TV & Radio - 1 point
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| TV - North America | In which US state was the 1990s comedy drama Northern Exposure set? | Alaska | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | What TV comedy, co-created by Friends co-creator David Crane, guest starred Matt LeBlanc as a fictional version of himself alongside TV writers played by Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig? | Episodes | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | What word connects the family of birds with the scientific name Gruidae, a traditional style of Chinese wushu, and the surname of the title character in the US sitcom Frasier? | Crane | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | Troy, Abed, Jeff, Pierce, Britta, Shirley, and Annie were the main characters in which American sitcom set in an education institution? | Community | 2024/05/03 |
| TV - North America | Trainee forensic analyst Holly Gribbs was killed in the opening episode of which American TV franchise? | CSI | 2024/05/10 |
| TV - North America | Marjorie Jacqueline Bouvier is the given name of which famous TV cartoon character? | Marge Simpson | 2024/05/10 |
| TV - North America | Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup are the members of which cartoon crime-fighting superhero team? | The Powerpuff Girls | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | Bob Odenkirk played a morally dubious lawyer in what US TV series, a spin-off from the show Breaking Bad? | Better Call Saul | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | What is the name of the US version of the UK's Strictly Come Dancing? | Dancing with the Stars | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | Inside what type of fruit does the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants live? | Pineapple | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | Norville Rogers is the real name of which cartoon character and canine's best friend? | Shaggy *from Scooby Doo | 2023/05/14 |
| TV - North America | 'The truth is out there' was the tagline of which TV show that originally aired from 1993 to 2002? | The X-Files | 2024/04/09 |
| TV - North America | Ryder, Chase, Marshall, Skye, and Rocky are all members of which animated search-and-rescue team? | Paw Patrol | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | In which US city was the long-running hospital drama ER set? | Chicago | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | What is the name of the corporation from which Wile E. Coyote buys his eternally useless contraptions in the Road Runner cartoons? | Acme Corporation | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | What is the name of the girl who has a love-hate relationship with Arnold, to the extent she built a secret shrine dedicated to him, in the children's cartoon Hey, Arnold! | Helga Pataki | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - North America | Jones, Blake, Dinkley, and Rogers are the surnames of which cartoon character's human friends? | Scooby Doo *The names relate to Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers | 2023/05/14 |
| TV - North America | The shouting of what seven word catchphrase famously concludes cold openings of the US comedy show Saturday Night Live, after which the programme’s opening credits play? | Live from New York, it’s Saturday night | 2024/12/07 |
| TV - North America | Internet TV series Hot Ones involves celebrities being interviewed whilst eating increasingly spicy versions of what food? | Chicken wings | 2024/12/07 |
| TV - North America | Which Netflix show has the Society for American Archaeology openly called to be reclassified as science fiction, saying it ‘devalues the archaeological profession on the basis of false claims and disinformation’, adding that the show’s presented theory that survivors of a destroyed advanced civilization gave hunter-gatherers their knowledge ‘has a long-standing association with racist, white supremacist ideologies; does injustice to Indigenous peoples; and emboldens extremists’? | Ancient Apocalypse | 2024/12/07 |
| TV - North America | What name is shared by one of the two creators of the 1990s sitcom Friends and a character from its one-time contemporary sitcom Frasier? | David Crane | 2024/12/27 |
| TV - North America | In the weeks after the 9/11 attacks in 2001, which Sesame Street character inadvertently appeared alongside Osama bin Laden on anti-US posters in Bangladesh after a printer used images from a joke website? | Bert *The website was called ‘Bert is evil’ and argued that Bert is a criminal mastermind, placing his picture beside infamous figures across history. | 2025/01/01 |
