'Red Dwarf' - Characters and Actors Trivia

1. Who plays Kristine Kochanski in series 1, 2 and 6?

From Quiz 'Red Dwarf' Characters

Answer: Clare Grogan

Kochanski is Lister's ex-girlfriend who joins the crew from an alternate Universe in Series 7, after dying in the stasis leak on Red Dwarf. She is Lister's Mother through some strange time travel in the Series 7 episode 'Ouroboros'. Lister is also his own Father.

From Quiz Mr Flibble's Red Dwarf Quizzes - David Lister

Answer: Snakes

His very worst fear is the polymorph which he is attacked by right after a snake is thrown on him in the series 3 episode - Polymorph.

From Quiz Cast in the Role

Answer: Chen

Paul Bradley appeared as Chen in series one and series eight. When he appeared in series eight he was joined by Phil Mitchell from 'EastEnders', the character who introduced Nigel in the first place!

From Quiz ARL "Red Dwarf" - The Crazy Crew

Answer: Arnold Rimmer

There is a saying amongst the officers... "If a job's worth doing it's worth doing well. If it's not worth doing give it to Rimmer." Arnold Judas Rimmer BSc, SSc, loves collecting pictures of 20th century telegraph poles, listens to Hammond organ music, likes Morris dancing and his favourite board game is Risk.

From Quiz Arnold J. Rimmer

Answer: Judas

Arnold Judas Rimmer - but he tells everyone the J is for Jonathan.

From Quiz 'Red Dwarf' Characters

Answer: Captain Hollister

Captain Hollister appears in series 1 and 2 as well. He is responsible for Lister being put into stasis and therefore living through the crisis on Red Dwarf. He once dressed up as a chicken for a fancy dress party.

From Quiz Mr Flibble's Red Dwarf Quizzes - David Lister

Answer: Kristine Kochanski

She did come back in series 7 of 'Red Dwarf' but she already had an alternate version of Dave.

From Quiz Cast in the Role

Answer: Ainsley Harriott

Ainsley also hosted 'Can't Smeg, Won't Smeg' for the 10th Anniversary Night - a send-up of 'Can't Cook, Won't Cook', a popular cooking game show.

From Quiz ARL "Red Dwarf" - The Crazy Crew

Answer: Caroline Carmen

She had originally been a supply officer on Red Dwarf. Carmen had transferred to the ship, the Leviathan. She was the last person on the Leviathan to contract Epideme, a parasitic virus. Her frozen body had been released by Lister and his chums at which point she slipped her tongue into Lister's mouth and left it there! The virus was passed on to Lister and Caroline Carmen was left to decompose in peace. (Series 7)

From Quiz Arnold J. Rimmer

Answer: Frank, Howard, John

"'The Four Musketeers,' we used to call ourselves. Well, 'The Three Musketeers', actually - they always let me be the Queen of Spain."

From Quiz 'Red Dwarf' Characters

Answer: David Ross

David Ross was asked to come back to play Kryten when the character returned in series 3, but he was unavailable. In a later series, David Ross was the voice of Talkie Toaster. Robert Llewellyn played the neurotic Kryten from series 3 onwards.

From Quiz Mr Flibble's Red Dwarf Quizzes - David Lister

Answer: Curry

He only has two taste buds that work - one for curry and the other for lager.

From Quiz Cast in the Role

Answer: The Railway Children

Jenny played alongside Sally Thomsett, who went on to play one of the girls sharing a flat with a boy in 'Man About the House' in the 1970s. Jenny recently acted in the resurrected 'The Railway Children', this time playing the mother.

From Quiz ARL "Red Dwarf" - The Crazy Crew

Answer: Captain Hollister

Captain Frank Hollister's photo of his wife however looks more like a publicity shot for Titan zoo. He apparently cheated and blackmailed his way up the ranks after starting out as Dennis the donut boy.

From Quiz 'Red Dwarf' Characters

Answer: Caligula

The waxwork Caligula threatens to torture Lister and Cat in strange ways instructing his sidekick Rasputin to 'Bring in the bucket of soapy frogs and remove his trousers!' and 'Bring hither the skin-diving suit with the bottom cut out and unleash the rampant wildebeest!'!

From Quiz Mr Flibble's Red Dwarf Quizzes - David Lister

Answer: Beer milkshake

Well, he doesn't really invent it, he asks for a milkshake from the vending machine and when it asks what flavour he says beer! If only everything could be made that simple!

From Quiz Cast in the Role

Answer: Timothy Spall

All four of these actors had roles in the highly popular 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet', where seven Brits work on a building site in Germany (the second series had them working in Spain).

