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40 free TV Land trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
TV Land began in 1996 as a home for the shows people grew up with, and it turned nostalgia into a business: wall-to-wall reruns, an awards night for series long off the air, and bronze statues of beloved characters in the cities that claimed them. This quiz covers the channel from every side. There are questions on the launch night and the classic Westerns, sitcoms and dramas in the original lineup, on the statues and where they stand, and on the original comedies the network made in the 2010s, from Hot in Cleveland and Younger to The Exes. It is pitched for anyone who has spent an afternoon with the reruns: classic-TV fans, pub quiz regulars and viewers who remember the channel's own shows. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01TV Land launched in 1996 as a spin-off of which evening programming block known for classic sitcom reruns?
Nick at Nite
Nick at Nite lent the new channel its name as well as its reruns: the network first went on air as Nick at Nite's TV Land.
Q 02The first program TV Land aired in 1996 was an Ed Sullivan episode featuring which band's American debut?
The Beatles
The Beatles opened the schedule in a Best of The Ed Sullivan Show episode that also carried routines by Joan Rivers and Richard Pryor.
Q 03TV Land's first night opened with a Love, American Style episode that served as the pilot for which sitcom?
Happy Days
Happy Days began as an unsold pilot starring Ron Howard, which the anthology recycled as a single 1972 segment before ABC ordered a series.
Q 04TV Land commissioned a life-size bronze statue in Honolulu of which singer, at the site of his 1973 satellite concert?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley's statue was unveiled in 2007 at the arena where Aloha from Hawaii was staged and beamed live to Asia and Oceania.
Q 05Which city, the setting of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, received TV Land's 2002 bronze statue of its star tossing her hat?
Minneapolis
Minneapolis dedicated the statue on Nicollet Mall, the street where the opening credits' famous hat toss was filmed, with Moore herself attending.
Q 06Which Western from TV Land's launch lineup ran for 20 seasons with James Arness as Marshal Matt Dillon?
Gunsmoke
Gunsmoke aired 635 episodes, making it the longest-running scripted American primetime series until The Simpsons overtook it.
Q 07Which sitcom in TV Land's launch lineup was set in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II?
Hogan's Heroes
Hogan's Heroes ran six seasons on CBS, with Bob Crane as the colonel whose captured airmen run a sabotage ring from inside Stalag 13.
Q 08TV Land unveiled a bronze statue in Salem, Massachusetts, for the 40th anniversary of which supernatural 1960s sitcom?
Bewitched
Bewitched had history in the town: the cast filmed an eight-part 1970 story arc there, sending Samantha to a witches' convocation.
Q 09Which former Disney Channel star plays book editor Kelsey Peters in the TV Land comedy-drama Younger?
Hilary Duff
Hilary Duff plays the editor who befriends Sutton Foster's Liza, a 40-year-old single mother passing as a twentysomething to get hired.
Q 10Which sitcom from TV Land's launch lineup follows a New York City attorney who moves to a farm with his glamorous wife?
Green Acres
Green Acres made a star of Arnold, a pig the neighboring Ziffels treat as their son, before CBS cancelled it in the 1971 rural purge.
Q 11Which sitcom in TV Land's original lineup, based on New Yorker cartoons, features a towering butler named Lurch?
The Addams Family
The Addams Family gave names to cartoon characters who had none, and composer Vic Mizzy improvised the theme's finger snaps at his pitch.
Q 12Which married pop duo hosted a 1970s CBS comedy hour that was part of TV Land's original lineup?
Sonny & Cher
Sonny & Cher lost the variety show in 1974 because of their divorce, yet they reunited on screen for a similar series two years later.
Q 13TV Land erected bronze statues of Andy and Opie in Raleigh and which North Carolina town, Andy Griffith's hometown?
Mount Airy
Q 21Which police drama in TV Land's launch lineup opened almost every episode with a briefing and roll call?
Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues won eight Emmy Awards in 1981, a record for a debut season that stood until The West Wing passed it in 2000.
Q 22Which Boston hospital drama in TV Land's first lineup counted a young Denzel Washington among its ensemble cast?
