November Speed Quiz 3
DECOMPOSING
What were the nationalities of the following deceased composers?
1 J S Bach
2 Georges Bizet
3 Frederic Chopin
4 Frederick Delius
5 Joseph Franz Haydn
6 Giacomo Puccini
7 George Gershwin
8 Antonin Dvorak
9 Sergei Rachmaninov
10 Jean Sibelius
ROCKING ALL OVER THE WORLD
What are the nationalities of the following singers/groups?
1 Bonnie Tyler
2 Whigfield
3 Rednex
4 Neil Young
5 2 Unlimited
6 Ottawan
7 Vangelis
8 The Scorpions
9 Baccara
10 Jan Hammer
L OF A NOVEL
Which novels beginning with the letter L feature the following characters?
1 Oliver Barrett IV
2 Chingachook
3 Sauron the Great
4 John Ridd
5 Amy March
6 Dolores Haze
7 James Dixon
8 Flora Finching
9 Mr Hobbs the grocer
10 Captain Mallison
ANSWERS TO DECOMPOSING
1 German
2 French
3 Polish
4 English
5 Austrian
6 Italian
7 American
8 Czech
9 Russian
10 Finnish
ANSWERS TO ROCKING ALL OVER THE WORLD
1 Welsh
2 Danish
3 Swedish
4 Canadian
5 Dutch
6 French
7 Greek
8 German
9 Spanish
10 Czech
ANSWERS TO L OF A NOVEL
1 Love Story
2 Last of the Mohicans
3 Lord of the Rings
4 Lorna Doone
5 Little Women
6 Lolita
7 Lucky Jim
8 Little Dorritt
9 Little Lord Fauntleroy
10 Lost Horizon
THE TROPHY TEST
In which sports are the following trophies contested?
1 Davis Cup
2 Air Canada Silver Broom
3 Eisenhower Trophy
4 Uber Cup
5 Calcutta Cup
6 America’s Cup
7 Swaythling Cup
8 Waterloo Cup (3 possible answers)
9 Stanley Cup
10 Sam Maguire Trophy
COLOURFUL NOVELS
Who penned the following?
1 Tom Brown’s Schooldays
2 Black Beauty
3 White Fang
4 Porterhouse Blue
5 Father Brown
6 The Color Purple
7 Agnes Grey
8 Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
9 How Green was my Valley
10 The Scarlet Letter
MOVIE MUSIC
Who performed the themes for the following films?
1 Shaft
2 Chariots of Fire
3 For Your Eyes Only
4 Alfie (1960s version)
5 Soldier Blue
6 Jewel of the Nile
7 Romancing the Stone
8 Ghostbusters
9 Working Girl
10 In the Heat of the Night
ANSWERS TO TROPHY TEST
1 Tennis
2 Curling
3 Golf
4 Badminton
5 Rugby union
6 Yachting or sailing
7 Table tennis
8 Bowls, greyhound racing or hare coursing
9 Ice hockey
10 Gaelic football
ANSWERS TO COLOURFUL NOVELS
1 Thomas Hughes
2 Anna Sewell
3 Jack London
4 Tom Sharpe
5 GK Chesterton
6 Alice Walker
7 Anne Bronte
8 Anita Loos
9 Richard Llewelyn
10 Nathaniel Hawthorne
ANSWERS TO FILM THEMES
1 Isaac Hayes
2 Vangelis
3 Sheena Easton
4 Cilla Black
5 Buffy Sainte Marie
6 Billy Ocean
7 Eddy Grant
8 Ray Parker Jnr
9 Carly Simon
10 Ray Charles
BBC SPORTS PERSONALITY OF THE YEAR – Identify the winners from the years and their initials
1 2000 SR
2 1996 DH
3 1991 LM
4 1987 FW
5 1980 RC
6 1975 DS
7 1968 DH
8 1964 MR
9 1962 AL
10 1956 JL
CAR TROUBLE – Identify the countries from their car registration plates
1 CY
2 UA
3 D
4 TT
5 H
6 CO
7 MA
8 LV
9 RSM
10 SD
TEACHER TEACHER – In which films did the following actors play each role?
1 Richard Dreyfus as Glenn Holland
2 Robin Williams as John Keating
3 Sidney Poitier as Mark Thackeray
4 Michelle Pfeiffer as Lou Anne Johnson
5 Anne Meara as Miss Sherwood
6 Celia Johnson as Mrs Mackay
7 Zoe Wanamaker as Madam Hooch
8 Pam Ferris as Miss Trunchbull
9 Colin Welland as Mr Farthing
10 Goldie Hawn as Molly McGrath
A SPORTING CHANCE – In which sport do competitors …
1 Perform a Rudolph and a Randolph
2 Throw stones at houses
3 Stand at silly point
4 Start at the south stake
5 Sit in a sulky
6 Employ the O’Brien shift
7 Abide by the Cartwright rules
8 Duck the boom
9 Collect ten points for an ippon
10 Wear a glove called a chistera
ANSWERS TO SPORTS PERSONALITY
1 Steve Redgrave
2 Damon Hill
3 Liz McColgan
4 Fatima Whitbread
5 Robin Cousins
6 David Steel
7 David Hemery
8 Mary Rand
9 Anita Lonsbrough
10 Jim Laker
ANSWERS TO CAR TROUBLE
1 Cyprus
2 Ukraine
3 Germany
4 Trinidad & Tobago
5 Hungary
6 Colombia
7 Morocco
8 Latvia
9 San Marino
10 Swaziland
ANSWERS TO TEACHER TEACHER
1 Mr Holland’s Opus
2 Dead Poets Society
3 To Sir with Love
4 Dangerous Minds
5 Fame
6 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
7 The Harry Potter movies
8 Matilda
9 Kes
10 Wildcats
ANSWERS TO A SPORTING CHANCE
1 Trampolining
2 Curling
3 Cricket
4 Croquet
5 Harness racing
6 Shot putt
7 Baseball
8 Yachting
9 Judo
10 Pelota