Listen Up Opposites Quiz #2

[ozumo]

All clues are opposites of British comedies, period dramas, or crime dramas. Two correct answers per day please - if you get one wrong you can guess again. Inclusion as a quiz answer does not indicate approval. Quality of clue is not guaranteed.

1. White subtracter - Blackadder
2. Sad surrounding-hills - Happy Valley
3. Is staying in - Not Going Out
4. Moriarty - Sherlock
5. Birdie hand out above-ground - One Foot In The Grave
6. She didn't-know she is left - He Knew He Was Right
7. Thick pink polygon - The Thin Blue Line
8. East and West - North and South
9. First of the winter water - Last Of The Summer Wine
10. Fagin - Oliver Twist

11. Butter - Bread
12. Humility and impartiality - Pride and Prejudice
13. Caterpillars - Butterflies
14. Mayoress of castortunnel - The Mayor Of Casterbridge
15. Mum's conchies - Dad's Army
16. Humbleness unjust - Vanity Fayre
17. Badmorning sour-head - Goodnight Sweetheart
18. Husbands and sons - Wives and Daughters
19. Green giant - Red Dwarf
20. The rise - The Fall

21. Sinking dry. - Rising Damp
22. Birth out purgatory - Death in Paradise
23. Bad death - The Good Life
24. Noisy suspect - Silent Witness
25. No shadow-leader of the opposition - Yes Minister
26. The found - The Missing
27. Your friends - My Family
28. Putting-to-sleep the living - Waking The Dead
29. Women disobedient well - Men Behaving Badly
30. Black-church - Whitechapel

31. Giving-away down absences - Keeping Up Appearances
32. Unfair bad enemies - Just Good Friends
33. Working single-storey-building
34. Midnight-snack gentlemen - Dinner Ladies
35. Top - Bottom
36. Uncertainly unamazing - Absolutely Fabulous
37. Ta-ra ta-ra - 'Allo 'Allo
38. Dubious lasses - The Likely Lads
39. Old birdies. - The Young Ones
40. Mr. Blonde's girls - Mrs Brown's Boys

All finished.

 

[PaulR]

2. - Happy Valley
4. - Sherlock

 

[sonnetpete]

8 North and South
9 Last Of The Summer Wine

 

[ozumo]

2. - Happy Valley
4. - Sherlock

2.
4.

8 North and South
9 Last Of The Summer Wine

8.
9.

 

[purplemarina]

13 butterflies
18 wives and daughters

 

[ozumo]

13 butterflies
18 wives and daughters

13.
18.

 

[ozumo]

Whoops, the clue for #14 should be 'Mayoress of castertunnel", caster with an 'e' not an 'o'

 

[dxhound2003]

1 Blackadder
3 Not Going Out

 

[ozumo]

1 Blackadder
3 Not Going Out

1.
3.

 

[Llew]

14.The Mayor Of Casterbridge
19. Red Dwarf

 

[ozumo]

14.The Mayor Of Casterbridge
19. Red Dwarf

14.
19.

Just realised I messed up the clue for #14, got camber and caster mixed up

 

[PaulR]

I did wonder. I was expecting something like "demerara" as the replacement word.

 

[davemurgtroyd]

7 Thin blue line
38 Likely Lads

 

[PaulR]

11. - Bread
15. - Dad's Army

 

[ozumo]

7 Thin blue line
38 Likely Lads

7.
38.

11. - Bread
15. - Dad's Army

11.
15.

 

[sonnetpete]

37 'allo 'allo
40 Mrs Brown's Boys

 

[ozumo]

37 'allo 'allo
40 Mrs Brown's Boys

37.
40.

 

[Stevenvc19]

24. Silent Witness

 

[ozumo]

24. Silent Witness

24.

 

[purplemarina]

12 pride and prejudice
23 the good life