Q 01/05

Which original Emmerdale Farm cast member had earlier spent three years as Doctor Who companion Jamie McCrimmon?

A) Ronald Magill

B) Arthur Pentelow

C) Frazer Hines

D) Andrew Burt

Answer · why

C) Frazer Hines

Frazer Hines played Joe Sugden from 1972 to 1994, and still holds the record for the most Doctor Who episodes of any companion. He quit the farm becau...

Q 02/05

Which future Doctor Who companion joined Emmerdale as teenager Jasmine Thomas in 2005?

A) Jenna Coleman

B) Karen Gillan

C) Billie Piper

D) Catherine Tate

Answer · why

A) Jenna Coleman

Jenna Coleman played Jasmine Thomas until 2009, when the character was jailed for killing a policeman who had attacked her friend Debbie.

Q 03/05

Emmerdale's December 1993 plane-crash episode drew complaints for airing near the fifth anniversary of which disaster?

A) Kegworth

B) Lockerbie

C) Manchester

D) Staines

Answer · why

B) Lockerbie

Lockerbie's fifth anniversary had fallen on 21 December 1993, nine days before the episode, and ITV received many complaints, yet the crash drew the s...

Q 04/05

Which Emmerdale vet became the first lesbian character in a British soap when she came out in 1993?

A) Lynn Whiteley

B) Rachel Hughes

C) Bernice Blackstock

D) Zoe Tate

Answer · why

D) Zoe Tate

Zoe Tate was British soap's first lesbian character, and Leah Bracknell's 16 years ended in 2005 with Zoe watching Home Farm explode as she was driven...

Q 05/05

Which Emmerdale actor, Jack Sugden's adopted son on screen for 20 years, won Strictly Come Dancing in 2019?

A) Adam Thomas

B) Kelvin Fletcher

C) Matthew Wolfenden

D) Ryan Hawley

Answer · why

B) Kelvin Fletcher

Kelvin Fletcher won the seventeenth Strictly with Oti Mabuse three years after leaving the soap, and has since become a farmer for real.