1990s TV Shows Quiz: Fun TV-Trivia Questions

Daily quiz for May 10, 2022, on nineties TV Shows with a contemporary twist: What is Friends’ Phoebe Buffet’s twin’s name? What was Estelle Harris’s character on Seinfeld? and which of the Simpsons’ characters was voiced by Jackie Mason? Take the 1990s TV Shows Quiz!

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Quiz Round Ideas: ’90s Television Shows. 11 Nostalgic Classic TV Trivia Questions and Answers. Take the Quiz!

1 / 11

Which TV show launched the careers of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher?

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That ’80s Show.

That ’70s Show.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

The Wonder Years.

That ’70s Show launched the careers of young Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher, Laura Prepon, Topher Grace, and Wilmer Valderrama. All five are returning for guest appearances in the Netflix sequel series That ’90s Show, alongside original cast members Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp, who are set to reprise their roles as Red and Kitty Forman. The new show will focus on Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna, visiting her grandparents for the summer. Netflix did not provide a release date for the 10-episode series, which according to its site, is “coming soon.”

2 / 11

What was Estelle Harris’s character on Seinfeld?

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Estelle Costanza.

Estelle Leonard.

Ethel Costanza.

Helen Seinfeld.

Estelle Harris, born in 1928 as Estelle Nussbaum, is best known for playing George’s mother on Seinfeld, Estelle Costanza. The character had the name Estelle before Harris was cast. She died on Apr. 2, 2022, at 93, only days before her 94th birthday.

3 / 11

He was the original host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos.”

Bob Saget.

Bill Cosby.

Dave Coulier.

John Stamos.

Screenshot: Bob Saget on YouTube

Bob Saget, best known as single dad Danny Tanner from “Full House,” was the original host of “America’s Funniest Home Videos” in the ’90s. His “Full House” partner Dave Coulier hosted America’s Funniest People around the same time. Saget died while on a stand-up tour on Jan. 9, 2022. He was 65.

4 / 11

In which series did Dean Stockwell NOT appear alongside Scott Bakula?

Screenshot: Quantum Leap / NBCUniversal Television

Battlestar Galactica.

Quantum Leap.

Star Trek: Enterprise.

NCIS: New Orleans.

Starting in 1989, Dean Stockwell appeared in Quantum Leap alongside Scott Bakula for five seasons. He then guest-starred in Bakula’s Star Trek: Enterprise, and they both appeared in a 2014 episode of NCIS: New Orleans, titled “Chasing Ghosts.” Bakula was not in Battlestar Galactica.

Did Dean Stockwell die?

Dean Stockwell died of natural causes at home on Sunday, Nov. 7, 2021. Apart from regular guest appearances in shows like “Battlestar Galactica” and “JAG,” Stockwell had prominent roles in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet,” Wim Wenders’ “Paris, Texas” and Jonathan Demme’s “Married to the Mob,” which also got him an Oscar nomination.

5 / 11

In Friends, who was Gunther?

Screenshot: Friends / Warner Bros.

Chandler’s pen name.

Rachel’s boss.

The grumpy neighbor downstairs.

The Central Perk barista.

Gunther was the Central Perk barista who had a crush on Rachel in Friends. James Michael Tyler, who starred as Gunther in the sitcom, died on Oct. 24, 2021, at the age of 59, from prostate cancer. Tyler appeared in almost 150 episodes of the comedy.

6 / 11

In Friends 1996 episode The One With All The Thanksgivings, the gang brings up their respective worst Thanksgivings. According to the show, in which year did Joey get his head stuck inside a turkey?

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1862

1988

1992

1996

In Friends’ classic 1996 Thanksgiving episode, the gang brings up their respective worst Thanksgiving.  Joey gets his head stuck inside a turkey in his story of the 1992 Thanksgiving.

Mr. Bean VS. Friends Fact

Rowan Atkinson accused Friends of stealing this joke from his Mr. Bean sitcom in a Jan. 2021 ITV series Happy Birthday Mr. Bean, honoring the comedy character’s 30th anniversary. In the show, Atkinson remembered a 1992 Mr. Bean scene where his character ran around with a turkey on his head. He blamed Friends for repeating the joke on its 1996 Thanksgiving episode. Interestingly, Joey gets his head inside the turkey in the ’92 story – The same year the Mr. Bean joke aired.

7 / 11

What is Friends’ Phoebe Buffet’s twin’s name?

Screenshot: Friends

Ursula

Cruella

Morgana

Francesca

Friends’ Phoebe Buffet has a twin sister named Ursula. That’s just one of the facts revealed in Phoebe’s tragic life story assembled by HBO MAX. Watch it here.

Exactly. Friends’ Phoebe Buffet has a twin sister named Ursula. That’s just one of the facts revealed in Phoebe’s tragic life story assembled by HBO MAX. Watch it here.

8 / 11

Before becoming NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Mark Harmon was a medical doctor on two classic TV shows. Which?

