Red Dwarf by FaulknerM

Champion(s):

WeikleB
I say what it occurs to me to say when I think I hear people say things. More, I cannot say.


Runner(s)-Up:

StahlhutJ
I'm younger than the rest of you put together! -- Pierce Hawthorne


Quiz Description

If an award-winning show viewed by millions in its home country and worldwide can still be said to be a "cult", then British comedy Red Dwarf is a true cult favourite, spawning a fandom and a convention culture resembling that of the various sci-fi series it so lovingly spoofs. While ostensibly "about" Red Dwarf, this quiz also touches on wider aspects of British TV, film and music. There *is* some trivia about the show itself, but there are a number of tangential questions that should also be gettable - or at least educatedly guessable - for the casual viewer and the firmly uninitiated.

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Questions:

While probably best known for playing Dave Lister in Red Dwarf, Craig Charles has had a varied career as a performance poet, the British TV narrator of Japanese game show "Takeshi's Castle", a funk and soul DJ on BBC radio station 6 Music - and a ten-year, on-and-off stint playing Lloyd Mullaney in which long-running TV soap opera?

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Coronation Street

The mining vessel Red Dwarf is variously described as between five and six miles in length. Fortunately for the crew, it is home to a number of smaller and less unwieldy shuttlecraft. These include the iconic Starbug and a vehicle called Blue ________?

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Midget

The Red Dwarf theme tune, officially untitled but well known for its refrain of "fun, fun, fun in the sun, sun, sun", was written by Howard Goodall. A prolific composer for television, Goodall's credits include Blackadder, QI, The Vicar of Dibley, and the theme music for this globally successful comedy series, whose opening lyrics - sung in Latin - are "Ecce homo qui est faba".

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Mr. Bean

The third season of Red Dwarf opens with Lister and the Cat discussing the charms of someone described by the latter as "the most desirable woman who ever lived". Wistfully, though, Lister acknowledges the futility of their conversation: "She'll never leave Fred, and we know it." Who is she?

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Wilma Flintstone

Four Red Dwarf novels (whose content could be described as "semi-canonical") were published between 1989 and 1996. The second of these books is named after this "total immersion video game", which also gives its name to a season 2 episode of the TV show.

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Better Than Life

At the same time as playing the Cat in the early series of Red Dwarf, Danny John-Jules was becoming a familiar face on British children's TV as Barrington, a rapping Rastafarian, in this comic retelling of the Robin Hood legend that recast Robin as a vain yuppie, instead placing which character in the role of leader of the Merry Men?

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Maid Marian

The episode "Timeslides" introduces us to Smeg and the Heads, the rock band fronted by Lister during his teenage years. In the show, "Smeg" is portrayed by Craig Charles's brother Emile, while the two "Heads" are played by members of which real-life extreme metal band? Their 2013 studio album "Surgical Steel" was their first since 1996's "Swansong".

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Carcass

Although UK viewing figures were topping six million by this point, the budget for sixth-season episode "Gunmen of the Apocalypse" (later to win an International Emmy Award) failed to stretch to an authentic Stateside filming location. Enter "Laredo Western Town", a more or less faithful recreation of a Wild West town located near the M25 motorway in which English county?

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Kent

In the second-season episode "Kryten", the eponymous mechanoid is played by David Ross, but it was Robert Llewellyn who ultimately made the role his own from the third series onward. Nevertheless, Ross returned to the Red Dwarf cast in the fourth-season episode "White Hole" to provide the voice of which monomaniacal kitchen appliance?

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Talkie Toaster

In "Back To Reality", the final episode of season 5, the crew are led to believe that their experiences aboard Red Dwarf have merely been a virtual-reality game they have been playing - badly - for the past four years. This news is broken to them by maintenance technician Andy (see photo), played by this actor and resident of London whose more famous screen roles include Winston Churchill and J. M. W. Turner. EDIT: The link has been fixed -- Tablesaw (edited at 1:29 pm, November 7, 2015 (PST))

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Timothy Spall

Revenge is a dish best served cold. The same can be said of this vegetarian dish whose recipe may have arrived in Europe with the Moors - and whose name happens to be the last words to pass Arnold Rimmer's lips before his untimely death and subsequent reactivation as a hologram.

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Gazpacho soup

In terms of viewership, Red Dwarf enjoyed its golden years on the BBC2 channel. Since 2009, however, new episodes of the show have been made for and broadcast by a smaller UK digital channel. Previously known as UK Gold Classics, UK Gold 2, UKG2 and UKTV G2, this naming pattern was jettisoned in 2007, when the channel was rebranded with a man's name to reflect its "strong and noisy personality" - according to a spokeswoman, the logic being that "everyone knows a bloke called ________".

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Dave