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Themed Quiz 10 – ANSWERS CONTAIN A FOOTBALL TERM – FreeQuiz4000




Themed Quiz 10 – ANSWERS CONTAIN A FOOTBALL TERM – FreeQuiz4000

  1. Which song won an Oscar for the film Top Gun -- Take My Breath Away
  2. Which Prime Minister attended the funeral of President John F Kennedy -- Alec Douglas-Home
  3. What is the best man called at a royal wedding – Supporter
  4. What would a table that was made in halves that could be drawn apart be called -- Draw table
  5. In police jargon what is an APB -- All Points Bulletin
  6. What was Shayne Ward's 2005 number one -- That's My Goal
  7. What is the term used to describe a number of universities in North East USA with high social prestige -- Ivy League
  8. What did the Americans change the name of Murder on the Orient Express to -- Murder on the Calais Coach
  9. Tesco has its Club Card but which chain of shops has an Advantage Card – Boots
  10. What is Bart Simpsons catchphrase -- Eat my shorts
  11. Matthew Thompson who worked in a jobcentre won an employment tribunal decision in march 2003 when it was deemed sexual discrimination took place when he was being forced to wear what item of clothing – Tie
  12. Where was Jean-Paul Marat when he was murdered by Charlotte Corday -- In his bath
  13. When London police were known as Peelers they wore hard hats to protect their heads to what other use were these hats often put -- To stand on to look over walls
  14. What sporting event from the Pickwick Papers was featured on a £10 note -- Cricket match
  15. In 1942 women were allowed to enter the Vatican without wearing which item of clothing – Stockings
  16. What was One hit wonder Canadian singer Dan Hill's only chart entry -- When We Touch
  17. What is the distance between the thread ridges of a screw or bolts called -- The Pitch
  18. What was added to British banknotes in 1940 -- Metal strip
  19. As a hobby what would a pucillovist collect (we all probably have at least one) -- Egg cups
  20. Before Swedish actors go on stage, what do they do for a dose of good luck -- Someone kicks them in the backside

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Themed Quiz 9 – ANSWERS CONTAIN A CREATURE – FreeQuiz4000

Creatures

ALL THE ANSWERS CONTAIN A CREATURE!

1 A CROSSWAY (anagram of a creature) -- Cassowary
2 What animal did The Byrds take into the UK top twenty of 1971 -- Chestnut Mare
3 In the TV police series Viewpoint who plays Gemma Hillman -- Amy Wren
4 For his part in which 1991 film did Anthony Hopkins win the Oscar for best actor -- Silence of the Lambs
5 Which 2010 film stars Mila Kunis as Lily and Natalie Portman as Nina Sayers -- Black Swan
6 Who was Radio One's first female disc jockey -- Annie Nightingale
7 Who is the leader of the Scottish National Party -- Humza Yousaf
8 How was retired gunfighter Clint Eastwood trying to earn a living in the film The Unforgiven -- Pig farmer
9 Who was the only British female to have three top ten hits in the UK and the USA in the eighties -- Samantha Fox
10 Which pompous character was played by Frank Thornton in the TV sitcom Are You Being Served -- Captain Peacock
11 In the TV crime series Luther who played Megan Cantor -- Laura Haddock
12 Which now deceased ex member of the government had been the Glasgow Herald's racing tipster -- Robin Cook
13 Who is the Country and Western singer whose hits included 'I Love a Rainy Night' -- Eddie Rabbitt
14 What was the name given to the fictional squadron in the eighties TV series 'A Piece of Cake' -- Hornet Squadron
15 What charitable organisation was founded by Melvin Jones in 1917 -- The Lions Club
16 In which film, does William Fichtner play SFC Jeff Sanderson who is one of the soldiers caught in a dangerous situation in a foreign land -- Black Hawk Down
17 Who is or was the leader of Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales -- Ben Weasel
18 In the TV series 'No Offence' who played DSI Darren Maclaren -- Colin Salmon
19 What was the name of Arthur Dent's local in 'The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy' -- The Horse and Groom
20 Which 1983 film had Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger out to get David Carradine -- Lone Wolf McQuade

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Themed Quiz 8 – ANSWERS CONTAIN A COLOUR – FreeQuiz4000




