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Old 10-09-2006, 09:16 AM   #1
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TV Trivia Scavenger Hunt

With Gold Rush going on over at AOL, I thought it might be fun to play a trivia game where you didn't have to give up a bunch of demographic information to play. There's a pretty deep bench of TV mavens here, so why don't we have a trivia hunt?

In keeping with ST custom, there are very few rules:

1. You can use any TV series, miniseries, or movie as long as it began life as a TV series, miniseries, or movie. (Theatrical films that have played on TV, somewhere, don't count.)

2. Googling is allowed!

3. If you can answer without Googling, great -- but if you find the answer on a Web site, please leave us a link.

4. When you answer a question correctly, leave another question in its place. Try not to make it so obscure that it won't turn up on a Web search (e.g., convention small talk from a network executive or what have you).

Here's a Q to get started:

Doomsville and Aloha, Mars were among the working titles of this former Fox series. Under what name was it finally broadcast?

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Old 10-09-2006, 02:49 PM   #2
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Which creepy, black and white 60's television show had a pilot that was in color?
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Old 10-09-2006, 05:42 PM   #3
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Which creepy, black and white 60's television show had a pilot that was in color?
The Munsters

Which '70s sitcom hit spun off a long-running one-hour drama?
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Old 10-09-2006, 08:58 PM   #4
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Which '70s sitcom hit spun off a long-running one-hour drama?
The Mary Tyler Moore Show spun off Lou Grant

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When the FOX network premiered in 1986, it had only one show on its roster. What was that show?

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Old 10-09-2006, 10:29 PM   #5
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There were five spin-offs to All in the Family. Name them. (Bonus: Name the spin-offs of the spin-offs).
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Old 10-09-2006, 11:12 PM   #6
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Maude (Good Times)

The Jeffersons (Checking In*)

Archie Bunker's Place

Gloria

704 Hauser Street*

*Needed web help for these answers only, found here. Couldn't find any records of additional spinoffs.

On Gilligan's Island, everyone is familiar with "Ginger Grant" and "Thurston Howell III". List the full names of the other five shipwreck survivors.
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Old 10-10-2006, 11:52 AM   #7
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On Gilligan's Island, everyone is familiar with "Ginger Grant" and "Thurston Howell III". List the full names of the other five shipwreck survivors.
Oooh, good one. I had to look this up on Snopes, so here ya go:

• Jonas Grumby, the Skipper
• Professor Roy Hinkley
• Eunice Wentworth "Lovey" Howell
• Mary Ann Summers
• Willy Gilligan (disputed, but the name Willy was mentioned in conceptual material)

I hope this is correct!

New question:

Most MST3K fans know that before he got blasted into space, Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson) worked at Gizmonic Institute ("just another face in a red jumpsuit"). What was the Institute's full name?
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Old 10-30-2006, 09:54 AM   #8
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Most MST3K fans know that before he got blasted into space, Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson) worked at Gizmonic Institute ("just another face in a red jumpsuit"). What was the Institute's full name?
Wow, I think I killed it.

Let's try again:

Which "Friend" had a hairstyle named after her?
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Old 11-06-2006, 06:51 AM   #9
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Question: What western show starring Lee Horsley had two titles. The first one found politically uncorrect and was changed? Name both titles.
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Old 11-24-2006, 03:32 PM   #10
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oooooooooook guess we are both stumping them Penny.......lol

The answer ya quitters is "Guns of Paradise" to later be changed to just "Paradise".



Let's try this one:

Little House on the Prairie had two sets of real life siblings.....can you name EITHER of them? lol Both would be nice
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Old 11-24-2006, 04:56 PM   #11
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oooooooooook guess we are both stumping them Penny.......lol

The answer ya quitters is "Guns of Paradise" to later be changed to just "Paradise".
I found this but I couldn't find or figure out why "Guns of Paradise" was politically incorrect (or any reason for changing the title other than it was retooled for that season so they changed the title). So I didn't think that was the answer.
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I found this but I couldn't find or figure out why "Guns of Paradise" was politically incorrect (or any reason for changing the title other than it was retooled for that season so they changed the title). So I didn't think that was the answer.
It was changed for political correctness the same way the Washington Bullets changed their name to the Washington Wizards.

But then again, I don't see anyone changing the name of the Guns of Navarone to just "Navaraone". Then again, those were literal guns, while I think Lee Horsley's guns were metaphorical.
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It was changed for political correctness the same way the Washington Bullets changed their name to the Washington Wizards.

But then again, I don't see anyone changing the name of the Guns of Navarone to just "Navaraone". Then again, those were literal guns, while I think Lee Horsley's guns were metaphorical.

What's politically incorrect about guns? Literally guns?!? I must have been under a rock to miss the debate about how having the word "guns" in a title corrupted or insulted people.
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Little House on the Prairie had two sets of real life siblings.....can you name EITHER of them? lol Both would be nice
Melissa Gilbert (Laura Ingalls) and Jonathan Gilbert (Willie Oleson), and Patrick Laborteaux (Andrew Garvey) and Matthew Laborteaux (Albert Ingalls).

Name all ten hosts of the Dax symbiont from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in chronological order (not counting alternate timelines).

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Old 11-24-2006, 08:32 PM   #15
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oooooooooook guess we are both stumping them Penny.......lol
Well, I realize I didn't leave the answer to my stumper -- if anyone was mildly curious, the full name of the "Gizmonic Institute" that blasted erstwhile janitor Joel Robinson into space was the Gizmonic Institute for the Advancement of Naïve Science. (Yeah, 'cause people were just on fire for that one. )

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Little House on the Prairie had two sets of real life siblings.....can you name EITHER of them? lol Both would be nice
Matthew and Patrick Laborteaux I remember. I know there were twin girls (à la the Olsens) who played Carrie, but I can't remember their names, except that one was Lindsay, and their last name was Green-something. (ETA: Lindsay and Sidney Greenbush, courtesy IMDB.)

New question:

Elizabeth Montgomery became a TV icon as Samantha Stevens in "Bewitched" -- yet she was not the first choice for the role. Which actress turned down the part before Montgomery got it?
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