TV Firsts Trivia Quiz

Answer: Doug Ross

Doug Ross, the ER pediatrician, was hungover. Dr. Greene gave him a shot to feel better.

Answer: Tuvok

The first scene in the pilot episode, "Caretaker", was of the cockpit of a Maquis ship, the Val Jean. In there were Chakotay, B'Elanna, and Tuvok, desperately trying to escape from a Cardassian ship that was pursuing them. Though they were all seemingly Maquis, Tuvok was actually a Starfleet security officer that had infiltrated the Maquis in order to gain information, then ultimately turn them in to Federation authorities.

Janeway was the first character to appear in a Starfleet uniform, when she visited Tom Paris in the New Zealand Penal Settlement. But this scene was shown after the Val Jean scene.

Answer: Anthony

Anthony (Timothy Williams) was Carla's firstborn child, from her marriage to Nick Tortelli. He first appeared in season 4, episode 4, "The Groom Wore Clearasil". Anthony appeared in five episodes of "Cheers".

Ludlow "Lud" (Jarrett Lennon) was Carla's 6th child, born from her affair with Dr. Ludlow, one of Frasier Crane's mentors. Lud appeared in three episodes of "Cheers".

Serafina (Leah Remini) was Carla's second child and eldest daughter, also one of Nick's children. She appeared in two episodes of "Cheers".

Anne Marie (Risa Littman) was Carla's fourth child, another of Nick's children with Carla. She appeared in just one episode of "Cheers".

Answer: Anita Barone

Anita Barone played Carol Willick in "The One With The Sonogram At The End" (season 1, episode 2). For the other 16 times that Carol appeared, she was played by Jane Sibbett.

Jessica Hecht played Carol's lesbian girlfriend/wife throughout the show.

Leah Remini played Lydia, a single mother who was delivering her baby the same day that Carol was delivering. Joey ended up being her delivery coach. ("The One with the Birth", season 1, episode 23)

Answer: blue

Crewman Darnell beamed down to M-113 with Capt. Kirk, Mr. Spock, and Dr. McCoy. He was the first to die as a victim of the M-113 "monster", the last native inhabitant of that world. It needed salt to survive, and if it couldn't ingest it orally, it would attack other beings with suckers that were on its fingers and absorb all of the salt out of its victim's blood. It could mentally project different images to nearby people, so that it appeared different to different people. (Aired pilot, "The Man Trap")

Darnell wore a blue tunic, suggesting that he worked for a science division department. However, since this was the first aired episode, the meanings of the colored uniforms was not set. Early season one episodes only had blue and tan uniforms. Red uniforms wouldn't make their debut until the ninth aired episode, "What Are Little Girls Made Of?"

As an exception, the fourth crewman killed in "The Man Trap", Crewman Barnhart, was wearing a gray utility vest. He was the only Enterprise crewman in the entire series that was killed while *not* wearing a blue, tan, or red tunic.

Answer: "All In The Family" (1971-1979)

It was heard in "Success Story". (season 1, episode 12)

"Leave It To Beaver" had the first featured toilet seen... sort of. The boys were trying to find a place to hide a baby alligator, and they decide to use the toilet tank (the piece that holds the water pre-flush). The bowl part of the toilet was carefully not filmed.

Answer: Samantha Stormer, secretary at a sexist corporation

Samantha Stormer (LaReine Chabut), "What Price Gloria?" (season 2, episode 4)
Mrs. Brucker (Molly Meeker), "Another Mother" (season 2, episode 13)
Darlene Monte (Theresa Ring), "Ms. Deep South" (season 3, episode 6)
Katie McBain (Cheryl Pollak), "Raped" (season 4, episode 6)

LaReine Chabut returned as the image of Samantha in "Shock Theatre", when Sam leaped into an insane asylum, and was electroshocked before Al could arrive. Sam kept becoming the actual people he had leaped into in the past. He would look into mirrors and see his perceived image of himself.

Answer: George

Actually, *all* of Fay's ex-husbands were named George.

The other names listed are the first names of Rebecca Schull's (Fay's) co-stars: Tim Daly (Joe Hackett), Steven Weber (Brian Hackett), and David Schramm (Roy Biggins).

Answer: William Riker

Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was called (via Q powers) to testify in the competency hearing for a Q (Gerrit Graham), who wanted to kill himself. He was returned back to the Alpha Quadrant with no memory of the incident. (episode "Death Wish", season 2, episode 18)

Lieutenant Barclay (Dwight Schultz) appeared in six episodes ("Projections", "Pathfinder", "Life Line", "Inside Man", "Author, Author", and "Endgame"). Although "Projections" aired before Riker's appearance in "Death Wish", it was not the real Barclay, but instead was a deep-embedded memory in the Voyager's EMH.

Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) appeared in three episodes of "Voyager" ("Pathfinder", "Life Line", and "Inside Man"), as a friend and former therapist of Barclay.

Captain La Forge (Le Var Burton) appeared in the episode "Timeless" as the captain of the USS Challenger. The Challenger was in pursuit of Chakotay and Kim, who had survived an attempt at using slipstream drive 15 years prior. However, they had been in a lead shuttle, sending navigation corrections to Voyager. Through a miscalculation, Voyager crashed and killed all aboard, while Chakotay and Kim's shuttle made it back to the Alpha Quadrant. Harry and Chakotay planned to use a stolen Borg temporal device to send the correct data back to Voyager so that it made it back to the Alpha Quadrant, thus changing time (and why the Challenger is pursuing them). While under attack from the Challenger, Harry realized no data correction would allow Voyager to return to Federation space, but that he could send data that would cause them to safely exit the slipstream. Just as he sent it, the Challenger destroyed their shuttle. But the data was received, and Voyager exited the slipstream safely. Although not home, Voyager shaved 10 years off of their journey (estimated 10,000 light-years). ("Timeless" was also the show's 100th episode.)

Answer: Changing a flat tire in the rain

Dr. Banner had exposed himself to gamma radiation, in the hopes of triggering the super strength he'd been researching. Simple exposure didn't activate it. But later, as he was driving his car, he got a flat tire. It was also raining, so the lug wrench kept slipping off of the lug nuts. He eventually hurt his hand, and the pain of that plus the frustration of changing the tire triggered his first transformation.

In the pilot, his lab did explode, caused by reporter Jack McGee accidentally spilling some chemicals in a storage closet. Dr. Banner transformed and tried to save his assistant, Dr. Marks, who sadly died.

Years before, he had been in a car accident with his wife. She was trapped in the wreckage, and he had tried to lift the car off of her, to no avail. Then later, he heard about people who *did* have the strength to rescue loved ones, which started his research into super strength.

In the "Mad Magazine" parody of the show, he transformed because the restroom he was in didn't have any toilet paper.