The big fat Coronation Street quiz - with Corrie prize!

Here we go with The Big Fat Corrie Quiz.  Those of us lucky enough to be at the Coronation Street fan convention Corriefest last weekend took the quiz at the Lass O' Gowrie, Manchester.  In fact, our Coronation Street Blog quiz team The Bessie Street Dropouts made up of Flaming Nora, Sunny Jim, Fat Brenda, Dave Dutton, Nicky Beresford and John Beresford won it!

The Quiz was hosted By Giles D. Bastow from Big Fat Quizzes UK, (creators of bespoke Quiz Nights http://www.bigfatquizzes.co.uk/).

Giles hosts The Big Fat Stupid Quiz (a fiendish general knowledge based quiz) every Thursday at The Lass O' Gowrie. You can also follow him on Twitter @Eatmymindquiz

So, here we go with Giles' quiz. See how you do and if you fancy entering it to win the prize of Coronation Street Monopoly (slightly used!) as won by our Coronation Street Blog team at Corriefest, send in your entries with the answers to all of the three rounds to glenda.young@btinternet.com with QUIZ in the subject line. Deadline is Sunday 20 January 2013. Overseas fans can enter. Good luck!

Round One
1. Arghhh!!! He was stabbed outside a nightclub in Weatherfield protecting a woman from some despicable 'yoofs' who was he? (Character name).
2. One of Weatherfield's largest employers is also the name of an English dance music'act'...what's the name?
3. True or False. In a 1979 episode of Coronation Street, viewers were stunned when Ivy Tilsley snorted cocaine on the morning of her son's wedding.
4. How long does Corrie last, without the adverts?
5. Here's an anagram of a famous coronation street actor, FART FEEDS, name them?
6. AUDIO CLIP 1. Who is this character talking about and who is talking? (We've altered the sound just to mess with your fragile minds...)
7. Which punk band wrote the song 'TV Stars' mentioning Coronation Sreet legend Albert Tatlock?
8. AUDIO CLIP 2. Who is after Des Barnes and why?
9. Another anagram, MEERKAT INTERNS... this time name the famous Weatherfield street?
10. True or False - Deidre Barlow had an affair with Alf Roberts

Round 2
1. AUDIO CLIP 3. Who are the 2 people discussing Inkerman Street?!
2. How did Don Brennan lose his leg? 
3. Who was the character Milton Fanshaw played by? 
4. True Or False. As an extra in Coronation Street your quiz host Giles was once thrown out of The Kabin for looking at 'mucky mags'!?
5. Why was Steve McDonald jailed for 2 years? 
6. AUDIO CLIP 4. Which 2 characters are talking? Note: all is not as it seems!
7. How Did Fred Elliot lose the prize for Weatherfield in the French/English meats competition? A. Tamper with a French man's sausages? B. Sleep with a female judge? C. Try to bribe the judges?
8. True or False Richard Hillman ran the hardware store Coronation Hardware?
9. Another anagram NOBODIES SNEER, name a Coronation Street hairdresser
10. AUDIO CLIP 5. And finally...in 1997 there were plans to release this adapataion of the Eric Spear classic as a single to coincide with the 'Viva Las Vegas' DVD spin off, it's vile...but can you tell us which 2 people wrote the lyrics and who sang the song?

Round 3 Picture Quiz - can you name all of these?

Good luck!

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Fan Review: Coronation Street Cast vs Fans Quiz 2018

Michael from our friends over at the Coronation Street podcast Conversation Street took part in the Coronation Street Cast vs Fans Quiz in Manchester last week.   Here, Michael shares his experience with fans. 

You can hear more about the event on the most recent episode of the podcast. Visit their blog and follow them on Twitter. 

Last Thursday, I made the long drive up to Manchester to take part in a special quiz held at Crazy Pedro's pizza parlour in the Northern Quarter. Organised by quiz aficionados Quizzly Bears and Woody Wade, who's been responsible for co-ordinating all of the Corrie related events around Manchester Pride for a number of years now, the contest was a chance for members of the public to put their knowledge of all things Weatherfield to the test, whilst raising money for Pride at the same time. 

