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Test Drive On Aisle Five Trivia Quiz


I'm here at Best Buy looking for a new TV. I'm not too picky really - as long as it plays well, has a control panel that is human-friendly and isn't too small I'll be happy. Let's test some!

A multiple-choice quiz by Gatsby722. Estimated time: 9 mins.
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Author
Gatsby722
Time
9 mins
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Multiple Choice
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227,831
Updated
Dec 03 21
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Question 1 of 10
1. A salesman finds me at only two feet into the aisle. His name is Marty. "Looking for a new TV, sir?" he asks. Well, considering that I'm here AND zeroing in on the TV aisle I'd call that a "yes". Marty shows me a very jazzy set first (imagine that?) with a remote that resembles a jumbo jet's control panel! He flips it on to show me the sparkling picture. It's morning and "The Price Is Right" is playing. Yay! One of my guilty pleasures! 'Come on down' and tell me which of these games ISN'T one that appears on that show? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. "No, thanks," I say to Marty. "Do you have something a mere mortal could use? That thing has more buttons than I have hair follicles. A little too pricey, I might add." He takes me to a smaller set, a VERY smaller one just about the size of a 4-slice toaster. He turns it on and, amidst eyestrain, I see a cartoon playing on a cable channel. Oh, yeah! I loved that old animated (albeit goofy) gem! There's Dr. Benton, Race, Bandit, Jessie and even Hadji! What show is on? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. "Marty, Marty, Marty," I sigh. "If it was any smaller I'm afraid my vacuum cleaner might inhale it. How about some larger TVs?" He shrugs and leads me to a more sensible looking one, at least at first glance. Yikes, it shows four channels at once? I was confused after 2.4 minutes! One channel was set to old movies and this customer, at least, loves those. It was showing one of my fonder memories. What's not to love about an unseen vixen who's fixing to steal somebody's husband, and, while she's at it, why not tell three women that it might be one of their spouses without revealing which rascal it is!? "A Letter To Three Wives" was a kick, especially since all the husbands could have easily been the cheater. Who played the wives the title refers to in that old masterpiece? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. I steer Marty away to sets that show only one thing at a time. He's a compliant fellow and leads me to this one with a big cabinet (I guess I never specified much about size). The thing is, in a word, gargantuan! He flips it on and I believe the Lifetime Channel, somewhat life-sized, jumps out at us. It was showing a movie I'd heard about but had never seen, that one with a young Linda Blair in it. Thank goodness it wasn't "The Exorcist" as big vistas of demonic pea soup would not have suited me so early in the day. This was a TV-movie, about a teenager sent to a girls' detention facility. Poor Linda! The most assaulted juvenile actress in modern history, by the looks of things. No crucifixes this time. They came after her with a broomstick! What rather uncomfortable movie was this one? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. I think Marty's getting impatient with me. Too bad! All I said was that I'd maybe like to buy a television that would fit in the room without moving all the furniture out of it. This next set looks better. Gosh, it has everything on it. VCR, DVD player - the works (couldn't find a garbage disposal, though). It came on just as I was wondering why, if one part of it breaks, the whole shebang has to go in the shop. But I stopped to giggle. On the air was a commercial with two peeved neanderthals snipping at a salesman over dinner. I remember seeing it several times before it made a bit of sense. Now that it DOES make sense it's still pretty silly. What are those neanderthals wanting to buy? Note: it isn't a TV. Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Marty, the erstwhile salesman, actually agreed with me that one console with 15 different machines could become a maintenence headache, so we moved on to other electronic wizardry. The next set was kind of cute. It was in a cabinet that, if you pushed the right button, would open and the TV would literally spit out of it! When done watching, hit another button and it would slither back in. It reminded me of some oddball turtle! The picture was very nice though. The screen showed that kid from "The Sixth Sense" in one of his early sitcoms, of which he did several. I remembered one little problem Haley Joel Osment has in several of his big AND small screen projects. We have a Mom but where is the Dad? Of the four titles listed which one allowed young Haley both parents at once, together and who had been that way throughout his character's life? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. "A turtle? Why, I've never heard such a thing" Marty griped. When I then asked him if had one of those contraptions in his den he said 'no' so there was little more to say. Now he was getting to be a wiseacre. The next set looked like something from the 1950s! He thought it might appeal to me, even though it was used and brought in for repairs and never picked up. Very funny. The TV DID work, though, and had a delightful (not!) picture that was more blue and pink than anything else. The woman on the screen was, in any tint, as recognizable as a black bear in a snowstorm without a doubt. It was that caustic and rather dragon-like Judge Judy! Somebody had run into a patio door while riding a skateboard or something and the litigious fur was flying! $450 to repair a door? Go get 'em, Judge Judy. That's a bit steep indeed. She has written a couple of books, I'm told. Which of the following is NOT one of them? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Marty had himself a laugh at my expense, the scamp. Never fear, though. The check I'll write him will bounce higher than the lowest cloud. Just kidding - I really DO need a TV. The next model he shows me, once again, looks perfect. He turns it on and there is Archie and Edith Bunker singing away at the piano. One little glitch here: they're singing in Spanish! Marty is wildly trying to program it to be in English with no success. Heck, if he can't figure it out how am I supposed to? As for the Bunkers and "All In The Family" how old was Jean Stapleton when the show debuted and she brought Edith to life? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Since I don't speak a word of it, the Spanish-stuck set was out of the question; Marty and I move on to another style just a few steps away. This one seemed reasonable except that it was flat - sort of like a book standing up sideways. I kept looking for the rest of it! Sorry, but I'm used to my TVs looking like boxes, not CD cases. The picture was great and the language was right and the size was perfect. But, ugh, the show that was playing was all wrong. It was one of those morning talk shows and they were talking to the winner of that show "Skating With Celebrities", a certain Kristy Swanson. Her celebrity status in serious question, which of these movies really was a hit for her some 15 years ago in the early 90s? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Marty agrees to show me one last set. It'll look normal, act right, and not complicate my world to complete distraction. Wow! He's right. This one is the right size, has a remote control with 20 buttons or less and even isn't scary by design. "It even has wheels," he said, touching the side of it lightly. The thing didn't have wheels - I think it had rockets as it sped off in a westerly direction for 25 feet before it crashed into something and stopped. I can see the headlines now: 'Man Killed At Home When Squashed By A Runaway Television'. As we chased down the speedy little thing it was playing a lovely TV theme song, a ditty by the esteemed Franz Schubert. Which situation comedy featured the song (just the tune) weekly by that composer? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. A salesman finds me at only two feet into the aisle. His name is Marty. "Looking for a new TV, sir?" he asks. Well, considering that I'm here AND zeroing in on the TV aisle I'd call that a "yes". Marty shows me a very jazzy set first (imagine that?) with a remote that resembles a jumbo jet's control panel! He flips it on to show me the sparkling picture. It's morning and "The Price Is Right" is playing. Yay! One of my guilty pleasures! 'Come on down' and tell me which of these games ISN'T one that appears on that show?

