Ross and Burbank weekly quiz – TV shows that became movies

After talking about the new film “21 Jump Street”, Tom Tangney sticks around and joins Dave and Luke for their weekly trivia challenge. This week, Producer Andrew quizzes the guys about TV shows that became movies.

1.When the first Star Trek movie was made Leonard Nimoy, who played Spock, originally said he would not be a part of the film. Why not?

A. He thought the script was bunk
B. He was still owed money from the TV show
C. He couldn’t stand to be in the same room as William Shatner
D. His affair with the woman who played Uhura did not end well, and things were very awkward on the set.

2. Few people realize that the movie Office Space was based on a TV feature called “Milton”. What TV show did “Milton” air on?

A. Saturday Night Live
B. SCTV (Second City Television)
C. Beavis & Butthead
D. Liquid Television
E. Laugh-In

3. The TV show Twin Peaks – and it’s follow-up movie – took place in a fictional town here in Washington. Many of exterior shots were filmed in two REAL Washington towns. Name one of them:

A. Echo Lake
B. Snoqualmie
C. Maple Valley
D. North Bend
E. Enumclaw

4. By a mutual agreement between the producers of “Dragnet” and the LAPD, what subject was never mentioned as part of a series plot?

A. Prostitution
B. The bombing of city hall
C. Dirty police officers in the LAPD
D. Racial segregation in the LAPD

5. The woman who played Alice on “The Brady Bunch” TV show had a cameo in the 1995 movie remake. Whom did she play in the movie?

A. A butcher
B. A baker
C. A truck driver
D. An elderly call girl

Listen to how Luke, Dave and Tom scored in Knowledge off – TV shows that became movies

Answers: 1. B 2. A, D (TWO CORRECT ANSWERS: Milton was a series of animated shorts created by Mike Judge in 1991. They aired on Saturday Night Live in the mid 1990s, and like Mike Judge’s other early shorts, appeared on MTV’s Liquid Television in the early 1990s.) 3. B, D 4. D 5. C