Speed Quiz 2
F is for Film
Identify the 10 films- all have a title beginning with F
1 The second Bond movie
2 Michael Douglas was stalked by Glenn Close in this film
3 Travolta and Cage exchanged identities in this action thriller
4 Brad Pitt film in which he played an underground boxer called Tyler Durden
5 Musical featuring the song Matchmaker Matchmaker
6 Mel Gibson aged 53 years in one day in this film
7 Colin Firth starred in this film as a teacher obsessed with Arsenal FC
8 Movie debut for John Rambo
9 1995 flop starring Richard Gere as Sir Lancelot
10 Mickey Mouse appeared as the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in this animation
The State of Things
Identify the US states from their nicknames and initial letters
1 The Bear state A
2 The Nutmeg state C
3 The Gem state I
4 The Wolverine state M
5 The Show Me state M
6 The Gopher state M
7 The Cornhusker state N
8 The Beaver state O
9 The Volunteer state T
10 The Equality state W
Proverbially Speaking
What one word completes the following proverbs?
1 Faint heart never won fair…
2 Necessity is the mother of …
3 A light purse makes a heavy…
4 March comes in like a lion and goes out like a…
5 Spare the rod and spoil the…
6 He was a bold man that first ate an…
7 The road to hell is paved with good…
8 All roads lead to …
9 A drowning man will catch at a…
10 Sloth is the key to…
Answers to F is for Film
1 From Russia with Love
2 Fatal Attraction
3 Face off
4 Fight Club
5 Fiddler on the Roof
6 Forever Young
7 Fever Pitch
8 First Blood
9 First Knight
10 Fantasia
Answers to State of Things
1 Arkansas
2 Connecticut
3 Idaho
4 Michigan
5 Missouri
6 Minnesota
7 Nebraska
8 Oregon
9 Tennessee
10 Wyoming
Answers to Proverbially Speaking
1 Lady
2 Invention
3 Heart
4 Lamb
5 Child
6 Oyster
7 Intentions
8 Rome
9 Straw
10 Poverty
All the B’s
Identify the groups/singers from one of their hits-all have BB initials
1 1973 Dancin’ on a Saturday Night
2 1979 Lady Lynda
3 1976 Let your Love Flow
4 1989 Ride on Time
5 1999 I Want it That Way
6 1986 Levi Stubbs Tears
7 1987 No Sleep till Brooklyn
8 1990 Doin’ the Doo
9 1988 The Harder I Try
10 1976 Sideshow
Drive My Car
Identify the countries from their international car registration plates
1 TR
2 D
3 AFG
4 P
5 SYR
6 NIC
7 M
8 EAK
9 FR
10 RSM
What a Carry On
Name the 10 stars who have appeared in 11 Carry On movies or more
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2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Answers to All the B’s
1 Barry Blue
2 Beach Boys
3 Bellamy Brothers
4 Black Box
5 Backstreet Boys
6 Billy Bragg
7 Beastie Boys
8 Betty Boo
9 Brother Beyond
10 Barry Biggs
Answers to Drive my Car
1 Turkey
2 Germany
3 Afghanistan
4 Portugal
5 Syria
6 Nicaragua
7 Malta
8 Kenya
9 Faeroe Islands
10 San Marino
Answers to What a Carry On
1 Kenneth Williams 26 films
2 Joan Sims 24 films
3 Charles Hawtrey 23 films
4 Sid James 19 films
5 Kenneth Connor 17 films
6 Peter Butterworth 16 films
7 Bernard Bresslaw 14 films
8 Hattie Jacques 14 films
9 Jim Dale 11 films
10 Peter Gilmore 11 films
Note Barbara Windsor appeared in 10, Jack
Douglas 8, Terry Scott 7
CAR TROUBLE
Which manufacturers have made the following models?
1 Uno
2 Silver Cloud
3 Corolla
4 Golf
5 Samara
6 Diablo
7 Berlingo
8 Interceptor
9 Testarossa
10 Carlsson
BORN WHERE?