Answer: Beat The Clock

It's actually called 'The Clock Game'. "Beat The Clock" was its very own show in the 1950s. There are over 80 games that revolve on "The Price Is Right", some more popular and loaded with riches than the others. The most popular is 'Plinko' where the prize money is all a matter of luck (where will that plinko chip land?) and the cashiest cow in the pasture is 'Golden Road' (3 vehicles, one of them excessively costly, is not a bad payoff indeed!). 'Flip Flop' is pretty much self-explanatory; you either flip that number or flop the other one to name the correct price and 'Cliff Hanger' has a yodeler climbing up a mountain getting closer to falling off with each dollar you mis-bid by (the little dude falls off about half the time). Bob Barker has been hosting the show, named by TV Guide as The Best Game Show Of All Time, for 30+ years and is surrounded by these beautiful models who point at prizes and call themselves "Barker's Beauties" - several of whom who have sued the show for any assortment of nefarious doings.

It's a fun show that rarely puts the viewer at risk of having to think too much.
2. "No, thanks," I say to Marty. "Do you have something a mere mortal could use? That thing has more buttons than I have hair follicles. A little too pricey, I might add." He takes me to a smaller set, a VERY smaller one just about the size of a 4-slice toaster. He turns it on and, amidst eyestrain, I see a cartoon playing on a cable channel. Oh, yeah! I loved that old animated (albeit goofy) gem! There's Dr. Benton, Race, Bandit, Jessie and even Hadji! What show is on?

Answer: Johnny Quest

It had to be every boy's fantasy! A 14-year old lad racing about the world in a 4x4? Heaven on wheels. It helped that his Dad was a reknowned 'phenomenologist' (just a puffed-up term for explorer/scientist) which opened the landscape for any number of adventurous derring-do.

The series only had 52 episodes and, given luck, can still be found after it started some 40 years ago. If you catch it don't expect high tech animation, though. Sure, it's dated but (for this Peter Pan sort) it remains a classic.
3. "Marty, Marty, Marty," I sigh. "If it was any smaller I'm afraid my vacuum cleaner might inhale it. How about some larger TVs?" He shrugs and leads me to a more sensible looking one, at least at first glance. Yikes, it shows four channels at once? I was confused after 2.4 minutes! One channel was set to old movies and this customer, at least, loves those. It was showing one of my fonder memories. What's not to love about an unseen vixen who's fixing to steal somebody's husband, and, while she's at it, why not tell three women that it might be one of their spouses without revealing which rascal it is!? "A Letter To Three Wives" was a kick, especially since all the husbands could have easily been the cheater. Who played the wives the title refers to in that old masterpiece?

Answer: Jeanne Crain, Ann Sothern and Linda Darnell

The mate-napper was named Addie, a supposed "friend" to these women. Some friend! The husbands were played by Jeffrey Lynn, Kirk Douglas and Paul Douglas (no relation to Kirk) in the 1949 treat. Does Addie snatch away her man? I'll never tell. The whole movie is shown in flashbacks of the three marriages, none of which lent any hints since not a one of them seemed to be progressing smoothly.

The film won two Oscars: for direction and writing and really deserved both since it didn't take itself TOO seriously but found that spot where it was just serious enough. I will tell you that Addie's voice was supplied by Miss Celeste Holm.
4. I steer Marty away to sets that show only one thing at a time. He's a compliant fellow and leads me to this one with a big cabinet (I guess I never specified much about size). The thing is, in a word, gargantuan! He flips it on and I believe the Lifetime Channel, somewhat life-sized, jumps out at us. It was showing a movie I'd heard about but had never seen, that one with a young Linda Blair in it. Thank goodness it wasn't "The Exorcist" as big vistas of demonic pea soup would not have suited me so early in the day. This was a TV-movie, about a teenager sent to a girls' detention facility. Poor Linda! The most assaulted juvenile actress in modern history, by the looks of things. No crucifixes this time. They came after her with a broomstick! What rather uncomfortable movie was this one?

Answer: Born Innocent

This one had the audience all astir in 1974, to say the least. Blair played Chris Parker, a habitual runaway, and was turned over to the state for rehabilitation. Her parents/family weren't a furlong close to being even halfway likable and her peers in the "jail" were even worse! The shocking scene came when she was gang raped there with a broom handle at the hands of the other girls confined with her. Such a thing would arch a few eyebrows on TV today but it raised a total furor 30 years ago! Ultimately the film was applauded and awarded and, I'm sure, prevented many a youth from even thinking about running off.

