QUESTIONS:
1) R.J. Cutler, whose “American Candidate” premieres Sunday on Showtime, previously made a 2000 documentary series set among the upperclassmen of a Midwestern high school. Can you name this series, which aired on both Fox and PBS?
2) What iconic filmmaker teamed with “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau in 1988 on “Tanner ’88,” an HBO miniseries about a fictional presidential candidate?
3) In that same HBO miniseries, which of the four female stars of “Sex and the City” played Alex Tanner, the candidate’s daughter?
4) What future NBC “must see” star played a wisecracking messenger boy named Frankie during the 1980-81 season of ABC’s politically themed “Benson”?
5) In the 2000 TV movie “Running Mates,” Laura Linney played the manager of a governor’s presidential campaign. Who starred as the gubernatorial hopeful?
6) What movie star was an executive producer on the flop HBO political dramedy “K Street”?
7) On “Murphy Brown,” Murphy’s conservative nemesis was played by what actress who actually had interned in the Reagan White House.
8) “The War Room” took audiences behind the scenes of whose presidential campaign?
9) Before being elected chief executive, President Jed Bartlet (Martin Sheen) of “The West Wing” had been a two-term governor of what state?
10) Who played the title role in NBC’s critically acclaimed but shortlived political dramedy
“Mister Sterling”?
ANSWERS:
1) “American High.”
2) Robert Altman.
3) Cynthia Nixon.
4) Jerry Seinfeld.
5) Tom Selleck.
6) George Clooney.
7) Paula Cale.
8) Bill Clinton.
9) New Hampshire.
10) Josh Brolin.
