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Quizzes / Other Works Authored by darksplash
402.
  Free Electric Bandsman: The Albert Hammond Story   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Three hundred and sixty million record buyers can't be wrong - that's how many sales compositions by the singer/songwriter Albert Hammond have chalked since the 1960s. See how much you know about the man behind 30 chart-topping hits.
Average, 15 Qns, darksplash, May 12 09
Category: H
Average
darksplash
216 plays
403.
  Character Actors    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The curse of the actor is to be typecast - associated with one character all their career. Here are 10 actors who had multiple different starring roles. Identify them from their characters.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Sep 24 12
Category: Matching Character and Actor
Average
darksplash
828 plays
404.
  Bitter Butter is Bad   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Let's look at some facts and fun about this delicious, and healthy foodstuff.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Apr 09 23
Category: Thematic Dairy
Average
darksplash
Apr 09 23
435 plays
405.
  Around The World In Flighty Ways    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
Kyle the Kennel Boy (remember him?) had some money left from his lottery win and decided to go travelling again. Join him as he flies around the world in aircraft made in different countries.
Average, 15 Qns, darksplash, Jul 12 19
Category: Aircraft
Average
darksplash
Jul 12 19
161 plays
407.
  Rolling Stone's 500 "Greatest Albums" Part 37    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
In September 2020, "Rolling Stone" magazine updated their '500 Greatest Albums of All Time' list. In the top 150 we change our methodology: match singer or band to the album title or track from an eponymous album.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jun 11 21
Category: Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums
Average
darksplash
Jun 11 21
231 plays
408.
  Three Chords & The Truth: Some Country Artists    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
If you agree that country music is the people's music, speaking about real life and about truth and telling things how they really are, then find the truth in these 10 questions.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jun 24 22
Category: Classic Country
Average
darksplash
Jun 24 22
197 plays
409.
  A Tom Paxton Gallimaufry Vol. 2   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This 'coda' to the first Tom Paxton Gallimaufry continues the story of a songwriter whose music has entered the musical consciousness of America and is loved far and wide.
Average, 15 Qns, darksplash, Mar 20 08
Category: Paxton, Tom
Average
darksplash
202 plays
410.
  One Book Wonders & Second Time Flops   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Nearly anybody can write one novel, or so reckoned D.H. Lawrence. A second novel, he opined, was "a step farther". These questions are about those who never wrote a second novel, or whose second novels were flops.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jun 02 18
Category: Less Familiar Works
Average
darksplash
Jun 02 18
1284 plays
411.
  Death Comes To The Dales: Part II    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
"Emmerdale" became one of the most-watched soap operas on British television. In part two of our trilogy, match the characters who have died over the years to the 'headlines' from the local paper.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Nov 14 17
Category: Emmerdale
Average
darksplash
Nov 14 17
201 plays
412.
  Musical Generations    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Sometimes musical genius has encompassed more than one generation of a family. See what you know about some of them.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jun 18 19
Category: Name the Artist
Average
darksplash
Jun 18 19
275 plays
413.
  It's Tough On the Kid   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Not every child gets to follow in the footsteps of their parents. Those with famous parents can find it even harder. Find these 10 who chose a different path, or just had trouble reconciling their lives with their parents' fame.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Nov 15 19
Category: Friends & Relatives
Average
darksplash
Nov 15 19
229 plays
414.
  And The Times They Were A-Changin' - Side Two    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
From the clues work out who the singers were on eight Bob Dylan songs that appeared on side two of the covers disc "And The Times They Were A-Changin'". This quiz is completed by two bonus questions.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Feb 25 20
Category: Dylan, Bob
Average
darksplash
Feb 25 20
135 plays
415.
  Greatest British Inventions: Part One    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
British inventors have been at the forefront of scientific and engineering developments for centuries. Here are 10 to investigate.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Oct 06 20
Category: Inventions
Average
darksplash
Oct 06 20
415 plays
416.
  Songs Of The Century: Part 2, 10-1    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
From the annals of BMI, we look again at a smorgasbord of questions on the top songs of the 20th Century - based on US radio and television airplay.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Nov 21 20
Category: Best and Worst Lists
Average
darksplash
Nov 21 20
274 plays
417.
  The Songs Of Ani DiFranco    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Hailing out of Buffalo, New York, Ani DiFranco became a regular part of the folk-rock scene from the late 1980s. Find ten of her songs from the lyrics quoted.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jan 27 22
Category: DiFranco, Ani
Average
darksplash
Jan 27 22
63 plays
418.
