The Lucille Ball Quiz Book
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The answer to this question, and hundreds of others, is in this little bottle er, book, the first Lucy quiz book in more than 20 years!
So turn on, tune in, and get ready to test your Lucy IQ.
Michael Karol
Michael Karol is an award-winning New York-based entertainment journalist and author. His books include Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia; The ABC Movie of the Week Companion; Sitcom Queens: Divas of the Small Screen; and The TV Tidbits Classic Television Book of Lists. He has interviewed a long list of performers, producers, and writers over the years, including blues legend Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson; artist, writer and producer Peter Brown (he sang “Do Ya Wanna Get Funky With Me?” and wrote Madonna’s “Material Girl”); songbird Phyllis Hyman; actors Gale Storm, Susan Lucci, Denise Nickerson, John Noble, Jane Connell, Kaye Ballard, Eva La Rue, Doris Singleton, Kathryn Joosten, Cameron Mathison, and David Hedison; and behind-the-scenes movers and shakers like Wonderfalls creator Bryan Fuller; House, M.D.’s creator and executive producer, David Shore; I Love Lucy’s film editor, Dann Cahn; and director William Asher, who helmed I Love Lucy and Bewitched, among other classics. Michael is currently editor of Soap Opera Weekly and copy chief of Pixie, a fab tween magazine.
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The Lucille Ball Quiz Book - Michael Karol
All Rights Reserved © 2004 by Michael Karol
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Front and back covers, design and execution © 2004 by Michael Karol Back cover: Lucille Ball, image © 2004 by www.clipart.com Author photo: © 2004 by Craig Hamrick
ISBN: 0-595-31857-6
ISBN: 978-0-5957-6668-0 (ebk)
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Section One: The Lucy Quizzes
So You Think You Know Lucy?
Musical Mayhem
What A Character!
Which Came First?
Male Call
That’s What She Said
Section Two: Lucy’s TV Co-Stars
Desi Arnaz
Vivian Vance
William Frawley
Mary Jane Croft & Frank Nelson
Gale Gordon
Lucie Arnaz & Desi Arnaz Jr.
Match the award/honor to the Lucy co-star:
Section Three: Lucy’s TV Series
I Love Lucy
The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour
The Lucy Show
Here’s Lucy
Life with Lucy
Section Four: Lucy’s TV Specials & Guest Appearances
Lucy’s TV Specials & Guest Appearances
Section Five: Desilu
Name that Show (and its Stars)
Desilu, Answers:
Section Six: What a Doll!
Lucy Collectibles
What A Doll! Answers
Afterword
About the Author
A TV Tidbits Book
Other TVTidbits books:
The TVTidbits Classic Television Trivia Quiz Book, by Craig Hamrick Funny Ladies: Sitcom Queens by Michael Karol
TV Tidbits Online: www.TVTidbits.com.
Other books by Michael Karol:
Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia
Lucy in Print
Kiss Me, Kill Me
To the millions of fans comforted by the laughter brought by Lucy & Co.
And to Lucie Arnaz, who, by lovingly preserving her parents’ work, ensures us a Lucy legacy for years to come.
If we were to do the Second Coming of Christ in color for a full hour, there would be a considerable number of stations which would decline to carry it on the grounds that a Western or a quiz show would be more profitable.—Edward R. Murrow, 1964
Acknowledgements
This TV Tidbits book was the brainchild of my wickedly clever friend, and editor, Craig Hamrick. As a Lucy fan, I take a second seat to none. I’ve written two books about the Queen of Comedy, Lucy A to Z: The Lucille Ball Encyclopedia, and Lucy in Print. But that wasn’t enough for Craig. After writing The TVTidbits Classic Television Trivia Quiz Book, he’d enjoyed it so much, he said, Try writing a few quiz questions. You’ll have a Ball, pun intended.
And to my surprise, he was right. It was a kick going through my research files and forming the questions, and doing more research to unearth new tidbits to write about. The information included in these questions is largely available to the general public, if you know where to look. Some of the questions might involve information new to you, and in those instances where you are stumped, I hope you’ll look at them as learning experiences. But when you’re finished, you’ll be the biggest Lucy expert on your block.
I must also thank my sharp-as-nails copy editor, Saul Fischer, who got many of the questions right (but not nearly all of them, heh, heh, heh), and Albert Fisher, former director of television for the Thomas Deegan Company/New York World’s Fair 1964/1965 Corporation for contributing his thoughts about Lucy Day at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.
Finally, thanks to the fans, who make me strive to always be better at what I do.
Introduction
Lucille Ball would probably be amazed that so much has been written about her, and that she continues to be a favorite book subject almost 15 years after her death. But her fans, including yours truly, wouldn’t be. With a super-colossal personality like Lucille Ball, there’s been so much written about her, and so much filed away for years, that it presents the possibility of an endless stream of information out there.
There have been trivia books and quiz books about I Love Lucy, but none centering on the life of Lucille Ball, and none like this one, which features nuggets (or tidbits, as I like to call them) of information about Lucy, her career, and those close to her, in every question. Boxes filled with special Lucy Tidbits are sprinkled throughout the quiz.
Even if you’re a super Lucy fan, some of the information might be entirely new to you, so don’t strain your brain too hard. The answers are only a page or two away.
—Michael Karol
New York
April 2004
Section One:
The Lucy Quizzes
So You Think You Know Lucy? (The Big Quiz)
Musical Mayhem (Which of these Lucy movies were musicals?)
What A Character! (Match these characters Lucy played to the TV show or movie.)
Which Came First? (Put these events in Lucy’s Life in proper chronological order.)
Male Call (Match Lucy’s male co-stars to the movies in which they appeared.)
That’s What She Said (From which Lucy TV shows or movies do these quotes come?)
So You Think You Know Lucy?
Score one point for each question, and one extra point for each Bonus question. Here’s an easy one to get you started:
MGM hairstylist Sidney Guilaroff is often credited with changing Lucy’s hair color to the flaming red-orange hue we’ve all come to love. What did Lucy keep on hand at home so she could always brush up her tint?
a. red dye #2
b. boxes of Henna rinse
c. her hairstylist, Irma Kusely
d. Guilaroff’s home phone number
The answer is b., henna rinse. Of course, they won’t all be that easy…but then, where would the fun be? Good luck!
1. What is Lucy’s birth date? 1a. What was her birthplace? 1b. What was Lucy’s birth name?
2. Name Lucy’s five major TV series and her character’s name in each.
3. 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
4. Lucy met Vivian Vance shortly before rehearsals began for the first episode of