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Test Your Knowledge of the Emmy Awards

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Emmy Awards, their history, categories, and significance in American television.

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1 The ________, generally are held in June, are presented in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming.

2 Where does Emmy Award come from?

3 Also, the ________, honoring television programs produced and initially aired outside the U.S., was established in the early 1970s.

4 ________

5 [4] The name "Emmy" was chosen as a feminization of "immy", a nickname used for the ________ that were common in early television cameras.

6 In 1955, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS) was formed in ________ as a sister organization to serve members on the East Coast, and help to also supervise the Emmys.

7 Ceremonies generally are held in mid-September, on the Sunday before the official start of the fall television season, and are currently broadcast in rotation among the ABC, ________, NBC, and Fox networks.

8 The three Interactive categories are awarded in a separate ceremony held during MIPTV in ________.

9 ________

10 That changed when the ________, a separate awards show specifically just for daytime programming, was first held in 1974.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • after screenwriter Chuck Tatham's brother and writing partner Jamie quit their first job and returned to their hometown, Chuck went on to be nominated for two Emmys.
  • actor Powers Boothe won a 1980 Emmy Award for his portrayal of Jim Jones in the film Guyana Tragedy: The Story of Jim Jones .
  • Red Tail Reborn, which chronicled the Red Tail Project's restoration of the P-51 Mustang, won regional Emmy Award recognition.
  • in 2005, Shannon Sohn became the first helicopter news reporter to win a national Emmy Award, which she won for her coverage of the crash of the helicopter of a rival TV station.
  • one of Emmy Award-winning screenwriter Frank Deasy's last acts before dying led to a record number of applicants for organ donor cards.
  • the Emmy Award-winning show The Freddy Awards, a ceremony honoring high school theater in the Lehigh Valley region in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, is to be the subject of a documentary film.
  • the Benji Christmas special Benji's Very Own Christmas Story was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1979.
  • the 1954 syndicated TV series Stories of the Century, starring Jim Davis as a railroad detective, was the first western to win an Emmy.
  • Rick Rhodes won six Emmy Awards for his work on Santa Barbara, Another World and The Guiding Light.
  • Ralph "Petey" Greene overcame a drug addiction and prison sentence to become an Emmy Award-winning radio and television talk show host and a guest at the White House.
  • American composer Danny Elfman was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1990 for creating "The Simpsons Theme" and in 2005 for the Desperate Housewives theme.
  • Gwen Verdon was nominated for an Emmy for playing a widow wishing death upon her husband in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode, "Ghost of a Chance".
  • Emmy Award-winning director Dearbhla Walsh described one scene in Talk to Me where a teacher commits adultery with her 15-year-old pupil as "not so much about sex as about love".
  • Anne Aghion won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her documentary film In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies, which examined the situation in post-genocide Rwanda.
  • George Schlatter was the manager of the comedy club where Dan Rowan and Dick Martin performed before going on to produce their Emmy Award winning TV show Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In.
  • Peg Mullen's change into an antiwar activist after her son's death in Vietnam by shrapnel fired from U.S. artillery, became the Emmy Award-winning 1979 film Friendly Fire starring Carol Burnett.
  • Gregory Slay, founding member and drummer for Remy Zero, also co-wrote the Emmy-nominated theme song for the television drama Nip/Tuck.
  • baritone Earl Wrightson won an Emmy Award for hosting the 1950s CBS Sunday afternoon television show The American Musical Theater.
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