Q 01/05

Which cheap wine is Fred Sanford's drink of choice, the base for cocktails of his own invention?

A) Thunderbird

B) Ripple

C) Night Train

D) Boone's Farm

Answer · why

B) Ripple

Ripple. Fred stretches it into home-made blends with names to match, such as 'Champipple' and, with Beaujolais, 'Beaujolipple'.

Q 02/05

Sanford and Son was adapted from which British sitcom?

A) Are You Being Served?

B) Till Death Us Do Part

C) Man About the House

D) Steptoe and Son

Answer · why

D) Steptoe and Son

Steptoe and Son. The BBC original was about a white Cockney father and son in London; the American producers kept the squabbling and recast them as a ...

Q 03/05

Who played Fred G. Sanford?

A) Sherman Hemsley

B) Redd Foxx

C) Flip Wilson

D) Slappy White

Answer · why

B) Redd Foxx

Fred Sanford was actually the name of the comedian's own father and brother.

Q 04/05

Which friend of Lamont's does Fred Sanford keep calling a convict?

A) Julio

B) Ah Chew

C) Rollo

D) Melvin

Answer · why

C) Rollo

Rollo. Fred is deeply suspicious of Lamont's friend, yet when the show was revived as Sanford in 1980, Rollo came back with him.

Q 05/05

What business do Fred and Lamont Sanford run?

A) A garage

B) A diner

C) A barbershop

D) A junkyard

Answer · why

D) A junkyard

A junkyard. Lamont left high school to work it with his father, and stays on more out of love for Fred than for the trade.