Q 01/05

Which 1963 instrumental became famous worldwide as the closing chase music of The Benny Hill Show?

A) Wipe Out

B) Green Onions

C) Yakety Sax

D) Tequila

Answer · why

C) Yakety Sax

Yakety Sax was voted the nation's favourite theme tune in a 2015 ITV special. The show first used it in 1969, in its first episode for Thames Televisi...

Q 02/05

Benny Hill's 1971 UK Christmas number one, 'Ernie', is a comic ballad about a man in which job?

A) Postman

B) Milkman

C) Coalman

D) Dustman

Answer · why

B) Milkman

Milkman was a job Hill had held himself, for a dairy in Eastleigh, Hampshire. He wrote the song in 1955 as the opening of a screenplay that was never ...

Q 03/05

In which 1969 Michael Caine film does Benny Hill play the computer expert Professor Simon Peach?

A) Get Carter

B) The Ipcress File

C) The Italian Job

D) Billion Dollar Brain

Answer · why

C) The Italian Job

The Italian Job has Hill's professor sabotage Turin's traffic computers so that a gang can steal gold in the jam. It was also Noël Coward's last film.

Q 04/05

Which character does Benny Hill play in the 1968 musical film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?

A) The Child Catcher

B) Baron Bomburst

C) Grandpa Potts

D) The Toymaker

Answer · why

D) The Toymaker

The Toymaker hides the Potts family in his Vulgarian shop, then smuggles the heroes into the castle disguised as dolls. Roald Dahl co-wrote the screen...

Q 05/05

Jane Leeves, a Hill's Angels dancer on The Benny Hill Show, later played Daphne Moon in which sitcom?

A) Cheers

B) Frasier

C) Friends

D) Seinfeld

Answer · why

B) Frasier

Frasier ran from 1993 to 2004 and brought Leeves an Emmy nomination. Her screen debut had been a small role on Hill's show in 1983.