I Dream of Jeannie Trivia
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59 free I Dream of Jeannie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
53 free I Dream of Jeannie trivia questions with answers. I Dream of Jeannie ran for five seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1970, and this quiz covers the whole run and everything around it. Expect questions on Sidney Sheldon's reasons for creating the show, why the first season was shot in black and white, the space capsule that crash-landed near Jeannie's beach, the ranks and branches of Tony Nelson and Roger Healey, Dr. Bellows' catchphrase, Jeannie's evil sister, Uncle Sully and the kingdom of Basenji, and the wedding that changed the show's premise. There is a full section on the production: the liquor decanter that became the bottle, the stopper borrowed from Tony's own bar, the Friz Freleng opening, the Hugo Montenegro theme, where the show was really filmed and the two trips the cast made to Florida's Space Coast. It finishes with the viewer contests, the reunion movies, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon and the later careers of the cast. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer is backed by a cited sentence from Wikipedia's articles on the series and its cast.
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Q 01I Dream of Jeannie, a sitcom about an astronaut, ended the year after which real-life milestone?
The first Moon landing
The first Moon landing came in July 1969, and Jeannie's last new episode aired the following May. One writer called the timing fitting, since a Moon shot had once seemed as magical as anything she could do.
Q 02The future Major Nelson holds what rank when I Dream of Jeannie begins?
Captain
Captain Nelson and his friend Roger are both promoted late in the first season. They celebrate in Reno, where Roger smuggles Jeannie along to improve his luck at the casino tables.
Q 03In I Dream of Jeannie, Tony is Air Force, but Roger Healey serves in which branch?
Army
Army astronauts were pure fiction when Roger Healey arrived in 1965. NASA did not choose its first, Robert Stewart, until 1978, and he reached orbit only in 1984.
Q 04In I Dream of Jeannie's pilot, what happens when the rescued Tony reports that he met a genie?
Nobody believes him
Nobody believes him: his story is put down to delusions brought on by his ordeal on the island. From then on he stops explaining Jeannie and starts covering for her, which drives the whole series.
Q 05In I Dream of Jeannie, Jeannie is introduced as a genie of what age?
2,000 years
2,000 years is no idle boast: in one first-season episode she spots her own ancient slippers in a museum and takes them back, which puts Tony on the short list of theft suspects.
Q 06Colonel Alfred Bellows, played by Hayden Rorke, holds what job at NASA?
Psychiatrist
Psychiatrist. Dr. Bellows keeps witnessing Jeannie's magic and tries to show his superiors that Tony is crazy or hiding something, but he can never prove it and they never believe him.
Q 07What does Jeannie usually do to work her magic?
Crosses her arms and blinks
Crosses her arms and blinks: with a nod of the head, that is how Jeannie grants a wish. In the pilot a blink conjures the helicopter that rescues Tony from her deserted island.
Q 08Under what circumstances does Jeannie lose her powers?
When she is shut in a closed space
When she is shut in a closed space, Jeannie is helpless: she cannot leave her corked bottle, and in one four-part story a month locked in a safe would make her the servant of whoever opened it.
Q 09Jeannie's scheming sister, also played by Barbara Eden, is told apart on screen by what?
A brunette wig
A brunette wig, worn with a green harem outfit, marks Jeannie's sister. She first traps Jeannie in the bottle to take her place, and she is still scheming to steal Tony after the wedding.
Q 10Which 1960s sitcom star played Jeannie's uncle Sully?
Jackie Coogan
Jackie Coogan, the boy from Chaplin's The Kid and later TV's Uncle Fester, plays Sully. His offer to make Jeannie a queen back home sends her away, and losing her finally pushes Tony to go after her and announce their engagement.
Q 11Which Rat Pack entertainer plays himself in a 1967 episode of I Dream of Jeannie?
Sammy Davis Jr.
Sammy Davis Jr. is the general's favorite entertainer, and Tony has promised to book him for a NASA party. He is already performing elsewhere that night, so Jeannie conjures a duplicate Sammy.
Q 12I Dream of Jeannie was widely seen as NBC's answer to which hit ABC sitcom?
Bewitched
Bewitched reached ABC in 1964, a year before Jeannie arrived on NBC, and the two magical comedies were compared from the start. Sheldon wrote that he had been offered the witch show to produce and turned it down.
Q 13Which 1964 Barbara Eden film inspired Sidney Sheldon's idea of a beautiful female genie?
The Brass Bottle
Q 21When Eden returned to the Space Coast in 1996, the town honored the show with a street sign reading what?
I Dream of Jeannie Lane
I Dream of Jeannie Lane arrived late: the town was slow to embrace its sitcom fame, and the street was renamed 26 years after the show ended. A Jeannie lookalike contest followed in 2004.