In the story the poor troubled girl was rescued by a counselor who saw that she had strong redemption in her AND saved the day. That part the TV audience liked just fine.
5. I think Marty's getting impatient with me. Too bad! All I said was that I'd maybe like to buy a television that would fit in the room without moving all the furniture out of it. This next set looks better. Gosh, it has everything on it. VCR, DVD player - the works (couldn't find a garbage disposal, though). It came on just as I was wondering why, if one part of it breaks, the whole shebang has to go in the shop. But I stopped to giggle. On the air was a commercial with two peeved neanderthals snipping at a salesman over dinner. I remember seeing it several times before it made a bit of sense. Now that it DOES make sense it's still pretty silly. What are those neanderthals wanting to buy? Note: it isn't a TV.

Answer: Car insurance

Yessirree, buying Geiko insurance is so simple 'even a caveman could do it'. Those fuzzy faced dinner guests had no business with that rude remark (but one of them ordered food, anyway; the other grumpily ordered water). It didn't help matters that the salesman said something about not knowing these people were still around.

He was curtly told to do his research next time. This odd commercial has actually won some awards! You never know it's about insurance until they cut away from that restaurant.
6. Marty, the erstwhile salesman, actually agreed with me that one console with 15 different machines could become a maintenence headache, so we moved on to other electronic wizardry. The next set was kind of cute. It was in a cabinet that, if you pushed the right button, would open and the TV would literally spit out of it! When done watching, hit another button and it would slither back in. It reminded me of some oddball turtle! The picture was very nice though. The screen showed that kid from "The Sixth Sense" in one of his early sitcoms, of which he did several. I remembered one little problem Haley Joel Osment has in several of his big AND small screen projects. We have a Mom but where is the Dad? Of the four titles listed which one allowed young Haley both parents at once, together and who had been that way throughout his character's life?

Answer: The Jeff Foxworthy Show (TV)

While Forrest and Jenny did finally marry in "Forrest Gump", the Junior Gump was just starting school before the father and son even knew about each other. Murphy Brown decided to go it alone in the motherhood department (if you don't believe me just ask Vice President Dan Quayle who made that whole decision famous by using it to signal the poor state of family values! Who says TV isn't important?). Toni Collette only had to deal with the dead people her spooked son gawked at in "The Sixth Sense". All the ladies mentioned did play Osment's mother. Karen Foxworthy, though, was the only one who got the offspring and the husband with it/them. For any duration, at any rate.
7. "A turtle? Why, I've never heard such a thing" Marty griped. When I then asked him if had one of those contraptions in his den he said 'no' so there was little more to say. Now he was getting to be a wiseacre. The next set looked like something from the 1950s! He thought it might appeal to me, even though it was used and brought in for repairs and never picked up. Very funny. The TV DID work, though, and had a delightful (not!) picture that was more blue and pink than anything else. The woman on the screen was, in any tint, as recognizable as a black bear in a snowstorm without a doubt. It was that caustic and rather dragon-like Judge Judy! Somebody had run into a patio door while riding a skateboard or something and the litigious fur was flying! $450 to repair a door? Go get 'em, Judge Judy. That's a bit steep indeed. She has written a couple of books, I'm told. Which of the following is NOT one of them?

Answer: I'll Pay The Bill If You Have The Babies, Loser

Judith Scheindlin had a long career as a Family Court Judge before she became daytime TV's latest 'Queen Of Mean' and her style, in a real courtroom, was not so different than what we see on the tube. Granted, it's accelerated a bit because it makes for audience interest but, clearly, the woman takes no nonsense wherever she is. Underneath all the [unnecessary, in my little opinion] name calling she is actually wise and a whip at the law...not to mention a loving mother and grandmother on the homefront. Had someone tried to write a fictional judge like her they couldn't have come up with someone like the Honorable Mrs. Scheindlin. I suppose, one of her is plenty.
8. Marty had himself a laugh at my expense, the scamp. Never fear, though. The check I'll write him will bounce higher than the lowest cloud. Just kidding - I really DO need a TV. The next model he shows me, once again, looks perfect. He turns it on and there is Archie and Edith Bunker singing away at the piano. One little glitch here: they're singing in Spanish! Marty is wildly trying to program it to be in English with no success. Heck, if he can't figure it out how am I supposed to? As for the Bunkers and "All In The Family" how old was Jean Stapleton when the show debuted and she brought Edith to life?

