Q 01/05

Which West Yorkshire town, once known for saucy postcards, was the filming home of Last of the Summer Wine?

A) Hebden Bridge

B) Holmfirth

C) Haworth

D) Todmorden

Answer · why

B) Holmfirth

Holmfirth stood in for the trio's home town from the 1973 pilot to 2010, after producer Barry Took spotted its potential while touring working men's c...

Q 02/05

In Last of the Summer Wine, Compo can never resist remarking on which trademark of Nora Batty's outfit?

A) Wrinkled stockings

B) Curlers under a headscarf

C) Flowery pinny

D) Carpet slippers

Answer · why

A) Wrinkled stockings

Wrinkled stockings made Nora Batty a national icon, and on the rare days Compo failed to mention them she worried that something was wrong with him.

Q 03/05

Peter Sallis, the only actor in every episode of Last of the Summer Wine, voiced which animated inventor?

A) Geppetto

B) Doc Brown

C) Dexter

D) Wallace

Answer · why

D) Wallace

Wallace of Wallace & Gromit got his voice after student animator Nick Park wrote to Sallis in 1983, six years before the first film was finally releas...

Q 04/05

Which royal told the actress who played Edie in 2001 that Last of the Summer Wine was her favourite programme?

A) Princess Margaret

B) The Duchess of Kent

C) Queen Elizabeth II

D) Princess Anne

Answer · why

C) Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II was not the only fan at the palace: Prince Charles said his grandmother, the Queen Mother, had introduced him to the show.

Q 05/05

Tom Simmonite arrived in Last of the Summer Wine after Compo's death, played by which relative of Compo's actor?

A) His nephew

B) His son

C) His grandson

D) His brother

Answer · why

B) His son

His son Tom took the part of Compo's long-lost lad after years of uncredited walk-on roles in the show, and is now buried beside his father near where...