British Sitcoms Trivia
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50 free British Sitcoms trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Britain has been making sitcoms for longer than almost anyone: the BBC put one on air in 1946, radio handed television Tony Hancock in the 1950s, and the form has never stopped reinventing itself, from rag-and-bone yards and seaside platoons to bedsits, holiday camps, newsrooms, parochial houses and pirate-radio flats. These 50 questions range across roughly forty shows and seven decades. Rather than retesting the famous lines, they ask who wrote and played the characters, where the shows were set and filmed, which ones were spun off, remade abroad or given sequels, who sang the theme tunes, and which BAFTAs went where. Fawlty Towers, Dad's Army, Porridge, The Good Life, Yes Minister, Father Ted, The Royle Family, Peep Show, Outnumbered, Fleabag, Derry Girls and Motherland all appear, alongside plenty you may have forgotten. Play it solo, print it as a pub-quiz round, or send it to the friend who still quotes Victor Meldrew.
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Q 01Which singer's No. 1 song gave the sitcom The Young Ones its name?
Cliff Richard
Cliff Richard's song was sung by the cast over the opening credits, and in 1986 they joined him and Hank Marvin on 'Living Doll', which topped the chart.
Q 02Which Monty Python member wrote and sang the theme song of One Foot in the Grave?
Eric Idle
Eric Idle's theme carried the show through to its 2000 finale, in which Victor Meldrew is killed by a hit-and-run driver.
Q 03Which Steptoe and Son actor played Albert, then Paul McCartney's grandfather in A Hard Day's Night?
Wilfrid Brambell
Wilfrid Brambell's Albert first appeared in 'The Offer', a 1962 Comedy Playhouse one-off so well received that Galton and Simpson quickly wrote a full series.
Q 04Under what title did America see the Surbiton self-sufficiency sitcom starring Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal?
Good Neighbors
Good Neighbors was the American title because the US already had a short-lived sitcom of its own called The Good Life.
Q 05Which Star Wars actress played Rob's mother in Catastrophe, her last on-screen television role?
Carrie Fisher
Carrie Fisher died in December 2016, days after filming her scenes for series 3, and that series' last episode ends with the words 'For Carrie'.
Q 06Which comedian was Martin Clunes's first flatmate in Men Behaving Badly, before Neil Morrissey's Tony?
Harry Enfield
Harry Enfield felt ill-suited to sitcom and quit after series one, and the network nearly ended the show before Neil Morrissey came in as Tony.
Q 07Which actor joined Fleabag's second series as the priest that Fleabag falls for?
Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott's priest is never given a name, so the character became known everywhere simply as the 'Hot Priest'.
Q 08Which wartime entertainer sang the Dad's Army theme for 100 guineas, dying less than a year later?
Bud Flanagan
Bud Flanagan's theme was a new pastiche of the wartime songs he had sung with Chesney Allen, yet at the time many believed it was a real wartime song.
Q 09Which BBC wartime drama about a Resistance escape line did 'Allo 'Allo! set out to parody?
Secret Army
Secret Army was spoofed so closely that 'Allo 'Allo! borrowed some of its characters and storylines, from the café owner's affair to the forged paintings.
Q 10Which Twilight actor replaced Andy Samberg in BBC Three's Cuckoo, playing the missing hippie's lost son?
Taylor Lautner
Taylor Lautner took over in 2014 as Dale, the son Cuckoo never knew he had, because Samberg's schedule had made a second series uncertain.
Q 11Which actor plays The IT Crowd's technical genius Maurice Moss?
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade was the only original cast member NBC kept for its American remake, reprising Moss in a 2007 pilot that never made it to air.
Q 12Which Friends actor won a Golden Globe for playing a satirical version of himself in Episodes?
Matt LeBlanc
Matt LeBlanc's show-within-the-show turns the writers' award-winning boarding-school comedy into Pucks!, a slapstick comedy about a hockey coach.
Q 13Which Fawlty Towers episode has Basil running a fire drill while Sybil is in hospital with an ingrowing toenail?
The Germans
Q 21Which ITV sitcom about Luxton's Stan Butler and Jack Harper spawned three feature films?
On the Buses
On the Buses was turned down by the BBC, which saw little comedy in a bus depot, so its writers took it to London Weekend Television instead.