Screenshot: NCIS / CBS

Doogie Howser, MD and ER.

ER and St. Elsewhere.

Chicago Hope and St. Elsewhere.

Chicago Hope and Grey’s Anatomy.

Before becoming NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Mark Harmon was a medical doctor in the ‘80s medical drama St. Elsewhere and ‘90s Chicago Hope.

Is Mark Harmon leaving NCIS?

Monday’s, Oct. 11, 2021, episode of NCIS was Mark Harmon’s final leading the long-running CBS procedural. He exits the show after 18 years of playing agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, dating back to the character’s introduction to the legal drama JAG in 2003.

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Which of these Simpsons characters was voiced by rabbi-turned-comedian Jackie Mason?

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Krusty the Clown.

Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky.

Grandpa Van Houten.

Abe Simpson.

R.I.P Jackie Mason, who, among other roles, voiced The Simpsons’ Krusty the Clown’s father, Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky, between the years 1991 and 2019. Mason was a rabbi in real life before turning to comedy.

When did Jackie Mason die?

Jackie Mason died Saturday, July 24, 2021, after being hospitalized for over two weeks. He was 93. Among his notable cameo appearances is an uncredited appearance as the voice of a robot tailor in Woody Allen’s 1973 futuristic comedy Sleeper and Jew #1 in Mel Brooks’s “History of the World, Part I.”

10 / 11

Complete these ’90s song’s lyrics: I yelled to the cabbie, ‘Yo home smell ya later’ / I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there /
To sit on my throne as the…?

Queen of Quins.

Prince of Bel Air.

King of the Hill.

Blitz of Wet Air.

30 Years after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air debuted, the actors returned for a reunion special on HBO Max on Nov. 19, 2020. Watch Will Smith’s emotional trailer.

That’s right. 30 Years after The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air debuted, the actors returned for a reunion special on HBO Max on Nov. 19, 2020. Watch Will Smith’s emotional trailer.

11 / 11

Remember that old sitcom Ellen DeGeneres used to have, Ellen? When was that?

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The late 80’s

The mid 90’s

The early 00’s

The mid 10’s

Ellen aired between 1994 and 1998.

Ellen DeGeneres Fact

Ellen Degeneres’s daytime talk show returned Sep. 21st, 2020, amid ‘toxic workplace’ controversy, which Degeneres promised to address on the show.  In May 2021, DeGeneres announced she would be quitting the show.

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1990s TV Shows Quiz Questions

• Remember that old sitcom Ellen DeGeneres used to have, Ellen? When was that?

  Photo: Angela George / CC BY-SA

  The late 80’s

  The mid 90’s

  The early 00’s

  The mid 10’s

  What is Friends' Phoebe Buffet's twin's name?

  Screenshot: Friends

  Ursula

  Cruella

  Morgana

  Francesca

  Complete these '90s song's lyrics: I yelled to the cabbie, 'Yo home smell ya later' / I looked at my kingdom, I was finally there /
  To sit on my throne as the…?

  Queen of Quins.

  Prince of Bel Air.

  King of the Hill.

  Blitz of Wet Air.

  In Friends 1996 episode The One With All The Thanksgivings, the gang brings up their respective worst Thanksgivings. According to the show, in which year did Joey get his head stuck inside a turkey?

  Screenshot: Friends

  1862

  1988

  1992

  1996

  Which of these Simpsons characters was voiced by rabbi-turned-comedian Jackie Mason?

  Photo: Carl Lender, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

  Krusty the Clown.

  Rabbi Hyman Krustofsky.

  Grandpa Van Houten.

  Abe Simpson.

  Before becoming NCIS agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs, Mark Harmon was a medical doctor on two classic TV shows. Which?

  Screenshot: NCIS / CBS

  Doogie Howser, MD and ER.

  ER and St. Elsewhere.

  Chicago Hope and St. Elsewhere.

  Chicago Hope and Grey's Anatomy.

  In Friends, who was Gunther?

  Screenshot: Friends / Warner Bros.

  Chandler’s pen name.

  Rachel’s boss.

  The grumpy neighbor downstairs.

  The Central Perk barista.

  In which series did Dean Stockwell NOT appear alongside Scott Bakula?

  Screenshot: Quantum Leap / NBCUniversal Television

  Battlestar Galactica.

  Quantum Leap.

  Star Trek: Enterprise.

  NCIS: New Orleans.

  He was the original host of "America's Funniest Home Videos."

  Bob Saget.

  Bill Cosby.

  Dave Coulier.

  John Stamos.

  What was Estelle Harris’s character on Seinfeld?

  Screenshot: Seinfeld / Sony Pictures Television

  Estelle Costanza.

  Estelle Leonard.

  Ethel Costanza.

  Helen Seinfeld.

  Which TV show launched the careers of Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher?

  Screenshot:  Carsey-Werner

  That '80s Show.

  That '70s Show.

  Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

  The Wonder Years.

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