| TV - North America | What television series of the 1990s, which returned for one series in 2017, began with the discovery of the body of Laura Palmer? | Twin Peaks | 2025/01/08 |
| TV - North America | What is the simple three word question that comprises the title of a US television show, presented by comedian Mikey Day, in which contestants try to guess whether an item is real or a replica made of a particular baked produce? | Is it cake? | 2025/01/09 |
| TV - UK | What colour of book was given to subjects of the biographical TV show This is Your Life? | Red | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | During a normal week, that being absent of special events that would result in a change of schedule, on how many evenings is the soap opera Eastenders shown? | 4 *Monday to Thursday | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | Which 1982 British animation, based on a book by Raymond Briggs, has been shown on Channel 4 every year since its debut in 1982? | The Snowman | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | In the 1982 Christmas animation The Snowman, what is the name of the boy? | James | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | In which of the four primary series of the BBC comedy Blackadder did the titular character not die? | Blackadder the Third | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | Into which cartoon superhero did the character Eric Wimp turn when he ate a specific fruit? | Bananaman | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | The 1999 special Blackadder: Back and Forth was commissioned for the Skyscape Cinema at which building? | Millennium Dome | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | In the Blackadder II episode Money, after Lord Percy fails in his attempt to create gold through alchemy, what colour-related name does he give to the useless new substance he does create? | Green | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | On what colour chair do members of the public sit to tell embarrassing stories on The Graham Norton Show? | Red | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | Bob Breadsnapper, Fiona Glossop, William Cox, Mr Macadoo, and Long Distance Clara were all residents on which animated street, named after a type of bird? | Pigeon Street | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | What was the snooker-themed game show broadcast on the BBC from 1991 to 2002? | Big Break | 2023/04/22 |
| TV - UK | Apart from their names, what connects the characters called Colin in the comedies Colin from Accounts, Spaced, and Blackadder the Third? | They are all dogs | 2023/04/28 |
| TV - UK | The actor Terrence Hardiman, who passed away in May 2023, is best known for playing which villainous school principal in the 1990s? | The Demon Headmaster | 2024/05/10 |
| TV - UK | What was the name of the 1980s children's drama about a boy's football team, which was written by 'Voice of Darts' Sid Waddell? | Jossy's Giants | 2024/06/15 |
| TV - UK | Swoop, Swipe, and Swap are relatives of which children’s television character? | Sweep | 2024/04/07 |
| TV - UK | What is the name of Sooty's cousin? | Little Cousin Scampi | 2024/04/07 |
| TV - UK | Butch, Ramsbottom, Mr Woof and Miki have all been minor characters in which television franchise? | Sooty | 2024/04/07 |
| TV - UK | Which character made his TV debut in 1957 with a voice created by a saxophone reed? | Sweep | 2024/04/07 |
| TV - UK | Which Scottish-set TV programme has been co-presented by Carol Baxter since 1986? | The Beechgrove Garden | 2024/05/30 |
| TV - UK | The funeral of which UK TV actor in 1981 had six Margate constables stand as guards of honour, and was attended by 16 members of the Metropolitan police, as well as officers from Kensington District and Paddington Green? | Jack Warner *Jack Warner played policeman PC George Dixon on Dixon of Dock Green from 1955 to 1976. | 2024/05/03 |
| TV - UK | The American improvised murder mystery show Murderville is based on what UK show in which a guest must solve a murder in a town of celebrities? | Murder in Successville | 2024/10/31 |
| TV - UK | On which British children’s TV show did Mr Spoon go on adventures in a spacecraft made of a baked beans tin with a funnel on top? | Button Moon | 2024/10/31 |
| TV - UK | Hosted by Victoria Coren-Mitchell, what BBC2 quiz show takes its name from a line in E.M. Forster’s novel Howard’s End? | Only Connect | 2024/11/14 |
| TV - UK | The theme music from the 1966 film The Trap, composed by Ron Goodwin, is used annually by the BBC in its live coverage of which April sporting event? | London Marathon | 2024/12/07 |
