Green Acres Trivia
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50 free Green Acres trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
41 free Green Acres trivia questions with answers. Green Acres was the strangest show on 1960s television: a Manhattan lawyer buys a broken-down farm, his Hungarian wife throws the dishes out of the window, the neighbours' pig goes to school and everyone can hear the fife music except Oliver. This quiz covers all six seasons: the radio show it grew out of, Mr. Haney's window-shade signs, Eb calling Oliver 'Dad', Hank Kimball's rambling, Sam Drucker's many jobs, Alf and Ralph Monroe, Arnold Ziffel's Patsy Awards, the crossovers with Petticoat Junction and The Beverly Hillbillies, the theme song sung by the stars, the rural purge that killed it and the 1990 reunion movie. Easy questions ask who played Oliver and Lisa and what kind of animal Arnold is; the hard ones want the show's working titles, the newscaster who anchored the pilot, the breed of pig and how many actors Tom Lester beat for the part of Eb. Written for classic TV fans, MeTV watchers and anyone who can still sing the theme. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Oliver Douglas gives up what career in Manhattan to become a farmer?
Attorney
Attorney. Oliver walks away from a thriving Manhattan law practice to chase a lifelong dream of farming, despite knowing nothing whatever about how it is done.
Q 02Which Hungarian-born actress played Lisa Douglas?
Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor. Her Lisa is dragged to the farm against her will, yet she makes sense of Hooterville's upside-down logic far more easily than her husband ever does.
Q 03CBS put Green Acres on its 1965 schedule without first asking producer Paul Henning for what?
A pilot episode
A pilot episode. Henning already had two rural hits on the network, so one of its executives promised him that a third series would go straight on the air.
Q 04Fifteen years before it reached television, Green Acres began life in which form?
A radio comedy
A radio comedy. Granby's Green Acres ran for one summer in 1950 and then vanished, its hero a man from a city bank who makes a complete hash of farm life.
Q 05Before Hooterville, Oliver and Lisa Douglas live in a penthouse on which Manhattan avenue?
Park Avenue
Park Avenue. Oliver swaps the penthouse for a tumbledown farm he bought without ever setting eyes on it, and Lisa is uprooted very much against her will.
Q 06What was the Douglases' farm known as before Oliver bought it?
The Old Haney Place
The Old Haney Place. Its seller stripped out the sink, stove, cow and tractor on his way out, then sold or rented each of them back to Oliver at a fat profit.
Q 07The first episode of Green Acres is presented in which form?
A mock documentary
A mock documentary. Real newsman John Daly narrates the Douglases' move to Hooterville as though he were reporting a news story.
Q 08What is unusual about the Green Acres theme song?
The two stars sing it themselves
The two stars sing it themselves. The husband takes the lines in praise of the farm and the wife the ones pining for New York, so the whole premise is argued out before the story starts.
Q 09Which instrument plays 'Yankee Doodle' whenever Oliver launches into a speech about the American farmer?
A fife
A fife. The joke is that the background music is real to everyone but the speaker: the other characters can hear it and look around to see where it is coming from.
Q 10What does Oliver Douglas wear to do his farm chores on Green Acres?
A suit and tie
A suit and tie. In one episode the farmers decide he is ruining the town's image and demand overalls, and the pair Lisa orders from her dressmaker comes trimmed with fur.
Q 11Which luxury convertible does Oliver Douglas drive along Hooterville's dirt roads in the early seasons of Green Acres?
Lincoln Continental
Lincoln Continental. The gleaming car was a standing sight gag beside the valley's relics, such as the truck Mr. Haney says he bought in 1922.
Q 12By her own account in 'Wings Over Hooterville', what was Lisa doing in wartime Hungary when she met Oliver?
Fighting with the underground
Fighting with the underground. She finds Oliver, a downed flier, hanging in a tree, though in a later episode they meet in Paris and her father is Hungary's deposed king.
Q 13Which dish is Lisa Douglas's notorious speciality on Green Acres, dreaded by everyone at her table?
Q 21Which rickety piece of farmhouse equipment forces Lisa to add up numbers on Green Acres?
The generator
The generator. Oliver gives every appliance a number from one to seven so Lisa will not overload it and, as one episode title warns, you can't plug in a 2 with a 6.
