Classic TV quiz

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1. 1 Easy

   What body part is Thing in The Addams Family?

   Answer: Hand

   Why: Actor Ted Cassidy, who played Lurch, usually played Thing using his own right hand.

2. 2 Medium

   What was the name of Norm Peterson's never-seen wife in Cheers?

   Answer: Vera

   Why: Vera finally walked on screen in a 1986 Thanksgiving episode, but a pie meant for Sam hit her face first; George Wendt's real wife voiced her.

3. 3 Hard

   What type of plant was Cleopatra in the original Addams Family series?

   Answer: African Strangler

   Why: Real stranglers are tropical figs that engulf and kill host trees; Morticia's pet ate meat instead: hamburger, with zebra and yak as treats.

4. 4 Easy

   Who created and hosted the sci-fi anthology series The Twilight Zone?

   Answer: Rod Serling

   Why: Serling wrote or adapted 92 of the original 156 episodes himself.

5. 5 Medium

   What did Sergeant Schultz famously claim to know in Hogan's Heroes?

   Answer: nothing

   Why: John Banner, who played Schultz, was an Austrian Jewish actor who emigrated to the United States in 1938 after Hitler annexed Austria.

6. 6 Hard

   Where does Anthony banish people in The Twilight Zone?

   Answer: The cornfield

   Why: Before wishing Dan Hollis into the cornfield, six-year-old Anthony turns him into a jack-in-the-box.