# A new obscure TV Trivia thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2006, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889 "2006-04-01T23:16:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![lurkernomore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@lurkernomore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lurkernomore)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/61 "2006-04-06T14:17:22Z")
B1 - Lovey Howell’s maiden name was Wentworth, IIRC ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/62 "2006-04-06T16:38:14Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 1. What 1960s sitcom classic starred the world’s youngest self-made millionaire in a supporting role? (Hint: he was one of the first real troubled child-stars.) _The Addams Family_ ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/63 "2006-04-07T19:21:11Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > Unanswered questions: > > 1. I don’t know this one myself. 😕 > Here are more: > > 2. \*\*Dragnet \*\* (1966-70): What was the name of Officer Gannon’s wife? (Whoever says “Mrs. Gannon” will be shot at sunrise.) 😃 > > 3. \*\*Candid Camera: \*\* Who served as Allen Funt’s co-host when Durward Kirby left? 1. On “Concentration”, if you drew two wild cards on your turn, you made a third pick. You only got one prize, but revealed an extra piece of the puzzle. BTW, this was my absolute favorite game show until _Jeopardy_ premiered. Now, a follow-up for you: name the three hosts of the original “Concentration”. 2. Eileen 3. IIRC, it was Arthur Godfrey ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/64 "2006-04-07T19:54:40Z")
Nobody answered this question, so I’m reposting it: Q: Identify the speaker of this quote & what it pertained to: “The only thing red about her is her hair…and we’re not to sure about that!” And Wants2Know correctly identified three of the four actors who played the Batman villains I mentioned. So - Q: On the Batman TV series, who played the Black Widow? Here’s a new one - Q: What original Not-ready-for-prime-time player on SNL quit/was fired before the series went to air (but became a regular on the series several years later)? ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/65 "2006-04-07T20:02:15Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Nobody answered this question, so I’m reposting it: > > Q: Identify the speaker of this quote & what it pertained to: “The only thing red about her is her hair…and we’re not to sure about that!” > > And Wants2Know correctly identified three of the four actors who played the Batman villains I mentioned. So - > > Q: On the Batman TV series, who played the Black Widow? > > Here’s a new one - Q: What original Not-ready-for-prime-time player on SNL quit/was fired before the series went to air (but became a regular on the series several years later)? :smack: The Black Widow was played by Tallulah Bankhead. And I believe the answer to the other question is Bill Murray. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/66 "2006-04-07T20:09:45Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > :smack: The Black Widow was played by Tallulah Bankhead. Correct. > [@](#): > > And I believe the answer to the other question is Bill Murray. Sorry. Please try again. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/67 "2006-04-07T20:19:14Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Correct. > > Sorry. Please try again. I know Billy Crystal was scheduled to perform on the first show, but got cut out. Is this what you’re referencing? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/68 "2006-04-07T20:20:50Z")
> [@Art Vandelay](#): > > Sorry. Please try again. Billy Crystal? Although I don’t think he quit/was fired; I think he failed to make the cut at the last minute. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2006, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/69 "2006-04-07T20:41:09Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > Billy Crystal? Although I don’t think he quit/was fired; I think he failed to make the cut at the last minute. Yes it’s who I was thinking of. He did make the cut, and would have given a ten-minute standup routine on the first show (like Andy Kaufman did). But his managers had a falling out with SNL’s folks and he ended up not going on. Up until about an few hours before the show went on air, he was scheduled to be on it. ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/70 "2006-04-08T02:35:35Z")
> [@want2know](#): > > Now, a follow-up for you: name the three hosts of the original “Concentration”. Four, actually: Jack Barry, Hugh Downs, Ed McMahon, and Bob Clayton. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/71 "2006-04-08T07:21:41Z")
Thanx 🙂 Here are some more: 50. \*\*Benson: \*\* What two left-handed female actors were in the cast? 51. \*\*Major Dad: \*\* What was the name of the insufferable Marine second lieutenant? 52. \*\*Frasier: \*\* What actress played (in a flashback) the mother of Frasier and Niles? 53. **Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In:** What city became a running joke on the show? 54. And who talked about “walnettos”? 55. What Sunday kids’ show always played the song “Aardvark”? 56. \*\*Ed Sullivan Show: \*\* What was the name of the ventriloquist who had a talking head in a box? 57. \*\*Extreme Makeover, Home Edition: \*\* What annoying thing does the host of the show always do when the program starts? 58. \*\*Abbott & Costello: \*\* What was the name of the boys’ landlord? 59. \*\*Beverly Hillbillies: \*\* What comedian played Mr. Drysdale’s stepson? 60. \*\*Dobie Gillis: \*\* Where could Dobie usually be seen sitting at the start of each episode? ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/72 "2006-04-08T14:30:12Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. \*\*Ed Sullivan Show: \*\* What was the name of the ventriloquist who had a talking head in a box? Senor Wences!!! I used to love that act!!! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/73 "2006-04-08T14:38:26Z")
> [@Logan 5](#): > > Senor Wences!!! I used to love that act!!! 'Salright! ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2006, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/74 "2006-04-08T16:43:07Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. **Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In:** What city became a running joke on the show? Cleveland. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/75 "2006-04-09T06:49:14Z")
