Q 01/05

Which Family Feud host was named after Broderick Crawford, gruff star of TV's Highway Patrol?

A) Richard Dawson

B) Steve Harvey

C) Ray Combs

D) Louie Anderson

Answer · why

B) Steve Harvey

Steve Harvey was born Broderick Stephen Harvey in 1957, while the series was still in its first run. He revealed the tribute himself on an episode of ...

Q 02/05

Which police radio code, meaning 'acknowledged', rings out constantly over Highway Patrol's car radios?

A) 10-4

B) 10-7

C) 10-20

D) 10-33

Answer · why

A) 10-4

10-4 was so central to the show that its reruns were sold to stations under the title Ten-Four. The ten-codes themselves were devised for the Illinois...

Q 03/05

Which Los Angeles policeman turned writer penned Highway Patrol scripts under the name Robert Wesley?

A) Rod Serling

B) Stirling Silliphant

C) Gene Roddenberry

D) Joseph Wambaugh

Answer · why

C) Gene Roddenberry

Gene Roddenberry wrote five episodes and left the LAPD in 1956 to write full time. A decade later he created Star Trek.

Q 04/05

Which future Oscar-winning director played a motorcycle gang member in a 1956 episode of Highway Patrol?

A) Robert Redford

B) Sydney Pollack

C) Warren Beatty

D) Clint Eastwood

Answer · why

D) Clint Eastwood

Clint Eastwood was still scraping by on bit parts, two years before the Western series Rawhide gave him his breakthrough. That same year he also playe...

Q 05/05

Which 1949 political drama won Broderick Crawford the Best Actor Oscar, years before Highway Patrol?

A) Born Yesterday

B) All the King's Men

C) State of the Union

D) A Lion Is in the Streets

Answer · why

B) All the King's Men

All the King's Men won him the Oscar over John Wayne, who was nominated for Sands of Iwo Jima. The film also took Best Picture.