Q 01/05

Oliver Douglas gives up what career in Manhattan to become a farmer?

A) Attorney

B) Stockbroker

C) Surgeon

D) Advertising executive

Answer · why

A) Attorney

Attorney. Oliver walks away from a thriving Manhattan law practice to chase a lifelong dream of farming, despite knowing nothing whatever about how it...

Q 02/05

Which Hungarian-born actress played Lisa Douglas?

A) Zsa Zsa Gabor

B) Eva Gabor

C) Magda Gabor

D) Ilona Massey

Answer · why

B) Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor. Her Lisa is dragged to the farm against her will, yet she makes sense of Hooterville's upside-down logic far more easily than her husband e...

Q 03/05

CBS put Green Acres on its 1965 schedule without first asking producer Paul Henning for what?

A) A finished script

B) A pilot episode

C) A sponsor

D) A cast list

Answer · why

B) A pilot episode

A pilot episode. Henning already had two rural hits on the network, so one of its executives promised him that a third series would go straight on the...

Q 04/05

Fifteen years before it reached television, Green Acres began life in which form?

A) A Broadway play

B) A newspaper comic strip

C) A radio comedy

D) A comic novel

Answer · why

C) A radio comedy

A radio comedy. Granby's Green Acres ran for one summer in 1950 and then vanished, its hero a man from a city bank who makes a complete hash of farm l...

Q 05/05

Before Hooterville, Oliver and Lisa Douglas live in a penthouse on which Manhattan avenue?

A) Fifth Avenue

B) Madison Avenue

C) Lexington Avenue

D) Park Avenue

Answer · why

D) Park Avenue

Park Avenue. Oliver swaps the penthouse for a tumbledown farm he bought without ever setting eyes on it, and Lisa is uprooted very much against her wi...