Quiz #42 Answers
Thanks for playing along with Quiz #42! Ready to see how you scored?
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Round One – Wish You Were Here?
1️⃣ The Outsiders
Answer: Australia
2️⃣ The Water Margin
Answer: China
3️⃣ The White Horses
Answer: Yugoslavia or Slovenia
4️⃣ The Feathered Serpent
Answer: Mexico
5️⃣ Daktari
Answer: East Africa (filmed in Florida!)
Round Two – Marathon / Fil Rouge
1️⃣ Who advised “clunk, click every trip”?
Answer: Jimmy Saville
2️⃣ Boy and dog sliding down a helter-skelter?
Answer: Jamie and the Magic Torch
3️⃣ Hutch’s real name in Starsky and Hutch?
Answer: Kenneth or Ken Hutchinson
4️⃣ Which show featured the MS Pacific Princess?
Answer: The Love Boat
5️⃣ Who drove car number five in Wacky Races?
Answer: Penelope Pitstop (Compact Pussycat)
Round Three – Name That Tune (Debut 1978)
🎵 Theme Tune Answers:
- Blake’s 7
- Grange Hill
- The Voyage of Charles Darwin
- Enemy at the Door
- The Incredible Hulk
Round Four – TV Times
1️⃣ Who played Rumpole?
Answer: Leo McKern
2️⃣ City in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie?
Answer: Edinburgh
3️⃣ Theatre for The Good Old Days?
Answer: The City Varieties Theatre Leeds
4️⃣ Family business in Nearest and Dearest?
Answer: Pledge’s Purer Pickles (Pickle Factory accepted)
5️⃣ Age in Logan’s Run to be surplus?
Answer: Thirty
Bonus Question
What strange event interrupted the ITN evening news in the Southern TV region on 26 November 1977?
Answer: The audio was replaced by a voice claiming to represent the “Ashtar Galactic Command,” urging humanity to abandon weapons for a future awakening.
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