Test your trivia knowledge

On Sunday, Chortle held its annual comedy pub quiz at the Leicester Comedy Festival, raising more than £150 for Amnesty International.

Here are the questions host Mark Olver put to the audience… how would you have fared?

ROUND ONE: PICTURES

Identify the following people – or the show in the case of D, F and J. Bonus point for spelling G’s surname correctly:

ROUND TWO

1. Which comedian won the first ever Celebrity Big Brother?

2. What was Mrs Slocombe’s first name?

3. What sort of vehicle did Del Boy drive? Make and model please

4. Which film comedian started his career as understudy for Charlie Chaplin?

5. What is the name of the grammar school in Little Britain?

6. What was the name of the police officer in Allo Allo, played by Arthur Bostrom, with the catchphrase Good Moaning?

7. Which comic legend sang the theme tune to Dad's Army, less than a year before he died?

8. Which show did Mork & Mindy spin-off from?

9. What was the name of Frankie Howerd’s character in Up Pompeii?

ROUND THREE
Where will you find the following characters:

1. Slartibartfast
2. The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town
3. Knitted Character
4. Herr Lipp
Felicity Shagwell
Duane Dibbley
The Greased-Up Deaf Guy
Rambling Syd Rumpo
9. President Merkin Muffley
10. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth

ROUND FOUR:
Which comedians wrote these autobiographies?

1. My Booky Wook
2. The Sound Of Laughter
3. Dear Fatty:
4. Look Who It Is
5. Larger Than Life
6. High Hopes
7. How to Talk Dirty And Influence People
8. My Shit Life So Far
9. The Full Monty
10. The Custard Stops At Hatfield

ROUND FIVE: VIDEO

The questions are with the clips:

ROUND SIX:

1. Which comedy series was based in East Hampton Hospital Trust?

2. Who are Daniel Roche, Tyger Drew-Honey and Ramona Marquez?

3. What were the names of the Three Stooges?

4. What was the name of the village in the RADIO series of League of Gentlemen?

5. Who used to perform as Professor Yaffle Chuckabutty, Operatic Tenor and Sausage-Knotter?

6. What character did Ronnie Corbett play in Sorry! Extra point for the surname

7. What, according to Vic Reeves, do we do when we first see the Wheel of Justice?

8. Whose theme tune was Dance Of The Cuckoos?

9. Which comedian’s real name is Chris Collins?

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Published: 23 Feb 2010