Dawn French Without Tears Trivia Quiz

Answer: Jennifer Saunders

They first met at the Central School of Speech and Drama where they were studying for a degree in Drama Teaching. The "French and Saunders" comedy sketches were first televised in the UK in 1987.

Answer: Wild West

The series was set in the fictional village of St Gweep and was mostly filmed in the beautiful village of Portloe. Twelve episodes were made.

Answer: Murder Most Horrid

Each episode had a different murder, with Dawn French usually playing the part of murderer or victim, and were generally written by a different writer, or team of writers.

At the British Comedy Awards in 1994, "Murder Most Horrid" was presented with the award for Best TV Comedy Drama.

Answer: Girls on Top

There were 13 episodes in the series which ended explosively when Joan Greenwood's character accidentally ignited some petrol she had stockpiled, blowing them all to smithereens. Tracey Ullman's character had earlier been killed off when the actress left the UK to pursue a career in America.

Answer: Geraldine Granger

Joy Carroll was the real-life vicar and inspiration for creator and writer Richard Curtis. Alice Horton is the delightfully ditzy verger played by Emma Chambers. Parish Councilor Letitia Cropley was played by Liz Smith, who left the programme in 1996.

Answer: Terry's Chocolate Orange

Though, as she also warns us, "Not Terry's - MINE!"

Dawn French describes herself as a "Chocoholic" and displays great enthusiasm when sampling the product.

Answer: The Comic Strip

The first film was a parody of Enid Blyton's "Famous Five" books.

The Comic Strip Club had opened in October 1980 at the Boulevard Theatre in London with an original cast of Alexei Sayle, Arnold Brown, Rik Mayall, Ade Edmondson, Nigel Planer, and Peter Richardson as well as Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders.

Answer: Stephen Tomkinson

Stephen Tomkinson played Father Peter in the long running drama series "Ballykissangel". Dermot Morgan, Ardal O'Hanlon and Frank Kelly played the three priests sharing a house on Craggy Island in "Father Ted".

Answer: Jam and Jerusalem

"Jam and Jerusalem" was written by Jennifer Saunders, who also appeared in the cast.

Why "Jam and Jerusalem"?

The Womens' Institutes began in Wales in 1915 and quickly became an important part of British rural life, active in community projects and local programmes. The WI was reluctant to become actively involved in war work and during the Second World War group activities were limited to things such as jam making.

C. Hubert H. Parry's 1916 composition "Jerusalem" uses words from an 1804 poem by William Blake. Although it is not an official anthem of the British Womens' Institutes, it has been accepted as such since first being sung at meetings in the 1920s.

Answer: True

"Comic Relief", a British charity organisation set up in 1985, holds a Telethon on BBC TV every other year to raise funds.

In the 1995 Telethon viewers were urged to pledge funds during the French and Saunders segment of the show, with the promise that if a million pounds was raised there would be a passionate "snog" between Dawn French and Hugh Grant.

The money was raised and Dawn changed into a version of Elizabeth Hurley's Versace safety pin dress, before she and Hugh Grant kissed on a lip-shaped red sofa.