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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Porridge
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


Tough Scottish prison warder Mr Mackay was portrayed by which actor in Porridge ?

 

Fulton Mackay
Brian Wilde
Richard Beckinsale
Peter Vaughan

 Who played the central character Norman Stanley Fletcher in Porridge ?

 

Ronnie Barker
Fulton Mackay
Richard Beckinsale
Michael Barrington
Who played the central character Fletchers cell mate Lennie Godber in the sitcom Porridge ?

 

Ronnie Barker
Fulton Mackay
Richard Beckinsale
Michael Barrington

 Which actor played Governor Venables in the sitcom Porridge ?

 

Michael Barrington
Richard Beckinsale
Brian Wilde
Fulton Mackay
Which actor played the kind hearted and soft prison warder Mr Barrowclough in the sitcom Porridge ?

 

Peter Vaughan
Brian Wilde
Richard Beckinsale
Ronnie Barker

 Who played the 'leader' of the prison 'Genial' Harry Grant ?

 

Brian Wilde
Richard Beckinsale
Peter Vaughan
Ronnie Barker
Between 1973-1977 how many episodes of Porridge were filmed in total ?

 

130
300
230
30

 Porridge was based around which fictional prison ?

 

HMP Leads
HMP Deals
HMP Dales
HMP Slade
Porridge was created by

 

Jim & Steve Armogida
Ian La Frenais & Dick Clement
Jimmy Perry & David Croft
Laurence Marks & Maurice Gran

 The follow up comedy to Porridge in 1978 was which sitcom starring Ronnie Barker ?

 

To The Manor Born
Birds of a Feather
Open All Hours
Going Straight


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