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Peter Sellers Quiz

Yes, it's time for another special. Compiled by Goon superfan 'Hercules Grytpype Thynne', this week it's the great comedy talent Peter Sellers, Monday having marked 43 years since his early death.

1. His parents called him Peter in remembrance of his stillborn elder brother - so what was his real birth name?

Let's Go Crazy. Groucho Marx (Peter Sellers)

2. How many times was he married?

3. Who wrote the massive tome The Life And Death Of Peter Sellers, with more than 1,000 pages in paperback?

The Undiscovered Peter Sellers. Peter Sellers. Copyright: Getty Images

4. And who portrayed him in the the biopic of the same name, based on the book?

5. In Being There, what was the very last line of the film? It would be inscribed on Peter Sellers's own memorial when he died a year after its release.

6. What was Peter Sellers's last film?

Mr. Topaze. Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers)

7. Sellers did not like the colour green, but he was even more obsessed with another that he associated with death. He refused to even be in the same room as something in this colour - but which?

8. Allegedly as a sort-of promotional favour to Eric, Sellers appears in the Sykes episode Stranger as a rough childhood friend and ex-con who comes back to claim Hattie as his bride. What was his name?

Sykes. Image shows from L to R: Hattie Sykes (Hattie Jacques), Eric Sykes (Eric Sykes). Copyright: BBC

9. He recorded the novelty songs Bangers And Mash and Goodness Gracious Me with which of these leading ladies?

10. What was Inspector Clouseau's first name in the Pink Panther films?

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