Welcome to our very special listener-contributed Christmas Quiz!
This Christmas, we’ve done something different: all 30 questions in this quiz have been sent in by you, our wonderful listeners. Thank you to Russell, Mark F, Lee, Ed, Mark G, Gillian, Andrew, Kath, and Brian for your brilliant contributions!
We have 6 festive rounds covering TV relatives, sci-fi classics, Christmas sitcoms, Morecambe & Wise specials, and much more. Grab a pen and paper and see how you do!
👨❤️👨 Round One: Relatively Speaking
1️⃣ Which stalwart comedy actress played Sandra’s mum in The Liver Birds?
2️⃣ Who played Thelma’s dad in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
3️⃣ Which actress starred in Porridge as Fletcher’s daughter?
4️⃣ With a link to Porridge, which actor went on to bigger things having played Fletch’s son in the sequel, Going Straight?
5️⃣ Who played Reggie Perrin’s wife in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin?
🤘 Round Two: Sci-Fi Corner
1️⃣ In Thunderbirds, which of the Tracy Brothers was voiced by Parker and Brains’ voice artist, David Graham?
2️⃣ In the Jon Pertwee era of Doctor Who, the exiled Doctor served as scientific advisor to the military group UNIT. What did the letters UNIT stand for?
3️⃣ Staying with UNIT, which was led by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. But what was the name of the captain and sergeant who most regularly served under him?
4️⃣ Who was the only character to appear in every episode of Blake’s 7? (Clue: it wasn’t Blake).
5️⃣ Which two actors connect Doctor Who and Rainbow?
🎄 Round Three: Christmas Sitcoms
1️⃣ In the 1977 episode of The Good Life set at Christmas, what present do the Leadbetters buy for the Goods?
2️⃣ In the 1974 Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em Christmas special, which role in the nativity play did Frank Spencer have, which led to him being stuck on the church roof?
3️⃣ Also in 1974 was the Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads Christmas edition. In that, what vehicle, much to Thelma’s horror, did Terry use to drive Bob home when he lost his car keys down a drain?
4️⃣ In 1975, the first Porridge Christmas special hit our screens. What food item did Fletch receive whilst in the infirmary, which the prison doctor normally kept for himself?
5️⃣ 1975 also saw the Rising Damp Christmas episode. What was special about the solitary, poorly written Christmas card that Rigsby received?
📺 Round Four: TV Times
1️⃣ Mike Upton was a character in two ITV sitcoms, The Upchat Line and The Upchat Connection, but was played by two different actors. Who were the two actors?
2️⃣ Who played Raffles in the TV series of the same name?
3️⃣ In the ITV comedy series Get Some In!, what was the name of the RAF station where the airmen were based in the first two series?
4️⃣ Maintaining the military theme, who was senior officer at Pippin Fort?
5️⃣ The BBC series Secret War was presented by which Top Gear presenter?
🎅 Round Five: Special Guests (Morecambe & Wise)
I will give you the names of guest stars from a particular Morecambe & Wise Christmas show and you need to tell me which year had those guests.
1️⃣ Shirley Bassey, Glenda Jackson, André Previn, Los Zafiros, Dick Emery, and Francis Matthews.
2️⃣ Elton John, John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Kate O’Mara, The Nolans, and Angela Rippon.
3️⃣ Peter Cushing, William Franklin, Nina, Eric Porter, Edward Woodward, and Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen.
4️⃣ Diana Rigg, Des O’Connor, Gordon Jackson, Robin Day, Brenda Arnau, and Pan’s People.
5️⃣ Penelope Keith, Elton John, Angharad Rees, Francis Matthews, Michael Parkinson, Michael Aspel, Richard Baker, Frank Bough, Kenneth Kendall, Eddie Waring, James Hunt, and Angela Rippon.
🎁 Round Six: Singles Bar
1️⃣ What show would you have seen Jon Pertwee in, in 1973 and Tom Baker in, in 1975, that wasn’t Doctor Who?
2️⃣ Which comedy series featured the item ‘Confuse-a-Cat’?
3️⃣ How many Christmas shows under the title Carry On Christmas did the Carry On team produce?
4️⃣ Christmas 1975 found Queen top of the charts on the Christmas Day edition of Top of the Pops, but who was at number two?
5️⃣ Who presented the Christmas Day Top of the Pops in 1977?
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Happy Christmas,
Oliver
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