  Also Known As: Soviet Aircraft And Their Aliases   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
From the start of the Cold War, Western forces began to give names to the Soviet aircraft they encountered - mainly because they did not know their real names. See how much you know about Soviet aircraft and the names that the NATO gave to them.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Aug 09 08
Category: Air Forces
Average
darksplash
666 plays
419.
  The Edge of Glory & Other 'Same Song' Tales   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
When Lady Gaga released 'The Edge of Glory', there were accusations it resembled another song. It's not an uncommon claim in music. Let's explore some of them.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 23 22
Category: Something in Common
Average
darksplash
Jul 23 22
298 plays
421.
  North America's Top Literary Cops   popular trivia quiz  
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Match these top literary cops to the places where the operated. *Note: some of the locations were changed in movie or TV adaptations, it is the book locations that are needed.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 23 16
Category: Places in Literature
Average
darksplash
204 plays
422.
  Andy Fairweather Low - Keeping On Rocking    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
From teenage hysteria to significant moments in rock history, the singer, songwriter and guitarist Andy Fairweather Low has seen it all. This is his story.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Aug 14 21
Category: F
Average
darksplash
Aug 14 21
78 plays
423.
  Sport on the Silver Screen    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Film-makers have often turned to the world of sport for ideas, sometimes with mixed results. See how many of these you can spot.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Nov 06 09
Category: Sports in Movies
Average
darksplash
2715 plays
424.
  Talking To The Beat    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Here are ten songs with with "talk" or "talking" in the title. Match the artists associated with them.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Oct 27 20
Category: Talking, Whistling, Humming in Songs
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darksplash
Oct 27 20
321 plays
425.
  Gentle Men    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Many have earned the sobriquet "a gentle man", but gentle can mean many things. From some of the synonyms of the word gentle, find these gentle men, or their connections.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Apr 01 19
Recommended for grades: 8,9,10,11,12
Category: Who Am I?
Average
darksplash
Apr 01 19
346 plays
426.
  Greatest British Inventions: Part Three    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The ingenuity of British people appears to know no bounds. In this quiz we continue to look at the creations of Britons that changed our world.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Dec 18 21
Category: Inventions
Average
darksplash
Dec 18 21
284 plays
427.
  Great Political Insults: Part 1   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Names will never hurt me: There's nothing better than a fine-honed insult to bring the 'great and the good' down to earth. Political life provided a rich harvest. See how many of the insulted, and the insulters, you can identify.
Tough, 10 Qns, darksplash, Nov 29 11
Category: Political Science & History
Tough
darksplash
1096 plays
428.
  What I Did On My Holidays    
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
What I did on my holidays was ski, mostly, but every now and then I would notice something that prompted this mixed bag of trivia questions.
Average, 15 Qns, darksplash, Mar 07 22
Category: Mixed 15 Questions
Average
darksplash
Mar 07 22
619 plays
429.
  Singing By Numbers: Coda, 11-20   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In this sequel, your task is to answer questions about songs with numbers in their titles, and the artists associated with them.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Aug 21 11
Category: Number Songs
Average
darksplash
435 plays
430.
  A US Gazetteer in Song - J to R    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Continuing our journey along the highways and byways of the USA, nine songs for nine locations alphabetically. The tenth question is a bonus. Match the performers to the song.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Apr 30 22
Category: Cities in Song
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darksplash
Apr 30 22
305 plays
431.
  Have I Got Newspapers For You!    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
Read all about it! Match these 10 fictional newspapers to the TV shows in which they have featured.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jan 02 18
Category: Thematic Media
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darksplash
Jan 02 18
290 plays
432.
  Comedy Kings: Dick Clement & Ian La Frenais    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais made up one of the top comedy-writing duos on British television: finding a success that brought them to the attention of the big screen and Hollywood
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 09 20
Category: UK Comedy
Average
darksplash
Jul 09 20
192 plays
433.
  Number Twos On The Christmas Charts    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
On the British pop music scene, having a number one single at Christmas is much sought after. Not all can be number one though, some are number two. Here are ten that did not quite make it to the top of the Christmas tree..
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jan 27 21
Category: Christmas Music
Average
darksplash
Jan 27 21
234 plays
434.
  A Tom Paxton Gallimaufry Vol. 1   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
To call Tom Paxton a 'folksinger' seems barely adequate in view of his widely varied back catalogue. His most famous song was 'The Last Thing On My Mind', but over the past 40 years his songs have been loved by many.
