A Guided TV Tour of DC! Trivia Quiz

Answer: Candice Bergen

"Murphy Brown" premiered on CBS in 1988, with Bergen playing an investigative reporter for "FYI", a fictional television newsmagazine based in Washington, D.C. This tour we're on is stopping at the newsroom, where covering the capital's politicians supplies stories and arguments.

The show itself became political news in 1992 when Vice President Dan Quayle criticized Murphy's decision to become a single mom, prompting the series to incorporate his speech into an episode.

Answer: Medical doctor

"The X-Files" premiered on Fox in 1993, pairing Scully's medical training and skepticism with Mulder's willingness to believe in aliens, conspiracies, and things that go bump in the night. The stop on this tour is their basement office at FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., which serves as their home base.

The real FBI headquarters is the J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue, though the agents and their unusual basement operation are fictional.

Answer: Aaron Sorkin

Sorkin created "The West Wing", which premiered on NBC in 1999 with Martin Sheen as President Jed Bartlet. On this tour, we are, of course, in the West Wing of the White House. This is where the president and his senior staff work, with the Oval Office and press briefing room among the show's settings.

Those busy corridors showcased a drama that won the Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series four consecutive times, from 2000 through 2003.

Answer: Newark

"The District" premiered on CBS in 2000, with Craig T. Nelson playing the police chief recruited from Newark. Our tour is at Washington's city police headquarters, where the stories follow Mannion's department at City Hall and in the neighborhoods. Some of the people in the department think they deserved Mannion's job, so tensions abound.

Mannion's character was loosely inspired by real-life New York police strategist Jack Maple, giving this Washington drama roots in another city's crime-fighting efforts.

Answer: Kathy Reichs

"Bones" premiered on Fox in 2005, drawing on Reichs's forensic anthropology career and her novels about Temperance Brennan. In this tour, we are in the forensic laboratory of the fictional Jeffersonian Institution in Washington, which is inspired by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History on the National Mall.

Reichs has said that the first skeleton she ever held was at that very Smithsonian museum, giving the fictional lab a fitting real-world connection.

Answer: The Firm

"The Firm" premiered on NBC in 2012, continuing John Grisham's story about attorney Mitch McDeere roughly ten years after the original events at his firm in Memphis. On this tour, we are at Mitch's law practice in Washington, D.C. It is here that he is trying to rebuild his career after leaving witness protection,

Tom Cruise played the character in the 1993 movie of the same name. Josh Lucas takes over the role in this television series as he tries to cut his ties with the Memphis law firm that was connected to the mob.

Answer: Julia Louis-Dreyfus

"Veep" premiered on HBO in 2012, with Louis-Dreyfus playing a vice president of the USA desperate for greater influence. The stop on our tour here is her vice-presidential office in Washington, D.C., where her staff scrambles to manage political rivalries and publicity disasters.

Louis-Dreyfus, famous as Elaine on "Seinfeld", won six consecutive lead actress Emmys for playing Selina, from 2012 through 2017.

Answer: Shonda Rhimes

Rhimes created "Scandal", which premiered on ABC in 2012 with Kerry Washington playing Pope. In our tour, we are at Olivia Pope & Associates, a fictional crisis-management firm in Washington, D.C. Olivia's personal connections also draw her clients and the story into the White House.

Olivia was inspired by real-life Washington crisis manager Judy Smith, who worked in George H.W. Bush's White House.

Answer: The United Kingdom

The American "House of Cards" debuted on Netflix in 2013. It adapted a British political drama of the same name that began in 1990. In our tour, we are on Capitol Hill, where Frank begins the series as a powerful member of the House of Representatives.

Like his British predecessor Francis Urquhart, Frank regularly turns to the camera to share his schemes directly with the audience.

Answer: Central Intelligence Agency

"Madam Secretary" appeared on CBS in 2014, with Tea Leoni playing former CIA analyst and professor Elizabeth McCord. On our tour, we are at the State Department in Washington, D.C., which is the center of her diplomatic work. Often, international crises will take her to the White House or even overseas.

President Conrad Dalton recruited her after the predecessor's suspicious death, valuing her intelligence, language skills, and unconventional approach to problems.