Quiz 47: The answers
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Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.
1. In what year did Morecambe & Wise film their classic breakfast-based sketch?
- 1974
- Correct answer: 1976
- 1978
- 1980
- 1982
2. Which show featured key characters with the surnames Usbourne, Corrigan and Chapman?
Jeremy Osborne, Mark Corrigan and Sophie Chapman appear in Peep Show.
- I'm Alan Partridge
- Teachers
- Clare In The Community
- My Family
- Correct answer: Peep Show
3. Which of these people was born first?
Ricky Gervais was born in 1961; Martin Freeman and Mackenzie Crook were born in 1971; Lucy Davis was born in 1973; and Sally Bretton was born in 1980.
- Correct answer: Ricky Gervais
- Lucy Davis
- Martin Freeman
- Mackenzie Crook
- Sally Bretton
4. 1990s sitcom Dad starred Kevin McNally and...
- Dennis Waterman
- John Thaw
- David Jason
- Correct answer: George Cole
- Warren Mitchell
5. What were the names of the lazy policemen in Early Doors?
- Arnold and Ivor
- Correct answer: Phil and Nige
- Gary and Gordon
- Clive and Keith
- Brian and Neil
6. Who had a #1 hit alongside The Wonder Stuff with Dizzy, a punk-rock cover of Tommy Roe's chart-topper?
- Cannon & Ball
- Miranda Hart
- Harry Hill
- Smack The Pony
- Correct answer: Vic Reeves
7. Which of these comedians has NOT been a curator on Radio 4's The Museum Of Curiosity?
- Jo Brand
- Sarah Millican
- Correct answer: Jack Dee
- Sally Phillips
- Bill Bailey
8. Which sketch show is linked to the catchphrase "does my bum look big in this?"
- Armstrong And Miller
- Goodness Gracious Me
- Correct answer: The Fast Show
- Little Britain
- Man Stroke Woman
9. Don't Forget The Driver is set in...
- Blackpool
- Margate
- Whitby
- Scarborough
- Correct answer: Bognor Regis
10. Which film had the working title The King Of Soho?
- Cuban Fury
- Mindhorn
- Svengali
- Correct answer: The Look Of Love
- The World's End
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.
What links something shocking with some football-based birds, and a call to an armoured copper?
Last week's cryptic question
Beginning with Belinda Lang, Rowan Atkinson adds length, Michael Bentine adds height, and Fry & Laurie add depth. Tell us about what is going on.
Steve Ash, Tom Bowyer and Dave Cogbill are the only three readers who managed to email in a right answer to this.
See the answer
This cryptic is about dimensions. We go from a dot, to a line, to a square, to a cube.
Belinda Lang starred in 2point4 Children, giving us zero-dimensional space illustrated by a point.
Rowan Atkinson takes our clue into one-dimensional space with The Thin Blue Line.
Michael Bentine's sketch show It's A Square World makes it two-dimensional.
In 1983, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's first BBC pilot was a science mockumentary called The Crystal Cube (a pilot the BBC didn't commission incidentally. Their next BBC project, A Bit of Fry & Laurie, didn't air until six years later).