Speed Quizzes Three
Oh Yes it Is!!
Which pantomimes feature the following
characters?
1 Buttons
2 Alice Fitzwarren
3 Widow Twankey
4 Buttercup the Cow
5 Happy and Bashful
6 Smee
7 Princess Aurora
8 Marquis de Carabas
9 Demon Discontent
10 Gaston
Group Therapy
Which TV shows/films featured the following
bands/groups?
1 The Von Trapp Family Singers
2 The Bedrock Rockers
3 The Woolpackers
4 The Be Sharps
5 The Little Ladies
6 The Majestics
7 Dr Teeth and the Electric Mayhem Band
8 The Heaven Seventeens
9 The Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band
10 Sweet Sue and her Society Syncopaters
Organ Music
Identify the songs from their “body
conscious” lyrics
1 There she stood in the street smilin’ from
her head to her feet
2 He got an ice pick that made his ears burn
3 Don’t change the colour of your hair
4 I hope my legs don’t break
5 Close your eyes give me your hand darling
6 I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray
7 And in the morning kick me in the head
8 My hands are shaky and my knees are weak
9 There’s a man in the shadows with a gun in his eye
10 Then every head turned with eyes that dreamed of being the one
Answers to Pantomimes
1 Cinderella
2 Dick Whittington
3 Aladdin
4 Jack and the Beanstalk
5 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
6 Peter Pan
7 Sleeping Beauty
8 Puss in Boots
9 Mother Goose
10 Beauty and the Beast
Answers to Group Therapy
1 The Sound of Music
2 The Flintstones
3 Emmerdale
4 The Simpsons
5 Rock Follies
6 Tutti Frutti
7 The Muppet Show
8 A Clockwork Orange
9 Brassed Off
10 Some Like It Hot
Answers to Organ Music
1 All Right Now
2 No More Heroes
3 Just the Way You Are
4 Walking on the Moon
5 Eternal Flame
6 California Dreaming
7 Maggie May
8 All Shook Up
9 Bat out of Hell
10 Billie Jean
The Streets of London
On which London thoroughfares all found on a
Monopoly board are the following located?
