Q 01/05

Breaking Bad is set in which New Mexico city, chosen over Riverside, California, for its tax breaks?

A) Santa Fe

B) Las Cruces

C) Albuquerque

D) Roswell

Answer · why

C) Albuquerque

Albuquerque was Sony's suggestion: Vince Gilligan's early scripts were set in Riverside until New Mexico's production incentives moved the show, and t...

Q 02/05

Which actor, who lost his right eye to cancer at three, played the rumpled Lieutenant Columbo?

A) Jack Klugman

B) Peter Falk

C) Dennis Weaver

D) Karl Malden

Answer · why

B) Peter Falk

Peter Falk's artificial eye gave Columbo his trademark squint, and the shabby raincoat was Falk's own coat. He won four Emmys in the role between 1972...

Q 03/05

Who played Holmes opposite Martin Freeman's Watson in the BBC's Sherlock?

A) Jonathan Rhys Meyers

B) Rupert Penry-Jones

C) Jonny Lee Miller

D) Benedict Cumberbatch

Answer · why

D) Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch was the only actor the producers saw for Sherlock; the harder job, they said, was finding a Watson with the right chemistry.

Q 04/05

Former police reporter David Simon set The Wire's drug corners, docks and schools in which US city?

A) Baltimore

B) Philadelphia

C) Detroit

D) Newark

Answer · why

A) Baltimore

Baltimore was Simon's beat at The Baltimore Sun, and each season of The Wire takes on a different institution of the city, from the port to the school...

Q 05/05

Which band's 1978 single is the theme of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?

A) The Kinks

B) The Clash

C) The Jam

D) The Who

Answer · why

D) The Who

The Who's "Who Are You", written by Pete Townshend, is the CSI theme, and singer Roger Daltrey later guest-starred as mobster Mickey Dunn in the seaso...