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50 free British TV Shows trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
British television gave the world a cobbled street that has run since 1960, a hotel in Torquay with twelve perfect episodes, a market trader from Peckham, a time-travelling police box and a baking tent that moved channels. This quiz spans all of it. These 50 questions cover soaps, sitcoms, dramas, panel shows and game shows: Weatherfield and Walford, Uncle Albert, Basil Fawlty's Gleneagles, Baldrick, Wernham Hogg, Downton's Yorkshire, Sherlock's Cardiff, Croydon's Peep Show flat, AC-12, Barry and Billericay, Craggy Island, Red Dwarf's three million years, Dad's Army, Dibley, Ab Fab, Reynholm Industries, Luther, Broadchurch, Peaky Blinders, Taskmaster, HIGNFY, QI, Countdown, Blue Peter, Emmerdale, The Crown, Fleabag, Derry Girls, Gogglebox and Hyacinth Bouquet. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for a pub quiz round.
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Q 01Coronation Street is set in which fictional Greater Manchester town?
Weatherfield
Creator Tony Warren based it on his hometown of Salford; the soap has aired on ITV since December 1960.
Q 02EastEnders is set in which fictional London borough?
Walford
It launched on BBC One in February 1985 and topped the ratings within eight months.
Q 03More than 30 million watched EastEnders' most-viewed episode, broadcast on which day in 1986?
Christmas Day
It holds the number one spot in the UK's all-time most-watched programmes.
Q 04In Only Fools and Horses, what is Del Boy Trotter's trade?
Market trader
David Jason's Derek and Nicholas Lyndhurst's Rodney chase riches from Peckham in south-east London.
Q 05Which character was introduced to Only Fools and Horses after Lennard Pearce's death in 1984?
Uncle Albert
Buster Merryfield played Grandad's estranged brother.
Q 06Fawlty Towers is set in a hotel in which seaside town?
Torquay
The Gleneagles Hotel there, and its owner Donald Sinclair, inspired John Cleese during a Monty Python stay in 1970.
Q 07How many episodes of Fawlty Towers were made in total?
12
Two series of six, in 1975 and 1979, written by Cleese and Connie Booth.
Q 08Who plays Baldrick, servant to every Blackadder?
Tony Robinson
Rowan Atkinson played Edmund across all four series, each set in a different historical period.
Q 09Who co-wrote the last three Blackadder series with Richard Curtis?
Ben Elton
Atkinson co-wrote the first series; John Lloyd produced all four.
Q 10The Office (UK) is set in the Slough branch of which fictional paper company?
Wernham Hogg
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant created it, and Gervais starred as David Brent.
Q 11Downton Abbey is set on a fictional estate in which county?
Yorkshire
Julian Fellowes' drama runs from the Titanic's sinking in 1912 to New Year's Eve 1925.
Q 12How many episodes of Downton Abbey aired across its six series?
52
That includes five Christmas specials; it debuted on ITV in September 2010.
Q 13Who created Sherlock with Mark Gatiss?
Steven Moffat
Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman starred in thirteen episodes from 2010 to 2017.
Q 14In which city was Sherlock primarily filmed?
Q 21What is the name of the unit at the centre of Line of Duty?
AC-12
Jed Mercurio's drama about 'policing the police' stars Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar.
Q 22Gavin & Stacey's two families come from Billericay and which Welsh town?
Barry
James Corden and Ruth Jones wrote it and played Smithy and Nessa.
Q 23Who plays Stacey's uncle Bryn in Gavin & Stacey?
Rob Brydon
Alison Steadman and Larry Lamb play Gavin's parents Pam and Mick.
Q 24Father Ted is set on which fictional location off Ireland's west coast?
Cardiff
North Gower Street in London stood in for Baker Street.
Q 15Peep Show's Mark and Jeremy share a flat in which part of London?
Croydon
David Mitchell and Robert Webb starred from 2003 to 2015, the longest-running comedy in Channel 4 history.
Q 16What camera technique gives Peep Show its title?
Point of view shots
The characters' thoughts are heard as voiceovers.
Q 17Which company produces The Great British Bake Off?
Love Productions
It began on BBC Two in August 2010 and later moved to Channel 4 after series seven.
Q 18The BBC's celebrity dance contest takes half its title from which 1992 film?
Strictly Ballroom
The format has been exported to 60 countries as Dancing with the Stars.
Q 19Who co-presented Strictly Come Dancing with Tess Daly from its start?
Bruce Forsyth
Claudia Winkleman became co-lead presenter from the 2014 series.
Q 20Who presented Top Gear's first revived series in 2002 alongside Clarkson and Hammond?
Jason Dawe
Dawe was replaced after one series; the anonymous Stig also featured from the start.
Craggy Island
Bishop Brennan exiles Ted, Dougal and Jack there, with housekeeper Mrs Doyle.
Q 25Which two writers created Father Ted?
Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews
Linehan later created The IT Crowd; Hat Trick produced Ted for Channel 4.
Q 26In Red Dwarf, how long was Dave Lister in suspended animation?
Three million years
He wakes as the last human, with a hologram of Rimmer and a creature evolved from his cat.
Q 27Which broadcaster revived Red Dwarf from 2009 to 2020?
Dave
The original ran on BBC Two from 1988 to 1999.
Q 28How many episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC?
45
Four series from 1969 to 1974, plus two episodes made for German TV.
Q 29Dad's Army is about which wartime organisation?
The Home Guard
Its volunteers were too old or otherwise ineligible for military service, hence the title.
Q 30Who plays Geraldine Granger in The Vicar of Dibley?
Dawn French
The sitcom followed the Church of England's 1993 decision to ordain women.