Quiz 242: The answers
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Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.
1. Where is Father Ted set?
- Craggy Peninsular
- Craggy Point
- Craggy Cove
- Craggy Harbour
- Correct answer: Craggy Island
2. What did the films Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World's End become known as?
- Three for Popcorn
- Triple Flavour Neapolitan
- Spaced - The New Frontiers
- Simon and Chums Go Large
- Correct answer: Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy
3. Jeffrey Holland played Spike in Hi-De-Hi!, but what was the character's surname?
- Bovis
- Correct answer: Dixon
- Brown
- Garnsey
- Dempster
4. In classic Fawlty Towers episode The Germans, Basil is on his own in the hotel - where was Sybil?
- Went to her sister's after row with Basil
- Was playing golf all day
- Correct answer: In hospital
- Sick in bed
- At the Cash and Carry
5. In Blackadder II episode Potato, Edmund Blackadder attempts to impress the Queen by embarking on his own voyage of discovery to the New World. Who played the legless (literally) Captain Rum who told porky pie tales of his previous voyages?
- Warren Mitchell
- Robert Hardy
- Bernard Cribbins
- Correct answer: Tom Baker
- Ricky Tomlinson
6. What was Gloria's real name in It Ain't Half Hot Mum, the character played by Melvin Hayes?
- Gunner Parkin
- Gunner Evans
- Gunner Graham
- Gunner Clark
- Correct answer: Gunner Beaumont
7. What was the series of six different sitcoms that Peter Kay wrote, and introduced the likes of Brian Potter to viewers?
- Correct answer: That Peter Kay Thing
- Comedy Playhouse
- It's Your Write
- Six Of The Best
- Peter Kay And Crew
8. Staying with Brian Potter, what was his club called before it burnt down and he named the rebuild The Phoenix Club?
- Correct answer: The Neptune
- The Embassy
- The First Floor
- Night Owls
- Northern Nights
9. What is the name of the company in The Office?
- Dunder Mifflin
- Reams Are Made of This
- Premier Paper Group
- Correct answer: Wernham Hogg
- Slough Paper and Board
10. What was the relationship in real life of the actors playing Kerry and Kurtan in This Country?
- Cousins
- Correct answer: Sister/Brother
- Aunt/Nephew
- Niece/Uncle
- Step Sister/Brother
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.
Why might these tracks lead to some sitcom confusion?
Last week's cryptic question
A swing time song, a meteor and an ideal inn interrogation might appeal to which nationally doubly-diminutive sketch character?
For the second week in a row, Gary Richmond is the only person to work out what Ian was thinking.
See the answer
The swing time song is A Fine Romance, which appeared in the 1936 US film Swing Time; another name for a meteor is a shooting star; and the ideal inn interrogation is a 'perfect pub quiz'.
The connection is: the stars of the sitcom A Fine Romance (Judi Dench), Shooting Stars (Vic & Bob), and Paul Sinha's Perfect Pub Quiz all sang the theme tunes to their shows. Thus the Little Britain character they are connected to the man who "writes da feem toon, sings da feem toon" for Minder, Dennis Waterman.