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The British Comedy Quiz

Quiz 245

It's time for another test, and - as always - there's questions about shows and people from across the different decades.

1. The figurines pictured here are related to which TV show?

Which show?

2. Which literary giant does Edmund meet in the Millennium Dome special Blackadder Back & Forth?

Blackadder. Image shows left to right: Lord Edmund Blackadder V (Rowan Atkinson), Baldrick (Tony Robinson). Credit: Tiger Aspect Productions

3. Which British comedy lost out at the Oscars over the weekend?

4. Which of these popular catchphrases was originally heard in It's That Man Again (ITMA)?

It's That Man Again. Image shows from L to R: Dorothy Summers, Tommy (Tommy Handley). Copyright: BBC

5. Fawlty Towers was set in Torquay. The premise was famously inspired by John Cleese's experience in a real British seaside hotel. But in what town?

Fawlty Towers. Image shows from L to R: Sybil Fawlty (Prunella Scales), Basil Fawlty (John Cleese), Polly (Connie Booth), Manuel (Andrew Sachs). Copyright: BBC

6. Who writes novels about a character called Edie Eckhart?

7. Crooks In Cloisters saw a criminal gang hiding out off the coast of which county?

Crooks In Cloisters. Image shows from L to R: Squirts (Bernard Cribbins), Specs (Davy Kaye), Bikini (Barbara Windsor), Walter (Ronald Fraser). Copyright: Associated British Picture Corporation / STUDIOCANAL

8. Leonard Rossiter's final sitcom saw him playing a branch manager of which supermarket chain?

9. In what year did The Mouse That Roared, the film starring Peter Sellers, first appear in cinemas?

The Mouse That Roared

10. As at the end of Series T (the recent 2023 series), how many episodes of QI have been won by the studio audience?

QI. Image shows left to right: Sandi Toksvig, Alan Davies

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