Bewitched Trivia
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This Bewitched trivia quiz has 49 free questions with answers and covers all eight seasons of the ABC classic (1964-1972) and the sitcom's long afterlife. It starts with the things every fan knows - the nose twitch, 1164 Morning Glory Circle, McMann and Tate, Endora's contempt for 'Durwood' - and climbs toward the details that reward real devotion: why Dick York left mid-season five, which supporting actresses won Emmys after their deaths, where the only location shoot happened, and how Paul Lynde first appeared on the show before he was Uncle Arthur. There are questions on the cast beyond the show too: Elizabeth Montgomery's famous father and her Lizzie Borden connection, Agnes Moorehead's Citizen Kane roots, William Asher's I Love Lucy years, Dick Sargent's later activism, plus the Flintstones crossover, the Tabitha spin-off, the Salem statue and the Nicole Kidman film that critics hated. About a third of the questions are easy warm-ups; the rest are for people who can name both actresses who played Gladys Kravitz. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01On Bewitched, absent-minded Aunt Clara has a passion for collecting what?
Doorknobs
Doorknobs: the quirk was borrowed from the actress who played her, who collected them in real life.
Q 02What is Samantha and Darrin's street address on Bewitched?
1164 Morning Glory Circle
1164 Morning Glory Circle sits in Westport, Connecticut in some episodes and Patterson, New York in others; Patterson is where Elizabeth Montgomery's family had its farm.
Q 03What is the name of the Madison Avenue advertising agency where Darrin works?
McMann and Tate
McMann and Tate chases a bigoted toy tycoon's account in 'Sisters at Heart', a 1970 Christmas episode whose story was written by a tenth-grade English class in Los Angeles.
Q 04How does Samantha most often cast a spell?
Twitching her nose
Twitching her nose was the very thing Samantha had promised to give up: Darrin wanted a normal suburban marriage, with no witchcraft at all.
Q 05Who played Endora, Samantha's disapproving mother?
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Moorehead came from Orson Welles's Mercury Players and played the mother in Citizen Kane; Endora brought her six Emmy nominations, but she never won for the part.
Q 06Which actor took over as Darrin for Bewitched's final three seasons?
Sargent
Dick Sargent had been close to signing as Darrin before the pilot was shot, but another job got in the way, so Dick York played the part first.
Q 07Dick York's back problems, which forced him off Bewitched, stemmed from an injury on which 1959 film?
They Came to Cordura
On They Came to Cordura, a scene with a railroad handcar on the second-to-last day of shooting tore the muscles in York's back, and he worked on through the pain for years.
Q 08What did Bewitched do after Dick York collapsed in 1969?
Filmed without Darrin
It filmed without Darrin: York had collapsed while shooting 'Daddy Does His Thing' and never came back, so the season was finished without him and a new actor took over for season six.
Q 09Which animation studio made the cartoon opening credits of Bewitched?
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera drew the cartoon Samantha and Darrin of the titles, and in 1972 made teenage versions of their children Tabitha and Adam the stars of an animated circus special.
Q 10What set the first two seasons of Bewitched apart from the six that followed?
Black and white
Black and white: all 74 episodes of the first two seasons were shot that way before colour arrived in 1966, and every one was later colourised.
Q 11How much of Bewitched did Sol Saks, its credited creator, actually write?
Only the pilot
Only the pilot: Sol Saks never wrote another episode, and a friend who worked on the show said he just sat back and took in the royalties.
Q 12Rehearsals for the Bewitched pilot were due to begin on the very day of which 1963 event?
The Kennedy assassination
The Kennedy assassination hit director William Asher personally: he knew the president and had staged the 1962 birthday gala at which Marilyn Monroe sang to him.
Q 13In its first season, Bewitched was second in the ratings only to which show?
Bonanza
Q 21A 1970 Bewitched story arc was shot on location in which town?
Salem
Salem got its visit by accident: a fire had wrecked part of the Stephens house set that summer, so the next season opened with an eight-episode trip there while it was rebuilt.
Q 22Which cable channel put up a bronze statue of Samantha in a Massachusetts park in 2005?
