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4 Early Edition quizzes and 40 Early Edition trivia questions.
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  "Early Edition" - A Tribute    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
I have seen many episodes of "Early Edition", thanks to my sister. How well do you remember the show?
Average, 10 Qns, funnybuni, May 02 09
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  Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz for the "Early Edition" addicts. Questions taken from all different episodes. Be ready.
Average, 10 Qns, darkfairy13, Aug 02 05
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  'Early Edition' Fans    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz is for all you 'Early Edition' fans who love the show as much as me.
Average, 10 Qns, bballer151, Apr 21 09
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  "Early Edition" General Knowledge    
Multiple Choice
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This quiz tests your general knowledge of the "Early Edition" series. Questions cover all four seasons and are all multiple choice.
Difficult, 10 Qns, chicagokat42, Feb 02 13
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trivia question Quick Question
What did Emmit do for a living?

From Quiz "Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict"





Early Edition Trivia Questions

1. What was Gary's first wife named?

From Quiz
"Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: Marcia

Gary's wife, Marcia, dumped him in season one, in the first episode - right on their anniversary - for undisclosed reasons. She had just finished law school, and he was working as a stock broker. Gary quit his job and then went to go stay at the Blackstone Hotel (an actual place).

2. In the pilot, what is the date that Gary starts to receive the paper?

From Quiz 'Early Edition' Fans

Answer: November 12, 1996

In other episodes, the timeline is changed for some reason. For instance, when it is Gary's 4 year anniversary of getting the paper, the date on that paper is different than the day he originally started to receive it.

3. Finish this sentence that Snow said to Gary in the episode 'Fate': "Count the living, ____."

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: not the dead

Snow said this to Gary when he was trapped in the basement of the building in "Fate."

4. What is the name of the rabbit in "A Minor Miracle"?

From Quiz "Early Edition" General Knowledge

Answer: Mr. Boggles

When Mr. Boggles hopped away, little Allie Chapman went looking for him and she quickly lost her way in the drainage tunnels under the city. (Allie Chapman was played by Taylor Momsen, who went on to play Cindy Lou Who in "How the Grinch Stole Christmas".)

5. What color markings did the cat have that brought the paper?

From Quiz "Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: A tabby

The cat was an orange tabby, who at six-thirty every morning would somehow deliver the paper to Gary's front door and then go inside to eat, to just disappear a little later... until the next day. The cat, who was just called 'Cat' or 'The Cat' on the show, was actually given a name by the writers of the show. The writers named the character 'Carl.' The cat, AKA Carl, was played by several cats during the show's four year run.

6. What is the name of the brokerage firm that Gary worked at?

From Quiz 'Early Edition' Fans

Answer: Strauss & Associates

It is only shown a few times throughout the series even though Chuck still works there. Gary's old boss makes several other appearances during the first season as well.

7. In the episode the "Fourth Carpathian," what type of building did Gary get stuck in?

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: theatre

Gary chases a monkey into an old theatre and gets trapped on an old scaffolding. Marissa, Chuck, Lois, and Crumb are all trying find Gary while Bernie is stuck in jail with some circus performers.

8. In which episode did Gary dress up as a police officer?

From Quiz "Early Edition" General Knowledge

Answer: Show Me The Monet

Gary pretened to be a police officer to help Clive replace a forged painting with the real thing.

9. What was Chuck's last name?

From Quiz "Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: Fishman

Fisher Stevens played Chuck Fishman, Gary's quirky but lovable best friend. Chuck wanted to use the paper to make money off of the lottery and race tracks, but Gary only did on rare occasions. Chuck left in season two, to go be a movie producer (and guest starred in three more episodes later on). The real reason Chuck left was because the actor portraying him, Fisher Stevens, wanted to move on and do different projects.

10. What is the name of the little girl Gary has to save in the second episode?

From Quiz 'Early Edition' Fans

Answer: Amanda

Amanda is played by Mae Whitman, who appeared on 'Chicago Hope', a show someone referred to on the street after she got hit.

11. What are the names of Gary's parents?

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: Bernie and Lois

Lois was in a total of seven episodes, and Bernie was in a total of five episodes. Bernies ends up arrested in one of the episodes, and Lois refuses to bail him out.

12. Which word would NOT describe Marissa?

From Quiz "Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: Deaf

Marissa had meningitis as a sixteen-month-old baby, that left her blind. Meningitis can also leave one deaf, but was not the case with Marissa. She bought her first seeing eye dog with money Gary won for her, by using the paper. Actress Shanesia Davis-Williams, who played Marissa, visited a blind school to learn how to carry herself and her eyes as a blind person. She pulled off the part remarkably well, with some viewers thinking she really was blind.

13. What is the name of the bar Gary and his friends frequent and that Gary later owns?

From Quiz 'Early Edition' Fans

Answer: McGinty's

He buys it with Chuck in season 2.

14. What did Gary do with the money he won at the racetrack in the first episode?

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: Gave it to Marissa to buy a dog

Yes, Gary gambled. In the first episode, Gary takes Marissa out to lunch after he quit his job. She tells him she likes to eat at the restaurant at the racetrack. While she is sitting at the table by herself, he is betting on horses. In the end, he gives the money to Marissa so she can get a seeing eye dog.

