British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
The British Comedy Quiz

Quiz 27

Your knowledge of British comedy will need to span several decades to get a top score here.

1. Which of the people listed below has NOT hosted a TV chat show series?

2. Name the department store at the centre of Are You Being Served?.

Are You Being Served?. Image shows from L to R: Mrs. Betty Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), Miss Shirley Brahms (Wendy Richard), Mr. Dick Lucas (Trevor Bannister), Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold (Nicholas Smith), Mr. Mash (Larry Martyn), Mr. Ernest Grainger (Arthur Brough), Mr. Wilberforce Humphries (John Inman), Captain Stephen Peacock (Frank Thornton). Copyright: BBC

3. Who was born Solomon Cohen?

4. Select the person below who has been a series regular on Mock The Week.

5. Which of these is NOT a song by David Brent?

David Brent: Life On The Road. David Brent (Ricky Gervais)

6. On Desert Island Discs, who asked for a fully-restored Morris Minor Traveller ("with wooden detail") as their Luxury?

7. Which of these Just A Minute regulars was born first?

8. Which sitcom is being filmed here?

Which show?

9. Who, at the age of 11, joined a Catholic boarding-school seminary, to train for the priesthood?

10. Which sitcom focused on a character called Ria Parkinson?

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