Q 01/05

The Addams Family began as single-panel cartoons in which magazine?

A) Esquire

B) Punch

C) The Saturday Evening Post

D) The New Yorker

Answer · why

D) The New Yorker

The New Yorker printed the first one in 1938: a vacuum-cleaner salesman making his pitch in a haunted mansion. The brood he met there would stay namel...

Q 02/05

In the first episode of Netflix's Wednesday, what does Wednesday Addams release into her school's pool to avenge Pugsley?

A) Piranhas

B) Leeches

C) Electric eels

D) Jellyfish

Answer · why

A) Piranhas

Piranhas, two bagfuls of them, tipped in on the water polo team that bullied her brother. The stunt gets her expelled and packed off to her parents' o...

Q 03/05

For how long were the family members nameless in the cartoons?

A) Only for the first year

B) Until Addams's death

C) Until the 1960s

D) They were always named

Answer · why

C) Until the 1960s

The daughters got their names with a 1962 doll line; the father and son were named when the TV series debuted in 1964.

Q 04/05

Which two Addams Family members were first given names for a 1962 line of dolls?

A) Morticia and Wednesday

B) Gomez and Morticia

C) Gomez and Pugsley

D) Fester and Lurch

Answer · why

A) Morticia and Wednesday

Morticia and Wednesday were christened for the dolls. The rest stayed anonymous until the 1964 sitcom's producer told Charles Addams that every charac...

Q 05/05

Which network premiered The Addams Family in September 1964?

A) CBS

B) DuMont

C) ABC

D) NBC

Answer · why

C) ABC

ABC put it on Friday nights from September 18, 1964, one evening after unveiling Bewitched, so the network's witch and its ghoulish family arrived in ...