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Marcolm Hardee Awards Quiz

The increasingly prestigious Malcolm Hardee Awards are back at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, celebrating original comedy and cunning stunts. BCG's Ian Wolf, who is one of the judges, has curated this special quiz to celebrate.

1. What was the name of Mr. Twonkey's show that won the Comic Originality award in 2016?

Paul Vickers. Copyright: Steve Ullathorne

2. In 2012, Stuart Goldsmith won the Cunning Stunt award because of his reaction to a show the Fringe Society considered too rudely named. What was the original title?

Stuart Goldsmith

3. Which venue banned Jerry Sadowitz from performing the second of two nights at the 2022 Fringe, resulting in him being named Act Most Likely To Make A Million Quid?

4. Staying in 2022, who won that year's Cunning Stunt award by taking advantage of Edinburgh's then-ongoing bin collectors' strike, by claiming that he was using the mounting piles of rubbish as a piece of performance art?

5. Adrienne Truscott, winner of both the Comic Originality award and the Edinburgh Comedy Award's Panel Prize in 2013, did a show in which she was...

Adrienne Truscott

6. American Reggie Watts, the first ever winner of the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality back in 2005, was actually born in which country?

7. The 2016 winner of the Act Most Likely To Make A Million Quid award was unusual because they were...

8. Complete the title of the show that won the 2023 Comic Originality prize: Phil Ellis's...

Phil Ellis

9. In 2017, the Comic Originality winner was someone that Malcolm Hardee gave their first ever gig to. Who was this?

10. The 2019 winner of the Act Most Likely To Make A Million Quid award, exiled dictator President Obonjo, won the award because of a scandal where E4 and BBC Studios made a pilot featuring a very similar character. What was this upstart called?

Benjamin Bello. Copyright: Steve Best

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