Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Daily Trivia Quiz #163 - TV and Television Series, Shows, Sit-coms, Talk Shows and More!

Fun Trivia questions and answers - TV and Television Shows
  1. What 250-pound star of Hairspray shed half her weight to host a
    TV talk show?
     
  2. What Mayberry resident once hijacked a bull when he'd had too
    much to drink?
     
  3. What four-word TV slogan did Sting add to the Dire Straits hit
    Money for Nothing?
     
  4. What Mary Tyler Moore Show character's blue blazer made it into
    the Smithsonian?
     
  5. Who was a cheerleader for the San Francisco 49ers before she
    became TV's Lois Lane?
     
  6. What was Redd Foxx's last name before show business beckoned?
     
  7. Who's been Saturday Night Live's most frequent host?
     
  8. What town did Howdy Doody live in?
     
  9. What sitcom star advised: "It's okay to be fat. So you're fat.
    Just be fat and shut up about it"?
     
  10. What Richard Chamberlain vehicle is second only to Roots in
    total viewers for a miniseries?
     
  11. What media award was derived from the slang term for the 1945
    "image orthicon tube"?
     
  12. What TV cop badgered unwitting suspects with the line, "Just one
    more thing..."?
     
  13. What late night talk show host asks viewers to "sit back and fire
    up the colortinis"?
     
  14. What happy homemaker chirps on TV: "It's a good thing"?
     
  15. Which two Saturday Night Live characters broadcast from an
    Aurora, Illinois basement?
     
  16. What's the "dimension of imagination," according to the host of a
    classic TV series?
     
  17. What TV star did 500,000 people show up to watch sing at the
    Berlin Wall?
     
  18. What quiz show champ of the 1950s received 500 marriage proposals
    and helped increase sales of Geritol by 40 percent?
     
  19. What sitcom's scripts were penned with the help of an Army
    handbook and map of Korea?
     
  20. Who died last--Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball, William Frawley or
    Vivian Vance?
     
  21. What future talk show host could have played the lead in The
    Graduate if he hadn't argued with producers over his salary?
     
  22. What two cartoon mice attempt every night to take over the world
    from their cages in Acme Labs?
     
  23. What long-lasting NBC show was originally titled The Rise and
    Shine Revue?
     
  24. Who was the first feline featured on Lifestyles of the Rich and
    Famous?
     
  25. What TV role was John Astin offered under the condition he grow a
    mustache?
     
  26. Who appeared in Return of the Killer Tomatoes before he landed a
    role on ER?
     


Answers to Trivia Quiz   #163 - TV or Television Trivia Quiz Answers

  1. Ricki Lake.
  2. Otis Campbell.
  3. "I want my MTV".
  4. Ted Baxter's.
  5. Teri Hatcher.
  6. Sanford.
  7. Steve Martin.
  8. Doodyville.
  9. Roseanne.
  10. The Thorn Birds.
  11. The Emmy.
  12. Columbo.
  13. Tom Snyder.
  14. Martha Stewart.
  15. Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar.
  16. The Twilight Zone.
  17. David Hasselhoff.
  18. Charles Van Doren.
  19. M*A*S*H
  20.  Lucille Ball.
  21. Charles Grodin.
  22. Pinky and the Brain.
  23. Today.
  24. Morris the Cat.
  25. Gomez Addams.
  26. George Clooney.