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42 free Ugly Betty trivia questions with answers. Ugly Betty ran on ABC from September 2006 to April 2010, turning a Colombian telenovela about a plain economist into an American comedy-drama about a braces-wearing Queens girl who lands a job at a Manhattan fashion magazine and outlasts everyone who mocks her. It won Golden Globes, Emmys and a Peabody, put America Ferrera on TIME's 100 list, and is credited with pushing Latino and LGBTQ visibility on network TV. This quiz covers the plot, the Mode office, the Suarez family, the cast, the production moves between New York and Los Angeles, and the show's afterlife. The easy questions ask who plays Betty, what Mode is and who her nemesis at the magazine is; the harder ones want the original telenovela and its creator, the executive producer whose company made it, Wilhelmina's birth name, why Christina became Scottish, the state law nicknamed for the show, and where Betty heads in the finale. It suits anyone who still says 'I'm not going to let you treat me like this' and anyone building a 2000s TV quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its characters and its cast, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who plays Betty Suarez?
America Ferrera
The role earned her a Golden Globe, a SAG Award and an Emmy, and a place on TIME's 100 most influential people list in 2007.
Q 02On which network did Ugly Betty air from 2006 to 2010?
ABC
NBC had originally planned to adapt it as a half-hour comedy in 2001, but the idea never got past planning.
Q 03The series is based on a telenovela from which country?
Colombia
The original was the first telenovela to be remade around the world.
Q 04What is the title of the original telenovela?
Yo soy Betty, la fea
It aired on RCN from 1999 to 2001, starring Ana María Orozco as an economist in love with her playboy boss.
Q 05Which actress's production company, Ventanarosa, produced Ugly Betty?
Salma Hayek
She also guest-starred as Sofia, earning an Emmy nomination for the role.
Q 06Who developed the American series?
Silvio Horta
He signed a two-year, seven-figure deal with ABC Studios in 2008 that guaranteed the show's future.
Q 07In which New York borough does Betty live with her family?
Queens
The show's production also ended up in Queens, at Silvercup Studios, where the pilot had been shot.
Q 08What is the name of the fashion magazine where Betty works?
Mode
It belongs to Meade Publications, the empire owned by Bradford Meade.
Q 09Why does Bradford Meade hire the inexperienced Betty as his son's assistant?
To stop Daniel sleeping with his assistants
Betty only later learns the real reason she got the job.
Q 10Who plays Daniel Meade, the editor-in-chief of Mode?
Eric Mabius
In the finale, Daniel finally realises he has feelings for Betty and asks her to dinner.
Q 11Whose death opens the editor-in-chief job that Daniel is handed?
Fey Sommers
The former editor was Bradford's long-time mistress, and she died when her car's brake lines were cut.
Q 12Who plays the scheming creative director Wilhelmina Slater?
Vanessa Williams
The role brought her three consecutive Emmy nominations and a Teen Choice award for Best TV Villain.
Q 13What was Wilhelmina's name before her transformation into a fashion queen?
Wanda
As Fey Sommers's assistant in 1981 she had cosmetic surgeries paid for by Fey in exchange for keeping a pregnancy secret.
Q 21What business does Betty's sister Hilda run?
A beauty salon
The actress who plays her, Ana Ortiz, originally auditioned for Betty herself.
Q 22Who is Justin Suarez?
Betty's fashion-loving nephew
His coming-out is one of the show's key character arcs.
Q 23Which former Who's the Boss? star plays Claire Meade, first seen in prison for murder?
Judith Light
She won a Prism Award for the part; Claire, it turns out, killed Fey Sommers.
Rebecca Romijn joined the cast in January 2007 as Alexis Meade. Who is Alexis?
Q 14Who plays Wilhelmina's loyal assistant Marc St. James?
Michael Urie
The plan was for Wilhelmina to have a different assistant every episode, so he was originally billed as a guest star.
Q 15What did Becki Newton (Amanda) and her Marc co-star team up to make for CBS in 2019?
A sitcom called Fun
The project was created by Sex and the City's Michael Patrick King.
Q 16Betty's ally Christina McKinney works at Mode as what?
A seamstress
The character was written as American until the producers heard Ashley Jensen's accent and made her Scottish.
Q 17Why was Christina McKinney made Scottish?
The producers liked Ashley Jensen's accent
Jensen was best known at the time as Maggie in Ricky Gervais's Extras.
Q 18What is the job of Betty's love interest Henry Grubstick?
Accountant
He leaves for Tucson at the end of season one when his ex, Charlie, says she is pregnant.
Q 19Who plays Betty's father, Ignacio Suarez?
Tony Plana
The Cuban-American actor is also the voice of Manny Calavera in the video game Grim Fandango.
Q 20Ignacio Suarez emigrated to the US from which country?
Mexico
His undocumented status is one of the early storylines.
Daniel's transgender sister
The role was an early portrayal of a transgender character on network television.
Q 25Which former Neighbours actor plays publishing magnate Bradford Meade?
Alan Dale
He was Jim Robinson in the Australian soap and Caleb Nichol on The O.C.
Q 26How does Bradford Meade die?
A heart attack at his wedding to Wilhelmina
He collapses just as he is about to say 'I do'.
Q 27Where was the pilot filmed, before production moved for the first two seasons?
New York City
The show returned there for seasons three and four, partly for a state tax credit.
Q 28The production's move to New York prompted California to pass a tax-incentive law nicknamed what?
The Ugly Betty Bill
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed it in February 2009.
Q 29At which studio complex, where the pilot was also shot, was the show produced in its final seasons?
Silvercup Studios
The move cost several Los Angeles crew members their jobs.
Q 30ABC briefly announced the series under what alternative title before reverting in July 2006?
Betty the Ugly
The change back to Ugly Betty was made on July 14, 2006, two months before the premiere.