They would be going up against a team made up of some of the cast of Coronation Street, which this year consisted of Corrie quiz alumni Shelley King (Yasmeen) and Georgia Taylor (Toyah), along with first-timers Charlie de Melo (Imran), Rob Mallard (Daniel), Melanie Hill (Cathy) and Mikey North (Gary). If you were at the event or have seen pictures since, however, you'll have noticed that there were a handful of other people making up the cast team. As well as the aforementioned Woody and a couple of guests' plus ones, one other member stood at the far end of the cast table...and that was me!

Michael with Mikey North

It still seems unbelievable to me as I'm writing this blog nearly a week later, but yes, somehow I managed to end up as one of Team Corrie, rubbing shoulders with some of my favourite actors on the show. How on earth did that happen? Let's rewind a bit to earlier in the day.

I'd arrived in Manchester late morning; the sky was overcast and there was the distinct prospect of what I'm sure I remember Sally Metcalfe calling a 'Manchester smile' in the air. Me being me, I'd brought neither a raincoat nor an umbrella to deal with such an eventuality, but nevertheless, I set about exploring Media City as soon as I'd checked into my nearby AirBnB, in the hope of catching a glimpse of a Corrie cast member in the vicinity of the studios. 

Me and Our 'ilda

I was in luck! Not only did I spot Jimmi Harkishin on the phone near the tram stop, I also bumped into Shelley King crossing over the Media City footbridge, who was kind enough to chat with me for a minute or so and confirm that she would indeed be coming to the quiz that evening.
With a good few hours to go before the event was due to start, I spent the rest of the day travelling back and forth between Media City and the Manchester centre by tram. Lunch was at Annie's, the excellent tea room owned by Jennie McAlpine and her partner, and having spotted a number of giant bee sculptures dotted around the centre, I was reminded that there was supposed to be one decorated to look like Hilda Ogden. Thanks to a photo here on the Coronation Street Blog, I was able to find 'Hilda Bugden' outside 55 King Street, and took the opportunity to snap a few pictures of my own.

It was around mid-afternoon when the heavens eventually opened, and to cut a long story short, I got completely drenched through. When 6:45 rolled around, I squelched into Crazy Pedro's, my coat pockets full of new socks that I had to dash into Primark to purchase, and I plonked myself down on a bar stool. Not being one for pubs or bars, I did feel a little awkward as I sat there by myself, nursing a pint of lemonade, and I was certainly relieved when, twenty minutes or so later, Charlie de Melo walked into the room. Having already made Charlie's acquaintance before thanks to the podcast, and having only interviewed him the previous week, it was great to see a familiar face, and we soon got chatting again. Just before seven thirty, he went off to join some of the other cast members for a photo opportunity, and when the clock struck half past, the crowd of fans started to be let into the side room where the quiz was to take place.

When I went to the same quiz last year, which was held at the nearby Black Dog Ballroom, I remember walking sheepishly into the quiz room and being ushered onto a table with other people who had come on their own, so we could all make a team together. No such luck this year - it was up to me to find somewhere to sit. Oh 'eck.. was I going to have to talk to people I didn't know and ask if I could be on their team? Not the sort of thing I'm comfortable with. It was then that I heard the voice of my very own fairy godmother, who I'd run into earlier that day: Shelley King had spotted me and could clearly see I didn't know what to do with myself. "Come and join our team, Michael!" she called. "We could probably do with your help!" Well I wasn't going to turn down an opportunity like that, was I? Checking that she was actually serious and that the other members of the team sitting next to her were okay with it (one of whom, fortunately, was Charlie), I went up to the table and made myself at home. Within the next ten minutes or so, Georgia Taylor had arrived (another good friend on Twitter who I'd had the pleasure to meet in person a few times before) and I'd been introduced to everyone else on the table.

Georgia, Charlie and Michael from Conversation Street  (Credit: Georgia Taylor)

Can I just make a point of saying how warm and welcoming everyone was to me? Here I was, just a Corrie fan who only a handful of the team members knew about before the quiz, being accepted onto a table with actual members of the Coronation Street cast. As the evening went on, I got a chance to talk to most of them - Shelley and I discussed the upcoming Corrie DNA documentary whilst Mikey told me about his experiences on E4's All Star Driving School - and every single one of them was a real pleasure to spend time with. It also soon became apparent that I knew my stuff when it came to the Corrie quiz questions too, and before long, they were looking at me to give or confirm answers. I just hoped I was saying the right thing!

