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NBC: Test Your Knowledge on the Network

Test your knowledge about NBC and its history, ownership, key figures, and programming with this engaging quiz!

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1 What entity owns NBC?

2 Who of the following is a key person at NBC?

3 What type of thing is NBC?

4 The appeal of the two struggling title characters landed a broad audience, especially during the ________.

5 This led NBC News president Steve Capus to order the footage not to be shown without his permission and announcer ________ to promise that the video wouldn't be shown again during the Games.

6 What does the following picture show?  NBC News Washington Bureau   NBC Tower in Chicago   The front entrance of the NBC Tower at 454 N. Columbus Drive, Chicago, IL.   NBC News Washington Bureau

7 What picture format does NBC broadcast in?

8 Frasier was also popular and, despite not being as highly rated as Friends, still landed in the top 40 and won numerous ________.

9 Paul (KSTP-TV), and San Diego (________).

10 NBC aired the ________ in Vancouver, generating 21% higher ratings than its previous broadcast of the 2006 games in Torino.

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • nine years before being cast as J. Homer Bedloe on CBS's Petticoat Junction, Charles Lane appeared as a hard-nosed newspaper editor in Peter Lawford's short-lived NBC sitcom, Dear Phoebe.
  • five years before he was cast as banker Theodore J. Mooney on The Lucy Show, Gale Gordon played the co-owner of a department store on the NBC sitcom Sally.
  • popular 1950s game show Down You Go is one of the only U.S. television series to air on all four networks of television's Golden Age: ABC, NBC, CBS and DuMont.
  • prior to writing the episode "The Apartment" of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld, writer Peter Mehlman had "barely written any dialogue in [his] life".
  • television writer Steve Higgins was nominated for two Emmy Awards for his work on Saturday Night Live before becoming the announcer for NBC's Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
  • early in his short acting career Tod Griffin played George Washington and Patrick Henry on NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series.
  • during the midst of the Cold War, Alan Shulman and Dmitri Shostakovich were invited to join a Soviet–American composers' symposium organised by Nicolas Slonimsky for NBC.
  • actress Aubrey Plaza conceived the idea of April Ludgate, her character on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, having a "gay boyfriend" who also simultaneously dates another boy.
  • actor Jim O'Heir, who plays Jerry on the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, once played the janitor of a genetics laboratory who held puppet shows with the failed experiments.
  • actress Aubrey Plaza said "Hunting Trip", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, could mark the start of a romance between her character and that of actor Chris Pratt.
  • although the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation was critically panned, it was considered one of the best comedies of the year during its second season.
  • before the first season of the NBC series Parks and Recreation even aired, critics thought it would fail due to early reports of poor test screenings.
  • the 1955–56 NBC series Frontier was only the second western anthology program on television, preceded by Death Valley Days.
  • the 1960–1961 NBC Western series Klondike featured James Coburn as con man Jeff Durain in the Alaskan gold rush town of Skagway.
  • the church tower for the Fourth Universalist Society of New York is the "high-tech command center" for NBC's coverage of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
  • the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Zebras" earned higher ratings than an NBC special about Barack Obama, which aired the same night.
  • the day the Parks and Recreation episode "Canvassing" aired on NBC, it captured almost one million viewers more than its direct ABC time-slot competitor, Samantha Who.
  • the fictitious newspaper article written by the journalist in the Parks and Recreation episode "The Reporter" was featured as a PDF file on the official NBC website.
  • when NBC pulled "Steve Burdick", an AIDS-themed episode of the medical drama Lifestories, gay and AIDS activists accused the network of fearing advertiser backlash.
  • the Great Rose Bowl Hoax was a 1961 prank by students at the California Institute of Technology that was broadcast by NBC to an estimated 30 million viewers in the United States.
  • the Poison song "Unskinny Bop" was featured during a strip club scene in "Tom's Divorce", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation.
  • the actor Read Morgan of NBC's western television series The Deputy played basketball from 1950 to 1952 for the Kentucky Wildcats.
  • the catchphrase "Kowabunga!" was popularized by the NBC program Howdy Doody.
