Q 01/05

Which band's song plays over the abrupt cut-to-black final scene of The Sopranos in 2007?

A) Journey

B) Foreigner

C) Boston

D) Styx

Answer · why

A) Journey

Journey. Singer Steve Perry withheld permission for 'Don't Stop Believin'' until three days before the finale, fearing it would play over Tony's death...

Q 02/05

Tony Soprano runs a Mafia crew based in which US state?

A) New York

B) New Jersey

C) Pennsylvania

D) Connecticut

Answer · why

B) New Jersey

New Jersey. Creator David Chase grew up there, and he partly modelled Tony's outfit on the state's real DeCavalcante crime family.

Q 03/05

Which actor played mob boss Tony Soprano in The Sopranos?

A) Michael Imperioli

B) James Gandolfini

C) Steven Van Zandt

D) Joe Pantoliano

Answer · why

B) James Gandolfini

James Gandolfini. He wasn't the only one to read for Tony: rock guitarist Steven Van Zandt, who had never acted, auditioned too, and David Chase then ...

Q 04/05

David Simon's HBO drama The Wire is set in which American city?

A) Philadelphia

B) Detroit

C) Cleveland

D) Baltimore

Answer · why

D) Baltimore

Baltimore. Real local figures took small parts: Ed Norris, once the city's police commissioner, played a homicide detective who shares his name.

Q 05/05

Season two of The Wire shifted its focus to which part of the city?

A) The port and its dockworkers

B) The city's public schools

C) The mayor's re-election bid

D) The daily newspaper's newsroom

Answer · why

A) The port and its dockworkers

The port and its dockworkers. The season was built around the decline of the American working class: union stevedores short of work are drawn into smu...