Entertainment 120403

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1   Who played brothers Phil and Grant Mitchell in the TV soap ‘EastEnders’?
A   Steve McFadden and Ross Kemp

2   Which characters from children’s TV had a vacuum cleaner called ‘Naughty Noo Noo’?
A   Teletubbies

3   Which TV costume drama series was about two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business?
A   The House of Eliott

4   In which month is the BBC’s Last Night of the Proms?
A   September (The Henry Wood Promenade Concerts presented by the BBC – Prom is short for promenade concert, a term which originally referred to outdoor concerts in London’s pleasure gardens, where the audience was free to stroll around while the orchestra was playing.)

5   Which TV soap did ITV launch in 1985 to rival the BBC’s Eastenders?
A   Albion Market (it was cancelled after only 100 episodes – the building which was once Albion Market now forms part of the Victoria and Albert Hotel, Salford)

6   In which TV comedy series, did the protagonist begin his mid-life crisis while working for Sunshine Desserts?
A   The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Reginald Iolanthe Perrin)

7   Seth MacFarlane voices the Peter Griffin character in which animated TV series?
A   Family Guy (Seth began his career working for Hanna-Barbera Productions)

8   Jazz and soul singer Steve Brookstein won in 2004, the first series of which TV talent show?
A   The X Factor

9   What make of motorcycle did Steve McQueen ride in the film The Great Escape?
A   Triumph (it was constructed from a 1960 T110)

10   Which 60s Radio comedy series, now regularly repeated on Radio 4 Extra, featured Kenneth Williams as characters J Peasemold Gruntfuttock and Rambling Syd Rumpo?
A   Round the Horne (Kenneth Horne)