1990 In Television Trivia Quiz

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. What TV show was NOT the highest rated show in 1990?

• The Cosby Show
• Roseanne
• Twin Peaks

2. The characters Joe and Ruth Martin sit down with Erica Kane, her mother Mona, and Phoebe Wallingford as they go through scrapbook pictures which segue into memorable clips from the show's past twenty years. What show airs its 20th anniversary special on January 2, 1990>

• All My Children
• One Life to Live
• Gunsmoke

3. What is the American sitcom that ran on NBC from April 19, 1990 to May 14, 1997?

• Wings
• The Night Rider
• King of Queens

4. What is the American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for nine seasons, from December 4, 1981 to May 17, 1990?

• Dallas
• Texas
• Falcon Crest

5. What was the Emmy Award Best Drama show?

6. What was the Emmy Award Best Comedy show?

7. Who did NOT win a 1990 Emmy Acting Award?

• Ted Danson - Cheers
• William Daniels - St. Elsewhere
• Peter Falk - Columbo

8. On October 4, 1990, what TV show - premieres on FOX (1990-2000)

• Beverly Hills, 90210
• Guiding Light
• Hee Haw

9. This is a television situation comedy about an author and his wife who owned and operated a historic inn located in a small Vermont rural town that was populated by eccentric characters. What was the show that aired on the CBS network from 1982 to 1990?

10. On April 30, 1990 the long-lost pilot film to I Love Lucy airs on CBS as a special.

• True or False?

Check Your Answers 

• 1. Twin Peaks
• 2. All My Children
• 3. Wings
• 4. Falcon Crest
• 5. L.A. Law
• 6. Murphy Brown
• 7. William Daniels - St. Elsewhere
• 8. Beverly Hills, 90210
• 9. Newhart
• 10. True

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