History Series / BigFatQuizOfTheYear

* AmbiguousSyntax: Unavoidable in this sort of show.

-->'''Jack Whitehall''': Whoa! WHOA!! BACK THE '''[[AtomicFBomb FUCK]]''' OFF BLUNTERS!! I'M SERIOUS, JIMMY CARR!!

-->'''David''': WHO THE HELL IS RIKROK ANYWAY?!\\

--> '''Jimmy''': [[KickTheDog Why is... why is your foot wet?]]

** Sharon Osbourne.
** Pretty much the stance every team will adopt when they don't know an answer.

--> '''Jimmy''': We are honoured to have one of the decade's most iconic stars, please welcome, [[CallBack apologies, Jack]], Mr. Blobby!
--> '''Jack''': [[OhCrap Oh,]] [[NightmareFuel FU-]] (''cut to Mr. Blobby, who immediately fakes attacking Jack'')

--->'''Jimmy Carr:''' We've got a gunge tank, and you're behind, so buck up your ideas!
--->'''Richard Ayoade:''' ''I will kill you in your sleep.''

-->'''David Mitchell:''' We've made it sound like he jizzed.

-->'''Claudia''': [[InnocentInnuendo You can't fit it all in!]] (audience reacts first)\\

-->'''Jack Whitehall''': [[ToiletHumor Touching Cloth Badly.]] (audience reacts)\\

* PurelyAestheticGlasses:
** Averted by Richard Ayoade.
--->Don't let the glasses fool you, I am very stupid.
** Invoked by Creator/JonathanRoss:
--->'''Jimmy:''' Jonathan, what - those aren't your glasses.\\

--> '''Jimmy''': Oh, you didn't write ''that''...

** David Walliams joked about this whenever a round didn't go in his favour.
*** And if he threatens to walk if something is done, Rob begs for the something to be done.

-->(walking back again) [[IAlwaysWantedToSayThat "Always wanted to walk off a show!"]]

-->(the question: What UsefulNotes/BarackObama gave to Gordon Brown after being given an antique pen holder carved from a beam in an ancient battleship)\\

* TakeThatMe: From the 2017 edition:
-->'''Jimmy''': UsefulNotes/AlCapone was a notorious criminal who was finally sent to prison for tax evasion. He really should have had a talk with my guy. (shrugs it off, audience goes wild)

*** Going by what she said in ''Quiz of the Year 2016'', it's fairly obvious what the ''real'' family affliction is:

-->'''Ronan Keating''': Can you tell me three of the things [Music/RightSaidFred] were too sexy for?

-->'''Richard:''' [[Music/VanillaIce Stop, Collaborate and Listen.]]

-->'''Kevin Bridges:''' [[Music/BahaMen She let them out.]]

* [[YourMom Your Mum]]: In the Noughties edition, Jimmy asks the question "Who managed to set a new world record after spending 71 days crying in the B&Q?". This was Richard and Noel's answer.
-->'''Jimmy:''' I feel like a supply teacher at a rough school.
-->'''Noel:''' Sir! It was ''so'' your mum!
-->'''Richard:''' Look at your card. Does it say your mum?
** Even the extremely [[DeadpanSnarker deadpan]] Richard dissolved into laughter at the exasperated look on Jimmy's face.

--->'''Jimmy:''' [[ItMakesSenseInContext Question number one: Dara's mum's name.]]
--->'''Romesh:''' I know this one!

** James Corden jokingly tries to walk out when Jimmy contests his claim that the technically correct name of the ''Film/SexAndTheCity'' movie is "Sex and the City: TheMovie". Sean Lock follows him, but only because he feels obligated as James' teammate.

* ShoutOut

* HostileShowTakeover: After Jimmy unjustly denies Richard Ayoade and Greg Davies a point, Rob Brydon leads a mini-revolution, eventually trying to take over the podium before being chased off.

** The 2015 edition featured Richard Ayoade and Greg Davies's team answering "Bad Dong" to an increasing number of questions, until it became the answer to ''every question'' in the final round. As it devolved into an OverlyLongGag, Davies couldn't help laughing even as he was a bit ashamed of how much he was enjoying the bit.

** James Corden jokingly tries to walk out when Jimmy contests his claim that the technically correct name of the [[Film/SexAndTheCity Sex and the City movie]] is "Sex and the City: TheMovie". Sean Lock follows him, but only because he feels obligated as James' teammate.

* SpinOff: With the [=COVID19=] pandemic taking place just after the 2020 episode, Jimmy takes it upon himself to present: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfwhuC9ypQk The Little Tiny Quiz of the Lockdown.]]

* UnusualEuphemism: One question is about how the original "roses are red" poem actually goes. Courtesy of Jonathan Ross and David Walliam:
-->(in unison) "The rose is red, the violets blue; [[AssShove Do you take it up the flue?]]"

-->'''Ronan Keating''': Can you tell me three of the things (Music/RightSaidFred) were too sexy for?

* RuleOfThree: One question in the 2008 Quiz is about the transsexual man who got pregnant, and Michael Mcintyre is the first to ask how the baby could have been delivered. Jimmy suggested he had a "manny", and then offered "mange" as well. It's not till he suggested [[CountryMatters "munt"]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice that the audience reacts.]]

** In the 2011 edition, while discussing David Mitchell's pronunciation of "masturbatory", Jonathan Ross says that surely a room for [[ADateWithRosiePalms masturbating in]] would be called a "masturbatorium". He later uses this word in casual conversation in the 2012 edition.

** They {{subvert|edTrope}} it later in the same episode, when Jimmy asks what Obama confessed to occasionally "putting on" in the Oval Office.[[labelnote:Answer]]The TV series {{Series/Homeland}}[[/labelnote]] When it actually comes time to show what they wrote, they regret it so much that Jack crouches down in front of the answer-displaying screen in order to cover it up; Russell Howard joins him after catching a glimpse of what it was. Eventually Jimmy talks them into moving so it can be revealed: [[spoiler:[Obama] put on a condom and had [[ADateWithRosiePalms a posh wank]].]] As much as was made about it in the episode itself, it was also one of the comments that sparked real controversy.