Q 01/05

Opposite which star did Mary Tyler Moore play a nun in the 1969 film Change of Habit?

A) Frank Sinatra

B) Elvis Presley

C) Dean Martin

D) Paul Newman

Answer · why

B) Elvis Presley

Elvis Presley. He played an inner-city doctor who falls in love with her nun, in what proved to be his final acting role; a year later Moore was back ...

Q 02/05

What were the call letters of the TV station where Mary Richards worked?

A) WKRP

B) WJM

C) KMPL

D) WMTM

Answer · why

B) WJM

She had applied for a secretarial job there, found it filled, and was offered a job on the six o'clock news instead.

Q 03/05

Mary Tyler Moore starred in a doomed 1966 Broadway musical version of which Audrey Hepburn film?

A) How to Steal a Million

B) Love in the Afternoon

C) Breakfast at Tiffany's

D) Roman Holiday

Answer · why

C) Breakfast at Tiffany's

Breakfast at Tiffany's. Moore played Holly Golightly in the troubled show, which impresario David Merrick shut after only four Broadway previews, befo...

Q 04/05

Offered a drink in her job interview, which creamy cocktail does Mary Richards ask Lou Grant for?

A) Whiskey Sour

B) Tom Collins

C) Brandy Alexander

D) Grasshopper

Answer · why

C) Brandy Alexander

Brandy Alexander. She first says no; when Lou says he wouldn't mind some company, she names the dessert cocktail, and he offers her coffee instead.

Q 05/05

Which talk-show host had the WJM newsroom and Mary's apartment rebuilt on stage for a 2008 cast reunion?

A) Ellen DeGeneres

B) Oprah Winfrey

C) Barbara Walters

D) David Letterman

Answer · why

B) Oprah Winfrey

Oprah Winfrey. She has said Mary Richards inspired her to go into television, and she got there quickly: while the sitcom was still on the air she was...