St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere ended on one of television's most debated twists: a boy shaking a snow globe that holds a model of the hospital.
Q 23Which sitcom starring Cedric the Entertainer was spun off from TV Land's Hot in Cleveland?
The Soul Man
Mount Airy also hosts Mayberry Days, a week-long yearly celebration with concerts, parades and appearances by the sitcom's players.
Q 14TV Land's 2004 statue of Bob Newhart as psychologist Robert Hartley sits permanently beside which Chicago landmark?
Navy Pier
Navy Pier received the bronze after a temporary stay on North Michigan Avenue; it seats Hartley facing an empty couch, as if mid-session.
Q 15In Hot in Cleveland, three Los Angeles friends stay in Ohio after their flight to which city is forced to land?
Paris
Paris was the plan for Melanie, Joy and Victoria, who stay put after finding Ohio more welcoming and less youth-obsessed than home.
Q 16TV Land's 2015 rebrand, with a new logo and edgier single-camera comedies, aimed the channel at which age group?
Generation X
Generation X had grown into the channel's audience, and within two months the network had announced the end of its last two multi-camera sitcoms.
Q 17In 2015 TV Land pulled reruns of which series, whose car the General Lee has a Confederate flag on its roof?
The Dukes of Hazzard
The Dukes of Hazzard lost its slot amid the national debate that saw South Carolina take the same battle flag off its State House grounds.
Q 18In TV Land's sitcom Retired at 35, a New Yorker quits his job to join his parents' retirement community in which state?
Florida
Florida is where David finds his parents, played by George Segal and Jessica Walter, in the final stages of separating.
Q 19Which sitcom in TV Land's original lineup is set at the Shady Rest Hotel, run by Kate Bradley and her three daughters?
Petticoat Junction
Petticoat Junction is named for the railway water tower where the Bradley sisters swim, leaving their petticoats draped over the side.
Q 20Marlo Thomas played aspiring actress Ann Marie in which sitcom from TV Land's original 1996 lineup?
That Girl
That Girl was one of the first sitcoms built around an unmarried woman who was neither a domestic nor living with her parents.
The Soul Man grew out of Cedric's 2011 guest appearance on the older sitcom, an episode designed as a backdoor pilot for his own series.
Q 24Which sitcom star co-created TV Land's Happily Divorced with her ex-husband, basing it on their own marriage?
Fran Drescher
Fran Drescher plays a Los Angeles florist whose husband of 18 years comes out as gay, in a show written with her real ex, Peter Marc Jacobson.
Q 25Which 3rd Rock from the Sun actor played couch-potato roommate Haskell Lutz in the TV Land sitcom The Exes?
Wayne Knight
Wayne Knight was reunited on the show with Kristen Johnston, his 3rd Rock co-star, who plays the divorce lawyer renting to three divorced men.
Q 26TV Land's sitcom Kirstie reunited Kirstie Alley with which Cheers co-star, cast as her assistant Thelma?
Rhea Perlman
Rhea Perlman, the wisecracking barmaid Carla on Cheers, plays Thelma, while Seinfeld's Michael Richards plays the Broadway star's driver.
Q 27Which stand-up comedian starred in a TV Land sitcom about raising five children in a two-bedroom New York apartment?
Jim Gaffigan
Jim Gaffigan wrote the show with his wife Jeannie, and the couple ended it after two seasons to spend more time with their real kids.
Q 28Which Bridesmaids star produced the TV Land comedy Nobodies with her husband Ben Falcone and appeared in it as herself?
Melissa McCarthy
Melissa McCarthy backed three Groundlings comedians who play versions of themselves, still waiting for a big break while their friends get famous.
Q 29Which Frasier actress plays English beautician Joy, the Eyebrow Queen of Beverly Hills, in Hot in Cleveland?
Jane Leeves
Jane Leeves, best known as Daphne Moon, plays a beautician whose client list runs to Oprah Winfrey and Ryan Seacrest.
Q 30Which producer, who earlier created Sex and the City, adapted Younger for TV Land from a Pamela Redmond Satran novel?
Darren Star
Darren Star saw the show renewed for a seventh season, which made it the longest-running original series in the network's history.