Memorable Minor Characters Trivia Quiz

Answer: Korean War

On the air for 11 seasons, "M*A*S*H" was nominated for over 100 Emmy Awards, winning 14. It also won the award for outstanding directing (comedy) from the Directors' Guild of America five years in a row (1973-77) and a total of seven times. Alan Alda won six Golden Globe awards for best actor in his role as Hawkeye Pierce.

"Radar" O'Reilly was played by Gary Burghoff, Klinger was played by Jamie Farr, and Mulcahy was played by William Christopher.

Answer: Hogan's Heroes

Robert Clary, who played LeBeau, was born into a Jewish family in France in 1926. He survived two internment camps (Ottmuth and Buchenwald) under the Nazis and still retained his camp number tattooed on his arm. The youngest of 14 children, he was the only one who survived the camps, his siblings having been sent to Auschwitz. Two other cast members, John Banner (Sgt. Schultz) and Leon Askin (born Aschkenasy) were born in Vienna to Jewish families. Banner also lost several family members in the Holocaust. Along with Banner and Askin, Werner Klemperer, who was born in Cologne, Germany, in 1920, all served in U.S. Armed Forces during World War II.

Answer: Perry Mason

In its original run, "Perry Mason" was aired on Saturday nights. When asked once by a viewer how he had never managed to lose a case, Raymond Burr, who played Mason, remarked that the viewer had only watched the cases he tried on Saturday.

Sonia Sotomayor, prior to her appointment to the Supreme Court, is quoted on Wikipedia as having been inspired to a law career from watching "Perry Mason" on TV as a child.

Answer: Mayberry, North Carolina

Helen Crump was one of the longest relationships Sheriff Taylor had in the "The Andy Griffith Show" series. She was played by Aneta Corsaut. Like Don Knotts, who played Andy's deputy Barney Fife, and Jack Dodson, who played Howard Sprague, the county clerk, Corsaut also appeared in Andy Griffith's other long-running show, "Matlock,"

Floyd Lawson was played by Howard McNear, and Otis Campbell was played by Hal Smith.

Answer: Seinfeld

Puddy, who appeared in several episodes as Elaine Benes' on-again, off-again boyfriend, was played by Patrick Warburton. Estelle Costanza, played by Estelle Harris, combined hilariously with Jerry Stiller, playing Frank Costanza, to depict George Costanza's parents. Newman, Jerry Seinfeld's "nemesis", was played by Wayne Knight.

Answer: Vermont

"Newhart" ran for 8 years, starring Bob Newhart as an operator of a rustic inn in small-town Vermont. After the first two seasons had focused on the two hundred-year-old Stratford Inn, the focus of the episodes shifted more to Newhart's hosting a TV talk show host in the Vermont town. Tom Poston played Utley and Peter Scolari played Harris.

The series received 25 Emmy nominations over its eight-year run, but never actually won one.

Answer: a Minneapolis TV station

"WJM" was the television station in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" where Sue Ann Nevins, played by Betty White, hosted a program called "The Happy Homemaker Show." The Phyllis Lindstrom character, which eventually spun off into her own series, "Phyllis", was a neighbor to Mary Tyler Moore's character of Mary Richards. Phyllis was played by Cloris Leachman. Georgette Franklin, played by Georgia Engel, was a girlfriend, and eventual wife, of WJM's news anchor Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight.

Answer: Magnum, P.I.

"Icepick" Hofstetler was played by Elisha Cook, Jr. He was sort of a mentor to Larry Minetti's character of "Rick" Wright, a nightclub manager and friend to Thomas Magnum, played by Tom Selleck. MacReynolds, played by Jeff MacKay, was a member of the "Naval Intelligence Agency", in which Magnum also served before becoming a private investigator. Lieutenant Tanaka, played by Kwan Hi Lim, was a member of the Honolulu police homicide division. Zeus and Apollo were two Doberman Pinscher guard dogs on the Robin Masters Estate, where Magnum was employed and lived.

Answer: WKRP

WKRP was a radio station and setting for "WKRP in Cincinnati", a TV sitcom centered on the efforts of a newly-hired program director named Andy Travis to change the station's programming to rock and roll after years as an easy listening station. Travis was played by Gary Sandy. Lilian Carlson, played by Carol Bruce, was the owner of the station and mother of its manager, Arthur Carlson, played by Gordon Jump. Bailey Quarters was played by Jan Smithers and Venus was played by Tim Reid.

Answer: The Sunshine Cab Company

The Sunshine Cab Company was the setting for the TV sitcom "Taxi." Reverend Jim was played by Christopher Lloyd, Latka by Andy Kaufman, and Elaine Nardo by Marilu Henner.

The "Pacific Princess" was the setting for "The Love Boat." The series called "The Office" was set in the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, and the Shady Rest Hotel was a location in both "Petticoat Junction" and "Green Acres."