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1. What calamity DOESN'T befall our Mary in the episode where everything goes wrong for her, culminating in Ted being her blind date for the Teddy Awards?
2. What actor, with his own future as a 70's sitcoms trivia answer, played the nebbishy accountant who falls for Mary in the episode titled "1040 or Fight"?
3. A classic trivia question. What future big name actress played Murray's teenaged daughter Laurie?
4. Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda, was married to an actor who appeared in a couple of episodes of "MTM". What was his name?
5. What motif adorns Rhoda's mother Ida's bathrobe, seen in more than one ep?
6. Lou's blind date (unwittingly set up for him by Mary) for the Teddy Awards one year, Mrs. Dudley, is so elderly that she was a flower girl in what famous person's wedding?
7. When Mary cuts her finger while making dinner for her father (a surgeon), she hides it. He points out that even when she was little, she wouldn't let him look at any wounds and asks her why. Mary replies:
8. What is the occupation of the two gentlemen Sue Ann sets herself and Mary up with while they're at a convention in Chicago?
9. He was the original choice to play Ted Baxter; in a brilliant casting move, he did play Ted's egotistical brother in one episode.
10. When Lou's stuck babysitting Phyllis' daughter Bess at Mary's apartment, he looks at her, then says, "Do whatever you want kid, just don't..."
11. One of the many future famous faces to appear on the show on a semi-regular basis was that of Penny Marshall. Who did she play?
12. When Mary dates a short man, he ends up dedicating his book (about being short) to her, since one of her comments gave him the title. What was it?
13. When Phyllis is raising funds to oppose capital punishment, what does each contributor receive?
14. Sue Ann Nivens-played by Betty White-is introduced in the first show of the fourth season, and promptly embarks on an affair with a married man. Whose marriage is being rattled?
15. In the episode "I Love a Piano", Murray is tempted by a seductive teacher who is selling a piano. When he tries to get suave, he plays a song for her, but can't remember the lyrics--only the title, so that's what he sings, over and over and over. What's the song?
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