Q 01/05

Which sitcom's six Manhattan twenty-somethings spend their days on an orange couch at the Central Perk coffee shop?

A) Will & Grace

B) Seinfeld

C) Living Single

D) Friends

Answer · why

D) Friends

Friends kept its six leads on equal pay: they bargained as a group from Season 3, and by the last two seasons each of them earned $1 million an episod...

Q 02/05

In Breaking Bad, what alias does the chemistry teacher at its centre adopt as his drug-lord persona?

A) Gus Fring

B) Saul Goodman

C) Heisenberg

D) Mike Ehrmantraut

Answer · why

C) Heisenberg

Heisenberg comes from Werner Heisenberg, the German physicist of the uncertainty principle; he first gives the name to a dealer whose office he then w...

Q 03/05

In the US version of The Office, Michael Scott manages the Scranton branch of which fictional paper company?

A) Wernham Hogg

B) Dunder Mifflin

C) Prince Family Paper

D) Michael Scott Paper Company

Answer · why

B) Dunder Mifflin

Dunder Mifflin became a real brand in 2011, when the online arm of Staples licensed the fictional company's name from NBCUniversal and began selling a...

Q 04/05

Which animated series features the town of Springfield?

A) Family Guy

B) The Simpsons

C) South Park

D) Bob's Burgers

Answer · why

B) The Simpsons

The Simpsons keeps Springfield's state a running joke; Matt Groening chose one of America's most common town names so that everyone would think it was...

Q 05/05

What HBO series follows the Roy family and their media conglomerate Waystar Royco?

A) Billions

B) Industry

C) Succession

D) The Newsroom

Answer · why

C) Succession

Succession grew out of an unmade film script about Rupert Murdoch's family; its writer then invented the Roys instead, drawing on several real media d...