| TV - UK | Which British children’s TV puppet was named as mascot to the UK’s 1992 Olympic team? | Edd the Duck | 2024/12/19 |
| TV - Europe | Robby the seal was the best friend of which children's stop motion animation character? | Pingu | 2023/04/28 |
| TV - Europe/Asia | What was the English name of the 1980s Spanish-Japanese cartoon adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel The Three Musketeers in which the main characters were all turned into dogs? | Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds *In Spanish, the series was called D'Artacán y los Tres Mosqueperros. In Japanese, the title translated as Woof Woof and the Three Muskehounds. | 2024/05/05 |
| TV - Asia | Although officially called 中国中央电视台 (Zhongguo Zhongyang Dianshitai), by what four letter initialism, based on its English translation, is China’s state television network commonly known? | CCTV *CCTV stands for China Central Television. | 2024/12/19 |
| TV - Franchises | The international cooking TV franchise Iron Chef originated in which country? | Japan | 2024/10/22 |
| Radio - UK | What is the name of the Radio 4 science show and podcast presented by Brian Cox and Robin Ince, it's title referring to the theorem that a monkey given an unlimited amount of time would eventually type The Complete Works of Shakespeare? | The Infinite Monkey Cage | 2023/04/16 |
| Radio - UK | Who was the first DJ to present on BBC Radio 1, doing so on September 30, 1967? | Tony Blackburn | 2024/11/14 |
| Radio - UK | What was the name of the BBC radio and television quiz for high school students that ran from 1948 to 1986, of which five out of the first six UK national winners were schools in Scotland? | Top of the Form | 2024/12/07 |
| Podcasts - UK | Goalhanger Podcasts, the media company behind podcasts such as The Rest is Politics and The Rest is History, was established by which sportsperson-turned-television presenter? | Gary Lineker | 2024/05/10 |
TV & Radio - 2 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| TV - US | Who were the two creators of the TV sitcom Friends? | 1. David Crane 2. Marta Kauffman | 2024/12/23 |
| TV - UK | Excluding its one-off return in 2007, who were the two presenters of the TV show This is Your Life, which ran from 1955 to 2003? | 1. Eamonn Andrews 2. Michael Aspel | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | In 2022, which two presenters of breakfast show This Morning were caught in a media frenzy about allegedly skipping the queue to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state, despite using the media entrance? | 1. Phillip Schofield 2. Holly Willoughby | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | In the famous Monty Python philosophers football game sketch, philosophers representing which two nations play each other? | 1. Greece 2. Germany | 2023/05/14 |
| TV - UK | From which two towns do the families in the UK sitcom Gavin & Stacey come? | 1. Billericay (in Essex) 2. Barry (in Vale of Glamorgan) | 2024/05/05 |
| TV - UK | Which two people have served as judges on both Britain’s Strictly Come Dancing and its US equivalent, Dancing with the Stars? | 1. Len Goodman 2. Bruno Tonioli | 2024/12/07 |
| TV - UK | What are the names of the two Death in Paradise spin off series, one set in Devon and the other Australia? | 1. Beyond Paradise 2. Return to Paradise | 2024/12/14 |
| TV - UK | Who were the creators and two original writers for the comedy show Red Dwarf? | 1. Rob Grant 2. Doug Naylor | 2024/12/23 |
TV & Radio - 3 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| TV - UK | Which three comedians are the only people to have won two series of the UK version of Taskmaster, having each won their own series and a Champion of Champions series? | 1. Josh Widdicombe 2. Richard Herring 3. Dara Ó Briain | 2024/04/03 |
| TV - UK | Who were the three children of Peggy Mitchell on Eastenders? | 1. Phil Mitchell 2. Grant Mitchell 3. Sam Mitchell | 2024/05/10 |
| TV - UK | Who have been the three full-time hosts of British quiz show University Challenge since it launched in 1962? | 1. Bamber Gascoigne 2. Jeremy Paxman 3. Amol Rajan | 2024/10/22 |
| TV - UK | Since the programme started in 1962, what are the only three Scottish universities to have won University Challenge? | 1. University of St Andrews (1982) 2. University of Dundee (1983) 3. University of Edinburgh (2019) | 2024/10/31 |
| TV - UK | Which three men have served as both presenters and overseers of the Sooty franchise since it started in 1955? | 1. Harry Corbett (1955-1976) 2. Matthew Corbett (1976-1998) 3. Richard Cadell (1998-present) | 2024/12/07 |
