"dinnerladies" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Tony

Tony and Bren spend a lot of time together throughout the two series. In the second series, the two plan to go on holiday, but this plan is wrecked when Bren's mother, Petula (played by Julie Walters), blows up her caravan with Macedonian gas cylinders. In the second season, Bren and Tony ended up going to Scotland for Christmas.

Answer: "Twelve rounds of white, low fat spread." - that's twelve pieces of white toast.

Jane is a short blonde woman who is often seen in conjuction with Phillipa, a willowy brunette who also works in Human Resources (formerly Personnel). Bren was meant to go on holiday with Jane and Tony to Spain, but never got around to it. She later saw photographs of Jane kissing Tony.

Answer: Shaved Bren's head while she was asleep and blamed it on the cat.

Petula is famous for such quotes as "she was born on Christmas Eve, so I called her Brenda", showing how she clearly thought there was some relevance behind this choice of name. Along with blowing up her caravan with Macedonian propane and getting a boycott put on the company for which Bred works, she also had personal encounters with a 16 year old boy and a petrol station attendant called Reg.

She even left Babs (from Urmston) to be looked after by the canteen staff in more than one episode.

Answer: "She's very tuneful for a Greek."

It really was inevitable. In the episode before this, it was found out that Bren was still married to Martin, a fact that none of the people working in the canteen knew. Even though she was about to divorce Martin, Tony took this the wrong way and it was down to Bren to patch up their relationship.

This is also one of the episodes in which we see Babs, from Urmston. Because there's two ways to get to Urmston.

Answer: He fell off a diving board in Guernsey

A fact of which we are reminded every time we see him in the episode. He also has a problem with coconut matting and taking the stairs because of this, and in the first season, we often hear of him having panic attacks at the bottom of the fire escape.

Answer: Granary torpedoes

Instead of granary torpedoes, the canteen usually receives crusty bloomers as recompense, but in the episode "Catering", they get wholemeal pittas instead. Glenda, played by Sue Cleaver, played her biggest part in the episode "Catering", where a ladder gets stuck in the canteen whilst redecorating.

She can't go over it, she can't go under it, and the canteen is being redecorated, so it all gets a little bit strange. In the end, Twinkle hits Jane over the head with a tin tray. Don't ask why - you really have to have seen the episode.

Answer: Anita's in-car blow-up doll. That is to say, he is a life size dummy that Anita places in her passenger seat so that she doesn't get car-jacked at night.

Malcolm the blow-up doll, who appears in most episodes when we see Anita come into the canteen, is also voiced by Anita, which means the group are accustomed to greeting both her and Malcolm at the same time. Here's a little background on Malcolm.

He's a smoker, but is never actually seen doing so (how can he? He has no lips). He has a deep booming voice, which is suspiciously similar to that of Anita, and he has interchangeable faces. He cannot walk (he's made of polyurethane), and is usually propped up outside the ladies' lavatory during the episodes.

Answer: He's too dull, and she's sick of jigsaws.

Apparently, he's very good in bed and does a lot of plaintive, hopeful breathing in the morning, but she's just sick of jigsaws. Apparently, they have to finish the sky on one, before they start another on baked beans, and then, they're going on holiday.

They're ripping up carpets in a flooded cottage in North Yorkshire, going to Dumfries to put down his 'barmy' aunt's dog, and then they're going to a three-day traditional jazz festival in Somerset.

Answer: The Desert Rats

Due to Albert's background, the group discusses which poems should be played at his funeral. "Love-letters in the sand" is put forward by Dolly, while Anita brings up "Little mice with clogs on", and Twinkle claims that "I wish I'd looked after me teeth", by Pam Eyres, would be a suitable poem.

Answer: The Cafe Bonbon

The Café Bonbon was, of course, a much more upmarket establishment than the one that Dolly and Jean work in now. But, as Jean's sister Peggy mentioned when she came to pick up her sister after the went over the edge of sanity, when they worked in the Café Bonbon, Dolly "used to be gargantuan!".