Q 01/05

On which network did Bonanza originally air from 1959 to 1973?

A) NBC

B) CBS

C) ABC

D) DuMont

Answer · why

A) NBC

It became the network's longest-running Western, and NBC's parent RCA used its color broadcasts to sell color TV sets.

Q 02/05

What is the name of the Cartwright family ranch?

A) The Shiloh

B) The Barkley

C) The Ponderosa

D) The High Chaparral

Answer · why

C) The Ponderosa

The name comes from the ponderosa pine common across the West.

Q 03/05

Who played patriarch Ben Cartwright?

A) Dan Blocker

B) Pernell Roberts

C) Michael Landon

D) Lorne Greene

Answer · why

D) Lorne Greene

Greene later played another patriarch, the fleet commander in the original Battlestar Galactica.

Q 04/05

Which real Nevada town was the closest to the Cartwright ranch?

A) Carson City

B) Virginia City

C) Silver Springs

D) Gold Hill

Answer · why

B) Virginia City

The show's title itself refers to the Comstock Lode silver strike beneath the town.

Q 05/05

The Cartwright ranch sat on the eastern shore of which body of water?

A) Pyramid Lake

B) Mono Lake

C) Walker Lake

D) Lake Tahoe

Answer · why

D) Lake Tahoe

The famous opening sequence was filmed in a meadow on the lake's east side near Round Hill, Nevada.