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Quiz about Scratching and Surviving

Scratching and Surviving Trivia Quiz


The Evans family and their friends went through a lot of bad times to get to good times. Here's a quiz on some of those times.

A multiple-choice quiz by Cadet. Estimated time: 8 mins.
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Author
Cadet
Time
8 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
242,071
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
9 / 15
Plays
2375
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 107 (9/15), Guest 68 (12/15), Guest 165 (15/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. In "Florida Goes to School", what grade do we find out Florida dropped out of when she was a teenager? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Florida and Willona took their first trip to the jail's lockup in "Florida's Protest" when they found out the store was selling expired food. In jail, they met an elderly lady who was also thrown in lockup for causing trouble. What was she in for? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. The Evans family got sick from a piece of tainted meat that Florida got at the market in "Florida's Protest". Florida and Willona picketed the store and got arrested for demonstrating. After they got out of jail, Florida and James found out that the manager knew the meat was bad but sold it anyway for more money. Did they get revenge?


Question 4 of 15
4. During the 2-parter of "J.J.'s Fiancee", he and his prom date Diane decided to run away to Indiana to elope. When their parents find this out, they also uncover the secret that Diane is a drug addict. When they finally get in contact with J.J., what drug does James tell him she's on?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 5 of 15
5. Also in "J.J.'s Fiancee", when the parents found out Diane was a drug addict, James told her father, Fred, if he was going to blame anyone, to blame the ____________.

Answer: (One Word)
Question 6 of 15
6. The Evans family got taken for a ride in "The Encyclopedia Hustle" when Mr. Anderson, a blind man sold them a set of encyclopedias on black people in history. He told them it would only cost $5, and it was a big enough stretch to afford that. After Mr. Anderson left, they found out in the fine print they would have to make so many additional payments in a short amount of time, that it was impossible to come up with the money. When Mr. Anderson came back, they told them they wanted out of the deal, so he said he'd call his boss and get them out of it. When he made his phone call, the family found out he was lying.


Question 7 of 15
7. In the episode, "The Lunch Money Ripoff", the Evans family finds out Michael has been giving his lunches to a bully every day. They invite the boy, Eddie, over for dinner, however due to Eddie's disrespectful behavior, James takes it upon him to discipline Eddie.


Question 8 of 15
8. In "The Family Gun", James bought a Saturday night special colt .32 because crime was on the uprise more than ever before in the ghetto. There were more break-ins than usual, more attacks, somebody even stole the washers and dryers from the laundry room. J.J. commented that it was getting so dangerous around there, the Tidy Bowl man was trading his rowboat for what? Hint


Question 9 of 15
9. At the end of part 1 of "The Evans Get Involved", Willona strongly suspects Penny is being abused, but Thelma is still skeptical. What led Willona to believe Penny had been abused? Hint


Question 10 of 15
10. J.J. spied on Thelma and her mystery boyfriend in "Thelma's Brief Encounter", because everybody suspected something was odd about Lloyd only meeting Thelma at lunch. J.J. came home one day and reported to Willona and Michael that at the end of the day, Lloyd returned to a half-way house, a home for ex-convicts half-way between jail and freedom. For what crime had Lloyd been sent to jail? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. Willona hit the ceiling when it came to talking to Penny about sex in "Stomach Mumps" because her 13-year-old friend, Tina, was pregnant. Florida told Willona that it was high time to teach Penny about what she needed to know, before she learned it wrong and from the wrong people, whereas Willona said that she would tell Penny when she was ready. Florida insisted that Penny had to learn about sex from her mother before it was too late, and she later commented to J.J. that how many teenaged girls got pregnant in the country on a yearly basis? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. Keith hit the ceiling and the bottle in "The Evans' Dilemma" when he couldn't find a job, and was still sore that he lost his chance at being a football player because of his broken knee. Neither Thelma nor Willona could figure out what was wrong with Keith, but J.J. suspected that any man who can one minute, be angry enough to kill someone, then go into the bathroom and come out a minute later singing like a lark, whatever he could be doing to get happy that fast, couldn't be doing it alone. So J.J. and Michael inspected the bathroom and found Keith was drinking what? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Good luck hit the family in "Black Jesus". After J.J. painted a porrait of a black Jesus with Ned the Wino as the model, James got a tax return, giving him enough money to shower his family with presents, Willona got a second date with her 'octopus' man, Michael got $5 from two men, and Thelma got a date. How much money did James try to give Thelma to take on her date? Hint


