Living Single Trivia
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70 free Living Single trivia questions with answers. Living Single ran on Fox from 1993 to 1998 and quietly set the template for the six-friends-in-a-brownstone sitcom. This quiz covers the whole run: Khadijah's magazine, Synclaire and her troll dolls, Regine's search for a rich husband, Max raiding the refrigerator, Kyle and Overton across the hall, the wedding, the London job and the New Year's Eve finale. The easy questions ask who played whom and where the gang lived. The harder ones dig into working titles, guest stars from Grant Hill to Gladys Knight, the Half & Half crossover, the creator's career and what the cast did afterward, from God of War to Get Out. It is built for people who still argue about whether Friends copied it. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the show, its episodes and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01On which network did Living Single originally air?
Fox
Fox. It was never a top-rated show overall, yet throughout its run it ranked among the most-watched comedies in Black and Latino households.
Q 02Who created Living Single?
Yvette Lee Bowser
Yvette Lee Bowser. She said there was a little of her in each of the four women, and she built the show on her own life and her girlfriends'.
Q 03The brownstone on Living Single is in which New York City borough?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn. The brownstone itself was a set: the series was taped across the country on the Warner lot in Burbank, California.
Q 04Who played Khadijah James on Living Single?
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah. She insisted on writing and performing the theme song herself, reasoning that a theme is what stays in viewers' minds.
Q 05On Living Single, what is the name of the magazine Khadijah edits and publishes?
Flavor
Flavor. In the pilot its planned Maya Angelou cover collapses because Synclaire never sent the poet her interview questions.
Q 06On Living Single, what does Kyle do for a living?
Stockbroker
Stockbroker. His sparring with Max hides an attraction that boils over in the first-season finale, when the two drunkenly spend the night together.
Q 07On Living Single, what is Max's profession?
Attorney
Attorney. As first conceived Max shared the apartment; network notes led the creator to move her across the street, to drop in constantly and help herself to the women's food.
Q 08On Living Single, which accessory does fashion-obsessed Regine swap constantly to match her outfits?
Wigs
Wigs. The actress pitched them herself: after years of weekly hair styling as a child star, she wore a wig to meet the producers and the idea stuck.
Q 09Who played Synclaire on Living Single?
Kim Coles
Kim Coles. She had a development deal with the network, and the sitcom was conceived as a vehicle for her and one co-star before it grew into an ensemble of six.
Q 10Which actress played Regine on Living Single?
Kim Fields
Kim Fields. She left a few episodes before the series ended, so Regine was written out by moving in with her fiancé.
Q 11Which actress played Max Shaw on Living Single?
Erika Alexander
Erika Alexander. Network executives found her character intimidating and wanted Max cut; the creator answered that she would rather not make the show at all.
Q 12Which actor played Kyle on Living Single?
T.C. Carson
T.C. Carson. He says he was fired after acting as the cast's spokesman in disputes with the bosses, which is why Kyle leaves early in the final season.
Q 13Who played Overton on Living Single?
John Henton
John Henton. A stand-up comic, he was playing his first sitcom role, and he still marvels that the reruns have never left the air.
Q 21On Living Single, Kyle leaves the brownstone in season five to take a job in which city?
London
London. He asks Max to move there with him and she refuses, a decision that leaves her distraught and rethinking her whole life.
Q 22Which Super Bowl MVP asks a lonely Regine to dinner at Overton and Synclaire's wedding on Living Single?
Desmond Howard
Desmond Howard. Months after his Super Bowl MVP turn, he shows up at the season-four finale and rescues Regine from her dateless gloom.
Q 23Which actor played Scooter, the childhood friend Khadijah ends up with on Living Single?
Cress Williams
Cress Williams. Scooter drifts in and out of Khadijah's life for five seasons, and in the series finale she walks out of the brownstone with him.
Q 14How is Synclaire related to Khadijah on Living Single?
They are cousins
They are cousins. Synclaire arrives from Minnesota, moves in with Khadijah and takes the front desk at her magazine.
Q 15What is Regine's job when Living Single begins?
Boutique buyer
Boutique buyer. When the shop is turned into a discount store, her nose for tacky outfits impresses a soap opera's wardrobe consultant, who hires her.
Q 16On Living Single, Synclaire has a well-known affinity for which toys?
Troll dolls
Troll dolls. Quirks like this led one writer to crown Synclaire the original awkward Black girl, a label the actress who played her happily claims for herself.
Q 17Khadijah and Max were college roommates at which school?
Howard University
Khadijah is a Howard graduate, and their friendship dates back to those days.
Q 18On Living Single, Kyle and Overton have been best pals since childhood in which city?
Cleveland
Cleveland. Overton takes the Browns' move to Baltimore so hard that Synclaire brings NFL legend Jim Brown home to tell him to get over it.
Q 19On Living Single, Regine and Khadijah grew up together in which city in New Jersey?
East Orange
East Orange. The actress who plays Khadijah was raised in the city herself, though she was born in nearby Newark.
Q 20On Living Single, Regine later works as a costume assistant on which soap opera?
Palo Alto
Palo Alto. When the soap is cancelled, Regine reinvents herself as a wedding planner, starting with the wedding of an ex-boyfriend.
Q 24On Living Single, season-five roommate Tripp Williams is an aspiring what?
Songwriter
Songwriter. He moves into Synclaire's old room once she marries Overton, and when Khadijah helps him out with a song she decides jingle writing could be her new career.
Q 25On Living Single, which TV star's lost wallet does Khadijah find in the back of a cab?
Dean Cain
Dean Cain. Then TV's Superman, he plays himself, coming by the apartment in person after Khadijah refuses to hand the wallet to anyone else.
Q 26What was Living Single's working title before the network renamed it shortly ahead of its debut?
My Girls
My Girls. The star had already written and recorded a theme song to fit that title, and had to go back to the studio and write a new one.
Q 27Newspaper critics repeatedly compared Living Single with which NBC sitcom that premiered a year later?
Friends
Friends. Both came from the same studio, and in 1996 Living Single's creator and stars complained publicly that the NBC hit was being promoted far harder than their show.
Q 28Living Single's theme song places its heroines in what 'kind of world'?
'90s
'90s. The line became the show's calling card, the phrase fans and headline writers still borrow whenever the series comes back into the conversation.
Q 29The series finale of Living Single aired on which holiday?
New Year's Day
New Year's Day. The last two episodes aired back to back on January 1, 1998, and the finale fittingly builds to an impromptu New Year's Eve party.
Q 30Which basketball great played Khadijah's old high school rival on Living Single?
Cheryl Miller
Cheryl Miller. Her character still resents losing an all-star MVP award to Khadijah and demands a one-on-one grudge match with the trophy at stake.