15. What did Chuck bring to Gary's hotel room in "The Pilot" episode?

From Quiz "Early Edition" General Knowledge

Answer: Crullers

Gary was staying at the Blackstone Hotel because his wife had locked him out of the house. Chuck stopped by to wish him a happy anniversary. And to offer him a cruller (which they both hate, by the way).

16. Where was McGinty's located?

From Quiz "Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: The corner of Illinois and Franklin street

What really sat there while the show was being made was an old carpet store, but the viewers who didn't live in Chicago didn't necessarily know that, making the illusion just perfect. After The Blackstone Hotel burned down, Gary wound up being the owner of McGinty's bar, where he hired Chuck as co-owner and Marissa as manager.

17. What is the name of the man who received tomorrow's 'New York Times'?

From Quiz 'Early Edition' Fans

Answer: Sam Cooper

Lucious Snow received the 'Chicago Sun-Times' before Gary.

18. What was the name of the bad agent in "The Wall: Part 1" and "The Wall: Part 2"?

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: J.T. Marley

J.T. Marley was posing as John Dobbs, Morris is the man who works in the newspaper morgue, John Dobbs was the agent after Marley, and Harry Hawks is the newspaper editor.

19. What was the name of the weathergirl in the "Weathergirl" episode?

From Quiz "Early Edition" General Knowledge

Answer: Rebecca

Gary had a major crush on Rebecca, and used his "early edition" to give her the correct weather forcast. Renee, Erica, and Emma are some of the names of Gary's other girlfriends.

20. What was the first episode called?

From Quiz "Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: Pilot

Like many other shows, the first episode was called "Pilot", with the other episodes listed soon following. The first episode showed how Gary first started getting the paper, a phenomenon never thoroughly explained to Gary or us, the viewers.

21. What are the names of Gary's parents?

From Quiz 'Early Edition' Fans

Answer: Lois and Bernie

Lois and Peter are from the show 'Family Guy' on Fox.

22. What was the name of Erica's son?

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: Henry

Henry is the only person to figure out the paper on his own, and Gary was not very happy when he did.

23. What was the name of Rose's twin in the "Rose" episode?

From Quiz "Early Edition" General Knowledge

Answer: Lily

Rose was the good twin and Lily the evil twin. This episode was done in the "film-noir" style, complete with a smokey bar-room, low-key lighting, a hard-boiled detective, and a femme fatale.

24. Finish the quote; "Gary, an apartment building is about to burn down and you're going to stop for a ____?"

From Quiz "Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: latte

A favorite episode of many, "Fate" was an episode that made more than one viewer shed tears. Gary accidentally let a homeless man die, and the guilt raged in Gary throughout the episode. The episode ended with Gary sobbing and nearly dying, with a revelation from Lucious Snow, who told him to "Count the living, not the dead, Gary". The line I gave was from the beginning of the episode, when Gary was on a date with his girlfriend, Erica. He wanted to stop for a coffee, when he only had forty-five minutes before an apartment building would catch on fire. Erica quickly talked some sense into the lovestruck Gary.

25. What town in Indiana is Gary's hometown?

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: Hickory

"The Fourth Carpathian", "Home Grown", and "Duck Day Afternoon" are the only episodes you actually get to see Hickory in. In "The Fourth Carpathian" and "Duck Day Afternoon", you only get to see Gary's house, but in "Home Grown", you get to see most the town.

26. In "Romancing the Throne," what does Princess Sibella tell Gary her name is?

From Quiz "Early Edition" General Knowledge

Answer: Lowe

Sibella got the name "Lowe" from the "Lost Chicago" book she found on Gary's coffee table. The author's name is David Lowe. She told him that it was short for "Chloe."

27. In "Faith", what did Rachel say Gary's alias was?

From Quiz "Early Edition" - A Tribute

Answer: Elmer Fudd

"Faith" was one of my favorites. In "Faith", Gary got hit by a car, and while he suffered little trauma, in the hospital he met an eleven-year-old girl named Rachel, who needed a heart transplant. In the end, Gary had to choose between Rachel's life, and a gangster's life. Rachel told her mom that "his name is Elmer Fudd - it's an alias. He's with the witness protection program. The crime he witnessed is just too horrible to even think about".

28. What's the name of Marissa's first seeing eye dog?

From Quiz 'Early Edition' Fans

Answer: Spike

Gary buys it for her with money he earned from using the paper at the track. This is only one of the few times he uses the paper for profit.

29. What was the name of the man Gary couldn't save in the episode "Fate"?

From Quiz Questions for an "Early Edition" Addict

Answer: Jeremiah

In the episode "Fate", Jeremiah was a homeless man trapped on the roof of a burning building. Gary tried to bring him to safety by crossing a ladder onto another roof, but Jeremiah lost his balnce and fell.

30. In the "Luck of the Irish" episode, Lois says that Gary was conceived where?

From Quiz "Early Edition" General Knowledge

Answer: in the back of a Camaro

To quote from the episode, Lois said, "A moment of passion in the back of a Camaro may have led to a wedding, but do you think it guaranteed a successful marriage? No sir, it did not."

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