2000s

Question 1

What thing severed Dr. Robert “Rocket” Romano’s arm in a season 9 episode of the medical drama ER? Another one crushed him to death a season later, remarkably.

Answer 1

Helicopter

Question 2

Who’s the only Law & Order: SVU cast member to have been a regular for the show’s entire run?

Answer 2

Mariska Hargitay

Question 3

Name the highly anticipated and promoted NBC drama series that debuted in the fall of 2006 and was set backstage at a Saturday Night Live-like sketch comedy series. It was named after the building in which the fictional show-in-a-show was set, featured a controversial and irritable network head named Jack, and was not 30 Rock.

Answer 3

Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip

Question 4

Perry the Platypus, a government spy and foil to the evil Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz, is also the pet of the titular stepbrothers in what animated television series?

Answer 4

Phineas & Ferb

Question 5

Aliens abducted Mulder on “The X-Files,” so Scully got partnered with this “Terminator 2” actor.

Answer 5

Robert Patrick

Question 6

Gosselin is the last name of the titular ten from what television series, which ran in this version from 2007 through 2009 (first on Discovery Health, and later on TLC)?

Answer 6

Jon and Kate Plus 8

Question 7

In an episode of the TV show Firefly (not set in Russia), the ship’s crew pulls a “Crazy Ivan,” a move popularized in what film (which was also based on a novel)?

Answer 7

Hunt For The Red October

Question 8

Before kicking off her music career, a 15 year old Lady Gaga appeared in a Season 3 episode of what television show.

Answer 8

The Sopranos

Question 9

While many of the actors who played the title characters in 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven have had successful television careers, only one starred in his own, namesake sitcom. Who is that actor, whose series aired on Fox from 2001 to 2006?

Answer 9

Bernie Mac

Question 10

Ever since the Marquesas Islands edition of Survivor, ties with four players remaining have been broken, in a particularly dramatic fashion, in a contest involving a rope and what specific activity?

Answer 10

Firemaking

Question 11

Human-vampire hybrid Eric “Blade” Brooks has made it his life’s mission to rid the world of Dracula’s bloodsucking kind. Blade was famously portrayed by Wesley Snipes in a blockbuster film trilogy, but if you blinked, you may have missed his short-lived 2006 Spike TV show. What rapper-turned-actor starred in Blade: The Series?

Answer 11

Sticky Fingaz / Kirk Jones

Question 12

When Jamie Lynn Spears announced that she was pregnant at age 16, rumor had it that her Nickelodeon show was canceled as a result. However, the show had finished production before the news broke. Name the show.

Answer 12

Zoey 101

Question 13

Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie’s reality show The Simple Life featured occasional appearances by one of Hilton’s assistants/friends, who helped with such tasks as organizing Hilton’s closet and administering a pregnancy test to Hilton’s dog, Tinkerbell. Name this woman, who may have had an inauspicious start but has more than made up for it.

Answer 13

Kim Kardashian

Question 14

“Complications” was a suggested title for this ABC drama that was renewed for a 15th season in 2018.

Answer 14

Grey’s Anatomy

Question 15

Which 2003 ESPN original TV series about a fictional professional football team called the Cougars earned high ratings and critical praise for its gritty and unflinching portrayal of the lives of pro athletes, yet was cancelled only after one season due to pressure from the NFL?

Answer 15

Playmakers

Question 16

After several years of well-recieved film roles, an American actress of Honduran ancestry made her career breakthrough (including a Primetime Emmy) in a 2006-2010 TV series which, itself, is a remake of a 1999-2001 Colombian telenovela starring Ana María Orozco. Give the first name of the title character.

Answer 16

(Ugly) Betty

Question 17

Yesterday she told me my show was bourgeois. I pointed out that anything that had mass appeal could be said to be bourgeois. She then said that my argument was bourgeois. Which I found to be jejune. What sitcom title character famously uttered this line in a 2002 episode?

Answer 17

Frasier Crane

Question 18

In the year 2000 at 18 years and 161 days old, what singer became the youngest person to both host and simultaneously serve as Saturday Night Live’s musical guest?

Answer 18

Britney Spears

Question 19

Best friends Austin, Pablo, Tasha, Tyrone, and Uniqua were the title characters on what animated series that debuted on Nickelodeon in October 2004?

Answer 19

The Backyardigans