Question 14 of 15
14. Lenella Gordon returned for Penny in "A Matter of Mothers", but since Penny was legally adopted, she had to make Willona look like an unfit parent to get Penny back. She hired a man, Jeffrey, to pretend he loved Willona, and one night he had a party and invited his 'friends', hustlers, drug pushers, freaks of all sort, including one man who had 'enough drugs to turn on Mount Rushmore'. The cops busted the party up and took everyone out with them, but Willona was granted to stay behind and talk to Lenella. She said her plan wouldn't work because she had too many people to vouch for her, Lenella responded that she had policemen, pictures, and a dozen witnesses on her side, plus an upscale lawyer. She insisted that all the pain she caused Penny before was all in the past. When Willona goes into a list of what all was done to Penny, what is one of the descriptions? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. In the series finale, "The End of the Rainbow", good luck seemed to be raining down on everyone. What was one thing that did NOT take place in this episode? Hint



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1. In "Florida Goes to School", what grade do we find out Florida dropped out of when she was a teenager?

Answer: 10th

Florida dropped out in the 10th grade, and James dropped out in the 6th grade. During a discussion on who had it worse when it came to looking for work, Florida told James she had it worse because she was female, black, and had an incomplete high school education. James wasn't too fond of her going back to school, but after hearing about a friend who carried a similar attitude and lost his wife, he decided to support Florida's wishes for a better education, and he went back to school with her.
2. Florida and Willona took their first trip to the jail's lockup in "Florida's Protest" when they found out the store was selling expired food. In jail, they met an elderly lady who was also thrown in lockup for causing trouble. What was she in for?

Answer: Street walking

She explains to Florida and Willona that she was crossing the street and saw her husband with another woman, so she went over to the other woman, threw her down on the ground and walked up and down on her.
3. The Evans family got sick from a piece of tainted meat that Florida got at the market in "Florida's Protest". Florida and Willona picketed the store and got arrested for demonstrating. After they got out of jail, Florida and James found out that the manager knew the meat was bad but sold it anyway for more money. Did they get revenge?

Answer: Yes

They brought a dinner to the manager, Mr. Coggins, including a slice of the tainted meat, and had their friend, Mr. Gage, from the FDA come with them. When Mr. Coggins refused to eat the meat, Mr. Gage said he would then. Mr. Coggins realized if he got sick from the meat, his store would be shut down, so he ate the meat, and then immediately went to the bathroom.

After he left, it was revealed that Mr. Gage wasn't in the FDA at all, just a friend of James', after he left, James told Florida that what they did wouldn't change anything, but for once they got even.
4. During the 2-parter of "J.J.'s Fiancee", he and his prom date Diane decided to run away to Indiana to elope. When their parents find this out, they also uncover the secret that Diane is a drug addict. When they finally get in contact with J.J., what drug does James tell him she's on?

Answer: Dope

"Dope" is most commonly a term used for marijuana, but in the 70's it was also a popular term for heroin, and would be the drug Diane was hooked on. Diane got Thelma's purse by accident and vice versa. Thelma showed the equipment Diane used to shoot up with, and a number for her dealer.

The dealer turned out to be a boy close to ten years of age, carrying a bag of white powder with him. When J.J. phoned his parents, they told him what was going on, J.J. refused to believe them until he found out Diane had run away from the motel through the bathroom window.
5. Also in "J.J.'s Fiancee", when the parents found out Diane was a drug addict, James told her father, Fred, if he was going to blame anyone, to blame the ____________.

Answer: pushers

James told Fred that the pushers in the streets got to the kids real easy by first slipping them free pills, then while they were whacked out, switching them on the hard stuff. At first at the revelation of Diane's drug problem, James seemed to think they were fighting the battle on the losing end, he explained to Florida that the drug business couldn't be stopped when it was going as well as it was.

However James' attitude seemed to shift when a few minutes later he turned around and said, "In 1961, John F. Kennedy said we'd put a man on the moon by '70 and we did it! Now you can't tell me that a country that can put a man on the moon can't stop dope traffic!"
6. The Evans family got taken for a ride in "The Encyclopedia Hustle" when Mr. Anderson, a blind man sold them a set of encyclopedias on black people in history. He told them it would only cost $5, and it was a big enough stretch to afford that. After Mr. Anderson left, they found out in the fine print they would have to make so many additional payments in a short amount of time, that it was impossible to come up with the money. When Mr. Anderson came back, they told them they wanted out of the deal, so he said he'd call his boss and get them out of it. When he made his phone call, the family found out he was lying.

