Q 01/05

What is still attached to Starlett's green gown in Carol Burnett's "Went with the Wind!" sketch?

A) A curtain rod

B) A fireplace poker

C) A stair banister

D) A broom handle

Answer · why

A) A curtain rod

A curtain rod stays threaded through the drapes Starlett turns into a dress. The costume designer swapped it in because he found the script's sagging-...

Q 02/05

Carol Burnett's ear tug at the close of each episode was a silent message to which relative?

A) Her mother

B) Her younger sister

C) Her daughters

D) Her grandmother

Answer · why

D) Her grandmother

Her grandmother, who raised her, got the ear tug as a silent hello from the screen. Burnett kept the gesture going long after her grandmother died.

Q 03/05

In a famed Carol Burnett Show sketch, Tim Conway's rookie in which job numbs himself by mistake?

A) Surgeon

B) Barber

C) Dentist

D) Veterinarian

Answer · why

C) Dentist

Dentist: fresh out of school, Conway's character jabs the Novocaine into his own hand, leg and head while Harvey Korman, the patient in the chair, cra...

Q 04/05

After leaving The Carol Burnett Show, Lyle Waggoner played Steve Trevor in which superhero series?

A) The Bionic Woman

B) Wonder Woman

C) The Secrets of Isis

D) The Incredible Hulk

Answer · why

B) Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman cast Waggoner as Steve Trevor beside Lynda Carter. When the series jumped from the 1940s to the 1970s, he simply carried on as Steve Trev...

Q 05/05

Which trademark sound, self-taught at nine, did Carol Burnett perform on request for studio crowds?

A) A wolf howl

B) A rooster crow

C) A train whistle

D) A Tarzan yell

Answer · why

D) A Tarzan yell

A Tarzan yell was Burnett's party piece, and fans in the studio kept asking for it. She later realized the jungle call doubled as a vocal exercise for...