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70 free Living Single trivia questions with answers. Living Single ran on Fox from 1993 to 1998 and quietly set the template for the six-friends-in-a-brownstone sitcom. This quiz covers the whole run: Khadijah's magazine, Synclaire and her troll dolls, Regine's search for a rich husband, Max raiding the refrigerator, Kyle and Overton across the hall, the wedding, the London job and the New Year's Eve finale. The easy questions ask who played whom and where the gang lived. The harder ones dig into working titles, guest stars from Grant Hill to Gladys Knight, the Half & Half crossover, the creator's career and what the cast did afterward, from God of War to Get Out. It is built for people who still argue about whether Friends copied it. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the show, its episodes and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01On which network did Living Single originally air?
Fox
It ran for five seasons on Thursday nights, paired with Martin for much of its run.
Q 02Who created Living Single?
Yvette Lee Bowser
She said the four women were four sides of herself: ditsy, superficial, bitter and driven.
Q 03The gang's brownstone is in which New York City borough?
Brooklyn
The neighborhood is Prospect Heights, and the two households share one building.
Q 04Who played Khadijah James?
Queen Latifah
The character was written for her: an entrepreneur running a magazine, mirroring her own hip-hop label.
Q 05What is the name of the magazine Khadijah edits and publishes?
Flavor
It is pitched as an independent magazine for the African-American community, and it is where Synclaire answers the phones.
Q 06What does Kyle do for a living?
Stockbroker
His verbal sparring with Max barely hides the attraction that eventually turns into a relationship.
Q 07What is Max's profession?
Attorney
She raids the women's refrigerator so often that keeping it stocked is a running problem.
Q 08Which character is the brownstone's handyman?
Overton Jones
He is also described as co-owner of the building the gang lives in.
Q 09Who played Synclaire?
Kim Coles
She won an NAACP Image Award for the role.
Q 10Which actress played Regine?
Kim Fields
It was her first big adult role after growing up on television.
Q 11Which actress played Max Shaw?
Erika Alexander
She had just come off Going to Extremes, an ABC drama canceled after one season.
Q 12Which actor played Kyle?
T.C. Carson
He later said his exit before the final season was a firing.
Q 13Who played Overton?
John Henton
A stand-up comedian, he was discovered after a 1991 Tonight Show set.
Q 14How is Synclaire related to Khadijah?
Q 21Kyle leaves the brownstone in season five to take a job in which city?
London
He invites Max to come along, and her refusal sends her into a crisis.
Q 22In the series finale, Max learns that the sperm donor for her pregnancy is who?
Kyle Barker
She had picked the donor from a list of desired qualities without knowing who it was.
Q 23Which actor played Scooter, the childhood friend Khadijah ends up with?
Cress Williams
The other three all guest-starred too, as a neighbor, a study partner and an anesthesiologist boyfriend.
They are cousins
Synclaire moves in and works as the receptionist at Khadijah's magazine.
Q 15What is Regine's job when the series begins?
Boutique buyer
Her other full-time pursuit is finding a wealthy man to marry.
Q 16Synclaire has a well-known affinity for which toys?
Troll dolls
The dolls decorate her desk at the magazine office.
Q 17Khadijah and Max were college roommates at which school?
Howard University
Khadijah is a Howard graduate, and their friendship dates back to those days.
Q 18Kyle and Overton have been best pals since childhood in which city?
Cleveland
Overton stays loyal to the Browns even after the team leaves town in a season-four episode.
Q 19Regine grew up as Khadijah's childhood friend in which New Jersey city?
East Orange
It is the same city where the actress who plays Khadijah spent most of her own childhood.
Q 20Regine later works as a costume assistant on which fictional soap opera?
Palo Alto
When the soap is canceled she reinvents herself as a wedding planner.
Q 24Season-five roommate Tripp Williams is an aspiring what?
Songwriter
He moves into Synclaire's old room after she marries Overton.
Q 25Which role was originally intended for rapper Monie Love?
Synclaire James
Monie Love had guested on the star's 1989 single 'Ladies First' but could not take the part.
Q 26What was the show's working title before the network renamed it three weeks ahead of its debut?
My Girls
Fox had announced it in March 1993 as a comedy about roommates in New York City.
Q 27Newspaper critics repeatedly compared Living Single with which NBC sitcom that premiered a year later?
Friends
The creator was frustrated that Warner Bros. Television promoted the NBC show far more heavily than hers.
Q 28How many episodes of Living Single were made?
118
The first three seasons ran 27 episodes each before the order was cut back.
Q 29On what date did the series finale air?
January 1, 1998
Fittingly, the finale is built around an impromptu New Year's Eve party.
Q 30How many episodes were in the fifth and final season?
13
Fox originally planned to hold the shortened season until January 1998, then moved it up to September 1997.