Back to School

Which TV shows/films/novels featured the following teachers?


1 Bullet Baxter

2 Jeremy Brown

3 Arthur Chipping

4 Bernard Hedges

5 Mr Shorofsky

6 Teddy Lloyd

7 Ian George

8 Edna Krabappel

9 Glenn Holland

10 Millicent Fritton


What’s in a Name?

Which pop groups were formerly called…?


1 The Primettes

2 The Invaders

3 Vortex Motion

4 Seymour

5 Garden Wall

6 Wainwright’s Gentlemen

7 The Spectres

8 The Mars Bars

9 Mammoth

10 The Ravens


Instrumentally

Identify the 10 songs from their lyrics. Each song has a title containing a musical instrument


1 He can make you love he can make you cry

2 So Mary marry me lets not wait

3 When you get in trouble and you don’t know right from wrong

4 There’s an old man sitting next to me making love to his tonic and gin

5 In the music of a kiss let me hear you say I love you

6 Well lay back and relax while I put away the dishes

7 I look at the world and notice its turning

8 In the jingle jangle morning I’ll come followin’ you

9 Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons

10 She says Hawaii’s too expensive




Answers to Back to School

1 Grange Hill

2 Mind Your Language

3 Goodbye Mr Chips

4 Please Sir

5 Fame

6 The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

7 Hope and Glory

8 The Simpsons

9 Mr Holland’s Opus

10 St Trinian’s films


 

Answers to Pop Groups

1 The Supremes

2 Madness

3 Wet Wet Wet

4 Blur

5 Genesis

6 Sweet

7 Status Quo

8 Gerry and the Pacemakers

9 Van Halen

10 The Kinks


Answers to Song Lyrics

1 Guitar Man

2 Distant Drums

3 Give a Little Whistle

4 Piano Man

5 Love Is Like a Violin

6 Ring My Bell

7 While My Guitar Gently Weeps

8 Mr Tambourine Man

9 76 Trombones

10 The Bermuda Triangle




180

Identify the darts players from their nicknames


1 The Power

2 Crafty Cockney

3 The Viking

4 Limestone Cowboy

5 The Golden Girl

6 Old Stoneface

7 The Count

8 Mr Glitter

9 Milky Bar Kid

10 The Rocket


Occupational Hazards

What are the occupations of the following TV characters from the given TV shows?


1 Gladys Emanuel in Open All Hours

2 Mickey Murphy in Camberwick Green

3 Monsieur Alphonse in Allo Allo

4 Barney McGrew in Trumpton

5 Corporal Jones in Dad’s Army

6 Noah Kirby in Noah’s Ark

7 Ben Parkinson in Butterflies

8 Della Street in Perry Mason

9 Cliff Clavin in Cheers

10 Tony Nelson in I Dream of Jeannie


 

Alliterative Authors

Which writers with alliterative names (e.g. Bobby Black) penned the following books?


1 Gone With the Wind

2 Brighton Rock

3 The Odessa File

4 Notes From a Small Island

5 Cider With Rosie

6 From Doon With Death

7 Kate Hannigan

8 Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man

9 From Here to Eternity

10 The Tin Drum




Answers to 180

1 Phil Taylor

2 Eric Bristow

3 Andy Fordham

4 Bob Anderson

5 Trina Gulliver

6 John Lowe

7 Ted Hankey

8 Bobby George

9 Keith Deller

10 Ronnie Baxter


Answers to TV jobs

1 Nurse

2 Baker

3 Undertaker

4 Fireman

5 Butcher

6 Vet

7 Dentist

8 Secretary

9 Postman

10 Astronaut


Answers to Alliterative Authors

1 Margaret Mitchell

2 Graham Greene

3 Frederick Forsyth

4 Bill Bryson

5 Laurie Lee

6 Ruth Rendell

7 Catherine Cookson

8 Siegfried Sassoon

9 James Jones

10 Gunther Grass


 

 

