Comedy Quiz

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1) Only Fools And Horses - Christmas Day l996
In the first part of the 'final' trilogy, Del and Rodney put on costumes to go to a fancy dress party - only to discover that the host has died and all the other guests are wearing black. In a classic scene, the Trotters emerge out of the mist dressed as:
(a) Alvin Stardust and Suzi Quatro
(b)
Captain Hook and Peter Pan
(c)
Batman and Robin


2) Micawber - Boxing Day 2001
A year ago David Jason followed up his Christmas Day romp as Del Boy with two helpings of this much-loved 19th-century character. Which Dickens classic was it based on?
(a) Nicholas Nickleby
(b)
David Copperfield
(c)
Oliver Twist


3) Coronation Street - Christmas Day 2000 Another festive season, another lover for Deirdre - but who is it this time?
(a) Curly Watts
(b)
Dev Alahan
(c)
Les Battersby


4) Victoria Wood - Christmas Day 2000
In her first sketch show for years, the comedienne donned a red dress to portray which politician?
(a) Margaret Thatcher
(b)
Margaret Beckett
(c)
Ann Widdecombe


5) Inspector Morce - Day l987
Only the fourth episode but already it's the seasonal highlight. In 'The Wolvercote Tongue', Morse (John Thaw) tells his sergeant (Kevin Whately): "I don't think, Lewis, I..."
(a) Deduce
(b)
Compute
(c) Act


6) Not Only... But Also - Boxing Day l966
The Beatles had had the Christmas No. 1 for three years in a row, but not this year. Instead, John Lennon appeared in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore's seasonal special, playing a commissionaire. Of what?
(a) The Hilton Hotel
(b)
The BBC
(c)
A gents' toilet


7) Minder - Christmas Day 1985
George Cole gets a nice little earner by directing a special two-hour edition based on a popular Agatha Christie novel. It is called:
(a) The Body In Arthur Daley's Lock-Up
(b)
Minder On The Orient Exress
(c)
Terry McCann On The Nile


8) Upstairs, Downstalrs - December 21, 1975
In the farewell episode of the saga, the family leave 165 Eaton Square after James Bellamy loses all their money in the Wall Street Crash. Meanwhile Hudson the butler marries... who?
(a) Mrs Bridges the cook
(b)
Lady Prudence Fairfax
(c) Rose the head housemaid


9) Doctor Who - December 21, 1963
In the fourth episode of the BBC's new Saturday teatime serial, the Tardis lands on the planet Skaro, where the peace-loving, humanoid Thals are being exterminated by:
(a) Radiation
(b)
The Daleks
(c)
Both


10) The Good Llfe - Boxing Day 1977
Margo and Jerry Leadbetter are forced to share Tom and Barbara's Christmas, which cost all of 15p. Margo is upset because she does not understand her Christmas cracker motto - "The Ooh-Ah Bird is so called because it lays square eggs". Even worse:
(a) There's no paper hat
(b)
Her hat is red
(c)
It is made from the Daily Mirror


11) The Simpsons - December 17, 1989
In the first full-length Simpsons, Marge asks the kids what they want for Christmas, to which Bart replies: "A tattoo." Homer loses his Christmas present money betting on a greyhound so useless that its owner kicks it out. Homer reluctantly takes the dog home - whereupon the family assume it is their present and are overjoyed. The dog's name is:
(a) Santa's Little Helper
(b)
Apu
(c)
Lassie


12) Dad's Army - December 23,1974
Corporal Jones shoots a turkey by mistake so the Home Guard throw a free dinner for the Walmington-on Sea OAPs. When Private Pike spills gravy on Captain Mainwaring's dinner suit, he retorts:
(a) Don’t panic
(b)
"We're all doomed
(c)
"You stupid boy!"


13) Father Ted Christmas Eve 1996
'A Christmassy Ted', in which eight priests get lost in the lingerie department. Earlier, Father Dougal opens a new window of the Advent calendar and shouts excitedly: "Brilliant! A shepherd!" Ted reminds him what he had originally predicted he would find there:
(a) A donkey
(b)
A pin-up of Madonna
(c)
Ruud Gullit sitting on a shed


14) Morecambe And Wise - Christmas Day l977
A record 28 million people tune in to see if Eric and Ern could top the previous year's show, when newsreader Angela Rippon ripped off her skirt for a sexy dance routine. This time it's the men's turn, as Barry Norman, Patrick Moore and fellow celebs jump around in sailor suits singing:
(a) Bring Me Sunshine
(b)
There is Nothing Like a Dame
(c)
Mull Of Kintyre


15) Steptoe And Son Boxing Day l974
In the rag-and-bone men's Christmas special, Harold insists they go abroad for the holiday. At the airport he discovers his passport has run out, so while the old man goes to Switzerland, Harold winds up alone at last with his girlfriend - where?
(a) Bognor
(b)
Las Vegas
(c)
Shepherds Bush


16) Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? Christmas Eve 1974
Terry has a new job as a taxi driver. He goes to pick up a couple who are off to a fancy dress party and there is horror all round when he finds it is Bob and Thelma dressed up as:
(a) Alvin Stardust and Suzi Quatro
(b)
Captain Hook and Peter Pan
(c)
Batman and Robin


17) EastEnders - Christmas Day 2001
A little light amid the Albert Square gloom: Jim proposes to Dot. How?
(a) An engagement ring in a cracker
(b)
Flying over Walford in a balloon
(c)
An advert in the Walford Gazette


18) Hancock's Half Hour - Boxing Day 1958
Tony Hancock launches a new series with one of his finest half hours, as Ericson the Viking, with a theme song about "nipping through the woods". Which Fifties TV hero used to go "riding through the glen"?
(a) William Tell
(b)
Ro:bin Hood
(c)
Hopalong Cassidy


19) The Royle Family - Christmas Day l999
"The one day we all sit and watch the telly," couch potato Jim Royle moans, "and they put a load of sh**e on!" So a normal day in the Royle household, until:
(a) Twiggy gets Jim drunk and shaves off his beard
(b)
Dave kisses Beverley Macca under the mistletoe
c)
Denise has a baby


20) The West Wing - December l5, 1999
The White House is in pre-Christmas turmoil but the ever generous President Bartlett checks his wallet and slips out to do ... what?
(a) Declare war on New Zealand
(b)
Get a new job as a Santa Claus
(c)
Buy some Christmas presents

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