Q 01/05

Robert Conrad, who played Pappy Boyington, was best known as a Secret Service agent in which 1960s series?

A) The Wild Wild West

B) Mission: Impossible

C) The Avengers

D) Hawaii Five-O

Answer · why

A) The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West ran on CBS from 1965 to 1969, with Conrad doing most of his own stunts and fight scenes. He was later inducted into the Hollywood S...

Q 02/05

John Larroquette, pilot Bob Anderson in Baa Baa Black Sheep, later won four straight Emmys on which sitcom?

A) Family Ties

B) Night Court

C) Newhart

D) Barney Miller

Answer · why

B) Night Court

Night Court cast Larroquette as prosecutor Dan Fielding. Bob Anderson had been his first regular series role, shortly after he narrated the opening of...

Q 03/05

Which British rock guitarist, fresh from a best-selling live album, guest-starred in the Black Sheep Squadron finale?

A) George Harrison

B) Jeff Beck

C) Peter Frampton

D) Eric Clapton

Answer · why

C) Peter Frampton

Peter Frampton turned up in A Little Bit of England, two years after Frampton Comes Alive! became the top-selling album of 1976. The episode leaves do...

Q 04/05

Which kind of Japanese vessel pulled the real Pappy Boyington from the sea when his fighter went down near Rabaul?

A) A destroyer

B) A patrol boat

C) A hospital ship

D) A submarine

Answer · why

D) A submarine

A submarine, the I-181, picked him up and delivered him to Rabaul as a prisoner, then was itself sunk 13 days later. Boyington spent the remaining 20 ...

Q 05/05

Red West, chief mechanic Andy Micklin in Black Sheep Squadron, was a longtime bodyguard for which singer?

A) Elvis Presley

B) Frank Sinatra

C) Johnny Cash

D) Jerry Lee Lewis

Answer · why

A) Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley had known West since their Tennessee school days, and West co-wrote songs with him. After being fired, West co-wrote a tell-all book tha...