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BBC Quiz I
- What does the abbreviation BBC stand for?
- What's the name of the international broadcaster operated by the BBC in more than 40 language which is the world's largest of any kind?
- Other than "The Beeb", the BBC is known affectionately by what nickname?
- The Archers is a British radio soap opera on which BBC channel?
- Which BBC2 finance and business affairs programme ran between April 1966 and November 2010?
- What sort of toy was siting next to Carole Hersee on the television Test Card which aired on BBC Television from 1967 to 1998?
- On 10 September 1982, after 32 years on air, which programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 for the final time?
- Which Scottish inventor demonstrated the world's first working television system in 1926?
- On 29 January 1942, the first edition of which programme was broadcast on the BBC Forces Programme?
- Which London entertainment and sports venue became the home of the BBC in 1936?
- In 2012 the BBC relocated a number of its departments to which northern city?
- What was the name of the world's first teletext information service and a forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service?
- On 25 December 1977, whose Christmas show on BBC1 attracted an audience of more than 28 million?
- In which year was Eastenders first broadcast?
- Which television sport programme was broadcast between 1958 and 2007?
- In which year was BBC2 launched?
- Which sitcom created and written by Roy Clarke was first broadcast by the BBC in 1973?
- After nearly 78 years on air, which programme was broadcast on BBC Radio 2 for the final time in January 2018?
- CBeebies is a children's television network targeted at children aged 2 to 6, can you name its sister channel aimed at viewers aged 6 to 16?
- Which BBC programme is the longest-running programme in television history to have the same presenter?
- Which programme was relaunched in 2005 after a sixteen years absence?
- First broadcast in 1953, name the world's longest-running news television programme?
- Launched in 1999, which channel broadcasting documentary and educational programmes was shut down in 2002 and replaced by BBC Four?
- Which BBC programme is now the longest-running children's TV show in the world?
- Question Time, first broadcast in September 1979, was based on which BBC Radio 4 programme?
Answers:
- The British Broadcasting Corporation
- The BBC World Service
- Auntie
- BBC Radio 4
- The Money Programme
- A clown
- Listen with Mother
- John Logie Baird
- Desert Island Discs
- Alexandra Palace
- Salford
- Ceefax
- Morecambe & Wise
- 1985
- Grandstand
- 1964
- Last of the Summer Wine
- The Sunday Hour
- CBBC
- The Sky at Night (the presenter was Patrick Moore)
- Doctor Who
- Panorama
- BBC Knowledge
- Blue Peter
- Any Questions?