Average, 15 Qns, darksplash, Mar 20 08
Category: Paxton, Tom
Average
darksplash
250 plays
435.
  Two Hundred Things You Should Know   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
To mark my 200th quiz on this site, here are questions relating to that fine, natural number.
Tough, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jan 19 20
Category: 101+
Tough
darksplash
Jan 19 20
882 plays
436.
  'Hallelujah' : Story Of A Song   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
'Hallelujah' has been described as "...a song with the power to turn a rock arena into a cathedral". Test your knowledge of this Leonard Cohen classic.
Tough, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jun 18 08
Category: Cohen, Leonard
Tough
darksplash
641 plays
437.
  Soldiers 'R' Us: Fiction's Finest Military Men   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
"War does not determine who is right - only who is left", or so said Bertrand Russell. Despite that, war and battle fiction have an almost universal popularity.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 10 17
Category: Thematic Occupations
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darksplash
Jul 10 17
605 plays
438.
  Splash's All Of The Above True Or False Quiz    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The idea behind this quiz is simple: Each question has four subjects, all you have to do is decide whether the suggested link between the four is true or false.
Tough, 10 Qns, darksplash, Aug 18 09
Category: True or False
Tough
darksplash
1460 plays
439.
  What Shakespeare Did For The English Language   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
As well as being a prolific writer, William Shakespeare brought to us many words, phrases and descriptions that have long since entered common usage. See if you can spot where they came from, or who said them.
Tough, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jun 14 10
Recommended for grades: 11,12
Category: Shakespeare Lines and Quotes
Tough
darksplash
674 plays
440.
  An Irish Geography Primer: Paper Two   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
For the second paper in our geography test on Ireland, put your name at the top - spell it correctly this time, Turlach Ó Fuartháin - then begin.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jan 04 18
Category: Ireland
Average
darksplash
Jan 04 18
173 plays
441.
  Axemen Cometh: Hendrix, Clapton, King or Richards    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, B. B. King and Keith Richards: all great exponents of the guitarist's art. See if you can identify which of them sang the quoted lyrics.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jun 03 21
Category: Name the Artist
Average
darksplash
Jun 03 21
233 plays
442.
  A US Gazetteer in Song - A to I    
Match Quiz
 10 Qns
From these lyrics mentioning locations in the US find the matching singer. The location is also in the song title.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 26 16
Category: Place Names in Songs
Average
darksplash
249 plays
443.
  Train Spotting Is Interesting, Really    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Train spotting: the term conjures images of men in anoraks hanging around railway stations obsessed with seeing as many different locomotives as possible. This quiz has nothing to do with that. But it does feature train references.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 12 20
Category: Thematic Transportation
Average
darksplash
Jul 12 20
338 plays
444.
  Splash's F A R Fetched Word Cruncher    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Come all ye farouche funtriviers and add one or more letters to F A R to make a new longer word.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Mar 25 20
Category: Words Within Words
Average
darksplash
Mar 25 20
227 plays
445.
  The Songs Lennon and McCartney Gave Away    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Paul McCartney and John Lennon wrote hundreds of songs for The Beatles that were covered by other artists, but there were also songs that the Fab Four did not release themselves. Find who recorded these ten.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 25 20
Category: Beatles Something in Common
Average
darksplash
Jul 25 20
196 plays
446.
  There Must Be A Change In The Weather   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The weather. It is one of the most frequent topics of conversation around. Let's look as ten weather topics.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Dec 17 23
Category: Extreme Weather
Average
darksplash
Dec 17 23
276 plays
447.
  The Answer is 250: But What Is the Question?   great trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
To mark my 250th quiz on this site, here is a mixed bag of ten questions, all on the theme of 250.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Nov 05 22
Category: 101+
Average
darksplash
Nov 05 22
455 plays
448.
  If These Walls Could Speak    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Good fences make good neighbours, so a saying goes. But for thousands of years humankind has been building fences, walls, and fortifications to protect their lands from perceived enemies. Let's examine just 10 of them.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 23 20
Category: Walls
Average
darksplash
Jul 23 20
211 plays
449.
  Television Shows About Television Shows    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Television likes to navel gaze, and many shows have been made about television shows. Here are ten.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Jul 24 20
Category: By Plots
Average
darksplash
Jul 24 20
256 plays
450.
  Five Hundred Quizzes And Other Gallimaufry    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
To mark my 500th quiz on this site, these questions relate to that great number. Have fun.
Average, 10 Qns, darksplash, Oct 09 23
Category: 101+
Average
darksplash
Oct 09 23
220 plays
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