Fun Quiz

Pantomime

1. Which pantomime character marries Alice Fitzwarren? 2. First broadcast in 1976, which children’s TV show featured a pantomime horse called Dobbin? 3. In the pantomime Aladdin, what is the name of

Aladdin’s mother? 4. It is tradition in pantomimes for the villain to always enter from where?... stage left or stage right? 5. Dame Trott is the popular name for the mother of the main character in which pantomime? 6. From 2005 to 2009, whose TV chat show featured an annual pantomime broadcast live, with celebrities performing versions of The Wizard Of Oz, Peter Pan,

Cinderella, Pinocchio and Sleeping Beauty? 7. Baron Hardup is the father of the title character in which pantomime? 8. Often used in pantomimes, what is a “breeches role”? 9. Whose participation in the 2007 series of I’m A

Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here meant he was unable to be a pantomime dame for the first time in 39 years? 10. Now used to refer to a sub-genre of comedy, what was the name of the object used in early pantomimes that, when used to strike someone, would make a loud noise, but wouldn’t hurt them?

9. Christopher Biggins 10. Slapstick 8. A role where an actress plays the part of a man 6. Rentaghost 7. Cinderella 4. Stage left 5. Jack and the Beanstalk 1. Dick Whittington 2. Paul O’Grady’s 3. Widow Twankey