Classic TV Trivia
“Mork & Mindy (1978)” starred Pam Dawber as Mindy, a woman who takes in an alien named Mork played by which soon-to-become legendary funny man?
Answer: Robin Williams DD**
I am easy to lift, but hard to throw. What am I?
A: A feather. DD**
Which Patriot general eventually became a traitor and offered to surrender West Point to the British?
Answer: Benedict Arnold. DD**
Which movie became a cultural phenomenon in 1977?
A: Star Wars DD**
Which Austrian-born bodybuilder growled “I’ll be back” before governing California?
Arnold Schwarzenegger DD**
Boasting a rich history of politicians aspiring for higher offices, how many U.S. presidents were born in Tennessee?
Answer: Zero DD**
In a 1965 TV cartoon special for what comic strip character does he get a small Christmas tree with almost no leaves on it?
Answer: Charlie Brown Christmas Special DD**
What is more useful when it is broken?
A: An egg. Extra 100pts
What January 1776 pamphlet urged independence in plain language?
Answer: Thomas Paine’s Common Sense. 100 pts**
What year did the first moon landing occur?
A: 1969 DD**
Who cracked a bullwhip as Indiana Jones and piloted the Millennium Falcon?
Harrison Ford DD**
What Tennessee locale is known as the home of Mountain Dew and spans Washington, Carter, and Sullivan counties?
Answer: Johnson City DD**
Airing from 1972-1982, what CBS dramedy series is based on Richard Hooker’s 1968 book, which was “A Novel About Three Army Doctors”?
Answer: M*A*S*H
I'm not a blanket, yet I cover the ground; a crystal from heaven that doesn't make a sound. What am I?
A: Snowflake.
Where did the war’s first shots crack on April 19, 1775?
Answer: Lexington and Concord.
Which famous singer rose to prominence in the 1940s?
A: Frank Sinatra
Maybe she sang about a “Tennessee Rose,” but which country music star with a first name that will make you think she hails from Whoville was actually born in Alabama?
Answer: Emmylou Harris DD**
What word in the following sentence needs a punctuation mark in order to make it grammatically correct? “Its going to be sad if our team loses the football game tonight.”
its
The running joke that the TV family was so wholesome they never used the bathroom started because the network wouldn’t allow a toilet to be shown on screen. What was the title of the groovy 1969 sitcom?
Answer: The Brady Bunch
What has a head but no brain?
A: Lettuce.
Which December 1775 act cut off American trade and royal protection?
Answer: The Prohibitory Act.
Which famous movie musical premiered in 1939?
A: The Wizard of Oz
Which British director folded cityscapes in Inception then directed Oppenheimer?
Christopher Nolan
A museum dedicated to soul music now sits at the Memphis site of what former record company, which launched the careers of Otis Redding and the Staple Singers, among others?
Answer: Stax Records
What 5th largest park in NYC is located between the Upper West and Upper East sides of Manhattan? The coffee shop featured on “Friends” was a pun on this iconic location.
Answer: Central Park
What gets smaller every time it takes a bath?
A: Soap
What punitive laws colonists called “Intolerable Acts” followed the Tea Party?
Answer: The Coercive Acts.
Which amendment banned alcohol in the 1920s?
A: The 18th Amendment
The first black President of South Africa and spent 27 years in prison fighting apartheid
Nelson Mandela
The Tennessee Valley Authority, a public utility corporation, was created in 1933 as part of the New Deal during the Administration of what President?
Answer: Franklin Delano Roosevelt