Q 01/05

On Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray Barone is a sportswriter for which newspaper?

A) Newsday

B) New York Post

C) The Daily News

D) The Long Island Press

Answer · why

A) Newsday

Newsday is Ray's paper, and his father wants in: after Reader's Digest prints a piece of his, Frank writes a column of his own and asks Ray to hand it...

Q 02/05

Which network aired Everybody Loves Raymond for its entire nine-season run?

A) NBC

B) CBS

C) ABC

D) Fox

Answer · why

B) CBS

CBS first put the show on Friday nights, where it flopped; moved to Mondays in March 1997, it found its audience and stayed on the network until 2005.

Q 03/05

Whose late-night show led to Everybody Loves Raymond?

A) Jay Leno

B) David Letterman

C) Conan O'Brien

D) Johnny Carson

Answer · why

B) David Letterman

David Letterman's company signed Ray Romano after a five-minute Late Show set in 1995: 'by the end we already had lawyers lined up', its chief said. T...

Q 04/05

In which Long Island town do the Barones live?

A) Massapequa

B) Levittown

C) Hicksville

D) Lynbrook

Answer · why

D) Lynbrook

Lynbrook, in Nassau County, is home to the Barones, though the family they are drawn from stayed in the city: Ray Romano grew up in Forest Hills, Quee...

Q 05/05

Who created Everybody Loves Raymond?

A) Steve Skrovan

B) Philip Rosenthal

C) Tucker Cawley

D) Chuck Lorre

Answer · why

B) Philip Rosenthal

Philip Rosenthal kept the show close to Ray Romano's real family because, he said, it was funnier than anything he could have dreamed up; his own rela...