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

Chicago's suburb of Oak Park was home only briefly: her parents moved to California when she was a toddler, so she grew up in Los Angeles, the city wh...

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

Rose Nylund nearly went to someone else: White was first lined up as man-hungry Blanche, until the pilot's director had her swap parts with Rue McClan...

Q 03/05

Betty White's 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

Minnesota: St. Olaf's odd customs fuelled the long, rambling stories her character told, and White insisted the woman telling them was 'not dumb, just...

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 Happy Homemaker was Sue Ann's saccharine WJM cooking-and-homemaking show; the running joke was that her on-air perkiness masked a man-hungry, acid...

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) Cincinnati

D) Indianapolis

Answer · why

A) Minneapolis

Minneapolis was home to WJM-TV, where Mary Richards worked in the newsroom and Sue Ann's show aired; a bronze statue of Mary tossing her hat now stand...