Q 01/05

What did North Carolina rename in Andy Griffith's honor near his hometown in 2002?

A) A stretch of highway

B) A state park

C) A regional airport

D) A river bridge

Answer · why

A) A stretch of highway

A stretch of highway: part of US 52 became the Andy Griffith Parkway, and Griffith himself came home to speak at the dedication.

Q 02/05

Andy Griffith earned a degree in what field from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill?

A) Law

B) Drama

C) Music

D) Education

Answer · why

C) Music

Griffith graduated from UNC in 1949 with a bachelor's degree in music, having entered as a pre-divinity student before switching majors.

Q 03/05

In the 1969 comedy 'Angel in My Pocket', Andy Griffith played what kind of professional?

A) A minister

B) A sheriff

C) A schoolteacher

D) A lawyer

Answer · why

A) A minister

A minister: Griffith's Reverend Sam Whitehead takes his first pulpit in a feuding Kansas town, where his reckless brother-in-law turns the church boil...

Q 04/05

In a 1963 'Andy Griffith Show' episode, which animal becomes a walking bomb after eating dynamite?

A) A goat

B) A mule

C) A pig

D) A hound dog

Answer · why

A) A goat

A goat belonging to a local farmer swallows the dynamite in 'The Loaded Goat', leaving Andy and Barney to coax him gently out of town before anything ...

Q 05/05

In which 1984 true-crime miniseries did Griffith play a prosecutor, two years before 'Matlock' began?

A) Fatal Vision

B) The Burning Bed

C) The Executioner's Song

D) Helter Skelter

Answer · why

A) Fatal Vision

Fatal Vision cast Griffith as the prosecutor pursuing Green Beret doctor Jeffrey MacDonald; the performance is credited with inspiring the lawyer seri...