Q 01/05

According to the spoof science series Look Around You, germs originally come from which European country?

A) Greece

B) Hungary

C) Germany

D) Denmark

Answer · why

C) Germany

Germany is blamed for germs in a module that treats the pun as scientific fact. It is the kind of straight-faced nonsense the whole series runs on.

Q 02/05

Archive footage made which royal appear to present the Invention of the Year award in Look Around You?

A) Prince Charles

B) Prince Philip

C) Princess Anne

D) Princess Margaret

Answer · why

A) Prince Charles

Prince Charles appears to hand over the trophy because old footage of him was blended with new. Peter Serafinowicz dubbed over the voice with his own ...

Q 03/05

Which future Oscar winner played presenter Pam Bachelor in the second series of Look Around You?

A) Kate Winslet

B) Rachel Weisz

C) Tilda Swinton

D) Olivia Colman

Answer · why

D) Olivia Colman

Olivia Colman played Pam Bachelor years before The Favourite won her the Academy Award for Best Actress. Pam is the show's friendly presenter with a l...

Q 04/05

Which Star Wars villain was voiced by Peter Serafinowicz, co-creator and star of Look Around You?

A) Count Dooku

B) Darth Maul

C) General Grievous

D) Jabba the Hutt

Answer · why

B) Darth Maul

Darth Maul was voiced by Serafinowicz in The Phantom Menace. Three years later he was playing a silent scientist in the first series of his own spoof.

Q 05/05

Look Around You swapped its classroom films for a studio show in series two, spoofing which science programme?

A) Tomorrow's World

B) The Great Egg Race

C) The Sky at Night

D) Think of a Number

Answer · why

A) Tomorrow's World

Tomorrow's World was the model, so inventors arrive to show off their gadgets. Four presenters now chat in a studio where the first series had only a ...

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