Blackadder Trivia
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49 free Blackadder trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
This Blackadder trivia quiz runs the whole dynasty, from Prince Edmund skulking around Richard IV's court in 1485 to Captain Blackadder going over the top in 1917. There are questions on all four series, the Christmas Carol and Cavalier Years specials, Back & Forth, the unaired 1982 pilot, and the cast of comic actors who wandered through the show as Flashheart, Queenie, Melchett, Nursie and the Prince Regent. The set starts gently, with the actors, settings and catchphrases most fans can rattle off, then works its way toward the details only a real devotee remembers: what Darling was originally called in the script, which 1976 film supplied the dogfight footage, and what Baldrick believes the S. in his name stands for. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles for the series, its four seasons and its main characters, and each question carries a citation you can follow. Play it alone, or use it to run a Blackadder round at your next quiz night.
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Q 01Who played Blackadder's servant Baldrick in every series and special?
Tony Robinson
Tony Robinson was knighted in 2013 for public and political service, while Rowan Atkinson received a CBE in the same honours list, so the servant ended up outranking his master.
Q 02Blackadder Goes Forth is set during which conflict?
First World War
First World War: the series sits on the Western Front in 1917, where Captain Blackadder spends six episodes scheming to get out of his dugout before the next 'big push'.
Q 03Which catchphrase is Blackadder's servant Baldrick best known for?
I have a cunning plan
'I have a cunning plan' usually heralds an idea Blackadder shreds on the spot, yet in the first series it was Baldrick who was the clever one and his master the fool.
Q 04Which root vegetable is Baldrick obsessed with?
Turnip
Turnip: made a lord in Blackadder the Third, Baldrick blows his £400,000 on one enormous 'dream turnip', which Blackadder promptly crushes over his head.
Q 05Who played the buffoonish Prince Regent in Blackadder the Third?
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie's prince ends the series dead, shot while disguised as his own butler, which leaves Blackadder to live on as Prince Regent in his place.
Q 06Which actor played Melchett in Blackadder II and Blackadder Goes Forth?
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry played Lord Melchett as a mild-mannered adviser at the Tudor court, then turned his descendant into a loud, domineering general who orders attacks from far behind the lines.
Q 07Who played Queenie, the spoilt, childish monarch of Blackadder II?
Miranda Richardson
Miranda Richardson played Queenie as a spoilt child with absolute power, ordering executions on a whim simply to cure her own boredom.
Q 08In The Black Adder, which king wins the Battle of Bosworth?
Richard III
Richard III wins the battle in the show's secret history but is beheaded by mistake soon afterwards; the narrator blames Henry Tudor for later rewriting history to hide the reign that followed.
Q 09Blackadder II is set during the reign of which English monarch?
Elizabeth I
Elizabeth I: moving to her court let the makers swap the first series' costly location filming for a handful of small studio sets after the BBC demanded a severe budget cut.
Q 10What is the first name of Blackadder's nemesis, Captain Darling?
Kevin
Kevin: in the final episode General Melchett, thinking it a treat, packs his terrified aide Kevin Darling off to the front line to join the dawn attack.
Q 11What is the title of the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth?
Goodbyeee
Goodbyeee takes its title from a popular wartime song, breaking the run of rank puns such as 'Major Star' and 'General Hospital' for the episode in which the men finally attack.
Q 12The episode titles of Blackadder the Third are puns on the novels of which author?
Jane Austen
Jane Austen published her novels in the Regency years the series lampoons, so each title apes Sense and Sensibility: 'Dish and Dishonesty', 'Ink and Incapability', 'Duel and Duality'.
Q 13Rik Mayall played which swaggering, womanising hero in Blackadder II and Blackadder Goes Forth?
Lord Flashheart
Q 21Which supermodel cameoed as Maid Marian in Blackadder: Back & Forth?
Kate Moss
Kate Moss's Maid Marian outlasts her Robin Hood: Blackadder talks the Merry Men into shooting him, and by the rewritten ending she is queen beside King Edmund III.
Q 22In the 2004 BBC poll for Britain's Best Sitcom, Blackadder finished second behind which show?
Only Fools and Horses
Only Fools and Horses won the final vote after ten Saturday-night films in which a celebrity advocate argued for each finalist; John Sergeant made the case for Blackadder.
