Q 01/05

Which Are You Being Served? menswear assistant, played by John Inman, answered every call with 'I'm free!'?

A) Mr Humphries

B) Mr Lucas

C) Mr Rumbold

D) Mr Grainger

Answer · why

A) Mr Humphries

Mr Humphries' camp manner was reportedly modelled on someone John Inman had known in his window-dressing days.

Q 02/05

Which fez-wearing magician-comedian collapsed and died on stage during ITV's Live from Her Majesty's in 1984?

A) Les Dawson

B) Tommy Cooper

C) Eric Sykes

D) Frankie Howerd

Answer · why

B) Tommy Cooper

Tommy Cooper's fez began as a stand-in: performing in Cairo during the war, he had forgotten his pith helmet and borrowed one from a passing waiter.

Q 03/05

Which conductor did Eric Morecambe grab by the lapels after being told he was playing 'all the wrong notes'?

A) Herbert von Karajan

B) Leonard Bernstein

C) André Previn

D) Georg Solti

Answer · why

C) André Previn

André Previn was introduced as 'Mr Andrew Preview' in the sketch, and decades later strangers in London would still shout 'Hey, Mr Preview' at him.

Q 04/05

Which panel show replaced a no-show Roy Hattersley with a tub of lard in 1993?

A) They Think It's All Over

B) Shooting Stars

C) Mock the Week

D) Have I Got News for You

Answer · why

D) Have I Got News for You

Have I Got News for You credited its stand-in as 'The Rt Hon Tub of Lard MP', after Hattersley had pulled out at the last minute three times.

Q 05/05

Which Dad's Army character, the pompous bank manager played by Arthur Lowe, commands Walmington-on-Sea's platoon?

A) Captain Mainwaring

B) Sergeant Wilson

C) Private Frazer

D) Captain Square

Answer · why

A) Captain Mainwaring

Captain Mainwaring appointed himself leader of the town's Local Defence Volunteers, in a show whose working title was The Fighting Tigers.