FunTrivia Television Mix: Vol 27 Quiz

Answer: Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry was an American born TV screenwriter and is best known for creating the hit TV science fiction series "Star Trek". He was also responsible for the follow series "Star Trek: The Next Generation".

Question by player dolano

Answer: Quick Draw McGraw

Augie Doggie and Doggy Daddy were introduced to television audiences on the classic TV show "Quick Draw McGraw" on September 19, 1959. They all were characters created by Hanna-Barbera.

Question by player Blukitty

Answer: Don Adams

His antics are still drawing guffaws when the "Get Smart" shows pop up as reruns. Being a reflection of current culture, comedy that retains its humor for so long indeed must have touched the core of our society and, well, pratfalls are funny. Interesting bit of trivia: He began his career partnering with a childhood friend, Bill Dana of Jose Jimenez fame.

Question by player mehaul

Answer: Salem

Salem was the cat on "Sabrina, The Teenage Witch." Silver was the white stallion on "The Lone Ranger." Skippy was the star on "Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. And Mr. Ed, the talking horse, had his own show, "Mr. Ed".

Question by player lowtechmaster

Answer: Shoe salesman

"Married With Children" was one of the longest-running comedies in television history, airing for 11 season on the Fox Network from 1987 through 1997. Al Bundy, played by Ed O'Neill, was a shoe salesman with an awful wife and two terrible children. Many of the jokes on the show centered around Al's job as a shoe salesman, and the fat women who came into his store.

For example, "Today a woman came into the store who was so fat, she had three other fat women orbiting around her."

Question by player daver852

Answer: The Americans

"The Americans" stars Keri Russell and Mathew Rhys as two Soviet spies living in Washington, D.C. with their two children leading a double life to get as much information as possible back to Moscow.
The show is created by former CIA official Joe Weisberg and aired on the FX network.


Question by player NielD

Answer: The president had just been assassinated

The first pilot began filming on November 22, 1963. The cast and crew heard about what had happened gathered around a radio on the set.

Question by player lavendria

Answer: Conchata Ferrell

Conchata Ferrell was a well-known TV actress who won her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress as attorney Susan Bloom on "L.A. Law", and was best known for her role of Berta, a very outspoken housekeeper to Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) whom she adored, and Allan (Jon Cryer), whom she despised. For a role that was only meant to be two episodes in season 1, her role lasted all 11 seasons with increased airtime in the later seasons.

She passed away on October 12, 2020 aged 77 in Los Angeles from heart complications.

Question by player 1nn1

Answer: NBC

This show was originally a spin-off from another show that lasted many years as well.

Question by player amyf2

Answer: brisket

In the third season episode "The Pirate Solution", Howard Wolowitz describes his mother's traditional Thanksgiving meal to his friends as "turkey stuffed with a brisket stuffed with gefilte fish". It is her variation on 'turducken', and "not as good as it sounds", according to Howard. Brisket, for those who wonder, is a cut of beef from the chest of the animal.

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