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The Questions The Questions 1) What is the name of the Bellamy family's legal adviser who appears in several episodes throughout the series and is played by Raymond Huntley? 2) Elizabeth Bellamy misses which occasion because she's detained by the police for refusing to pay a boot- maker? (Les passed on this) 3) When Sarah the maid becomes a music-hall singer, what is the title of the song that she performs which is set to the closing theme music of the programme? 4) What's the name of Lady Marjorie's ancestral home to which Sarah is sent after it is revealed that she is carrying James Bellamy's child? 5) Which author wrote several episodes of the programme including the very first, On Trial, for which she won a Writers' Guild award? 6) What does Emily the kitchen-maid reply when Mrs Van Groeben's footman William asks her what her father died of? (Les got this answer wrong) 7) The series was originally devised by which actress along with Jean Marsh who plays the part of Rose? 8) When Hudson wants to impress his brother, who's visiting from Penang, he borrows Mrs Bridges' life savings. How much do they amount to? (Les got this answer wrong) 9) The influential millionaire Sir Guy Paynter presents Virginia Bellamy a first edition of whose poetry when he's trying to persuade her to act as the hostess at his gatherings? 10) In the episode The Glorious Dead, Hazel's informed that James has been awarded which decoration for his conduct at the Somme? 11) What momentous event takes place downstairs at Eaton Place while King Edward VII is playing bridge upstairs? 12) What's the name of the pie made out of scraps that Mrs Bridges presents to the servants after attending a lecture about coping with war-time food shortages? 13) Which football team does Hudson support Edward assures him that one day they'll be in Division One? 14) When Elizabeth and Rose are involved in a suffragette attack on a politician, Elizabeth is fined 40 shillings - what is Rose's sentence? 15) When the servants have a day out to Herne Bay, where do they get the money to pay for their refreshments? (Les passed on this) 16) Which member of the household is feared drowned along with Lady Marjorie when the Titanic sinks, but later turns up at the kitchen door? 17) Which actor plays the flying officer Jack Dyson who has an affair with James' wife Hazel while James is away at war? 18) What does Hudson give to the footman Edward Barnes as a parting gift when they all depart in the final episode? 19) When Lady Southwold's treasured butterfly brooch goes missing, the servants at Eaton Place are suspected of stealing it. Where had it actually been? The Answers 1) Sir Geoffrey Dillon. 2) Her 21st birthday party. Les passed on this question. 3) What Are We Going To Do With Uncle Arthur? 4) Southwold. 5) Fay Weldon. 6) "Of living". Les answered, "I dies from love," but this was incorrect. 7) Eileen Atkins. 8) £30. Les answered £100, but this was incorrect. 9) Robert Browning. 10) The Military Cross. 11) Sarah gives birth/goes into labour. 12) Win-the-war pie. 13) Chelsea. 14) Two months imprisonment. 15) From the swear box. 16) Miss Roberts. 17) Andrew Ray. 18) His pantry book. 19) At [Cartier's] jewellers being repaired. .
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