question[0] = "If the Professor was so smart, why couldn't he just build a damn raft? Why did Ginger pack so many outfits for a three-hour tour out of Honolulu? But there's an even bigger mystery for fans of Gilligan's Island. What was the Skipper's real name? "
ans1[0]="1. Jonas Grumby"
ans2[0]="2. Alan Hale, Jr."
ans3[0]="3. Roy Hinkley"
ans4[0]="4. Thurston Howell, III"
ans5[0]="5. Sherwood Schwartz"
hint[0] = "Bombshell Jayne Mansfield was asked to play Ginger, but Church of Satan leader Anton LaVey suggested otherwise. She ended up in nudie movies until she was killed in a car wreck outside New Orleans, reputedly getting decapitated. She may have had a 40-18-36 figure and a 160 IQ, but she was no inventor of a polio vaccine, Mr. Salk!"
correct[0] = "1"
kicker[0]= "JONAS GRUMBY. The others were Professor Roy Hinkley, Mary Ann Summers, Ginger Grant, Thurston Howell III and Lovey Howell. And Gilligan? In the late 1970s, Bob 'Gilligan' Denver said that he and producer Sherwood Schwartz had decided that if the dopey first mate had ever needed a name, it would have been Willie."
question[1] = "The old trivia trick, eh? If you missed the last question by that much, would you believe that one of the writers on Your Show of Shows joined Buck Henry as one of the creators of Get Smart? And was loving it? Who was the writer?"
ans1[1]="1. Woody Allen"
ans2[1]="2. Mel Brooks"
ans3[1]="3. Sid Caesar"
ans4[1]="4. Carl Reiner"
ans5[1]="5. Neil Simon"
hint[1] ="All of these writers worked for YSOS, along with MASH creator Larry Gelbart, but don't pick the man who helped create The Dick Van Dyke Show, and even played Alan Brady on it."
correct[1] = "4"
kicker[1]="MEL BROOKS. With a little help from a shoe phone and a cone of silence, Maxwell Smart (Agent 86) worked for CONTROL to battle KAOS. CONTROL was led by future Love Boat doctor Bernie Koppell, as Siegfried. Actor Don Adams was joined by Barbara Feldon (Agent 99), who in 1957 used her knowledge of Shakespeare to win the top prize in The $64,000 Question."
question[2] = "The Andy Griffith Show won six Emmy Awards. Ironically, the performer who won five of these awards was a last-minute addition to the cast. Name that performer."
ans1[2]="1. Frances Bavier as Aunt Bee Taylor"
ans2[2]="2. Andy Griffith as Andy Taylor"
ans3[2]="3. Ron Howard as Opie Taylor"
ans4[2]="4. Don Knotts as Barney Fife"
ans5[2]="5.Jim Nabors as Gomer Pyle"
hint[2] ="Don't pick the actor with a BA in Business Administration, who once worked for the UN, and whose gas-station attendant character was spun off as a Marine at Camp Henderson, California."
correct[2] = "3"
kicker[2]="DON KNOTTS, not Jim Nabors. Mayberry was based on Griffith's own North Carolina hometown, Mount Airy. The show started as a February 15, 1960, episode of Danny Thomas's show, in which he is arrested for speeding through Mayberry. When Griffith left the show in 1968, it became Mayberry R.F.D."
question[3] = "In the days of the classic sitcoms, many of the actors were veterans of Broadway or of the Hollywood movie lots. Hard as it may be to imagine, which of these actors was nominated for five Oscars, including one for a movie debut in Citizen Kane?"
ans1[3]="1. Morey Amsterdam"
ans2[3]="2. Eve Arden"
ans3[3]="3. Fred Gwynne"
ans4[3]="4. Agnes Moorhead"
ans5[3]="5. Irene Ryan"
hint[3] ="This person's antics caused much turmoil for the ad agency of McMann and Tate."
correct[3] = "4"
kicker[3]="MOORHEAD. Darrin Stephens, of course, was the ad exec. Dick York played the role until back trouble forced him out; he was replaced by Dick Sargent, but the ratings dropped. Elizabeth Montgomery was the daughter of TV host Richard Montgomery and the wife of Bewitched's producer. The show was designed to help husband and wife spend more time together. She played both Samantha Stephens and her sexy cousin Serena. Bewitched remained ABC's biggest hit until 1977, the very year Lisa Hartman played a grown-up Tabitha in a spin- off."
question[4] = "Proving that great TV comes in short runs, there were only 39 episodes of The Honeymooners, 78 episodes of Star Trek, 17 episodes of The Prisoner and a mere 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers. But speaking of The Honeymooners, what did Ralph Kramden do for a living?"
