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Set 1 · Television

Easy
In Star Trek: The Next Generation, what is the name of Data's cat?
Answer: Spot
Easy
Which Star Trek race advances itself through assimilation?
Answer: Borg
Easy
In the Star Trek universe, what color is Vulcan blood?
Answer: Green
Easy
In Two and a Half Men, what is Alan Harper's son's name?
Answer: Jake
Easy
Which of these Bojack Horseman characters is a human?
Answer: Todd Chavez
Medium
What country do the people of TVs South Park hate?
Answer: Canada
Medium
What city is the show Cashmere Mafia set in?
Answer: New York
Medium
Which character dies in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Passion?
Answer: Jenny
Medium
Which of the following figures did NOT have a cameo on "The Drew Carey Show" (1995-2004)?
Answer: Bill Cosby
Medium
In the original Doctor Who series (1963), fourth doctor Tom Baker's scarf was how long?
Answer: 7 Meters
Hard
What year was Netflix founded?
Answer: 1997
Hard
In which year did the British television series "The Bill" end?
Answer: 2010
Hard
In what year did "The Big Bang Theory" debut on CBS?
Answer: 2007
Hard
Alan Reed is known for providing the voice of which character?
Answer: Fred Flintstone
Hard
On the show Ugly Betty, who is Bettys immediate boss at Mode Magazine?
Answer: Daniel Meade
Very hard
What year did the television show The Munsters first hit the airwaves?
Answer: 1964
Very hard
Which of these Nickelodeon game shows aired first?
Answer: Double Dare
Very hard
What episode of "Mr. Bean" saw him trying to prevent people from seeing him naked?
Answer: Mr. Bean in Room 426
Very hard
Who was the winner of "Big Brother" Season 10?
Answer: Dan Gheesling
Very hard
Which sitcom stars Fran Drescher as a divorced mother, whose boyfriend is slightly older than her two children?
Answer: Living with Fran

Set 2 · Television

Easy
In the TV show 'M*A*S*H', what was the nickname of Corporal Walter O'Reilly?
Answer: Radar
Easy
In AMC's TV Series "The Walking Dead" what are "Zombies" referred to as?
Answer: Walkers
Easy
Which actor portrays "Walter White" in the series "Breaking Bad"?
Answer: Bryan Cranston
Easy
What is the name of the main character in "The Flash" TV series?
Answer: Barry Allen
Easy
In "Star Trek: Voyager", which episode did Voyager establish real-time communication with Starfleet Headquarters?
Answer: Pathfinder
Medium
In the Sci-Fi television show Doctor Who, who plays the Tenth Doctor?
Answer: David Tennant
Medium
In the Doctor Who universe, how many times can a time lord normally regenerate?
Answer: 12
Medium
Which character on Friends was not related to Ross web of the past?
Answer: Joey
Medium
What is Meg's full name in "Family Guy"?
Answer: Megatron Griffin
Medium
Who was the original voice actor of Shaggy Rogers in Scooby-Doo?
Answer: Casey Kasem
Hard
On TV show Seinfeld, what was the Chinese Food Delivery boys name, who Elaine was getting sued by?
Answer: Ping
Hard
What actor portrayed Dr. Adam Bricker in the TV show The Love Boat?
Answer: Bernie Kopell
Hard
In the Black Mirror episode "Bandersnatch", PAC-MAN stands for:
Answer: Program And Control Man
Hard
Which is the longest-running of these four popular American TV shows?
Answer: One Day At A Time
Hard
Which of following is rude and dishonorable by Klingon standards?
Answer: Taking his D'k tahg
Very hard
In which episode of the Martin show does Martins mom, Mama Payne, make her first appearance?
Answer: Beauty and the Beast
Very hard
Prior to working at Wizards of the Coast, "Mark Rosewater" was a writer for which show?
Answer: Roseanne
Very hard
What is the name of the professor that Kelly falls in love with on the sitcom Saved by the Bell?
Answer: Jeremiah Laskey
Very hard
What year did the hit television show The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air leave the airwaves?
Answer: 1996
Very hard
In the Netflix show, Stranger Things, what song would Will sing to himself as he was missing?
Answer: Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Set 3 · Television

