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Quiz 350
Niki Walton delivers here another fun set of questions to try and score big on...
1. In which year did
Taskmaster
make its debut on Channel 4?
2014
2016
2018
2020
2022
2. Which comedy actors starred as mother and daughter in a long-running television advertising campaign for Tesco which began in the late 1990s?
Prunella Scales and Jane Horrocks
Susie Blake and Sarah Hadland
Maggie Smith and Emma Thompson
Zoe Wanamaker and Sarah Alexander
Penelope Keith and Olivia Colman
3. Which of these storylines did NOT feature in an episode of
To The Manor Born
?
Audrey runs a friend's riding school while she is incapacitated
Marjory and her Nature Conservancy Group protest against plans for a bypass
Richard boasts about his skiing prowess, but in reality he's never been skiing before
Audrey and Marjory's old schoolfriend visits and takes a shine to Richard
Richard faces a boardroom coup to oust him from his grocery empire
4. Name the American actor who took the lead role in the 1989 Richard Curtis movie
The Tall Guy
, opposite Rowan Atkinson and Emma Thompson.
Michael Keaton
Steve Guttenberg
Jeff Goldblum
Denzel Washington
Alan Alda
5. What was distinctive about the first and last episodes only of Channel 4 comedy
Chelmsford 123
?
They were recorded the day before transmission to include topical references
Both episodes included scenes with dialogue entirely in Latin
They were the only episodes to feature voiceover narration, from Aulus in the first episode and Badvoc in the last episode
There is no laugh track on these episodes, unlike the rest of the series
Parts of these two episodes were filmed on location in Rome
6. In the world of British sitcoms, Karl Barratt is...
The real name of Gavin & Stacey's Budgie
A schoolfriend of Michael in early series of My Family
A sometime comedy collaborator of Rick Spleen in Lead Balloon
The workshy new lodger in the final series of Rising Damp
The newsreader whose firing in Drop The Dead Donkey paves the way for Sally Smedley to join GlobeLink News
7. What was the title of the Radio 2 comedy series from which Miranda Hart's eponymous television sitcom evolved?
Miranda Hart Is Still Single
Miranda Hart's On The Radio
Miranda Hart's Fabulous Life
Miranda Hart's Joke Shop
Miranda Hart Is Such Fun
8. Which of these classic Ealing comedy films was the last to be released?
Kind Hearts And Coronets
Passport To Pimlico
Whisky Galore!
The Lavender Hill Mob
The Titfield Thunderbolt
9. What role did Rik Mayall play in the 2000 special
Blackadder: Back & Forth
?
William The Conqueror
Mick Jagger
Robin Hood
Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard)
Geoffrey Chaucer
10. All of these statements about
Last Of The Summer Wine
are true, except for one. Which one?
Ivy and Sid's surname is never revealed
The love-triangle characters of Pearl, Howard and Marina were originally developed for a stage version of the show
Writer Roy Clarke scripted a Christmas crossover episode with his series Open All Hours which was never produced
Sarah Thomas (Glenda) appeared in more episodes than Bill Owen (Compo)
A comic strip of the show appeared in the Daily Star newspaper during the 1980s
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