Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Day 7


How many lifelines were available to contestants in the first year of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?    Three

What talk-show host picked up his sixth wife, Shawn Southwick, after two broken engagements?    Larry King

Whose first TV cooking show, How to Boil Water, was a colossal flop?    Emeril Lagasse's

What role did Courteney Cox originally try out for on Friends?    Rachel

What Fox TV waif wailed; "I am not anorexic  I have a fast metabolism"?    Calista Flockhart

What Fox star gained notoriety for on-air smooches with Jane Krakowski, Courtney Thorne-Smith and Lucy Liu?    Calista Flockhart

What flavorful cable TV hit culminates in a showdown at Kitchen Stadium?    Iron Chef

What TV cop show garnered headlines in 1996, when a shoplifter surrendered to two of its stars?    Homicide: Life on the Street

What TV series challenged Scott Bakula to portray Dr Ruth?  Quantum Leap

What sitcom drew an audience of 80 million viewers for its final episode, in 1993?  Cheers

What TV foursome did researcher Karin Boehm-Duerr warn were "so sweet and addictive" that children couldn't live without them?  Teletubbies

What cable network targeted longtime advertisers Nike and Reebok in its special, Made in Vietnam: The American Sneaker Controversy?  ESPN

What TV show kept its title character chaste until she fell for a mountain man named Byron Sully?  Dr  Quinn, Medicine Woman

Who went public with his Parkinson's disease only after closing a $100 million syndication deal for his sitcom?  Michael J  Fox

What actor played lead roles in both LA Law and NYPD Blue   Jimmy Smits

What cable channel thought Johnnie Cochran would make a good co-host?  Court TV

What buckskin-clad attorney, undefeated in jury trials since 1969, landed his own CNBC show?  Gerry Spence

Who won five Emmys for her sitcom role as a television reporter?  Candice Bergen

What divine songstress played Murphy brown's 93rd and last secretary?  Bette Midler

What TV drama staked out the moral high ground in Rome, Wisconsin?  Picket Fences

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