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1. This character was arrested multiple times as a juvenile.

Answer: Lisa

During season four, Jimmy James brings in Efficiency Expert Andrea to "trim the fat" around the office. As part of the process, Andrea has the group take a polygraph test. Lisa admits to her coworkers that she had been arrested seven times and spent two months in jail. "Well, it wasn't even jail, it was juvie."

2. This character had a previous career as a dentist.

Answer: Matthew

After Andrea fires Matthew, Joe and Beth discover that someone is watching them from an office in the building across the street. It turns out to be Matthew who has resumed his Dental practice.

3. This character changed names at each new radio station that employed them.

Answer: Max

Shortly after Max is hired to replace Bill, Joe discovers that none of the previous radio stations Max claimed to have worked at had ever heard of Max Lewis. Max explained that he changed his "nom de radio" at each new station and that Max Lewis his persona created for this station.

4. This character was implicated in the D.B. Cooper hijacking case.

Answer: Jimmy

In the Johnny Johnson story arc, Jimmy is arrested in connection with the D.B, Cooper hijacking case. At the trial, Adam West finally came forward as the culprit and Jimmy is released.

5. Despite claiming to be from Wisconsin, this character was revealed to have been born in Canada.

Answer: Dave

As Beth is reviewing some of Dave's personal documents, she discovers that he was actually born in Canada. This causes outrage among the staff as Dave constantly talked about being "from the Midwest where all the real Americans live." Dave was quite sensitive about this because, although he moved to Wisconsin as a child, he was worried that people would think he was a spy.

A Canadian spy.

6. This character's first name was actually revealed to be Evelyn.

Answer: Bill

Bill reveals Catherine's age during a live broadcast on her birthday. Cather desperately wants to get revenge on Bill by revealing his age but is constantly stymied by Bill's extremely secretive nature. Matthew comes through for Catherine with a copy of Bill's birth certificate where it is revealed that Bill (or presumably William) is actually his middle name.

7. This character had defrauded the record and tape club to the tune of thousands of CDs.

Answer: Beth

Beth reveals to Lisa that she had been using hundreds of aliases to sign up for the CD clubs. Starting in the '50s Record and Tape clubs (and later CD and DVD clubs) would send up to twelve albums for one penny on the promise to buy several more in the future at regular price. Beth managed to accumulate thousands of CDs in this manner without ever buying the regular price CDs.

The Record and Tape club representative pays her $1000 is promises to leave them alone and never divulge to anyone the nature of her scam.

8. This character flunked out of their college applied mathematics program.

Answer: Joe

While Dave is creating an inspirational video for one of his old hi school teachers, his coworkers interrupt Dave at every turn to contradict his advice using their own failings. Joe took exception to Dave's advice to "aim high." Joe tried aiming high by studying applied mathematics only to flunk out and end up as an electrician at an AM news radio station.

9. This character was revealed to have had a secret relationship with Bill McNeal.

Answer: Catherine

In only the second episode of the season, Dave and Lisa begin to be involved romantically which makes things awkward around the office. Bill reveals to Dave that he and Catherine were secretly involved and that it ruined their professional relationship forever.

10. This character revealed to Dave that they had been following his career for years.

Answer: Walt

Walt, Jimmy James's nephew, comes to WNYX as an intern and reveals to Dave that he had been following Dave's career since the National Junior High Student Council Convention back in 1991 where Dave was a guest speaker. Dave softens considerably at hearing this and takes Walt under his wing.

Source: Author bmrsnr

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The Secret Lives of "NewsRadio" Characters Quiz

For such a tightly knit group of coworkers, these employees of WNYX sure carried some doozies of secrets. See if you can match the character to the secret exposed.
This is a renovated/adopted version of an old quiz by author trivia2000

Questions		Choices
1. This character was arrested multiple times as a juvenile.		Dave
2. This character had a previous career as a dentist.		Joe
3. This character changed names at each new radio station that employed them.		Jimmy
4. This character was implicated in the D.B. Cooper hijacking case.		Matthew
5. Despite claiming to be from Wisconsin, this character was revealed to have been born in Canada.		Bill
6. This character's first name was actually revealed to be Evelyn.		Max
7. This character had defrauded the record and tape club to the tune of thousands of CDs.		Beth
8. This character flunked out of their college applied mathematics program.		Lisa
9. This character was revealed to have had a secret relationship with Bill McNeal.		Walt
10. This character revealed to Dave that they had been following his career for years.		Catherine

The Secret Lives of "NewsRadio" Characters Quiz

For such a tightly knit group of coworkers, these employees of WNYX sure carried some doozies of secrets. See if you can match the character to the secret exposed. This is a renovated/adopted version of an old quiz by author trivia2000

For such a tightly knit group of coworkers, these employees of WNYX sure carried some doozies of secrets. See if you can match the character to the secret exposed.
This is a renovated/adopted version of an old quiz by author trivia2000