Educating Ricky quiz

1. Karl threw in a cloning fact "for free". How long did Ricky say it would take a clone to give him an adult lung?
   • Five years
   • Eighteen years
   • About a fortnight
   • Nine months
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   Eighteen years

   Ricky: "It would take, sort of, eighteen years for me to get an adult lung." Steve added there were "all kinds of moral implications."

   📼 XFM S2E18 · 21 Dec 2002
2. Ricky had once told Karl a headless cockroach lives for a week. Why did Karl think it eventually dies?
   • It needs water but can't find any without its eyes
   • It gets eaten by other cockroaches
   • It can't smell where its food is
   • It forgets how to walk without its brain
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   It needs water but can't find any without its eyes

   Ricky corrected him: "It can't, no, no that's not is. It's 'cos it can't drink."

   📼 XFM S2E09 · 19 Oct 2002
3. When Ricky doubted Karl's trampoline-and-hippo story, where did Karl insist he'd heard it?
   • From his dad's cab passengers
   • On Newsround
   • On the Breakfast show
   • In the Manchester Evening News
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   On the Breakfast show

   That settled it for Steve: "No, it's definitely fact, then, it's definitely truth."

   📼 XFM S2E19 · 28 Dec 2002
4. Ricky said that, unlike Karl's, what he and Steve believe "isn't random". How did Steve sum up Karl's approach to facts?
   • If he thinks "Oh, intriguing"... fact
   • If his mam said it, it's true
   • If it's in a book, it's gospel
   • If it's on Teletext, it happened
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   If he thinks "Oh, intriguing"... fact

   Steve: "We don't believe stuff just 'cause it's interesting... Well I think Karl believes stuff if it's interesting."

   📼 XFM S2E08 · 12 Oct 2002
5. In Karl's story of a man who was 'ung, what happened after the first attempt failed?
   • They tried a bigger man instead
   • They changed the rope, it failed again, and they had to let him go
   • He was let off because it was Sunday
   • The man asked for a chair and sat down
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   They changed the rope, it failed again, and they had to let him go

   Karl: "oh, just hang on a minute whilst we change the rope and that." Steve eventually asked him: "can you shut up?!"

   📼 XFM S3E11 · 10 Jan 2004
6. Recapping past Educating Ricky facts, how long did Karl say the chicken with no head lived?
   • A few days
   • Three weeks
   • A few months
   • About a year
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   A few months

   Karl: "We've had the chicken with no head that lived a few months." He'd also covered cockroaches.

   📼 XFM S2E18 · 21 Dec 2002
7. In Karl's Educating Ricky story, why did the doctor come back with a smile on his face?
   • Another baby had just been born with two, so they could have one
   • A surgeon had a spare one in the fridge
   • The first baby's had turned up in the laundry
   • He'd realised it was actually a girl
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   Another baby had just been born with two, so they could have one

   Karl's doctor: "You're not going to believe this, baby's just been born, it's got two, right, you can have one of them!"

   📼 XFM S3E11 · 10 Jan 2004
8. As Karl explained joining two cockroaches with a little tube, which kids' TV show did Ricky say it was like?
   • Tomorrow's World
   • Why Don't You?
   • Blue Peter
   • Rainbow
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   Blue Peter

   Ricky: "This is like Blue Peter! ... You can get this for Christmas."

   📼 XFM S2E18 · 21 Dec 2002
9. Karl's second Educating Ricky item was a fella saying women shouldn't wear trousers. Why, according to Karl?
   • 'Cause they don't look good in 'em
   • Skirts are cheaper to make
   • They wear them out too fast
   • They're bad for the circulation
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   'Cause they don't look good in 'em

   Ricky's review: "See that, to me, wouldn't pass as education."

   📼 XFM S3E09 · 27 Dec 2003
10. In Educating Ricky, why did the bakery where Karl's mam worked throw cakes out the back rather than give them to staff?
    • The manager said staff were getting fat
    • They fed them to the owner's pigs
    • They were saved to sell off cheap the next day
    • There was a chance the cream might be off
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    There was a chance the cream might be off

    They'd "rather chuck them away than give 'em to the staff because there's a chance that the cream might be off." Karl and his mate ate them round the back.

    📼 XFM S2E28 · 1 Mar 2003

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