Answer: True

The phone had been disconnected earlier in the day because they weren't able to pay the bill. Mr. Anderson made his phone call before anybody could tell him, so he held the phone close so nobody could see him with his thumb down on the switch hook. After his 'phone call', he told them he couldn't get them out of the deal. So then Florida picked up the phone and 'called' the police department's bunko squad, and told Mr. Anderson to give them back their money, or she'd turn him in.
7. In the episode, "The Lunch Money Ripoff", the Evans family finds out Michael has been giving his lunches to a bully every day. They invite the boy, Eddie, over for dinner, however due to Eddie's disrespectful behavior, James takes it upon him to discipline Eddie.

Answer: True

James took Eddie into the bedroom, closed the door and spanked him with his belt. While some people today may argue that such behavior, particularly to a child who is not the offspring of the disciplinarian, is uncalled for and abusive, back in the 1970's, parents were still high on the belief of disciplining their children when they got out of line. Also back in the 70's, many believed in the saying "It takes a village to raise a child", meaning outside adults sometimes had to step in and take over in discipline when the parents weren't able to.

In this episode, James takes it upon himself to discipline Eddie because he knows he's not getting it anywhere else. Eddie explains early on after his arrival that his mother doesn't pay any attention to what he does, and both he and his mother stay out for days at a time and never see each other. Eddie refuses to do any studying with Michael in homework and instead demands the answers to the questions, and back talks to James, which sends him into the disciplianary father role he's famous for where his own children are concerned. Florida explains that they discipline their children because they love them and don't want them to get in trouble, as they also feel with him.
8. In "The Family Gun", James bought a Saturday night special colt .32 because crime was on the uprise more than ever before in the ghetto. There were more break-ins than usual, more attacks, somebody even stole the washers and dryers from the laundry room. J.J. commented that it was getting so dangerous around there, the Tidy Bowl man was trading his rowboat for what?

Answer: A battleship

The Evanses were so worried about the criminals that they had five chain and bolt locks put on the door. After Florida and Willona relayed the news about the stolen washers and dryers, James brought out his gun for the family to see for the first time.

The next day, after Thelma was attacked by a man, James went to get the gun only to find it was nowhere in the apartment. At that same time, Willona announced a 5-year-old boy on a lower floor had been shot playing with a .32 gun. James was wracked with guilt until Michael confessed that he hid James' gun in a lamp he'd been fixing so he couldn't hurt anyone with the gun.
9. At the end of part 1 of "The Evans Get Involved", Willona strongly suspects Penny is being abused, but Thelma is still skeptical. What led Willona to believe Penny had been abused?

Answer: Bruises on her back

When Penny first comes on the show, she has a bandage on her forehead, but because of her story about hitting it with a jump rope, nobody thinks anything about it. The next day Penny comes over and has a large bandage on her left arm and says she was burnt by a pot of hot chocolate on the stove, when in reality it was from Lenella's hot iron. Willona undoes the back of Penny's top so she can change into a dress and they find big, black bruises on her back.

In the second episode, at that time Lenella came in and coaxed Penny into saying she just fell down.

Thelma believed Penny's story but Willona was stuck in her belief that Lenella hurt her. When Willona, Thelma and J.J. went to pick Penny up for the costume carnival at the school, they found Penny alone, and her arm nearly broken, and it was then that Thelma was fully convinced that Lenella was responsible for it.

Unfortunately, the doctor didn't believe Willona, and before Penny could explain what really happened, Lenella rushed in with the police, took Penny back to their apartment, and moved out before a social worker could arrive to help.
10. J.J. spied on Thelma and her mystery boyfriend in "Thelma's Brief Encounter", because everybody suspected something was odd about Lloyd only meeting Thelma at lunch. J.J. came home one day and reported to Willona and Michael that at the end of the day, Lloyd returned to a half-way house, a home for ex-convicts half-way between jail and freedom. For what crime had Lloyd been sent to jail?

Answer: Bigamy

J.J. explained that Lloyd had been married to two women at the same time, but when Thelma brought Lloyd home for dinner, Willona and J.J. spent the time beating around the bush that they knew that he'd been in jail. Lloyd told Thelma that he had gone to jail for robbery and she believed him, and also believed in forgiving and forgetting, but when J.J. broke the honest truth of: "Lloyd's a bigamist, and if you marry him, he'll be a trigamist", Thelma screamed at J.J. that he was a liar and she hated him. Willona had warned J.J. before that she would hate him for the news, but J.J. insisted that he was her brother and she could never hate him, and when Thelma realized J.J. was telling the truth, she confessed that she didn't hate him.
11. Willona hit the ceiling when it came to talking to Penny about sex in "Stomach Mumps" because her 13-year-old friend, Tina, was pregnant. Florida told Willona that it was high time to teach Penny about what she needed to know, before she learned it wrong and from the wrong people, whereas Willona said that she would tell Penny when she was ready. Florida insisted that Penny had to learn about sex from her mother before it was too late, and she later commented to J.J. that how many teenaged girls got pregnant in the country on a yearly basis?

