⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: This post contains all the answers to the Christmas Quiz #59. If you haven’t taken the quiz yet, head over to the questions-only version first!
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.
👨❤️👨 Round One: Relatively Speaking
1️⃣ Which stalwart comedy actress played Sandra’s mum in The Liver Birds? Answer: Molly Sugden (who also went on to greater fame in Are You Being Served?)
2️⃣ Who played Thelma’s dad in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? Answer: Bill Owen (better known as Compo in Last of the Summer Wine)
3️⃣ Which actress starred in Porridge as Fletcher’s daughter? Answer: Patricia Brake
4️⃣ With a link to Porridge, which actor went on to bigger things having played Fletch’s son in the sequel, Going Straight? Answer: Nicholas Lyndhurst (who of course became Rodney in Only Fools and Horses)
5️⃣ Who played Reggie Perrin’s wife in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin? Answer: Pauline Yates
🤘 Round Two: Sci-Fi Corner
1️⃣ In Thunderbirds, which of the Tracy Brothers was voiced by Parker and Brains’ voice artist, David Graham? Answer: Gordon
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? Answer: United Nations Intelligence Taskforce
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? Answer: Captain Yates (played by Richard Franklin) and Sergeant Benton (played by John Levene)
4️⃣ Who was the only character to appear in every episode of Blake’s 7? (Clue: it wasn’t Blake). Answer: The cowardly thief, Vila, played by Michael Keating
5️⃣ Which two actors connect Doctor Who and Rainbow? Answer: Roy Skelton (voiced Zippy/George and the Daleks) and John Leeson (was the original Bungle and the voice of K9)
🎄 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? Answer: A cow (what else would you buy for self-sufficient neighbours?)
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? Answer: The Angel of the Lord (naturally!)
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? Answer: A forklift truck
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? Answer: A Christmas cake
5️⃣ 1975 also saw the Rising Damp Christmas episode. What was special about the solitary, poorly written Christmas card that Rigsby received? Answer: He had written and sent it to himself (oh, Rigsby!)
📺 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? Answer: John Alderton and Robin Nedwell (half a point for one)
2️⃣ Who played Raffles in the TV series of the same name? Answer: Anthony Valentine
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? Answer: RAF Skelton
4️⃣ Maintaining the military theme, who was senior officer at Pippin Fort? Answer: Captain Snort
5️⃣ The BBC series Secret War was presented by which Top Gear presenter? Answer: William Woollard
🎅 Round Five: Special Guests (Morecambe & Wise)
1️⃣ Shirley Bassey, Glenda Jackson, André Previn, Los Zafiros, Dick Emery, and Francis Matthews. Answer: 1971 (the famous André Previn sketch!)
2️⃣ Elton John, John Thaw, Dennis Waterman, Kate O’Mara, The Nolans, and Angela Rippon. Answer: 1976
3️⃣ Peter Cushing, William Franklin, Nina, Eric Porter, Edward Woodward, and Kenny Ball and his Jazzmen. Answer: 1970
4️⃣ Diana Rigg, Des O’Connor, Gordon Jackson, Robin Day, Brenda Arnau, and Pan’s People. Answer: 1975
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. Answer: 1977 (that long list of newsreaders probably gave it away!)
🎁 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? Answer: Disney Time
2️⃣ Which comedy series featured the item ‘Confuse-a-Cat’? Answer: Monty Python’s Flying Circus
3️⃣ How many Christmas shows under the title Carry On Christmas did the Carry On team produce? Answer: Four (1969, 1970, 1972, 1973)
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? Answer: Greg Lake with “I Believe in Father Christmas”
5️⃣ Who presented the Christmas Day Top of the Pops in 1977? Answer: Noel Edmonds and David “Kid” Jensen
Are you feeling like Jimmy Stewart shouting with Christmas joy at the end of It’s A Wonderful Life or do you feel more like Hans Gruber in Die Hard as he falls from the Nakatomi Plaza? Whichever, I hope you’ve enjoyed our Christmas quiz!
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Oliver
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