The TV Guide

Test your skills.

Try our Easter quiz. Some of the questions are ‘eggs-acting’, so here’s hoping you don’t end up a hot, cross bunny. By Peter Eley.

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1.

In which decade did Bugs Bunny first appear: a) 1930s, b) 1950s, c) 1970s?

2.

Can you name both the composer and lyricist behind the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar? 3.

The nuns of Nonnatus House feature in which popular TV series? 4.

Max Von Sydow played Jesus, Charlton Heston was John The Baptist, and Telly Savalas played Pontius Pilate in which 1965 epic movie?

5.

Three wayward Irish priests share a decrepit house on Craggy Island in which TV comedy?

6.

Tom Hollander starred as the vicar of an inner-city London church in which TV series?

7.

You wouldn’t describe the characters in Coronation Street as overly religious. But there is a church nearby called: a) St Barlow’s, b) St Mary’s, c) St Elsie’s?

8.

Ben-Hur was first made as a silent movie in 1925. True or false?

9.

Which actress took the title role in The Vicar Of Dibley?

10.

Which controvers­ial religious satire from the Monty Python team was banned in Norway?

11.

Ted Danson and Kristen Bell star in which Netflix comedy about a muddled-up afterlife?

12.

The Two Popes is a biographic­al drama set in 2005. Who didn’t appear in the movie: a) Jonathan Pryce, b) Anthony Hopkins, c) Ian McKellen?

13.

In the 1948 Easter Parade musical, Fred Astaire stars with:

a) Ginger Rogers, b) Judy Garland, c) Rita Hayworth?

14.

Father Mulcahy was the priest in which American sitcom about army medics?

15.

The Reverend Lovejoy is in charge of Springfiel­d’s Reform Presbyluth­eranism Church in which animated comedy?

16.

James Cordern voices the title character in which movie based on stories by Beatrix Potter?

17.

A very cute bunny features in which 1988 live action/animated movie starring Bob Hoskins as a private detective?

18.

The Amazon comedy Good Omens features Michael Sheen and David Tennant. Which one plays an angel?

19.

What is an Easter egg in a TV series?

20.

This character created by G.K. Chesterton is a Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective. Can you name him?

21.

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey was one of the powerful members of Henry Vlll’s court. Who played him in The Tudors: a) Peter O’Toole, b) Jonathan Rhys Meyers, c) Sam Neill?

22.

Hazel, Fiver and Bigwig are rabbits in which 2018 mini-series?

23.

Hugh Jackman voices E.Aster Bunnymund in which 2012 Dreamworks animated movie?

24.

Films about rabbits tend to be cute, but the term ‘bunny boiler’ is derived from this pet’s demise in which film?

25.

This famous actor, known for his cowboy roles, had only one line in The Greatest Story Ever Told, saying, ‘Truly, this man was the Son of God’ but required multiple takes to get it right. Who was he?

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