Free TV Show Trivia Quiz Questions
Questions about TV shows, actors, & actresses Drawn from TV shows
What was the name of ventriloquist Edgar Bergen's female dummy?
A: Effie Klinker.
What actress was the high-school girlfriend of Judge Joseph A.
Wapner of TV's The People's Court?
A: Lana Turner.
Who turned down the role of Columbo before Peter Falk was signed
up for the TV detective series?
A: Bing Crosby.
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What TV newsman lived with a tribe of head hunters for a month
after bailing out of a crippled military plane in the Himalayas
during World War II?
A: Eric Sevareid.
Why does Mr. Spock of TV's Star Trek have green skin?
A: Because of traces of nickel and copper in his blood.
What TV personality had four skywriting planes draw a
thee-mile-wide Valentine's Day heart for his wife?
A: Garry Moore.
How old was Clark Kent when he landed his job at the Daily Planet
on the Superman TV series starring George Reeves?
A: He was 25.
"You rang?" were the only words spoken by Lurch, the 7-foot-tall
butler on TV's The Addams Family. What other TV sitcom
character also popularized the phrase?
A: Maynard G. Krebs on The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.
What was the TV soap opera One Life To Live originally going to
be called?
A: Between Heaven and Hell.
On TV's The Honeymooners, who earned more money--bus driver Ralph
Kramden or sewer worker Ed Norton?
A: Their weekly pay was the same...$62.00.
What was the first name of Lieutenant Columbo, portrayed on TV by
Peter Falk?
A: Phillip.
Who wrote "Johnny's Theme," the signature music of Johnny
Carson's Tonight Show?
A: Paul Anka, with Johnny Carson.
What were the names of Woody Woodpecker's niece and nephew?
A: Splinter was his niece; Knothead, his nephew.
What was the biggest jackpot ever won on TV's The $64,000
Question?
A: "Three times $64,000--for a total of $192,000. The winner, a 10
year old fifth grader named Robert Strom, hit the jackpot on April
16, 1957.
Who was the television clown whose nose blinked the message CBS
Presents and whose bald head proclaimed The Big Top from July 1950
to September 1957?
A: Johnny Carson's announcer-sidekick Ed McMahon.
What are the names of the two old codgers who wisecrack from
their box seats on The Muppet Show?
A: Statler and Waldorf.
What was Johnny Carson's famous reply when a reporter asked what
he would l like his epitaph to be?
A: "I'll be right back."
What 1949 television program was the very first coast-to-coast
network show?
A: Kukla, Fan and Ollie.
What great American tried to stump the celebrity panel on TV's
Masquerade Party by showing up in a penguin costume?
A: Explorer Richard E. Byrd, who made the first flights over both
the North and South Poles and established the Little America base in
Antarctica.
Who played Beau Maverick on the TV Western comedy series
Maverick?
A: Roger Moore.
Where did M*A*S*H army surgeion Hawkeye Pierce hail from?
A: Crab Apple Cove, Maine.
What did Candid Camera creator Alan Funt do before he started
catching people off guard with his hidden camera?
A: He caught people off guard with a hidden microphone on a
successful radio show called Candid Microphone.
In real life--and in TV script--who was married at the Byram
River Beagle Club in Greenwich , Connecticut?
A: Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz.
What four actresses played Sid Caesar's wife during his run on
Your Show of Shows?
A: Imogene Coca, Nanette Fabray, Janet Blair and Gisele Mackenzie.
