Test your comedy knowledge

ROUND ONE: PICTURE ROUND

Name the people (or characters for B, D and I):

ROUND TWO

1. What were Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise's real surnames?

2. Of which prison was Fletcher an inmate?

3. Which character - played by Olivia Coleman – did Mark marry in Peep Show?

4. Where does Father Ted live?

5. Which race demolished the Earth in Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy?

6. Who lived at 24 Sebastapol Terrace with his spinster sister?

7. In which town were the Dad's Army platoon based?

8. Who is Michael Pennington better known as?

9. What was the name of the racially dodgy ITV sitcom starring a blacked up Spike Milligan as an Asian immigrant factory worker?

10. When was the first Leicester Comedy Festival?

ROUND THREE

What do you associate these words or phrases:

1. Smeg

2. Grot

3. Flowery Twats

4. Jagshemash

5. Look at mooiye, ploise

ROUND FOUR

Video round. The questions are in the clips:

ROUND FIVE

What British sitcoms were the following US shows based on?

1. Sanford & Son

2. All In The Family

3. Reggie

4. The Ropers

5. Rear Guard

6. Beane’s Of Boston

ROUND SIX

1. What were Abbott & Costello's first names

2. Who was the first guest host of Have I Got News For You after Angus Deayton lost his job?

3. What Marxist movement was led by 'Woolfie' Smith?

4. What was the full name of Peter Kay's recent Pop Idol spoof which aired on Channel 4?

5. What were the names of the two elderly female characters played by Les Dawson and Roy Barraclough?

6. Whose stand-up shows have included Never Scared, Kill The Messenger and Bring the Pain?

7. Which camp Eighties comedian had the catchphrase: 'Chase me?'

8. What is the name of Alan Partridge's long-suffering PA?

9. What was the name of Dick Emery's character who had the catchphrase: "Ooh, you are awful ... but I like you!"

10. In which film did Russell Brand play wayward rock star Aldous Snow?

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Published: 16 Feb 2009