1 Nelson’s Column
2 Hamley’s toy store
3 The Cenotaph
4 Statue of Charlie Chaplin
5 Sotheby’s auction house
6 Prince of Wales Theatre
7 Dorchester Hotel
8 St James’s Palace
9 US Embassy
10 Fortnum and Mason
Form a Q
Identify the famous people from the short
clues given. All 10 have a surname beginning with Q
1 She opened her own shop called Bazaar
2 Vice President of the USA from 1989 to 1993
3 The first singer to have a number one hit and to be voted Rear of the Year
4 She was married to Paul Merton from 1991 to 1998
5 Footballer whose Republic of Ireland goal scoring record was surpassed by
Robbie Keane
6 Nom de plume used by Frederick Dannay
7 Edinburgh born singer who won Best Male Solo Artist Award at the 1998 Brits
8 Actor who links the films Brokeback Mountain, Independence Day and Midnight
Express
9 Norwegian executed for treason on October 24, 1945
10 Film star with the middle names of Rudolfo Oaxaca
Silver Screen Songs
Identify the songs from their lyrics. All 10
feature in popular film musicals
1 I could have spread my wings and done a
thousand things I’ve never done before
2 I’d build a big tall house with rooms by the dozen
3 Fuel injection cut off and chrome plated rods
4 Take a glance at the fancy ants then maybe try a few
5 Why should we break our backs stupidly paying tax?
6 The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye
7 What good is sitting alone in your room?
8 Helps the medicine go down
9 You may see a stranger across a crowded room
10 Those little eyes so helpless and appealing
Answers to Streets of London
1 Trafalgar Square
2 Regents Street
3 Whitehall
4 Leicester Square
5 Bond Street
6 Coventry Street
7 Park Lane
8 Pall Mall
9 Mayfair
10 Piccadilly
Answers to Form a Q
1 Mary Quant
2 Dan Quayle
3 Suzi Quatro
4 Caroline Quentin
5 Niall Quinn
6 Ellery Queen
7 Finley Quaye
8 Randy Quaid
9 Vidkun Quisling
10 Anthony Quinn
Answers to Silver Screen Songs
1 I Could Have Danced All Night
2 If I Were a Rich Man
3 Greased Lightning
4 Bare Necessities
5 You’ve Got to Pick a Pocket or Two
6 Oh What a Beautiful Morning
7 Cabaret
8 A Spoonful of Sugar
9 Some Enchanted Evening
10 Thank Heaven for Little Girls
Thematic
Identify the TV shows from the titles of
their theme songs
1 That’s Living All Right
2 Half the World Away
3 I’ll Be There for You
4 I Could Be So Good for You
5 Suicide is Painless
6 Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs
7 Where Everybody Knows Your Name
8 The Good Ol’ Boys
9 Thank You for Being a Friend
10 Come On Get Happy
Born in Wales
Identify the famous Welsh born people from
the given info
1 Nicknamed the Tigress of Tiger Bay
2 She named her son Dylan and her daughter Carys
3 He said “Dr Livingstone I presume”
4 He played 007 in The Living Daylights
5 She recorded the album Voice of an Angel
6 On film he has played Hitler, Picasso, Quasimodo, Dickens and CS Lewis
7 The first singer to record 9 UK hits on 9 different record labels
8 She has produced her own line of clothes called Sixteen 47
9 When he was knighted in 1981 he jokingly referred to himself as Sir
Circumference
10 Served as UK Commissioner of Euro Commission from 1995-2004
Magic Animal
What type of creatures are the following
TV/film characters
1 Flipper
2 George in Rainbow
3 Pinocchio’s conscience
4 Rocky in Rocky and Bullwinkle
5 Pumbaa in The Lion King
6 Colonel K in Dangermouse
7 Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh
8 Thumper in Bambi
9 Gentle Ben
10 Rosita in Sesame Street
Answers to TV Themes
1 Auf Wiedersehen Pet
2 The Royle Family
3 Friends
4 Minder
5 MASH
6 Frasier
7 Cheers
8 Dukes of Hazzard
9 The Golden Girls
10 The Partridge Family
Answers to Born in Wales
1 Shirley Bassey
2 Catherine Zeta Jones
3 Henry Morton Stanley
4 Timothy Dalton
5 Charlotte Church
6 Anthony Hopkins
7 Tom Jones
8 Dawn French
9 Harry Secombe
10 Neil Kinnock
Answers to Animal Magic
1 Dolphin
2 Hippo
3 Cricket
4 Squirrel
5 Warthog
6 Walrus
7 Donkey
8 Rabbit
9 Bear
10 Fruit bat
Blankety Blank
What words fill in the blanks of the
following people’s quotes?
1 Harry S Truman- The BLANK stops here
2 Karl Marx- Religion is the BLANK of the people
3 Thomas Alva Edison- Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% BLANK
4 Mae West- I used to be BLANK BLANK but I drifted
5 Josef Stalin- A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a BLANK
6 George Bernard Shaw- BLANK is wasted on the young
7 Napoleon Bonaparte- England is a nation of BLANKS
8 PT Barnum- There’s a BLANK born every minute
9 Duke of Wellington- BLANK and be damned
10 Boris Yeltsin- You can make a throne from BLANKS but you can’t make them sit
on it
Capital Ideas
In which European capital cities could one
view the following?
1 Kremlin
2 Spanish Steps
3 Vincent van Gogh Museum
4 Hofburg Imperial Palace
5 Wenceslas Square
6 Mannekin Pis
7 Bygdoy Viking Ship Museum
8 Parc Asterix
9 Little Mermaid
10 King Zygmunt’s Column
What’s in a Name?
Which football club’s name derives from…?
1 A cricket club whose members could only
play on one certain day of the week
2 The Roman goddess of youth
3 A Woolwich arms factory
4 An Irish missionary
5 A consort of Edward VII
6 A building in Sydenham
7 The Scottish school attended by its original members
8 A Walter Scott novel
9 An area of London between Brent and Westminster
10 From the company Philips Sport Vereniging
Answers to Blanks
1 Buck
2 Opium
3 Perspiration
4 Snow White
5 Statistic
6 Youth
7 Shopkeepers
8 Sucker
9 Publish
10 Bayonets
Answers to Capital cities
1 Moscow
2 Rome
3 Amsterdam
4 Vienna
5 Prague
6 Brussels
7 Oslo
8 Paris
9 Copenhagen
10 Warsaw
Answers to Football Teams
1 Sheffield Wednesday
2 Juventus
3 Arsenal
4 St Mirren
5 Crewe Alexandra
6 Crystal Palace
7 Hamilton Academicals
8 Heart of Midlothian
9 Queen’s Park Rangers
10 PSV Eindhoven