Christmas Quiz 2024

Blackadder

Upstart Crow

The Thin Blue Line

Filthy Rich & Catflap

Happy Families

1997

2000

2003

2008

2012

Taps

Binliners

Coconuts

Multivitamins

Football shin pads

Martha And The Genie

Simon And The Genie

Bernard And The Genie

Cecil And The Genie

Petra And The Genie

Ho-ho-hum

Tinselworm

Jingle Legs

Candy Cane Mind

Are You Pulling My Cracker?

Santa Claus

The ghostly apparition of Mainwaring's grandfather

Winston Churchill

Mainwaring's ne'er-do-well brother

Artie Cooper, a radio comedian

Del and Rodney's estranged father turns up on their doorstep

Cassandra's parents invite her and Rodney to join them for Christmas at their Cornish holiday home

A family dinner party with Raquel's parents results in the serving of some rather unusual food combinations

A stripper hired for Uncle Albert's birthday celebrations turns out to have a familiar face

Del and Rodney arrive at a wake looking quite overdressed for the occasion

Rik Mayall

Eric Idle

Dawn French

Ernie Wise

Dudley Moore

Wonderful Christmastime

All I Want For Christmas Is You

Last Christmas

I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day

Merry Christmas Everybody

It was originally broadcast live

It was filmed on location in the Australian outback town of Coober Pedy

It was an animated adaptation of a stage play

It featured adult actors playing the roles of schoolchildren

It was originally intended to be filmed and screened in 1979, but production was shelved due to the ITV strike that year

1. Which of these Ben Elton sitcoms returned in 2020 for a one-off lockdown Christmas special?

2. In which year did Wallace & Gromit previously star in BBC One's Christmas idents?

3. In the Gavin & Stacey 2019 Christmas special, what unusual Christmas gift did Nessa give to everyone?

4. What is the title of the 1991 one-off Christmas television comedy by Richard Curtis, in which an art dealer's Christmas is transformed when they clean an old lamp?

5. Select the correct name of the 2000s tour and subsequent DVD release by Bill Bailey.

6. The 1975 Christmas episode of Dad's Army saw Arthur Lowe play the dual roles of Captain Mainwaring - and who else?

7. Which of these storylines did NOT feature in a Christmas episode of Only Fools And Horses?

8. Which British comedian took the lead role of Patch the elf in 1985's Santa Claus: The Movie?

9. The 2000 episode The Royle Family At Christmas has Noel Gallagher performing which classic Christmas song over the closing credits?

10. What was notable about the production of the 1999 television comedy special The Flint Street Nativity?