Q 01/05

A lecture by which TV science educator gave the creators of Numb3rs the idea for their crime drama?

A) Brian Greene

B) Bill Nye

C) Michio Kaku

D) Adam Savage

Answer · why

B) Bill Nye

Bill Nye's talk on getting children excited about math sparked the series. He later turned up in several episodes himself, playing an engineering prof...

Q 02/05

Which actor, once head elf Bernard in The Santa Clause, plays math prodigy Charlie Eppes on Numb3rs?

A) Adam Brody

B) Jesse Eisenberg

C) David Krumholtz

D) Seth Green

Answer · why

C) David Krumholtz

David Krumholtz beat more than a hundred actors to the part, helped by his knack for making the math sound natural. He later admitted that he had fail...

Q 03/05

Rob Morrow, FBI agent Don Eppes on Numb3rs, first found fame as a New York doctor on which series?

A) St. Elsewhere

B) Chicago Hope

C) Doogie Howser, M.D.

D) Northern Exposure

Answer · why

D) Northern Exposure

Northern Exposure made Morrow a star as Joel Fleischman, a city physician startled to be posted to an icy, isolated Alaskan town. The part earned him ...

Q 04/05

Judd Hirsch, father Alan Eppes on Numb3rs, won two Emmys as Alex Rieger on which classic sitcom?

A) Cheers

B) Taxi

C) Soap

D) Alice

Answer · why

B) Taxi

Taxi ran from 1978 to 1983 with Hirsch in the lead. His Numb3rs role was a recasting: another actor played the father in a first pilot that never aire...

Q 05/05

Which American broadcast network aired all six seasons of the crime drama Numb3rs on Friday nights?

A) CBS

B) NBC

C) ABC

D) Fox

Answer · why

A) CBS

CBS launched the series in January 2005 with a short first season of thirteen episodes. After a Sunday premiere it moved to Fridays and stayed in that...