Q 01/05

Phil Lester filmed his first YouTube vlog in 2006 on a black-and-white camera he won from what?

A) A crisp packet

B) A cereal box

C) A school raffle

D) A magazine giveaway

Answer · why

B) A cereal box

A cereal box prize camera recorded the vlog he posted at age 19 in March 2006, which made him one of the first notable British YouTubers.

Q 02/05

Phil Lester reached the final round of which British TV game show as a contestant in 2007?

A) The Weakest Link

B) The Price Is Right

C) Deal or No Deal

D) Countdown

Answer · why

A) The Weakest Link

The Weakest Link put him on national television a year after his first vlog, and a film role and an advert followed in 2008.

Q 03/05

Phil Lester earned a Guinness World Record in 2011 for the fastest time at which fiddly task?

A) Threading needles

B) Folding paper planes

C) Stacking coins

D) Peeling oranges

Answer · why

C) Stacking coins

Stacking coins won him the record when he piled 25 of them on top of each other in 31.617 seconds.

Q 04/05

Phil Lester voiced a technician in the UK cinema release of which Disney animated film?

A) Inside Out

B) Wreck-It Ralph

C) Zootropolis

D) Big Hero 6

Answer · why

D) Big Hero 6

Big Hero 6 gave him and Dan Howell cameos as Technician 1 and 2, but only on the big screen: the UK home release leaves them out.

Q 05/05

In Disney Junior's The Lion Guard, Phil Lester voices a prince named Hafifu of which species?

A) Gorilla

B) Hyena

C) Baboon

D) Meerkat

Answer · why

A) Gorilla

Gorilla princes Hafifu and Majinuni, the second voiced by Dan Howell, turned up in a December 2016 episode called The Lost Gorillas.