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Entertainment 140114 is a selection of 10 questions. Entertainment 140114 is the filename to differentiate it from other Entertainment quizzes. Feel free to use any of these questions and answers for your own quizzes. Just keep in mind that you cannot republish them in any format.
1 Which actor plays Doctor John Watson alongside Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock Holmes?
A Martin Freeman
2 Which of the Tracy brothers piloted the submarine in Thunderbirds?
A Gordon (Thunderbird 4 is usually transported to where it’s needed by Thunderbird 2, in its own specially-equipped cargo pod: the aptly-designated Pod 4)
3 Astronauts Col. Alan Virdon and Maj. Peter j. Burke, are characters from which 70s sci-fi series set in the year 3084?
A Planet of the Apes
4 John Simm played detective Sam Tyler in which TV drama?
A Life on Mars, as Sam Tyler
5 Which TV Studio gave its name to a lunchtime magazine programme that ran for 16 years from 1972 to 1986?
A Pebble Mill – The genesis of live daytime television
6 Which tough-guy actor played a transvestite pirate in the 2007 film Stardust?
A Robert De Niro – Captain Shakespeare is the captain of a sky vessel, Caspartine, in the Stardust film adaption, portrayed by Robert De Niro. He never appeared in the Stardust novel and was recreated from the character, Captain Johannes Alberic.
7 What was the subject of Richard Dimbleby’s hoax Panorama report on 1st April 1957?
A The Spaghetti Tree
8 Who played Sir James Bond in the 1967 spoof version of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale?
A David Niven (the others only pretended to be James Bond)
9 Which Blue Peter presenter had his contract terminated in mid-season, following revelations of his cocaine use?
A Richard Bacon
10 Who became the presenter of Countdown after Jeff Stelling left in 2009?
A Nick Hewer