That’s Showquizness Act 3
TV
1 The 30th anniversary of which event was marked in 1999 by the Channel 4 programme Mission Impossible?
2 Which TV series starring Nick Berry was set in the town of Bridehaven?
3 Which role did Bill Waddington play in Coronation Street?
4 Which World War II drama starred John Thaw as a catholic priest?
5 When Princess Anne appeared on A Question of Sport, who was her team captain?
6 Which TV garden houses a statue of Petra?
7 On which island did Tattoo work as a man servant?
8 Which company was endorsed by Maureen Lipman in a series of TV adverts in which she played a character called Beattie Bellman?
9 Which sitcom starred Paula Wilcox and Richard Beckinsale as Beryl and Geoff?
10 Which android was played on TV by Matt Frewer?
11 What was the name of Russ Abbot’s comic version of James Bond?
12 Which sitcom was set at the Bay View Retirement Home?
13 Which character replaced Christopher Pike as captain?
14 Which Coronation Street character is played by Alan Halsall?
15 What was the first name of the character played by Caroline Quentin in Men Behaving Badly?
16 On which Spanish Costa was Eldorado set?
17 In Sickness and In Health was a sequel to which comedy series?
18 Which actor connects Basil Brush, Heartbeat and Yes Prime Minister?
19 In which series did Neil Morrissey play Rocky Cassidy?
20 Which pair of characters from the Muppet
Show were named after hotels?
Answers
1 The first manned moon landing
2 Harbour Lights
3 Percy Sugden
4 Monsignor Renard
5 Emlyn Hughes
6 Blue Peter garden
7 Fantasy Island
8 BT
9 The Lovers
10 Max Headroom
11 Basildon Bond
12 Waiting for God
13 James T Kirk
14 Tyrone Dobbs
15 Dorothy
16 Costa del Sol
17 Till Death Us Do Part
18 Derek Fowlds
19 Boon
20 Statler and Waldorf
Films
1 Which newspaper does Lois Lane work for?
2 Which actor lost his sight in the film The Great Escape?
3 In which 2002 film was Mel Gibson plagued by crop circles?
4 Which film heroes drove a vehicle called the Ectomobile?
5 Which 1995 film sequel was subtitled The Adventure Home?
6 Dallas, Kane, Parker, Ripley, Ash, Brett and Lambert made up the spacecraft crew in which film?
7 Which musical had the working title of Welcome to Berlin?
8 What was the town of Kingston Falls invaded by in a 80s movie?
9 Who overcame her deafness to win a Best Actress Oscar for her role in the film Children of a Lesser God?
10 Who played the Mother Superior in Sister Act?
11 Who played Brad Pitt’s wife in Mr and Mrs Smith?
12 Which law enforcer was played by Kevin Costner in The Untouchables?
13 Which was the first film directed by Steven Spielberg to win the Best Film Oscar?
14 Who was the first British actress to win the Best Actress Oscar?
15 Who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in the film Ghost?
16 Who died on March 17, 1995 and was played on film by Gary Kemp five years
earlier?
17 Who played the daughter of Tom Cruise in The War of the Worlds?
18 Which newspaper did Citizen Kane work for?
19 Who did Richard Gere portray in the film First Knight?
20 What begins at Gower Street and ends on
Sunset Boulevard?
Answers
1 Daily Planet
2 Donald Pleasence
3 Signs
4 Ghostbusters
5 Free Willy 2
6 Alien
7 Cabaret
8 Gremlins
9 Marlee Matlin
10 Maggie Smith
11 Angelina Jolie
12 Eliot Ness
13 Schindler’s List
14 Vivien Leigh
15 Whoopi Goldberg
16 Ronnie Kray
17 Dakota Fanning
18 The Inquirer
19 Sir Lancelot
20 The Hollywood Walk of Fame
Music
1 Which former Neighbours star hit the charts with the song Torn?
2 Unfounded Rumours is the name of a tribute band to which group?
3 Which was the only pop group to record a hit record in the UK in every single year of the 1970s?
4 In what year did Marc Bolan die in a car crash?
5 Which 1971 hit for the Supremes was later covered by Bananarama?
6 In which city is the opera Carmen set?
7 In 1999, which two men associated with the film musical Oliver died?
8 What was the theme song of Flanagan and Allen?
9 What was the title of Alvin Stardust’s only number one single?
10 Lawley replaced Parkinson. Who did Parkinson replace?
11 Who became leader of the American Air Force Orchestra in 1939?
12 What question did Rod Stewart ask at the top of the 1978 charts?
13 Which hit for The Hollies has been used in a TV advert for Vic’s nasal spray?
14 Which TV music show is associated with the phrase, “the weekend starts here”?
15 Who was born in 1896, murdered in 1916 and became the subject of a hit record in 1978?
16 In 1969, what ended in a four way tie between the UK, Holland, Spain and France?
17 Daisy Hawkins was the original working title of which Beatles song?
18 Who was born Eileen Regina Edwards in Ontario?
19 What is the title of the theme song for the TV comedy Absolutely Fabulous?
20 Which singer was forbidden a mass by the
Archbishop of Paris at her 1963 funeral?
Answers
1 Natalie Imbruglia
2 Fleetwood Mac
3 Hot Chocolate
4 1977
5 Nathan Jones
6 Seville
7 Oliver Reed and Lionel Bart
8 Underneath the Arches
9 Jealous Mind
10 Roy Plomley as host of Desert Island Discs
11 Glen Miller
12 Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?
13 The Air that I Breathe
14 Ready Steady Go
15 Rasputin
16 The Eurovision Song Contest
17 Eleanor Rigby
18 Shania Twain
19 This Wheel’s on Fire
20 Edith Piaf