Speed Quiz 8

Identify the famous people from their initials and middle names

1 DF Paradine - David Frost
2 WD Elias - Walt Disney
3 BM Nesta - Bob Marley
4 KD Matheison - Kenny Dalglish
5 WC Hunter Fisher - Willie Carson
6 CE Livingstone - Chris Eubank
7 HG Mungo - Hugh Grant
8 EH Ivanhoe - Emile Heskey
9 JC Marwood - John Cleese
10 RG Golightly - Robson Green

Identify the following pop stars from their real names.
All 10 pop stars are known by one-word names

1 Derek Dick - Fish
2 Richard Melville Hall - Moby
3 Marie Lawrie - Lulu
4 Paul Hewson - Bono
5 Florian Cloud De Bounevialle Armstrong - Dido
6 Alecia Moore - Pink
7 Ian Kilminster - Lemmy
8 Helen Folasade Adu - Sade
9 Sannia Carlson - Whigfield
10 Orville Burrell - Shaggy

Identify the following famous novels from their working titles
Eg The Copperfield Disclosures = David Copperfield

1 Catch 18 - Catch 22
2 Baa Baa Black Sheep - Gone With The Wind
3 Mr Gradgrind’s Facts - Hard Times
4 The Summer Of The Shark - Jaws
5 The Whale - Moby Dick
6 Tenderness - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
7 The Last Man In Europe - 1984
8 Elinor and Marianne - Sense And Sensibility
9 The Sea Cook - Treasure Island
10 The High Bouncing Lover - The Great Gatsby


In which cities were the following groups founded?

1 Abba - Stockholm
2 Def Leppard - Sheffield
3 Kraftwerk - Dusseldorf
4 Boyzone - Dublin
5 Focus - Amsterdam
6 The Four Tops - Detroit
7 AC/DC - Melbourne
8 Deacon Blue - Glasgow
9 Black Sabbath - Birmingham
10 Rush - Toronto

In any order name the 10 countries that registered the most births in 2004

1 India
2 China
3 Nigeria
4 Indonesia
5 Pakistan
6 Bangladesh
7 USA
8 Brazil
9 Democratic Republic of Congo
10 Ethiopia

Identify the female singers from their initials. Back in the 1950s they were the first 10 women to top the UK singles charts

1 JS - Jo Stafford
2 KS - Kay Starr
3 LR - Lita Roza
4 DD - Doris Day
5 KK - Kitty Kallen
6 VL - Vera Lynn
7 RC - Rosemary Clooney
8 RM - Ruby Murray
9 AC - Alma Cogan
10 AS - Anne Shelton


Identify the teenage brides of the following from their initials

1 Roger Vadim BB - Brigitte Bardot
2 Maxwell Reed JC - Joan Collins
3 Dennis Hamilton DD - Diana Dors
4 Don Johnson MG - Melanie Griffith
5 James DeBarge JJ - Janet Jackson
6 James Dougherty MM - Marilyn Monroe
7 Conrad Hilton ET - Elizabeth Taylor
8 John Agar ST - Shirley Temple
9 Frank Wallace MW - Mae West
10 Euple Byrd TW - Tammy Wynette

INITIAL THOUGHTS
What does the …

1 C stand for in the name of Mel C? - Chisholm
2 J stand for in the name of JM Barrie? - James
3 W stand for in the name of WC Fields? - William
4 F stand for in the name of F Scott Fitzgerald? - Frances
5 J stand for in the name of J Edgar Hoover? - John
6 J stand for in the name of JK Rowling? - Joanne
7 W stand for in the name of FW Woolworth? - Winfield
8 F stand for in the name of John F Kennedy? - Fitzgerald
9 M stand for in the name of Richard M Nixon? - Milhous
10 D stand for in the name of KD Lang? - Dawn

Identify the movie stars from their real names

1 Frederick Austerlitz - Fred Astaire
2 Krishna Bhanji - Ben Kingsley
3 Frances Gumm - Judy Garland
4 Margaret Hyra - Meg Ryan
5 Jerome Silberman - Gene Wilder
6 Julia Wells - Julie Andrews
7 Maurice Micklewhite - Michael Caine
8 Thomas Mapother IV - Tom Cruise
9 Bernard Schwartz - Tony Curtis
10 Ruby Stevens - Barbara Stanwyck


FILM ROLES
Name the famous person played by…

1 Virginia McKenna in Born Free - Joy Adamson
2 Emilio Estevez in Young Guns - Billy the Kid
3 Harvey Keitel in The Last Temptation of Christ - Judas
4 Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland - JM Barrie
5 Mel Gibson in Braveheart - William Wallace
6 Nicole Kidman in The Hours - Virginia Woolf
7 Ewan McGregor in Nora - James Joyce
8 Paul Bettany in A Knight’s Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
9 Ingrid Bergman in The Inn Of Sixth Happiness - Gladys Aylward
10 Bill Maynard in Carry On Henry - Guy Fawkes

LEADERS OF THE GANG
Identify the lead singers of the following pop groups

1 The Animals - Eric Burdon
2 Heaven 17 - Glenn Gregory
3 The Lightning Seeds - Ian Broudie
4 M People - Heather Small
5 REM - Michael Stipe
6 Altered Images - Claire Grogan
7 Sweet - Brian Connolly
8 T’Pau - Carol Decker
9 Coldplay - Chris Martin
10 Foreigner - Lou Gramm

THE TOP 100 SITCOMS
Identify the British sitcoms from their initials, all 10 of which featured in the Top 100 as voted for by the British public in 2004

1 OAH - Open All Hours
2 AFR - A Fine Romance
3 EDC - Ever Decreasing Circles
4 MBB - Men Behaving Badly
5 OWIL - Only When I Laugh
6 TDUDP - Till Death Us Do Part
7 MATH - Man About The House
8 MWND - My Wife Next Door
9 FDF - Father Dear Father
10 ATGB - As Time Goes By


Who recorded the following best selling albums in the UK in each of the given years?

1 2003 Life For Rent - Dido
2 2002 Escapology - Robbie Williams
3 2000 1 - Beatles
4 1999 Come On Over - Shania Twain
5 1998 Talking On Corners - Corrs
6 1997 Be Here Now - Oasis
7 1996 Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morissette
8 1994 Cross Roads, The Best of - Bon Jovi
9 1993 Bat Out Of Hell II - Meat Loaf
10 1992 Stars - Simply Red

Identify the Best Film Oscar winners from the initials of the movies

1 DMD - Driving Miss Daisy
2 WSS - West Side Story
3 ATWIED - Around The World In Eighty Days
4 MC - Midnight Cowboy
5 COF - Chariots Of Fire
6 FHTE - From Here To Eternity
7 FG - Forrest Gump
8 SIL - Shakespeare In Love
9 HGWMV - How Green Was My Valley
10 IHON - It Happened One Night

Who were the original presenters of the following TV shows?

1 Ask The Family - Robert Robinson
2 The Crystal Maze - Richard O’Brien
3 Catchphrase - Roy Walker
4 Blockbusters - Bob Holness
5 Stars In Their Eyes - Leslie Crowther
6 Busman’s Holiday - Julian Pettifer
7 Juke Box Jury - David Jacobs
8 You’ve Been Framed - Jeremy Beadle
9 A Question Of Sport - David Vine
10 The Golden Shot - Jackie Rae