ans1[4]="1. ad executive"
ans2[4]="2. aircraft factory worker"
ans3[4]="3. bus driver"
ans4[4]="4. English teacher"
ans5[4]="5. sewer worker"
hint[4] ="Don't be misled by Art Carney's Ed Norton, nor by Gleason's first TV role, back in 1949, in which he assumed the title role in The Life of Riley. (William Bendix had played Chester A. Riley on radio, and eventually took the role back on TV, as well.)"
correct[4] = "3"
kicker[4]="BUS DRIVER, not sewer worker or factory worker. The Honeymooners grew out of 1951's Cavalcade of Stars, on the now-expired DuMont network. The ‘Classic 39' refers to shows made in the 1955-56 season, although in the 1980s the Showtime cable network patched together 68 ‘lost' episodes from The Jackie Gleason Show, a variety show precursor of The Honeymooners. Gleason, by the way, refused to rehearse, and would pat his stomach when he forgot a line on his live show. As Riley, his catch-phrase was ‘What a revoltin' development this is!' As Ralph Kramden he popularized ‘How sweet it is' and ‘To the moon, Alice!' The rest of the cast included Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden and Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton."
question[5] = "In the early 1960s, Universal re-released its monster movies from the 1930s, inspiring a run of supernatural-themed sitcoms. Which one was based on a series of cartoons in The New Yorker?"
ans1[5]="1. The Addams Family"
ans2[5]="2. Bewitched"
ans3[5]="3. The Munsters"
ans4[5]="4. My Favorite Martian"
ans5[5]="5. My Mother the Car"
hint[5] ="ABC at the time was in the ratings basement, and developed this show to respond to a nearly identical program on CBS. Both shows debuted the same week in 1964 and, coincidentally, both left the schedule the same week two years later. Only one, though, became a movie in the 1990s."
correct[5] = "1"
kicker[5]="THE ADDAMS FAMILY, by cartoonist Charles Addams, not The Munsters of 1313 Mockingbird Lane. The Addams cast included future soap opera star Lisa Loring as Wednesday Addams and Ted Cassiday as both Lurch (‘You rang?') and Thing (a disembodied hand). Uncle Fester was Jackie Coogan, who had co-starred with Charlie Chaplin in The Kid when he was four years old. He became a millionaire at six and was broke at 23, after his parents squandered the money."
question[6] = "A common gimmick on shows in the 1960s was the uncanny character who only spoke to one person. As urban architect Wilbur Post, for example, Canadian actor Alan Young was tormented by Mr. Ed. But what kind of horse was Mr. Ed?"
ans1[6]="1. Appaloosa"
ans2[6]="2. Clydesdale"
ans3[6]="3. palomino"
ans4[6]="4. Shetland"
ans5[6]="5. thoroughbred"
hint[6] ="Mr. Ed died in 1979, so we can't ask him, but horses of his type have golden coats with some white on the face and legs."
correct[6] = "3"
kicker[6]="PALOMINO. Mr. Ed was played by Bamboo Harvester, with a voice provided by Rocky Lane. This was the first syndicated show to get picked up in prime time by a network. Along similar lines, Barbara Eden was the secretive genie that astronaut Tony Nelson (future JR Ewing Larry Hagman) dreamed of. As reporter Tim O'Hara, Bill Bixby had a similar problem with ‘favourite Martian' Ray Walston, as did Dave Crabtree (Jerry Van Dyke) when mom (Ann Sothern) was reincarnated as a car."
question[7] = "On October 4, 1957, two momentous events happened. One, of course, was the debut of Leave it to Beaver, in which little Theodore Cleaver from Mayfield learned about life from kind-hearted dad Ward, big brother Wally and mom June, she of the pearl necklaces. But what was the other landmark event that day?"
ans1[7]="1. the Supreme Court banned racially segregated schools, starting the civil rights era"
ans2[7]="2. Bill Haley's ‘Rock Around the Clock' hit the Billboard charts, starting the rock era"
ans3[7]="3. Joe McCarthy first claimed to have a list of commies, starting the red-scare era"
ans4[7]="4. the first Playboy hit the stands, starting the sexual-revolution era"
ans5[7]="5. the Russians launched Sputnik I, the first satellite, starting the space era"
hint[7] ="Fry and Bender may comment upon this sort of thing in a 1999 animated series from Fox, by the creator of The Simpsons."
correct[7] = "5"
kicker[7]="SPUTNIK. After the show was cancelled, many speculated on the fate of the actors. Ken Osmond, who played Eddie Haskell, actually joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970, where he was decorated for valour after he was shot. But he was rumoured to be either Alice Cooper or porn star Johnny Holmes. Jerry Mathers, the Beaver, was widely believed to have died in Vietnam. In fact, he and Osmond both came back for a mid-1980s Beaver revival, in which a divorced Beaver and his kids move back in with June."
question[8] = "Who shot JR? The last episode of MASH. All kinds of Super Bowls and news events. All of which lasted longer than half an hour. What half-hour program was the most watched episode ever?"
