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Medium TV Trivia Questions
The medium questions from our tv set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
Keys 1-4 pick an answer, Enter moves on. Nothing is saved to an account.
The middle round moves to specifics that need actual viewing: which war M*A*S*H depicted, which flight number crashed in Lost, which city The Wire is set in. These are the questions where a table splits between the people who watched and the people who only heard about it.
14 medium tv trivia questions with answers
The series M*A*S*H was set during which conflict?
Answer: The Korean War The show ran for eleven years, far longer than the three-year war it depicted.
Frasier moved its title character to which city?
Answer: Seattle He worked there as a radio psychiatrist after leaving Boston.
Twin Peaks was co-created by which film director?
Answer: David Lynch He created it with the television writer Mark Frost.
The Sopranos is set mainly in which US state?
Answer: New Jersey The opening title sequence follows a drive out of the Lincoln Tunnel into New Jersey.
Mad Men follows staff at a firm in which industry?
Answer: Advertising The title plays on the Madison Avenue agencies of 1960s New York.
The plane that crashed at the start of Lost carried which flight number?
Answer: Oceanic 815 Ajira 316 was a later flight in the same series, which is why the numbers echo.
Which two FBI agents investigated the unexplained in The X-Files?
Answer: Mulder and Scully Doggett and Reyes were genuine later additions to the same show.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus played a politician named Selina Meyer in which comedy?
Answer: Veep Veep was created by Armando Iannucci, who had made The Thick of It in Britain.
Coronation Street is set in which fictional place?
Answer: Weatherfield Weatherfield stands in for a working-class district of Greater Manchester.
The quiz format Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? was first created in which country?
Answer: The United Kingdom It began on ITV in 1998 and was licensed to more than a hundred countries.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer was set in a Californian town called what?
Answer: Sunnydale The town sits over a portal the show called the Hellmouth.
The Wire is set in which American city?
Answer: Baltimore Its creator David Simon had been a crime reporter for the Baltimore Sun.
Better Call Saul stands in what relationship to Breaking Bad?
Answer: A prequel It begins years before Breaking Bad, though later episodes catch up and pass it.
Parks and Recreation is set in a fictional town in which state?
Answer: Indiana The town of Pawnee is presented as a small city with an oversized civic ego.
Answer key
- The Korean War
- Seattle
- David Lynch
- New Jersey
- Advertising
- Oceanic 815
- Mulder and Scully
- Veep
- Weatherfield
- The United Kingdom
- Sunnydale
- Baltimore
- A prequel
- Indiana
How to play
- Pick a mode: multiple choice, true or false, a 60-second sprint, or the daily quiz.
- Answer with a tap, or press 1 to 4 on a keyboard. The right answer appears straight away with a line explaining it.
- Finish the round to see your score, copy the result grid, and step up a difficulty.
- Hosting a night? The full tv list and a separate answer key are printed below, and the print layout drops the game and keeps the paper.
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