 Mortal Kombat

14 Spanish Armada

15 Pluviometer

 

Answers to Rainy Songs

1 Its Raining Men 2 Purple Rain

3 Raining In My Heart

4 A Hard Rains Gonna Fall

5 It Might As Well Rain Until September

6 Rhythm of the Rain

7 Raindrops Keep Fallin On My Head

8 Rainy Days and Mondays

9 I Wish It Would Rain Down

10 Singin In The Rain