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Over a Hundred Years of Laughter

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Over a Hundred Years of Laughter game quiz
"This quiz is a light-hearted look at light-entertainment over the last 100 years and should not be taken seriously, though the answers have been scrupulously researched by asking my auntie Ethel."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Who is credited with being a 'well-known spelling mistake'?
    Tony Bliar
    papasmurf
    Mr Hilter
    Spine Milligna


2. Whose party-piece was to leap backwards from a standing start, unaided, on to a mantelpiece, even in his/her 70's?
    Elizabeth Fry
    Tuck de Friar
    Stephen Fry
    C B Fry


3. What is the name of the irritating shipboard computer on the Heart Of Gold?

    Eddie
    Big Blue
    Marvin
    Kray 42


4. What was the name of the giant hedgehog that followed one of the Piranha Brothers?
    Dinsdale
    Temperance
    Horrible Henry
    Spiny Norman


5. Who clubbed himself unconscious during the "Upper-class twit of the year" contest?

    Simon Zinc-Trumpet-Harris
    Nigel Incubator-Jones
    Smith-Smythe-Smith
    Gervaise Brook-Hampster


6. Who was the 'Darling of Roper's Light Horse'?
    Jane Austen
    Desert Orchid
    Minnie Bannister
    Queen Victoria


7. Which radio comedy antidote to panel games needed an Old-Etonian, trumpet-playing ex-guardsman to keep the panelists in order?
    I'm sorry I haven't a clue.
    The Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy.
    Just a Minute.
    Prime-Ministers Question Time.


8. Ying tong iddle I... What is the missing word?
    Tinky Winky
    Po
    Laa laa
    Dipsy


9. How did the First Mate know there were four stowaways at the start of the very funny Marx Brothers film "Monkey Business"?
    They were singing Sweet Adeline.
    There were four barrels round a campfire in the hold.
    There were four breakfasts missing.
    He'd read the script.


10. With which group did 'Bill Bailey' first come to public notice?

    Plastic Prelates
    Polythene Popes
    Velcro Vicars
    Rubber Bishops


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Compiled Jun 20 13