Q 22Which 1978 sequel to Porridge followed Ronnie Barker's Fletcher after his release from Slade?
Going Straight
Going Straight lasted just six episodes: Ronnie Barker agreed to only one series, having already ended Porridge so he wouldn't get stuck in one character.
Q 23Which sitcom did Eric Chappell adapt from his 1973 stage play The Banana Box?
Rising Damp
Rising Damp's Philip claims to be an African chief's son, but the 1980 film finally reveals he is really from Croydon.
The Germans also left Andrew Sachs with chemical burns when the smoke effect on Manuel's clothes soaked through during filming.
Q 14Which Craggy Island priest, played by Frank Kelly, shares the parochial house with Ted and Dougal?
Father Jack Hackett
Father Jack Hackett was Frank Kelly's part for all three series, and Dermot Morgan, who played Ted, died of a heart attack one day after filming on the third series wrapped.
Q 15Which actor plays The Royle Family's armchair-bound patriarch Jim, forever muttering 'my arse'?
Ricky Tomlinson
Ricky Tomlinson, Jim, had been jailed in the 1970s as a Shrewsbury building-strike picket, and in 2021 the Court of Appeal quashed his conviction.
Q 16Which Keeping Up Appearances character, Daisy's 'bone idle' husband, is played by Geoffrey Hughes?
Onslow
Onslow's actor Geoffrey Hughes had played Coronation Street's Eddie Yeats, and returned briefly in 1987 for Hilda Ogden's farewell.
Q 17Which chief Yellowcoat at Maplins in Hi-de-Hi! was played by Ruth Madoc?
Gladys Pugh
Gladys Pugh spent the series smouldering over innocent camp manager Jeffrey Fairbrother, and looked down on chalet maid Peggy's dream of becoming a Yellowcoat.
Q 18Which Carry On regular co-starred with Tony Hancock on radio and television in Hancock's Half Hour?
Sid James
Sid James lost his place after the 1960 series, partly because Tony Hancock feared they were becoming a double act.
Q 19Which 1973 sequel reunited James Bolam and Rodney Bewes as Bob and Terry?
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? stars Rodney Bewes and James Bolam later fell out; Bewes said they never spoke again, though Bolam denied any rift.
Q 20Which 1985 BBC sequel brought back Warren Mitchell as bigoted Alf Garnett from Till Death Us Do Part?
In Sickness and in Health
In Sickness and in Health carried on after Dandy Nichols, who played Alf's wife Else, died in 1986, and it ran until 1992.
Q 24Which sitcom's Audrey fforbes-Hamilton loses her estate to supermarket millionaire Richard DeVere?
To the Manor Born
To the Manor Born began when Peter Spence was asked for a new vehicle for Penelope Keith after The Good Life, and made her an inversion of social-climbing Margo.
Q 25Which writing duo created Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister?
Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn
Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn's show was Margaret Thatcher's favourite, and in 1984 she performed a sketch with its stars at an award ceremony.
Q 26Which West Yorkshire town was the setting and filming base of Last of the Summer Wine for 37 years?
Holmfirth
Holmfirth was home to Roy Clarke's show for 37 years, and its filming locations became a worldwide tourist attraction.
Q 27Which 1973 ITV flatshare sitcom spawned the spin-offs George and Mildred and Robin's Nest?
Man About the House
Man About the House was remade in America as Three's Company, with Robin Tripp reworked as John Ritter's Jack Tripper.
Q 28Which group does Robert Lindsay's Wolfie Smith lead in Citizen Smith, demanding 'Power to the People'?
Tooting Popular Front
The Tooting Popular Front's revolution never quite came, though in one episode Wolfie's gang stole an army tank for the cause.
Q 29Which Ronnie Corbett sitcom's 41-year-old librarian Timothy Lumsden is forever told 'Language, Timothy!'?
Sorry!
Sorry!'s famous rebuke comes from Timothy's dad, Sidney, who mistakes his son's innocent remarks for rude ones.
Q 30Which sitcom unites sisters Sharon and Tracey in Chigwell after their husbands are jailed for robbery?
Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather's creators pitched a revival to the BBC, which offered only a Christmas special, so ITV brought it back in 2014 to 7.8 million viewers.