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Quiz 333: The answers

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Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.

1. Which sitcom is this synopsis from? "Harold has a one-day fling with a woman and Albert spies on him."

Steptoe And Son. Image shows from L to R: Harold Steptoe (Harry H. Corbett), Albert Steptoe (Wilfrid Brambell). Copyright: BBC
  1. The Likely Lads
  2. Till Death Us Do Part
  3. Doctor In The House
  4. Steptoe And Son
  5. The Rag Trade

2. Where is Two Doors Down set?

Two Doors Down. Image shows left to right: Michelle (Joy McAvoy), Alan (Graeme Stevely), Christine (Elaine C. Smith), Colin (Jonathan Watson), Beth (Arabella Weir), Cathy (Doon Mackichan), Eric (Alex Norton), Gordon (Kieran Hodgson), Ian (Jamie Quinn)
  1. Latimer Crescent
  2. Bishop Drive
  3. Citizen Street
  4. Coopers Avenue
  5. Blossom Close

3. Who was NOT in the cast of medical comedy Getting On?

Getting On. Image shows left to right: Hilary Loftus (Ricky Grover), Nurse Kim Wilde (Jo Brand), Sister Den Flixter (Joanna Scanlan), Doctor Pippa Moore (Vicki Pepperdine)
  1. Ricky Grover
  2. Jo Brand
  3. Joanna Scanlan
  4. Vicki Pepperdine
  5. Martha Howe-Douglas

4. A comedy star's voice appears in the Strictly Come Dancing theme tune. Who can be heard saying 'hey' on the guitar line? (e.g. at 8 seconds in)

Matt Berry Interviews.... Matt Berry. Copyright: BBC

Matt Berry is friends with composer Dan McGrath, and so helped him out by playing the guitar.

  1. James Acaster
  2. Harry Hill
  3. Matt Berry
  4. Vic Reeves
  5. Al Murray

5. Who has Bloods, Truth Seekers and Flowers on their CV?

Truth Seekers. Dr Peter Toynbee (Julian Barratt)
  1. Julian Barratt
  2. Di Botcher
  3. Pippa Haywood
  4. Nigel Lindsay
  5. Rebecca Front

6. What is the name of the organisation at the centre of Everyone Else Burns?

Everyone Else Burns. Image shows left to right: Amy James-Kelly, Fiona Lewis (Kate O'Flynn), David Lewis (Simon Bird), Harry Connor
  1. The Scribes of the Eternal Script
  2. The Order of the Divine Rod
  3. The Echelon of Silence
  4. The Children of the Echo
  5. The Followers of the Fallen Star

7. Who has performed the musical comedy routines Never Been Skiing, Mango and G Is For Guinea Fowl?

The Big Fat Quiz Of Everything. Mawaan Rizwan
  1. Nick Helm
  2. Mawaan Rizwan
  3. Isy Suttie
  4. Jazz Emu
  5. Flo & Joan

8. In what year did the film Calendar Girls launch in cinemas?

Calendar Girls. Copyright: Calendar Girls Productions
  1. 2000
  2. 2003
  3. 2006
  4. 2009
  5. 2012

9. Who has performed live shows titled How You See Me, How You Don't; If You Can't Say Anything Nice; Transience?

Chloe Petts
  1. Stephen Bailey
  2. Chloe Petts
  3. Maisie Adam
  4. Babatunde Aléshé
  5. Amy Gledhill

10. Here is a picture of some audience members dressing up as characters from a comic theatre show. Which production are they fans of?

Operation Mincemeat cosplay. Credit: Helen Jones
  1. Fawlty Towers: The Play
  2. Dr Strangelove
  3. The Play That Goes Wrong
  4. Operation Mincemeat
  5. Only Fools And Horses The Musical

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 does the following jumble that came up last week fit this quiz: a petto, shore, bi brat, cup egg, he planet, rootiest, hoe us, I born, ag eel, lacier, try hop, shoe, to rob, toed sexennial, merge git.

Last week's cryptic question

Who began with death, only to return to make a better world and leave a legacy?

The well-read Anne Birrell, Gary Richmond, Craig Pickup, Niki Walton, Kate Emmett, Ian Harrison, Rosalind Brookman, Stuart Hunt, Jim Edgar and Chris Lane got this one right.

See the answer

It is Reginald Iolanthe Perrin.

The keywords in the question related to the titles of the novels written by David Nobbs which the TV series The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin was based on.

The original book was called The Death Of Reginald Perrin (but it was later re-titled The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin to match the TV show).

This was followed by The Return..., The Better World... and The Legacy...

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