British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
The British Comedy Quiz

Quiz 98

Another set of questions to keep your brain whizzing druing lockdown.

1. Complete the name of the 2016 film about a terrible singer. Florence _____ Jenkins.

Name this film

2. Which part of the UK would you associate stand-up comedian Jethro with?

Jethro

3. What label would be most suitable for Tim Key, Lloyd Woolf, Tom Basden and Stefan Golaszewski?

Name the group

4. Select the comedian linked to the person pictured here.

All Round Mrs Brown's

5. Select the comedian missing from this line-up. Lee Mack, Tim Vine, Karen Taylor, Kitty Flanagan and...

6. What year was the last series of Never Mind The Buzzcocks broadcast in?

Never Mind The Buzzcocks. Image shows from L to R: Phill Jupitus, Noel Fielding

7. What initials appear on Onslow's hat in Keeping Up Appearances?

Keeping Up Appearances. Image shows from L to R: Daisy (Judy Cornwell), Onslow (Geoffrey Hughes). Copyright: BBC

8. Who is pictured here?

Who is this?

9. What is the name of the airline in Radio 4's Cabin Pressure?

Cabin Pressure. Image shows from L to R: Arthur (John Finnemore), Douglas (Roger Allam), Carolyn (Stephanie Cole), Martin (Benedict Cumberbatch). Copyright: Pozzitive Productions

10. What is Sir Humphrey complaining about in this quote from Yes, Prime Minister? "Prime Minister, I must protest in the strongest possible terms my profound opposition to a newly instituted practice which imposes severe and intolerable restrictions upon the ingress and egress of senior members of the hierarchy and which will, in all probability, should the current deplorable innovation be perpetuated, precipitate a constriction of the channels of communication, and culminate in a condition of organisational atrophy and administrative paralysis, which will render effectively impossible the coherent and co-ordinated discharge of the function of government within Her Majesty's United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland!"

Yes, Prime Minister. Image shows from L to R: James Hacker (Paul Eddington), Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne), Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds)

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