T145 QUIZZING IN THE RAIN QUIZ
Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:37 pm1 Which song opens with the line, “You get a shiver in the dark it’s raining in the park”?
SULTAN OF SWING
2 What name is given to precipitation with a high level of sulphur dioxide?
ACID RAIN
3 In which film did Dustin Hoffman play the brother of Tom Cruise?
RAINMAN
4 Which musical features the song, The Rain in Spain?
MY FAIR LADY
5 Which musical features the song, Don’t Rain on My Parade?
FUNNY GIRL
6 What O is the morbid fear of rain?
OMBROPHOBIA
7 Which organisation was founded in 1989 by Sting and his wife Trudie Styler?
RAIN FOREST FOUNDATION
8 Who had a 1998 hit with the song, Kiss the Rain?
BILLIE MYERS
9 Waialeale suffers over 300 days of rain each year. In which US state is it located?
HAWAII
10 Who played the role of Kathy Selden in Singin in the Rain?
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
11 In which African country is the Pula Festival held, a national ceremony in deference to the importance given to rain towards the national economy?
BOTSWANA
12 Which Disney animation features the song Little April Showers?
BAMBI
13 The martial arts exponent Rain is a character in which computer game?
MORTEL KOMBAT
14 The children’s nursery rhyme Rain Rain Go Away is thought to be a reference to which fleets invasion of Britain, an invasion that failed partly due to inclement weather?
SPANISH ARMADA
15 What P is an instrument for measuring levels of rain fall?
PLUVIOMETER
Identify the “rainy songs” from the lyrics
16 According to all sources the streets the place to go
IT'S RAINING MEN
17 I never meant to cause you any pain
PURPLE RAIN
18 There’s not a cloud to spoil the view
RAINING IN MY HEART
19 I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
A HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL
20 The weather here has been as nice as it can be
IT MIGHT AS WELL RAIN UNTIL SEPTEMBER
21 The only girl I care about has gone away
RHYTHM OF THE RAIN
22 The blues they send to meet me won’t defeat me
RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD
23 Walking around some kind of a lonely clown
RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS
24 Well I never meant to cause you no pain but it looks like I did it again
I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN
25 I walk down the lane with a happy refrain
SINGING IN THE RAIN
SULTAN OF SWING
2 What name is given to precipitation with a high level of sulphur dioxide?
ACID RAIN
3 In which film did Dustin Hoffman play the brother of Tom Cruise?
RAINMAN
4 Which musical features the song, The Rain in Spain?
MY FAIR LADY
5 Which musical features the song, Don’t Rain on My Parade?
FUNNY GIRL
6 What O is the morbid fear of rain?
OMBROPHOBIA
7 Which organisation was founded in 1989 by Sting and his wife Trudie Styler?
RAIN FOREST FOUNDATION
8 Who had a 1998 hit with the song, Kiss the Rain?
BILLIE MYERS
9 Waialeale suffers over 300 days of rain each year. In which US state is it located?
HAWAII
10 Who played the role of Kathy Selden in Singin in the Rain?
DEBBIE REYNOLDS
11 In which African country is the Pula Festival held, a national ceremony in deference to the importance given to rain towards the national economy?
BOTSWANA
12 Which Disney animation features the song Little April Showers?
BAMBI
13 The martial arts exponent Rain is a character in which computer game?
MORTEL KOMBAT
14 The children’s nursery rhyme Rain Rain Go Away is thought to be a reference to which fleets invasion of Britain, an invasion that failed partly due to inclement weather?
SPANISH ARMADA
15 What P is an instrument for measuring levels of rain fall?
PLUVIOMETER
Identify the “rainy songs” from the lyrics
16 According to all sources the streets the place to go
IT'S RAINING MEN
17 I never meant to cause you any pain
PURPLE RAIN
18 There’s not a cloud to spoil the view
RAINING IN MY HEART
19 I’ve stepped in the middle of seven sad forests
A HARD RAIN'S GONNA FALL
20 The weather here has been as nice as it can be
IT MIGHT AS WELL RAIN UNTIL SEPTEMBER
21 The only girl I care about has gone away
RHYTHM OF THE RAIN
22 The blues they send to meet me won’t defeat me
RAINDROPS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD
23 Walking around some kind of a lonely clown
RAINY DAYS AND MONDAYS
24 Well I never meant to cause you no pain but it looks like I did it again
I WISH IT WOULD RAIN DOWN
25 I walk down the lane with a happy refrain
SINGING IN THE RAIN
