TV Tunes

Identify the TV shows from the title of their theme songs/tunes
 

1 The Ballad of Jed Clampett

2 Handbags and Gladrags

3 Its Cold Outside

4 The Good Ol’ Boys

5 I’m Profoundly In Love With Pandora

6 Three Stars Will Shine Tonight

7 Approaching Menace

8 The Liberty Bell March

9 Who Do You Think You Are Kidding Mr Hitler

10 Stone Fox Chase

Pop Stars on Screen

Which chart topping artist appeared in the following films?

1 Mrs Henderson Presents

2 The Delinquents

3 Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence

4 Kid Galahad

5 Lady Sings the Blues

6 Waiting To Exhale

7 Monster In Law

8 A League of Their Own

9 Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare

10 The Life of Brian

Think of a Number

Identify the songs from their lyrics. All 10 songs have a number in the title

1 And as life travels on and things do go wrong

2 She took me to a café, I asked her if she would stay

3 Make a new plan Stan

4 Thunder in the air and the sky turned grey

5 In 1965 Vietnam seemed just like another foreign war

6 Don’t drink don’t smoke

7 My little tomboy now wears satin and lace

8 The war machine springs to life

9 Double bell euphoniums and big bassoons

10 A simple prop to occupy my time

Answers to TV Show Themes

1 The Beverly Hillbillies

2 The Office

3 Red Dwarf

4 The Dukes of Hazzard

5 The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

6 Dr Kildare

7 Mastermind

8 Monty Python

9 Dad’s Army

10 The Old Grey Whistle Test

Answers to Pop Stars on Film

1 Will Young

2 Kylie Minogue

3 David Bowie

4 Elvis Presley

5 Diana Ross

6 Whitney Houston

7 Jennifer Lopez

8 Madonna

9 Alice Cooper, playing Freddy’s father

10 George Harrison

Answers to Think of a Number

1 Three Steps to Heaven

2 Twenty Four Hours From Tulsa

3 Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover

4 Swords of a Thousand Men

5 19

6 Goody Two Shoes

7 Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen

8 99 Red Balloons

9 76 Trombones

10 The One I Love

Eponymously Speaking

Which famous men were the following places named after?

1 Bolivia

2 Tasmania

3 Rhodesia

4 Sao Paulo

5 Pittsburgh

6 Alexandria

7 Telford

8 Pennsylvania

9 Baffin Island

10 Jacksonville

Only the Good Die Young

Identify the famous people from their initials and the information given

1 ST murdered aged 26 in 1969

2 SS founder member of The Beatles who died aged 21 in 1962

3 CM stabbed to death aged 29 in 1593

4 BH cricket star killed in a car crash aged 24 in 2002

5 LJG beheaded aged 16 in 1554

6 JJ singer died of an overdose aged 27 in 1970

7 LB British athlete died of cancer aged 22 in 1970

8 IC lead singer of Joy Division who committed suicide aged 23 in 1980

9 AF diarist who died of typhus aged 15 in 1945

10 JK poet who died of tuberculosis aged 25 in 1821

Driving My Car

Which TV shows/films feature cars with the following registration plates?

1 ECTO 1

2 PAT 1

3 OUTATIME

4 J 1610

5 248 RPA

6 FAB 1

7 De Vil

8 AU 1

9 GEN 11

10 ST

Answers to Eponymously Speaking

1 Simon Bolivar

2 Abel Tasman

3 Cecil Rhodes

4 St Paul

5 William Pitt the Elder

6 Alexander the Great

7 Thomas Telford

8 William Penn

9 William Baffin

10 Andrew Jackson

Answers to Only the Good Die Young

1 Sharon Tate

2 Stuart Sutcliffe

3 Christopher Marlowe

4 Ben Hollioake

5 Lady Jane Grey

6 Janis Joplin

7 Lillian Board

8 Ian Curtis

9 Anne Frank

10 John Keats

Answers to Driving My Car

1 Ghostbusters

2 Postman Pat

3 Back to the Future

4 Bergerac

5 Inspector Morse

6 Thunderbirds

7 101 Dalmatians

8 Goldfinger

9 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

10 The Saint

Lets Go Round Again

Identify the film series from two of their sequels

1 Return of the Jedi and Attack of the Clones

2 Jason Lives and The Final Chapter

3 Goes to Monte Carlo and Goes Bananas

4 The Curse of Michael Myers and Resurrection

5 Dream Warriors and The Dream Child

6 Generations and The Voyage Home

7 The Evil Escapes and The Possession

8 Fields of Terror and Isaacs Return

9 A Shot in the Dark and The Trail Of

10 Back in Training and City Under Siege

Tongue Trivia

What are the official first languages of the following countries?

1 Austria

2 Jamaica

3 Sudan

4 Senegal

5 Surinam

6 Brazil

7 Belarus

8 Bangladesh

9 Ecuador

10 San Marino

Words Across the Ocean

What are the American terms for the following foodstuffs?

1 Jam

2 Aubergine

3 Swede

4 Biscuit

5 Avocado

6 Candy floss

7 Courgette

8 Ice lolly

9 Cream cracker

10 Sweet potato

Answers to Film Sequels

1 Star Wars

2 Friday the 13th

3 Herbie/ The Love Bug

4 Halloween

5 Nightmare on Elm Street

6 Star Trek

7 The Amityville Horror

8 Children of the Corn

9 Pink Panther

10 Police Academy

Answers to First Languages

1 German

2 English

3 Arabic

4 French

5 Dutch

6 Portuguese

7 Russian

8 Bengali

9 Spanish

10 Italian

Answers to Americanisms

1 Jelly

2 Eggplant

3 Rutabaga

4 Cookie

5 Alligator pear

6 Cotton candy

7 Zucchini

8 Popsicle

9 Soda cracker

10 Yam

Born Where?

In which countries were the following people born?

1 Russell Crowe

2 Roger Federer

3 Sophia Loren

4 Marcel Desailly

5 Nana Mouskouri

6 Gabriela Sabatini

7 John McEnroe

8 Jose Carreras

9 Marie Antoinette

10 Sandi Toksvig

B Movies

Identify the films beginning with B from the short clues given

1 1984 film featuring a lead character called Axel Foley

2 2001 film depicting the Battle of Mogadishu

3 Starred Robin Williams as the robotic Andrew Martin

4 1955 film that introduced the song Rock Around the Clock

5 Disney tear jerker based on a novel by Felix Salten

6 1995 film in which Patrick McGoohan played Edward I

7 Film starring Julie Walters as a dance instructor called Mrs Wilkinson

8 2005 sequel to Get Shorty

9 Film chronicling the homosexual love affair of Ennis del Mar and Jack Twist

10 Film with the tag line of “Friends come and go but there’s always one you’re stuck with for life”

100 Million Plus

In any order list the only eleven countries in the world that have a population in excess of 100 million

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Answers to Born Where

1 New Zealand

2 Switzerland

3 Italy

4 Ghana

5 Greece

6 Argentina

7 West Germany

8 Spain

9 Austria

10 Denmark

Answers to B Movies

1 Beverly Hills Cop

2 Black Hawk Down

3 Bicentennial Man

4 Blackboard Jungle

5 Bambi

6 Braveheart

7 Billy Elliot

8 Be Cool

9 Brokeback Mountain

10 Beaches
 

Answers to Populations of 100 Million Plus

1 China

2 India

3 USA

4 Indonesia

5 Brazil

6 Pakistan

7 Russia

8 Bangladesh

9 Nigeria

10 Japan

11 Mexico