| TV - UK | What are the names of the three challenges in each round of The Great British Bake Off? | 1. Signature 2. Technical 3. Showstopper | 2024/12/07 |
| TV - UK | What are the three television series in the Inspector Morse franchise? | 1. Inspector Morse 2. Lewis 3. Endeavour | 2024/12/19 |
TV & Radio - 4 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last update |
|---|---|---|---|
| UK | What were the names of the four principle characters in the 1980s comedy The Young Ones? | 1. Mike 2. Vyvyn 3. Neil 4. Rick | 2023/05/14 |
| UK | Who were the four presenters of the UK's humorous home movies show You've Been Framed? | 1. Jeremy Beadle 2. Lisa Riley 3. Jonathan Wilkes 4. Harry Hill | 2024/04/09 |
| UK | Who have been the four permanent presenters of the BBC show Question Time? | 1. Robin Day 2. Peter Sissons 3. David Dimbleby 4. Fiona Bruce | 2024/04/18 |
| UK | Including the one-off 2016 Stand Up for Cancer edition, who have been the four presenters of UK version of The Crystal Maze? | 1. Richard O’Brien 2. Ed Tudor-Pole 3. Stephen Merchant 4. Richard Ayoade | 2024/10/31 |
| North America | What are the names of the four humans who accompany Scooby Doo in the cartoon Scooby Doo, Where are You? | 1. Fred 2. Daphne 3. Velma 4. Shaggy *Their full names are Fred Jones, Daphne Blake, Velma Dinkley, and Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers | 2023/05/14 |
| North America | In the long-running animation The Simpsons, which four voice actors voice the speaking members of the family, namely Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa? | 1. Dan Castellaneta 2. Julie Kavner 3. Nancy Cartwright 4. Yeardley Smith *Castellaneta provides the voice of Homer, Kavner is Marge, Cartwright voices Bart, and Smith is Lisa. | 2024/10/22 |
TV & Radio - 5 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| TV - North America | What are the names of five CSI franchise series? | 1. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 2. CSI: Miami 3. CSI: NY 4. CSI: Cyber 5. CSI: Vegas *A special 3-part show called CSI: Trilogy was also aired. | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | Who have been the five boardroom assistants to Alan Sugar in the British version of The Apprentice? | 1. Nick Hewer 2. Margaret Mountford 3. Karren Brady 4. Claude Littner 5. Tim Campbell | 2024/04/08 |
| TV - UK | According to Barb, the organisation that tracks television audience figures in the UK, what are the five most watched television channels in the UK? | 1. BBC 1 2. ITV 1 3. Channel 4 4. BBC 2 5. Channel 5 *Despite the expansion of digital and subscription alternatives, the most popular channels in the UK remain the original five free-to-air public channels, with 5th place Channel 5 still receiving twice as many viewers as 6th place ITV 3. | 2024/04/28 |
| Radio - UK | Who have been the five presenters of the radio programme Desert Island Discs since it started in 1942? | 1. Roy Plomley (1942-1985) 2. Michael Parkinson (1986-1988) 3. Sue Lawley (1988-2006) 4. Kirsty Young (2006-2018) 5. Lauren Laverne (2018- ) | 2023/04/16 |
TV & Radio - 6 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| TV - US | Which six actors played the six friends in the sitcom Friends, which in 2024 marked the 30th anniversary of its first episode, and 20th anniversary of its last? | 1. Jennifer Aniston 2. Courtney Cox 3. Lisa Kudrow 4. Matt LeBlanc 5. Matthew Perry 6. David Schwimmer | 2024/11/14 |
| TV - UK | Name the six members of the Monty Python comedy troupe that started in 1969. | 1. Graham Chapman 2. John Cleese 3. Terry Gilliam 4. Eric Idle 5. Terry Jones 6. Michael Palin | 2023/04/16 |
| TV - UK | Who have been the six non-judging presenters of the Great British Bake Off? | 1. Mel Giedroyc 2. Sue Perkins 3. Sandi Toksvig 4. Noel Fielding 5. Matt Lucas 6. Alison Hammond | 2024/04/02 |
| TV - UK | Name the six 'chasers' to have appeared on the ITV game show The Chase? | 1. Mark Labbett (The Beast) 2. Anne Hegarty (The Governess) 3. Paul Sinha (The Sinnerman) 4. Shaun Wallace (The Dark Destroyer) 5. Jenny Ryan (The Vixen) 6. Darragh Ennis (The Menace) | 2023/04/22 |
| TV - UK | What are the names of the North Western Railway engines numbered one through six in the Thomas the Tank Engine franchise? | 1. Thomas 2. Edward 3. Henry 4. Gordon 5. James 6. Percy | 2024/10/22 |
TV & Radio - 8 points
| Category | Question | Answer | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|
| Radio - UK | Name the 8 people who have presented Radio 4 comedy panel show The News Quiz. | 1. Barry Norman 2. Barry Took 3. Simon Hoggart 4. Sandi Toksvig 5. Miles Jupp 6. Nish Kumar 7. Angela Barnes 8. Andy Zaltzman | 2023/04/16 |