Speed Quizzes 2
Location Location
Which people were the following places named
after?
1 Cook Island
2 America
3 Bolivia
4 Saudi Arabia
5 Marshall Islands
6 Saint Kitts
7 Philippines
8 Colombia
9 Rhodesia
10 El Salvador
B Movies
In which film beginning with B did…?
1 Angela Lansbury voice Mrs Potts
2 Dustin Hoffman play Dutch Schultz
3 Midler and Tomlin play twins mixed up at birth
4 Gene Hackman play the brother of Warren Beatty
5 Tom Cruise engage in a wheelchair bound fight with Willem Dafoe
6 Steve McQueen drive a Ford Mustang
7 Micheal Douglas play Detective Nick Curran
8 Laura meet Alec at a railway station
9 Kurt Russell play a fire fighter called Stephen McCaffrey
10 Elizabeth Taylor win an Oscar playing a prostitute
The Wonder of Lyrics
Identify the Elvis Presley hits from their
lyrics
1 Do you gaze at your doorstep and picture me
there
2 Because we’re children of Adam and Eve
3 I’m itching like a man on a fuzzy tree
4 If you can’t come around at least please telephone
5 No procrastinating, don’t articulate
6 No such number, no such zone
7 Kiss me my darling be mine tonight
8 Like a river flows surely to the sea
9 We’re caught in a trap
10 Cause tigers play too rough
Answers to Locations
1 James Cook
2 Amerigo Vespucci
3 Simon Bolivar
4 Muhammed bin Saud
5 James Marshall
6 St Christopher
7 King Phillip II of Spain
8 Christopher Columbus
9 Cecil Rhodes
10 Jesus, El Salvador meaning the Saviour
Answers to B Movies
1 Beauty and the Beast
2 Billy Bathgate
3 Big Business
4 Bonnie and Clyde
5 Born on the Fourth of July
6 Bullitt
7 Basic Instinct
8 Brief Encounter
9 Backdraft
10 Butterfield 8
Answers to Elvis Songs
1 Are You Lonesome Tonight?
2 Kissin’ Cousins
3 All Shook Up
4 Don’t Be Cruel
5 A Little Less Conversation
6 Return to Sender
7 It’s Now or Never
8 Can’t Help Falling in Love with You
9 Suspicious Minds
10 Teddy Bear
Meet the Managers
On the opening day of the very FIRST
Premiership season, who managed the following clubs?
1 Aston Villa
2 Chelsea
3 Coventry City
4 Crystal Palace
5 Everton
6 Ipswich Town
7 Manchester City
8 Middlesbrough
9 Norwich City
10 Wimbledon
A Sitcom Set
Who played the following characters?
1 Lukewarm in Porridge
2 Olive in On the Buses
3 Philip Drummond in Diff’rent Strokes
4 Eddie Booth in Love Thy Neighbour
5 Rebecca Howe in Cheers
6 Ralph Malph in Happy Days
7 Capt Peacock in Are You Being Served?
8 Daphne Moon in Frasier
9 Bombardier Solomons in It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
10 Porkpie in Desmond’s
Let’s Hear it for the Girls
The following set of initials represents the
first ten female solo artists to top the singles charts in the UK. Identify the
10.
1 JS
2 KS
3 LR
4 DD
5 KK
6 VL
7 RC
8 WA
9 RM
10 AC
Answers to Football Managers
1 Ron Atkinson
2 Ian Porterfield
3 Bobby Gould
4 Steve Coppell
5 Howard Kendall
6 John Lyall
7 Peter Reid
8 Lennie Lawrence
9 Mike Walker
10 Joe Kinnear
Answers to Sitcom Set
1 Christopher Biggins
2 Anna Karen
3 Conrad Bain
4 Jack Smethurst
5 Kirstie Alley
6 Donny Most
7 Frank Thornton
8 Jane Leeves
9 George Layton
10 Ram Jam Holder
Answers to Female Number Ones
1 Jo Stafford
2 Kay Starr
3 Lita Roza
4 Doris Day
5 Kitty Kallen
6 Vera Lynn
7 Rosemary Clooney
8 Winifred Atwell
9 Ruby Murray
10 Alma Cogan
Middle for Diddle
What are the middle names of the following
politicians?
