Quiztime 'Summer' Quiz

1. In which summer was the Battle of Britain fought?
1940
2. What name is given to the heavy summer rains in Asia?
Monsoon
3. What is the name of the school in Home and Away?
Summer Bay High
4. Which 80's hit record contains the lyrics "Strange voices are saying, Things I can't understand, It's too close for comfort, This heat has got, Right out of hand"?
Cruel Summer - Bananarama
5. In 'The last of the Summer Wine' what was Nora's husband called?
Wally
6. Which American Olympic athlete won seven gold medals in the 1972 Summer Olympic Games?
Mark Spitz
- Which American male swimmer won five gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics?
Matt Biondi
7. Which country house in the south of England gives its name to a summer drink of claret, soda, and sugar?
Badminton
8. Whose summer palace is the Castel Gandolfo?
The Pope
9. Who has had UK top 20 hits in the 1970's and 1980's with all of the following titles: "I Don't Wanna Get Hurt", "Rumour Has It" and "Love Is In Control" and Bad Girls?
Donna Summer
10. Which summer visitor to Britain lives almost entirely in the air feeding and sleeping on the wing, and never alighting on the ground except by accident?
Swift
11. Which year of the 1970's was the 'summer of the drought'?
1976
12. Which summer month gave its name to an album by Eric Clapton?
August
13. What name is given to the longest day of the year?
Summer Solstice
14. Which 60's hit record contained the lyrics "All that summer we enjoyed it, Wind and rain and shine"?
Bus Stop - Hollies
15. What was Jamie Summers alter ego called?
Bionic Woman
16. What colour to Chelsea Pensioners wear in the summer?
Red
17. What name is given to a climate characterised by extreme cold winters and warm summers?
'Continental' (climate)
18. Which pop band had the 1970 best-selling single "In the Summertime"?
Mungo Jerry
19. Which actor connects “Last of the Summer Wine” with “Wallace & Gromit”?
Peter Sallis
20. The Korean soup ‘Poshintang’ is a popular item on summertime menus, but is made from what?
Dogs

21. Family Fortunes Question - Top Answer Required - Something Worn in the Summer?
Swimsuit or Bikini - Shorts - T-Shirt - Hat – Sunglasses
22. In Shakespeare's Mid summer nights Dream, who was ‘King of the Fairies’?
Oberon
23. On what day of the year is the summer solstice?
June 21st
24. Name the song - 'Every summer we can rent a cottage on the Isle of Wight if it's not too dear'?
When I'm Sixty-Four - the Beatles
25. Only five countries have sent athletes to every one of the modern Summer Olympics. Can you name them?
Greece / Great Britain / France / Switzerland / Australia
26. Summertime and It Ain’t Necessarily So are songs from which musical?
Porgy & Bess
27. Which was the only Eastern bloc country not to boycott the 1984 Summer Olympic Games? Romania
28. In the film Summer Holiday Cliff and his mates drive a bus from Hertfordshire to which European country?
Greece (Athens)
29. 'The summer of the shark' was the original title of which novel?
Jaws
30. According to the proverb, what does not make a summer?
One Swallow
31. Where were the 1906 summer olympics held?
Athens, Greece
32. Which group featuring John Sebastien was responsible for the million-selling song "Summer in the City"?
The Lovin' Spoonful
33. What is the term for mild weather in late Autumn?
Indian Summer
34. Which song contains the lyric: “Sunny day, fly away, English summers are gone”?
January - Pilot
35. What Did The Queen Of Hearts Do On A Summer Day?
Made Her Tarts
36. Which film featured the song "Summer Nights"?
Grease
37. Which five grounds were used in last summer’s Ashes series against the Australians?
Lord's / Edgbaston / Old Trafford / Trent Bridge / The Oval
38. Which G is a summerhouse or garden pavilion?
Gazebo
39. In the UK, what term describes the time when clocks are kept one hour ahead of Greenwich Mean Time?
British Summer Time
40. Four cities whose name starts with the letter A have hosted a Summer Olympics - name the cities?
Athens, Antwerp, Amsterdam & Atlanta
- Name the 5 Summer Olympic venue’s to have hosted the Modern Olympic games that begin with the Letter “M”
Melbourne / Mexico / Munich / Montreal / Moscow
- Which country will host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games?
China - Beijing

Tiebreaker - Which Year - Cliff Richard releases the singles 'Bachelor Boy' and 'Summer Holiday', both from the soundtrack of his film Summer Holiday?
1963

QUIZTIME UK 2006