Easy
On the show "Rick and Morty", in episode "Total Rickall", who was a parasite?
Answer: Pencilvester
Easy
In which state of America was the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air born and raised in?
Answer: Pennsylvania
Easy
In "Breaking Bad", Walter White is a high school teacher diagnosed with which form of cancer?
Answer: Lung Cancer
Easy
What country is Cory in the House set in?
Answer: The United States of America
Easy
The HBO series "Game of Thrones" is based on which series of books?
Answer: A Song of Ice and Fire
Medium
In Battlestar Galactica (2004), what is the name of the President of the Twelve Colonies?
Answer: Laura Roslin
Medium
In the M*A*S*H series, Major Winchesters sister suffered from what malady?
Answer: Stuttering
Medium
Who played Blossom, the protagonist of the TV show Blossom?
Answer: Mayim Bialik
Medium
What did Kenan shout, in almost every episode of Kenan Ken, when something went wrong?
Answer: Why!
Medium
Which character does voice actress Tara Strong NOT voice?
Answer: Bubbles (2016)
Hard
What is the title of The Allman Brothers Band instrumental used as the theme to the BBC motoring show, 'Top Gear'?
Answer: Jessica
Hard
At which university do "The Big Bang Theory" characters Mr. Wolowitz and Drs. Cooper, Hofstadter and Koothrappali work?
Answer: Caltech
Hard
Which of the following was not an actor/actress on the American television show "Saturday Night Live" in Season 42?
Answer: Tina Fey
Hard
Which of the following Autobot names in Michael Bay's movies was NOT a name for a Transformer in the original 1980's cartoon?
Answer: Mudflap
Hard
What was the real name of the chimpanzee that portrayed Lancelot Link in the TV series of the same name?
Answer: Tonga
Very hard
In the Family Guy episode Meet the Quagmires, Brian sings what song that nobody has heard yet?
Answer: Never Gonna Give You Up
Very hard
Nina Van Horn, a character on the show Just Shoot Me, was a supermodel in the 70s. Who was the supermodel she said she used to live with?
Answer: Twiggy
Very hard
What is the name of the Bed and Breakfast that Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott run on their show Tori and Dean: Inn Love?
Answer: Chateau La Rue
Very hard
On the sitcom Whos the Boss?, before Tony Micelli took the job as Angelas housekeeper, he played professional baseball for what team?
Answer: St. Louis Cardinals
Very hard
In "Star Trek", what is the Klingon death ritual?
Answer: Look into sky and yell loudly in mourning.

Set 4 · Television

Easy
In the show, Doctor Who, what does T.A.R.D.I.S stand for?
Answer: Time And Relative Dimensions In Space
Easy
What is the name of C.C. Babcocks dog on the popular TV show The Nanny?
Answer: Chester
Easy
What Coronation Street character broke Fred Elliots heart after he proposed to her in France?
Answer: Audry Roberts
Easy
Buffy the Vampire Slayer ran for how many seasons?
Answer: 7
Easy
How long was Ken Jennings' win streak on Jeopardy?
Answer: 74
Medium
How many demon women are attracted to Xander during the seventh season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer?
Answer: 4
Medium
What is Kahn Souphanousinphones dogs name on the TV show King of the Hill?
Answer: Doggie
Medium
Who sang the theme song for the TV show 'Rawhide'?
Answer: Frankie Laine
Medium
Baron Silas Greenback is the arch nemesis of which cartoon hero?
Answer: Danger Mouse
Medium
How did Joxer die in the Xena series?
Answer: Livia killed him.
Hard
The first half-hour CGI cartoon, ReBoot, aired on which year?
Answer: 1994
Hard
In which city were the Blush magazine headquarters located on the hit show Just Shoot Me?
Answer: New York City
Hard
Which movie served as the KTMA pilot episode for the show "Mystery Science Theater 3000"?
Answer: The Green Slime
Hard
What was the name of the missing boy in the South park episode How to Eat with Your Butt?
Answer: Ben Affleck
Hard
Name the overbearing, pompous, untalented anchorman at the station where Mary worked in the The Mary Tyler Moore Show?
Answer: Ted Baxter
Very hard
After Henrys departure in the M*A*S*H episode Abyssinia, Henry, the doctors and nurses are again in surgery. Radar comes in again, with what message?
Answer: that Col. Blake is dead
Very hard
What was the prize that Peter would get for selling the most sunflower-girl cookies on the TV show The Brady Bunch?
Answer: He becomes blossom of the month.
Very hard
Which actor from The Young Ones also played Lord Flashheart in one episode of Blackadder II?
Answer: Rik Mayall
Very hard
Which of the following characters was not on the pilot episode of the popular prime time soap opera Beverly Hills 90210?
Answer: Dylan
Very hard
What is the Klingon's afterlife called?
Answer: Sto-vo-kor

Questions adapted from Open Trivia Database and OpenTriviaQA, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Selected, filtered and arranged into fixed rounds. Sources & editorial notes.

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