Q 01/05

Betty White was born in 1922 in Oak Park, a suburb of which US city?

A) Chicago

B) Detroit

C) Cleveland

D) Milwaukee

Answer · why

A) Chicago

Her family moved to California when she was one, first to Alhambra and then to Los Angeles during the Depression.

Q 02/05

Which character did White play on The Golden Girls?

A) Blanche Devereaux

B) Dorothy Zbornak

C) Sophia Petrillo

D) Rose Nylund

Answer · why

D) Rose Nylund

She was nominated for the lead-actress comedy Emmy in every one of the show's seven seasons and won for the first.

Q 03/05

Her Golden Girls character came from the fictional farming town of St. Olaf in which state?

A) Wisconsin

B) Iowa

C) North Dakota

D) Minnesota

Answer · why

D) Minnesota

The character was Norwegian American and told endless nonsense stories about the town, which the other three women dreaded.

Q 04/05

On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White's character Sue Ann Nivens hosted which fictional TV program?

A) The Happy Homemaker

B) Kitchen Corner

C) Hearth and Home

D) Sue Ann's Sunny Side

Answer · why

A) The Happy Homemaker

The running joke was that Sue Ann's on-air perkiness masked an aggressive, cynical personality off camera.

Q 05/05

Sue Ann Nivens's cooking show aired on the fictional station WJM-TV in which city?

A) Minneapolis

B) St. Paul

C) Chicago

D) Indianapolis

Answer · why

A) Minneapolis

Themed episodes included 'A Salute to Fruit' and 'What's All This Fuss About Famine?'