1275 Best TV Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers 2023

TV Quiz Questions

Q1. Which show is TV’s answer to The Guinness Book of Records?

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Record Breakers

Q2. Which three singers from ‘Rainbow’ were given their own series?

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Rod, Jane and Freddy

Q3. Who presented his own ‘Cartoon Time’ and ‘Cartoon Club’?

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Rolf Harris

Q4. Who was the ‘Saturday Girl’ on ‘Multi-Coloured Swap Shop’?

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Sarah Greene

Q5. In which show for the under fives did The Muppets first appear?

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Sesame Street

Q6. What is the logo on a Blue Peter badge?

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Ship

Q7. Which show ended ruefully with ‘Bye bye, everybody, bye bye’?

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Sooty

Q8. Who fought against Bulk and Texas Pete?

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SuperTed

Q9. Who were Andy Pandy’s two best friends?

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Teddy and Looby Loo

Q10. Which 1970s ecologists had their own TV series?

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The Wombles

Q11. Which family had a daily help called Mrs Scrubbitt?

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The Woodentops

Q12. What did the letters in ‘TISWAS’ stand for?

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Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile

Q13. In which county was Camberwick Green?

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Trumptonshire

Q14. Who is Jennifer Saunders’ ‘alternative’ comedian husband?

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Adrian Edmondson

Q15. What was the first series starring Smith and Jones called?

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Alas Smith and Jones

Q16. Which comedian had a St Bernard called Schnorbitz?

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Bernie Winters

Q17. Who was the first chairman of TV’s Whose Line Is It Anyway?’?

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Clive Anderson

Q18. Who closed his show with the phrase ‘May your god go with you’?

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Dave Allen

Q19. Who was Captain Fantastic in ‘Do Not Adjust Your Set’?

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David Jason

Q20. Which writer hosts the ITV predecessor of ‘Auntie’s Bloomers’?

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Denis Norden

TV Quiz Questions And Answers

Q1. Who created the ‘Spitting Image’ puppets?

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Fluck and Law

Q2. Who was the dumb, giggly blonde on ‘Rowan and Martin’s Laugh In’?

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Goldie Hawn

Q3. Who created Stavros, the kebab shop owner?

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Harry Enfield

Q4. Which comedian had a hit with ‘Funky Moped’?

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Jasper Carrott

Q5. Who created Algernon the Rasta and the Reverend Nat West?

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L. Henry

Q6. Who beat Victoria Wood to win ‘New Faces’?

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Marti Caine

Q7. Who came to fame in ‘The Comedians’ before heading for Walford?

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Mike Reid

Q8. Who was the resident vocalist on ‘That Was The Week That Was’?

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Millicent Martin

Q9. In which show would you find ‘The Argument Clinic’ and the game show ‘Blackmail’?

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Monty Python’s Flying Circus

Q10. Which comedy show had Shirley Bassey singing in a hobnail boot?

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Morecambe and Wise

Q11. Which Scottish show featured Helen Lederer and Gregor Fisher?

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Naked Video

Q12. What was Peter Cook and Dudley Moore’s revue show called?

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Not Only… But Also

TV Trivia Questions

Q1. Who was famous for the Angela Rippon impersonations in ‘Not The Nine O’clock News’?

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Pamela  Stephenson

Q2. Who were the first two regular team captains in ‘Have I Got News For You?’?

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Paul Merton,  Ian Hislop

Q3. Who wrote for his own show under the pseudonym Gerald Wiley?

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Ronnie Barker

Q4. In ‘The Frost Report’ John Cleese was upper class and Ronnie Barker middle class: who was working class?

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Ronnie Corbett

Q5. Who has his own series ‘…Who Else’?

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Rory Bremner

Q6. Who joined French and Saunders in the writing of ‘Girls on Top’?

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Ruby Wax

Q7. Who is sports commentator Alan Partridge’s true alter ego?

