Is there anything better than watching “I Spy” ??? YES! Well, neraly. For “I Spy” fans the next best thing is doing one of S.J. DIBAI's quizzes about the series.
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HOUSE OF I SPY 
Take The I SPY Quiz!
So, you think you're an I SPY expert, do you? Well, here's your chance to prove it! Take the Temple Challenge....I mean, the I SPY Quiz. (Sorry. I grew up watching Bill Cosby do commercials for Temple University. "Take the Temple Challenge," he used to say. Anyway.....)
These first few questions are worth one point each. They're here to relieve initial tension and to make sure that nobody completely fails this quiz. They really shouldn't count for anything, since they are ridiculously easy, but such is life...
1. What is Kelly and Scotty's cover?
A) Two marshmallow factory workers
B) An American singing duo desperate for hits ever since the British Invasion struck
C) A ventriloquist and his life-size dummy
D) A tennis player and his trainer, which of course I already told you
2. In which episode did Scotty get killed?
A) Um, if Scotty got killed, how did his character continue on the series?
B) Uh, if Scotty got killed, how did he show up in the 1994 TV movie I SPY Returns?
C) Scotty didn't get killed, did he?
D) S.J., stop messing with my mind!
3. What was Richard Pryor's favorite TV show of all time?
A) Soul Train
B) Captain Nice, a short-lived 1967 series in which William Daniels played a nerdy superhero
C) Cookin' Cheap, a cult favorite from Roanoke, VA
D) I SPY, which has to be the answer because this is the I SPY quiz!
4. In which episode did the castaways put on a production of Hamlet for a Hollywood director?
A) Wrong series, you idiot.
B) My bad.
C) Hey, we still cool, dog.
D) That's cool.
5. This is the last question in this section because:
A) I was going to have only five questions in here anyway.
B) I can't come up with anymore cleverly stupid questions.
C) I'm sick of writing code for questions that hardly even count.
D) Mommy, I got a owie.
The next five questions are worth five points apiece.
6. Which of the following singers did not appear on I SPY?
A) Nancy Wilson
B) Barbara Streisand
C) Ertha Kitt
D) Leslie Uggams
7. One of the following actors appeared on I SPY while he was still a child.
Which one?
A) Ron Howard
B) Jay North
C) Jerry Mathers
D) Tony Shalhoub
8. Which of the following actresses made the most guest appearances on I SPY?
A) Jeanette Nolan
B) Cicely Tyson
C) Antoinette Bower
D) France Nuyen
9. Which black actor guest starred in "So Long Patrick Henry," the first episode of I SPY?
A) Sidney Poitier
B) Greg Morris
C) Ivan Dixon
D) Paul Winfield
10. Which British actor played an untrustworthy agent in episode #51, "Get Thee To A Nunnery"?
A) Patrick Macnee
B) Peter Lawford
C) Frank Thornton
D) Jeremy Clyde
Okay, so far we have had ten questions worth a total of thirty points. The next four questions are worth ten points each.
11. Which episode of I SPY was the only one that Robert Culp directed?
A) "Court Of The Lion"
B) "The Loser"
C) "Home To Judgement"
D) "Magic Mirror"
12. Sheldon Leonard appeared in three episodes. In which episode did he play himself?
A) "Three Hours On A Sunday Night"
B) "Crusade To Limbo"
C) "The Lotus Eater"
D) "No Exchange On Damaged Merchandise"
13. In which episode was Fouad Said a guest star?
A) "The Medarra Block"
B) "Sparrowhawk"
C) "Oedipus At Colonus"
D) "The Honorable Assassins"
14. David Friedkin appeared in which of the following episodes?
A) "A Cup Of Kindness"
B) "Tatia"
C) "A Room With A Rack"
D) "Tigers of Heaven"
Have you made it this far? Okay, these last two questions are tough, and they're worth fifteen points apiece! Good luck!
15. Name every single episode that Robert Culp wrote. If you can't think of them all, name as many as you can remember. No cheating!
