The Honeymooners Trivia
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49 free The Honeymooners trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free The Honeymooners trivia questions with answers. Bang, zoom! This quiz covers the whole run of The Honeymooners, from the six-minute DuMont sketch in 1951 through the Classic 39 episodes on CBS, the lost kinescopes Jackie Gleason kept in his vault, the colour musical revivals from Miami Beach and the 1978 specials that closed the story. Fifty questions ask about Ralph, Alice, Ed and Trixie, the actors who played them (and the ones who played them first), the Chauncey Street tenement, the Gotham Bus Company and the Raccoon Lodge. The easy questions want the bus driver's threat to Alice and the cartoon family that copied the Kramdens; the hard ones want Ed's middle name, the film system the show was shot on, the union that made Ralph an honorary member and the space probe with an instrument named after him. It suits anyone who watches the WPIX New Year's marathon every year, and anyone who wants to know why a 39-episode sitcom is still on the air seventy years later. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the show, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Ralph Kramden was employed as a driver by which fictional New York firm?
Gotham Bus Company
Gotham Bus Company employs him for the whole run, yet Ralph is never once seen driving a bus on screen, only turning up at the depot.
Q 02Ed Norton, Ralph's upstairs neighbour and best friend, worked for which New York City department?
The sewers
The sewers nearly cost Ralph his best friend in one episode: the two fall out over a ring, and make up only after Norton is hurt in an explosion underground.
Q 03Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton were both enthusiastic members of which fraternal lodge?
The Raccoon Lodge
The Raccoon Lodge made Ralph its treasurer, but in 'The Loudspeaker' he writes a speech, sure he is Raccoon of the Year, and the honour goes to Norton.
Q 04Who played Alice Kramden in the Classic 39 episodes of 1955-56?
Audrey Meadows
Audrey Meadows made Alice so real that viewers mailed her aprons and curtains by the hundred to brighten the Kramdens' bare kitchen.
Q 05Which actor played Ed Norton in every Gleason version of The Honeymooners?
Art Carney
Art Carney was the one piece Gleason refused to change: he recast both wives in the 1960s but would only revive the sketch when his Norton was available.
Q 06Who played Trixie Norton in the Classic 39 episodes?
Joyce Randolph
Joyce Randolph was hired after Gleason spotted her in a live Clorets commercial on his own variety show; the sketch's first Trixie had lasted a single outing.
Q 07The Honeymooners began as a sketch on Cavalcade of Stars, on which struggling early network?
DuMont
DuMont watched Gleason's sketches turn Cavalcade of Stars into a hit, then lost him: in 1952 CBS lured him and his staff away with a much larger budget.
Q 08In the first filmed episode of The Honeymooners, what do Ralph and Norton buy together and then fight over?
A TV set
A TV set: Ralph, too cheap to pay full price, talks Norton into going halves, then tricks him into keeping it in the Kramdens' apartment.
Q 09Which car maker sponsored The Honeymooners during its one season as a filmed sitcom?
Buick
Buick bankrolled the filmed series in one of the biggest contracts television had seen, and its name was cut from the opening when the show went into reruns.
Q 10What was the address of the Kramdens' and Nortons' apartment building?
328 Chauncey Street
328 Chauncey Street: Gleason gave the Kramdens the address he had grown up at, and had their kitchen built from his memory of the family apartment.
Q 11The Kramdens' neglected tenement apartment was in which New York City borough?
Brooklyn
Brooklyn was Gleason's own home borough: he had grown up poor there, and he told his writers to make the Kramdens live the way such families really did.
Q 12Ralph's most famous hollow threat to Alice was to send her where?
To the Moon
To the Moon: 'Bang, zoom!' was as far as it ever went, and the rows ended with Ralph telling Alice, 'Baby, you're the greatest.'
Q 13Who was the first actress to play Alice Kramden, in the original sketches of 1951-52?
Pert Kelton
Pert Kelton came back to the sketch in the 1960s colour episodes, no longer as Alice but as Alice's mother.
Q 21In one Classic 39 episode, what does Ralph pitch as a gourmet appetizer, unaware that Alice bought it for a pet?
