Q 01/05

Which M*A*S*H character appears in all 11 seasons?

A) Radar O'Reilly

B) Father Mulcahy

C) Colonel Potter

D) B.J. Hunnicutt

Answer · why

B) Father Mulcahy

Father Mulcahy lasted all 11 seasons, one of only four characters to do so; the show ran more than three times as long as the three-year war it depict...

Q 02/05

Why is the 4077th's company clerk, Corporal O'Reilly, nicknamed Radar?

A) He trained as a radar operator

B) He hears choppers before anyone else

C) He mans the camp's radio set

D) He tracks every supply truck

Answer · why

B) He hears choppers before anyone else

He hears choppers before anyone else: Radar announces incoming wounded while the sky still sounds empty, and he tends to finish his colonel's sentence...

Q 03/05

What was Major Margaret Houlihan's famous nickname in M*A*S*H?

A) Iron Maiden

B) Sweet Cheeks

C) The Baroness

D) Hot Lips

Answer · why

D) Hot Lips

Hot Lips: the nickname stuck after Margaret's tryst with Frank Burns was broadcast over the camp PA in the 1970 film, and the TV series used it from i...

Q 04/05

Henry Blake left a medical practice in which Illinois city to command the 4077th?

A) Peoria

B) Bloomington

C) Springfield

D) Rockford

Answer · why

B) Bloomington

Bloomington, Illinois: the series made Blake a reservist called up from his private practice there, where the 1970 film had him a career Army doctor.

Q 05/05

Which actor played Captain 'Trapper' John McIntyre in the first three seasons of M*A*S*H?

A) Wayne Rogers

B) Mike Farrell

C) McLean Stevenson

D) Larry Linville

Answer · why

A) Wayne Rogers

Wayne Rogers left after season three, weary of Trapper playing second banana to Hawkeye when the two surgeons had been pitched to him as equals.