In which capital cities were the following famous people born?
1 Martina Navratilova
2 Tony Blair
3 Brigitte Bardot
4 Neneh Cherry
5 Bjork
6 Marie Curie
7 Kenneth Branagh
8 Russell Crowe
9 Marlene Dietrich
10 Keanu Reeves
B IS FOR BOOK
Identify the novels from their initial letters and authors
1 Charles Dickens BR
2 Charles Dickens BH
3 Anna Sewell BB
4 Evelyn Waugh BR
5 Helen Fielding BJD
6 Graham Greene BR
7 Truman Capote BAT
8 PC Wren BG
9 Keith Waterhouse BL
10 Anthony Trollope BT
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Answers to Car Trouble
1 Fiat
2 Rolls Royce
3 Toyota
4 Volkswagen
5 Lada
6 Lamborghini
7 Citroen
8 Jensen
9 Ferrari
10 Saab
Answers to Born Where?
1 Prague
2 Edinburgh
3 Paris
4 Stockholm
5 Reykjavik
6 Warsaw
7 Belfast
8 Wellington
9 Berlin
10 Beirut
Answers to B is for Book
1 Barnaby Rudge
2 Bleak House
3 Black Beauty
4 Brideshead Revisited
5 Bridget Jones’s Diary
6 Brighton Rock
7 Breakfast at Tiffany’s
8 Beau Geste
9 Billy Liar
10 Barchester Towers
A RHYMING QUIZ
The answers to the following ten questions all rhyme with each other
1 Who won Olympic gold with Jayne Torvill?
2 The 1980 film The Hunter marked the screen farewell of which actor?
3 Lima, butter and kidney are all types of what?
4 Who wrote the novel The Guns of Navarone?
5 Which Scottish manager died during the 1986 World Cup campaign?
6 Which novel by LP Hartley was adapted into a 1970 film?
7 What was the UK’s best selling single in 1982?
8 A Passage to India was the final film of which director?
9 Which organ removes dead red blood cells?10 Which 1973 film marked the screen
farewell of Edward G Robinson?
P is for Pop Group
Identify the pop/rock groups from one of their hits. All 10 begin with P
1 1979 Another Brick in the Wall
2 1967 A Whiter Shade of Pale
3 1983 Wrapped Around Your Finger
4 1956 The Great Pretender
5 1983 This is Not a Love Song
6 1997 Smack My Bitch Up
7 1995 Disco 2000
8 2001 Last Resort
9 1982 I Won’t Let You Down
10 1981 I’m In Love with a German Film Star
ROLE CALL
Who did the following film stars play in the given films?
1 Nicole Kidman in The Hours
2 Val Kilmer in The Doors
3 Val Kilmer in Tombstone
4 Kenneth More in Reach for the Sky
5 Peter Ustinov in Quo Vadis
6 Keira Knightley in King Arthur
7 Leonardo Di Caprio in The Aviator
8 Kevin Kline in De-Lovely
9 Harvey Keitel in The Last Temptation of Christ
10 Dirk Bogarde in Song Without End
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Answers to Rhyming Quiz
1 Christopher Dean
2 Steve McQueen
3 Bean
4 Alistair MacLean
5 Jock Stein
6 The Go Between
7 Come on Eileen
8 David Lean
9 Spleen
10 Soylent Green
Answers to P is for Pop Group
1 Pink Floyd
2 Procol Harum
3 Police
4 Platters
5 PIL (Public Image Limited)
6 Prodigy
7 Pulp
8 Papa Roach
9 PhD
10 Passions
Answers to Role Call
1 Virginia Woolf
2 Jim Morrison
3 Doc Holliday
4 Douglas Bader
5 Nero
6 Guinevere
7 Howard Hughes
8 Cole Porter
9 Judas Iscariot
10 Franz Liszt
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