Dog food
Dog food: Norton finds it in the icebox and tucks in, Ralph loves it too, and he is pitching it to his boss as a mystery appetizer when an executive recognises the taste.
Q 22In 'Better Living Through TV', Ralph freezes with stage fright while trying to do what on live television?
Sell a kitchen gadget
Sell a kitchen gadget: Ralph, sure it will make his fortune, plays the Chef of the Future to Norton's Chef of the Past, then goes rigid the moment the commercial is live.
Q 23In 'Young Man with a Horn', which instrument from his boyhood does Ralph refuse to let Alice throw away?
A cornet
Q 14Why did the original Alice lose the role when Gleason moved to CBS in 1952?
She had been blacklisted
She had been blacklisted, though the public was told she had heart trouble. Arthur Miller later traced it to her husband once marching in a May Day parade.
Q 15How did Gleason's new Alice of 1952 convince him she was not too glamorous for the part?
Photos with no makeup
Photos with no makeup did it: she had herself shot at dawn in a torn housecoat with her hair undone, and Gleason, not recognising her, said, 'That's our Alice.'
Q 16Ralph Kramden was the model for the lead character of which Hanna-Barbera cartoon?
The Flintstones
The Flintstones borrowed so much that Gleason's lawyers thought he could have it taken off the air, but he did not want to be the man who took Fred away from children.
Q 17Ed Norton's voice and mannerisms are said to have inspired which Hanna-Barbera cartoon character?
Yogi Bear
Yogi Bear is said to borrow Norton's breezy delivery, because Hanna-Barbera liked to model its characters on popular stars of the day.
Q 18Instead of a fuzzy kinescope, which system filmed the Classic 39 as they were performed?
Electronicam
Electronicam put film and television behind one lens, so these episodes looked good enough to rerun for decades when most live shows of the time did not.
Q 19What did Gleason all but refuse to do before filming The Honeymooners?
Rehearse the scenes
Rehearse the scenes: he held that comedy stops being funny once it is rehearsed, so the cast got one run-through on the day, lines were often fluffed, and the actors learned to cover for one another.
Q 20What did Gleason do on stage to signal to the cast that he had forgotten a line?
Patted his stomach
Patted his stomach: lines were often dropped during filming, so the cast agreed on silent cues like this one to call for help.
A cornet: finding it sets Ralph brooding on the chances he missed, so he resolves to better himself and sits a civil service exam, which he fails.
Q 24During the run of The Honeymooners, Ralph Kramden was made an honorary member of which real organisation?
The Transport Workers Union
The Transport Workers Union represents New York's real bus drivers, and in 1988 one of the city's bus depots was renamed after Gleason as well.
Q 25A bronze statue of Gleason as Ralph Kramden stands outside which New York landmark?
Port Authority Bus Terminal
Port Authority Bus Terminal got him when the cable channel TV Land began putting up statues of its characters as publicity; the plaque calls Ralph a 'Dreamer'.
Q 26In 'Here Comes the Bride', whose marriage does Ralph nearly wreck with his advice?
Alice's sister
Alice's sister Agnes turns up in tears on her wedding night after the groom takes Ralph's advice to be king of his castle; he soon admits he should never have listened.
Q 27What did the childless Kramdens name the baby girl they briefly adopted in a 1955 sketch?
Ralphina
Ralphina did not stay: her birth mother asked for her back, and Gleason kept both couples childless for the rest of the run.
Q 28Which actress played Trixie Norton as an ex-burlesque dancer in one Honeymooners sketch before the role was recast?
Elaine Stritch
Elaine Stritch played Trixie as a brassy former burlesque dancer; Gleason thought better of it after one sketch and had the part rewritten as a wholesome housewife.
Q 29In the celebrated episode 'The $99,000 Answer', Ralph flubs the composer of which song?
Swanee River
Swanee River was the warm-up Norton had played at the piano all week before every practice song, so when it came up as the first question Ralph could only offer, 'Ed Norton?'
Q 30In 2002 TV Guide ranked The Honeymooners third among the greatest shows ever, behind I Love Lucy and which 1990s sitcom?
Seinfeld
Seinfeld took first place, which left a one-season sitcom from 1955 ranked ahead of every drama, news programme and variety show in television's first half-century.