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The Christmas TV Quiz

There’s nothing cosier at Christmas than snuggling up in front of festive editions of our favourite TV shows, preferably with a glass of Bailey's and a box of chocolates. Test your knowledge of telly from this Christmas and years gone by with our quiz…

Compiled by: Michael Hogan Picture credit: Rex Features

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1. CS Lewis

2. In a cigarette packet

3. 1957

4. In a shop’s lingerie department

5. False

6. Fairy lights

7. A painting set

8. Goose fat

9. Nicole Scherzinger

10. Nanna’s death

11. Wensleydale

12. Gillian Anderson

13. Marlene

14. Julia Donaldson

15. EastEnders, when Den divorced Angie on Christmas Day 1986

16. Brockman

17. Simon Webbe from Blue

18. Stephen Fry and Victoria Wood

19. Poirot

20. Tulsa

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Christmas Day's Doctor Who special is entitled "The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe" - a nod to which children’s author?

Phillip Pullman Enid Blyton CS Lewis JM Barrie

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Dave Coaches proposed to Nessa in the 2008 Gavin & Stacey Christmas special. Where did he hide the ring?

Inside the turkey In a cigarette packet In his mouth In a can of beer

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Christmas Day's Doctor Who special is entitled "The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe" - a nod to which children’s author?

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Dave Coaches proposed to Nessa in the 2008 Gavin & Stacey Christmas special. Where did he hide the ring?

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In what year was the Queen’s first televised Christmas message?

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The Father Ted special from Christmas 1996 sees a group of priests get lost where?

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Aled Jones sings Walking In The Air in the film of The Snowman. True or false?

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The Downton Abbey Christmas special is set over Christmas 1919 and in it, the Crawley family have which relatively new seasonal invention, at that time only available to the rich?

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In the last episode of The Office, shown over Christmas 2003, what does Tim give Dawn as her Secret Santa present?

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The “Nigella effect” was credited for making sales of what soar five years ago, after being championed by Ms Lawson as an essential Christmas cooking ingredient?

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Who replaced Cheryl Cole on the judging panel of the American version of X Factor after she was controversially left the show in May?

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The Royle Family’s 2006 Christmas special, entitled The Queen Of Sheba, climaxed with which event?

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Wallace & Gromit are often shown on TV over Christmas. What’s Wallace’s favourite cheese?

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Who is playing Miss Havisham in the BBC’s Christmas adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations?

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In the last ever episode of Only Fools And Horses, the Christmas 2003 special, which character gets silicone breast implants?

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A sequel to The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo’s Child, airs on Christmas Day. Who wrote the books on which they are based?

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What’s the most watched programme in British TV history, with ratings of 30.1million?

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There’s a special episode of Outnumbered on Christmas Eve. What’s the family’s surname in the sitcom?

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Which boyband member will compete in this year’s Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Day special?

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There’s a BBC remake of The Borrowers on Boxing Day, starring which comedy actor and actress?

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There’s a new Hercule Poirot mystery on Boxing Day. Who appears in more Agatha Christie stories – him or Miss Marple

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