Friday, August 8, 2008

Television Trivia....Anyone?


Television. Love it or hate it it's an important part of our lives. The world has spawned a love affair with the boob tube that isn't likely to fade anytime soon. Today's trivia is dedicated to television. Answers will be posted tomorrow. First correct poster wins champ.

1. What 250-pound star of Hairspray shed half her weight to host a TV talk show?

2. What four-word TV slogan did Sting add to the Dire Straits hit Money for Nothing?

3. What Mary Tyler Moore Show character's blue blazer made it into the Smithsonian?

4. What was Redd Foxx's last name before show business beckoned?

5. What sitcom star advised: "It's okay to be fat. So you're fat. Just be fat and shut up about it"?

6. What media award was derived from the slang term for the 1945 "image orthicon tube"?

7. What TV cop badgered unwitting suspects with the line, "Just one more thing..."?

8. What late night talk show host asks viewers to "sit back and fire up the colortinis"?

9. What's the "dimension of imagination," according to the host of a classic TV series?

10. What quiz show champ of the 1950s received 500 marriage proposals and helped increase sales of Geritol by 40 percent?

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9 comments:

PsycheofAphrodite said...

1. Ricki Lake
2. “I want my MTV”
3. Ted Baxter’s
4. Sanford
5. Roseanne
6. The Emmy
7. Colombo
8. Tom Snyder
9. The Twilight Zone
10. Charles Van Doren

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