Q 01/05

Which rock guitarist did the actress who played Barbara on One Day at a Time marry in 1981, midway through its run?

A) Richie Sambora

B) Lindsey Buckingham

C) Eddie Van Halen

D) Joe Walsh

Answer · why

C) Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen married the sitcom's Barbara in 1981, three years before the final episode aired. Their son Wolfgang was born in 1991.

Q 02/05

In the 1975 sitcom One Day at a Time, Ann Romano moves her daughters from Logansport to which Midwestern city?

A) Indianapolis

B) Grand Rapids

C) Cincinnati

D) Milwaukee

Answer · why

A) Indianapolis

Indianapolis is where the newly divorced Ann starts over, though every episode was taped before a studio audience in Hollywood.

Q 03/05

Which actress plays Lydia, grandmother of the Alvarez family, in Netflix's One Day at a Time?

A) Chita Rivera

B) Rita Moreno

C) Sônia Braga

D) María Conchita Alonso

Answer · why

B) Rita Moreno

Rita Moreno was the first actor announced for the reboot. She said she took the part on the condition that Lydia be sexual.

Q 04/05

Grandmother Lydia of Netflix's One Day at a Time fled which country, the ancestral homeland of the Alvarez family?

A) Mexico

B) Panama

C) Colombia

D) Cuba

Answer · why

D) Cuba

Cuba is the homeland Lydia left after Fidel Castro took power. The reboot reimagined the 1975 sitcom around a Latino family.

Q 05/05

Which producer developed the 1975 One Day at a Time and returned in his nineties to produce the Netflix reboot?

A) Norman Lear

B) Garry Marshall

C) Carl Reiner

D) James L. Brooks

Answer · why

A) Norman Lear

Norman Lear, born in 1922, was an executive producer on both versions. His company first pitched rebuilding the sitcom around a Latino family.