Christmas Disasters Trivia Quiz

Answer: Rosa

Rosa cooked half a dozen turkeys, one from each home, in the large ovens in her restaurant, and the population of the Square gathered there to eat their meals together. This happened while Bianca was giving birth to Liam in the Queen Vic around the corner.

Answer: an angel decoration

Thankfully no one was hurt, but as one tree after another caught fire it certainly caused an amusing episode for the viewer!

Answer: a baby

One of the things Mark and Diane did was to take the child to a hospital to check its health, skipping out again before Diane could undergo a check as well, as the child's 'mother'. They eventually found Disa and persuaded her to take her baby back again.

Answer: the Fowlers

This was in 1991 and the blame lay with Pete; the looks on Pauline and Aruthur's faces was priceless!

Answer: a blue plastic budgie

As Terry took off the cover, the real lovebird flapped its wings and the plastic budgie slipped around to hang upside down from the perch. How the actors kept a straight face, I will never know. (This was in 1997.)

Answer: in the restaurant

The Mitchell/Butcher family were having dinner with the DiMarcos in their restaurant when Phil and Dan came in and told Peggy that she was not able to sell the entire pub to Ian as planned, because Grant had given his half to Phil, and he sold it to Dan for £5.

Answer: Chris Smith

Chris was Mary's father, and was a taxi driver. On Christmas Eve 1987 he was out in his taxi with Annie in the back and crashed - little Annie was in hospital over Christmas Day, and Mary, whose relationship with her father was tenuous anyway, found it very hard to forgive him. Both Frank and Martin were involved with fatal car accidents over the Christmas season, but neither were accused of drink-driving.

Answer: Nigel and Claire

Alan had left the house after he had been conned into a relationship with Frankie, who had cleverly manoeuvred him after Carole's affair with David. He was to return to the family, however, and eventually they would move away together. Carole would return to the Square alone, after a final breakup of the marriage.

Answer: a flood in the Gents

The men were required to go elsewhere (the alley mostly), although at least one used the Ladies, as Dot was seen coming downstairs after using the facilities in the flat, because there was a man in the Ladies.

Answer: Frank

Frank had disappeared two years before, leaving Pat with his children (one of whom was still at school - Janine) and a whole parcel of debts. She and Roy had just started to live together as a couple when Frank returned, and there followed a great deal of explanation, regret and argument - even fisticuffs.