Q 22Which official letter arrives for Arnold Ziffel in a second-season episode of Green Acres?
A draft notice
A draft notice. Arnold is ordered to report for an Army physical, and when Oliver takes him to the draft board the sergeant refuses to believe that this is Arnold Ziffel.
Q 23Where is the Douglases' only telephone on Green Acres, forcing Oliver to climb whenever it rings?
At the top of a pole
Hotcakes
Hotcakes. Nobody can eat them, but they have other uses: in different episodes they replace a blown head gasket on a truck and shingle a neighbour's roof.
Q 14Pat Buttram, Green Acres' Mr. Haney, voiced the Sheriff of Nottingham in Disney's Robin Hood as which animal?
A wolf
A wolf. Buttram's distinctive voice made him a Disney favourite in the 1970s, and here it belongs to a sheriff who squeezes Nottingham's poor for their taxes.
Q 15Pat Buttram said Mr. Haney was inspired by which real-life showbiz figure?
Colonel Tom Parker
Colonel Tom Parker. Elvis Presley's manager had started out running booths in travelling carnivals, and Buttram said he based the conniving Haney loosely on him.
Q 16What does farmhand Eb Dawson habitually call Oliver and Lisa, to Oliver's annoyance?
Dad and Mom
Dad and Mom. Life followed the joke: the young actor behind Eb grew close to Eddie Albert off screen, and took to calling his co-star his surrogate father.
Q 17The actor cast as Eb on Green Acres said he beat hundreds of rivals because only he could do what?
Milk a cow
Milk a cow. He had grown up working on his grandfather's farm in Mississippi, so the one chore that beat every other hopeful was second nature to him.
Q 18Green Acres explained Eb's absence for half of the 1967-68 season by sending him away on what?
His honeymoon
His honeymoon. The actor was really laid up with mononucleosis, and when he recovered Eb simply reappeared on the farm with no bride and no explanation.
Q 19What kind of animal is Arnold Ziffel?
A pig
A pig. All of Hooterville understands Arnold's grunts as plain English, and it is Oliver, the only one who cannot follow them, whom the neighbours regard as odd.
Q 20A long-debunked legend says the Green Acres cast did what to Arnold after the final episode?
Ate him at a party
Ate him at a party. The tale is false: several animals shared the role as each one outgrew it, and their trainer said every one of them retired to a farm.
At the top of a pole. Every call means a climb, for house guests as well as for Oliver, and only the Hooterville phone company is allowed to move it.
Q 24Who trained Green Acres' Arnold and nearly all the other animals on the rural sitcoms of the 1960s?
Frank Inn
Frank Inn. He had to train a fresh Arnold every year, because each one outgrew the part.
Q 25Carpenters Alf and Ralph Monroe are introduced on Green Acres as brothers, but what is Ralph really?
Alf's sister
Alf's sister. He explains that nobody would hire them if customers knew one of the carpenters was a woman, which hardly matters, since the pair rarely finish a job.
Q 26On Green Acres, one of Lisa's hens baffles Oliver by laying eggs of what shape?
Square
Square. Oliver puts each hen in a cage of its own to catch the culprit, one more sign that the farm runs on Lisa's logic and not on his.
Q 27What is Hank Kimball's job?
County agricultural agent
County agricultural agent. Kimball starts a statement, doubts it, reverses it and wanders off, a send-up of government bureaucrats that the writers never tired of.
Q 28Eleanor Audley, who played Oliver's mother on Green Acres, was the voice of which classic Disney villain?
Maleficent
Maleficent. Audley was only five months older than Eddie Albert, her screen son, and her Eunice sides with Lisa, forever begging her to come back to America.
Q 29Which Petticoat Junction hotel owner turns up in early Green Acres episodes to help Lisa adjust to country life?
Kate Bradley
Kate Bradley. The two series shared one valley and several of its townsfolk by design, because, as Paul Henning put it, cross-pollinating his shows was economical.
Q 30In a 1967 Green Acres episode, Hooterville's amateur players stage their own version of which hit TV series?
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies. Oliver plays Jethro and Lisa plays Granny, and a year later the real Clampetts began turning up in Hooterville in episodes of their own show.