Q 23In Blackadder Goes Forth, Blackadder feigns madness to dodge the big push with what stuck up his nose?
Pencils
Lord Flashheart crashes through the roof as best man at Blackadder's wedding, charms everyone in the room and promptly runs off with the bride.
Q 14Which writer joined Richard Curtis from Blackadder II onwards, replacing Rowan Atkinson as co-writer?
Ben Elton
Ben Elton, then a stand-up comic, took over from Atkinson as co-writer for the cheaper studio-bound second series and doubled as the warm-up act for its studio audiences.
Q 15Which QI creator produced all four Blackadder series?
John Lloyd
John Lloyd had produced Not the Nine O'Clock News, the sketch show whose star Rowan Atkinson and writer Richard Curtis went on to devise the historical sitcom.
Q 16Which composer, also behind the Red Dwarf and Mr. Bean themes, wrote the Blackadder theme tune?
Howard Goodall
Howard Goodall recast one melody for each era: trumpets and timpani for the Middle Ages, recorder and electric guitar for the Tudors, a harpsichord minuet for the Regency.
Q 17In Blackadder's Christmas Carol, what kind of shop does Ebenezer Blackadder run?
Moustaches
Moustaches: the shop earns Ebenezer almost nothing, because the kindest man in England hands his takings to every charity collector and con artist who knocks.
Q 18Who played the Spirit of Christmas in Blackadder's Christmas Carol?
Robbie Coltrane
Robbie Coltrane's Spirit drops in to praise Ebenezer's goodness, but his visions of scheming ancestors backfire: Ebenezer concludes that bad guys have all the fun.
Q 19In 'Corporal Punishment', what was Melchett's pet pigeon, shot by Blackadder, called?
Speckled Jim
Speckled Jim was the general's beloved carrier pigeon; Blackadder shoots and eats it, then faces a court-martial with Melchett himself as judge and a firing squad as the sentence.
Q 20Blackadder: Back & Forth was made for a purpose-built cinema at which London attraction?
The Millennium Dome
The Millennium Dome's Sky-sponsored Skyscape cinema screened the film throughout 2000; Sky and the BBC had already squabbled over the TV rights, and Sky One showed it first.
Pencils: the ruse collapses when he overhears General Melchett recall shooting a whole platoon in the Sudan for the very same trick, so he pretends he was only telling the story.
Q 24In Blackadder the Third, Baldrick speculates that his first name might be what?
Sodoff
Sodoff: when he played in the gutter and introduced himself, Baldrick explains, the other children always answered 'Sod off, Baldrick', so Blackadder writes down 'Mr. S. Baldrick'.
Q 25In Blackadder Goes Forth, Private Baldrick makes coffee from which unlikely ingredient?
Mud
Mud: the real coffee ran out thirteen months earlier, Baldrick admits, and since then the sugar has been dandruff and the milk his own saliva.
Q 26In 'Captain Cook', Blackadder guesses the generals' new plan is for the men to do what?
Walk very slowly toward the enemy
Walk very slowly toward the enemy: Melchett calls it brilliant because doing exactly what they have done eighteen times before is the last thing the other side will expect.
Q 27In 'Dish and Dishonesty', what does Blackadder rig so that Baldrick wins?
A by-election
A by-election: Blackadder installs Baldrick as MP for the rotten borough of Dunny-on-the-Wold to protect the Prince's income, only for the new member to vote the wrong way.
Q 28The final shot of Blackadder Goes Forth fades from no man's land to a field of what?
Poppies
Poppies: neither the slow motion nor the fade was in the script; both were added in the edit because the makers were unhappy with the ending as it had been filmed.
Q 29Which comedian played the king Edmund accidentally beheads in The Black Adder's first episode?
Peter Cook
Peter Cook's king has just won his battle when Edmund, arriving late, takes him for a horse thief and lops off his head; the headless ghost then comes back to haunt him.
Q 30In The Black Adder, Brian Blessed played Edmund's father, who reigns under which regnal name?
Richard IV
Richard IV is the show's invention: the younger Prince in the Tower, grown up to reign from 1485 to 1498, though the real boy would have been about twelve at Bosworth.