October 2005 Speed Quizzes 2
TO BATTLE
In which wars were the following battles contested?
1 Barnet
2 Jutland
3 Lexington
4 Trafalgar
5 Agincourt
6 Sevastopol
7 Midway
8 Bull Run
9 Naseby
10 Alicante
GROUP THERAPY
Identify the pop groups from their original names.
1 The Frantic Elevators
2 The Invaders
3 The High Numbers
4 The Supersonic Bangs
5 The Primettes
6 The New Yardbirds
7 The Quarrymen
8 Carl & the Passions
9 The Mars Bars
10 The Engaged Couples
HOME ON THE RANGE
In which range are the following the highest mountains?
1 Aconcagua
2 Shishaldin
3 Mount Aneto
4 Everest
5 Mount Elbert
6 Gora Narodnaya
7 Corno Grande
8 Mount McKinley
9 Mont Blanc
10 Jebel Toubkal
Answers for To Battle
1 War of the Roses
2 World War I
3 American War of Independence
4 Napoleonic Wars
5 100 Years War
6 Crimean War
7 World War II
8 US Civil War
9 English Civil War
10 War of Spanish Succession
Answers for Group Therapy
1 Simply Red
2 Madness
3 The Who
4 The Bangles
5 The Supremes
6 Led Zeppelin
7 The Beatles
8 The Beach Boys
9 Gerry and the Pacemakers
10 Abba
Answers for Home on the Range
1 Andes
2 Aleutians
3 Pyrenees
4 Himalayas
5 The Rockies
6 Urals
7 Appalachians
8 Alaska Range
9 Alps
10 Atlas
POETRY IN MOTION
Who penned the following poems?
1 The Charge of the Light Brigade
2 The Raven
3 If
4 Don Juan
5 The Song of Hiawatha
6 Ode to a Nightingale
7 Paradise Lost
8 The Pied Piper of Hamelin
9 Tam O’Shanter
10 A Shropshire Lad
A SET OF NOVELS
Identify the classic novels from one of their characters
1 Napoleon the pig
2 Michael Henchard
3 Jerry Cruncher
4 Rikki Tikki Tavi
5 Jean Valjean
6 Bathsheba Everdene
7 Archdeacon Frollo
8 Captain Ahab
9 Tom Joad
10 Holden Caulfield
CAPITAL M’s
Identify the capitals of the following – all 10 begin with the letter M
1 Spain
2 Liberia
3 Philippines
4 Maldives
5 Uruguay
6 Oman
7 Russia
8 Swaziland
9 Somalia
10 Mozambique
Answers for Poetry in Motion
1 Alfred Lord Tennyson
2 Edgar Allan Poe
3 Rudyard Kipling
4 George Byron
5 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
6 John Keats
7 John Milton
8 Robert Browning
9 Robert Burns
10 AE Houseman
Answers for a Set of Novels
1 Animal Farm
2 The Mayor of Casterbridge
3 A Tale of Two Cities
4 The Jungle Book
5 Les Miserables
6 Far From the Madding Crowd
7 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
8 Moby Dick
9 The Grapes of Wrath
10 Catcher in the Rye
Answers for Capital M’s
1 Madrid
2 Monrovia
3 Manila
4 Male
5 Montevideo
6 Muscat
7 Moscow
8 Mbabane
9 Mogadishu
10 Maputo
WHICH SONGS FROM THE FOLLOWING FILMS WON BEST
SONG OSCAR?
1 Titanic
2 Working Girl
3 White Nights
4 Breakfast at Tiffany’s
5 The Lion King
6 Dirty Dancing
7 Top Gun
8 Dr Doolittle
9 Aladdin
10 The Wizard of Oz
A NIGHT AT THE OPERA –WHO COMPOSED THE
FOLLOWING?
1 Aida
2 Fidelio
3 The Rake’s Progress
4 La Boheme
5 Orlando Furioso
6 The Thieving Magpie
7 The Flying Dutchman
8 Carmen
9 Orpheus in the Underworld
10 Cosi fan tutte
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL – WHO PENNED THE FOLLOWING
AUTOBIOGRAPHIES?
1 My Wicked Wicked Ways
2 Mein Kampf
3 Where’s The Rest of Me?
4 Where Have All The Bullets Gone?
5 From a Bundle of Rags
6 The Ragman’s Son
7 Arias and Raspberries
8 No Minor Chords
9 As It Happens
10 Jack of All Trades
IDENTIFY THE ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER MUSICALS
FROM ONE OF THE SONGS
1 No Matter What
2 I Don’t Know How To Love Him
3 Memory
4 Any Dream Will Do
5 Music of the Night
6 Love Changes Everything
7 Don’t Cry For Me Argentina
8 Light at the End of the Tunnel
9 Let Us Love In Peace
10 The Perfect Year
Answers to Best Song Oscar
1 My Heart Will Go On
2 Let the River Run
3 Say You Say Me
4 Moon River
5 Can You Feel the Love Tonight?
6 Time of My Life
7 Take My Breath Away
8 Talk to the Animals
9 A Whole New World
10 Over The Rainbow
Answers to A Night at the Opera
1 Verdi
2 Beethoven
3 Stravinsky
4 Puccini
5 Vivaldi
6 Rossini
7 Wagner
8 Bizet
9 Offenbach
10 Mozart
Answers to Autobiographical
1 Errol Flynn
2 Adolf Hitler
3 Ronald Reagan
4 Spike Milligan
5 Jim Bowen
6 Kirk Douglas
7 Harry Secombe
8 Andre Previn
9 Jimmy Savile
10 Jack Warner
Answers to Lloyd Webber Musicals
1 Whistle Down the Wind
2 Jesus Christ Superstar
3 Cats
4 Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat
5 Phantom of the Opera
6 Aspects of Love
7 Evita
8 Starlight Express
9 The Beautiful Game
10 Sunset Boulevard