Answer: 48

Yes, Edith was the eldest of the bunch of those frisky Bunkers, at least in real life. Stapleton was born on January 19, 1923. Archie (Carroll O'Connor) was 47, Gloria Bunker Stivic (Sally Struthers) was 23 and Mike Stivic (Rob Reiner) was 24 - a bit long in the tooth, that last one, to be a student just getting started it seems to me. Oh well, it was a comedy and not a documentary.

The show ran from 1971 until 1979, coming to a screeching halt when the Edith character passed away and a year after the Stivics moved across the country. Any student of TV history will know that even though "All In The Family" will always have the name Archie Bunker synonomous with it, arguably, it was Edith who was the glue on the series. And, really (and unlike so many TV projects), the actors' ages were character-fitting for the most part.
9. Since I don't speak a word of it, the Spanish-stuck set was out of the question; Marty and I move on to another style just a few steps away. This one seemed reasonable except that it was flat - sort of like a book standing up sideways. I kept looking for the rest of it! Sorry, but I'm used to my TVs looking like boxes, not CD cases. The picture was great and the language was right and the size was perfect. But, ugh, the show that was playing was all wrong. It was one of those morning talk shows and they were talking to the winner of that show "Skating With Celebrities", a certain Kristy Swanson. Her celebrity status in serious question, which of these movies really was a hit for her some 15 years ago in the early 90s?

Answer: Buffy The Vampire Slayer

Where are/were the celebrities? Todd Bridges? Dave Coulier? Tatum Oneal (haven't seen much of her for 25 years!), but skate away they did, proving that life doesn't end after "Full House" or "Diff'rent Strokes". It just comes darned close to ending. Swanson's skating partner was Lloyd Eisler who participated in 4 Olympics and does a lot of charity work these days AND is a very strong skater.

The judges kept saying how well they worked together on the ice. It is now known that they moved together pretty well off the ice as well, maybe better.

The only question now is whether they started their fling before or after Lloyd separated from his pregnant wife. I reckon that's their business, gnarly as it sounds. Let's just hope this little boost in visibility keeps Kristy out of such films as her enchanting work in "8 Heads In A Duffel Bag" in 1997. Even marginal skating and tabloid scandal is better than dreck such as that was.
10. Marty agrees to show me one last set. It'll look normal, act right, and not complicate my world to complete distraction. Wow! He's right. This one is the right size, has a remote control with 20 buttons or less and even isn't scary by design. "It even has wheels," he said, touching the side of it lightly. The thing didn't have wheels - I think it had rockets as it sped off in a westerly direction for 25 feet before it crashed into something and stopped. I can see the headlines now: 'Man Killed At Home When Squashed By A Runaway Television'. As we chased down the speedy little thing it was playing a lovely TV theme song, a ditty by the esteemed Franz Schubert. Which situation comedy featured the song (just the tune) weekly by that composer?

Answer: Wings

"Wings" had a character, the romantic lead, named Helen who longed to be a classical cellist while running a lunch counter at a New England airport so classical music was an easy fit into the show's personality. "Suddenly Susan" used Beethoven for a theme, but only in Season 1. "Taxi" and "Bewitched" had all original music. "Wings" was created by those responsible for "Cheers" and was a pretty good show but never reached the audience its 'forefather' did. One of the more notable things, now, about the show is the actor who played the schlepping cab driver in it. That'd be Tony Shalhoub, who has become a hot property these days as the title character in "Monk". Oh, and the mechanic Lowell, too, played by Thomas Haden Church . He went on to an Oscar nomination for his role in "Sideways" in 2004.

As for my new TV...I went ahead and bought that flat one and, on my way home, bought a big fake ficus tree to stick behind it. I may know full well it is flat but at least I won't have to see just HOW flat. As for Marty? I saw him the other day on a brand new moped looking like a kid at Christmas. Glad to know his commission check went to good use, the little fruitcake.
Source: Author Gatsby722

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