From Quiz ARL "Red Dwarf" - The Crazy Crew

Answer: Yvonne McGruder

Yvonne was the ship's female boxing champion. When she made love to Rimmer, she was suffering from concussion and referred to Rimmer twice as "Norman" through their relationship. The relationship itself lasted all of twelve minutes which, of course, included the time it took to eat the pizza. Rimmer did say he lost his virginity in his brothers car in the episode 'Marooned' but this was purely to attempt to show off in front of Lister.

From Quiz Arnold J. Rimmer

Answer: 9,336 years

8 years per murder count, 1,167 counts. Due to his hologramatic status, he was to serve the counts consecutively. He was convicted of murdering the entire crew of Red Dwarf - 1,169 people, minus himself and Lister, who was in Stasis. He didn't actually kill them, but his own guilt over not fixing the driveplate properly - which caused the radiation leak that wiped out the crew - caused the Mind Scan to think he was responsible. He was acquitted after Kryten's brilliant defense, which painted Rimmer as an incompetent vending repairman with a Napoleon complex. **NOTE** In the "Justice" episode in which this takes place, the sentencing computer states that for the 1,167 counts, 8 years per count, Rimmer is to serve 9,328 years. HOWEVER 8 times 1,167 equals 9,336. Assuming that a computer out in deep space that long can hardly be blamed for a calculation error, I took it upon myself to provide the correct mathematical answer. For those who are "script-happy", the script answer is 9,328, even though that is mathematically incorrect. I do not see this as being a problem, since only one of these options is in the answer. Had I provided the script answer, I would no doubt be deluged with notes pointing out the math error, whereas now I am getting notes about the script. I can't win either way. Red Dwarf is full of errors and contradictions; I do my best in these quizzes to provide the correct answer, and when there are blips like this one, explain them.

From Quiz 'Red Dwarf' Characters

Answer: Jane Horrocks

Rimmer loves life on board the Holoship, mostly because they have to have sex at least twice a day. In the end he sacrifices his happiness for Officer Crane. It would be sweet if it wasn't Rimmer.

From Quiz Mr Flibble's Red Dwarf Quizzes - David Lister

Answer: Third Technician

He was the lowest rank on the entire ship (apart from the laboratory mice!).

From Quiz Cast in the Role

Answer: Tony Hawks

His first role was the dispensing machine in 'Future Echoes' (the second episode) and reached such artistic heights as a suitcase before he played Caligula in 'Meltdown'.

From Quiz ARL "Red Dwarf" - The Crazy Crew

Answer: Thornton

Angus Lionel Thornton. Rimmer accessed the confidential crew files to find out all the above information about Thornton out so he could blackmail him and gain access to the artificial reality suite on Red Dwarf. (Series 8)

From Quiz Arnold J. Rimmer

Answer: Risk

He not only plays Risk, he talks about the dice rolls he had in previous games. When Lister asked him how he could possibly remember what he rolled in a game over 3 million years ago, Rimmer tells him he looked it up in his Risk Journal, in which he has kept a record of every game he's played since Cadet School.

From Quiz 'Red Dwarf' Characters

Answer: Robert Llewellyn

Robert Llewellyn played both characters. At the beginning, Kryten disapproved of Able's use of the drug Otrazone, but forgives him when he sacrifices himself to save the crew.

From Quiz Mr Flibble's Red Dwarf Quizzes - David Lister

Answer: Frankenstein

Frankenstein was safely secured in the hold when the radiation leak hit Red Dwarf and evolved over three million years to become the Cat.

From Quiz Cast in the Role

Answer: 'Psirens'

Anita was in 'EastEnders' at the very beginning and had a tempestous relationship with her screen husband, Den Watts until she left the soap to 'live in America'. Earlier this year (2002) her screen daughter Sharon brought her 'body' home for burial.

From Quiz ARL "Red Dwarf" - The Crazy Crew

Answer: George McIntyre

In life, George was a flight co-ordinator. His body was sent into outer space to the tune "See you later, Alligator". That evening, a welcome back party was held for George and he admitted he was quite moved from watching his own funeral. (Series 1)

From Quiz Arnold J. Rimmer

Answer: Navigation Officer

This was Nirvana Crane's position, and since he replaced her, he got her job. He didn't stay aboard the Enlightenment, though, when he realized that Nirvana had resigned from the competition in order to let him win. It was at this point that he realized that they loved each other - so he resigned so she could be brought back to life, and he returned to Red Dwarf.

From Quiz 'Red Dwarf' Characters

Answer: Paranoia

Lee Cornes once auditioned for the part of Rimmer. He played Paranoia in the episode "Confidence and Paranoia". Craig Ferguson played Confidence.

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