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"Trivia
Answer Page"
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This month's trivia
question deals with
money.
I will give you a
denomination of coin or currency. Your job is to
match a TV character, commercial or show which has that term in
common.
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Penny |
Penny Rivera, the Latin dance partner
of Johnny Castle on Dirty Dancing.
Miss Penny Candy, Krusty the Klown's
faithful secretary on The Simpsons
Alfred Pennyworth, the British butler
in the employ of Gotham City millionaire
Bruce Wayne on Batman.
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Nickel |
"Hey, Andy, don’t take any wooden nickels"
- common phrase used by Mayberry
barber Floyd Lawson on The Andy Griffith
Show.
Nichols - This is stretching it.
James Garner played this frontier wander on
the western adventure Nichols. |
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Dime |
The Dime Lady - the nickname of
actress Candice Bergen earned while
commercial spokesperson for Sprint Telephone
Company which advertised their
"Dime-a-Minute" promotions during the 1990s
Muriel Cigars - Edie Adams singing "Hey, big
spender, spend a little dime on me"
in their now classic TV commercial spots |
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Quarter |
Bailey Quarters - the billing and
traffic manager at radio station on WKRP
in Cincinnati.
"Now I don't wear Panty hose. But if
Beautymist can make my legs look good, think
what they'll do for yours." (spoken by NY
Jets Quarterback Joe Namath in the
now infamous 1974 Hanes' Beautymist TV
Commercial)
5050th Quartermaster Trucking
Company, (a.k.a. "The Red Ball Express"), a
real-life WWII transportation unit comprised
mostly of black GI's who drove supplies to
the front lines of WWII France on the sitcom
Roll Out/CBS/1973-74.
Alexander Quartermaine from the
daytime soap opera General Hospital
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Dollar |
"Hundred Dollar Droodle" -
illustration drawn at the end of each
program on Droodles/NBC/1954.
The Six Million Dollar Man
a.k.a. Col. Steve Austin
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Hundred
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Mythical Hundred Acre Wood on THE NEW
ADVENTURES OF WINNIE THE POOH/ABC/1988-93
The Second Hundred Years/ABC/1967-68
about a Prospector from 1900 gets
frozen in glacier and then gets thawed out
67 years later
The One Hundred Lives Of Black
Jack Savage/NBC/1991 - Ghost Of a
Caribbean Pirate
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Thousand |
Knight Industries Two Thousand, a
sleek, computerized 1982 black Pontiac
Trans-Am (Serial No. Alpha Delta 227529) on
the adventure series Knight Rider/NBC/1982-86.
Mel Blanc, (a.k.a. "the Man with a
Thousand Voices"), the voice of Bugs
Bunny and many more.
Western adventure Have gun Will Travel/CBS/1957-63
Paladin's standard fee was $1000
dollars.
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Million |
Millionaire Thurston Howell the III
on Gilligan's Island
How to Marry a Millionaire- about
three single career girls looking to marry
millionaires.
"Yogi has it better than a millionaire
That's because he's smarter than the average
bear" - Theme lyrics from cartoon Yogi
Bear
Tax-free million dollar checks
delivered by Michael Anthony (Marvin Miller)
the personal secretary of the eccentric
tycoon John Beresford Tipton on the drama
The Millionaire/CBS/1955-60.
Closing narration on Naked City/ABC/1958-63
- "There are eight million stories in
the Naked City. This has been
one of them."
Cool Million - Series about
Jefferson Keyes, a former CIA agent turned
private eye. He demanded $1 million
fee for his services. |
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