Answer: 1,000,000

Florida added that of that million, over thirteen thousand were 14 and under. These days the statistics run approximately 820,000 pregnant teenagers a year in the country; while the numbers are dropping, it's still a frightening sum to take into consideration.

Willona insisted if she told Penny about sex, she would just rush into it, to which Florida responded if parents would face facts and explain to their children about sex, they wouldn't have to guess about it so young and she further explained that knowing about sex never made kids rush into it, it's the ones that don't know about it that cheapen the whole image of love and sex.
12. Keith hit the ceiling and the bottle in "The Evans' Dilemma" when he couldn't find a job, and was still sore that he lost his chance at being a football player because of his broken knee. Neither Thelma nor Willona could figure out what was wrong with Keith, but J.J. suspected that any man who can one minute, be angry enough to kill someone, then go into the bathroom and come out a minute later singing like a lark, whatever he could be doing to get happy that fast, couldn't be doing it alone. So J.J. and Michael inspected the bathroom and found Keith was drinking what?

Answer: Vodka

They found a bottle in the toilet tank and J.J. said, "Either this is Keith's joy juice, or the Tidy Bowl man's got a new boat". That night after dinner, a drunken Keith hit Thelma, and she left to pack his bags and throw him out. She found another bottle of vodka in the laundry hamper. Keith told her she didn't understand what he was going through, to which Thelma replied, "A bottle of fermented potatoes understands?"
13. Good luck hit the family in "Black Jesus". After J.J. painted a porrait of a black Jesus with Ned the Wino as the model, James got a tax return, giving him enough money to shower his family with presents, Willona got a second date with her 'octopus' man, Michael got $5 from two men, and Thelma got a date. How much money did James try to give Thelma to take on her date?

Answer: $5

Florida told James that Thelma didn't need $5, she had all the money she needed, a dollar and a dime. A dime to call home if she needed Florida, and a dollar for a taxi incase she couldn't reach her.
14. Lenella Gordon returned for Penny in "A Matter of Mothers", but since Penny was legally adopted, she had to make Willona look like an unfit parent to get Penny back. She hired a man, Jeffrey, to pretend he loved Willona, and one night he had a party and invited his 'friends', hustlers, drug pushers, freaks of all sort, including one man who had 'enough drugs to turn on Mount Rushmore'. The cops busted the party up and took everyone out with them, but Willona was granted to stay behind and talk to Lenella. She said her plan wouldn't work because she had too many people to vouch for her, Lenella responded that she had policemen, pictures, and a dozen witnesses on her side, plus an upscale lawyer. She insisted that all the pain she caused Penny before was all in the past. When Willona goes into a list of what all was done to Penny, what is one of the descriptions?

Answer: The burns with the hot iron

Willona's exact words to Lenella Gordon were: "That child wakes up at night screaming, thinking about your abuse: the beatings, the bruises, the cuts, the burns with the hot iron."

Lenella was dead set on getting Penny back, no matter what, but her own plan backfired on her. She, through Jeff, showered Penny with gifts, including a tape recorder and a brass bed. During the party, Penny turned on the recorder and it was forgotten until Willona picked it up to give it back and saw it was still running. They had unknowingly gotten Lenella's whole plan on tape, and when Penny wouldn't hand the tape recorder over, Lenella reverted back to her old ways and tried to attack Penny, but this time Willona stopped her. When it was realized that she hadn't changed at all, Lenella left and dropped the charges against Willona.
15. In the series finale, "The End of the Rainbow", good luck seemed to be raining down on everyone. What was one thing that did NOT take place in this episode?

Answer: Michael got married

J.J.'s idea for the comic Dyno-Woman got an offer by a comic company. Keith's knee healed so he went out for training and joined the Chicago Bears, and he and Thelma were moving out to a duplex apartment. Thelma announced that it would have to be plenty big because she was pregnant. Florida would be moving with Thelma and Keith because Thelma was nervous about her first pregnancy and wouldn't know what to do. Willona announced she and Penny would be moving too, and when she gave the address, Keith realized that they would be right upstairs from her. Michael was offered to move in with them, but he responded that he planned to move on campus at the college he was attending.
Source: Author Cadet

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