# TV trivia chain game, part the third **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 31, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380 "2006-01-31T18:32:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/1 "2006-01-31T18:32:35Z")
1. Who was Jan’s imaginary boyfriend? 2. What actor has the same last name? 3. For what show was he famous? 4. What actor died during that show? 5. On what show did he sell a desk? 6. Who was the main character on that show? 7. When that character pulled a Carrie Nation, who played his girlfriend? 8. What show made her famous? 9. Who was her character’s arch-nemesis? 10. Actress #9 went to war with Canada in what movie? 10a. Who directed it? 1. Who played the president? 2. What was his first TV show? 3. Which castmember got his start playing second-fiddle to a large man in a 50s TV show? 4. In what year did he win a major award? 5. Who won 3 awards that year? 6. What 1974 thriller/mystery did he write? 7. What woman had a starring role in it? 8. Who is her most famous TV costar? 9. On what show did she (as an unknown) play a stewardess? 10. Who was the wacky neighbor? 11. On what other show was he the wacky neighbor? 12. What woman starred on that show? 13. In what 1996 movie did she reprise that role? ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/2 "2006-01-31T18:39:30Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 1. Who was Jan’s imaginary boyfriend? George Glass > [@](#): > > 1. What actor has the same last name? Ron Glass > [@](#): > > 1. For what show was he famous? _Barney Miller_ > [@](#): > > 1. What actor died during that show? Jack Soo > [@](#): > > 1. On what show did he sell a desk? _M_A_S_H\* > [@](#): > > 1. Who was the main character on that show? Hawkeye > [@](#): > > 1. When that character pulled a Carrie Nation, who played his girlfriend? I’m stuck ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/3 "2006-01-31T18:43:44Z")
So far so good, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/4 "2006-01-31T18:58:39Z")
I can pick up a couple more. 1. When that character pulled a Carrie Nation, who played his girlfriend? _Shelley Long_ 1. What show made her famous? _Cheers_ 1. Who was her character’s arch-nemesis? _Carla (Rhea Perlman)_ 1. Actress #9 went to war with Canada in what movie? _Candian Bacon_ 10a. Who directed it? –Okay, I blank here. Next? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/5 "2006-01-31T19:19:11Z")
> [@](#): > > 10a. Who directed it? Michael Moore > [@](#): > > 1. Who played the president? Alan Alda ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2006, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/6 "2006-01-31T21:23:32Z")
For the next two questions, you might want to use IMDB. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/7 "2006-02-01T03:51:45Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 1. What was his first TV show? > > 2. Which castmember got his start playing second-fiddle to a large man in a 50s TV show? > > 3. In what year did he win a major award? The subject of #14 is the actor from #12, by the way. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/8 "2006-02-01T05:35:37Z")
I could get number 12 through [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) I’m sure (btw, I really don’t like the way they’ve changed their line-up: they no longer differentiate between regulars on series and guest appearances) but I won’t. But 13/14 I think I can guess as I only know one actor of whom both are true. 1. Which castmember got his start playing second-fiddle to a large man in a 50s TV show? Art “Ed Norton” Carney 1. In what year did he win a major award? 1975 (the Oscar- I really did know this- promise) 2. Who won 3 awards that year? Les Nessman (Buckeye Newshawk, Silver Sow, and Tri City Spelling Bee)? ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/9 "2006-02-01T06:22:24Z")
Ah, okay- I got them all now, but I had to go to [imdb.com](http://imdb.com) three times to do it, so I won’t count it. 1. She was nominated for an Oscar for a supporting role in a 1970s movie (she didn’t win), then became a regular on the TV show that was spun-off of the movie, but as a completely different character (she joined the show after the person who played her movie character left the show). Name her. 2. Name her most famous child. 3. Number 2 was the first gay love interest of what TV character? 4. Number 3’s biggest box office success to date was for a supporting role in this animated movie. 5. The very famous birth name of the male lead of number 4. 6. The Australian actor/director who played the more famous number 5 in a bizarre 1988 movie. 7. Co-star of the above in his next film who has since appeared in all six movies of two phenomenally successful trilogies of the past decade. 8. Cult classic Movie in which Number 7 travelled across country to be with the son he had never met. 9. English performer who played the female lead in 8. 10. Television series in which number 9 plays a role most famously played (but not originated) by Marlon Brando. 11. Actress who plays the main character’s mother on the above. 12. Movie for which both she and her real-life husband were nominated for an Oscar (hint: it wasn’t for acting). 13. Actor who portrayed a hyperbolic professor in a cameo in the above (hint: he has appeared in at least two other films with the movie’s director/writer). 14. Television series for which he is most famous. 15. Rock star who is the son of a cast member of 14. 16. Actress with whom 15 has a daughter. 17. Actor who starred as her lover in a controversial 1987 movie. 18. John Grisham movie in which he played a sleazy lawyer. 19. Director of 18. 20. Movie that connects 19 to 1. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/10 "2006-02-01T06:43:35Z")