Themed Quiz 8 – ANSWERS CONTAIN A COLOUR – FreeQuiz4000

ALL THE ANSWERS CONTAIN A COLOUR

1 Which fictional character lived at Blakeney Hall -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
2 Which character killed Kerim Bey in the Bond film From Russia with Love -- Red Grant
3 Who directed the 2000 film The Golden Bowl that starred Uma Thurman James Ivory
4 What is the name of the Highland dance based on a song written by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop in the eighteen twenties devised for two groups of three people and is often danced on graduation nights at military establishments -- The Dashing White Sergeant
5 A Shot In The Dark was the sequel to which film -- The Pink Panther
6 According to a 1997 film what is the name of the organisation that monitors aliens in New York City -- Men In Black
7 Alex DeLarge was the villain in which film -- A Clockwork Orange (1971)
8 In which 1950 film did Jack Warner first play George Dixon -- The Blue Lamp
9 In which 1999 film did Tom Hanks play a death row prison guard called Paul Edgecomb -- The Green Mile
10 In which film did Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence play a pair of dance competitors -- Silver Linings Playbook
11 The film Comfort and Joy set in Glasgow concerned rivalry between which business -- Ice cream sellers
12 What are the Oscars made from -- Gold plated Britannium
13 Which animated film takes place in Pepperland -- Yellow Submarine
14 Which former American football star appeared in The Dirty Dozen -- Jim Brown
15 Which Woody Allen film starring Mia Farrow with a flower in the title won the BAFTA for best film in 1986 -- The Purple Rose of Cairo
16 Who was the pianist on the radio show Have a go Joe -- Violet Carson
17 Which film studio did Roger Rabbit work for -- Maroon Studios
18 What was the name of Sexton Blake's Rolls Royce -- The Grey Panther
19 In which Ealing comedy did Alec Guinness play Dutch Holland -- The Lavender Hill Mob
20 In which 1952 film did Burt Lancaster play Captain Vallo -- The Crimson Pirate

Themed Quiz 7 –Oldies 4 the Oldies – FreeQuiz400

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Themed Quiz 7 –Oldies 4 the Oldies – FreeQuiz400

Oldies 4 the Oldies
1 What was the best-selling single in Britain in the year 1959 - Living Doll (Cliff Richard)
2 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with See You Later Alligator - Bill Haley & His Comets
3 Which American crooner had a number one in the fifties with Magic Moments - Perry Como
4 Which fifties singer was billed as the girl with the giggle in her voice - Alma Cogan
5 Which group had a UK top ten hit with Oh Boy in 1957 - Crickets
6 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with The Glow Worm - Mills Brothers
7 Who released an album in 1958 titled One Dozen Berrys - Chuck Berry
8 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with The Great Pretender - The Platters
9 Who had a number one in the fifties with When - The Kalin Twins
10 Which future chart topper compered the Buddy Holly and the Crickets UK Tour in 1958 - Des O'Connor
11 Which female singer had a top ten hit in 1959 with Lipstick On Your Collar - Connie Francis
12 Who sang the theme to the 1950s film 3:10 to Yuma - Frankie Laine
13 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" - Jerry Lee Lewis
14 Which song first released in 1957 took twenty nine years to get to number one in the UK - Reet Petite
15 Who was the lead singer with fifties soul band The Soul Stirrers - Sam Cooke
16 Which British comedian had a chart entry in 1957 with Any Old Iron - Peter Sellers
17 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with C'mon Everybody - Eddie Cochran
18 Which actor had a top twenty hit in 1954 with West of Zanzibar - Anthony Steele and the Radio Revellers
19 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with All the Way - Frank Sinatra
20 Which American had a top ten hit in the fifties with Pretty Little Black Eyed Suzie - Guy Mitchell

 

Themed Quiz 6 – 80’s Music – FreeQuiz400

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Themed Quiz 6 – 80’s Music – FreeQuiz400

Eighties Music

1 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Puss 'n' Boots -- Adam Ant
2 Which song from the film Arthur won the Oscar for best song in 1981 -- Best That You Can Do
3 What was the name of Patsy Kensit's group with which they had a top ten hit in 1988 -- Eighth Wonder (I'm not Scared)
4 Which band was Eddi Reader with in the late eighties -- Fairground Attraction
5 Which eighties band recorded a song about Doctor Who actor Tom Baker -- Human League
6 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Happy Birthday -- Altered Images
7 Which arty eighties band used to be called 1919 -- Bauhaus
8 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Layla -- Derek and the Dominoes
9 Shostakovitch’s Prelude Number 15 was used as the theme for which eighties TV sitcom that starred Peter Egan and Richard Briers -- Ever Decreasing Circles
10 Who was the lead singer with the eighties Scottish band Hipsway -- Grahame Skinner
11 Heartsong by Gordon Giltrap was used as the theme for which TV series in the eighties -- Holiday
12 What song did Smokey Robinson release in the eighties to celebrate his silver anniversary in show business and it became a UK number one -- Being With You
13 Which American group taped the first 3-D rock video in 1983 -- Aerosmith
14 Which American musical first produced for Broadway in 1980 by David Merrick, tells the story of famed director Julian Marsh's attempt to stage a successful musical in the height of the Great Depression -- 42nd Street
15 Anne Dudley was a keyboards player with which eighties band -- Art of Noise
16 Who won the Eurovision song contest in 1988 with Ne Partez Pas Sans Moi -- Céline Dion (Switzerland)
17 Which eighties number one was about the love between a teacher and pupil -- Don't Stand So Close to Me
18 In which 1986 musical would we find the characters Crepes Suzette and Vendice Partners -- Absolute Beginners
19 Who launched the Really Useful Company in 1986 -- Andrew Lloyd Webber
20 Who had an eighties top ten hit with Rabbit -- Chas & Dave

