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