Quiz 294: 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 did Are You Being Served? sequel Grace & Favour start?

Grace & Favour. Image shows from L to R: Captain Stephen Peacock (Frank Thornton), Mrs. Betty Slocombe (Mollie Sugden), Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries (John Inman), Miss Shirley Brahms (Wendy Richard), Mr. Cuthbert Rumbold (Nicholas Smith), Jessica Lovelock (Joanne Heywood), Maurice Moulterd (Billy Burden), Mavis Moulterd (Fleur Bennett). Copyright: BBC

1980
1983
1986
1989
Correct answer: 1992

2. What kind of job does the character Mike Bassett do?

Mike Bassett: England Manager. Mike Bassett (Ricky Tomlinson). Copyright: Artists Independent Films

Taxi driver
Ice cream vendor
Correct answer: Football manager
Greengrocer
Vet

3. What type of comedian is Paul Burling?

Ventriloquist
Hypnotist
Poet
Mime
Correct answer: Impressionist

4. Which comedy followed characters called Tom and Linda?

Gimme Gimme Gimme. Image shows from L to R: Tom (James Dreyfus), Linda (Kathy Burke). Copyright: Tiger Aspect Productions

The Good Life
The Magnificent Two
Ever Decreasing Circles
Correct answer: Gimme Gimme Gimme
Two's Company

5. Complete the title of the TV and radio comedy chat format hosted by Marcus Brigstocke. I've Never Seen...

I've Never Seen Star Wars. Marcus Brigstocke. Copyright: BBC

Casablanca
Harry Potter
Citizen Kane
Correct answer: Star Wars
The Grapes Of Wrath

6. Which one of these is the odd one out?

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Evelyn Greenslade (Judi Dench)

This is a question centred around the comic roles by Judi Dench. Miss Shepherd was played by Maggie Smith.

Jean in As Time Goes By
Laura in A Fine Romance
Correct answer: Miss Shepherd in The Lady In The Van
Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare In Love
Evelyn in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

7. Whose mother is pictured here?

Meet The Richardsons. Gill Adams. Copyright: Second Act Productions

Gill Adams appears regularly in Meet The Richardsons.

Correct answer: Lucy Beaumont
Nick Helm
Katherine Ryan
James Acaster
Matt Forde

8. Fantabulosa! was a biopic of which comedy actor?

Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!. Kenneth Williams (Michael Sheen)

Michael Sheen played the Carry On actor.

Kenny Everett
Larry Grayson
Hattie Jacques
Correct answer: Kenneth Williams
Marti Caine

9. As of February 2024, what series of The Graham Norton Show are we on?

The Graham Norton Show. Graham Norton. Credit: So Television, Christopher Baines

11
21
Correct answer: 31
41
51

10. Complete the name of this double act. Max & ...

Image shows left to right: Max Olesker, Ivan Gonzalez, Max & Ivan

Peter
Correct answer: Ivan
Ralph
Ignacio
Mike

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 are the beginnings of Alan Davies, Hugh Bonneville, Russell Kane, Gregor Fisher, Daisy May Cooper and Paul Eddington right in front of you, in that order?

Last week's cryptic question

What kind of festival would Jen Brister, an all-woman TV sketch show, and a 2020 Irish heist all take part in – but might be overshadowed by an American character?

This was a real hard one! Kate Emmett is the only person to have got this right (although Wayne Mason got close).

See the answer

This is about hairstyles.

Jen Brister created a radio show entitled Waves.

The all-woman sketch show is 2008 TV series Beehive.

An Irish heist forms the plot of the 2020 comedy film Pixie.

The most natural linking festival would therefore be the Edinburgh Fringe.

The reason however that they might be overshadowed by an American character is that the US sitcom Friends famously spawned an actual haircut named after one of its characters: The Rachel.

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