Q 01/05

Which game show won Most Popular Television Program at the very first Emmys in 1949?

A) What's My Line?

B) Beat the Clock

C) Pantomime Quiz

D) Truth or Consequences

Answer · why

C) Pantomime Quiz

Pantomime Quiz aired on local Los Angeles TV, and only Los Angeles programs could compete at that first ceremony.

Q 02/05

Which Netflix series became the first streaming show to win Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series, in 2021?

A) Unorthodox

B) The Queen's Gambit

C) When They See Us

D) Behind Her Eyes

Answer · why

B) The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit won that award, yet its star Anya Taylor-Joy lost lead actress to Kate Winslet for Mare of Easttown.

Q 03/05

The name "Emmy" is said to come from industry slang for what piece of equipment?

A) A vacuum-tube amplifier

B) A studio boom microphone

C) An image orthicon tube

D) A kinescope recorder

Answer · why

C) An image orthicon tube

An image orthicon tube was nicknamed Immy, the name engineer Harry Lubcke suggested before members changed it to Emmy to suit a female statuette.

Q 04/05

Which name for the award was rejected because it was also a famous World War II general's nickname?

A) Mac

B) Monty

C) Hap

D) Ike

Answer · why

D) Ike

Ike was Syd Cassyd's suggestion, after the iconoscope camera tube, but members wanted a name less tied to war hero Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Q 05/05

Which actor won four Lead Actor Emmys as Breaking Bad's chemistry teacher turned drug lord?

A) Aaron Paul

B) Bob Odenkirk

C) Bryan Cranston

D) Giancarlo Esposito

Answer · why

C) Bryan Cranston

Bryan Cranston got the part after Vince Gilligan remembered his villain on The X-Files, even though AMC executives were at first reluctant.