Soap Operas and Telenovelas

What this quiz asks

• What is the name of the pub on Coronation Street?
• An hourglass has opened the credits of which American daytime soap since 1965?
• Brookside, launched on Channel 4's very first night on air in 1982, was set in which English city?
• Did the name soap opera come from the soap makers who sponsored early radio serials?
• EastEnders, first shown by the BBC in 1985, is set in which fictional East London borough?
• Which actor played the scheming oil baron J.R. Ewing in Dallas?
• The American series Ugly Betty was adapted from a telenovela made in which country?
• Unlike most English-language soaps, a traditional telenovela is written to reach a final ending.
• The glamorous 1980s soap Dynasty, about the Carrington family, is set in which American city?
• Select ALL of these actors who got an early break as regular cast members of the Australian soap Home and Away.
• In The Bold and the Beautiful, what kind of business does the Forrester family run?
• The ITV soap Emmerdale is set in a village in which English county?
• The 1981 wedding of Luke and Laura drew about 30 million American viewers to which soap?
• Select ALL of these Mexican telenovelas that starred the singer Thalía.
• Guiding Light began as a radio serial in the 1930s before moving to television.
• In what year was the first episode of Coronation Street broadcast?
• Put these soaps in order of first broadcast, earliest first.
• The Turkish series Magnificent Century (2011) dramatised the court of which Ottoman sultan?
• Which 1960s prime-time soap helped launch the careers of Mia Farrow and Ryan O'Neal?
• Which Brazilian telenovela, based on a Jorge Amado novel, became the first telenovela shown in Portugal, in 1977?