They Had To Write Them Out Trivia Quiz

Answer: Charlie Sheen

"Two and a Half Men" was an American sitcom that aired for twelve seasons on CBS. Charlie Sheen played Charlie Harper in the sitcom from its beginning in 2003, until his termination in 2011.

In early 2011 Charlie Sheen had gone into drug rehabilitation, and the show was put on hiatus indefinitely. Within a few weeks Charlie had publicly made disparaging comments about Chuck Lorre the co-creator and producer of the show as well as CBS, and on more than one occasion. Production of the show was then stopped for the rest of the eighth season costing millions of dollars in lost revenue. In March of 2011, CBS and Warner Bros jointly announced they were terminating Charlie's contract.

The first episode of the season nine saw Charlie dead, hit by a train. He had apparently died while on his honeymoon with Rose.

On the final episode of the show Charlie is found to be alive, he had been held captive in Rose's basement after he had cheated on her on their honeymoon. He escapes and is about to enter his house when he is killed by a piano falling on him.

Answer: Teri Bauer

"24" was a crime drama produced by the Fox network which aired for eight seasons from 2001 to 2010. Each episode of the show is an hour in the life of the characters, so a 24 episode season is just one day.

"24" stared Keifer Sutherland as Jack Bauer, a former Delta Force member who works for the CTU, or Counter Terrorist Unit in Los Angeles.

Season one sees Jack embroiled in a plot to kill a US senator when his wife Teri (Leslie Hope) and daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) are kidnapped to force him to commit the murder.

The killing of Teri was particularly sad as it happened at the very end of the season, after the murder plot had been foiled and most of the bad guys rounded up or killed.

There had been a mole in the CTU, Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) and Jack had realised this and was coming to apprehend her. When Jack finally arrived he let Nina be taken into custody instead of being killed, and then he finds his dead wife who Nina had shot in the abdomen.

Answer: Lady Marian

This version of Robin Hood was produced by Tiger Aspect Productions for BBC one. Only three series were made which ran from 2006 to 2008.

In this adaptation of the Robin Hood legend, Lady Marian (Lucy Griffiths) is the daughter of the previous Sheriff. She is not only sought after by Robin, but Sir Guy of Gisborne (Richard Armitage) wants to marry her as well.

This death was one very few people saw coming. Maid Marion wasn't killed in the legendary stories, so to have her die was a shock. She was stabbed by Guy of Gisborne in the Holy Land, and died in Robin's arms.

Answer: Hodor

"Game of Thrones" is the television adaptation of the fantasy novels written by George R. R. Martin from the series "A Song of Ice and Fire".

For those who have never watched the show, Hodor (Kristian Nairn) is a servant for the house of Stark who is simple. He doesn't say anything except Hodor, which isn't his name, but it is what he is eventually called.

Earlier flashbacks of his character have shown that he wasn't always simple; he was once able to talk. Apparently he had some sort of seizure when he was a child that caused brain damage. Hodor wasn't just killed in this episode; the reason for his brain damage is explained.

Hodor sacrifices himself so that Bran and Meera can get away from the wights that wish to kill them, but it is how it happens that makes it so tragic.

Bran was inside a vision of the past and Meera tried unsuccessfully to wake him up. Previously when they had been in trouble, Bran had been able to warg into Hodor, or take control of Hodor's mind, to make him do what Bran needed to save them. When Meera urged Bran to warg into Hodor, Bran did as requested, but split his consciousness to do so, he didn't wake up from his original vision. Bran warged into present day Hodor's body and controlled it, while he was in the past with the younger Hodor. This seemed to create a link between the Hodor in the past and the one in the present. When Meera told Hodor to "hold the door," both the Hodors could hear it. As a result, while the older Hodor stayed back and held the door, the younger Hodor saw himself being stabbed, scratched and killed. Witnessing his death in the future damaged young Hodor's mind and he just kept repeating Meera's words, "hold the door," till it turned into Hodor, the only word he would ever say again.

Answer: Glee

Cory Monteith was born in Calgery Canada in 1982. He got his major break in acting when he was cast to play Finn Hudson, the star football player and later glee club member in the TV show "Glee".

"Glee" went for six seasons from 2009 to early 2015, but Cory's character had to be written out in 2013 after his death. Cory had suffered from substance abuse since his early teens, he had entered drug rehabilitation when he was nineteen. In March of 2013 he again entered drug rehabilitation and missed the last two episodes of season four of "Glee".

In July of 2013, Cory was found dead from an accidental drug overdose.

The third episode of season five of "Glee" titled "The Quarterback" dealt with his death. His character Finn Hudson is dead, how he died isn't mentioned. The episode focuses on how the other characters react to his death.

Answer: Died after giving birth

"Downton Abbey" was a period drama set on a fictional estate in Yorkshire, England between the years 1912 and 1926. The show was created by Julian Fellowes, and went for six seasons between 2010 and 2015.

It details the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and that of their servants.

Lady Sybil Brandon, nee Crawley, played by Jessica Brown Findlay, was written out of the show as Jessica wanted to leave to pursue other projects. Lady Sybil dies just after she gives birth to her daughter.

Answer: Leukemia

"A Country Practice" was an Australian drama series that aired between 1981 and 1993. It revolved around a medical practice in the fictional small country town of Wandin Valley and the staff and the characters that lived in the local community.

The show won many Australian Television awards during its twelve year run and had many well known Australian actors for guest roles. It even had the Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, appear as himself.

One of the highest rating episodes was the death of Molly Jones. Molly was the wife of the hospitals only male nurse, Brendan Jones. She dies after a short battle with leukemia.

Answer: Sesame Street

Will Lee played the character Mr. Hooper on "Sesame Street" from 1969 till he died in 1982. He was the owner of Mr Hooper's store, and one of the first four human characters to appear on the show.

After his death the writers and producers wanted to write an episode which would teach children about death. They brought is experts in child psychology, childhood development and religion to explain how children process death and to work with the writers.

They used the special relationship Mr. Hooper had with Big Bird to show how Big Bird reacted to Mr. Hooper being dead. They were able to explain that death happened to everyone, life goes on and how everyone would be there to support Big Bird. They decided not to explain how he had died as they didn't want children to be fearful of aging and death.

Answer: Mandy Patinkin

"Criminal Minds" was an American police drama created by Jeff Davis that premiered in 2005. It revolved around a group of FBI profilers that worked at the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit in Quantico, Virginia.

Mandy Patinkin wanted to leave the show in 2007 for emotional reasons. He felt he could no longer work on the show, so he had to be written out.

Jason Gideon was one of the Senior Supervisory Special Agents in series one to three. During season three his character makes a few mistakes that cause people to die and a work colleague to be put on suspension. This causes him to rethink his life and to leave the job.

In season ten of the series, Jason Gideon is killed and the team have to solve his murder.

Answer: ER

"ER" was an American medical drama created by Michael Crichton which aired for fifteen seasons from 1994 to 2009. The show was centred around the fictional County General Hospital in Chicago and involved the lives and cases of the characters that worked in the hospital.

Anthony Edwards played Dr. Mark Greene in the series from season one till his death in season eight. Anthony wanted to move on to other things so asked to be written out.