Coronation Street Trivia
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48 free Coronation Street trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Coronation Street has been on ITV since December 1960, which makes it the longest-running TV soap in the world. A critic predicted it would not last a month. Sixty-odd years, ten thousand episodes and one Guinness World Record later, the cobbles of Weatherfield are still the most famous fictional street in Britain. These 48 questions walk the whole length of it: Tony Warren's original idea and the working title that nearly stuck, the Rovers Return and its landladies, Hilda Ogden's wall, Ken and Deirdre, the tram crash, the villain who went into the canal, the 2010 live episode and the milestone episodes. Along the way you will meet the future stars who did a stint on the Street before anyone knew their names. It starts with the questions most viewers will have a shot at and works towards the ones only a Corrie completist will get. Play it on your phone, run it as a round at a quiz night, or print it off for the family on a Sunday afternoon.
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Q 01Coronation Street's fictional Weatherfield is based on which hometown of creator Tony Warren?
Salford
Salford inspired Weatherfield, and the permanent street set built in 1982 used bricks reclaimed from demolition sites, including some in Salford.
Q 02Which working title did Tony Warren's serial carry before it was renamed Coronation Street?
Florizel Street
Florizel Street was dropped, in one account after a studio worker said it sounded like a disinfectant; the new name marked Edward VII's 1902 coronation, when the fictional street was built.
Q 03Which newspaper's critic declared Coronation Street 'doomed from the outset' after its first episodes in 1960?
Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror critic Ken Irwin wrote it off, yet in 2010 Guinness World Records named it the world's longest-running TV soap opera.
Q 04Which actor played Ken Barlow from the first episode in 1960, setting a Guinness record for a continuous TV role?
William Roache
William Roache's real sons Linus and James later joined the cast, playing Ken's long-lost son Lawrence and his grandson James.
Q 05Which game-show host played factory boss Danny Baldwin in Coronation Street?
Bradley Walsh
Bradley Walsh asked producers to rename the character from Vic to Danny in memory of his own father, who had recently died.
Q 06In which seaside resort was Rita Fairclough's abusive partner Alan killed while chasing her?
Blackpool
Blackpool: Alan was hit by a tram as he chased Rita, and 20 years later Mark Eden unveiled a blue plaque at the hotel where the scenes were filmed.
Q 07Which husband of Gail Platt, secretly a serial killer, drove her family into a canal in 2003?
Richard Hillman
Richard Hillman meant it as a murder-suicide, but Gail's family escaped the car and only he died; weeks earlier he had killed Maxine with a crowbar.
Q 08Which signature dish did barmaid Betty Turpin serve at the Rovers Return for decades?
Hotpot
Hotpot was Betty's speciality, and actress Betty Driver played her for 42 years after being coaxed out of retirement from running a pub in 1969.
Q 09Which senior royal played himself in Coronation Street's live, hour-long 40th-anniversary episode?
Prince Charles
Prince Charles's cameo in the live show was pre-recorded: news footage of Councillor Audrey Roberts meeting him on his visit to the set earlier that day.
Q 10Which Prime Minister said the Home Secretary would look into Deirdre Rachid's jailing for fraud?
Tony Blair
Tony Blair backed the 'Free the Weatherfield One' campaign in 1998, but Deirdre's release a few weeks later had been planned by the show all along.
Q 11Which faulty appliance electrocuted Ken Barlow's first wife Valerie as she tried to mend it?
Hairdryer
Hairdryer: Valerie was rushing to her and Ken's going-away party when she mended its plug, and the shock that killed her also started a fire at home.
Q 12What did Hilda Ogden call the scenic wallpaper in her living room, topped by three flying ducks?
Muriel
Muriel was Hilda's word for her mural, made from special wallpaper that Eddie Yeats got hold of and helped her put up.
Q 13Which birds did flat-capped Jack Duckworth keep as a hobby in Coronation Street?
Pigeons
Pigeons were Jack's passion, and in his 2010 exit he died asleep in his armchair, much as Vera had two years before.
