PRIME-TIME QUIZ: SAY IT WITH FLOWERS
1. What was the subject matter of one of George Clooney’s Desert Island Discs selections, Bobby Darin’s Artificial Flowers?
A. Funeral arrangements B. The Mafia C. Child labour
2. What type of animal was Flower in Bambi?
A. Skunk B. Chipmunk C. Possum
3. The ‘Flobadob’ language of the Flowerpot Men (pictured) was based by Hilda Brabban on . . . what?
A. Her brothers’ phonetic imitation of breaking wind in the bath B. Spike Milligan’s Eccles character from The Goon Show C. Her one-year-old twin sons’ private language
4. Why did Bill Murray contemplate quitting acting after his starring role in Broken Flowers?
A. He suffered from intense hay fever B. He thought it was the best performance he could ever be capable of giving C. He nearly died from a bee sting
5. Who said ‘I get great pleasure out of arranging flowers’ in 2008?
A. Mick Jagger B. Elton John C. Rod Stewart
6. What was the name of the Irish gangster-cum-florist in Boardwalk Empire?
A. Tiptoe Tulips B. Dean O’Banion C. Muggsy Malone
7. What is a ‘bone-eating snot flower’, as revealed by BBC News in 2005?
A. A new species of worm, Osedax Mucofloris B. The centrepiece of Blue Peter’s Fungus the Bogeyman garden C. The bushtucker ingredient which sparked David Dickinson’s spectacular ‘technicolor yawn’ on I’m A Celebrity . . .
8. Which two characters fought for but ultimately failed to catch Fiona’s bouquet at Shrek’s wedding?
A. Snow White and Cinderella B. The Ugly Sisters C. Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
9. Twenty-two years before the first flowering of Hyacinth Bucket, what did Patricia Routledge NOT do?
A. Receive a Tony award from Groucho Marx for her performance on Broadway B. Appear on The Ed Sullivan Show to sing Not On Your Nellie C. Play Albert Tatlock’s bit on the side in Coronation Street
10. Whose interpretation of The Rolling Stones’ Dead Flowers featured in The Big Lebowski?
A. Townes Van Zandt’s B. The Lighthouse Family’s C. Paul Simon’s
11. Who did Bill Bailey (pictured) once claim ‘looks like a man who has caught a bouquet at a funeral’?
A. Colin Montgomery B. David Moyes C. Ed Miliband
12. What’s the significance in BBC TV history of the play The Man With The Flower In His Mouth?
A. It marked the TV debut in 1938 of John Le Mesurier B. One of the actors died during live transmission and the cast simply carried on C. In 1930, it became the first play to be televised by the BBC
13. ‘The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all’ was the tagline of which film?
A. Aliens B. Mulan C. Carrie
14. What did Percy Thrower once do in a flowerbed to bring one edition of Gardeners’ World to a somewhat premature end?
A. Stand on a rake and knock himself out B. Water a microphone concealed among the flowers C. Attempt unsuccessfully to stifle flatulence of thermo-nuclear proportions
15. Which lyric immediately preceded ‘Give me the power of man’s red flower’ in Disney’s Jungle Book song, I Wanna Be Like You?
A. ‘Hey hold up a minute, man-cub, just tell me what you know B. ‘Now give me the secret, man-cub, c’mon, clue me what to do’ C. ‘Say don’t try to kid me, man-cub, I did a deal with you’
16. Who sang The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring Tra-La in a 1960 American TV production of The Mikado?
A. Boris Karloff B. Groucho Marx C. Phil Silvers
17. Who repeatedly told Lizzie to ‘Just look at the flowers’ at the end of TV zombie drama The Walking Dead’s most shocking episode, The Grove?
A. Carol B. The Governor C. Hershel
18. Who did the Knight of the Flowers (played by Finn Jones, pictured) defeat during the Hand’s jousting tournament in Game Of Thrones’ first series?
A. The Stone Outhouse B. The Mountain C. The Hound
19. Which customised funeral arrangement featured in the French black comedy Bouquet Final?
A. Gerard-Depardieu-shaped coffin full of Gerard Depardieu B. Wreath in the shape of a Citroen 2CV made entirely from croissants C. The deceased sitting in front of a TV ‘watching’ his favourite Benny Hill Show one last time
20. Whose catchphrase was ‘Me old flower’?
A. Arthur Atkinson B. Wilfred Pickles C. Charlie Williams