Q 01/05

Adrian Monk works as a private consultant to the police department of which city?

A) San Francisco

B) Los Angeles

C) Seattle

D) Portland

Answer · why

A) San Francisco

After the pilot was shot in Vancouver and season one in Toronto, the rest of the series was mostly filmed in Los Angeles.

Q 02/05

Which actor plays Adrian Monk, a role that earned him a Golden Globe in 2003?

A) Stanley Tucci

B) Tony Shalhoub

C) Ted Levine

D) John Turturro

Answer · why

B) Tony Shalhoub

He was born the ninth of ten children in a Lebanese Christian household in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Q 03/05

On which cable channel did Monk originally air from 2002 to 2009?

A) TNT

B) USA

C) ABC

D) NBC

Answer · why

B) USA

It was the first Touchstone Television show to air on USA rather than ABC, which had originally developed it.

Q 04/05

How many episodes of Monk were made?

A) 88

B) 100

C) 112

D) 125

Answer · why

D) 125

They were spread over eight seasons, usually with half of each season's 16 episodes airing in midsummer and the rest early the next year.

Q 05/05

Who is credited as the creator of Monk and wrote the pilot?

A) Andy Breckman

B) David Shore

C) David Hoberman

D) Hy Conrad

Answer · why

A) Andy Breckman

He also wrote the 2023 reunion film; the OCD-detective premise itself came from producer David Hoberman in 1998.