Kenny Everett
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40 free Kenny Everett trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kenny Everett turned a DJ's box of tape tricks into some of the most anarchic comedy on British television. On radio he built jingles, voices and whole characters at home on reel-to-reel machines. On screen those voices grew into a gallery of grotesques, from the ageing rocker Sid Snot to the vain space hero Captain Kremmen and the accident-prone Reg Prescott. This quiz covers the characters first, then the life around them: the early radio years, the on-air remarks that got him fired more than once, the move from ITV to the BBC, the dancers, writers and co-stars who shaped his shows, and his one feature film. It is written for anyone who remembers the shows or has met the characters in clips and repeats. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so even a wrong guess leaves you with a story worth retelling.
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Q 01Which epic-length rock single did Kenny Everett play fourteen times in two days on Capital Radio in 1975?
Bohemian Rhapsody
Bohemian Rhapsody lasted 5:55, and executives warned it was too long to be a hit. Everett's repeat plays stoked listener demand for the single.
Q 02Kenny Everett voiced Charley, which kind of animal, in the 1973 Charley Says safety films for children?
A cat
A cat named Charley miaowed the lesson of each film, which a little boy called Tony then translated and explained. Everett supplied every yowl.
Q 03Which rock singer became a close friend of Kenny Everett after guesting on his Capital Radio breakfast show in 1974?
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury met Everett on air in 1974, and the DJ became his adviser and mentor. The two later fell out, then made peace when both were seriously ill.
Q 04The BBC sacked Kenny Everett from Radio 1 in 1970 for joking that a transport minister's wife had bribed whom?
A driving examiner
A driving examiner was the target of the quip, made after a news item said Mary Peyton had finally passed her test after many attempts. The BBC called the remark indefensible.
Q 05Which veteran horror star played the villain opposite Kenny Everett in the spoof film Bloodbath at the House of Death?
Vincent Price
Vincent Price was credited only as the Sinister Man, a 700-year-old Satanic priest. Everett's one starring feature sent up The Amityville Horror, Alien and The Exorcist.
Q 06Kenny Everett bounded on stage at whose youth conference during the 1983 general election campaign?
Conservative Party
Conservative Party organisers hoped he would attract the youth vote, and his slogans drew loud applause. Everett later said he regretted the appearance.
Q 07Which future classical-crossover soprano first found fame as a dancer on The Kenny Everett Video Show?
Sarah Brightman
Sarah Brightman was 18 when she sang lead on a 1978 disco hit by the show's dance troupe, a number six single about a starship trooper.
Q 08Kenny Everett left ITV in 1981 unhappy that his show was scheduled against which BBC1 Thursday-night fixture?
Top of the Pops
Top of the Pops went out at the same time on Thursday evenings and hit his ratings. Everett knew the chart show well, having presented it seven times in 1973.
Q 09On which BBC panel game did Kenny Everett bend the host's wand-like microphone without warning in 1979?
Blankety Blank
Blankety Blank armed Wogan with a long thin microphone known as Wogan's Wand, which Everett bent without warning on his first appearance in 1979.
Q 10Kenny Everett was born Maurice Cole in 1944 on which annual holiday?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day 1944 was his birthday in Seaforth on Merseyside. His first shows for Radio London went out the week he turned 20.
Q 11Kenny Everett's ageing rocker Sid Snot kept trying, and failing, to flip what into his mouth?
Cigarettes
Cigarettes kept missing until Everett finally caught one mid-sketch, to general delight. As Sid he also reached the UK top ten in 1983 with the novelty single Snot Rap.
Q 12Which Kenny Everett character was a blonde American B-movie actress, played in full drag with his beard left on?
Cupid Stunt
Cupid Stunt gushed about her trashy film projects on a spoof chat show, ending each sketch with an extravagant recrossing of her legs. She was created after Everett joined the BBC.
Q 13Kenny Everett's bearded Hollywood starlet told her on-set tales to a cardboard cut-out of which chat show host?
Michael Parkinson
Q 21Kenny Everett's vain spaceman Captain Kremmen was written as a send-up of which comic-strip space hero?
Dan Dare
Dan Dare was the idol Kremmen grew up wanting to copy. Everett gave his own hero bionic veins and a detachable big toe that turned into a space cannon.
