TV Trivia
by Michael Karol
& Craig Hamrick

A Lucille Ball Quiz
...from The Lucille Ball Quiz Book
By Michael Karol
Originally posted 09.03.06

The Lucille Ball Quiz Book was published in 2004. I'm proud and happy to say it has remained a steady seller, indicating the public's never-ending thirst for knowledge about the Queen of Comedy. Following are some questions to give you a taste of what awaits you in the most comprehensive Lucille Ball quiz ever published (and, as far as I know, the only quiz book about Lucille Ball or her career still in print).

(Answers below quiz — don't cheat!)

1. How did Lucy refer to the kind of parts she and fellow
wisecracking dame Eve Arden played on screen?
a. Funny Ladies
b. Wisecrackers
c. Drop-Gag Girls
d. Caustic Comics

2. Name at least two board games Lucy endorsed
in the 1970s. Bonus: For which company?

3. What was the full name of William Frawley’s My Three Sons character?

4. On The Lucy Show, Vivian Vance played TV’s first what?
a. Girl Scout Troop Leader
b. Female Little League Coach
c. Divorced woman
d. Single mother

5. Desi got his own radio show in 1950, a year before I Love Lucy,
but it was short-lived. What was it called?

6. During the Desilu Playhouse years, a well-known actress and commercial spokeswoman, who was a friend of Lucy’s, did the commercials for the Westinghouse appliances. Who was she?
a. Betsy Palmer
b. Betty Furness
c. Kitty Carlisle
d. Polly Bergen

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Lucy Quiz — Answers
1. c. Drop-Gag Girls
2. For Milton Bradley, all in the early to mid-1970s, Lucy endorsed a number of games, including Body Language; Cross Up; Pivot Golf; Solotaire; and Pivot Pool.
3. William Michael Francis Aloisius ‘Bub’ O’Casey
4. c. Divorced woman
5. Your Tropical Trip
6. b. Betty Furness

For much, much more, click on the book cover to purchase.

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Michael Karol has written four books about Lucille Ball: Lucy A to Z, The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia, the revised, expanded 4th Edition, published in 2008, with exclusive pictures for the first time; Lucy in Print, looking at press coverage of Lucy and her costars over the past 60 years; The Lucille Ball Quiz Book; and The Comic DNA of Lucille Ball: Interpreting the Icon. He has also written the best-selling TV Tidbits book The ABC Movie of the Week Companion. A date gone wrong sparked his vampire/mystery novel Kiss Me, Kill Me. Its prequel, Sleeps Well With Others, was published in the fall of 2006. All are currently available on Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble.com, and many other online and in-store sources. Visit here for more information.