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40 free Harry Hill trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Harry Hill is one of British comedy's true originals: a surreal stand-up who left a serious career behind and became a fixture of Saturday-night television. For more than a decade TV Burp turned a week of ordinary telly into something gloriously silly, and his voice has accompanied countless home-video calamities. This quiz covers the whole career, from his award-winning festival debut and early sketch shows to TV Burp, The Harry Hill Movie, his stage musicals and his books. Expect puppets, running gags, famous co-stars and a few facts about the man away from the cameras. It is pitched for anyone who grew up with his shows, with easier questions on the best-known moments and tougher ones for dedicated fans.
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Q 01Before turning to stand-up in the early 1990s, Harry Hill had trained and worked in which profession?
Doctor
Doctor was Harry Hill's first career: he took a medical degree in London in 1988 and worked in hospitals. He quit because he did not feel in control of what was happening.
Q 02Which ITV show of viewers' home-video mishaps did Harry Hill narrate from 2004 until 2022?
You've Been Framed!
You've Been Framed! lost its studio set, audience and on-screen host when Harry Hill took over as an unseen narrator. His voice-over left room for more clips in every episode.
Q 03Which oversized part of Harry Hill's stage shirt is his visual trademark, along with browline glasses?
The collar
The collar, worn comically large with matching giant cuffs, is part of Harry Hill's usual stage outfit. He kept the shape even for his children's series, swapping white for pale yellow.
Q 04In The Harry Hill Movie, which seaside resort do Harry and Nan drive to with a supposedly dying hamster?
Blackpool
Blackpool is picked by mistake: the hamster, Abu, really wants to visit the singer Rihanna, but Harry cannot understand him. The film's finale plays out at the top of the resort's tower.
Q 05On Harry Hill's TV Burp, how did Harry settle which of two things was better just before the advert break?
A fight
A fight, staged as studio slapstick, decided the matter each week. Harry Hill later borrowed the word for the title of his memoir about thirty years in comedy.
Q 06Which future Oscar nominee played contestant Chenice in Harry Hill's X Factor musical, I Can't Sing!?
Cynthia Erivo
Cynthia Erivo created the role of Chenice in the West End show, which closed after barely six weeks. She moved on to Broadway in The Color Purple and later played Elphaba in the Wicked films.
Q 07Harry Hill and composer Steve Brown wrote a 2022 stage rock opera about which former British prime minister?
Tony Blair
Tony Blair is the subject of the musical comedy, which follows his life story. The pandemic forced its first outing online, a year before the stage premiere at London's Park Theatre.
Q 08Which animals, as puppets, were meant to parade at the end of each episode of Harry Hill's Channel 4 show?
Badgers
Badgers never quite managed it: every week some problem stopped the parade, so Harry Hill sang a song with a guest instead. One puppet was named after the footballer Gareth Southgate.
Q 09A joke about something yellow and dangerous named Harry Hill's 2005 children's series: shark-infested what?
Custard
Custard completes the title of the first show Harry Hill made for children, a thirteen-part sketch series for ITV. It later inspired his Whopping Great Joke Book.
Q 10Which veteran actress played Harry's scooter-riding grandmother, known only as Nan, in The Harry Hill Movie?
Julie Walters
Julie Walters played Nan, who opens the film in a scooter chase with her grandson. The character hides a guilty secret: she abandoned Harry's twin brother in the 1970s.
Q 11Harry Hill is a stage name: under which real name was the comedian born in Surrey in 1964?
Matthew Hall
Matthew Hall is the comedian's real name, in full Matthew Keith Hall. He was born in Woking and grew up in the Kent village of Staplehurst, apart from two teenage years abroad.
Q 12At which annual arts event did Harry Hill win the first Perrier Best Newcomer award, his 1992 breakthrough?
Edinburgh Fringe
Edinburgh Fringe judges added the newcomer category in 1992 and Harry Hill was its first winner. A BBC series of his own was commissioned shortly afterwards.
Q 13Which Little Britain star played Otto, Harry's evil twin brother, in The Harry Hill Movie?
Matt Lucas
Q 21Harry Hill's TV Burp featured a regular parody of Heather Trott, a character from which British soap opera?
EastEnders
EastEnders is Heather's soap. On TV Burp she was played by a man dressed to look like her, and the real actress, Cheryl Fergison, made a surprise appearance at the end of the final episode.
Q 22Ofcom ruled against Harry Hill's TV Burp over teatime clips of which survival presenter eating a frog?
Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls was shown eating a frog and cooking a turtle, which the regulator judged wrong for an early-evening slot watched by families.
Q 23Which comedian played Harry Hill's big brother, first on radio and then on his Channel 4 show?
Al Murray
Matt Lucas played Otto, who plots to steal Harry's hamster and turn it into a model figurine for his collection. The scheme is Otto's revenge for being abandoned as a child.
Q 14Which comedian provided the voice of Abu, the supposedly dying pet hamster, in The Harry Hill Movie?
Johnny Vegas
Johnny Vegas voiced Abu while a puppeteer worked the hamster on screen. Abu turns out not to be dying at all: he was only ill from sucking a green felt-tip pen.
Q 15Which real indie band appear as themselves in The Harry Hill Movie, running a bed and breakfast?
The Magic Numbers
The Magic Numbers play the owners of a B&B where Harry and Nan stop for the night, and they sing a song about the place. The band is made up of two brother-and-sister pairs.
Q 16In The Harry Hill Movie, Harry's abandoned twin brother Otto is said to have been raised by which animals?
German shepherds
German shepherds brought Otto up after Nan gave him away in the 1970s. She finally admits her real reason for doing it: she kept getting the two babies mixed up.
Q 17Which fellow comedian did Harry Hill ask to take over as host of TV Burp, only to be turned down?
Peter Kay
Peter Kay said no, so the show ended when Harry Hill left in 2012. Hill quit partly over the workload: hours of preview tapes had to be watched to find clips lasting seconds.
Q 18Harry Hill's TV Burp was briefly portrayed in which 2012 spectacle celebrating British popular culture?
Olympic opening ceremony
Olympic opening ceremony viewers saw the show stand for a typical British Saturday evening, with television bringing the family together. The London 2012 sequence covered pop culture since the 1960s.
Q 19Which country made its own version of Harry Hill's TV Burp in 2009, hosted by comedian Ed Kavalee?
Australia
Australia got its version on the Seven Network, mocking local shows such as Home and Away. Ratings fell with each of the first three episodes and no second series followed.
Q 20Harry Hill's TV Burp spoofed The X Factor with a talent contest in which craft?
Knitting
Knitting was the skill on trial in The K Factor, a send-up of the ITV talent show. The running joke later got a tie-in book of its own, released in 2011.
Al Murray made his first television appearances as Alan, having started his comedy career working with Harry Hill on radio. He later found fame of his own as the Pub Landlord.
Q 24Which veteran actor appeared as himself on Harry Hill's Channel 4 show, forever failing to catch a chicken?
Burt Kwouk
Burt Kwouk, known as Cato in the Pink Panther films, had a new excuse each week for coming back empty-handed. He had already joined Harry Hill's on-air family in the later series of his radio show.
Q 25Stouffer, the blue rubber glove puppet on Harry Hill's Channel 4 show, was which kind of animal?
A cat
A cat called Stouffer sat on a throne and was used to intimidate guests during Harry Hill's stand-up routines. The puppet perched on a rubber arm in the style of Rod Hull.
Q 26On which BBC network did Harry Hill's Fruit Corner run for four series between 1993 and 1997?
Radio 4
Radio 4 commissioned Fruit Corner soon after Harry Hill's newcomer award. The series became the springboard for his television career, and his later sketch show copied its style and structure.
Q 27Which ITV talent show, long hosted by Matthew Kelly, did Harry Hill revive for six episodes in 2015?
Stars in Their Eyes
Stars in Their Eyes came back with a running gag in which an Adele lookalike chased Harry Hill to recover her baby. ITV axed the revival after a single series because of low ratings.
Q 28Harry Hill once performed This Charming Man on a celebrity TV talent show while impersonating which singer?
Morrissey
Morrissey co-wrote the song with guitarist Johnny Marr, and the Smiths released it as their second single in 1983. Harry Hill sang it in character on a 1999 celebrity special.
Q 29Which Channel 4 children's competition did Harry Hill begin presenting in 2019, with Liam Charles as a judge?
Junior Bake Off
Junior Bake Off had spent four series on CBBC before it followed its parent show to Channel 4, where Harry Hill took over as presenter and episodes doubled in length to an hour.
Q 30Harry Hill played which absent-minded professor from Norman Hunter's children's books in a 2014 BBC film?
Branestawm
Branestawm, whose name is a play on the word brainstorm, builds inventions that malfunction or work in ways nobody expected. Harry Hill returned for an hour-long sequel the following Christmas Eve.