So, how many could you answer?
1. Name the producer of the Ying Tong Song.
Marcel Stellman
2. Who produced A Christmas Carol? (Besides Charles Dickens!)
John Browell
3. In A Christmas Carol, what was the name of the character played by ‘Mate’?
Sewer Man Sam
4. Which Goon Show scriptwriter was born in 1923 and died in 1959?
Larry Stephens
5. George Martin was the producer for which record label?
Parlophone
6. Grytpype’s voice was inspired by that of which film actor?
George Sanders
7. With which street was a certain fireball associated?
Milton Street
8. Spike’s full name was . . .?
Terence Alan Milligan
9. In which series did Eric Sykes collaborate?
Series 5
10. What was the title of the Goons’ first attempt for an audition at the Beeb?
Sellers’ Castle in 1949
11. How many ingots were there in Leadenhall Street?
Six
12. A song, which may well have been the inspiration for Monty Python’s Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life, contains the phrase “When you’re standing on the gallows at the dreaded break of day”. Name it.
Whistle your Cares Away
13. In which song does a character express dislike at being “drownded, nutted, deaded and wetted”?
Bluebottle Blues
14. Name the town in which Spike was born.
Ahmednagar, India
15. Ying Tong Song reached No.2 in the Top 20 in 1957. True or false?
False
16. Who wrote the Peter Sellers biography “the Mask behind the Mask”?
Peter Evans
17. Who was born in Dan-y-graig Terrace?
Harry Secombe
18. Besides producing Goon Shows, Charles Chilton devised and wrote an anti-war musical called . . .
Oh, What a Lovely War
19. Name the series’ first announcer.
Andrew Timothy
20. In which film is a priceless Ming vase bought at Woolworths?
The Case of the Mukkinese Battlehorn
21. Who played ‘Dr Longdongle’?
Valentine Dyall
22. What does Longdongle do with false teeth?
He uses them as castanets
23. In one episode, The Goons merged with another popular comedy show. Which?
Educating Archie
24. In Tales of Old Dartmoor, Her Majesty’s prison is moved where?
The south of France
25. Which episode was recorded without an audience?
The Starlings
26. It included a character, the Duchess Boil de Spudswell, who sounded like which celebrated figure?
The Queen
27. In which show does Valentine Dyall insure Neddie against being embedded in concrete?
The Canal
28. What was Wallace Greenslade’s fan club called?
The Greensladers
29. Minnie Bannister played Maid Marian in Ye Bandit of Sherwood Forest. True or false?
False
30. George Orwell’s 1984 inspired which episode?
Nineteen-Eighty-Five
31. A train crash in November 1956 caused which episode to be postponed?
The Pevensey Bay Disaster
32. In which show does Neddie insure the English Channel against catching fire?
Insurance, the White Man’s Burden
33. Colonel Chinstrap of ITMA was an influence on Major Bloodnok. True or false?
True
34. The Africa Ship Canal was inspired by the closure of which waterway?
The Suez Canal
35. What was the first name of Sellers’ mother?
Peg
36. Spike is believed to have acquired his name from which jazz trumpeter?
Spike Hughes
37. Name the scoutmaster who was an influence on Bluebottle’s character.
Ruxton Hayward
38. What was the name of the 3-piece band in which Spike played before The Goon Show?
The Bill Hall Trio
39. Which Goon had a shaving act?
Harry Secombe
40. Name Bentine’s captain/professor character.
Osric Pureheart
41. Complete the phrase: “A fair trial and a fair…”
Hanging
42. In whose esteemed watering hole did The Goon Show blossom?
Jimmy Grafton
43. Who ran London’s Windmill Theatre, where Bentine, Secombe and Sellers all appeared?
Vivian Van Damm
44. Which Goon started with a stage act based on a broken chair back?
Michael Bentine
45. Sellers was descended from a famous eighteenth century bare-knuckle fighter. Who?
Daniel Mendoza – Peter Sellers was his 1st cousin four times removed
46. Jacques Brown later produced some Goon Shows, but had previously produced an equally crazy programme called…
Danger, Men at Work
47. What do the letters KOGVOS stand for?
Keeper Of Goons and Voice Of Sanity
48. On what date was Crazy People first broadcast?
28th May 1951
49. Which rising took place in ‘74?
The MacReekie Rising
50. How many episodes were in the tenth and final Goon Show series?
Six
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