  • the Jewish Theological Seminary of America produced the NBC radio and TV program The Eternal Light commercial-free for 45 years, with the show's producer saying "God needs no sponsor".
  • the Los Angeles attorney Bobby Diamond became nationally known a half century ago through his role as the orphaned Joey Newton in the NBC television series Fury.
  • actor Paul Schneider initially felt insecure about playing Mark Brendanawicz on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation because he was unsure about the motivations of the character.
  • a focus group report heavily critical of the "Pilot" episode of the NBC show Parks and Recreation was leaked to the media one month before the show aired.
  • "Telethon" was the first episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation to be written by star Amy Poehler.
  • "Ron and Tammy", an episode of NBC's Parks and Recreation, features comedienne Megan Mullally playing the ex-wife of a character played by her real-life husband, Nick Offerman.
  • Aziz Ansari's performance as Tom Haverford was considered one of the strongest elements of the first season of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation.
  • concert film Liza with a Z was thought lost in the NBC vaults for almost thirty years, before its rediscovery and re-release in 2006.
  • NBC network executive Perry Lafferty produced the 1985 television movie An Early Frost, one of the first dramatic films to deal with the subject of HIV / AIDS.
  • "Leslie's House", an episode of the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, features references to Wikipedia, Nirvana, Montell Jordan and the Iran–Contra affair.
  • "Kaboom", an episode of NBC's Parks and Recreation, featured the real-life charity KaBOOM! as part of a multi-network television campaign to spotlight volunteerism.
  • "Company Picnic", which aired on NBC on May 14, 2009, was the 100th episode of the comedy series, The Office.
  • "Christmas Scandal", an episode of NBC's comedy series Parks and Recreation, marked the last in a string of guest performances by stand-up comedian Louis C.K..
  • "Greenzo", an episode of 30 Rock, was part of NBC’s Green Week that aimed at having every primetime program aired during the second week of November 2007 contain an environmental theme.
  • "Greg Pikitis", an episode of NBC's comedy series Parks and Recreation, featured actress Rashida Jones dressed as Raggedy Ann.
  • "Jack-Tor", an episode of 30 Rock, was the first episode of the series to air as part of NBC's "Comedy Night Done Right".
  • NBC's 2009 reality television program Superstars of Dance is hosted by "Lord of the Dance" Michael Flatley.
  • Nick Offerman, who plays Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, has received significant praise and been called the show's "secret weapon".
  • Mary K. Shell, the first woman mayor of Bakersfield, California, chided NBC's Johnny Carson for his jokes about "beautiful downtown Bakersfield" and invited Carson to visit the city to see its improvements.
  • Jama Williamson, who plays the attractive surgeon ex-wife of Tom Haverford in the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, also provided voices for the video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
  • Entertainment Weekly reported comedian Ellie Kemper is set to take on the role of Dunder Mifflin receptionist in NBC's U.S. version of The Office.
  • The Colgate Comedy Hour was a musical variety television show that ran on the NBC television network from November 1950 to December 1956, and was the first NTSC color television broadcast.
  • T-shirts which featured Jane Krakowski as Jenna Maroney, which were seen in a 30 Rock episode entitled "Jack Gets in the Game", were made commercially available by NBC.
  • Galentine's Day, an episode of the NBC comedy Parks and Recreation, had a story so romantic, its characters said it made The Notebook look like Saw V.
  • Dean Fredericks, who portrayed Air Force pilot Steve Canyon in the 1958–59 NBC television series, was awarded a Purple Heart during World War II.
  • Rashida Jones, the actress who plays Ann Perkins in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, was cast before the producers had determined what the show would be about.
  • Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, who had been deputy chief of Navy intelligence in World War II, later narrated the NBC Cold War docudrama Behind Closed Doors, titled after one of his own books.
  • U.S. Army General James Harbord, who commanded the United States Marine Corps' 4th Marine Brigade at the Battle of Belleau Wood during World War I, was President of RCA in the 1920s when it formed NBC and RKO Pictures.
  • Andy Dwyer, a character in the NBC comedy series Parks and Recreation, was only to appear in the first season, but was made a regular cast member because the producers liked actor Chris Pratt.
  • "94 Meetings", an episode of NBC's comedy Parks and Recreation, featured the return of several actors who had previously appeared in the series, such as Alison Becker and Susan Yeagley.
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