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Steve Coogan

Q8. On which club show was the music provided by Shep’s Banjo Boys?

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The Comedians

Q9. Which show had the Enid Blyton spoof ‘Five Go Mad in Dorset’?

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The Comic Strip Presents

Q10. Which 90s show featured ‘Jessie’s Diets’?

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The Fast Show

Q11. Who was the female in the 1980s ‘Three of a Kind’?

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Tracey Ullman

Q12. In ‘Brideshead Revisited’ what was Aloysius?

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A teddy

Q13. In ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’ what was butler Hudson’s first name?

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Angus

Q14. Which actress played wife No 1 in ‘The Six Wives of Henry VIII’ and Mrs Victor Meldrew?

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Annette Crosbie

Q15. Who hosted a crazy Saturday night House Party?

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Noel Edmonds

Modern TV Quiz Questions

Q1. Which Darling Buds starred David Jason and Pam Ferris?

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Of May

Q2. On which long-running current affairs programme did the Princess of Wales give her first solo interview in 1995?

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Panorama

Q3. What is Nick’s job in ‘Heartbeat’?

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Police officer

Q4. Which Australian presented ‘Animal Hospital’?

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Rolf Harris

Q5. In which series did Robson and Jerome star?

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Soldier Soldier

Q6. In which country was ‘Eldorado’ set?

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Spain

Q7. What did contestants have In Their Eyes in the impersonation show?

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Stars

Q8. What is the Channel 4 Breakfast programme called?

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The Big Breakfast

Q9. What Goes By in the sit com with Jean and Lionel?

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Time

Q10. Which Peaks provided a mysterious soap series in 1990-91?

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Twin

Q11. How long did Peter Mayle spend in Provence?

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Year

Q12. Did summer precede winter in Delia Smith’s cookery collections?

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Yes

Q13. Which comedy series married David Jason to Gwen Taylor?

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A Bit of a Do

Q14. Where did Ken Barlow’s father get the money that enabled him to move out of Coronation Street?

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A Premium Bond win

Q15. Which Alan Bleasdale offering won the BAFTA Drama award in 1982?

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Boys from the Blackstuff

Q16. What was Robin Tripp studying when he lived upstairs from the Ropers?

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Catering

Q17. Who was always trying to borrow food in ‘Sykes’?

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Corky

Q18. Who is Frank Muir’s most regular writing partner?

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Denis Norden

Q19. Which quiz and chat show host devised ‘Whose Baby’?

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Eamonn Andrews

Q20. Which Rowan played the bumbling Mr Bean?

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Atkinson

Music TV Quiz Questions

Q1. What is the series about LA lifeguards called?

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Baywatch

Q2. What was the House made of in the political drama?

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Cards

Q3. Which series starred Robbie Coltrane as a police psychologist?

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Cracker

Q4. What did you Drop in the series about a newsroom?

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Dead Donkey

Q5. Dawn French played the vicar of which parish?

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Dibley

Q6. What was the profession of Jack and Beth in ‘Peak Practice’?

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Doctors

Q7. Which fashion House did Beatrice and Evangeline head?

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Eliott

Q8. What was said to Sweetheart in the series with Nicholas Lyndhurst?

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Goodnight

Q9. What was the first name of private detective Mrs Wainthropp?

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Hetty

Q10. Which animals was the series ‘Trainer’ about?

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Horses

Q11. What does Love do in the drama with Adam Faith and Zoe Wanamaker?

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Hurts

Q12. Who plays Edina in ‘Absolutely Fabulous’?

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Jennifer Saunders

Best TV Questions

Q1. Which Breakfast News presenter took over the Holiday programme?

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Jill Dando

Q2. In ‘The Brittas Empire’ what is Gordon manager of?

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Leisure Centre

Q3. Who is the comedian husband of Dawn French who stars in ‘Chef!’?

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Lenny Henry

Q4. Which Rab C. was a Glasgow street philosopher?