TV Land
TV Land paid for the bronze and unveiled it that June, with director William Asher and three of the show's surviving actors there to watch.
Q 23Which car company was a main sponsor of Bewitched when it launched in 1964?
Chevrolet
Chevrolet got its money's worth: its cars turned up on screen again and again.
Bonanza alone outdrew it: in 1964-65 the new sitcom about a suburban witch beat every other comedy on television, with Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. a close third.
Q 14Which two actresses won posthumous Emmys for their Bewitched roles?
Alice Pearce and Marion Lorne
Alice Pearce and Marion Lorne both died shortly before their wins; Lorne's heart failed ten days before the 1968 ceremony, where Elizabeth Montgomery accepted the award for her.
Q 15Who took over the role of nosy neighbour Gladys Kravitz in 1966?
Sandra Gould
Sandra Gould took over Gladys after the part's first actress died of cancer; Alice Ghostley was asked first but refused out of loyalty to her late friend.
Q 16Why do Aunt Clara's spells keep going wrong on Bewitched?
She was losing her powers with age
She was losing her powers with age, and being absent-minded as well she tended to forget the spell that would undo each blunder, leaving Samantha and Darrin to clear up.
Q 17Before he became Uncle Arthur, Paul Lynde first appeared on Bewitched in 1965 as what mortal character?
A nervous driving instructor
A nervous driving instructor called Harold Harold, so rattled by Endora in the back seat that he is fired until Samantha wins him his job back; that autumn Lynde returned as Uncle Arthur.
Q 18Bewitched's Paul Lynde was a regular on which game show?
Hollywood Squares
Hollywood Squares gave him its centre square from 1968 to 1981; on Bewitched, for all his fame as Uncle Arthur, he played the part in just ten episodes.
Q 19Under what fake name was Elizabeth Montgomery sometimes credited when playing Samantha's cousin Serena?
Pandora Spocks
Pandora Spocks, a pun on Pandora's box, was Montgomery's own idea for the credits when she played Samantha's miniskirted lookalike cousin.
Q 20Erin Murphy played young Tabitha on Bewitched, but at first she shared the role with whom?
Her fraternal twin sister
Her fraternal twin sister Diane: producers auditioned only twins because child labour laws limited a toddler's hours on set, and Erin took over once the two stopped looking alike.
Q 24Which rival NBC show, produced by the same studio, did Bewitched inspire?
I Dream of Jeannie
I Dream of Jeannie arrived a year after Bewitched: Sidney Sheldon created it in answer to the witch's ratings, swapping her for a genie in a bottle.
Q 25In 1965, Samantha and Darrin turned up as new neighbours on which animated series?
The Flintstones
The Flintstones called the episode simply 'Samantha', and Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York voiced their own characters as Bedrock's new arrivals.
Q 26In the 1977 spin-off Tabitha, where did the grown-up Tabitha Stephens work?
A television station
A television station, KXLA in Los Angeles; the spin-off also rewrote the family, turning her warlock little brother Adam into an older, disapproving mortal.
Q 27Who played the real witch cast as Samantha opposite Will Ferrell in Bewitched (2005)?
Nicole Kidman
Nicole Kidman's Isabel is the unknown a fading film star picks as his Samantha for a comeback remake, never guessing she can do the magic for real; Nora Ephron directed.
Q 28Samantha's actress was the daughter of which Hollywood star and director?
Robert Montgomery
Robert Montgomery gave her a first screen role on his own anthology series, Robert Montgomery Presents; two years later her Broadway debut in Late Love won a Theatre World Award.
Q 29Elizabeth Montgomery's first Emmy nomination was for which gangster-era crime series?
The Untouchables
The Untouchables cast the future Samantha as Rusty Heller, a nightclub siren, before Bewitched began; five more nominations followed for the witch.
Q 30Genealogists found Elizabeth Montgomery was a distant cousin of which notorious figure she played in a 1975 TV film?
Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden and Montgomery were sixth cousins once removed, through a 17th-century Massachusetts settler; the link was traced only after the actress died, so she never knew she had played a relative.