Q 01/05

Which best-selling author created ER, based on a script he had written in 1974?

A) Michael Crichton

B) Robin Cook

C) Tom Clancy

D) John Grisham

Answer · why

A) Michael Crichton

Michael Crichton, a Harvard-trained doctor, wrote the ER pilot script in 1974 drawing on his own training; it sat unproduced for twenty years before N...

Q 02/05

Which film director developed ER as a movie before co-producing it as a television series?

A) Robert Zemeckis

B) Steven Spielberg

C) Ron Howard

D) James Cameron

Answer · why

B) Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg. He started developing the script as a feature film, was sidetracked by another project, and left it on the shelf for years.

Q 03/05

Which long-running NBC sitcom premiered three days after ER in 1994?

A) Seinfeld

B) Friends

C) Frasier

D) Mad About You

Answer · why

B) Friends

Friends. George Clooney and Noah Wyle guest-starred on it in 1995 as two doctors who date Monica and Rachel, though not as their ER characters.

Q 04/05

Which ER character was played by William H. Macy?

A) Dr. David Morgenstern

B) Dr. Donald Anspaugh

C) Dr. Jack Kayson

D) Dr. Carl Vucelich

Answer · why

A) Dr. David Morgenstern

Dr. David Morgenstern. In the pilot he tells Greene, 'You set the tone', and in season 8 a dying Greene hands the same words on to Carter.

Q 05/05

ER is set in the emergency room of which fictional Chicago hospital?

A) County General

B) Princeton-Plainsboro

C) Mercy West

D) St. Eligius

Answer · why

A) County General

County General. It was modelled on Chicago's real Cook County Hospital, yet most scenes were shot on a soundstage in Burbank, with cast and crew flyin...