ans1[8]="1. All in the Family, 'Sammy's Visit'"
ans2[8]="2. The Beverly Hillbillies 'The Giant Jackrabbit' "
ans3[8]="3. The Flintstones, 'Ann-Margrock Presents'"
ans4[8]="4. I Love Lucy, 'Lucy Goes to the Hospital'"
ans5[8]="5. Yes Minister, 'Mumbo Jumbo'"
hint[8] = "There was Joey Stivic, on December 22, 1975, and Avery Brown on May 18, 1992. But as much as debuts attract viewers, nothing compares to a kangaroo."
correct[8] = "2"
kicker[8]="THE GIANT JACKRABBIT was a kangaroo. The Beverly Hillbillies, about Jethro Bodine and the Clampett clan, was the top-rated TV program for the 1962-63 and 1963-64 seasons. You probably guessed the I Love Lucy episode in which Lucy gave birth. That show attracted 44 million viewers, compared to 29 million who watched Eisenhower's inauguration the next day. By coincidence, Lucille Ball gave birth by caesarean section to Desi Arnaz IV on the same day that Lucy Ricardo gave birth to Little Ricky. The baby graced the debut cover of TV Guide on April 3, 1953."
question[9] = "Ah, those fabulous 1950s! When men were men and commies were hiding under every bed. Which sitcom filmed a special episode set in a totalitarian state, called ‘24 Hours in Tyrant Land,' to promote a 1959 U.S. Savings Bond drive?"
ans1[9]="1. Leave it to Beaver"
ans2[9]="2. The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
ans3[9]="3. The Donna Reed Show"
ans4[9]="4. My Three Sons"
ans5[9]="5. Father Knows Best"
hint[9] ="Ten years later, Jim Anderson had become Marcus Welby, moving from Springfield to Santa Monica. Instead of being an insurance agent with the General Insurance Company, he became a doctor."
correct[9] = "5"
kicker[9]="FATHER KNOWS BEST ‘24 Hours in Tyrant Land' was never broadcast, but was shown in churches, schools and community centres. Father Knows Best is one of the few shows to run on all three networks; another was Topper, a 1950s sitcom about two ghosts and their St. Bernard, who haunt stuffy banker Cosmo Topper. Father Knows Best is sometimes confused with My Three Sons, about widower Steve Douglas, played by Fred MacMurray, who lived at 837 Mill Street and whose family grew overwhelmingly over the series' 12-year run."
question[10] = "For 14 seasons, the real-life Nelson clan played themselves on TV, on a set modelled after their real Hollywood home (although designed to show off appliances by sponsor Hotpoint). Ozzie and Harriet's son Ricky even had a real rock music career. But one of Donna Reed's ‘children' had a hit, too. Shelly Fabares played Mary Stone. What was her 1962 hit?"
ans1[10]="1. Johnny Angel"
ans2[10]="2. The Leader of the Pack"
ans3[10]="3. The Loco-Motion"
ans4[10]="4. He's So Fine"
ans5[10]="5. Stop! In the Name of Love"
hint[10] ="Fabares also played Christine Armstrong on Coach, in the 1990s. Had Hayden Fox's Screaming Eagles moved from Minnesota to California, and played baseball instead of football, you would have part of your answer."
correct[10] = "1"
kicker[10]="JOHNNY ANGEL. Sitcom characters seem disproportionately likely to be musicians. Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III, for example, was the son of a Cuban senator, but his family fled when Fulgencio Batista took power in 1933. On I Love Lucy, Desi Arnaz played a bandleader at the Ricky Ricardo Babaloo Club, which Lucy Ricardo tried to use as a show business launching pad. The network worried about the credibility to viewers of a redhead and a Cuban, but the married-in-real-life couple did vaudeville on the road to rave reviews. They also insisted on having Desi in the show's title, settling for the indirect reference of I Love Lucy."
question[11] = "With so many veterans around, it's probably no surprise that classic sitcoms often depicted wisecracking soldiers who ran circles around their officers. One of these shows, set at Fort Baxter, Kansas, was sponsored by Camels, was subtitled You'll Never Get Rich, and followed the shenanigans in the motor pool, no doubt. Name the show!"
ans1[11]="1. F Troop"
ans2[11]="2. Gomer Pyle USMC"
ans3[11]="3. Hogan's Heroes"
ans4[11]="4. McHale's Navy"
ans5[11]="5. The Phil Silvers Show"
hint[11] ="Don't pick any of the three shows with a historical setting."
correct[11]="5"
kicker[11]="THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW. Also popular, especially in the 1960s, were girl shows. Sally Field, for example, played California beach teen Francine ‘Gidget' Lawrence (based on the Sandra Dee movies), and then moved up to become Sister Bertrille, the flying nun at Puerto Rico's Convent San Tanco. Marlo Thomas, meanwhile, played ‘That Girl,' actress Ann Marie."
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