**SCRATCH NUMBER 20 ABOVE!** I was mistaken about a directing credit. The rest are correct though. For 20, substitute the following: 1. Actor who appeared in 3 films with 19, the last one as a surfer with one of the most famous lines in filmdom. 2. Connect 20 to 1 & 2. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/11 "2006-02-01T15:11:04Z")
1. She was nominated for an Oscar for a supporting role in a 1970s movie (she didn’t win), then became a regular on the TV show that was spun-off of the movie, but as a completely different character (she joined the show after the person who played her movie character left the show). Name her. Diane “Kiss my grits” Ladd 1. Name her most famous child. Laura Dern 1. Number 2 was the first gay love interest of what TV character? Ellen 1. Number 3’s biggest box office success to date was for a supporting role in this animated movie. Finding Nemo 1. The very famous birth name of the male lead of number 4. Albert Einstein 1. The Australian actor/director who played the more famous number 5 in a bizarre 1988 movie. Gotta stop here, but was it that movie with the Actress, the Congressman, and the Baeball Player? ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/12 "2006-02-01T15:24:03Z")
1. The Australian actor/director who played the more famous number 5 in a bizarre 1988 movie. Yahoo Serious 1. Co-star of the above in his next film who has since appeared in all six movies of two phenomenally successful trilogies of the past decade. Hugo Weaving ---
**Author:** ![Draelin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@Draelin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Draelin)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2006, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/13 "2006-02-01T17:35:14Z")
1. Cult classic Movie in which Number 7 travelled across country to be with the son he had never met. _The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert_ 1. English performer who played the female lead in 8. Terence Stamp 1. Television series in which number 9 plays a role most famously played (but not originated) by Marlon Brando. _Smallville_ (The Voice of Jor-El) 1. Actress who plays the main character’s mother on the above. Annette O’Toole 1. Movie for which both she and her real-life husband were nominated for an Oscar (hint: it wasn’t for acting). _A Mighty Wind_ (I actually knew that without looking it up! They were nominated for best song.) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/14 "2006-02-02T08:29:11Z")
Hint: The actor from number 13 is in [this picture](http://chud.com/nextraimages/Jeffersons7.jpg). ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/15 "2006-02-02T13:47:13Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > 1. Who won 3 awards that year? How about a hint. Are you talking Oscars, Emmys, another, or a combination of them? ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/16 "2006-02-02T14:21:52Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 1. Actor who portrayed a hyperbolic professor in a cameo in the above (hint: he has appeared in at least two other films with the movie’s director/writer). > > 2. Television series for which he is most famous. > > 3. Rock star who is the son of a cast member of 14. > > 4. Actress with whom 15 has a daughter. > > 5. Actor who starred as her lover in a controversial 1987 movie. > > 6. John Grisham movie in which he played a sleazy lawyer. > > 7. Director of 18. > > 8. Actor who appeared in 3 films with 19, the last one as a surfer with one of the most famous lines in filmdom. > > 9. Connect 20 to 1 & 2. 1. Paul Benedict 2. “The Jeffersons” 3. Lenny Kravitz 4. Lisa Bonet 5. Mickey Rourke _Angel Heart_ 6. _The Rainmaker_ Bruiser Stone 7. F. F. Coppola 8. Robert Duvall _Apocalypse Now_ 9. _Ramblin’ Rose_, playing Diane Ladd’s husband (and Laura Dern’s father) ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/17 "2006-02-02T15:13:12Z")
> [@Sean Factotum](#): > > How about a hint. Are you talking Oscars, Emmys, another, or a combination of them? Oscars. ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/18 "2006-02-02T16:57:27Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Oscars. Hmm, _Jaws_ won three awards that year, but the picture not anyone person in particular. Is that the answer? ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/19 "2006-02-02T17:14:55Z")
any unanswered questions at this point? if so, please post all and where applicable the answers so far. It gets confusing when different Dopers answer different parts of the batch and one has to scroll up and down a lot to get proper continuity (yeah, we know I’m lazy) ---
**Author:** ![Sean\_Factotum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sean\_Factotum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sean_Factotum)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380/20 "2006-02-02T17:17:51Z")
Crap. It’s 1974, not 1975. > [@tdn](#): > > 1. Who won 3 awards that year? F. F. Coppola ? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-chain-game-part-the-third/342380.md?page=2)