Q 21Which future Monkee made his TV acting debut in 1961 as Colin Lomax, grandson of Ena Sharples?
Davy Jones
Davy Jones later quit acting to train as a jockey, but his mentor Basil Foster steered him back to the stage as the Artful Dodger in Oliver!
Q 22Which future Absolutely Fabulous star played Elaine Perkins, who refused Ken Barlow's 1973 proposal?
Joanna Lumley
Joanna Lumley's Elaine was considered for a comeback in 2009, but the return never came to fruition.
Q 23Which future Captain Mainwaring played pompous lay preacher Leonard Swindley, jilted on his wedding day?
Arthur Lowe
Arthur Lowe walked in and read for the producers while auditions were still under way, and Swindley proved popular enough to get his own spin-off sitcom, Pardon the Expression.
Q 14Which Hilda Ogden actress later played junk-shop owner Auntie Wainwright in Last of the Summer Wine?
Jean Alexander
Jean Alexander got the part of Hilda in 1964 after Betty Driver, who later played barmaid Betty Turpin, had auditioned for it.
Q 15Which actress played leopard-print-loving Rovers Return landlady Bet Lynch for 25 years until 1995?
Julie Goodyear
Julie Goodyear returned as Bet in 2002 for what was meant to be a permanent comeback, but quit within weeks, citing exhaustion from the heavy workload.
Q 16Which actress, 23 when cast as teenage Gail Platt, played her from 1974 until her 2024 exit?
Helen Worth
Helen Worth's Gail was given a happy ending rather than killed off, marrying old flame Jesse Chadwick and moving to France.
Q 17Which singer from ITV's Popstars played Michelle Connor in Coronation Street for thirteen years?
Kym Marsh
Kym Marsh was first offered just four episodes as Michelle in April 2006, and was later signed up as a regular.
Q 18Which second-series X Factor winner joined Coronation Street in 2015 as Aidan Connor?
Shayne Ward
Shayne Ward's Aidan left in 2018 when, after secretly struggling with depression, he took his own life in a storyline about male suicide.
Q 19Which Happy Valley star played naive barmaid Raquel Wolstenhulme in Coronation Street in the 1990s?
Sarah Lancashire
Sarah Lancashire's Raquel was meant to be a short-term part, but she stayed until 1996, when Lancashire quit, worn out by the role's heavy demands.
Q 20Which X-Men star played dodgy novelist Mel Hutchwright in Coronation Street in 2005?
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen's Mel turned out to be a conman who had pulled the same scam on book clubs all over the country.
Q 24Which future Oscar winner played Ron Jenkins in Coronation Street from 1966 to 1967?
Ben Kingsley
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji and changed his name in the 1960s, fearing a foreign name was costing him parts.
Q 25Which love interest for café owner Roy became British soap's first transgender character in 1998?
Hayley Cropper
Hayley Cropper stayed until 2014, when, facing terminal pancreatic cancer, she chose to end her own life with Roy at her side.
Q 26Which future Our Girl star played Tina McIntyre until the barmaid's 2014 murder?
Michelle Keegan
Michelle Keegan landed Tina on only her second audition, and Tina was killed by Rob Donovan, who pushed her from a balcony to silence her.
Q 27Which band dressed in drag to spoof Coronation Street in a 1984 music video?
Queen
Queen: British fans got the joke of 'I Want to Break Free', but in America the cross-dressing video caused controversy.
Q 28Which ITV company made Coronation Street, though its founder first rejected the idea?
Granada Television
Granada Television's founder Sidney Bernstein turned the serial down until producer Harry Elton talked him into a 13-episode run.
Q 29What does the Coronation Street factory run by Mike Baldwin and later Carla Connor make?
Underwear
Underwear is made at Underworld, the factory that Tony Gordon set on fire in 2010 while holding Carla hostage inside.
Q 30Which young mechanic rescued Bet Lynch from the 1986 fire that gutted the Rovers Return?
Kevin Webster
Kevin Webster got Bet out alive, and when the gutted Rovers was rebuilt its old snug and separate bars were knocked into one big room.