16.In which episode was Kelly known as "Steve Kolski"?
Okay, now for the answers to the quiz. I will not bother providing the answers to questions 1-5 as they are obvious. So let's start with question #6.
6. B. The other three singers appeared as women that Scotty had some kind of relationship with, and of course those relationships went wrong. Barbara Streisand, however, never appeared on I SPY, although she might have made an interesting love interest for Kelly.........then again, maybe not.
7. A. Ron Howard was the title character in episode #42, "Little Boy Lost." Jerry Mathers was, of course, the Beaver. Jay North was "Dennis The Menace," I believe. He was also in an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in '65, but he was never in I SPY. Tony Shalhoub was certainly a kid when I SPY was on, but I don't think he got into acting until he was in college.
8. Tough-ish question, because the first three of those actresses did two I SPY episodes each, but France Nuyen (D) guest starred in four episodes. She, by the way, stole Robert Culp's heart away from his second wife, not his first as I had originally stated here. Culp and Nuyen got married and even had the pleasure of suffering from food poisoning together (while taping "Magic Mirror"), but they got divorced after a few years. That Culp sure got around, didn't he?
9. C, Ivan Dixon. Paul Winfield, like Jay North, was in an U.N.C.L.E. episode in '65, but not I SPY. Mission: Impossible's Greg Morris did an I SPY guest shot (episode #30, "Lori," with Nancy Wilson), but he wasn't in the first episode. Sidney Poitier was mentioned in the tag scene of episode #52, "Blackout," but that's as close as he got to being on I SPY. Interesting that I chose to include him, however, because Ivan Dixon played his brother in the movie A Patch of Blue.
10. B. Peter Lawford was the shady George Ponsen Rickaby-Hackaby. Patrick Macnee (The Avengers) as a bad guy? I don't think so! Frank Thornton was Captain Peacock on Are You Being Served? I would love to have seen him play a shady agent, but not a funny one like Hackaby. Jeremy Clyde is a British stage actor. He made many appearances on American television in the '60s, but as half of the musical duo Chad & Jeremy, or some fictional British duo played by Chad & Jeremy!
11. Culp wrote all of those, but he directed only one: A, "Court Of The Lion." He joined the Director's Guild just to do so, and he hired an acting coach in case his performance suffered as a result of his directing and acting at the same time.
12. B, "Crusade To Limbo." Sam Frank's Buyer's Guide To Fifty Years of TV on Video claims that Leonard played himself in "Three Hours On A Sunday Night," but that's just not true. I'd tell you whom he played, but I know someone who hasn't seen that episode yet, and he is probably going to read this, so I don't want to spoil it for him. So maybe it's not fair to have him take this quiz? Leonard was not in "No Exchange On Damaged Merchandise," by the way.
13. C, "Oedipus at Colonus." Said plays Mousa, Russ Conway's temporary right-hand man.
14. Trick question! Friedkin was a major player in "A Cup Of Kindness" (A), but he also appeared for about a split second in "Tigers of Heaven" (D). Therefore, if you answered only "A Cup Of Kindness," you'll get seven points. If you answered both "Kindness" and "Tigers of Heaven," you'll get all ten points. If you answered "Tigers of Heaven" and not "Kindness," you'll get three points. By the way, Friedkin directed the other two episodes listed there.
15. Robert Culp wrote "So Long Patrick Henry," "The Loser," "The Tiger," "Court Of The Lion," "The Warlord," "Magic Mirror," and "Home To Judgement." If you got all of those and no others, you get fifteen points. Otherwise, it's +2 for every episode you got right and -2 for every episode you got wrong (that is, you said Culp wrote it but he didn't).
16. This is worth so much because I think it's a question whose answer is easy to forget. The correct answer is "Trial By Treehouse."
Well, if you got five points or less, you know nothing about I SPY. If you got thirty,you know a little something. If you got seventy, you're pretty well-educated in I SPY. If you got one hundred points, you ought to have a degree in I SPY. And you can fill in the spaces in between, I'm sure.
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