Q 01/05

Carlton Banks's signature dance on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is set to which Tom Jones song?

A) It's Not Unusual

B) What's New Pussycat?

C) Green, Green Grass of Home

D) She's a Lady

Answer · why

A) It's Not Unusual

It's Not Unusual: Alfonso Ribeiro later sued the makers of Fortnite over the dance, but the US Copyright Office refused to register it as choreography...

Q 02/05

Who played the second Aunt Vivian on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air after Janet Hubert left?

A) Phylicia Rashad

B) Marla Gibbs

C) Anna Maria Horsford

D) Daphne Maxwell Reid

Answer · why

D) Daphne Maxwell Reid

Daphne Maxwell Reid: she played Aunt Viv for the final three seasons, and Janet Hubert and Will Smith only spoke again 27 years later, on the 2020 reu...

Q 03/05

Martin Payne, played by Martin Lawrence, started the sitcom Martin as a DJ at which fictional Detroit station?

A) WKRP

B) WJAM

C) WMLK

D) WZUP

Answer · why

D) WZUP

WZUP: in later seasons Martin leaves the radio booth to host his own TV talk show, Word on the Street.

Q 04/05

Living Single followed six friends sharing a brownstone in which New York neighbourhood?

A) Harlem, Manhattan

B) Fort Greene, Brooklyn

C) Jamaica, Queens

D) Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Answer · why

D) Prospect Heights, Brooklyn

Yvette Lee Bowser created it for Fox in 1993, a year before Friends used a similar premise.

Q 05/05

On The Cosby Show, what was Cliff Huxtable's medical specialty?

A) Obstetrics

B) Pediatrics

C) Dermatology

D) Psychiatry

Answer · why

A) Obstetrics

Obstetrics: Bill Cosby first pitched Cliff as a blue-collar limousine driver, until his wife, Camille, persuaded him to make the parents a doctor and ...

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