Q 01/05

Unusually for a TV lawman, Sheriff Andy Taylor of The Andy Griffith Show rarely carries what?

A) A gun

B) A badge

C) Handcuffs

D) A notebook

Answer · why

A) A gun

A gun: Andy keeps the peace by talking, and a magazine story on 'the sheriff without a gun' backfires when it lures crooks posing as TV producers, who...

Q 02/05

Why is Sheriff Andy Taylor raising Opie on his own in The Andy Griffith Show?

A) He is a widower

B) He is divorced

C) Opie is his nephew

D) His wife is overseas

Answer · why

A) He is a widower

He is a widower, so when housekeeper Rose leaves to get married in the first episode, Andy's Aunt Bee moves in to run the house, and Opie at first ref...

Q 03/05

Who played Opie, Andy Taylor's young son?

A) Clint Howard

B) Ron Howard

C) Jerry Mathers

D) Barry Livingston

Answer · why

B) Ron Howard

Ron Howard, billed as Ronny, played Opie in all eight seasons, and as an adult moved from acting to directing, winning an Oscar for directing A Beauti...

Q 04/05

Who played Andy's Aunt Bee, his housekeeper and Opie's surrogate mother?

A) Frances Bavier

B) Irene Ryan

C) Bea Benaderet

D) Marion Lorne

Answer · why

A) Frances Bavier

Frances Bavier was not Aunt Bee at first: in the 1960 pilot she played another townswoman, Henrietta Perkins. Recast as Andy's aunt, she stayed all ei...

Q 05/05

Which president was elected five weeks after The Andy Griffith Show premiered?

A) Eisenhower

B) Kennedy

C) Johnson

D) Nixon

Answer · why

B) Kennedy

Kennedy won on November 8, 1960, five weeks after the October 3 premiere. The show outlasted his presidency and bowed out in 1968 as the top-rated ser...