BBC Trivia
Test your knowledge of the programs and services of the oldest national broadcasting company in the world, the BBC.
15 questions · Published April 18, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
- Multiple Choice
1. What UK capital city is headquarters for the British Broadcasting Corporation, known the world over as the BBC?
The BBC, the world's oldest national broadcaster, is headquartered at Broadcasting House in London.
Its work is funded principally by an annual television license fee, which is charged to all British households, companies, and organizations using any type of equipment to receive or record broadcasts.
- Multiple Choice
2. Which of these popular period television dramas is NOT a BBC production?
Although it aired on PBS in the United States, as many BBC period dramas do, the wildly popular "Downton Abbey" series was produced by ITV, a network launched in 1955 to compete with the BBC. ITV is the oldest commercial network in the United Kingdom.
- Multiple Choice
3. Which of these actors has never played the Doctor on the long running BBC cult-hit "Dr. Who?"
While he's never played the Doctor on "Dr. Who," Martin Freeman stars as Dr. John Watson in the BBS series "Sherlock."
- Multiple Choice
4. What 2017 BBC series won naturalist and broadcaster Sir David Attenborough his first Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator?
Once a senior manager for BBC and director of programming, Sir David Attenborough is primarily known in the U.S. for narrating many nature series and won his first Emmy in 2018 for "Blue Planet II."
- Multiple Choice
5. Which of these men is NOT an original member of comedy troupe Monty Python?
The sketch comedy series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" began airing on the BBC in 1969, with members Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, and Michael Palin. Spike Milligan was a member of the Goons, often credited as a major influence on Monty Python.
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