Daily Trivia Quiz #165 - Trivia Questions About TV and Television Shows

Fun printable free TV trivia questions and answers - TV.

1. What TV show lost Jim Carrey when he stepped into the movies?
2. Who plays a paleontologist on Friends?
   
3. What aging pop icon forgot the lyrics to We Can Work It Out
   on MTV Unplugged?
    
4. What segment of the TV industry receives ACE Awards?
    
5. What classic quiz show was originally titled Occupation Unknown?
    
6. What 1966 TV show theme by Lalo Schifrin made a comeback in a
   1996 blockbuster move?
    
7. What's CNBC short for?
    
8. How many fingers does Homer Simpson have?
    
9. What sitcom character moved from a Boston barstool to a Seattle
   radio station?
    
10. What Saturday Night Live cast member played Kap'n Karl on Pee-wee's
    Playhouse?
     
11. What M*A*S*H principal won Emmys for acting, writing and
    directing?
     
12. What cable network drew twice its usual audience for a show
    called The Wonderful World of Dung?
     
13. What TV host went gold with the CD Romantic Christmas?
     
14. What sitcom spawned the hit song I'll Be There For You?
     
15. What MTV twosome are known as "The Bad Boys" in Mexico?
     
16. What Indianapolis weatherman of the 1970s once forecast hail "the
    size of canned hams"?
     
17. What kid's show's interracial cast needed riot police protection
    during a 1969 trip to Mississippi?
     
18. What gritty 1990's TV drama series is subtitled Life on the
    Street?
     
19. What entertainer's wedding prompted NBC to order 10,000 tulips
    from Holland?
     
20. What sitcom helped John Larroquette earn three straight
    supporting actor Emmy Awards?
     
21. Who once observed: "This is America. You can't make a horse
    testify against himself"?
     
22. What Marx Brother's name spelled backwards is the name of a
    daytime talk show host?
     
23. Who began his radio shows with: "Good evening, Mr. ad Mrs.
    America and all the ships at sea, let's go to press"?
     
24. What TV star said of his worldwide fame: "I didn't know I could
    top Knight Rider"?
     
25. What sitcom was among the top 20 most watched shows every season
    during its entire run, form 1984 to 1992?
     
26. Who inherited Tom Snyder's CNBC talk-show slot in 1995?
     
27. What was the fist sitcom to be broadcast from videotape, in 1971?
     
28. What blond bombshell had a hankerin' for NYPD Blue detective
    Gegory Medavoy?
     
29. What animated characters are known as Smolf in Stockholm?
     
30. What 1980s sitcom was credited with pulling NBC from third to
    first in overall ratings?
     
31. What Muppet advised: "Never eat anything at one sitting that you
    can't lift"?
     
32. What former TV anchorman made headlines by attending two Grateful
    Dead concerts?
     
33. What animated kitty was the first cartoon character licensed for
    use on merchandise?
     
34. What's the "dimension of imagination, "according to the host of a
    classic TV series?
     
35. Who appeared in Return of the Killer Tomatoes before he landed a
    role on ER?

Answers to Trivia Quiz   #165

1. In Living Color.
2. David Schwimmer.
3. Paul McCartney.
4. Cable.
5. What's My Line?
6. Mission: Impossible.
7. Consumer News and Business Channel.
8. Eight.
9. Dr. Frasier Crane.
10. Phil Hartman.
11. Alan Alda.
12. The Discovery Channel.
13. John Tesh.
14. Friends.
15. Beavis and Butt head.
16. David Letterman.
17. Sesame Street's.
18. Homicide.
19. Tiny Tim's.
20. Night Court.
21. Mr. Ed.
22. Harpo's.
23. Walter Winchell.
24. David Hasselhoff.
25. The Cosby Show.
26. Charles Grodin.
27. All in the Family.
28. Donna Abandando.
29. The Smurfs.
30. The Cosby Show.
31. Miss Piggy.
32. Walter Cronkite.
33. Felix the Cat.
34. The Twilight Zone.
35. George Clooney.