The Six Million Dollar Man Trivia
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59 free The Six Million Dollar Man trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Gentlemen, we can rebuild him. This quiz covers The Six Million Dollar Man from Martin Caidin's 1972 novel Cyborg through the three 1973 TV movies, the five ABC seasons and the reunion films that finally married Steve Austin and Jaime Sommers in 1994. Expect questions on the bionic eye, the 60 mph legs, the Geiger counter in the arm, the slow-motion running and the electronic sound effect that every kid on the playground imitated. There is plenty on the people too: Lee Majors' real name and football career, Richard Anderson as Oscar Goldman, the three actors who played Rudy Wells, Farrah Fawcett's guest spots, André the Giant as Bigfoot, Lindsay Wagner's Emmy, Max the bionic dog and Sandra Bullock's TV debut as a new bionic woman. A few questions reach the toys, comics, the never-made Six Billion Dollar Man film and the show's odd afterlife in Brazilian politics. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its spin-offs, characters and cast, so the episode titles, dates and dollar figures will satisfy anyone who still owns the Kenner action figure.
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Q 01The Six Million Dollar Man's opening narration promises 'Better, stronger' and which third word?
Faster
Faster. The irony is how the show displayed it: Steve Austin's top-speed runs were filmed in slow motion, the series' signal that his bionics were in use.
Q 02The Six Million Dollar Man was based on which 1972 novel by Martin Caidin?
Cyborg
Cyborg gave the show its hero, but a harder one: Caidin's Steve Austin killed freely, while the TV version was softened until he rarely used deadly force.
Q 03Steve Austin was injured in the crash of what kind of aircraft?
An experimental lifting body
An experimental lifting body: the crash in the opening credits is real NASA film of test pilot Bruce Peterson's 1967 M2-F2 accident, which he survived at the cost of the sight in one eye.
Q 04Which of Steve Austin's body parts were replaced with bionics?
Right arm, both legs and left eye
Right arm, both legs and left eye, on TV at least: in Martin Caidin's novel the bionic arm was the left one, and the eye was a hidden camera he could not see through.
Q 05What did the initials OSI, Steve Austin's employer, stand for?
Office of Scientific Intelligence
Office of Scientific Intelligence, the usual name on screen, replaced the OSO of Martin Caidin's novels and the first pilot film; the CIA had a real office of that name.
Q 06Which US Air Force rank does Steve Austin hold in The Six Million Dollar Man series?
Colonel
Colonel. The first pilot film had made him a civilian, but the second TV movie gave him back the Air Force rank he held in Martin Caidin's novel.
Q 07What was Barney Miller, The Six Million Dollar Man's second bionic man, before his rebuild?
Racing driver
Racing driver: after a bad accident, Monte Markham's Barney Miller is rebuilt in 'The Seven Million Dollar Man' as a backup in case Steve Austin can no longer do the job.
Q 08Which actor played Oscar Goldman, director of the OSI?
Richard Anderson
Richard Anderson later revived the franchise himself: he took the idea for a reunion movie to Universal in 1986 and helped produce the films that followed.
Q 09Which actor played Dr Rudy Wells only in The Six Million Dollar Man's first pilot movie?
Martin Balsam
Martin Balsam played him only in that first film: Alan Oppenheimer took over from the second TV movie, and Martin E. Brooks replaced him in season three.
Q 10Which TV movies followed The Six Million Dollar Man's 1973 pilot?
Wine, Women and War / The Solid Gold Kidnapping
Wine, Women and War / The Solid Gold Kidnapping: both were made under executive producer Glen A. Larson and gave Steve Austin a James Bond gloss that the weekly series dropped.
Q 11Which singer performed the theme song of The Six Million Dollar Man's 1973 TV movies?
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield sang it over the credits of the second and third TV movies; Glen A. Larson wrote the song, and the weekly series dropped it.
Q 12Which jazz saxophonist composed the instrumental theme of the weekly Six Million Dollar Man series?
Oliver Nelson
Oliver Nelson's theme replaced the pop song used on the TV movies, and he went on scoring the show until his sudden death from a heart attack in 1975.
Q 13In The Six Million Dollar Man's 'The Secret of Bigfoot', who turns out to have built the creature?
