Q 01/05

What was Twin Peaks originally going to be titled, before the setting moved to the Pacific Northwest?

A) North Dakota

B) Northwest Passage

C) Peyton Place

D) Blue Velvet II

Answer · why

A) North Dakota

North Dakota's lack of forests and mountains prompted the change; Northwest Passage became the pilot's title instead.

Q 02/05

Which unsolved 1908 murder partly inspired the Laura Palmer story?

A) Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles

B) Mary Phagan in Atlanta

C) Grace Brown in the Adirondacks

D) Hazel Irene Drew in Sand Lake, New York

Answer · why

D) Hazel Irene Drew in Sand Lake, New York

Frost and Lynch imagined a girl next door leading a 'desperate double life' that ends in murder.

Q 03/05

Lynch and Frost first worked together on a screenplay about which star, for a film that was never made?

A) Judy Garland

B) James Dean

C) Marilyn Monroe

D) Elvis Presley

Answer · why

C) Marilyn Monroe

Venus Descending, based on the book Goddess, was dropped by Warner Bros., but the two became friends.

Q 04/05

How long did Lynch and Frost take to write the pilot screenplay after three months of talking about it?

A) 10 days

B) Six months

C) One weekend

D) A year

Answer · why

A) 10 days

They pitched ABC in a ten-minute meeting during the 1988 writers' strike with little more than an image and a concept.

Q 05/05

What was the budget for the two-hour pilot?

A) $1.1 million

B) $2 million

C) $500,000

D) $4 million

Answer · why

D) $4 million

ABC then bought seven episodes at $1.1 million apiece.