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  Expose Yourself To 'Northern Exposure'   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This is my mother's favourite show of all time, so we co-created this fifteen-question quiz. Hope you like it.
Average, 15 Qns, magpie8, Jul 03 02
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  'Northern Exposure' Chris-in-the-Morning   best quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
A quiz on my favourite 'Northern Exposure' character.
Tough, 15 Qns, Elanor, Jul 23 07
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Elanor
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  Easy "Northern Exposure" Questions   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Some general questions about the lives of the residents of Cicely, Alaska.
Easier, 10 Qns, Roslyn, Dec 09 02
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Roslyn
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  "Northern Exposure"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Here is an easy quiz on that great television show "Northern Exposure."
Average, 10 Qns, Contrarycon, Apr 12 03
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  "Northern Exposure" Series 1   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
This quiz is based on the first series of "Northern Exposure".
Average, 15 Qns, Roslyn, Feb 06 06
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Roslyn
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  Welcome to Cicely, Alaska.   popular trivia quiz  
Multiple Choice
 15 Qns
How well do you know the first episode of this great show?
Tough, 15 Qns, Elanor, Aug 15 03
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Elanor
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  "Northern Exposure" Quotes - Who Said Them?    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Due to revitalized interest thanks to a new DVD release, here's another "Northern Exposure" quiz. Try your luck with these off-the-wall, who-said-it quotes!
Average, 10 Qns, jaike, Nov 20 11
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  'Northern Exposure' Trivia    
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Welcome to the trivia about the TV Show, Northern Exposure. Be prepared for some hard, some easy questions, I'm a fan of this show greatly and enjoy it.
Average, 10 Qns, DawnaDragon, May 09 10
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  Where Are They Now: Northern Exposure    
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Let's see if you know what the cast of Northern Exposure is doing now! From Elaine Miles (who played Marilyn Whirlwind) to John Corbett (who played Chris Stevens).
Average, 10 Qns, dawnadragon, Jul 26 01
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trivia question Quick Question
Who 'discovered' the town of Cicely?

From Quiz "'Northern Exposure' Trivia"





Northern Exposure Trivia Questions
1. Where did the series take place?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure"

Answer: Alaska

Cicely, Alaska to be exact. A fictional town.

2. What is Holling's bar called?

From Quiz Easy "Northern Exposure" Questions

Answer: The Brick

The bar was named after Roslyn who was one of the founders of the town.

3. Why were Holling and Maurice not speaking to each other in the pilot episode?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure" Series 1

Answer: Shelly left Maurice for Holling

Maurice had brought Shelly to Cicely with the intention of marrying her.

4. How many scolarship applications did Joel say he sent off before Alaska offered him funding?

From Quiz Welcome to Cicely, Alaska.

Answer: 75

75 applications, only one replied.

5. What is the name of the radio station where Chris does his show?

From Quiz 'Northern Exposure' Chris-in-the-Morning

Answer: kbhr & KBHR & Kbhr

Also known as K-Bear, 570 AM.

6. What were the first names of Joel's parents?

From Quiz Expose Yourself To 'Northern Exposure'

Answer: Nadine and Herb

The couple was often referred-to, but did not make an appearance until later in the show's run.

7. Janine Turner (who played Maggie O'Connell) is a model turned actress, right now she is currently acting on a Medical Drama. What is the name of that television show?

From Quiz Where Are They Now: Northern Exposure

Answer: Strong Medicine

Strong Medicine is on the television network, Lifetime, and has Whoopi Goldberg as an executive producer.

8. Who 'discovered' the town of Cicely?

From Quiz 'Northern Exposure' Trivia

Answer: Cicely and Rosalyn

Cicely and Rosalyn were lovers. The town was named Cicely after they found the town and made it more classy and up to date. Cicely took a bullet for Rosalyn and died, then everyone started to call the town Cicely.

9. "That means daddy was a traveling man."

From Quiz "Northern Exposure" Quotes - Who Said Them?

Answer: Chris and Bernard together

From the "Aurora Borealis: A Fairy Tale for Big People" episode. Upon uttering this line Chris and Bernard agree they are half brothers after comparing pictures of their father.

10. Who played the lead character, Dr. Joel Fleishman?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure"

Answer: Rob Morrow

Rob Morrow, in real life, is NOTHING like Fleishman. Paul Provenza, also a stand-up comedian played the doctor that took Fleishman's place when Morrow left the show. John Corbett was Chris "In the Morning" Stevens, and Darren E. Burrows played Ed Chigliak. Rob Morrow supported himself, in his pre-acting days, as a waiter and a balloon messenger. He can be seen in films such as 1994's "Quiz Show," 2002's "The Emperor's Club," and 2003's "The Guru."

