Christmas Quiz 2022: The answers
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Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.
1. In what year was the Gavin & Stacey reunion episode first broadcast?
- 2017
- 2018
- Correct answer: 2019
- 2020
- 2021
2. Which nineties band did Geraldine Granger base her entire Christmas sermon around in the Vicar Of Dibley episode, The Christmas Lunch Incident?
- East 17
- Destiny's Child
- Take That
- Boys II Men
- Correct answer: The Spice Girls
3. Which character presented the Alternative Christmas Message on Channel 4 in 1999?
- Mrs Merton
- Correct answer: Ali G
- Alan Partridge
- Waynetta Slob
- Garth Marenghi
4. Which of these is NOT the plot of a Mrs Brown's Boys Christmas special?
- Agnes is recruited to the church choir, but there must be no singing
- Winnie and Agnes have entered a competition to perform an alternative Queen's speech
- Father Damian has organised a Christmas decoration contest to support the local football team
- Grandad thinks the house is haunted, and Rory is undergoing plastic surgery
- Correct answer: Someone has poisioned the turkey and so Agnes makes a queue system for the loo
5. After he left a few hints lying around the place, what Christmas present did Father Ted gift Dougal in A Christmassy Ted?
- A Tea Master
- Correct answer: A matador outfit
- A cakejumper
- Buckeroo
- Model cows
6. Which of the stars of The Office was born on Christmas Day?
- Martin Freeman
- Lucy Davis
- Correct answer: Patrick Baladi
- Oliver Chris
- Sally Bretton
7. Which popstar made an appearance in the 2021 Not Going Out Christmas special?
- Samantha Fox
- Correct answer: Jason Donovan
- Rick Astley
- Robbie Williams
- Kylie Minogue
8. How many My Family Christmas specials were made?
- 1
- 3
- 5
- 7
- Correct answer: 9
9. Select the title of the 2022 film starring Elizabeth Hurley.
- Christmas With The In-Laws
- Mum Is Home For Christmas
- Correct answer: Christmas In The Caribbean
- Dating At Christmas
- Christmas Cheer
10. Which of the comedians from the list below has NOT hosted a festive edition of Live At The Apollo?
- Sara Pascoe
- Sarah Millican
- Correct answer: Frankie Boyle
- Romesh Ranganathan
- Nina Conti
Bonus cryptic question
Feeling brainy? BCG's Ian Wolf likes devising additional, obfuscated brain-teasers as an extra challenge. See if you can work this one out. You'll find the answer in the next quiz.
The first is with chutney and an equine walk, the second with a doctor's elephant, and the third with metal repairer. What does the fourth serve?
Last week's cryptic question
A waste can, Thomas's definition of bin juice, a chase, base-12 1200, a fart, baby oil, a lowercase poet, and more baby oil have all been given what?
Dan Shakir, Wayne Mason, David Barton, Gary Richmond, Glen Passman, Steve Ash and Martin Harris managed to connect up what this was a list of.
See the answer
They have all been given something they didn't want - The Last Leg's Dick of the Year award.
The first winner in 2013 was Vladimir Putin (waste can – poo tin).
This was followed by Nigel Farage* (Mark Thomas defined 'farage' as "the liquid found at the bottom of a waste bin").
Jeremy Hunt (a chase - a hunt).
The year 2016 (the number 2016 in base-12 is 1200).
Donald Trump (fart – trump).
Boris Johnson (Johnson's Baby Oil)
Dominic Cummings (the poet e. e. cummings)
And, most recently, Boris Johnson again in 2021.
(* Actually, Katie Hopkins won the vote in 2014, but she was denied the award on the grounds that she would happily accept it and so it went to second-place Farage. Graham Linehan was also denied the award for the same reason.)