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60 free I Dream of Jeannie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
53 free I Dream of Jeannie trivia questions with answers. I Dream of Jeannie ran for five seasons on NBC from 1965 to 1970, and this quiz covers the whole run and everything around it. Expect questions on Sidney Sheldon's reasons for creating the show, why the first season was shot in black and white, the space capsule that crash-landed near Jeannie's beach, the ranks and branches of Tony Nelson and Roger Healey, Dr. Bellows' catchphrase, Jeannie's evil sister, Uncle Sully and the kingdom of Basenji, and the wedding that changed the show's premise. There is a full section on the production: the liquor decanter that became the bottle, the stopper borrowed from Tony's own bar, the Friz Freleng opening, the Hugo Montenegro theme, where the show was really filmed and the two trips the cast made to Florida's Space Coast. It finishes with the viewer contests, the reunion movies, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon and the later careers of the cast. Questions run from easy to expert, and every answer is backed by a cited sentence from Wikipedia's articles on the series and its cast.
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Q 01How many episodes of I Dream of Jeannie were made over its five-season run?
139
The show ran from September 1965 to May 1970 and was produced by Screen Gems, the same studio behind its rival Bewitched.
Q 02Tony Nelson holds what rank when the series begins?
Captain
He and Roger are both promoted to major late in the first season, which is why he is Major Nelson for most of the run.
Q 03Tony is an Air Force officer. Roger Healey serves in which branch?
Army
Roger is girl-crazy and occasionally schemes to become Jeannie's master, though he generally respects her bond with Tony.
Q 04What is the name of the one-man capsule that comes down near Jeannie's island in the pilot?
Stardust One
The pilot, 'The Lady in the Bottle', has Tony free her out of gratitude, only for her to roll her bottle into his duffel bag.
Q 05How long had Jeannie been trapped in her bottle before Tony found her?
2,000 years
She speaks only Persian when she emerges, until Tony wishes she could speak English.
Q 06Colonel Alfred Bellows, played by Hayden Rorke, holds what job at NASA?
Psychiatrist
He is the only regular eyewitness to Jeannie's magic, and his attempts to prove Tony is crazy or hiding something always backfire.
Q 07What does Dr. Bellows proclaim after each of his attempts to expose Tony fails?
"He's done it to me again!"
Rorke played Bellows in 129 of the episodes and returned for a brief appearance in the 1985 reunion film.
Q 08Under what circumstances does Jeannie lose her powers?
When she is shut in a closed space
She cannot leave her bottle while it is corked, and sometimes the next person to pull the cork becomes her new master.
Q 09Jeannie's scheming sister, also played by Barbara Eden, is told apart on screen by what?
A brunette wig
All female genies are named Jeannie, the show explains, and the sister keeps trying to steal Tony right up to after the wedding.
Q 10Which former child star played Jeannie's uncle Sully?
Jackie Coogan
Coogan, Chaplin's co-star in The Kid and later Uncle Fester, has Sully summon Jeannie home to become queen.
Q 11What is the name of Jeannie's native country?
Basenji
Its feud with neighboring Kasja is the plot engine that finally pushes Tony into proposing.
Q 12Sidney Sheldon created the show in response to the huge success of which rival ABC series?
Bewitched
He refused to cast a blonde genie for fear of copying that show's lead, until auditions failed and he called Barbara Eden's agent.
Q 13Which 1964 film co-starring Barbara Eden inspired Sheldon's idea of a beautiful female genie?
The Brass Bottle
Eden played Sylvia Kenton in it, opposite Tony Randall and Burl Ives as the genie.
Q 21When Eden returned to the Space Coast in 1996, the town honored the show with a street sign reading what?
I Dream of Jeannie Lane
It was installed on a short street off State Road A1A near Lori Wilson Park, where a roadside plaque followed in 2012.
Q 22According to the first season, who turned the once-mortal Jeannie into a genie?
The Blue Djinn
Season three quietly retconned this so that she and all her relatives had always been genies.
Q 23Who composed the familiar 'Jeannie' theme used from the second season onward?
Hugo Montenegro
Buddy Kaye wrote lyrics for it that were never used on the show; the season-one theme had been a jazz waltz by Richard Wess.
Q 14How much extra per episode did Sheldon offer to pay to shoot season one in colour?
$400
An executive told him not to throw his money away, so season one stayed black and white, one of only two such shows left on NBC's schedule.
Q 15Which legendary Looney Tunes director created the show's animated opening sequences?
Friz Freleng
The season-two version, redone in color, shows the capsule splashing down and Jeannie dancing out of her bottle to kiss Nelson.
Q 16In which Florida town does Major Nelson live?
Cocoa Beach
His address is 1020 Palm Drive; the early narrated opening called it 'a mythical town' in 'a mythical state called Florida'.
Q 17The building shown as Nelson and Healey's NASA offices was really a NASA center building at which California site?
Edwards Air Force Base
Bill Daily liked to point out that the 'Florida' backgrounds had the Hollywood Hills in them.
Q 18The house used as Major Nelson's home had earlier been the family home on which sitcom?
Father Knows Best
The same Warner Bros. Ranch house on Blondie Street also served as Mr. Wilson's home in Dennis the Menace.
Q 19In June 1969 Barbara Eden kissed which astronaut on the cheek two weeks before his moon launch?
Buzz Aldrin
Earlier that day she pressed the button to launch a Loki-Dart weather rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Q 20Who cut the cake at the 1969 mock wedding of Barbara Eden and Larry Hagman staged for TV writers?
The state's governor
The stunt was timed to the December 2 broadcast of the nuptials episode.
Q 24Which famous songwriting duo wrote a theme called 'Jeannie' for the show that was never used?
Goffin and King
Gerry Goffin and Carole King wrote it for Sheldon before the series even started.
Q 25Nick at Nite's 1991 promo mash-up combined the theme with which Suzanne Vega song, itself a hit in a DNA remix?
Tom's Diner
A 1985 re-recording of the theme was also sampled on DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince's debut single.
Q 26Jeannie's famous bottle was not built for the show. What was it originally?
A Jim Beam bourbon decanter
It was a Christmas 1964 'Beam's Choice' decanter designed by Roy Kramer for the Wheaton Bottle Company.
Q 27When the show went to color, the smoky green bottle was replaced by one painted mainly in which colors?
Pinks and purples
The later colorized version of season one tried to tint the original smoked glass to match.
Q 28The clear stopper on Jeannie's season-one bottle came from which brand's bottle in Tony's home?
Old Grand-Dad
The original stopper had been left on the beach; Jeannie is seen retrieving it in the first color episode.
Q 29Roughly how many bottles do crew members estimate were painted and used over the run of the show?
12
The stunt bottle used for the smoke effect kept breaking from the heat and chemicals.
Q 30In 'Hurricane Jeannie', the intended finale, what happens to Jeannie's bottle in Nelson's dream?
It is dropped and broken
Dr. Bellows also finally learns the secret in the dream; syndication often airs it as the last episode.