1 Bill J Clinton
2 George W Bush Jnr
3 Margaret H Thatcher
4 John R Major
5 Richard M Nixon
6 Dwight D Eisenhower
7 Jacques R Chirac
8 Jimmy E Carter
9 Leonid I Brezhnev
10 Spiro T Agnew
Middle for Diddle 2
What are the middle names of the following
Coronation Street characters?
1 Alf S Roberts
2 Terry E Duckworth
3 Fred H Elliott
4 Ashley S Peacock
5 Mike V Baldwin
6 Bet T Lynch
7 Steve J MacDonald
8 Deidre A Barlow
9 Tracy L Barlow
10 Tyrone S Dobbs
Middle for Diddle 3
What are the middle names of the following
TV characters?
1 Bosco A Baracus
2 Homer J Simpson
3 Rodney C Trotter
4 John R Ewing
5 James T Kirk
6 Chandler M Bing
7 Alan B B’Stard
8 Norman S Fletcher
9 Thomas S Magnum
10 Hilda A Ogden
Answers to Middle Names of Politicians
1 Jefferson
2 Walker
3 Hilda
4 Roy
5 Milhous
6 David
7 Rene
8 Earl
9 Ilich
10 Theodore
Answers to Coronation St Middle Names
1 Sydney
2 Edgar
3 Handel
4 Sibelius
5 Vernon
6 Theresa
7 James
8 Anne
9 Lynette
10 Sylvester
Answers to TV Middle Names
1 Albert, BA also stands for his nickname Bad
Attitude
2 Jay
3 Charlton
4 Ross
5 Tiberius
6 Muriel
7 Beresford
8 Stanley
9 Sullivan
10 Alice
A Bond Bunch
Identify the Bond movies from the clues
given
1 Eight legged feline?
2 A variety of banana
3 Panoramic murder scene
4 Valentine via Moscow
5 Nickname for an inhabitant of Wiltshire
6 Species of duck
7 Everlasting gems
8 Negative quack
9 Lottery supplement
10 Family motto of James Bond
The Master of Suspense
In which Hitchcock film did…?
1 Anthony Perkins play Norman Bates
2 Sean Connery play Mark Rutland
3 Cary Grant play Roger O Thornhill
4 Doris Day play Jo McKenna
5 Grace Kelly play Frances Stevens
6 Paul Newman play Professor Michael Armstrong
7 Rod Taylor play Mitch Brennan
8 Barry Foster play Robert Rusk
9 James Stewart play LB Jeffries
10 Ray Milland play Tony Wendice
Let’s Hear it for the Boys
The following set of initials represents the
names of the first ten male solo artists to top the UK singles charts. Identify
the 10
1 AM
2 EF
3 PC
4 GM
5 FL
6 DW
7 JR
8 FS
9 DC
10 DV
Answers to Bond Movies
1 Octopussy
2 Goldfinger
3 A View to a Kill
4 From Russia with Love
5 Moonraker
6 Goldeneye
7 Diamonds are Forever
8 Dr No
9 Thunderball
10 The World is Not Enough
Answers to Hitchcock Films
1 Psycho
2 Marnie
3 North by North West
4 The Man Who Knew Too Much
5 To Catch a Thief
6 Torn Curtain
7 The Birds
8 Frenzy
9 Rear Window
10 Dial M for Murder
Answers to Male Number Ones
1 Al Martino
2 Eddie Fisher
3 Perry Como
4 Guy Mitchell
5 Frankie Laine
6 Dave Whitfield
7 Johnnie Ray
8 Frank Sinatra
9 Don Cornell
10 Dickie Valentine