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59 free Betty White trivia questions with answers. Betty White worked in television for longer than almost anyone alive, from ad-libbing hours of live TV a day in early-1950s Los Angeles to voicing a Pixar toy in her late nineties. In between she ran her own sitcom before women did that, married a game show host, played the man-hungry Sue Ann Nivens and a terminally naive Golden Girl, and became the oldest person ever to host Saturday Night Live. This quiz covers the whole run. The easy questions ask which Golden Girl she played, which 2009 rom-com brought her back and which candy bar put her in the Super Bowl. The harder ones want the tap dancer she refused to fire in 1954, the morning-show anchor job she turned down, the game show that made her the first woman to win a Daytime Emmy as host, the state where her first marriage took her to a chicken farm, the Nobel laureate in her circle of friends and the Billboard chart she topped in her late eighties. There is a fair amount on the animal work too, because it mattered to her more than any of it. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on White, her shows and her characters, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. Good for a Golden Girls night, a TV history round or anyone who wants to prove they know more than the Super Bowl ad.
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Q 01Betty White was born in 1922 in Oak Park, a suburb of which US city?
Chicago
Oak Park, a western suburb of Chicago, was her birthplace on 17 January 1922; the family moved to Alhambra, California, when she was one and on to Los Angeles during the Depression.
Q 02Which character did White play on The Golden Girls?
Rose Nylund
Rose Nylund, the sweet, naive widow from St. Olaf, earned White a lead-actress comedy Emmy nomination in every one of the show's seven seasons and a win for the first.
Q 03Her Golden Girls character came from the fictional farming town of St. Olaf in which state?
Minnesota
Minnesota is home to fictional St. Olaf; White's character's endless tales of its Scandinavian-American oddities were a running gag the other three women dreaded.
Q 04On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, White's character Sue Ann Nivens hosted which fictional TV program?
The Happy Homemaker
The Happy Homemaker was Sue Ann's saccharine WJM cooking-and-homemaking show; the running joke was that her on-air perkiness masked a man-hungry, acid-tongued personality off camera.
Q 05Sue Ann Nivens's cooking show aired on the fictional station WJM-TV in which city?
Minneapolis
Minneapolis was the home of WJM-TV, the fictional station where Mary Richards produced the news and Sue Ann's show aired; the series' opening credits were shot around the city.
Q 06Hot in Cleveland was the first original scripted series on which channel?
TV Land
TV Land, until then a rerun channel, launched Hot in Cleveland in June 2010 as its first original scripted series; it ran six seasons and 128 episodes.
Q 07How much of Hot in Cleveland was White originally supposed to appear in?
Just the pilot
Just the pilot was the plan for White's Elka, the building's caretaker; her performance landed so well that she stayed for the entire run, from 2010 to 2015.
Q 08Which actress played Victoria Chase, the vain soap star, in Hot in Cleveland?
Wendie Malick
Wendie Malick played Victoria Chase, the self-absorbed soap star, opposite Valerie Bertinelli's Melanie and Jane Leeves's Joy, with White's Elka as their caretaker.
Q 09White starred alongside Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds in which 2009 romantic comedy?
The Proposal
The Proposal cast White as Grandma Annie, whose 90th birthday brings the couple to Alaska; the hit kicked off the late-career resurgence that ran through her Super Bowl ad and SNL hosting.
Q 10How old was White when she hosted Saturday Night Live in May 2010, becoming its oldest host ever?
88
88 was her age, born January 1922; the previous oldest host was Miskel Spillman, an 80-year-old viewer who won a 1977 'Anyone Can Host' contest, and White won an Emmy for the episode.
Q 11White appeared in which candy bar's 'You're not you when you're hungry' 2010 Super Bowl ad?
Snickers
Snickers ran the spot, in which White gets tackled playing touch football and a bite turns her back into a young man; it topped USA Today's Ad Meter.
Q 12Which veteran actor appeared alongside White in her famous 2010 Super Bowl candy commercial?
Abe Vigoda
He was best known as Fish on Barney Miller and Tessio in The Godfather, and was in his late eighties at the time.
Q 13Which game show host did White marry in 1963?
Allen Ludden
Allen Ludden proposed at least twice before she said yes; they stayed married until his death in 1981, and asked why she never remarried she said, 'Once you've had the best, who needs the rest?'
Q 21Which NBC anchor job did White turn down to stay out of New York, and who eventually got it?