The first round involved looking at pictures of ten murdered Corrie characters and writing down who had killed them. They ranged from the relatively easy (Maxine Peacock) to the trickier (Tony Horrocks), but we finished the round feeling fairly confident we'd got them all right. Next up came ten Corrie trivia questions. How did Ken's first wife Valerie die? When was the first episode of Coronation Street broadcast? Which decade had the most watched episode of Corrie? Again, I didn't think we'd dropped any marks as the round ended. The next round, however, was never going to be my forte: LGBT history - only fair, considering the money raised from this event was going to Manchester Pride! Truthfully, I don't think I could have answered a single question on my own in this round, but I had a good team around me - Rob Mallard was a particular asset at this point in the evening - and we were able to write something down in most of the answer boxes.

As the answers to the first questions were read out, there were cheers all around the room as people realised they had got questions right, whilst on the cast table, high fives were exchanged between me and Mikey North when an answer I'd supplied was confirmed correct. There was one answer given that caused a bit of commotion, and the audience had to persuade the quizmaster that the number of special live episodes produced was indeed three, not two, but when the second half of the quiz was due to start, Team Corrie were feeling pretty good about how we were getting on. Not that we could actually win, of course - it would be a bit of a rum do if the cast were to be awarded a tour of their own workplace if they came in first place!

The quiz continued with a second Corrie round, and it was there that I encountered the first Corrie question I was unable to answer. As much as I tried, I just could not remember the name of the woman that Martin Platt had an affair with in 1999. This, of course, led to some good natured ribbing from my team mates ("Come on Michael! You only just did a character profile of Martin on the podcast a few months ago!" Georgia reminded me). Well it was no good - apart from the fact that some of the team remembered that the character was played by Jill Halfpenny, we just couldn't answer that question (it later turned out she was playing a nurse called Rebecca Hopkins). After a short break, we moved onto the final round.

These breaks, by the way, were scattered liberally throughout the evening, and gave the brave fans who came up to the front of the room a chance to get their photo taken with their favourite cast members. Again, everyone who was asked to be photographed graciously agreed, and, like I said in my write-up of the event last year, if they were feeling at all annoyed about people coming up and bugging them for pictures, they certainly weren't showing it! There were happy smiles around the room all evening - it was a real feel-good event and such a treat for the Corrie fans who got the chance to come along.

The final round was another one where I had no hope of getting any questions right: we were given ten song lyrics from bands originating in Manchester and our job was to name the band. Let's just say I left this one in the very capable hands of my teammates as I scoffed down a couple of slices of Crazy Pedro's pizza, which everyone who came along to the event was treated to.

At the end of the evening, the marks were totted up, but before the highest scorers were announced, the fantasically named Phelan Hot, Hot, Hot got a special prize for best team name. It was then revealed that that the team who had scored the most points - a very respectable 43 out of 50 - was, yes, Team Corrie! We did laugh at this as although we'd joked about winning, it definitely wasn't something we'd expected. Of course, as I said earlier, the cast team couldn't actually take home first prize, and the team with the next highest number of points came to get a photo at the front (and fair play to them - they were a much smaller team than we were, and most definitely the worthy winners!)

The festivities ended around ten o'clock, and everyone started to make their way home. As I lay in bed that night, I was still buzzing inside about the whole experience. Not only had the organisers put on a fantastic event for charity, but I'd actually had the chance to sit at the front as a member of the cast team! I'd like to thank everyone who made Thursday such a special evening for me, from Crazy Pedro's for hosting the event, to Woody and the folk at Quizzly Bears for putting it all together, to my wonderful team mates who really did make me feel an accepted and valued member of the team.

If there's another Cast vs Fans quiz this time next year, you can bet I'll be back again, and if you're reading this and mulling over whether you should come along or not, I'd certainly recommend it. Great event, great people, great cause - an all round excellent night out.

