Sept 06 speed

September Speed Quizzes Set 1

Autobiographical

Identify the Oscar winning film stars from the title of their autobiographies

1 Citizen Jane

2 My Name Escapes Me

3 Bring On the Empty Horses

4 An Actor and His Time

5 What’s It All About?

6 Mother Goddam

7 The Ragman’s Son

8 Confessions of an Actor

9 Up in the Clouds Gentlemen Please

10 In Darkness and Light

Beatlemania

Identify the Beatles songs from their lyrics. All 10 songs have a girls name in their title

1 Darning his socks in the night when there’s nobody there

2 Giving all your clothes to charity

3 Remember to let her into your heart

4 Tres bien ensemble

5 The little children laugh at him behind his back

6 Sitting on a sofa with a sister or two

7 Hold your head up you silly girl

8 Sunday morning creep in like a nun

9 The clouds will be a daisy chain

10 One sunny day the world was waiting for a lover

Madonna Mania

In any order identify the first 10 UK number one hit singles recorded by Madonna

Answers to Film Star Autobiographies

1 Jane Fonda

2 Alec Guinness

3 David Niven

4 John Gielgud

5 Michael Caine

6 Bette Davis

7 Kirk Douglas

8 Laurence Olivier

9 John Mills

10 Anthony Hopkins

Answers to Beatles songs

1 Eleanor Rigby

2 The Ballad of John and Yoko

3 Hey Jude

4 Michelle

5 Penny Lane

6 Lovely Rita

7 Martha Dear

8 Lady Madonna

9 Dear Prudence

10 Sexy Sadie

Answers to Madonna Mania

1 Into the Groove

2 Papa Don’t Preach

3 True Blue

4 La Isla Bonita

5 Who’s That Girl?

6 Like A Prayer

7 Vogue

8 Frozen

9 American Pie

10 Music

Top of the 1986 Pops

Identify the songs from their initials. All 10 were number one in the UK in 1986

1 DLMTW

2 COL

3 TMBA

4 CR

5 RP

6 ADC

7 WEG

8 SITS

9 RMA

10 WTGGTTTGG

Down the Street

Identify the famous people from their initials and characters they played in Coronation Street

1 Malcolm Nuttall played by MB

2 Frank Draper by PS

3 Mickey Malone by BM

4 Robert Croft by MS

5 Harry Payne by MW

6 Stan Potter by NH

7 Eileen Hughes by PS

8 Douglas Wormold by ME

9 Bernard Butler by GK

10 Eric Gartside by PK

Man of the Year

Identify the recipients of the Time Magazine Man of the Year Award from their initials and appropriate years

1 AH in 1938

2 JS in 1942

3 WC in 1949

4 NK in 1957

5 DE in 1959

6 RN in 1971

7 AS in 1977

8 RR in 1980

9 The C in 1982

10 RG in 2001

Answers to 1986 songs

1 Don’t Leave Me This Way

2 Caravan of Love

3 Take My Breath Away

4 Chain Reaction

5 Reet Petite

6 A Different Corner

7 West End Girls

8 Spirit in the Sky

9 Rock Me Amadeus

10 When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going

Answers to Coronation Street

1 Michael Ball

2 Paul Shane

3 Bill Maynard

4 Martin Shaw

5 Max Wall

6 Noddy Holder

7 Prunella Scales

8 Michael Elphick

9 Gorden Kaye

10 Peter Kay

Answers to Man of the Year

1 Adolf Hitler

2 Josef Stalin

3 Winston Churchill

4 Nikita Khrushchev

5 Dwight Eisenhower

6 Richard Nixon

7 Anwar Sadat

8 Ronald Reagan

9 The Computer

10 Rudolph Giuliani

Born Where?

In which countries were the following famous folk born?

1 Bob Holness

2 Edward G Robinson

3 Roman Polanski

4 Peter Lorre

5 Bruce Willis

6 Audrey Hepburn

7 Paddy Ashdown

8 Chris de Burgh

9 Victoria Principle

10 Paul Boateng

Licence to Drive

In which Bond movie did 007 …?

1 Drive a double decker bus in the Caribbean

2 Drive a tank in Moscow

3 Fight on a train with Robert Shaw

4 Drive a moon buggy and a Ford Mustang

5 Drive an Aston Martin for the first time

6 Pushed from a plane without a parachute by Jaws

7 Drive a white Lotus that converted into a submarine

8 Fly a small jet plane that took off from the false rear end of a horse

9 Drive a Sunbeam Alpine

10 Ride on a horse with Kim Basinger

Down by the Riverside

Which capital cities lie on the following rivers?

1 Vistula

2 Tigris

3 Amstel

4 Jumna

5 Taff

6 Rio de la Plata

7 Spree

8 Senne

9 Aare

10 Dnieper

Answers to Countries of birth

1 South Africa

2 Romania

3 France, he moved back to Poland with his parents when he was two

4 Hungary

5 Germany

6 Belgium

7 India

8 Argentina

9 Japan

10 Ghana

Answers to Licence to Drive

1 Live and Let Die

2 Goldeneye

3 From Russia With Love

4 Diamonds Are Forever

5 Goldfinger

6 Moonraker

7 The Spy Who Loved Me

8 Octopussy

9 Dr No

10 Never Say Never Again

Answers to Down by the Riverside

1 Warsaw

2 Baghdad

3 Amsterdam

4 New Delhi

5 Cardiff

6 Buenos Aires

7 Berlin

8 Brussels

9 Berne

10 Kiev

Anagrammatically

Unravel the anagrams to give the titles of ten films starring Clint Eastwood

1 I GOVERN FUN

2 A DOPED HOTEL

3 YETI CHAT

4 HOTTER PIG

5 A NEO GENETIC SHIRT

6 COHERENT REF

7 A SHAH GIRLFRIEND PIT

8 A NETTLE THUG

9 BOMBARD A LILLY LION

10 HUGE BED TILE

Anagrammatically

Unravel the anagrams to give the titles of ten songs recorded by Elvis Presley

1 PULLS A HOOK

2 METERED NOVEL

3 A TONED WHORE

4 HUNG DODO

5 THE TIGHT ONE

6 NICKEL OGRE

7 SNOUTY SHOE

8 DISCOS MINUS PIUS

9 BIN NOVEL RUG

10 CRACK MOD GHOUL

Anagrammatically

Unravel the anagrams to give the names of ten premiership footballers of 2006

1 OASIS HAUL

2 DO BRIDGE RAID

3 PURE CROCHET

4 A CABLE GRIMLEY

5 TRIM A STUBBLE

6 HELLO CASEY

7 HONED SATAN

8 I JEER FAMED ONE

9 REWINDS A VERANDA

10 BARONET JOY

Answers to Clint Eastwood films

1 Unforgiven

2 The Dead Pool

3 City Heat

4 Tightrope

5 The Eiger Sanction

6 The Enforcer

7 High Plains Drifter

8 The Gauntlet

9 Million Dollar Baby

10 The Beguiled

Answers to Elvis hits

1 All Shook Up

2 Love Me Tender

3 Wooden Heart

4 Hound Dog

5 In The Ghetto

6 King Creole

7 She’s Not You

8 Suspicious Minds

9 Burning Love

10 Good Luck Charm

Answers to Premiership footballers

1 Louis Saha

2 Didier Drogba

3 Peter Crouch

4 Craig Bellamy

5 Titus Bramble

6 Ashley Cole

7 Dean Ashton

8 Jermaine Defoe

9 Edwin Van Der Saar

10 Joey Barton