11. Who did Shelly go out with before she started seeing Holling?

From Quiz Easy "Northern Exposure" Questions

Answer: Maurice

Maurice brought Shelly to Cicely with the intention of marrying her.

12. When Joel first met Maggie what did he mistake her for?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure" Series 1

Answer: A hooker

Maggie was Joel's landlord.

13. How long will Joel have to work in Alaska to pay off the money they lent him?

From Quiz Welcome to Cicely, Alaska.

Answer: 4 years

He says he will be an 'indentured slave'.

14. Where does Chris come from?

From Quiz 'Northern Exposure' Chris-in-the-Morning

Answer: Wheeling, West Virginia

Maggie O'Connell came from Grosse Pointe, Shelly was from Saskatoon, and Dr Joel Fleischman came from the Big Apple. John Corbett, who played Chris Stevens, is also from Wheeling, WV.

15. What animal fell in love with Maggie in one episode?

From Quiz Expose Yourself To 'Northern Exposure'

Answer: Bear

He took the form of a handsome fisherman, and wandered off at the end of the episode in his natural shape.

16. John Cullum, who played Holling Vancouer, was in the movie Marie with Sissy Spacek, and guest starred and directed the NBC Series Quantum Leap. And also has had guest starring roles on Law and Order, and this other NBC drama...

From Quiz Where Are They Now: Northern Exposure

Answer: ER

John Cullum played Anthony Edward's father on several episodes in the 6th (I think) season of ER, and died of cancer on the show. He also has a reccurring role on All My Children.

17. What's Ed favorite movie?

From Quiz 'Northern Exposure' Trivia

Answer: Citizen Kane

Ed wanted to do a Film Festival honoring Orson Welles' movies.

18. "I despise the tyranny of the strong over the weak. I think people who abuse power are nothing more than cowards."

From Quiz "Northern Exposure" Quotes - Who Said Them?

Answer: Roslyn

In the "Cicely" episode we see how the town was culturally built up by the visionary Cicely and her iron-willed lover, Roslyn. In this instance, she was defending the timidity of a Christian woman singing hymns in a bar full of drunken haggards.

19. What kind of airplane did Maggie fly?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure"

Answer: Cessna

A Cessna 170. Maggie's old boyfriends tended to die in unusual circumstances.

20. What is the name of Chris's brother?

From Quiz Easy "Northern Exposure" Questions

Answer: Bernard

Chris was quite disturbed when Bernard turned up with a new girlfriend who he had previously dated. She found a lot of similarities between them. Chris had a bit of an identity crisis after that.

21. Maurice took over the radio show after sacking Chris for reading Walt Whitman on air. What type of music did Maurice play on the radio?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure" Series 1

Answer: Show tunes

There was a town meeting to get Chris reinstated.

22. Joel and Elaine checked out Anchorage last summer and decided that... What?

From Quiz Welcome to Cicely, Alaska.

Answer: it was definitely do-able.

Joel decides it can't be that bad, after all, 'Anchorage isn't Cambodia.'

23. What was Chris's middle name?

From Quiz 'Northern Exposure' Chris-in-the-Morning

Answer: Danforth

Bernard was Chris's half brother. Jack was one of his favourite authors (Jack London).

24. What were the names of Maggie's brother and his wife?

From Quiz Expose Yourself To 'Northern Exposure'

Answer: Jeffie and Steffie

We first encountered the rhyming couple in the episode where Joel and Maggie travelled to Grosse Pointe.

25. What's the name of Joel's ex-fianceé who broke up with him through a letter?

From Quiz 'Northern Exposure' Trivia

Answer: Elaine

Elaine dumped Joel for a much older judge.

26. "This business of 'soiling', does it remind you of anything?"

From Quiz "Northern Exposure" Quotes - Who Said Them?

Answer: Sigmund Freud

This line is from "Jules et Joel". During his episode-long dream, Joel ends up in a jail cell with Sigmund Freud who, of course, begins a psychoanalysis session.

27. What were the call letters of Maurice Minnefield's radio station?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure"

Answer: KBHR

K. Bear! West of the Mississippi, call letters begin with Ks. Here in the east, they begin with Ws.

28. Who is Joel's receptionist?

From Quiz Easy "Northern Exposure" Questions

Answer: Marilyn

One time Joel asked her for a patients chart, and she gave him a map to his house.

29. Who was called a "Helplessness junkie"?

From Quiz "Northern Exposure" Series 1

Answer: Joel

Maggie called Joel this when he was complaining about not being able to get his plumbing to work.

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