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50 free British TV Shows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
British television gave the world a cobbled street that has run since 1960, a hotel in Torquay with twelve perfect episodes, a market trader from Peckham, a time-travelling police box and a baking tent that moved channels. This quiz spans all of it. These 50 questions cover soaps, sitcoms, dramas, panel shows and game shows: Weatherfield and Walford, Uncle Albert, Basil Fawlty's Gleneagles, Baldrick, Wernham Hogg, Downton's Yorkshire, Sherlock's Cardiff, Croydon's Peep Show flat, AC-12, Barry and Billericay, Craggy Island, Red Dwarf's three million years, Dad's Army, Dibley, Ab Fab, Reynholm Industries, Luther, Broadchurch, Peaky Blinders, Taskmaster, HIGNFY, QI, Countdown, Blue Peter, Emmerdale, The Crown, Fleabag, Derry Girls, Gogglebox and Hyacinth Bouquet. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for a pub quiz round.
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Q 01Coronation Street is set in which fictional Greater Manchester town?
Weatherfield
Weatherfield is based on Salford, hometown of creator Tony Warren, and the soap has aired on ITV since December 1960.
Q 02EastEnders is set in which fictional London borough?
Walford
Walford is EastEnders' home; the soap launched on BBC One in February 1985 and reached number one in the ratings within eight months.
Q 03More than 30 million watched EastEnders' most-viewed episode, broadcast on which day in 1986?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day 1986 brought Den Watts handing Angie divorce papers; the 30 million-plus figure combines the original showing and the omnibus repeat.
Q 04In Only Fools and Horses, what does Del Boy Trotter do for a living?
Market trader
Del Boy is a Peckham market trader, forever chasing get-rich-quick schemes with his younger brother Rodney.
Q 05Which character was introduced to Only Fools and Horses after Lennard Pearce's death in 1984?
Uncle Albert
Uncle Albert, Grandad's brother played by Buster Merryfield, was a Royal Navy veteran whose endless stories began 'During the war...'.
Q 06Fawlty Towers is set in a hotel in which seaside town?
Torquay
Torquay's Gleneagles Hotel inspired it: John Cleese based Basil Fawlty on its rude owner, Donald Sinclair, after the Pythons stayed there in 1970.
Q 07Who co-wrote Fawlty Towers with John Cleese and played Polly?
Connie Booth
Connie Booth, an American actress who met John Cleese in New York and married him in 1968, co-wrote all 12 episodes with him and played Polly.
Q 08Who plays Baldrick, servant to every Blackadder?
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson's Baldrick is famous for having 'a cunning plan', and Robinson later presented Channel 4's archaeology series Time Team for 20 years.
Q 09Who co-wrote the last three Blackadder series with Richard Curtis?
Ben Elton
Ben Elton replaced Rowan Atkinson as co-writer after series one, when BBC1 controller Michael Grade's cost-cutting moved Blackadder from location shoots to studio sets.
Q 10The Office (UK) is set in the Slough branch of which fictional company?
Wernham Hogg
Wernham Hogg's Slough branch is run by Ricky Gervais's David Brent; the American remake renamed the firm Dunder Mifflin and moved it to Scranton.
Q 11Downton Abbey is set on a fictional estate in which county?
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is the setting, but Highclere Castle in Hampshire played Downton, and the story runs from 1912 to New Year's Eve 1925.
Q 12Which ship's sinking kills both Crawley heirs in Downton Abbey's first episode?
Titanic
Titanic takes heir James Crawley and his son Patrick, so the estate passes to distant cousin Matthew, a middle-class lawyer from Manchester.
Q 13Who created Sherlock with Mark Gatiss?
Steven Moffat
Steven Moffat co-created Sherlock while also producing Doctor Who, and his wife, producer Sue Vertue, urged him and Gatiss to make it themselves.
Q 21Which drama follows AC-12, the anti-corruption unit tasked with 'policing the police'?
Line of Duty
Line of Duty was created by Jed Mercurio, who also wrote Bodyguard, and its 2021 finale peaked at 13.1 million viewers.
Q 22Gavin & Stacey's two families come from Billericay and which Welsh town?
Barry
Barry, in the Vale of Glamorgan, is Stacey's home town, while Gavin's family lives in Billericay; James Corden and Ruth Jones wrote the show.
Q 23Who plays Stacey's uncle Bryn in Gavin & Stacey?
Rob Brydon
Rob Brydon plays Uncle Bryn, while Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb play Gavin's parents, Pam and Mick.
Q 14In which city was Sherlock primarily filmed?
Cardiff
Cardiff doubled for much of Sherlock's London, while North Gower Street in London played the outside of 221B Baker Street.
Q 15Peep Show's Mark and Jeremy share a flat in which part of London?
Croydon
Croydon is where Mark owns the flat and Jeremy lodges in his spare room; in 2010 Peep Show became Channel 4's longest-running comedy.
Q 16What camera technique gives Peep Show its title?
Point of view shots
Point of view shots show events through Mark's and Jeremy's eyes, while voiceovers let viewers hear what each is really thinking.
Q 17Which production company took The Great British Bake Off from the BBC to Channel 4?
Love Productions
Love Productions wanted £75 million for three series, which the BBC refused; Mel, Sue and Mary Berry left, but Paul Hollywood moved with it.
Q 18The BBC's celebrity dance contest takes half its title from which 1992 film?
Strictly Ballroom
Strictly Ballroom lent 'Strictly' and the long-running BBC show Come Dancing the rest; abroad the format became Dancing with the Stars.
Q 19Who co-presented the BBC's celebrity dance contest with Tess Daly from its start?
Bruce Forsyth
Bruce Forsyth co-hosted from 2004 until 2013, when he was 85, and Claudia Winkleman then joined Tess Daly as co-lead presenter.
Q 20Before James May joined, who presented Top Gear's first revived series in 2002 alongside Clarkson and Hammond?
Jason Dawe
Jason Dawe, a motoring journalist, lasted one series before May replaced him, while the anonymous test driver, the Stig, featured from the start.
Q 24Father Ted is set on which fictional location off Ireland's west coast?
Craggy Island
Craggy Island is where Bishop Brennan exiles Ted, Dougal and Jack, though the parochial house is a real house in County Clare.
Q 25Which two writers created Father Ted?
Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews
Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews wrote it for Hat Trick and Channel 4, and Linehan went on to create The IT Crowd.
Q 26In Red Dwarf, how long was Lister in suspended animation?
Three million years
Three million years in stasis leave Lister the last human alive, with a hologram of bunkmate Rimmer and a creature evolved from his cat.
Q 27Which broadcaster revived Red Dwarf from 2009 to 2020?
Dave
Dave, the UKTV channel that took the name in 2007, revived Red Dwarf a decade after its BBC Two run ended in 1999.
Q 28Besides 45 BBC episodes, Monty Python's Flying Circus made two specials for which country?
West Germany
West Germany's WDR produced Monty Python's Fliegender Zirkus, shot mostly in Bavaria and aired in 1972, and its first episode was recorded in German.
Q 29Dad's Army is about which wartime organisation?
The Home Guard
The Home Guard took volunteers too old or otherwise unable to join the regular forces, hence the title Dad's Army.
Q 30Who plays Geraldine Granger in The Vicar of Dibley?
Dawn French
Dawn French plays Geraldine, a role Richard Curtis created for her after the Church of England's 1993 changes allowed women priests.