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Were you paying attention? Test yourself in Broadcast's fiendishly difficult quiz of the past 10 years of TV
ROUND ONE
Q.1
Spot the fake Channel 5 title
Psycho Pussies: When Cats Attack
Million Pound Hand Jobs
Eaten By An Escalator
Hitler’s Holocaust Railways with Dale Winton
Q.2
Which of these has not (yet) been the subject of a documentary entitled ‘The Secret Life of…’?
Owls
Buildings
MPs
Farm animals
Q.3
How many days was George Entwistle in the post as BBC director-general?
20
31
54
87
Q.4
Who was the first ever guest on ITV’s The Nightly Show?
Sheridan Smith
Martin Clunes
Roger Moore
Olivia Colman
Q.5
Who was seen arm-wrestling Salman Rushdie in BBC2’s W1A?
Jeremy Paxman
Alan Yentob
Mary Beard
Tony Hall
GOGGLEBOX ROUND
Q.6
Of which show did Giles say ‘It’s a way of exterminating minor celebrities’?
Doctor Who
Midsomer Murders
The Jump
I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here
Q.7
Which show is Stephen talking about? "After a heavy weekend, you can sit in front of the box, cross-eyed and bored to death, and not have to think about anything, apart from you have to get up for work tomorrow."
Downton Abbey
Poldark
Countryfile
Antiques Roadshow
Q.8
Which show was Jenny watching when she observed: “There’s been more bloody muff diving in this series than anything else”?
Strictly Come Dancing
Sally4ever
Wanderlust
Gentleman Jack
Q.9
What did Bill and Josef describe as ‘psuedo-academic bullshit’?
Derren Brown: How to Win the Lottery
Drugs Live
Forces of Nature with Brian Cox
Sex Box
Q.10
Which show did Amy describe as ‘as pointless a pointless can get’?
Top Gear
All Aboard: the Boat Trip
Tipping Point
Pointless
ROUND THREE
Q.11
How many credited executive producers were there on Channel 4/Amazon co-pro Philip K Dick’s Electric Dreams?
8
10
14
18
Q.12
What was the first ever Taskmaster task?
Invent a Taskmaster task
Write a poem that spells out Taskmaster with the first letter of each line
Buy a gift for the Taskmaster for £20
Eat as much watermelon as possible in one minute
Q.13
Who hosted BBC1’s Don’t Scare the Hare?
Jason Bradbury
Julia Bradbury
Davina McCall
Chris Packham
Q.14
What did outgoing BBC DG Mark Thompson tell Broadcast he wanted to be remembered for most?
Mrs Brown’s Boys
Danny Boyle’s Olympic 2012 opening ceremony
Launching BBC iPlayer
Delivering Quality First cuts
Q.15
How many ITV dramas has Sheridan Smith appeared in since 2010?
4
6
8
10
Q.16
Which show attracted the most complaints of the decade?
Rihanna and Christina Aguilera’s raunchy performance on The X Factor
Channel 4 doc UKIP: The First 100 Days
Celebrity Big Brother incident between Roxanne and Ryan
Sky News interview with Tommy Robinson
Q.17
Who was the original choice for lead actor in Death in Paradise?
Alexander Armstrong
Ben Miller
Robert Webb
David Mitchell
Q.18
What was One Born Every Minute’s slightly more prosaic working title?
Birth
Life Begins
Maternity Ward
Babies
Q.19
This October, how much did Banijay pay for Endemol Shine?
$1.6bn
$2.2bn
$2.8bn
$3.2bn
Q.20
According to the Writers’ Guild, what proportion of the 7,469 writers with a TV credit between 2001 and 2016 were female?
10%
20%
30%
40%
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