Quiz 246

BCG reader Hercules Grytpype Thynne is back with some more testing questions...

1. Alan Partridge tries to grab the attention of his new friend, kitchen showroom owner Mr Moody, in a car park by hilariously shouting his first name continuously. What was that name?

I'm Alan Partridge. Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan). Copyright: Talkback Productions

2. And staying with that sketch, which comedy actor, you only saw briefly, was playing that part of Mr Moody?

3. In The Green Man, Alastair Sim is a freelance assassin assigned to bump off a pompous politician, but what does the film title stand for?

The Green Man. Image shows from L to R: William Blake (George Cole), Harry Hawkins (Alastair Sim)

4. In Peter Kay's sitcom pilot The Ice Man Cometh, he plays an ice cream man out to out-do his rival. What is he and his van called?

That Peter Kay Thing

5. In On The Buses, what stalwart British actress played the mother?

6. What was the title of the short lived sitcom that was written by and starred Johnny Vaughan, back in 2001?

Name this show

7. What was the hit song that Don Estelle and Windsor Davies from It Ain't Half Hot Mum had in the charts?

It Ain't Half Hot Mum. Image shows from L to R: Gunner 'Lofty' Sugden (Don Estelle), BSM Geoffrey 'Shut Up' Williams (Windsor Davies). Copyright: BBC

8. In Father Ted, what was the item that they bought Mrs Doyle to make her life easier, but she hated it?

Father Ted. Image shows from L to R: Father Dougal McGuire (Ardal O'Hanlon), Father Ted Crilly (Dermot Morgan), Father Jack Hackett (Frank Kelly), Mrs Doyle (Pauline McLynn). Copyright: Hat Trick Productions

9. Julie Driscoll and Ade Edmondson recorded the Ab Fab theme song This Wheel's On Fire, but who replaced Driscoll for Series 4 & 5 and the 2002 special?

Absolutely Fabulous. Image shows from L to R: Bubble (Jane Horrocks), Saffron (Julia Sawalha), Edina (Jennifer Saunders), Mother (June Whitfield), Patsy (Joanna Lumley). Copyright: BBC

10. Pauline, the evil restart officer who loves to belittle and berate her job seekers in The League Of Gentlemen, is obsessed by things she calls her friends - what are they?

The League Of Gentlemen. Pauline (Steve Pemberton). Copyright: BBC
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