Starter for eleven: Aidan Gillen
<b>Aidan Gillen</b> was attending the Glasgow Film Festival to introduce <i>Treacle Jr.</i>, a new independent film that reunites him with <i>The Low Down</i> director Jamie Thraves. We caught up with the former star of <b>The Wire</b> to quiz him on that great show, giving him a shot at winning that elusive haggis supper
Q1. In 2005 The Wire was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Writing on a Drama Series. Who won?
I’d say the West Wing, if it was even still going?
A. House. (0 points)
Q2. Who described The Wire thus:
"The Wire is quite simply a stunning piece of work... it actually physically pains me to use this phrase, because anyone who uses it sounds like an absolute tosser, but it is, truly, multilayered; it is just fucking brilliant."
Well they use the words tosser and fucking so they're not American. Charlie Brooker?
A. Charlie Brooker. (1 point)
Q3. Which US college famously started teaching The Wire as part of their urban inequality studies last year?
It's one of those Ivy League fuckers...Yale?
A. Harvard. (0 points)
Q4. What is the name of Avon Barksdale and Stringer Bell's business?
Don’t know.
A. B&B Enterprises. (0 points)
Q5. Who is the only cop who is actually seen firing a gun throughout the whole series?
Pryzbylewski.
A. 'Prez' (Pryzbylewski). (1 point)
Q6. Where is Tommy Carcetti (Gillen's character) and what is he doing when he discovers that he has won the election for mayor?
Taking a break walking down the pier with his wife.
A. At the Baltimore waterfront on his mobile taking a walk with his wife. (1 point)
Q7. Who was killed in the opening scene of the first episode of the show?
He was called...Snot?
A. Omar Isah "Snot Boogie" Betts. (1 points)
Q8. What was the name of the tolerance zone for drug dealers set up by
Major Colvin in season three?
Hamsterdam.
A. Hamsterdam. (1 point)
Q9. Who blew the whistle to a reporter and told him about Major Colvin's
operation after refusing to move a body out of Hamsterdam?
Rawls? No it wasn’t Rawls...don’t know.
A. Herc. (0 points)
Q10. How did Senator Clay Davis initially react when he was finally indicted?
He didn’t just say Sheeeeit, did he?
A. He simply said 'Sheeeeeit.' (1 point)
Q11. Name one item that Bubbles sold from his mobile shopping emporium.
White Ts
A. White T Shirts, morphine, needles, and mobile phones (1 point)
Seven points. Not bad, really, considering his character, Tommy Carcettii, didn't show up until Season Three.