Q 01/05

In The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Will is sent from which city to live with his wealthy relatives?

A) Baltimore

B) Chicago

C) Detroit

D) Philadelphia

Answer · why

D) Philadelphia

The show ran on NBC from 1990 to 1996. Quincy Jones was pitched the idea and produced it; a dramatic reimagining, Bel-Air, arrived on Peacock in 2022.

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

The recasting became one of TV's most famous, and Will and Carlton acknowledged it in-show with a joke.

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

He later hosted the talk show Word on the Street. The Fox sitcom ran five seasons from 1992 to 1997.

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

The Cosby Show spent how many consecutive seasons as television's top-rated show?

A) Three

B) Four

C) Five

D) Six

Answer · why

C) Five

Only All in the Family has matched that. The Huxtables were an upper-middle-class Brooklyn family; the show ran on NBC from 1984 to 1992 for 201 episo...