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Were you paying attention? It's the seriously tough TV quiz of the decade

Think you know everything about Don Draper and Downton Abbey? What about reality show stars from 2014? Test your telly nous with our ultimate quiz

Why did Lord Grantham vomit blood everywhere on Downton Abbey?

Poison

Burst ulcer

Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease

In Line of Duty, what is Ted Hastings’ catchphrase?

“Now we’re drinking Castrol”

“Now we’re sucking diesel”

“Now we’re necking petrol”

Why did Planet Earth 2 make you hate racer snakes?

Because they ate an entire sheep

Because they choked a deer to death

Because they chased an iguana

What did the season two finale of Luther revolve around?

Evil twins

A toddler with a gun

A spooky dice

How was Andrea Riseborough brought to justice in her Black Mirror episode?

An AI-assisted kettle called the police

The internet grew arms and strangled her

A guinea pig gave up its memories of her

Who ruled Westeros at the end of Game of Thrones?

Jon Snow

Bran Stark

Ser Pounce

What was Jack Bauer’s fate at the end of 24?

Bundled on to a boat by the Chinese

Sat in his car crying

Surrendered to the Russians to be tortured forever

Which commercial did Don Draper invent at the end of Mad Men?

I’d Like To Buy The World a Coke

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz

I Feel Like Chicken Tonight

Who got to rule the island at the end of Lost?

Jacob

Jack

Hurley

Which song played over the final scene of Breaking Bad?

Baby Blue

Mr Blue Sky

Blue (Da Ba De)

Name this reality show contestant.

Schoenberg Rodriguez

Wagner Carrilho

Prokofiev Barbosa

And this one

Chyna Ellis

Japyn Wolesly

Emma D’Souza

Who is this?

Diana Beard

Margot Burr

Joanna Scrupp

And this?

Bogdana Stamboliski

Bisera Kjucukov

Bilyana Apostolova

Who is this?

Jamie Johnson

Steve Smith

Lee Pea

Guess the show by its opening titles

Daredevil

Jessica Jones

DIY SOS

And this one

Making a Murderer

Happy Valley

Mindhunter

What show is this?

Homeland

Billions

Ray Donovan

And this one?

Vinyl

The Deuce

Boardwalk Empire

Lastly, what show is this?

The Good Wife

The Good Fight

Watchdog

Where did Queen America air?

Facebook Watch

Netflix

YouTube Originals

How about Champaign Ill?

Walter Presents

YouTube Originals

Apple TV+

And Red Oaks?

Amazon Prime

Facebook Watch

Snapchat Originals

Where can you watch See?

Apple TV+

YouTube Originals

Amazon Prime

And what about Hemlock Grove?

Netflix

Amazon Prime

Facebook Watch

In Brooklyn 99, what is Peralta’s favourite film?

Lethal Weapon

Die Hard

Commando

Which of the following was not used as an insult on Veep?

“You’re Frankenstein’s monster, if his monster was made entirely of dead dicks”

“You’re about as toxic as a urinal cake in Chernobyl"

“You’re about as funny as a blind toddler in a fucking minefield”

What did Alan Partridge call his guest Alice Fluck this year?

Alice Clunt

Alice Flunk

Alice Twot

In I Think You Should Leave, what do the skeletons use as money?

Bones

Worms

Worms and bones

In W1A, what is Anna Rampton’s BBC job title?

Director of Better

Head of Up

Controller of Enrichment

The Fyre Festival’s Andy King revealed that he was once asked to trade oral sex for what?

Tents

Medicine

Evian

Educating Yorkshire saw Musharaf overcome his stammer and Bailey shave her eyebrows off. But what was the name of the school where all this occurred?

Rosemound Academy

Thornhill Academy

Ivypeak Academy

In 2015 documentary The Jinx, how was murderer Robert Durst caught?

He accidentally wore blood-stained trousers to an interview

He accidentally forgot to take the murder weapon down from his trophy case when the TV crew came

He accidentally confessed to himself in the toilet when his microphone was still on

Which of the following was not a part of BBC Four's Goes Slow?

A three-hour museum tour

An hour of birdsong

Two hours of artisanal sandpapering

Which unspoken rule did the crew of BBC One’s Dynasties break?

They rescued some penguins from certain death

They abducted a rare goose

They painted a cat and passed it off as a tiger

For which show did Vicky McClure win her only Bafta so far?

Line of Duty

This is England ‘86

The Replacement

How many National Television Awards have Ant and Dec won this decade?

Three

Five

23

Which show won the most Emmys in 2014?

Breaking Bad

Game of Thrones

Louie

Which actress is tied with Cloris Leachman as the performer with the most ever Emmy wins?

Tina Fey

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Mindy Kaling

Which is the only show to have won the Best Drama Series Bafta twice this decade?

Last Tango in Halifax

Line of Duty

Happy Valley

Soap time: in EastEnders, how did Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell die?

Poisoning

Truck crash

Drowned in a wedding dress accident

How did Coronation Street's Lesley Kershaw die?

Crushed by a piano

Savaged by a lion

Electrocuted by a toaster

In Emmerdale, how did Gemma Andrews die?

Pushed off a train

Pushed off a balcony

Pushed onto a rock

How did Danny Houston die in Hollyoaks?

Bludgeoned with a shovel

Bludgeoned with a paperweight

Bludgeoned with a hammer

In Home and Away, how did Hannah Wilson die?

Shed explosion

Hospital explosion

Caravan explosion

Which Channel 4 gameshow counted Nigella Lawson and Anthony Bourdain as judges?

The Dish

The Taste

The Spoon

Which of these is the most shocking thing ever to happen on the Great British Bake Off?

When the tent burned down

When Paul Hollywood was poisoned

When a man put a cake in a bin

Which of the following is not a 2010s Hairy Bikers series?

The Hairy Bikers: Chicken and Egg

The Hairy Bikers: Mums Know Best

The Hairy Bikers: Proper Sexy Nosh

Complete the title of this Netflix food show: Salt, Fat, Acid…

Heat

Sauce

Sugar

Rapper Action Bronson presents which food show?

Fuck, That’s Delicious

Shit, That’s Delightful

Crap, That’s Tasty

50 and above.

You have wasted an entire decade.

35 and above.

Well done! You didn’t get everything right, but you know what that means? It means you’re not a nerd (hating nerds is going to be big again in the 2020s)

0 and above.

Oh dear, you don’t have much of a memory, do you? However, all is not lost. Why not obsessively write down every single thing you watch for the entire duration of the 2020s and commit it all to memory on the off-chance that there’s another tossed-off TV quiz at the end of it?

10 and above.

Pretty good. You managed to retain some information about what it by design an ephemeral medium. God, think of everything you could have achieved if you’d used that brain power for good.

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