Themed Quiz 5 – 70’s Music – FreeQuiz400

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Themed Quiz 5 - 70’s Music

70’s Music

1. Bobby Farrell, Marcia Barrett, Liz Mitchell and Maisie Williams were which chart topping group of the seventies -- Boney M
2. In 1976 who sang the song that told the story of stealing a car from an assembly line "One Piece at a Time” -- Johnny Cash
3. In the seventies, which group had the most number one hit singles in the UK -- ABBA
4. Which country were the seventies group Middle of the Road from -- Scotland
5. Who had a number one in the seventies with My Ding a Ling -- Chuck Berry
6. 'There she stood in the street. Smiling from her head to her feet' are lyrics from which seventies hit -- All Right Now – Free
7. Which American group recorded the albums Slippery When Wet and New Jersey in the seventies -- Bon Jovi
8. Which American female singer was backed in the seventies by the Full Tilt Boogie Band -- Janis Joplin
9. More Than A Woman was a hit for which group in the seventies -- Tavares
10. Founded in 1973, what English independent record label named itself after a 1968 album by The Rolling Stones -- Beggars Banquet
11. Britain's 1973 Eurovision song entry was Mary Anne, what group sang it -- Black Lace
12. At which British band's concert were 11 people trampled to death in Ohio in 1979 -- The Who
13. Glenn Hughes replaced Roger Glover on bass in which band in 1973 -- Deep Purple
14. Where was Patsy Gallant travelling to and from in her seventies hit song -- From New York to LA
15. Which seventies group was abbreviated to AWB -- Average White Band
16. Complete the name of the 1970s group Sutherland Brothers and ... -- Quiver
17. In 1974 which American band embarked on The Torture Tour -- Lynyrd Skynyrd
18. Which children's toy was a hit for Clodagh Rodgers in the seventies -- Jack in the Box
19. How did Paul Williams of The Temptations die in the seventies -- Shot himself in his car
20. With which David Bowie song did Peter Noone have a seventies hit -- Oh You Pretty Thing

Themed Quiz 4 – 60’s Music

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Themed Quiz 4 - 60’s Music

60’s Music

1. Phil Collins had a hit with Groovy Kind Of Love, who had the original hit in the sixties -- The Mindbenders
2. What was the first instrumental to go to the top in the UK in the sixties -- Apache
3. What was the only number one of the sixties to have a soft fruit in the title -- Blackberry Way
4. Which sixties quintet were said to have the Tottenham sound -- The Dave Clarke Five
5. Who had a UK sixties hit with Like a Rolling Stone -- Bob Dylan
6. With which successful sixties band did Van Morrison play before going solo -- Them
7. What colour was the Island record label in the sixties -- Pink
8. Which British keyboards player and singer had a top twenty hit in the sixties with Sunny -- Georgie Fame
9. Who was Carole King's song writing partner in the sixties -- Gerry Goffin
10. British singer David Clayton-Thomas was front man for which American sixties band -- Blood, Sweat and Tears
11. What was the everyday job of most of the sixties group the Honeycombs -- Hairdressers
12. What was the name of Chris Farlowe's backing group on his sixties number one Out Of Time -- Thunderbirds
13. Who had a hit in the sixties with Midnight In Moscow -- Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen
14. Who was the male star of the sixties musical film Half A Sixpence -- Tommy Steele
15. How old was Helen Shapiro when she took Don't Treat Me Like A Child to the top three in the sixties -- Fourteen
16. In which organisation were The Joy Strings who had top forty hits in the sixties -- Salvation Army
17. The Seventh Earl of Cricklewood was the leader of which sixties group -- New Vaudeville Band
18. Which American all girl group toured with The Rolling Stones in the early sixties -- The Ronettes
19. Which former Emmerdale actor was a drummer with the sixties group The Dennisons -- Clive Hornsby
20. With which girl's name in the title did Donovan and the Hollies have hits with in the sixties -- Jennifer (Eccles and Juniper)