Car Trouble

Identify the car manufactures from their official slogans


1 Life, liberty and the pursuit

2 Creator of automobiles

3 Simply clever

4 The ultimate driving machine

5 Move your mind

6 The greatest automobile you have ever seen

7 The pursuit of perfection

8 Beauty is not enough

9 Shift

10 Like nothing else




Eric and Ernie

1 Whose love rival was called Two Ton Ted?

2 Who wrote the novel For Whom the Bell Tolls?

3 Who wrote the theme song for One Foot in the Grave?

4 Who wrote the novel Love Story?

5 What is the secret identity of Bananaman?

6 Which opponent of Muhammed Ali was nicknamed The Acorn?

7 Who was nicknamed the Father of Nuclear Physics?

8 What were the birth names of Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise?

9 Which rock legend is nicknamed Slowhand?

10 Who was killed in a Weatherfield wages snatch in January 1978?




A Colour TV set

Which TV shows with a colour in the title starred…?

1 Rowan Atkinson as Raymond Fowler

2 John Alderton as Jack Boult

3 Judi Bowker as Vicky Gordon

4 Peter Byrne as Andy Crawford

5 Dennis Franz as Andy Sipowicz

6 Caroline Quentin as DCI Janine Lewis

7 Francis Matthews providing the voice of the lead character, an employee of SPECTRUM

8 Bernie the Bolt loading the crossbow

9 Charles Haid as Andy Renko

10 Sarah Lancashire as Coral Atkins


Answers to Car Slogans

1 Cadillac

2 Renault

3 Skoda

4 BMW

5 Saab

6 Volkswagen

7 Lexus

8 Alpha Romeo

9 Nissan

10 Hummer



Answers to Eric and Ernie

1 Ernie the Fastest Milkman in the West

2 Ernest Hemingway

3 Eric Idle

4 Erich Segal

5 Eric Twinge or Eric the Schoolboy

6 Ernie Shavers

7 Ernest Rutherford

8 Eric Bartholomew and Ernest Wiseman

9 Eric Clapton

10 Ernie Bishop


Answers to a Colour TV Set

1 The Thin Blue Line

2 Forever Green

3 The Adventures of Black Beauty

4 Dixon of Dock Green

5 NYPD Blue

6 Blue Murder

7 Captain Scarlet

8 The Golden Shot

9 Hill St Blues

10 Seeing Red


Cruise Control

In which film did Tom Cruise play a character called…?


1 Peter Maverick Mitchell

2 Ethan Hunt

3 Dr Bill Harford

4 Charlie Babbitt

5 Nathan Algren

6 Ron Kovick

7 Lestat de Lioncourt

8 Cole Trickle

9 Lt Daniel Kaffee

10 David Aames


Beastly Books

What type of animal is central to the plot in the following novels?


1 Shardik

2 Ring of Bright Water

3 Fluke

4 Esio Trot

5 Moby Dick

6 Lair

7 Call of the Wild

8 Watership Down

9 National Velvet

10 Born Free


Capital P’s

What are the capitals of the following? All 10 begin with the letter P


1 Czech Republic

2 South Africa (admin capital)

3 Trinidad and Tobago

4 Cambodia

5 Sicily

6 France

7 Tahiti

8 Papua New Guinea

9 South Dakota

10 North Korea




Answers to Cruise Control

1 Top Gun

2 Mission Impossible

3 Eyes Wide Shut

4 Rain Man

5 The Last Samurai

6 Born On The 4th of July

7 Interview With the Vampire

8 Days of Thunder

9 A Few Good Men

10 Vanilla Sky


Answers to Beastly Books

1 Bear

2 Otter

3 Dog

4 Tortoise

5 Whale

6 Rat

7 Wolf

8 Rabbit

9 Horse

10 Lioness


Answers to Capital P’s

1 Prague

2 Pretoria

3 Port of Spain

4 Phnom Penh

5 Palermo

6 Paris

7 Papeete

8 Port Moresby

9 Pierre

10 Pyongyang