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Quiz

1. Name the BBC British nature documentary which premiered in 2001 and was described as "the first ever comprehensive series on the natural history of the world's oceans"?
2. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a 2004 American documentary film directed and written by which political commentator?
3. Who narrated the British 26-episode documentary TV series The World at War?
4. Who wrote and presented the 2007 BBC documentary The Most Hated Family in America?








5. Threads was a 1984 documentary style account of a nuclear attack on which UK city?
6. Which documentary series hosted by Ross Kemp was broadcast on Sky 1 from September 2004, until January 2009?
7. Q.E.D. was the name of a series of BBC popular science documentary films which aired from 1982 to 1999. What does the acronym Q.E.D. mean?
8. What name does Jeremy Clarkson rename his farm in the British television documentary Clarkson's Farm?
9. The 1999 Walking with Dinosaurs series was followed by which Walking with... series?
10. Who was the presenter of many BBC television series, including Your Life in Their Hands, Superhuman, and The Human Body?
11. Whose 'world' was a British television documentary series that ran from 1958 to 1994?
12. What is the three word title of the 2021 documentary film about the career of Britney Spears, her celebrity and popularity?
13. What is the nickname of of zookeeper and convicted felon Joe Exotic?
14. Which TV personality who described himself as a "backstreet mechanic won the 1979 BAFTA award for best documentary?
15. The 2020 documentary Colette, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, was produced by which newspaper?

Answers:

1. The Blue Planet
2. Michael Moore
3. Laurence Olivier
4. Louis Theroux
5. Sheffield
6. Ross Kemp on Gangs
7. Quod erat demonstrandum, Latin for "that which was to be demonstrated"
8. Diddly Squat (by Clarkson to indicate its lack of production)
9. Walking with Beasts
10. Professor Robert Winston
11. Whicker's World
12. Framing Britney Spears
13. Tiger King








14. Fred Dibnah
15. The Guardian