Questions can be about any aspect of television - series, individual episodes, cast, directors/producers/writers, TV as a business, whatever, but must relate to TV in some way. **No Googling **or use of other artificial memory aids. I’ll check back in a while and confirm answers as necessary.
CD1. What member of the cast of *F Troop *actually served as a cavalryman in the U.S. Army until being discharged after the discovery that he had lied about his age to join?
CD2. The cast of Emergency! included the bandleader who wrote “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” and a singer best-known for a million-selling recording released in December 1955. Name them.
CD3. The intellectual pretensions of Diane Chambers served as a long-running joke on Cheers. Give the titles of the book she had begun writing years before working at the bar and the short movie she made for Woody’s parents to convince them to let him continue working at the bar.
CD4. Name the executive who took on programming at NBC in 1981 and oversaw the development of the “Must-See TV” range that revived the network’s prime-time lineup.
CD5. NBC ruled Thursday nights in the 1980s, and for three straight seasons (1984-85 through 1986-87) its prime-time lineup for that night consisted of the same five shows, four half-hour sitcoms and a one-hour drama. Name them.
CD6. Name the songs played by Elvis Costello during his appearances on The Larry Sanders Show.
CD7. Major League Baseball was first televised on Aug. 26, 1939, with a doubleheader. Name the two teams that played that day.
CD8. At which Olympic Games were events first broadcast on TV?
CD9. CBS bought control of the New York Yankees after the 1964 season and sold the team to investors led by George Steinbrenner in January 1973. Who sold the team to CBS?
CD10. From 1939 to 1964, CBS occupied much of a well-known landmark building in Manhattan, where it had four studios and other facilities and made broadcasts including Edward R. Murrow’s commentaries on Sen. Joe McCarthy. Name the building.
