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Quiz 339

Kate Emmett has written many brilliant quizzes for us based around animals. Here's the final batch: they're all wild animals.

1. The mention of which relative always triggers this image of a hippopotamus in Reginald Perrin's mind?

The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin

2. Which dark comedy film is advertised here with marathon runners in fancy dress costumes?

Which film?

3. In Ghosts, which character is terrified of bears?

Ghosts. Image shows from L to R: Robin (Laurence Rickard), Humphrey (Laurence Rickard), Mary (Katy Wix), Thomas (Mathew Baynton), Alison (Charlotte Ritchie), Kitty (Lolly Adefope), Mike (Kiell Smith-Bynoe), Captain (Ben Willbond), Pat (Jim Howick), Lady Button (Martha Howe-Douglas), Julian (Simon Farnaby). Copyright: Monumental Pictures

4. In which magazine would you find the Pathetic Sharks?

5. In Only Fools And Horses, Del Boy tries writing a film plot about a zoo escapee titled There's a [What?] Loose in the City.

Only Fools And Horses. Image shows from L to R: Uncle Albert (Buster Merryfield), Del (David Jason), Rodney (Nicholas Lyndhurst). Copyright: BBC

6. On 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Sean Lock unveiled his reworking of a children's classic, The Tiger Who Came For A...

The Tiger Who Came for a ....

7. When Blackadder attempts to rewrite Dr Johnson's dictionary, what animal is he describing here: "Medium-sized insectivore with protruding nasal implement"?

Blackadder. Image shows from L to R: Dr. Samuel Johnson (Robbie Coltrane), Mr. Edmund Blackadder, Esquire (Rowan Atkinson)

8. In 2023, who won Dave's Joke of the Fringe with "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah."

9. Which comedian attended the 2024 Brit Awards in a giraffe costume to promote his tour, Giraffe.

Who is this?

10. Which production company's logo would you have seen in the mid-90s after comedies including The Vicar Of Dibley and Mr Bean?

Tiger eye

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