By Michael from the Coronation Street podcast Conversation Street. You can hear more about the event on the most recent episode of the podcast. Visit their blog and follow them on Twitter. 

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Fan Review: Coronation Street Cast vs Fans Quiz

Michael and Lucy Fallon

Michael from our friends over at the Coronation Street podcast Conversation Street took part in the Coronation Street Cast vs Fans Quiz in Manchester this week.   Here, Michael shares his experience with fans.

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On Thursday night at the Black Dog Ballroom in Manchester's Northern Quarter, a room packed full of crazy Corrie fans took on the combined force of some of the Street's finest minds in a quiz that tested knowledge of Coronation Street, LGBT history and Mancunian pop culture.  Considering I made the nine-hour coach journey from Southampton to take part in the event, which was put on to raise money for Manchester Pride, I consider myself to be among the craziest of these fans - but boy, was it worth it!

Some of the Corrie cast team

I turned up at the venue around half seven, walking past the bar and generally looking nervous as I hadn't come with anyone and didn't really know what was going on. Fortunately, the staff at Black Dog were very welcoming and, after handing me a drink, showed me to a table in the quiz room, where I became the final member of the team already assembled there. A bunch of Corrie fans who'd travelled from all over the country to get to the event, 'Team Phelan Lucky', as we named ourselves, got on like a house on fire, and together raced through the picture round of the quiz that was left out on tables before the event started. The round consisted of ten Corrie characters of the past 57 years, who we had to name and say how they died. From easy ones like the recently departed Kylie Platt to characters that tested the hardcore (I was proud of myself for instantly naming Dennis Stringer!), we finished the picture round feeling pretty confident.

Lucy Fallon arrives

It was after this round that I had a proper look at the cast that had turned up for the event. Sitting at a long table at the front of the room and dressed to impress was 'Team Cobbled Together': Dolly-Rose Campbell (along with her real-life canine mascot!); newcomer and self-confessed Corrie fan Nicola Thorp; recent returnee Georgia Taylor; 2017's rising star Lucy Fallon; the gorgeous Julia Goulding; gone-but-not-forgotten Hayley Tamaddon; Shelley King (a personal favourite of mine);  a boisterous Sue Cleaver and the brilliantly bearded Dan Brocklebank. Apprehensively, not really sure if it was the done thing, I snapped a few candid photos of the team, none of which turned out too well in the gloom of the venue.

The "Phelan Lucky" team

Never mind: Onto the first question round! After welcoming us officially to the quiz, one of the organisers began to read out twenty Corrie-related questions. Like the picture round, there was a mixture of hard and easy ones, and Team Phelan Lucky racked our brains to get them all answered. A lot of them we knew we had right (Jenny Bradley was the one to save Jack from the tram tracks last year; Samir Rachid was Deirdre's Moroccan husband, for example) whilst others we had to have a bit of a guess (there was some heated debate on the table about whether Corrie was originally commissioned for 12 or 13 episodes!). My personal shame was not remembering the details about why Fred Elliott lost the black pudding contest in France - when I found out the answer later, I was kicking myself!

After the Corrie round was over, everyone had a little break and a chat. It was at this point that some of the braver members of my team decided to go up and get some pictures with the cast at the front. Nobody had said we could, and we'd all been promised a group photo with them after the quiz, but in the end, I thought: "Why not?" Reasoning with myself that it was for the sake of the podcast and the Coronation Street Blog, I strode up to the front table and asked Lucy Fallon for a picture. She graciously accepted and posed for the camera, and I started to move along the rest of the line of actors. I'm very pleased to report that every single one who I spoke to was an utter delight - if they were feeling peeved by being bugged by a bunch of rabid fans, they definitely weren't showing it!

I was also chuffed to hear that some of them had listened to the podcast on occasion too: Hayley Tamaddon thanked me for our glowing review of Chicago, which she was touring with in the role of Roxie Hart last year, and Nicola Thorp and Georgia Taylor's eyes lit up when I said where I was from. "Sorry we moan about Toyah banging on about her IVF so much..." I told Georgia, sheepishly. She laughed it off: "I don't write the lines, love!" I also managed to get a little chat with Shelley King before she ducked out and went home early.

