# TV trivia questions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 5, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712 "2000-10-05T03:00:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/1 "2000-10-05T03:00:35Z")
Last week, on a TV Trivia thread on the F3 board, I posted ten admittedly difficult questions. Maybe too difficult, there was not a single guess for any of the questions. I thought before I posted the answers, I’d give the larger crowd over here a shot. 1. Cher made her televison acting debut on an episode of what series? 2. Frank Fontaine was the first person to do what on _The Ed Sullivan Show_? 3. What does Geraldo Rivera have a tattoo of and where is it located? 4. Soap operas originally had fifteen minute episodes. What were the first two to have half hour episodes and the first one to have an hour episode? What years? 5. When Charles Kuralt announced his retirement on air, he read lines from what poem? 6. Frances Arvold made both television and American history by not doing something. What? 7. Morgan Brittany played Vivien Leigh in three seperate productions. What were they? 8. What married couple co-hosted the Miss America pageant? What year? 9. Who was the first woman to win $64,000 on _The $64,000 Question_ and what was her chosen category? 10. According to the Catholic Church, who is the patron saint of television? ---
**Author:** ![Torberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ea924/32.png) [@Torberg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torberg)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/2 "2000-10-05T03:50:29Z")
Hmm… Is number 3 “The Runner” or something like that? “Smart lad to slip betimes away / In fields where glory does not stay…” 7.) Was that Joyce Brothers? ---
**Author:** ![Anti\_Pro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Anti\_Pro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anti_Pro)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/3 "2000-10-05T03:55:31Z")
Boy, while I absolutely LOVE trivia, this is HARD! The only one I know is the question concerning the woman winning the 64,000 question. \*\* Dr. Joyce Brothers,\*\* and her category was \*\* boxing. \*\* DRAT and double drat on not knowing the rest of them. ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Shadowfox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfox)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/4 "2000-10-05T05:41:10Z")
1. Cher appeared on the Merv Griffin show in 1962, performing with Sonny. Or do you mean her actually performing a part in a sitcom? If that’s what you mean, then she played herself on a Batman episode in 1966. ---
**Author:** ![Kat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b19c9b/32.png) [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/5 "2000-10-05T06:00:54Z")
Number ten is St. Clare, I believe. ---
**Author:** ![kawliga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ea666f/32.png) [@kawliga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kawliga)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 7:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/6 "2000-10-05T07:56:27Z")
7)Morgan Brittany played Vivien Leigh in the movie “Gable and Lombard” and again in an episode of the miniseries “Moviola”. The episode dealt with the casting of the role of Scarlet O’Hara. 8)Gary Collins and Mary Ann Mobley. I don’t remember the years. ---
**Author:** ![WIGGUM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ce7236/32.png) [@WIGGUM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WIGGUM)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/7 "2000-10-05T11:34:03Z")
#3 If I’m not mistaken, Geraldo has a tattoo of the Star of David on the webbing between his thumb and index finger. I think in a lot of urban Latino communities, men get a cross tattooed there to represent their Christianity, but since he’s Jewish, he got the Star. ---
**Author:** ![Torberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ea924/32.png) [@Torberg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torberg)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/8 "2000-10-05T15:11:58Z")
WOW! That’ll teach me to pay more attention and not post when too tired. I really screwed up the numbers I used. What I called #3 is really #5 ; What I called #7 is actually #9 ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2000, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-trivia-questions/35712/9 "2000-10-08T19:01:46Z")
1. The answer I intended was an episode of _The Man From U.N.C.L.E._ broadcast in 1967. But as Shadowfox wrote, Cher played herself on an episode of _Batman_ in 1966, so I guess it depends on what your interpretation of an “acting debut” is. 2. He did an impression of Ed Sullivan. 3. A Star of David on his left thumb. 4. _As the World Turns_ and _The Edge of Night_ expanded to thirty minutes in 1956 and _Another World_ expanded to sixty minutes in 1975. 5. “Farewell, My Friends” by Clarence Day 6. She was the CBS makeup artist whose services Nixon declined before his televised debate with Kennedy. 7. The movies _Day of the Locust_ and _Gable and Lombard_ and the miniseries _Moviola_. 8. Gary Collins and Mary Ann Mobley in 1971. 9. Joyce Brothers and boxing. 10. Saint Claire of Assisi