SPEED QUIZZES SET 2

A Commercial Break

What products have been advertised on TV by the following slogans?

1 Splash it all over

2 Prolongs active life

3 The biscuit to beat the blues

4 Fresh from the captain’s table

5 For men who don’t have to try too hard

6 There’s more than one way to slice it

7 Why have cotton when you can have silk

8 A little dab’ll do ya

9 Chocolate heaven since 1911

10 Guards against night starvation

Kids Stuff

Identify the children’s TV shows from two of their episode titles

1 Vanishing Pancake and Bungo Up a Tree

2 Wendy’s Bright Plan and Travis Paints the Town

3 Uncle Feedle and the Owls of Athens

4 The Magic Carpet and the Big Game Hunter

5 Music of the Spheres and Vote for Froglet

6 The Spy Who Stayed in with a Cold and The Invasion of Colonel K

7 Mrs Honeyman & Her Baby and Mr Dagenham the Salesman

8 Daimar the Demon and The Taking of Grayskull

9 The Melodious Mermaid and The Dingly Dangly Crab

10 Choo Choo’s Romance and Dibble’s Birthday

Disney Delights

Identify the Disney films that featured the following songs

1 Trust In Me, The Python’s Song

2 Pink Elephants On Parade

3 The Huns Attack

4 Some Day My Prince Will Come

5 Human Again

6 Not In Nottingham

7 Colours of the Wind

8 Daughters of Triton

9 For Penny’s a Jolly Good Fellow

10 The Bell Tower
 

Answers to a Commercial Break

1 Brut

2 Pal

3 Blue Riband

4 Birds Eye fish fingers

5 Denim aftershave

6 Spam

7 Galaxy

8 Brylcreem

9 Thornton’s chocolate

10 Horlicks

Answers to Kids Stuff

1 The Wombles

2 Bob the Builder

3 Bagpuss

4 Mr Benn

5 The Clangers

6 Dangermouse

7 Camberwick Green

8 He Man

9 Captain Pugwash

10 Top Cat

Answers to Disney Delights

1 The Jungle Book

2 Dumbo

3 Mulan

4 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

5 Beauty and the Beast

6 Robin Hood

7 Pocahontas

8 The Little Mermaid

9 The Rescuers

10 The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Tom, Dick or Harry

The answers to the next ten questions contain one of the above first names

1 Who is the 46th Vice President of the USA?

2 Who married Samantha Lewes and Rita Wilson?

3 What is the most famous fictional creation of Chester Gould?

4 Which novel features a villain called Simon Legree?

5 In which 1989 film did Mr Burns meet Miss Allbright?

6 Who played Captain Rum in Blackadder II?

7 Who was voted PFA Young Player of the Year in 2000?

8 Which fictional cop wore a badge with the number 2211?

9 What is the Thai word for a masculine lesbian?

10 Which 2005 film co-starred Jim Carrey, Tea Leoni and Alec Baldwin?

Sibling Rivalry

What are the surnames of the following siblings?

1 Ross and Norris, the creators of the Guinness Book of Records

2 Barbara and Jenna, also known as the First Twins

3 Jacob and Wilhelm, the creators of Cinderella

4 Ann and Nancy, members of the rock band Heart

5 Vijay and Anand, tennis players

6 Matt and Luke of Bros

7 Fred and George in the Harry Potter tales

8 Natalie and Nicole of All Saints

9 Mark and Steve, Aussie cricketers

10 Mary-Kate and Ashley stars of the TV show Full House

Lyric Locations

Identify the songs from the lyrics. Each song has a British location in the title

1 I’ll be your leprechaun and sit upon an old toadstool

2 Tell her to find me an acre of land

3 Dirt in her hair and her clothes in rags

4 But on the way back I cuddled with Jack

5 It’s nice to have a nibble at it now and again

6 Back in 1944, I remember Daddy walking out the door

7 And the war is raging in the Emerald Isle

8 He marched them up to the top of the hill

9 Hearts torn in every way

10 Two weeks in Majorca and he wants to buy you a ring

 

