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April Fools' Day quiz

Quiz questions about hoaxes, pranks and jokes for 1 April.

  • 21 questions
  • Next: Thursday 1 April 2027.

1. Paul Barber played which character in "Only Fools And Horses"?

2. What name for an Australian cockatoo is also an Australian slang term for a fool?

3. The rock-group "Satan's Jesters" later found fame with which name?

4. In Only Fools and Horses, what is the name of Boycie's wife?

5. In theTV series ?only fool?s and horse?s? what is the occupation of trigger?

6. Which duo dressed up as Batman and Robin to go to a fancy dress ball on their 1996 Christmas Day Special?

7. What was the historical find of the century, that turned out to be a hoax by a clever forger?

8. Yorick in Shakespeare's Hamlet had what job (when alive)?

9. In 'Only Fools and Horses' what does Trigger always call Rodney?

10. What was the name of the pub in Only Fools and Horses?

11. Which long-running B.B.C. TV programme famously showed footage of spaghetti trees on April Fools' Day in 1957?

12. Who said ?You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time but you can?t fool all of the people all of the time??

13. What is the name of the tower block the in which the Trotters live in only fools and horses?

14. What general name is given to any of various yellow or gold-coloured minerals which can be mistaken for gold?

15. What world famous British TV sitcom had a one-off prequel called 'Rock & Chips' in 2010?

16. In which of Shakespeare?s plays does the jester, Feste appear?

17. What TIO is slang for attempt to fool someone?

18. Yorick, Dragonet, Will Somers, Patch, Muckle John and Triboulet are all examples of what?

19. In Only Fools And Horses, by what name does Trigger refer to Rodney?

20. Which famous musician played the psychedelic looking Gibson SG guitar known as "The Fool"?

ANSWERS

1. Denzil

2. Galah

3. The Rolling Stones

4. Marlene

5. Roadsweeper

6. Del and Rodney Trotter, (Only Fools and Horses).

7. Hitler Diaries

8. Jester

9. Dave ( Thanks to Paul Wilde for correcting this one )

10. The Nag's Head

11. Panorama

12. Abraham Lincoln

13. Nelson Mandella

14. Fool's gold

15. A - Only Fools and Horses

16. Twelfth Night

17. Try It On

18. Jesters

19. D ave

20. Eric Clapton

Where these questions come from
  1. Christmas Initials Quiz 1
  2. Pub Quiz 115
  3. Music Quiz 1
  4. Comedians and Clowns Quiz 1
  5. Employment Quiz 1
  6. Christmas Quiz 3
  7. Quiz of the Year 1983
  8. Pub Quiz 29
  9. Television Quiz 4
  10. Television Quiz 6
  11. Famous Quotes Quiz 3
  12. Comedy Quiz 1
  13. Going for Gold Quiz 1
  14. Chip Week 2012 Quiz 2
  15. Books Quiz 2
  16. Cryptic Quiz 6
  17. Pauls Quiz 210
  18. Pauls Quiz 411

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