Q 01/05

Which notorious Englishmen lent their surnames to Gavin & Stacey's Shipman, West and Sutcliffe families?

A) Football managers

B) Train robbers

C) Serial murderers

D) Victorian novelists

Answer · why

C) Serial murderers

Serial murderers Harold Shipman, Fred West and Peter Sutcliffe supplied the surnames, and Ruth Jones hoped nobody would notice until it became 'even m...

Q 02/05

Which singer-songwriter's 2005 single 'Run' opens every episode of Gavin & Stacey?

A) Stephen Fretwell

B) Tom Baxter

C) Damien Rice

D) Paolo Nutini

Answer · why

A) Stephen Fretwell

Stephen Fretwell's 'Run' only reached No. 79 in the UK chart, and Q once called him 'Scunthorpe's finest export... ever'; his song 'Darling Don't' lat...

Q 03/05

Which Rogers and Parton duet did Gavin & Stacey's Bryn and Nessa take to number one for Comic Relief?

A) The Greatest Gift of All

B) Islands in the Stream

C) Christmas Without You

D) Love Is Strange

Answer · why

B) Islands in the Stream

Islands in the Stream, their duet at Gwen's birthday barn dance, was re-recorded as '(Barry) Islands in the Stream' with Tom Jones, who at 68 became t...

Q 04/05

Pam and Mick's 'Billericay' home in Gavin & Stacey was actually filmed in which village near Barry?

A) Penarth

B) Cowbridge

C) Llantwit Major

D) Dinas Powys

Answer · why

D) Dinas Powys

Dinas Powys's Laburnum Way stood in for 23 Limetree Avenue, Billericay, so every Essex scene at the Shipmans' was shot a few miles from Barry; the thr...

Q 05/05

About how many UK viewers watched the 2019 Gavin & Stacey special, comedy's biggest audience in 17 years?

A) 9.5 million

B) 13 million

C) 15.5 million

D) 18.5 million

Answer · why

D) 18.5 million

18.5 million people watched in all, 11.6 million of them on the night, making it Britain's most-viewed non-sporting broadcast in a decade.