TV 117509

TV 117509 is a selection of 10 questions. TV 117509 is the filename to differentiate it from other Television 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   To within a year either way, when was Patrick Moore’s “The Sky at Night” first broadcast?
A   1957 – in 2012 it became the longest-running programme with the same presenter in television history

2   Actress Sofie Gråbøl plays which lead character in the Danish TV series, The Killing?
A   Detective Sarah Lund, obsessed with solving the sadistic killing of a schoolgirl in the Danish television series The Killing (Danish: Forbrydelsen, literally “The Crime”).

3   Which sitcom from the 1980s featured Julia McKenzie, Anton Rodgers as middle-class couple, Hester and William?
A   Fresh Fields (they later made French Fields)

4   What was the name of the Border Collie cross, that along with owner Ashleigh, won Britain’s Got Talent in 2012?
A   Pudsey

5   Who played the parts of Mick Shipman in Gavin and Stacey and Archie Mitchell in Easterners?
A   Larry Lamb

6   In Dad’s Army, what was the name of Captain Mainwaring’s wife?
A   Elizabeth, never seen on the show

7   Intended as a companion to Coronation Street, which TV soap opera, set in Manchester, ran for only one year, 1985/86?
A   Albion Market – or quite likely in response to the BBC’s Eastenders

8   Which Australian TV soap opera set during WW II ran from 1976 to 1982 and featured Kylie and Dannii Minogue?
A   The Sullivans

9   What was the name of Del Trotter’s son in the TV sitcom Only Fools and Horses?
A   Damian

10   In the TV comedy ‘Alio Allo!’ what was the first name of Rene’s wife?
A   Edith, played by Carmen Silvera