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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Blackadder
| From the book's introduction, most all historians aggree that the Blackadder dynasty was among the most vile in British history, except for Prof. G. R. Blackadder who called them what? | 'Blackadder': The Whole Dynasty 1485-1917
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'The nicest, sweetest, kindest, most like-a-bunch-of-little-kittens-in-a-basket type family of all time.. Obvious, was it?
A child-friendly slide-and-swing combination.. The laborers were headed by a certain noxious fellow named Bad Reek, who was called 'Homo Non-Erectus' by archaeologists. This human strain was nearly wiped out for two obvious reasons.
Baldrick. Edmund wanted to name himself 'The Black Vegetable' (Baldrick was a lot smarter in his early days).
Physical exam followed by past history and diagnosis. Modesty prevents my mentioning what to do for a toothache.
| Moving to the Tudor years, in the episode 'Potato', instead of sailing to the Cape of Good Hope (a.k.a. The Cape of Certain Death) to impress the Queen, where does Blackadder intend to go? | 'Blackadder': The Whole Dynasty 1485-1917
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France. They did not get to France...their actual destination involved 'streams of molten lava, a steaming mangrove swamp and a crowd of beckoning natives rubbing their tummies and pointing to a large black pot'
The baby-eating Bishop of Bath and Wells. Their motto is 'Repayment or Revenge'.
'Blackadder II'. In 'Blackadder Goes Fourth', he sports a mustache, but is clean-shaven in the first and third series. He was also cleanshaven in the Christmas special 'Blackadder's Christmas Carol', but wore a goatee in 'Blackadder: Back and Forth'.
Colin-Small Long Dog Party. Baldrick, representing the Adder Party, won with 16,472 votes.
The Scarlet Pimpernel. From the episode 'Nob and Nobility'.
'MacBeth'. Whenever 'the Scottish play' is mentioned by name, the actors clap hands, say something silly and tweak each others noses to break the spell. This, of course, pleases Blackadder no end.
Socks. From the book, as well as mentioned by Pitt the Younger in 'Dish and Dishonesty'.
Squirrels. While it's normally against the Shadow's principles to shoot dumb animals, there is an intense hatred reserved for squirrels 'with their long tails and their stupid twitchy noses.'
He showed up for the interview. The other guy in the running was such an idiot he forgot to show up.
| We now extend to the Great War...in the episode 'Captain Cook', what reading material does Blackadder refer to as 'the greatest piece of fiction since vows of fidelity were included in the French marriage service'? | 'Blackadder': The Whole Dynasty 1485-1917
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'King and Country'. While Blackadder counldn't deny it was good for the morale of the men in the trenches, he felt more could be achieved by getting some real toilet paper.
Parkhurst. Parhurst was Gen. Melchett's driver. Other members of the Tiddlers include Jocko, Sticky, the Gubber, Drippy, Titch and Mr. Floppy. George was the last surviving member.
He spelled 'Christmas' without getting any of the letters right. In the closing credits, it was revealed the spelling Baldrick used for 'Christmas' came out 'Queeznuz'.
World War I. The Spirit shows the good Ebenezer how rotten two of his ancestors were and what the future would hold if he were to continue the nasty legacy.
It worked. Blackadder was expecting a facsimile to scam his dinner guests out of money, but Baldrick, following the blueprints of Leonardo Da Vinci to the letter, wound up with an actual working machine.
Extended the Roman Empire several centuries. Okay, only one dinosaur died sniffing Balrdick's undershorts, but it was implied afterwards.
Rowan Atkinson. Rowan Atkinson played Edmund (The Black Adder) in all of the shows, from when it started being aired in 1983 on British television.
| Tony Robinson played one of my most favourite characters in the shows. Which character was this? | ‘Blackadder’ Trivia!
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Baldrick. Baldrick was the general dogsbody of Blackadder. He seemed to get more stupider as the series progressed!
| Who is Blackadder originally betrothed to, in the first series, to please his father? | ‘Blackadder’ Trivia!
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The Spanish Infanta. Princess Maria of Spain is not what Edmund would have considered to marry and he tries everything in order to get out of it.
No. In the third series, Blackadder did not die. He ended up taking the place of George as Prince Regent, whilst George (played by Hugh Laurie) was killed by Wellington.
'As funny as getting an arrow through the neck and discovering there's a gas bill tied to it.'. In the final series Blackadder was put in charge of putting on a show to boost the men’s morale. Unfortunately for him, the army’s idea of humour just didn’t match his.
| Hugh Laurie played the part of George in the third series. Whose dictionary did he want to be patron of? | ‘Blackadder’ Trivia!
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Dr. Samuel Johnson. The dictionary got burned (well, it did get burned eventually) and Blackadder decided to rewrite the entire book to save his hide. Robbie Coltrane played Dr Johnson in this episode.
Bernard. Nursie revealed her first name as Bernard during the second series.
| What/who was it that Black Adder shot that led him to be standing in front of a firing squad in the final series? | ‘Blackadder’ Trivia!
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Speckled Jim. Blackadder definitely did shoot and eat that “delicious plump breasted pigeon”. Unfortunately for him it was the General’s own pet.
Orange. Melchett insisted that elephants were usually grey, but of course Queenie wins (because she always does!). Queenie was played brilliantly by Miranda Richardson.
Humbugs . This is the opening scene, after he has been introduced as being like Ebenezer Scrooge, you hear 'Humbug, humbug' from off stage, he then enters, proffers a sweet bag and says 'Humbug, Mr Baldrick?'
Baldrick. I'm not so keen on the first series, Blackadder is too stupid and Baldrick is too intellegent, but I thought I'd better put a question in anyway.
Tilbury. Blackadder, Baldrick, Percy and Captain Redbeard Rum were all on board.
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