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Nesbitt

Q5. Which comedy series starred Dave King and Joe Marcell as tramps?

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Fancy Wanders

Q6. Where does Polly Sherman work?

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Fawlty Towers

Q7. Which Alan Plater TV adaptation starred Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle?

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Fortunes of War

Q8. Which member of The Grateful Dead was known as ‘Captain Trips’?

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Jerry Garcia

Q9. Which two female TV stars are team captains on ‘Give Us A Clue’?

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Lisa Goddard, Una Stubbs

Q10. Which series about two girls and a guy was called ‘Three’s Company’ in the United States?

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Man About The House

Q11. Which quiz show was originally part of ‘Wednesday Night Out’?

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Name That Tune

Q12. Which TV series starred Leslie Phillips and Donald Sinden as vicars?

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Our Man at St Mark’s

Q13. Who is the richest person to have accepted a bit-part on ‘Bread’?

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Paul McCartney

Q14. Which ‘Blue Peter’ presenter was in ‘Space 1999’ and ‘Fallen Hero’?

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Peter Duncan

Q15. Which ‘Good Life’ star played the lodger in ‘Goodbye Mr Kent’?

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Richard Briers

Q16. Who died in 1988 when he fell off a horse while filming in Spain?

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Roy Kinnear

Q17. Which Hywel Bennett series had the same title as a drama about a poet?

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Shelley

Q18. Which 1960s TV personality always ended his show in a white E-type Jaguar?

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Simon Dee

Q19. Who ran away to stay with Susan Barlow?

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Terry Duckworth

Q20. Which department at Crossroads Motel was run by Vera Downend?

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The hairdressing salon

Q21. Which comedy featured characters called Terry Collier and Bob Ferris?

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The Likely Lads

Q22. Which series linked Polly James and ‘District Nurse’ Nerys Hughes?

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The Liver Birds

Q23. Which 1960s soap cast Haverhill in Suffolk as Angleton new town?

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The Newcomers

Q24. Who was Sid’s next-door neighbour in ‘Bless This House’?

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Trevor

Children’s TV Quiz Questions

Q1. Who played Josephine opposite Ernie Wise’s Napoleon?

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Vanessa Redgrave

Q2. Which actress fluttered into the role of ‘Laura and Disorder’?

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Wendy Craig

Q3. Which Eastender thought his father was Pete Beale when it was Kenny?

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Wicksy

Q4. Who took over from Phillip Schofield as presenter of Children’s BBC?

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Andy Crane

Q5. What is the longest running children’s TV programme?

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Blue Peter

Q6. Which former ‘Blue Peter’ presenter’s mother is Gloria Hunniford?

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Caron Keating

Q7. Which series was a children’s predecessor of ‘Monty Python’?

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Do Not Adjust Your Set

Q8. What was the registration number of Lady Penelope’s pink Rolls?

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FAB1

Q9. Who replaced Moony and Sunshine in ‘Rainbow’?

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George and Zippy

Q10. Which village’s postmistress is called Mrs Goggins?

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Greendale

Q11. Who gave his name to the early bulletins of ‘Newsround’?

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John Craven

Q12. Who is associated with the catchphrase ‘Get Down Shep’?

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John Noakes

Q13. What sort of animal was Parsley in ‘The Herbs’?

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Lion

Q14. Which show was first presented by Emma Forbes and Andi Peters?

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Live and Kicking

Q15. Which magazine programme had a mascot called Murgatroyd?

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Magpie

Q16. In which 1980s/1990s series did Robin of Islington and Little Ron appear?

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Maid Marian and her Merry Men

Q17. Who had magical adventures and lived at 52 Festive Road?

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Mr Benn

Q18. What was ‘Fingermouse’ made from?

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Paper

Q19. Which pre-school programme was the first  programme on BBC2?

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Play School

Q20. Tag and Bobtail’ which was the hedgehog?

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Rag

Conclusion –

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