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59 free Betty White trivia questions with answers. Betty White worked in television for longer than almost anyone alive, from ad-libbing hours of live TV a day in early-1950s Los Angeles to voicing a Pixar toy in her late nineties. In between she ran her own sitcom before women did that, married a game show host, played the man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens and a terminally naive Golden Girl, and became the oldest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. This quiz covers the whole run. The easy questions ask which Golden Girl she played, which 2009 rom-com brought her back and which candy bar put her in the Super Bowl. The harder ones want the tap dancer she refused to fire in 1954, the morning-show anchor job she turned down, the game show that made her the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy as host, the state where her first marriage took her to a chicken farm, the Nobel laureate in her circle of friends and the Billboard chart she topped in her late eighties. There is a fair amount on the animal work too, because it mattered to her more than any of it. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on White, her shows and her characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. Good for a Golden Girls night, a TV history round or anyone who wants to prove they know more than the Super Bowl ad.
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Q 01Betty White was born in 1922 in Oak Park, a suburb of which US city?
Chicago
Her family moved to California when she was one, first to Alhambra and then to Los Angeles during the Depression.
Q 02Which character did White play on The Golden Girls?
Rose Nylund
She was nominated for the lead-actress comedy Emmy in every one of the show's seven seasons and won for the first.
Q 03Her Golden Girls character came from the fictional farming town of St. Olaf in which state?
Minnesota
The character was Norwegian American and told endless nonsense stories about the town, which the other three women dreaded.
Q 04On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White's character Sue Ann Nivens hosted which fictional TV program?
The Happy Homemaker
The running joke was that Sue Ann's on-air perkiness masked an aggressive, cynical personality off camera.
Q 05Sue Ann Nivens's cooking show aired on the fictional station WJM-TV in which city?
Minneapolis
Themed episodes included 'A Salute to Fruit' and 'What's All This Fuss About Famine?'
Q 06Hot in Cleveland was the first original scripted series on which channel?
TV Land
The channel had only ever rerun other sitcoms before it; the show ran six seasons and 128 episodes.
Q 07How much of Hot in Cleveland was White originally supposed to appear in?
Just the pilot
Her performance landed so well that she was asked to stay for the entire run, from 2010 to 2015.
Q 08By the final season of Hot in Cleveland, what office did Elka hold?
Mayor
Elka was elected to a city council seat in season five before moving up when the previous mayor died.
Q 09White starred alongside Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in which 2009 romantic comedy?
The Proposal
The film kicked off the late-career resurgence that ran through her Super Bowl ad and SNL hosting gig.
Q 10How old was White when she hosted Saturday Night Live in May 2010, becoming its oldest host ever?
88
The previous record-holder was Miskel Spillman, an 80-year-old contest winner who hosted in 1977; a Facebook campaign of nearly half a million people got White the job.
Q 11White appeared in which candy bar's 'You're not you when you're hungry' 2010 Super Bowl ad?
Snickers
The spot topped the Super Bowl Ad Meter and directly triggered the Facebook campaign to get her onto SNL.
Q 12Which veteran actor appeared alongside White in her famous 2010 Super Bowl candy commercial?
Abe Vigoda
He was best known as Fish on Barney Miller and Tessio in The Godfather, and was in his late eighties at the time.
Q 13Which game show host did White marry in 1963?
Allen Ludden
He proposed at least twice before she said yes, and they stayed married until his death in 1981; asked why she never remarried she said, 'Once you've had the best, who needs the rest?'
Q 21Which NBC anchor job did White turn down to stay out of New York, and who eventually got it?
Today; Barbara Walters
She stayed in Los Angeles and instead spent nineteen years hosting NBC's Rose Parade broadcast.
Q 22After NBC dropped her from Tournament of Roses coverage in 1975, White spent ten years hosting which event for CBS?
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
NBC felt she was too closely identified with a rival network's sitcom; she admitted it was hard 'watching someone else do my parade'.
Q 23Which Golden Girls role was White originally offered before the pilot's director suggested a swap?
Blanche
Q 14White met her third husband in 1961 while appearing as a celebrity guest on which game show?
Password
She kept appearing on the show's later versions too, right up to Million Dollar Password in 2008.
Q 15For which NBC show did White become the first woman to win the Daytime Emmy for game show host?
Just Men!
The volume of her game show work earned her the nickname 'the First Lady of Game Shows'.
Q 16With Life with Elizabeth (1953–55), White became the first woman to do what for a sitcom?
Produce it
She co-produced and owned the show at 28 while still living with her parents, and had full creative control in front of and behind the camera.
Q 17Roughly how many hours a day was Betty White's live, solo Los Angeles variety show after 1952?
Five and a half
It ran six days a week for four straight years, all ad-libbed, and she sang at least a couple of songs in every broadcast.
Q 18Which Los Angeles radio personality was White's co-host on Hollywood on Television from 1949?
Al Jarvis
The show started life as Make Believe Ballroom on KFWB before moving to KLAC-TV.
Q 19Which Black tap dancer did Southern stations demand Betty White drop from her show in 1954?
Arthur Duncan
White answered 'I'm sorry. Live with it' and gave him more airtime; the two reunited on television 63 years later.
Q 20In her 1962 feature film debut, Advise & Consent, White played what?
A US senator
Her character, Kansas Senator Elizabeth Ames Adams, was seen as a nod to real-life senator Margaret Chase Smith.
Rue McClanahan had been offered White's eventual part; the two switched because each had played similar types before, on Mary Tyler Moore and Maude respectively.
Q 24Which Golden Girls co-star admitted she was "not that fond" of White, annoyed by her relentless positivity?
Bea Arthur
Despite the friction, White said of her 2009 death, 'I knew it would hurt, I just didn't know it would hurt this much.'
Q 25White, McClanahan and Getty carried their characters into which one-season spin-off set at a Miami hotel?
The Golden Palace
Three of the four leads carried on in the spin-off, set at a Miami hotel, after the fourth chose to leave the original show.
Q 26White won a guest-actress Emmy playing herself in a Sunset Boulevard parody on which sitcom?
The John Larroquette Show
In the episode a diva-like White forces the host to help write her memoir, and he ends up in drag as one of her former co-stars.
Q 27In 2006 White joined which soap opera as Ann Douglas, long-lost mother of Stephanie Forrester?
The Bold and the Beautiful
She made 22 appearances in the role opposite Susan Flannery.
Q 28On Boston Legal, White played a blackmailing gossip named what?
Catherine Piper
She first played the character as a guest star on The Practice in 2004 before the recurring run from 2005 to 2008.
Q 29In Toy Story 4, White voiced a toy named Bitey White. What kind of animal was it?
A tiger
The other toys in her scene were named after and voiced by Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks; White said the animal was perfect since she was 'a sucker for animals'.
Q 30Guinness World Records recognized White in both 2014 and 2018 for what?
Longest TV career by a female entertainer
Her first Emmy nomination came in 1951 and her last in 2014, a span of more than 60 years.