Speed Quizzes 2
Sister Sister
Name the famous sisters of the following
1 Patricia Arquette
2 Warren Beatty
3 Magda and Zsa Zsa Gabor
4 Eric Roberts
5 Lorna Luft
6 Hayley Mills
7 Joan Fontaine
8 Keith Chegwin
9 Vanessa Bell
10 Crystal Gayle
Organ Music
Identify the songs from their “body
conscious” lyrics
1 Maybe get a blister on your thumb
2 How he’d kick in the head when he was 25
3 And in my dreams I have kissed your lips a thousand times
4 As long as anyone with hot blood can
5 I hope and I pray that maybe some day you’ll be back in my arms once again
6 The silicon chip inside her head gets switched to overload
7 Just stare into space, picture my face in your hands
8 The minute you let her get under your skin
9 Sends shivers down my spine, body’s aching all the time
10 But I know I’ll see your face again
What’s in a Name?
Under what pen names are the following
better known?
1 Eric Arthur Blair
2 Mary Ann Evans
3 Frank Morrison
4 Samuel Langhorne Clemens
5 Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
6 David Cornwell
7 Harold Rubin
8 James Alfred Wight
9 Thomas Lanier
10 Harry Patterson
Answers to Sisters
1 Rosanna Arquette
2 Shirley Maclaine
3 Eva Gabor
4 Julia Roberts
5 Liza Minnelli
6 Juliet Mills
7 Olivia de Havilland
8 Janice Long
9 Virginia Woolf
10 Loretta Lynn
Answers to Organ Music
1 Money for Nothing
2 All the Young Dudes
3 Hello
4 Uptown Girl
5 Puppy Love
6 I Don’t Like Mondays
7 I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues
8 Hey Jude
9 Bohemian Rhapsody
10 The Drugs Don’t Work
Answers to Pen Names
1 George Orwell
2 George Eliot
3 Mickey Spillane
4 Mark Twain
5 Lewis Carroll
6 John le Carre
7 Harold Robbins
8 James Herriot
9 Tennessee Wiliams
10 Jack Higgins
A Capital Idea
What are the former capitals of the
following countries?
1 Scotland
2 New Zealand
3 Spain
4 Norway
5 Uganda
6 Pakistan
7 Poland
8 Egypt
9 India
10 Finland
Ship Shape
Which TV shows/films featured the following
space ships?
1 Millennium Falcon
2 Jupiter 2
3 Liberator
4 Heart of Gold
5 Nimbus
6 Nostromo
7 EVA Pod
8 Space shuttles Freedom and Independence
9 C-57D
10 Messiah
Football Crazy
Which football clubs recorded the following
songs?
1 Blue is the Colour
2 Glad all Over
3 Come on you Reds
4 Ossie’s Dream
5 Hot Stuff
6 The Anfield Rap
7 I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles
8 We’ve Got the Whole World in our Hands
9 Go For It
10 Let’s Dance
Answers to Former Capitals
1 Perth
2 Auckland
3 Toledo
4 Trondheim
5 Entebbe
6 Karachi
7 Krakow
8 Alexandria
9 Calcutta
10 Turku
Answers to Ship Shape
1 Star Wars
2 Lost in Space
3 Blake’s Seven
4 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
5 Futurama
6 Alien
7 2001: A Space Odyssey
8 Armageddon
9 Forbidden Planet
10 Deep Impact
Answers to Football Songs
1 Chelsea
2 Crystal Palace
3 Manchester United
4 Tottenham
5 Arsenal
6 Liverpool
7 West Ham
8 Nottingham Forest
9 Coventry City
10 Middlesbrough
Overseas Personalities
Identify the famous names from sport by
their initials. All were voted BBC Sports Personality of the Year in the given
years
1 2005- SW
2 2003- LA
3 1995- JL
4 1993- GN
5 1983- CL
6 1977- NL
7 1975- AA
8 1973- MA
9 1972- OK
10 1971- LT
First Name Terms
What were the first names of the characters
played by …?
1 Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins
2 Clint Eastwood in Every Which Way But Loose
3 Daniel Day Lewis in Gangs of New York
4 Julie Christie in Dr Zhivago
5 Sandra Bullock in Miss Congeniality
6 Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman
7 John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever
8 Samuel L Jackson in Pulp Fiction
9 Kate Winslet in Titanic
10 Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man
World Footballers
Identify the players from their initials,
voted World Footballer of the Year in the given years
1 2005- R
2 2003- ZZ
3 2002- R
4 2001- LF
5 1999- R
6 1995- GW
7 1994- R
8 1993- RB
9 1992 MVB
10 1991- LM
Answers to BBC Overseas Personalities
1 Shane Warne
2 Lance Armstrong
3 Jona Lomu
4 Greg Norman
5 Carl Lewis
6 Niki Lauda
7 Arthur Ashe
8 Muhammed Ali
9 Olga Korbut
10 Lee Trevino
Answers to First Names
1 Bert
2 Philo
3 Bill
4 Lara
5 Gracie
6 Vivian
7 Tony
8 Jules
9 Rose
10 Raymond
Answers to World Footballers
1 Ronaldhino
2 Zinedine Zidane
3 Ronaldo
4 Luis Figo
5 Rivaldo
6 George Weah
7 Romario
8 Roberto Baggio
9 Marco van Basten
10 Lothar Mattheus
University Degrees
Identify the names of the universities from
their initials and locations
1 JC University, Townsville, Australia
2 NM Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
3 SB University, Caracas, Venezuela
4 BY University, Provo, Utah
5 RG University, Aberdeen, Scotland
6 IG Agricultural University, Raipur, India
7 MT Women’s University, Kodaikanal, India
8 JH University, Baltimore, USA
9 Liverpool JM University, England
10 AJ University, Birmingham, Alabama
What’s in a Name?
Which countries names derived from the …?
1 Greek for copper
2 Portuguese for bearded
3 Arabic for fortress built near the water
4 Sanskrit for resplendent isle
5 Latin for silver
6 Latin for free
7 Swahili for land of men
8 Portuguese for shrimp
9 Shona dialect for stone houses
10 Mayan for land of trees
Let’s Go Round Again
From which TV shows were the following spin
offs?
1 Benson
2 Empty Nest
3 Tabitha
4 The Tortellis
5 M. I .T- Murder Investigation Team
6 Petticoat Junction
7 Rab C Nesbitt
8 The Perils of Penelope Pitstop
9 All Grown Up
10 Lou Grant
Answers to Universities
1 James Cook
2 Nelson Mandela
3 Simon Bolivar
4 Brigham Young
5 Robert Gordon
6 Indira Gandhi
7 Mother Teresa
8 John Hopkins
9 John Moores
10 Andrew Jackson
Answers to Country Names
1 Cyprus
2 Barbados
3 Kuwait
4 Sri Lanka
5 Argentina
6 Liberia
7 Uganda
8 Cameroon
9 Zimbabwe
10 Guatemala
Answers to Spin Offs
1 Soap
2 The Golden Girls
3 Bewitched
4 Cheers
5 The Bill
6 The Beverly Hillbillies
7 Naked Video
8 Wacky Races
9 Rugrats
10 The Mary Tyler Moore Show