Visiting aliens
Q 21How did Jaime Sommers suffer the injuries that led to her bionic implants?
A skydiving accident
A skydiving accident: her parachute failed on a jump with Steve, who then had to plead with his reluctant OSI boss to save her with bionics.
Q 22Jaime Sommers's first operation gave her a bionic arm, legs and which other part?
A right ear
A right ear, sensitive enough to hear across great distances: she could crack a safe just by listening to its tumblers.
Q 23Jaime Sommers 'died' at the end of her first storyline; how was she later revealed to have survived?
An experimental cryogenic procedure
Visiting aliens: a torn-off arm reveals Bigfoot is a machine, built to guard explorers from another world who live inside a California mountain.
Q 14According to the speed gauge in the opening credits, how fast could Steve Austin run?
60 mph
60 mph flashes on the gauge in the credits, but the series never settled his true top speed: later gauges and the reunion films pushed it higher.
Q 15Which built-in device was Steve Austin's bionic arm shown to contain early in The Six Million Dollar Man?
A Geiger counter
A Geiger counter, revealed in 'Doomsday, and Counting', when Steve must stop a nuclear explosion at a quake-hit Soviet installation.
Q 16Which environmental condition could shut down Steve Austin's bionics?
Extreme cold
Extreme cold: the first weekly episode established that sub-zero temperatures made his bionic limbs fail, though they recovered once he warmed up.
Q 17The Six Million Dollar Man's 'dit dit dit' bionic sound was first used not for Steve Austin but for which opponent?
A robot double
A robot double: in 'Day of the Robot' thieves kidnap Steve's friend Major Fred Sloan and send a mechanical copy in his place to steal an anti-missile device.
Q 18Which Star Trek actor guest-starred on The Six Million Dollar Man as Josh Lang, an astronaut changed by a space flight?
William Shatner
William Shatner played him in 'Burning Bright': an electrical field in orbit leaves Lang able to communicate with dolphins, but his mind is slipping.
Q 19What had astronaut Steve Austin famously done before the crash that made him bionic?
Walked on the Moon
Walked on the Moon, and he even went back: a two-part story in the final season sends a bionic Steve Austin there to stop a deranged scientist.
Q 20What was Jaime Sommers' profession when she was introduced in a 1975 two-part episode?
Professional tennis player
Professional tennis player: a top-ranked pro and Steve Austin's old sweetheart, she was written to die after two episodes, until viewers protested.
An experimental cryogenic procedure: doctors chilled her body to buy time to repair the clot in her brain, but she woke with no memory of loving Steve.
Q 24Which California town was the home town of Steve Austin, the Six Million Dollar Man?
Ojai
Ojai, a real town: on screen a highway sign hails it as the 'home of American astronaut Steven Austin', and he goes back to buy a ranch, only to fall for Jaime Sommers again.
Q 25Who first played Bigfoot in The Six Million Dollar Man, in the 1976 two-parter 'The Secret of Bigfoot'?
André the Giant
André the Giant wore the suit only for that first story; when Bigfoot returned, Ted Cassidy, Lurch of The Addams Family, took over the role.
Q 26In The Six Million Dollar Man's 'Death Probe', Steve Austin battles a runaway Soviet probe built to explore which planet?
Venus
Venus: built from a new alloy to survive that planet, the probe crashes in Wyoming and ploughs on as if it had arrived, threatening a small town.
Q 27Lee Majors was born with what name?
Harvey Lee Yeary
Harvey Lee Yeary took his stage surname from his boyhood hero Johnny Majors, the University of Tennessee football star.
Q 28What ended Lee Majors' college football career at Eastern Kentucky University?
A severe back injury
A severe back injury ended his college playing days; by most accounts an NFL tryout offer came anyway, but he ended up in Los Angeles, acting.
Q 29Before bionics, Lee Majors played Heath Barkley in which 1960s Western series starring Barbara Stanwyck?
The Big Valley
The Big Valley was his big break: he beat a field of young hopefuls that included Burt Reynolds to play Heath Barkley.
Q 30Lee Majors starred as Colt Seavers in which 1980s series?
The Fall Guy
The Fall Guy: Majors also sang its theme song, 'Unknown Stuntman', and returned for a cameo when Ryan Gosling played Colt Seavers in the 2024 film.