Today; Barbara Walters
Today; Barbara Walters: White declined NBC's offer to join the morning show because it meant moving to New York, and the job went to Walters; she stayed in Los Angeles and kept hosting the Rose Parade.
Q 22Which Golden Girls role was White originally offered before the pilot's director suggested a swap?
Blanche
Blanche was first offered to White, with Rue McClanahan pencilled in for White's eventual part; director Jay Sandrich suggested the swap because each had played a similar type before, on Mary Tyler Moore and Maude respectively.
Q 23Which Golden Girls co-star admitted she was "not that fond" of White, annoyed by her relentless positivity?
Q 14White met her third husband in 1961 while appearing as a celebrity guest on which game show?
Password
Password was the show; she guested on it in 1961, married its host two years later, and kept appearing on later versions right up to Million Dollar Password in 2008.
Q 15For which NBC show did White become the first woman to win the Daytime Emmy for game show host?
Just Men!
Just Men!, a short-lived 1983 NBC game show with an all-male celebrity panel, won her the 1983 Daytime Emmy for game show host, the first for a woman.
Q 16With Life with Elizabeth (1953–55), White became the first woman to do what for a sitcom?
Produce it
Produce it: through Bandy Productions, which she co-founded with Don Fedderson and George Tibbles, she co-produced and co-owned Life with Elizabeth while living in her parents' home.
Q 17Roughly how many hours a day was Betty White's live, solo Los Angeles variety show after 1952?
Five and a half
Five and a half hours a day, six days a week, was the load once she took over Hollywood on Television alone in 1952; it was all ad-libbed, with several songs per broadcast.
Q 18Which Los Angeles radio personality was White's co-host on Hollywood on Television from 1949?
Al Jarvis
Al Jarvis, host of the radio show Make Believe Ballroom on KFWB, hired her as his sidekick on KLAC-TV's Hollywood on Television in 1949; she took over when he left in 1952.
Q 19Which Black tap dancer did Southern stations demand Betty White drop from her show in 1954?
Arthur Duncan
Arthur Duncan, later the Lawrence Welk Show's tap dancer, was the target; White replied 'I'm sorry, live with it' and gave him more airtime, and the two reunited on television 63 years later.
Q 20In her 1962 feature film debut, Advise & Consent, White played what?
A US senator
A US senator, Bessie Adams, was her part in Otto Preminger's 1962 Washington drama Advise & Consent, her first feature film.
Bea Arthur
Bea Arthur once said she was 'not that fond' of White, finding her cheerfulness grating; when Arthur died in 2009 White said, 'I knew it would hurt, I just didn't know it would hurt this much.'
Q 24White, McClanahan and Getty carried their characters into which one-season spin-off set at a Miami hotel?
The Golden Palace
The Golden Palace ran for one season on CBS in 1992–93, with Don Cheadle and Cheech Marin joining the three women as hotel staff after the fourth lead left.
Q 25White won a 1996 guest-actress Emmy playing herself on which sitcom?
The John Larroquette Show
The John Larroquette Show gave White the 1996 Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series, for playing a diva version of herself.
Q 26In 2006 White joined which soap opera as Ann Douglas, long-lost mother of Stephanie Forrester?
The Bold and the Beautiful
The Bold and the Beautiful cast her as Ann Douglas, mother of Susan Flannery's Stephanie Forrester, in a recurring role from 2006 until the character's death in 2009.
Q 27On Boston Legal, White played a blackmailing gossip named what?
Catherine Piper
Catherine Piper, Alan Shore's childhood neighbour turned gossip and blackmailer, first appeared on The Practice in 2004 before recurring on Boston Legal from 2005 to 2008.
Q 28What kind of animal is Bitey White, the toy White voiced in Toy Story 4?
A tiger
A tiger: Bitey White is a vintage teething toy, appearing alongside Melephant Brooks, Carl Reineroceros and Chairol Burnett, voiced by Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner and Carol Burnett.
Q 29Guinness World Records recognized White in both 2014 and 2018 for what?
Longest TV career by a female entertainer
Longest TV career by a female entertainer was the title, dating her start to a 1939 experimental broadcast in Los Angeles; her first Emmy nomination came in 1951 and she was working into her late nineties.
Q 30Which job, then closed to women, did White want as a girl?
Forest ranger
Forest ranger was her childhood ambition, barred to women then; the US Forest Service made her an honorary forest ranger in 2010, with Smokey Bear on hand.