Michael with Shelley King (Yasmeen Nazir)

Letting her know what big fans of Yasmeen we are on the podcast, but that we think she needs more scenes, she smiled and assured me that we'll be seeing quite a bit more of her soon. The impromptu meet and greet ended abruptly, one of the organisers chasing us away and announcing over the mic that they don't have time to do individual photos with the cast - we need to get on with the quiz! Team Phelan Lucky returned to our seats, smiling smugly about our ballsiness.

The next two rounds had questions about LGBT and Mancunian culture - definitely not my strongest subjects, but fortunately, the rest of my team were much more knowledgeable than me and we muddled our way through, albeit with a few more guesses this time! As we pondered the location of the first Pride and the name of Take That's debut single, we were brought a couple of large pizzas by the Black Dog staff - delicious, and just what we needed to nourish our little grey cells!

By the end of the quiz, we were still feeling fairly confident, although we realised that our performance in the last two rounds might have cost us a place in the prizewinning top three. We swapped papers with a nearby group and tallied up their scores. Hmm, they got full marks in the Corrie question round, and... of course! Fred lost the black pudding contest because he bribed the judges! Now we were feeling a little less self-assured. At least we wiped the floor with them in the picture round though...

After a little bit of arguing with the judges about when Sarah-Louise became pregnant (they said 2000; we said 1999 - in the end, they gave points for either answer!), we handed in our papers and had an agonising wait while the winners were decided.

To cut a long story short - alas! - we didn't come in the top three, but were still proud of finishing in fifth place (there must have been around 15 teams there in all). Our rival team from earlier just got ahead of us with a few more points, while the cast team came a respectable couple of places behind us. The victors, though? A duo with the team name 'Yes We Ken!' - quite fitting, we think, for the worthy winners, who earned themselves a VIP tour of the Coronation Street set.

Michael and Nicola Thorpe

The night ended with speeches from Corrie Pride organiser Woody Wade, and Sue Cleaver, who thanked us all for coming and offered some congratulatory words to the winners. This was followed by a massive singalong, as 'Come On Eileen' was blasted through the speakers - another opportunity, of course, for Sue to take centre stage and dance along! The atmosphere was absolutely buzzing - everyone was having the time of their lives, and it was a shame when, around ten o'clock, things started to draw to a close. Each team was called up to have a group photo with the cast, and after having a very quick word with Dan and Sue - neither of whom I'd had a chance to say hello to earlier - I said my goodbyes to the rest of Team Phelan Lucky and left.

Was I crazy for taking that nine-hour journey at five in the morning for just a couple of hours of fun? Maybe some of you think so, but I don't mind! I had a ball at the quiz, met some great new people, and did a bit of networking for the podcast which, incidentally, celebrated its fifth anniversary this weekend. A fantastic night, and I'm champing at the bit to go back next year!

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Manchester Pride's Big Coronation Street Quiz needs YOU!

How do you fancy taking on some of Coronation Street’s finest in a battle of wits with The Big Coronation Street Quiz?

Manchester Pride are looking for 10 teams of 6 Coronation Street fans, to pit their wits against a team of Coronation Street favourites, and battle it out to be crowned king or queen of The Big Coronation Street Quiz, all in aid of Manchester Pride.

So if you know your Elsie Tanners from your Ena Sharples and can name all of Ken Barlow’s many love interests or Deirdre Barlow’s third husband then this is the quiz for you!

You can enter a full team of 6 members or can purchase individual places and we’ll create the teams for you.

Individual places are £15 and include a welcome drink, nibbles, entry in to The Big Coronation Street Quiz and digital team photo. All proceeds go directly to The Manchester Pride Community Fund.

Venue: The Bunker, Black Dog Ballroom NQ, Basement Affleck’s Palace, Church Street, Manchester M4 1PW

Date: Thursday 18 August 2016

Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm

Price: £15 per person including welcome drink, nibbles, entry in to The Big Coronation Street Quiz and digital team photo.

This event is kindly supported by ITV, Coronation Street and Black Dog Ballroom.

Details here.

