Q 01/05

Who created Freaks and Geeks, drawing on his own high-school years in Michigan?

A) Mike White

B) Jake Kasdan

C) Paul Feig

D) Judd Apatow

Answer · why

C) Paul Feig

He wrote the pilot as a spec script and later directed The Heat and Spy.

Q 02/05

Which producer said everything he had done since was 'revenge for the people who cancelled Freaks and Geeks'?

A) Judd Apatow

B) Gabe Sachs

C) Jake Kasdan

D) Paul Feig

Answer · why

A) Judd Apatow

He kept casting the show's actors in his later films and in his next series, which also lasted one season.

Q 03/05

On which network did Freaks and Geeks originally air from September 1999?

A) Fox

B) NBC

C) ABC

D) The WB

Answer · why

B) NBC

It was scheduled erratically and against a hit game show, and was cancelled before every episode had aired.

Q 04/05

During which school year is Freaks and Geeks set?

A) 1983-84

B) 1977-78

C) 1985-86

D) 1980-81

Answer · why

D) 1980-81

Clearing period music by Styx, Rush, Cheap Trick and Van Halen ate up much of the budget and later delayed the DVD.

Q 05/05

The Weir siblings attend a school named after which U.S. president?

A) Grover Cleveland

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) William McKinley

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Answer · why

C) William McKinley

The show's fictional suburb, Chippewa, is named after the creator's real school, Chippewa Valley High.