Q 22According to the first season, who turned the once-mortal Jeannie into a genie?
The Blue Djinn
The Blue Djinn wanted to marry her, and when she refused he made her a genie and sealed her in a bottle. Season three quietly rewrote this, making her whole family genies from birth.
Q 23Who composed the familiar 'Jeannie' theme used from the second season onward?
Hugo Montenegro
The Brass Bottle cast Burl Ives as the genie and Eden as the hero's mortal girlfriend. Sheldon wrote that screen genies had always been giant men like Ives, so he made his a beautiful young woman.
Q 14What did executives refuse to pay for in season one of I Dream of Jeannie, at about $400 an episode?
Filming in color
Filming in color was the extra they would not fund, and season one alone is in black and white. Sheldon wrote that he offered to pay the difference himself and was told not to throw his money away.
Q 15Which legendary Looney Tunes director created I Dream of Jeannie's animated opening sequences?
Friz Freleng
Friz Freleng animated the titles, which retell the pilot: an astronaut's capsule comes down by a beach, he uncorks a bottle, and Jeannie dances out to kiss him. His studio, DePatie-Freleng, also animated the Pink Panther.
Q 16In which Florida town does Major Nelson live?
Cocoa Beach
Cocoa Beach is a real town just south of the Kennedy Space Center, yet the series was shot in a Hollywood studio. The first season's opening even called it 'a mythical town in a mythical state called Florida'.
Q 17The building shown as Nelson and Healey's NASA offices was really a NASA center building at which California site?
Edwards Air Force Base
Edwards Air Force Base is home to NASA's flight research center in Southern California. Its main entrance played the astronauts' Florida workplace, and NASA says visitors often recognize it.
Q 18The house used as Major Nelson's home had earlier been the family home on which sitcom?
Father Knows Best
Father Knows Best came first: the Andersons' house stood on a studio backlot in Burbank, California. It was then Mr. Wilson's home in Dennis the Menace before it became Major Nelson's 'Florida' address.
Q 19In June 1969 Barbara Eden kissed which astronaut on the cheek weeks before his moon launch?
Buzz Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin got the kiss at a Florida celebration of Barbara Eden Day, where, she later wrote, photographers kept egging her on. Less than three weeks later he was on his way to the Moon aboard Apollo 11.
Q 20Why can't Jeannie pose for her own wedding photographs?
Genies don't show up on film
Genies don't show up on film, the 1969 wedding episode reveals. With NASA wanting pictures of its astronaut's big day, Jeannie conjures a mechanical double to pose in her place.
Hugo Montenegro wrote the bright melody after Sidney Sheldon decided the first season's music, by Richard Wess, was wrong for the show. He also had a 1968 hit with his cover of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly theme.
Q 24Which Marx brother turns up as himself in the 1967 episode The Greatest Invention in the World?
Groucho
Groucho got the part by phoning creator Sidney Sheldon, as Sheldon told it, to recommend a guest who was 'young and handsome and brilliant': himself. By Sheldon's account he wrote the episode a week later.
Q 25Nick at Nite's Jeannie promos mashed the theme with which Suzanne Vega song, a hit in a DNA remix?
Tom's Diner
Tom's Diner became 'Jeannie's Diner', a parody by Mark Jonathan Davis that Suzanne Vega put on her 1991 album of cover versions.
Q 26What was Jeannie's famous bottle before it became a television prop?
A Jim Beam bourbon decanter
A Jim Beam bourbon decanter, sold for Christmas 1964 at about $5.99. The auctioneers who later sold the first one say the pilot's director, Gene Nelson, spotted it in a liquor store window.
Q 27When I Dream of Jeannie went to color, Jeannie's bottle was repainted mainly in which colors?
Pinks and purples
Pinks and purples replaced a first-season bottle of dark smoked glass with gold filigree, colors that black-and-white film never showed.
Q 28Jeannie's long-lost dog Djinn Djinn turns invisible and attacks anyone wearing what?
A uniform
A uniform sets him off, which is bad news in a house full of Air Force officers. Tony also has to keep Mrs. Bellows from adopting the magical mutt.
Q 29Why did the prop bottles used for Jeannie's smoke effect keep breaking?
The heat and chemicals inside
The heat and chemicals inside did the damage: the smoke was made in the bottle itself, and the glass often cracked. The crew reckoned about a dozen painted decanters were used over the run.
Q 30In 'Hurricane Jeannie', made as the series finale, what does Dr. Bellows finally do before Tony wakes up?
Learns Jeannie is a genie
Learns Jeannie is a genie: trapped at the Nelsons' by a storm, he watches her work magic and Tony confesses everything. Then Tony wakes up, and the doctor is none the wiser.