Q 22Which Manchester animation company made the Captain Kremmen cartoons shown on The Kenny Everett Video Show?
Cosgrove Hall
Cosgrove Hall animated Kremmen for the first three series, shortly before creating Danger Mouse. The fourth series switched to live-action sketches instead.
Q 23Before Captain Kremmen became a cartoon on Kenny Everett's ITV show, the character had begun life in what form?
A radio serial
Michael Parkinson's cardboard stand-in was later replaced by Terry Wogan, shown as a skeleton in a suit. Her lurid stories featured male stars such as Burt Reynolds.
Q 14Kenny Everett played the lecherous Frenchman Marcel Wave wearing an absurdly oversized false what?
Chin
A false latex chin gave Marcel Wave his look. He was one of the characters Everett carried from ITV to the BBC, despite a copyright claim from his old employer.
Q 15Kenny Everett's outraged City gent Angry of Mayfair banged the camera's lens hood with what before storming off?
An umbrella
An umbrella did the banging. He then turned to leave, revealing women's lingerie where the back of his suit should have been.
Q 16Kenny Everett's mock preacher Brother Lee Love waved which enormously oversized foam rubber body parts?
Hands
Hands of foam rubber went with Everett to a political rally in 1983, where he bounded on stage wearing them. The preacher was one of the characters he took from ITV to the BBC.
Q 17Kenny Everett's US Army parody General Cheeseburger wore medals and grenades on his comically oversized what?
Shoulders
Shoulders of absurd width carried the general's decorations. His monologues were seen as a satire on American foreign policy.
Q 18Kenny Everett's accident-prone presenter Reg Prescott injured himself each week while demonstrating what on television?
DIY tips
DIY tips went wrong every time, with Reg visibly wounding himself on his own tools. He became a firm favourite with viewers of the BBC series.
Q 19Kenny Everett's character Verity Treacle, who took viewers' requests to kill off famous people, held which job?
Agony aunt
Agony aunt Verity Treacle was one of the new faces written for Everett's BBC series. The programme repeatedly drew around 12 to 13 million viewers an episode.
Q 20What kind of rebel was Gizzard Puke, the character Kenny Everett created at the BBC to replace Sid Snot?
A punk
A punk with orange hair, Gizzard Puke was devised when Everett's old ITV employer claimed copyright on his characters. Sid returned on the BBC all the same.
A radio serial on Capital Radio launched Kremmen in 1976, written and performed by Everett himself. A daily newspaper strip followed in the Evening Standard two years later.
Q 24Which future stand-up comedian voiced an alien as a boy in Kenny Everett's 1984 film, which his father directed?
Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre is the son of Ray Cameron, who directed the horror spoof and co-wrote Everett's TV shows. He revealed in his autobiography that he was the voice of E.T.
Q 25Which future feminist author co-presented Granada's 1968 slapstick series Nice Time alongside Kenny Everett?
Germaine Greer
Germaine Greer made the series two years before The Female Eunuch made her a household name. Surviving outtakes show her bathing in milk delivered by Everett as a milkman.
Q 26What happened to the pictures drawn by Kenny Everett's silent mime character Maurice Mimer?
They became real objects
They became real objects, the central gag of the Maurice Mimer sketches. The mime artist was among the new characters devised after Everett's switch to the BBC.
Q 27Which dance troupe performed risqué routines as the resident dancers on The Kenny Everett Video Show?
Hot Gossip
Hot Gossip had spent two years developing their act in a London nightclub before television made them famous. Their costumes were daring for an early-evening slot.
Q 28Which choreographer, later a Strictly Come Dancing judge, created the dance troupe featured on Kenny Everett's ITV show?
Arlene Phillips
Arlene Phillips began forming the troupe in 1974 and designed its costumes as well as its routines. The show's director David Mallet invited her dancers on.
Q 29Which Brazilian-born actress co-starred with Kenny Everett on his BBC sketch show and later wrote a memoir about him?
Cleo Rocos
Cleo Rocos has said she was asked to audition while lunching at the BBC with the director of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in which she had played a green-skinned alien.
Q 30Which comedy writer, a long-serving panellist on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, co-wrote Kenny Everett's television shows?
Barry Cryer
Barry Cryer wrote for Everett on both ITV and the BBC. He also co-wrote the comedian's horror spoof film and appears in it briefly as a police inspector.