Q 01/05

Which network launched 'Unsolved Mysteries' as a weekly series on October 5, 1988?

A) CBS

B) Fox

C) ABC

D) NBC

Answer · why

D) NBC

NBC turned a run of hit specials into the weekly series and kept it for nine seasons, until CBS picked the show up in 1997.

Q 02/05

Which trench-coated host narrated Unsolved Mysteries for eleven seasons on network television?

A) Leonard Nimoy

B) Jack Webb

C) Karl Malden

D) Robert Stack

Answer · why

D) Robert Stack

Robert Stack fronted four specials and eleven seasons and stayed with the show until 2002, the year before he died; two other actors had fronted the f...

Q 03/05

What element does the Netflix revival of 'Unsolved Mysteries' notably drop from previous iterations?

A) Re-enactments

B) A viewer tip line

C) A host or narrator

D) Paranormal cases

Answer · why

C) A host or narrator

A host or narrator: the Netflix episodes play as documentaries with no presenter, though the longtime host's silhouette still appears in the opening c...

Q 04/05

Which actor hosted the very first 'Unsolved Mysteries' special in January 1987?

A) Peter Graves

B) Raymond Burr

C) William Shatner

D) Telly Savalas

Answer · why

B) Raymond Burr

Raymond Burr, TV's Perry Mason, fronted only the pilot special; another actor took the next two before the show settled on its permanent host.

Q 05/05

Unsolved Mysteries correspondent Keely Shaye Smith later married which James Bond actor?

A) Timothy Dalton

B) Pierce Brosnan

C) Roger Moore

D) Sean Connery

Answer · why

B) Pierce Brosnan

Pierce Brosnan met Keely Shaye Smith on a beach in Mexico in 1994; she presented the show's case updates in the mid-1990s, and the two married at an a...