The Beverly Hillbillies

Choose an answer from the three choices and True or False offered after each question and then "Check Your Answers" at the end of the quiz.

1. The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television series about a hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills, California after finding oil on their Bug Tussle, AR land. A Filmways production, the series aired on CBS from September 26, 1962, - May 23, 1971 and comprises 274 episodes -- 106 in black-and-white (1962-1965), and 168 in color (1965-1971).

• True or False?

2. The theme song "The Ballad of Jed Clampett" was written by producer and writer Paul Henning. Who originally performed the theme song?

• Buck Owens
• Tobey Keith
• Flatt and Scruggs

3. It was ranked in the top ten most watched prime time programs for two of its nine seasons.

• True or False?

4. Who played Jed Clampett?

• Buddy Ebsen
• Raymond Bailey
• Max Baer Sr.

5. What was “Granny’s” name?

• Pearl Bodine
• Jane Hathaway,
• Daisy Moses

6. What was Jethro's relationship to Jed Clampett?

• Nephew
• Second cousins
• First cousin once removed

7. Who created The Beverly Hillbillies?

• J.D. Hayworth
• Paul Henning
• Roy Clark

8. What was Granny to Jed?

• Sister
• Mother-in-Law
• Mother

9. Buddy and his sister began their entertaining careers as?

• Dance team
• Singing team
• Acting team

10. Who played Jane Hathaway?

• Nancy Grace
• Nancy Kulp
• Nancy Morgan

Check Your Answers

• 1. True
• 2. Flatt and Scruggs
• 3. False. It was six of its nine seasons.
• 4. Buddy Ebsen
• 5. Daisy Moses
• 6. First cousin once removed
• 7. Paul Henning
• 8. Mother-in-Law
• 9. Dance team
• 10. Nancy Kulp