Quiz 332: The answers
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Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.
1. What was the name of this Les Dawson character?
- Willy Heck
- Correct answer: Cosmo Smallpiece
- Ben Dover
- Claude Balls
- Cyril Todger
2. What brand of beer did Mark Arden and Stephen Frost advertise on television during the latter part of the 20th century with the catchphrase "I bet he drinks?", the most famous one being The Dambusters skit?
- Heineken
- Carlsberg
- Correct answer: Carling
- Kronenbourg
- Amstel
3. And sticking with those two, what was their short lived 6 episode sitcom, in which they played unconventional murder detectives set in a disorganised police station, called?
- Dalziel & Pascoe
- Correct answer: Lazarus & Dingwall
- Jango & Rheinhart
- Josh & Marple
- Holmes & Parrot
4. Who played fellow DJ Dave Clifton in Radio Norwich who ran the breakfast show that followed Alan's late night one and baited him with his better lifestyle, in I'm Alan Partridge?
- John Sessions
- Stephen Merchant
- Nick Frost
- Correct answer: Phil Cornwell
- Rob Brydon
5. What was the backup computer called in Red Dwarf, played by Charles Augins, who replaced Holly temporarily, then played him in a chess match where the loser gets erased from the system?
- Primus 10X
- Commodore 6400
- Correct answer: Queeg 500
- Gogel VX
- Halle 9
6. What is Dylan Moran's name in Black Books?
- Bobby Black
- Correct answer: Bernard Black
- Billy Black
- Bertram Black
- Baz Black
7. And what is the name of the shop next door, owned by the Tamsin Greig character Fran?
- Mabel's Attic
- Artsy Fartsy
- Once Upon a Trinket
- Correct answer: The Nifty Gifty Gift Shop
- Hubbard's Cupboard
8. In All At No. 20, what was Maureen Lipman's status?
- In a ménage à trois
- In a same sex partnership
- Correct answer: Widow
- Divorcee
- Estranged
9. What was this early Aardman claymotion character called?
- Bad Bob
- Correct answer: Rex the Runt
- Dr Dogg
- Vince
- Porkchop
10. What was the name of this character from Psychoville?
- Franco Gruber
- Humbert Cassetti
- Benjamin Sweeney
- Kalvin J. Candide
- Correct answer: Oscar Lomax
Bonus cryptic question
Feeling brainy? BCG's Ian Wolf likes devising additional, obfuscated brain-teasers as an extra challenge. If you think you know the answer to this week's conundrum and would like to add your name to the list of people who cracked it, do email us! We'll reveal the answer in next Wednesday's quiz.
Who began with death, only to return to make a better world and leave a legacy?
Last week's cryptic question
Which comedy may well be written with either 6 dashes and five dots followed by seven dashes and eight dots, or instead as 01100011011011110110010001100101 110010100?
David Oar, Gary Richmond, Stephen Ash and Alex & Maria Hughes proved themselves to be top codebreakers!
See the answer
Both of these are codes in which you can write Sky sitcom Code 404.
The first is how you'd write the show in Morse Code: -.-. --- -.. . / ....- ----- ....-
The second is the show using binary ASCII code, with the first four sequences of eight digits writing the word "Code", and the last nine being "404" in simple binary.