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Hard TV Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our tv set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard set reaches back further and digs deeper, taking in I Love Lucy, The Twilight Zone, Fawlty Towers, The Prisoner and the first broadcast dates of two of the longest-running shows on television. Fair questions, but they need more than a passing familiarity.
14 hard tv trivia questions with answers
Who played Lucille Ball's on-screen husband in I Love Lucy?
Answer: Desi Arnaz Arnaz was her real husband, and their company pioneered filming sitcoms before a live audience.
The Twilight Zone was created and largely written by whom?
Answer: Rod Serling Serling wrote a large share of the episodes himself and narrated the series.
The Ewing family ranch in Dallas was called what?
Answer: Southfork A real ranch north of Dallas was used for the exteriors and still draws visitors.
Fawlty Towers was set in a hotel in which English seaside town?
Answer: Torquay John Cleese based it on a real Torquay hotel where the Monty Python team had stayed.
Only Fools and Horses followed the Trotter brothers in which London district?
Answer: Peckham Their tower block was named Nelson Mandela House.
Who captained the ship in Star Trek: The Next Generation?
Answer: Jean-Luc Picard Patrick Stewart was cast despite producers initially wanting a younger lead.
The medical drama ER was set at a hospital in which city?
Answer: Chicago The fictional County General was based on real public hospitals in the city.
In the 1960s series The Prisoner, the main character is held in a place known simply as what?
Answer: The Village It was filmed at Portmeirion, an Italianate resort village in north Wales.
The 2004 reimagining of Battlestar Galactica was developed by whom?
Answer: Ronald D. Moore Glen A. Larson created the original 1978 series that it was based on.
Which actor played the lead in every series of Blackadder?
Answer: Rowan Atkinson Each series moved the same family name to a different period of English history.
Who played the raincoated detective in Columbo?
Answer: Peter Falk The format showed the murder first, so the interest lay in how he cornered the culprit.
The Sopranos was created by which writer?
Answer: David Chase Chase had worked for years in network television before pitching the series to HBO.
Doctor Who was first broadcast in which year?
Answer: 1963 Its first episode went out the day after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Sesame Street first went on air in which year?
Answer: 1969 It was built on research into whether television could teach preschool children.
Answer key
- Desi Arnaz
- Rod Serling
- Southfork
- Torquay
- Peckham
- Jean-Luc Picard
- Chicago
- The Village
- Ronald D. Moore
- Rowan Atkinson
- Peter Falk
- David Chase
- 1963
- 1969
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