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Join Corrie's Jane Danson for Lily Pub Quiz!

Join Coronation Street's Jane Danson for Lily Pub Quiz!

When: Thursday, 21st May, 7.45pm

Where: Live on YouTube

Jane plays Leanne Battersby in Corrie and has been been working closely with Lily charity on the storyline involving her character's son, Oliver, being diagnosed with mitochondrial disease. In recent weeks Jane has been an amazing ambassador for people affected by mito, speaking about her role to help raise awareness. Please show your support by joining her for this week's quiz and donating what you can.

Jane will be taking shout outs (time permitting), and will pause the quiz at 8pm to clap for NHS workers and carers.

The Lily Pub Quiz is a live-streamed quiz for all the family. You can play solo, form a team with others in your household, or invite your mates to join you remotely via Zoom or similar. It's the perfect way to enjoy a great night out while staying in!

Click here if you'd like to submit your answers. There are no prizes, but if you submit your score before midnight we'll give you a shout out on social media.

Click here to donate via JustGiving

By donating to this event you'll be helping us improve the lives of people affected by mitochondrial diseases, who are particularly vulnerable at this time due to the coronavirus pandemic. Just £5, the price of a pint and a packet of crisps, will make a difference. If you feel like 'buying a round' and giving more, we'd be very grateful!

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Last chance to enter! Coronation Street Blog - Big fat prize quiz of 2012

Deadline for entries is today, Monday 31 December 2012 at midnight.

Here it is! The Coronation Street Blog Big Fat Prize Quiz of the Year! 

It's a quiz all about our Coronation Street Blog and we have these great Lilliput Lane Coronation Street buildings to give to three Coronation Street Blog readers who can answer all 10 of our quiz questions correctly. 

All correct entries will go into our blogger Sunny Jim's gardening hat and three winners will be drawn at random to win a choice of one of the model buildings below - the Rovers Return, The Kabin, or the Duckworths house.

All you have to do to be in with a chance of winning your choice of one of the above three prizes, is to be drawn at random after correctly answering all of the following questions.  All of the questions are about the Coronation Street Blog during 2012 and all of the answers can be found on the Coronation Street Blog - you may have to search around a little to find the information you're looking for. 

Email your entries to me at glenda.young@btinternet.com with QUIZ in the subject line. 

Overseas fans can enter, oh yes.  Deadline for entries is Monday 31 December 2012 at midnight.  Entries from moneysavingsexpert, Loquax and all other competition entry websites will not be included.

Good luck!

CORONATION STREET BLOG - BIG FAT PRIZE QUIZ OF 2012
10 QUESTIONS

1. Name the 2012 Olympic gold medal winner who once worked as an extra on Coronation Street.

2. Rachel in London was one of our Coronation Street Fans of the Week.  Which Corrie character is pictured on the photo of Rachel?

3. Which charity did we donate to in exchange for a VIP blog post from a lady closely associated with Paddington Bear?

4. Which actor from the Man from U.N.C.L.E. joined Coronation Street this year?

5. Name the actor who has played 10 different roles on Coronation Street on TV, and 1 Corrie stage role.

6. Name the town where Fat Brenda's stage play debuted this year.

7. Jack Duckworth was voted No. 1 in our favourite Corrie characters poll. Who was voted No. 2?

8. How many awards did Coronation Street win in this year's British Soap Awards?

9. Name two Corrie actors who have opened new Poundland stores this year, which we have featured on the Coronation Street Blog.

10. Can you spot the prop and tell us in whose house this Corrie tip-top tap prop could be found? It's one we've already featured during the course of the year and so the answer is on the Blog somewhere...

That's it - there are your 10 questions about the Coronation Street Blog - good luck, Corrie fans!  Winners will be announced in early January here on the Coronation Street Blog.

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Winners announced in our Big Fat Quiz of the Year competition

Congratulations go to three Coronation Street Blog readers who have each won a Lilliput Lane model from Coronation Street, in our Big Fat Quiz of the Year.  Three winners were drawn at random from all correct entries received in the quiz and prizes will be winging their way this week to Taylor Caffrey in the USA, Justine Beierle in Canada and Graham Goodwin in the UK.  Well done to everyone who entered!

