Hooray, it’s time for another Mastermind specialist topic that I think I could have a good go at if I was sitting in the hot seat. It was a few episodes ago and Amy’s chosen topic was the sitcom MIRANDA. Yay! If I’m being completely honest, I only knew this had occurred because Miranda herself took the quiz on Tiktok. She did pretty well, not 100% though!

Amy got ten overall, and I would have got eight, so naturally a rewatch of this show is required now!

1. Which character played by Sally Phillips is Miranda’s friend from boarding school and has the catchphrase ‘bear with’?
2. In the first episode, Miranda bumps into her old friend Gary, who’s the new chef in the restaurant next to her joke shop and, in an attempt to impress him, she says she does what Olympic sport?
3. In the episode Holiday, Miranda decides she needs to make the most of being young, free and single and she tells everyone that she’s going to Thailand for a few days, but instead stays in a local hotel with what name?
4. What’s the name of the show’s director who is credited in all 18 episodes of the first three series?
5. In the episode The New Me, Miranda visits a bed shop but is mistaken for a new employee called Sandy. Which actress plays the real Sandy at the end of the episode?
6. When Miranda’s mother, Penny, runs for the local council, her policies include no tracksuits in which supermarket?
7. In the episode Dog, what’s the full name of the handsome customer who Miranda and her best friend Stevie fight over after he leaves his wallet in their shop?
8. In Series 3, Penny offers to help save Miranda’s shop from closing down, but when the bank manager asks whether she has a business model, she tells him that she was Miss Godalming in which year?
9. When Miranda receives two marriage proposals at the same time, Penny says, “Marry them both. I wish I’d done that with your father and…” which actor?
10. Stevie frequently sings lyrics by which singer who also has a cameo role as herself in the episode The Final Curtain?
11. When Miranda decides to go away at the end of Series 3, she intends to travel to which town in Scotland, but fails to leave the railway station in London after getting on the wrong train?
12. What’s the name of the department store that offers Miranda a job in Series 1, despite her singing in the interview, but later fires her before she even starts?
13. When Miranda, Stevie and their new friend Tamara discuss going to an art class, which painter’s name does Miranda think is a type of ice cream?

Answers here.