> [@Governor Quinn](#): > > Cleveland. Nope. Beautiful Downtown Burbank. 😛 Some unanswered questions: 37. $25.00. (!) 39. Joseph Campanella. (And a giant computer.) 40. They were “a” and “z.” Yes, 42. was Eileen (Randy Stuart). ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/76 "2006-04-09T07:30:41Z")
1. \*\*Benson: \*\* What two left-handed female actors were in the cast? I will guess Didi Conn and Inga Swenson. This is only a guess. Trivia: Inga Swenson got the role of Krauss because she was the only auditionee who picked up the script (cold reading) and read it in a German accent. Nobody was told to and the writers hadn’t even considered it. 1. \*\*Major Dad: \*\* What was the name of the insufferable Marine second lieutenant? I knew this one but had to look up the spelling: Holowachuk. The same [actor](http://imdb.com/name/nm0611827/) played an almost exactly opposite character (cruel, smartass, agressively macho) in _Biloxi Blues_. 54. And who talked about “walnettos”? Artie Johnson as [Tyrone](http://www.star-collector.net/autographs/artejohnson1.jpg). One of the funniest things I ever saw on one of that epidemic of blooper and outtake shows from the 80s/90s were “can’t show that on television” excerpts from his sketches with Ruth Buzzi. Johnson always improved his entrance as Tyrone singing some song and the lyrics were hysterical (“Did you ever make love to a pine tree and get yourself caught in the sap” was one that I remember; some were bleeped and invariably Ruth Buzzi wound up on the stage floor laughing.) 1. \*\*Ed Sullivan Show: \*\* What was the name of the ventriloquist who had a talking head in a box? Señor Wences, who was still performing to sold out audiences when he was over 100 years old. 1. \*\*Beverly Hillbillies: \*\* What comedian played Mr. Drysdale’s stepson? Louis Nye. 1. \*\*Dobie Gillis: \*\* Where could Dobie usually be seen sitting at the start of each episode? In front of a statue of The Thinker in the city park. * * * NEW QUESTIONS: 1. Benson: how did Governor Eugene Gatling’s wife die? (Hint: it involved horses, but not horseback riding.) 2. What was the name of Joel Fleischman’s identical twin brother on _Northern Exposure_ and why was he only seen in one episode? 3. _Mama’s Family_- what was the name of Vint and Naomi’s High School and, closely related, what was their team mascot? 4. Bernard Fox as Dr. Bombay made an appearance on _Tabitha_, the awful and short-lived “spin-off” (not really) of _Bewitched_. Who were the only other two _Bewitched_ cast members to appear as the same characters on _Tabitha_? 5. Hogan’s Heroes: Of Corporal Lebeau, Colonel Klink, Sgt. Schulz and General Burkhalter, who was the only one portrayed by an actor who did **NOT** spend time in a Nazi concentration camp in real life? 6. On _St. Elsewhere_, what mix-up by a stoned employee caused the death of Dr. Craig’s mother-in-law? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2006, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/77 "2006-04-09T07:31:45Z")
**NEW QUESTIONS:** 1. Benson: how did Governor Eugene Gatling’s wife die? (Hint: it involved horses, but not horseback riding.) 2. What was the name of Joel Fleischman’s identical twin brother on _Northern Exposure_ and why was he only seen in one episode? 3. _Mama’s Family_- what was the name of Vint and Naomi’s High School and, closely related, what was their team mascot? 4. Bernard Fox as Dr. Bombay made an appearance on _Tabitha_, the awful and short-lived “spin-off” (not really) of _Bewitched_. Who were the only other two _Bewitched_ cast members to appear as the same characters on _Tabitha_? 5. Hogan’s Heroes: Of Corporal Lebeau, Colonel Klink, Sgt. Schulz and General Burkhalter, who was the only one portrayed by an actor who did **NOT** spend time in a Nazi concentration camp in real life? 6. On _St. Elsewhere_, what mix-up by a stoned employee caused the death of Dr. Craig’s mother-in-law? ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/78 "2006-04-10T07:13:05Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] 50. \*\*Benson: \*\* What two left-handed female actors were in the cast? I will guess Didi Conn and Inga Swenson. This is only a guess. Trivia: Inga Swenson got the role of Kraus because she was the only auditionee who picked up the script (cold reading) and read it in a German accent. Nobody was told to and the writers hadn’t even considered it. I remember Caroline McWilliam (The Governor’s earlier press secretary) and Missy Gold (Katie). 65. **Hogan’s Heroes:** Of Corporal Lebeau, Colonel Klink, Sgt. Schulz and General Burkhalter, who was the only one portrayed by an actor who did **NOT** spend time in a Nazi concentration camp in real life? Sgt. Schulz (John Banner), I bet. (I saw him in at least one episode of _Perry Mason.)_ A few more new questions of my own: 71. \*\*CBS Evening News: \*\* What CBS correspondent was the son of a famous writer (and had almost the same name)? 72. \*\*Wheel of Fortune, \*\* B. V. (Before Vanna): what baseball player’s name was put on the board but stumped the contestants, even with only one letter remaining? 73: \*\*Green Acres: \*\* How did the telephone operator end her conversations with Mr. Douglas? 74. \*\*Ben Casey: \*\* What did Sam Jaffee write on a blackboard before each episode, and what did it mean? 75. \*\*Match Game \*\* (1970s version): Which celebrity panelist was chosen so many times by contestants, to complete Gene Rayburn’s sentences, that the producers changed the format of the show? ---
**Author:** ![jsc1953](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@jsc1953](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jsc1953)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/79 "2006-04-10T15:05:47Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > [71. \*\*CBS Evening News: \*\* What CBS correspondent was the son of a famous writer (and had almost the same name)? Heywood Hale Broun, Jr. ? ---
**Author:** ![Governor\_Quinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@Governor\_Quinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Governor_Quinn)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2006, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889/80 "2006-04-10T22:05:15Z")
> [@dougie\_monty](#): > > 1. \*\*Match Game \*\* (1970s version): Which celebrity panelist was chosen so many times by contestants, to complete Gene Rayburn’s sentences, that the producers changed the format of the show? Richard Dawson. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-obscure-tv-trivia-thread/350889.md?page=5)