Welcome to our ultimate TV quiz! Dive into five distinct rounds—Who’s Who, Sitcoms, TV Times, TV Gold, and TV Ads—each featuring 20 TV quiz questions to challenge your small-screen knowledge.
Whether you’re a TV buff or a casual viewer, get ready for a thrilling journey through iconic characters, classic sitcoms, timelines of beloved series, timeless TV gold, and memorable commercials. Ready to test your small screen savvy? Let the TV quiz festivities begin!
TV Quiz Round 1: Who’s Who?
1. Who presented “Crimewatch UK” with Nick Ross prior to Jill Dando?
2. Which “EastEnders” character was played by veteran actor Ray Brooks?
3. Who is the priest played by Stephen Tomkinson in “Ballykissangel”?
4. Who replaced Botham and Beaumont on “A Question of Sport”?
5. Which Martin played Judge John Deed?
6. Who left “Blue Peter” to join the “Clothes Show” team?
7. Who is known as “Mr Trick Shot”?
8. Who starred as Blanco in “Porridge”?
9. Which TV star’s first record release was “Extremis”?
10. Who won “Celebrity Big Brother” at the start of 2006?
11. Who were the stars of “A Close Shave”?
12. Who wrote “The Singing Detective” and “Pennis from Heaven”?
13. Which Agatha Christie sleuth was played by Geraldine McEwan?
14. Who co-starred with Adam Faith in “Love Hurts”?
15. Who is Anthea Turner’s TV presenter sister?
16. Who left “Peak Practice” for “Bliss”?
17. Which female replaced Matthew Kelly as host of “Stars in Their Eyes”?
18. Who was known as the Green Goddess?
19. Who first presented the weather on BBC’s “Breakfast Time”?
20. Who was known as the Galloping Gourmet?
Round 2: TV Sitcoms
21. Which Larry scripted “Seinfeld”?
22. Which ministry did Jim Hacker run before he became PM?
23. What are the names of Father Ted’s equally eccentric colleagues?
24. What is the name of the Vicar of Dibley?
25. Who had an incompetent personal assistant called Bubble?
26. Which character does Chris Langham play in “The Thick of It”?
27. What are the surnames of Will and Grace?
28. Who was the slave played by Frankie Howerd in “Up Pompeii”?
29. What are the Porter children called in “2 Point 4 Children”?
30. Which 80s series took its name from a 50s Little Richard song title?
31. Whose son-in-law was to him a “randy Scouse git”?
32. In “Ab Fab”, who was Edina’s bizarre secretary?
33. In which show did Dr Sheila Sabatini appear?
34. What was Steptoe and Son’s horse called?
35. Which character did Ronnie Corbett play in “Sorry!”?
36. WHich US sitcom character was mother to Becky, Darlene and DJ?
37. Who is Ricky Gervais’s co-writer?
38. What were Fletcher’s two first names in “Porridge”?
39. In “Birds of a Feather” what is Dorien’s husband called?
40. What is the TV news company called in “Drop the Dead Donkey”?
Round 3: TV Times
41. What is the first name of Kavanagh QC?
42. What was the BBC celebrity family history programme called?
43. Patrick Moore is famous for playing which musical instrument?
44. In which county was “Where the Heart Is” set?
45. Which TV show chronicled life in Wisteria Lane?
46. In “EastEnders”, who was the child of Grant and Tiffany?
47. Whom did the Simpsons replace as TV’s longest-running cartoon family in 1997?
48. What is the name of the infirmary in “Bramwell”?
49. Who played Jane Horrocks’s bossy mum in the Tesco ads?
50. Which female doctor succeeded Beth Glover in “Peak Practice”?
51. What is the fictional village where “Heartbeat” is set?
52. What is the profession of the chief characters in “This Life”?
53. Which actor is the son of Nigel Davenport and Maria Aitken?
54. Which role did Harry Enfield play in “Men Behaving Badly”?
55. What did the ARP warden call Mainwaring in “Dad’s Army”?
56. Which children’s TV character lives in Pontypandy?
57. Which detective has a dog called Snowy?
58. Who is the comedienne mother of the actress Suzy Aitchison?
59. In which decade was “Hi-De-Hi” first set?
60. Which comedian began his show with a shop-window illusion?
TV Questions Round 4: TV Gold
61. What type of pet did Manuel adopt in “Fawlty Towers”?
62. Which future James Bond starred in “Our Friends in the North”?
63. What was Terry’s sister called in “The Likely Lads”?
64. Which series featured Benny, Judy, Trisha and Tucker when it began?
65. Who was the third of “Take Three Girls” with Kate and Avril?
66. In what type of place was “Waiting for God” set?
67. Who was Jim London in “Up the Elephant and Round the Castle”?
68. What relation was Hattie Jacques to Eric in their “Sykes and …” series?
69. What did Harold Steptoe always call his father?
70. Which chat show was the “togmeister”?
71. What was the Richard O’Sullivan spin-off from “Man About the House”?
72. In which decade were weather forecasters seen, rather than just heard on TV?
73. Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar were characters in which series?
74. Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker were Eli and Nellie Pledge in which show?
75. Which TV family were headed by Herman and Lily?
76. Which veteran actress played the wife in “Meet the Wife”?
77. In which classic did you find Blanco, Lukewarm and Gay Gordon?
78. What was Bernard Hedge’s nickname in “Please Sir”?
79. Who were the two stars of “Marriage Lines”?
80. What was the surname of George and Mildred?
Round 5: TV ads
81. Who said, “Take it easy driving – the life you save might be mine”?
82. What was suggested that you “Buy some for Lulu”?
83. How much did “1001” clean your carpet for?
84. What did Patsy Kensit advertise in her first TV ad?
85. Pook’s “Blow the Wind” was used to advertise what?
86. Which programme was interrupted with the first commercial on UK TV?
87. Who wrote “O Sole Mio”, which advertised Wall’s Cornetto?
88. Which brand of what featured in the first UK TV ad?
89. Who wrote “The Flight of the Bumble Bee”, which urged us to buy Black & Decker paint stripper?
90. Whose watches were advertised to the music of Ramirez?
91. Which Bobby Hodgens and Siobhan Fahey song hit No. 1 after being used in a VW ad?
92. Which Muddy Waters hit was reissued after it was used to advertise Levi’s?
93. Which Mozart opera helped to sell the Citroen ZX?
94. Verdi’s “Dies Irae” was used to advertise which newspaper?
95. Who were the original jingle artists for the song that became “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing”?
96. Georgie Fame’s “Get Away” started out as a jingle for what?
97. Jack Nicklaus advertised Spanish houses for which company?
98. In the BT “EastEnders” ad what was the late Arthur Fowler doing?
99. Whose music – the theme from “Raging Bull”- advertised Heineken Export?
100. Whose wines were trumpeted to Pachelbel’s “Canon in D Major”?
As the curtains fall on our TV trivia extravaganza, we hope you’ve enjoyed the journey through the small screen’s rich tapestry. Whether you aced the rounds of iconic characters, classic sitcoms, TV timelines, timeless TV gold, or memorable commercials, your small-screen savvy has been put to the test.
Thank you for joining us in this quiz adventure, and we look forward to challenging your TV knowledge again soon.
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