Speed Quizzes One
Simply the Best
Identify the footballers voted FIFA World
Player of the Year from their initials and given years
1 2003- ZZ
2 2001- LF
3 1995- GW
4 1993 –RB
5 1991- LM
6 1992- MVB
7 1994- R
8 1997- R
9 2005- R
10 1999-R
What’s in a Nickname?
Identify the US cities from their nicknames
1 The Big D
2 The City of Brotherly Love
3 The Golden Gate City
4 The Athens of America
5 Magnolia City
6 Sin City
7 Steel City
8 Little Cuba
9 Gate City of the South
10 The Birthplace of Aviation
It’s a Gas
What are the 10 most abundant gases in the
air that we breathe?
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Answers to Player of Year
1 Zinedine Zidane
2 Luis Figo
3 George Weah
4 Roberto Baggio
5 Lothar Mattheus
6 Marco van Basten
7 Romario
8 Ronaldo
9 Ronaldhino
10 Rivaldo
Answers to US City Nicknames
1 Dallas
2 Philadelphia
3 San Francisco
4 Boston
5 Houston
6 Las Vegas
7 Pittsburgh
8 Miami
9 Atlanta
10 Daytona
Answers to It’s a Gas
1 Nitrogen
2 Oxygen
3 Argon
4 Carbon dioxide
5 Neon
6 Methane
7 Helium
8 Krypton
9 Hydrogen
10 Xenon
The Films of Tom Hanks
In which film did Tom Hanks…
1 Play an insomniac called Sam Baldwin
2 Play a prison warden called Paul Edgecomb
3 Voice Woody
4 Play several characters including Santa Claus
5 Play astronaut Jim Lovell
6 Play Robert Langdon
7 Play a baseball coach called Jimmy Dugan
8 Play Detective Scott Turner
9 Play an aids victim called Andrew Beckett
10 Play a pop group manager called Mr White?
Catchphrases
Identify the fictional characters from their
catchphrases
1 Heavens to Murgatroyd
2 Book em Danno, murder one
3 Go ahead make my day
4 Drat and double drat
5 I don’t believe it
6 Blistering barnacles
7 I have a cunning plan
8 Plundering porpoises
9 Drink! Feck! Arse! Girls!
10 Eat my shorts
Initial Thoughts
What do the initials stand for in the names
of the following?
1 TS Eliot
2 GK Chesterton
3 WG Grace
4 PT Barnum
5 HW Wells
6 PG Wodehouse
7 FW de Clerk
8 JK Rowling
9 TE Lawrence
10 WH Auden
Answers to Tom Hanks Films
1 Sleepless in Seattle
2 The Green Mile
3 Toy Story
4 The Polar Express
5 Apollo 13
6 The Da Vinci Code
7 A League of Their Own
8 Turner and Hooch
9 Philadelphia
10 That Thing You Do
Answers to Catchphrases
1 Snagglepuss
2 Steve McGarrett in Hawaii 5-O
3 Dirty Harry
4 Dick Dastardly
5 Victor Meldrew
6 Captain Haddock in the Adventures of Tin Tin
7 Baldrick in Blackadder
8 Captain Pugwash
9 Father Jack in Father Ted
10 Bart Simpson
Answers to Initials
1 Thomas Stearns
2 Gilbert Keith
3 William Gilbert
4 Phineus Taylor
5 Herbert George
6 Pelham Grenville
7 Frederik Willem
8 Joanne Kathleen
9 Thomas Edward
10 Wystan Hugh
S is for Story
Identify the novels from their initial
letters and authors
1 Salman Rushdie- The SV
2 DH Lawrence- S and L
3 John Le Carre- SP
4 CS Lewis- The SC
5 Stephen King- SL
6 Jane Austen- S and S
7 Ian Fleming- The SWLM
8 Tom Clancy- The S of AF
9 Thomas Keneally- SA
10 Arthur Ransome- S and A
What’s in a Name?
What is the most common surname in the
following countries?
1 France
2 Canada
3 Israel
4 Russia
5 Denmark
6 Korea
7 Norway
8 Ireland
9 Spain
10 Belgium
Lands of Fiction
Which novels/stories feature the following
fictional locations?
1 Laputa
2 Island of Sodor
3 Eurasia
4 Ruritania
5 Vulgaria
6 Shangri- La
7 Cimmeria
8 Ankh Morpork
9 Glen St Mary
10 Grand Fenwick
Answers to S is for Story
1 The Satanic Verses
2 Sons and Lovers
3 Smiley’s People
4 The Silver Chair
5 Salem’s Lot
6 Sense and Sensibility
7 The Spy Who Loved Me
8 The Sum of All Fears
9 Schindler’s Ark
10 Swallows and Amazons
Answers to Common Surnames
1 Martin
2 Johnson
3 Cohen
4 Ivanov
5 Jensen
6 Kim
7 Hansen
8 Murphy
9 Garcia
10 Peeters
Answers to Fictional Lands
1 Gulliver’s Travels
2 Thomas the Tank Engine
3 1984
4 The Prisoner of Zenda
5 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
6 Lost Horizon
7 Conan the Barbarian
8 Discworld series of novels
9 Anne of Green Gables
10 The Mouse That Roared
Cover to Cover
Which songs were number one hits for each
pair of artists?
1 Nilsson and Mariah Carey
2 Tommy Roe and Vic Reeves
3 Harry Belafonte and Boney M
4 Billy Ocean and Boyzone
5 Rosemary Clooney and Shakin’ Stevens
6 Bee Gees and Steps
7 Lou Bega and Bob the Builder
8 Ken Booth and Boy George
9 Terry Jacks and Westlife
10 Atomic Kitten and Blondie
God Save the Anthems
Identify the countries from their national
anthems
1 The Brabanconne
2 William of Nassau
3 Star Spangled Banner
4 La Marseillaise
5 March of the Volunteers
6 High Above the Young Rhine
7 Land of my Father
8 God Bless the Sultan
9 Star Planina’s Peaks Proudly Rise
10 Hymn of the Sharif
Till Divorce us do Part
Who divorced…?
1 John Cleese in 1978
2 Liz Taylor in 1964
3 Tom Cruise in 1990
4 Paul Simon in 1984
5 Frank Sinatra in 1957
6 Angelina Jolie in 1999
7 Sylvester Stallone in 1987
8 Laurence Olivier in 1960
9 Barbra Streisand in 1971
10 Mel B in 2001
Answers to Cover to Cover
1 Without You
2 Dizzy
3 Mary’s Boy Child
4 When the Going Gets Tough the Tough Get Going
5 This Ole House
6 Tragedy
7 Mambo No. 5
8 Everything I Own
9 Seasons in the Sun
10 The Tide is High
Answers to National Anthems
1 Belgium
2 Netherlands
3 USA
4 France
5 China
6 Liechtenstein
7 Wales
8 Brunei
9 Bulgaria
10 Morocco
Answers to Divorces
1 Connie Booth
2 Eddie Fisher
3 Mimi Rogers
4 Carrie Fisher
5 Ava Gardner
6 Billy Bob Thornton
7 Brigitte Nielsen
8 Vivien Leigh
9 Elliott Gould
10 Jimmy Gulzar