And if you're wondering what the answers to the quiz were, here they are:

CORONATION STREET BLOG - BIG FAT PRIZE QUIZ OF 2012
1. Name the 2012 Olympic gold medal winner who once worked as an extra on Coronation Street.
Answer here.

2. Rachel in London was one of our Coronation Street Fans of the Week.  Which Corrie character is pictured on the photo of Rachel?
Answer here.

3. Which charity did we donate to in exchange for a VIP blog post from a lady closely associated with Paddington Bear?
Answer here.

4. Which actor from the Man from U.N.C.L.E. joined Coronation Street this year?
Answer here.

5. Name the actor who has played 10 different roles on Coronation Street on TV, and 1 Corrie stage role.
Answer here.

6. Name the town where Fat Brenda's stage play debuted this year.
Answer here.

7. Jack Duckworth was voted No. 1 in our favourite Corrie characters poll. Who was voted No. 2?
Answer here.

8. How many awards did Coronation Street win in this year's British Soap Awards?
Answer here.

9. Name two Corrie actors who have opened new Poundland stores this year, which we have featured on the Coronation Street Blog.
Answers could have included Mikey North, Jack P Shepherd, Catherine Tyldesley.

10. Can you spot the prop and tell us in whose house this Corrie tip-top tap prop could be found? It's one we've already featured during the course of the year and so the answer is on the Blog somewhere...
Answer here.

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Rovers pub quiz at Coronation Street tour

Thursday 18th June 7pm - 10.30pm
Tickets £16.00 per person, max of 6 people per team (team members must be over 18)

Win a VIP experience! (And a goody bag with exclusive tour merchandise for each winning team member too)

Coronation Street The Tour invites you to a pub quiz with a difference. You don't have to be a Corrie expert to enter but it might help as there will be Corrie themed questions as well as picture rounds, general knowledge and name that tune.

If you are full of trivia and want a fun evening out with friends, then book your tickets now for The Corrie Tour Pub Quiz. 

The Rovers will be open so get yourself a drink and settle down at your table in the studio in front of one of the iconic Corrie sets, for a series of questions covering everything from Corrie to capital cities!

With breaks between rounds you'll have time to go for a walk along the cobbles, have a look at the selected interior sets or take a 20 minute Street Tour with one of our guides. The Crew Kitchen Cafe and catering van will also be open for chips, hotdogs, pies and pasties if you fancy a bite to eat.

Team registration 7pm
Rovers bar open 7pm - 10pm
Quiz starts 7.30pm
Depart 10.30pm

The ticket price of £16.00 includes entry to the quiz and to Coronation Street The Tour with time to explore the studio and street. Tour guides will be on hand to talk about the sets and answer your questions (no cheating!), there will also be short guided tours of the Street in the interval.

Click here to book your tickets now!

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Fans Quiz for Glory Ahead of Corrie's 60th

Fans of the world’s longest running soap are set to battle it out, starting this evening in a ‘Mind of the Month’ quiz broadcast online by Distinct Nostalgia, part of the Made In Manchester production company.

Distinct Nostalgia has been running a series of programmes, interviews and fun events ahead of Corrie’s big birthday next week, and the latest sets Corrie superfans against each other to see who knows most about the iconic show.

Friday evening will see the quiz get off to an exciting start and quizzers from the Corrie Blog, the Conversation Street Podcast, Corriepedia and Corrie Cast Cards have each selected a specialist subject to be quizzed on. This week they all recorded their first round based on this subject, and Ashley and Andy from Distinct Nostalgia really put them through their paces. 

Nobody knows yet who made It through to the final, but we’ll find over over the next few nights.

Blogger Stevie is representing the Corrie Blog this time, following in Editor Glenda’s footsteps after her success in a similar quiz earlier in the year. His specialist topic will be revealed in a couple of days, with the final late next week.

You can listen to the quiz, and many other programmes HERE or on Buzzsprout HERE. Do follow Distinct Nostalgia on TWITTER, they have some amazing interviews with people who have been involved with Coronation Street over the years.

Best of luck to all involved!

@StevieDawson

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