Q 01/05

Bonanza, the Western about the Cartwright family, ran from 1959 to 1973 on which US network?

A) NBC

B) CBS

C) ABC

D) DuMont

Answer · why

A) NBC

NBC aired Bonanza for all 14 seasons, from September 1959 to January 1973, making it the network's longest-running Western.

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 Ponderosa takes its name from the ponderosa pine, the tall yellow pine common across the mountain West and the Sierra Nevada.

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

Lorne Greene played Ben Cartwright for all 14 seasons; he was 44 when the series began, only 13 years older than Pernell Roberts, who played his eldes...

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

Virginia City, the real Nevada boomtown, was the Cartwrights' nearest town; they rode in to see the sheriff, and the show's original town set was mode...

Q 05/05

The Cartwrights' thousand-square-mile ranch in Bonanza 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

Lake Tahoe is the body of water; the fictional ranch covered the Nevada side east of the lake, and the opening map burns away to reveal the Cartwright...