Cryptic Sitcoms

This pub quiz handout round features 15 cryptic crossword style clues to be deciphered to give the names of 15 well known TV sitcoms. For example, the correct answer to the clue "remove male sheep from new dire program” would be Porridge, because if you remove “ram” (i.e. a male sheep) from “dire program”, this gives “dire prog” and if you arrange these letters in a new way, you can spell “Porridge”.

A few of these cryptic clues are fairly straightforward to get teams up and running, but there are also some that are likely to take a great deal of puzzling over before teams arrive at the correct answer, so this round should keep teams entertained for a while.

It is recommended that these cryptic clues are used in a quiz as a handout round. For more information on handout rounds and our recommended use for them in quizzes click here

If you buy this handout round, we will give you access to pdf files you can download. Two of these will be for the main handout sheet - one as illustrated above, and one in a more plain format. The third sheet will contain the answers. You probably already have everything you need to access and use these rounds in your quiz, but you might want to check our requirements page to make sure.

Please note that this handout round also appears in Weekly Quiz 78. If you would prefer to purchase our pre-compiled full weekly pub quiz packs, then click here, where you can find quizzes with a handout round, 2 rounds on general subjects, a specialist subject round, a connections round, an initial letter link round, and a stick or twist round, as well as professionally designed answer sheets and full instructions on how to run your quiz. If, however, you prefer to use your own format for your quizzes, then this handout round should help towards creating an entertaining and challenging quiz.

Note: This product was added to our site in February 2008.
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