Themed Quiz 3 – 50s Music Quiz

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Themed Quiz 3 - 50’s Music

Had a request from Herman H for a 50's Music quiz. Here it is:

1 Who had a number one in the fifties with ‘What Do You Want’ -- Adam Faith
2 Which style of music was created in the late fifties by Antônio Carlos Jobim and João Gilberto in Brazil -- Bossa Nova
3 Whose orchestra had a fifties hit with 'The Faithful Hussar' -- Ted Heath
4 What was the original name of the Bobbettes who had a hit in the fifties with 'Mr Lee' -- The Harlem Queens
5 According to the fifties song what was Running Bear's Indian girlfriend called -- Little White Dove
6 Who had a UK top ten hit in the fifties with 'Guitar Boogie Shuffle' -- Bert Weedon
7 Which American singer of the fifties always wore white bucks (white shoes) -- Pat Boone
8 What name was given to the country music style of the fifties of artists including Patsy Cline, Tammy Wynette, Jim Reeves and Charlie Rich -- Nashville Sound
9 Rudy Pompilli played saxophone in which fifties and sixties band -- Bill Haley and the Comets
10 Who had a top ten hit in the fifties with Rachmaninov's 18th Variation on a Theme By Paganini (The Story of Three Loves) -- Winifred Atwell
11 'Here's a certain couple that I know. They're strictly lovebirds, A pair of turtle dove birds' are lyrics from which fifties TV theme -- I Love Lucy
12 What job had the fifties American singing Group The Ink Spots been doing before they became famous - Railway porters
13 Who had a UK instrumental top ten hit in the fifties with 'Peter Gunn' -- Duane Eddy
14 Jacky Landry Jackson and Lois Harris were members of which fifties group -- The Chantels
15 'In the Wee Small Hours' was a fifties album by whom -- Frank Sinatra
16 What was the name of the band that George Melly played with in the fifties -- Mick Mulligan's Magnolia Jazz Band
17 Who had a UK top ten in the fifties with ‘Main Title Theme’ from The Man with the Golden Arm -- Billy May
18 Which fifties and sixties crooner was often called the singing barber -- Perry Como
19 Nick Reynolds, Bob Shane and Dave Guard were the original members of which fifties and sixties American trio -- The Kingston Trio
20 Who owned the legendary Sun record label of Memphis in the fifties -- Sam Phillips

Themed Quiz 2 – BODY PARTS

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Themed Quiz 2 – BODY PARTS

Fun Quiz - There's a body part in every answer!

1. Jill Craigie was the wife of which former Labour Party leader -- Michael Foot
2. In awkward what does awk mean -- Left hand
3. On sale in the twentieth century what were Zubes -- Throat pastilles
4. Which film had a device known as a flux-capacitor -- Back to the Future
5. What in furniture parlance is a tallboy -- Chest of drawers
6. The Chocolate Soldier is a musical version of which play by George Bernard Shaw -- Arms and the Man
7. In the TV sitcom Just Good Friends which bookie did Vince work for -- Eddie Brains
8. What was the name of the 2010 BBC3 series about a group of lesbians living in Glasgow -- Lip Service
9. What type of sleeves were popular in the 1890s -- Leg of Mutton
10. In which film did Harvey Keitel play a concert pianist -- Fingers
11. What was the only UK number one for Rednex -- Cotton Eye Joe
12. One of the most effective and efficient forms of marketing is abbreviated to the initials WOM; what is it -- Word Of Mouth
13. Madonna and David Letterman both have a diastema, what is it -- Gap in the teeth
14. What day is named after Biblical accounts of crowds laying cloaks and branches on Christ's path into Jerusalem -- Palm Sunday
15. What general term is used by the English Tourist Board for the area of England that comprises The Cotswolds, the Marches and Shakespeare country -- Heart of England
16. Which fictional TV characters lived at Huskisson Street Liverpool -- The Liver Birds
17. What do stamp collectors understand by the initials OG -- Original gum
18. What is the name of the island that lies off the southern end of the Isle of Man -- Calf of Man
19. In medieval India, what was the most common punishment for people who committed adultery -- Nose cut off
20. Who had a top twenty hit in 2008 with Grounds for Divorce -- Elbow

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