TV Show Trivia Questions and Answers
What Seinfeld character takes off his shirt during visits to the
toilet?
A: George Costanza.
What was the only
TV show of the
1970s to have its theme top
Billboard's Hot 100?
A: Welcome Back, Kotter.
What sitcom features a deadpan pooch named Eddie, played by a
dog
named Moose?
A: Frasier.
What did Walter Lantz create after a
bird hammered nonstop on the
roof of his honeymoon cottage?
A: Woody Woodpecker.
Who was still alive, but unable to keep his engagement at the
London Palladium on his hundredth birthday?
A: George Burns.
What man wore a dress while hosting a TV talk show on
transvestites in 1988?
A: Phil Donahue.
What does Jay Leno fine-tune with Jimmy Brogan for six to seven
hours daily?
A: His monologue.
What gabber celebrated his 10th year on CNN in 1995?
A: Larry King.
What Ryan's Hope star became the first woman to captain a
Star
Trek TV series?
A: Kate Mulgrew.
What was the first U.S. sitcom to be exported to Britain?
A: I Love Lucy.
What Latino sitcom character hated that his mother-in-law always
called him "Mickey"?
A: Ricky Ricardo.
What variety host ended a show with: "Next week, the
Beatles and
the Pieta"?
A: Ed Sullivan.
What does MTV call its interpretation of The Dating Game?
A: Singled Out.
Who's Murphy Brown's favorite soul
singer?
A: Aretha Franklin.
Whose bill from the Happy hour
Bar arrived at the WJM-TV newsroom
on the 15th of the month?
A: Lou Grant's.
What dreadlocked Muppet musician followed Kermit's lead as host
of 1996's The Muppets Tonight?
A: Clifford.
What TV cartoon character wrote on his school chalkboard. "I will
not aim at the head" and "My name is not Dr. Death"?
A: Bart Simpson.
What's Fran's last name on The Nanny?
A: Fine.
What Melrose Place principal divorced a Motley Crue drummer and
married a Bon Jovi guitarist?
A: Heather Locklear.
What animated character often uttered: "Get moose and
squirrel"?
A: Boris Badenov.
What Saturday Night Live star said he learned how to fall playing
soccer in college?
A: Chevy Chase.
What did Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson wear to her Cancun
wedding?
A: A bikini.
What 1980s Steven Bochco show won 26 Emmy Awards?
A: Hill Street Blues.
Who does Speedy Gonzales frustrate in the cartoon Moby Duck?
A: Daffy Duck.
Who was the first male correspondent on 60 minutes to wear an
earring on the air?
A: Ed Bradley.
What 60 minutes correspondent was asked on The
Howard Stern Show:
"How could a man your age still have pimples"?
A: Mike Wallace.
What's the maximum number of answers on a single
Jeopardy! show?
A: Sixty-one.
What TV game show hit it big the third time around in 1984?
A: Jeopardy!
What cat and mouse launched a cartooning career for William Hanna
and Joseph Barbera?
A: Tom and Jerry.
What sitcom centers around a team of Screaming
Eagles?
A: Coach.
What reformed con artist shared a detective agency with Laura
Holt?
A: Remington Steele.
What are women contestants called on the game show Studs?
A: Studettes.
What was “Father Knows Best”?
A: Father Knows Best is an
American sitcom starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Elinor Donahue, Billy Gray, and Lauren Chapin.
When did the series first begin on radio?
A: In 1949, aired for six seasons with a total of 203 episodes.
When did the series debut on CBS?
A: In October 1954.
The series was picked up by NBC, where it remained for how many seasons?
A: Three seasons.
After a second cancellation in 1958, the series was picked up yet again, by whom?
A: By CBS, where it aired until May 1960.
Who created it?
A: It was created by Ed James.
Father Knows Best followed the lives of whom?
A: The Andersons, a middle-class family living in the Midwestern town of Springfield.
Game shows often reward players with prizes such as what?
A: Cash, trips and goods and services provided by the show's sponsor prize suppliers.
What was the very first television game show?
A: Spelling Bee.
When was it broadcast?
A: In 1938.
What was the first game show to air on commercially licensed television?
A: Truth or Consequences.
Its first episode aired in what year as an experimental broadcast?
A: 1941.
During the late 1950s, high-stakes games such as Twenty-One and The $64,000 Question began a what?
A: A rapid rise in popularity.
Daytime game shows would be played for lower stakes to target whom?
A: Stay-at-home moms.
In 1959, what was discovered about many of the higher stakes game shows?
A: They were Rigged.
When did Let's Make a Deal begin?
A: In 1963.
The 1960s also marked the debut of what other game shows?
A: Hollywood Squares, Password, The Dating Game, and The Newlywed Game.
When did CBS give up on daytime game shows?
A: In 1968, the other networks did not follow suit.
What is Chopped?
A: Chopped is an American reality-based
cooking television game show series.
Who created it?
A: It was created by Executive Producer Linda Lea, along with Dave Noll and Michael Krupat.
Who hosts the show?
A: The show is hosted by Ted Allen.
The series pits four chefs against each other as they do what?
A: Compete for a chance to win $10,000.
New episodes air when?
A: Every Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on the
Food Network.
When are some preliminary tasks, such as preheating
ovens and bringing water to a boil done?
A: In advance of each round.
How old do chefs have to be to appear on the regular show?
A: 19 years or older.
Starting July 22, 2012, and continuing for four additional episodes, what did Food Network air?
A: The "Chopped Grill Masters" Tournament.
How many “pro" grillers competed?
A: Sixteen.
The winners of the first four episodes competed against each other in the "Grand Finale" for how much prize money?
A: $50,000.
At what location were the "Grill Masters" episodes taped?
A: Outdoors at Old Tucson Studios near Tucson, AZ.
Who was the winner of the competition?
A: The winner was Ernest Servantes, Executive Chef at
Texas Lutheran University and Pit Boss at Burnt Bean Company.
In the summer of
2015, a second "Grill Masters" Tournament occurred, and was sponsored by whom?
A: Lea & Perrins.
Like the previous "Grill Masters" Tournament, it was filmed on location and how many "pro" grillers competed?
A: 16.
Who was the winner this time?
A: The winner was Angie Mar.