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) Ken Kwapis

Answer · why

C) Paul Feig

Paul Feig wrote the pilot at a low point: he had lost his acting job on Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and sunk his savings into a film of his own.

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

Judd Apatow kept hiring the show's actors for his later projects, and has called that his way of refusing to accept that the series was cancelled.

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

NBC showed episodes out of order and kept pulling the series off the air for weeks at a time, so viewers who went looking for it often found it wasn't...

Q 04/05

In the Halloween episode of Freaks and Geeks, Bill goes trick-or-treating dressed as which 1970s heroine?

A) Wonder Woman

B) The Bionic Woman

C) Princess Leia

D) Police Woman

Answer · why

B) The Bionic Woman

The Bionic Woman: Bill rehearses the part in front of a bedroom mirror before heading out, and the night ends with Lindsay, out egging with the freaks...

Q 05/05

In Freaks and Geeks, the Weir siblings attend a high school named after which U.S. president?

A) Grover Cleveland

B) Woodrow Wilson

C) William McKinley

D) Theodore Roosevelt

Answer · why

C) William McKinley

William McKinley High is invented, but its town carries a real name: the show's creator, who went to Chippewa Valley High, set his series in a suburb ...