Quiz 95: The answers
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Here are this week's answers, question-by-question. Scroll down for a bonus cryptic question.
1. The below sitcoms were running in the 1970s. But which of them was still broadcasting new episodes in the 1980s?
- Correct answer: Terry & June
- On The Buses
- Rising Damp
- Please Sir!
- Dad's Army
2. Who is hidden behind this black box?
- Angela Rippon
- Correct answer: Glenda Jackson
- Gloria Hunniford
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Jan Leeming
3. Who starred alongside Dawn French in the TV show Wild West?
- Sue Johnston
- Sally Phillips
- Correct answer: Catherine Tate
- Rosie Cavaliero
- Jennifer Saunders
4. In which city was 1970s sitcom The Lovers set?
- Birmingham
- Edinburgh
- Cardiff
- Correct answer: Manchester
- Newcastle
5. Which radio show contains the tagline "All the news as it happens, if it happens"?
- Newsjack
- The News Huddlines
- Radio Active
- Correct answer: On The Hour
- The Now Show
6. Which comedy thriller is being filmed in this picture?
The clue is the paint on the caravan...
- Inside No. 9
- Stag
- Correct answer: Dial M For Middlesbrough
- The Wrong Mans
- Bounty Hunters
7. If You Love Her spent 4 weeks in the charts in 1969. Who sung the song?
- Charlie Drake
- Correct answer: Dick Emery
- Sid James
- Ken Dodd
- Les Dawson
8. In Mr Bean Rides Again, when on the train, Bean gets annoyed by another passenger. What does the man repeatedly do?
- Sneeze without a tissue
- Snore loudly
- Let off smelly wind
- Chew gum loudly
- Correct answer: Laugh at his book
9. Select the odd one out.
The other shows all have won the international Golden Rose (Rose d'Or) award.
- Correct answer: Not The Nine O'Clock News
- The League Of Gentlemen
- The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine
- Lenny Henry In Pieces
- The Frost Report
10. Name the TV sketch show pictured here.
- Travel Ex Checks
- Correct answer: Rush Hour
- Route 101
- Bus Lane Bants
- Singles
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.
Where would you find a line from the book of Psalms, a wee male voice, and someone waiting to get to California?
Last week's cryptic question
As a man arrives out of the sea, a pedantic man comes with a marine creature and a snack, while two soldiers are somewhat understandably nervous, but another gentleman has a more-than-welcome return at customs. What first comes to mind?
Don't worry if you can't work this one out... it's a tough one! No one cracked it all in the first week.
See the answer
The word "first" is key - these are clues to the opening scenes in sketch series.
The man who comes out from the sea is a reference to the first appearance of the "It's..." man from Monty Python's Flying Circus.
The pedantic man is the subject of the first sketch in John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. He tries to test a man-with-a-van's promise of no job being 'too big or small' by seeing if he will transport a whale.
The two understandably nervous soldiers are the Anxious Nazis from That Mitchell And Webb Look who worry about their SS caps having skulls on them (this sketch first appeared on the radio show That Mitchell And Webb Sound, but - on TV - this sketch was the first one viewers saw).
Finally, the gentleman at customs is the subject of the first sketch in The Two Ronnies: a news film of a man at customs (Corbett) declares he has a bottle of perfume, an instant camera, some nylon stockings and a couple of bottles of champagne, to which the customs officer (Barker) takes him away while replying camply: "Ooh, lovely. Let's go back to my place."