Answers to Tom, Dick or Harry

1 Dick Cheney

2 Tom Hanks

3 Dick Tracy

4 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

5 When Harry Met Sally

6 Tom Baker

7 Harry Kewell

8 Dirty Harry Callahan

9 Tom

10 Fun With Dick and Jane

Answers to Sibling Rivalry

1 McWhirter

2 Bush

3 Grimm

4 Wilson

5 Amritraj

6 Goss

7 Weasley

8 Appleton

9 Waugh

10 Olsen

Answers to Lyric Locations

1 Long Haired Lover from Liverpool

2 Scarborough Fair

3 Streets of London

4 Day Trip to Bangor

5 Little Stick of Blackpool Rock

6 Durham Town

7 Belfast Child

8 The Grand Old Duke of York

9 Ferry Cross the Mersey

10 Luton Airport

Fair Maidens

What were the maiden names of…

1 Princess Diana

2 Evonne Cawley

3 Cherie Blair

4 Eva Peron

5 The Queen Mother

6 Agatha Christie

7 Linda McCartney

8 Margaret Thatcher

9 Marge Simpson

10 Wallis Simpson

Come Fly With Me

Identify the British towns/cities from the letters of their airport code. E.g. BLK = Blackpool

1 CVT

2 BOH

3 LDY

4 SWS

5 CBG

6 NQ

7 DND

8 LTN

9 ABZ

10 ENK

The PC World

What are the more common terms for the following in the Politically Correct Dictionary?

1 Alternative dentation

2 Utility hole

3 Terminally inconvenienced

4 Motivationally deficient

5 Home invader

6 Domestic engineer

7 Intellectually challenged

8 Hearing impaired

9 Nasally inferior

10 Conversationally selective

 

Answers to Fair Maidens

1 Spencer

2 Goolagong

3 Booth

4 Duarte

5 Bowes – Lyon

6 Miller

7 Eastman

8 Roberts

9 Bouvier

10 Warfield

Answers to Airport Codes

1 Coventry

2 Bournemouth

3 Londonderry

4 Swansea

5 Cambridge

6 Newquay

7 Dundee

8 Luton

9 Aberdeen

10 Enniskillen

Answers to PC World

1 False teeth

2 Man hole

3 Dead

4 Lazy

5 Burglar

6 Housewife

7 Stupid

8 Deaf

9 Smelly

10 Shy

And the Winner Is

Since 1960 twelve films with one word titles have won a Best Film Oscar. Identify the 12 from their initial letters

1 B

2 O

3 U

4 A

5 T

6 R

7 C

8 C

9 P

10 P

11 G

12 G

Anagrammatically

Unravel the anagrams to give the titles of ten classic novels. Each novel has a two word title

1 MADE SHIRT

2 A SNIPPY ROMP

3 NOON ORDEAL

4 FAR MAIL MAN

5 BUY BACK TALE

6 SURE SLATED RIM

7 YEARN EGGS

8 EQUINOX DOT

9 PANTHER WIDOWS

10 SIREN ALARMS

TV Tunes

Identify the TV shows from a lyric in their theme song

1 The weekend comes my cycle hums ready to race to you

2 From the town of Bedrock, they’re a page right out of history

3 They’re calling again. Goodnight Seattle

4 They’re creepy and they’re kooky

5 Your heart is true, you’re a pal and a confidant

6 Come aboard we’re expecting you

7 His pot is blacker than his kettle

8 The pains that are withheld for me, I realise and I can see

9 But we’re too busy singing to put anybody down

10 Move em on head em up head em up move em out

Answers to Oscar Winners

1 Braveheart

2 Oliver

3 Unforgiven

4 Amadeus

5 Titanic

6 Rocky

7 Chicago

8 Crash

9 Patton

10 Platoon

11 Gandhi

12 Gladiator

Answers to Novel Anagrams

1 Hard Times

2 Mary Poppins

3 Lorna Doone

4 Animal Farm

5 Black Beauty

6 Treasure Island

7 Agnes Grey

8 Don Quixote

9 Watership Down

10 Silas Marner

Answers to TV Lyrics

1 Happy Days

2 The Flintstones

3 Frasier

4 The Addams Family

5 The Golden Girls

6 The Love Boat

7 Blackadder

8 MASH

9 The Monkees

10 Rawhide