Christmas Quiz 2019: The answers
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Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.
1. The Love Of Three Oranges and My Brother And I are titles of Christmas specials from which sitcom?
- Correct answer: Dad's Army
- Porridge
- 'Allo 'Allo!
- Hancock's Half Hour
- One Foot In The Grave
2. What happens to Mr Bean in the episode Merry Christmas Mr Bean?
- He gets locked in Harrods
- Correct answer: He gets a turkey stuck on his head
- He steals the presents of a little girl
- He gets in a fight with Santa in a supermarket
- His Christmas pudding sets fire to his flat
3. Which of these sitcoms has broadcast a live Christmas special?
- Correct answer: Not Going Out
- Miranda
- Absolutely Fabulous
- The IT Crowd
- Citizen Khan
4. In the animated 2011 special Arthur Christmas, who voices the central character?
- Ben Whishaw
- Tim Downie
- Kayvan Novak
- Matt Lucas
- Correct answer: James McAvoy
5. Which of the comedians listed below was born on Christmas Day?
- Frankie Howerd
- Jennifer Saunders
- Correct answer: Kenny Everett
- Jack Dee
- Dawn French
6. Which guest star is hidden behind the black box in this picture from the 2010 episode of Benidorm?
- John Cleese
- Melvyn Hayes
- Simon Cadell
- Correct answer: Brian Murphy
- Geoffrey Whitehead
7. On Christmas Day 2018, which of these shows got the biggest audience?
6.1 million viewers tuned into Michael McIntyre. Excluding The Queen's speech, it was the top rated show on the day.
- Mrs. Brown's Boys
- Correct answer: Michael McIntyre's Big Show
- Click & Collect
- Alan Carr's Christmas Cracker
- The Midnight Gang
8. What year was the TV special Christmas Lights, starring Robson Green and Mark Benton, broadcast?
- 2000
- 2002
- Correct answer: 2004
- 2006
- 2008
9. Which of these jokes came top of the vote in Gold's 2017 Christmas cracker topical joke writing contest?
- What's Donald Trump's favourite flavour Quality Street? Covfefe Cream
- Which TV Christmas special is being filmed in Brussels this year? Deal or No Deal
- Why was the planned Ryanair TV documentary scrapped? They were unable to air a pilot
- Correct answer: Why was Theresa May sacked as Nativity Manager? She couldn't run a stable government
- How do you ruin Stormzy's Christmas? Criticise his wrapping
10. For their 2016 Christmas special, which country did Birds Of A Feather travel to?
- Cuba
- Paraguay
- Correct answer: Morocco
- Libya
- South Korea
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.
If a Christmas dinner table tradition is followed by jewels for a Scottish flower, blood, a return trip to Yorkshire, a poker hand and something left to you by an amphibian, what fruit should be next?
Last week's cryptic question
A wetland grass in an area of a hospital; a south-east London district and an auction house; and a monarch deposed gloriously matched with a puppet. Why do they go together so well?
Kate Emmett, Kirsty Harrison and Marcus Noonan were the three clever readers to crack this one.
See the answer
This is about comedy couples.
The wetland grass is a reed and the hospital area is a ward... pointing to comedians David Reed and Danielle Ward.
The area of south-east London is Lee and the auction house is Christie's... Stewart Lee and Bridget Christie.
James II of England (James VII of Scotland) was deposed in the Glorious Revolution, and the puppet is Sooty... so, bit of a leap this one, but that links Elis James and Isy Suttie.