50 free Leave it to Beaver trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
44 free Leave It to Beaver trivia questions with answers. Leave It to Beaver ran for six seasons and 234 episodes between 1957 and 1963, never cracked the Nielsen top 30, and then became one of the most rerun sitcoms ever made. This quiz covers the whole story: the pilot with a different Ward and Wally, the toilet tank the censors nearly banned, why June wore pearls, where the Cleavers lived, and what happened to Beaver, Wally, Eddie and Lumpy in the 1980s revival. It starts with questions anyone who grew up on the reruns can answer (Beaver's real name, the town, the older brother) and works up to production history and cast trivia that only devoted fans know: which cast member became a police officer, which one exhibited sculpture at the Louvre, and which one auditioned in a Cub Scout uniform. It is free to use for classic-TV trivia nights. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its spin-offs and its cast, and each question carries its source. No fan-forum guesses, no recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01What is Beaver Cleaver's real first name?
Theodore
The show's official explanation is that baby Wally mispronounced it as 'Tweedor', which became 'Beaver'.
Q 02In what fictional town do the Cleavers live?
Mayfield
The state is never named, though the boys' schools, Grant Avenue Grammar and Mayfield High, get regular mentions.
Q 03Barbara Billingsley played which member of the family?
June Cleaver
She later became famous all over again as the jive-talking passenger in Airplane! and voiced Nanny on Muppet Babies.
Q 04What was Hugh Beaumont, who played Ward, off screen when he was not acting?
A Methodist lay minister
He also directed several episodes himself, including the series finale.
Q 05Which actor played Wally Cleaver?
Tony Dow
He landed the part at an open casting call with almost no experience, having been a Junior Olympics diving champion.
Q 06Which two-faced friend of Wally's is polite to adults and a wise guy to everyone else?
Eddie Haskell
The name has entered the language as shorthand for that exact kind of insincere charmer.
Q 07What is the real first name of Wally's oversized pal 'Lumpy' Rutherford?
Clarence
Frank Bank played him, and Richard Deacon played his pompous father Fred, Ward's co-worker.
Q 08On which network did the show premiere in October 1957, before being dropped after one season?
CBS
ABC picked it up the following autumn and ran it for five more years, through June 1963.
Q 09How many episodes of the original series were made after the pilot?
234
Season one alone had 39 episodes, a schedule no network sitcom would attempt today.
Q 10Who created the series?
Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher
Jerry Mathers has said the nickname 'Beaver' actually came from a shipmate of Connelly's, not from Wally's baby talk.
Q 11What was the title of the 1957 pilot episode?
It's a Small World
In it the boys collect 1,000 bottle caps hoping to trade them for a bicycle; a different actor played Ward and Wally.
Q 12Which future Beaver character was played by a different actor, Paul Sullivan, in the pilot?
Wally
Ward was also recast; Max Showalter, billed as Casey Adams, played him in the pilot before Hugh Beaumont took over.
Q 13In the taboo-breaking toilet episode 'Captain Jack', what had the boys hidden in the tank?
An alligator
Censors would only allow the tank, not the bowl; Mathers says it set a precedent for the industry.
Q 21Which of these actresses played Beaver's teacher Miss Landers?
Sue Randall
Diane Brewster was the earlier teacher, Miss Canfield, in season one.
Q 22How many sports does Wally letter in at high school?
Three
He graduated from Grant Avenue Grammar School in season one before moving up to Mayfield High.
Q 23What was the title of the final episode, broadcast on June 20, 1963?
Family Scrapbook
Hugh Beaumont directed it himself, one of several episodes he helmed from season three onward.
What did young Jerry Mathers wear to his audition, saying he'd rather be at his den meeting?
Q 14The Cleavers moved house at the start of season three. What was their new address?
211 Pine Street
The first two seasons were set at 485 Mapleton Drive; both houses are in Mayfield.
Q 15What is the title of the show's theme music?
The Toy Parade
It was composed by David Kahn, Melvyn Leonard and Mort Greene, with Pete Rugolo scoring most of the run.
Q 16Why did the actress who played June start wearing her trademark pearl necklace on the show?
To hide a hollow in her neck
She later added high heels for a similar practical reason: her on-screen sons kept growing taller.
Q 17How well did the show do in the Nielsen ratings during its original six-season run?
It never broke into the top 30
Reruns did the heavy lifting: TV Land, MeTV, Antenna TV and FETV have all carried it since 1998.
Q 18In the first season, how old was Beaver and what year of school was he in?
Seven, second grade
Wally was 12 and in eighth grade, and the boys aged in real time across the run.
Q 19Which of Beaver's friends is always seen munching an apple in the early seasons?
Larry Mondello
Rusty Stevens played him; Gilbert Bates took over as Beaver's chief sidekick in later seasons.
Q 20Which classmate is Beaver's nemesis at school?
Judy Hensler
Jeri Weil played the tattletale; Julie Foster, by contrast, was one of Wally's girlfriends.
A Cub Scout uniform
The honesty got him the part; he was later the first child actor to receive a share of a show's merchandising revenue.
Q 25Before Beaver, Jerry Mathers appeared as a boy who finds a body in which Alfred Hitchcock film?
The Trouble with Harry
He played Arnie, son of Shirley MacLaine's character, in the 1955 black comedy.
Q 26A persistent 1960s rumor claimed Jerry Mathers had been killed where?
In Vietnam
Wire services confused him with a Sgt. Steven Mathers killed in 1968; the actor served in the Air National Guard and never left the country.
Q 27In 2007 Jerry Mathers made his Broadway debut as Wilbur Turnblad in which musical?
Hairspray
He was 59 at the time, half a century after first playing Beaver.
Q 28What career did Ken Osmond take up after being typecast by his role as Wally's smarmy friend?
Police officer
He was shot on duty in 1980; two bullets hit his vest and a third ricocheted off his belt buckle.
Q 29A widely reported 1970s rumor claimed Ken Osmond had grown up to become which rock star?
Alice Cooper
Another urban legend had him becoming adult-film actor John Holmes; both were false.
Q 30In The New Leave It to Beaver, who played the two boys of Wally's slick old friend Eddie?
Ken Osmond's own children
Freddie and Edward 'Bomber' Haskell Jr. were played by the actor's own boys.