QUESTIONS:
1. Who shot J.R. in the famous 1980 cliffhanger? (5 points)
2. Who shot J.R. (Larry Hagman) in the less-famous 1988 cliffhanger? (5 points)
3. Who shot Bobby (Patrick Duffy)? (5 points)
4. What was the name of the Ewing family ranch? (3 points) What was the name of the county in which it was located? (2 points)
5. Who were J.R. and Bobby's parents? (2 1/2 points each)
6. What was the name of the family that the Ewings had an ongoing feud with? (5 points)
7. J.R. met Sue Ellen (Linda Gray) when he was judging a beauty contest she won. What title did she win? (5 points)
8. Which of the following women did both J.R. and Cliff (Ken Kercheval) have intimate relationships with - Sue Ellen, Afton Cooper (Audrey Landers) or Julie Grey (Tina Louise)? (5 points)
9. The entire 1985-86 season turned out to be one character's dream. Whose? (5 points)
10. Who were the biological parents of Bobby and Pam's adopted son, Christopher? (2 1/2 pts each)
11. What major publication called J.R. Ewing "the human oil slick?" (5 points)
12. What do the three full-blooded Ewing brothers - J.R., Gary and Bobby - all have in common in the way of marital history? (5 points)
13. How many children did J.R. father? (2 points) Who were their mothers? (1 point each)
14. When "Dallas" began, teenage Lucy (Charlene Tilton) was having an affair with a much-older man. Who was he? (3 points) And why was this affair conveniently forgotten in later years? (2 points)
15. When Victoria Principal decided to leave the show, the writers sent her character, Pamela, out with a bang. How? (5 points)
16. Name the major oil company that J.R. and Ewing Oil battled over the years. (5 points)
17. Jenna Wade gave birth to Bobby's only biological child, but he never married her. Who did?
18. What magical woman from Larry Hagman's past played LeeAnn De La Vega, who once bought Ewing Oil?
19. Who was Bobby's second wife? (3 points) What happened to her? (2 points)
20. Trick question: Which of the following characters was not played by two different actors?
a. Gary Ewing
b. Miss Ellie Ewing
c. Jenna Wade
d. Kristin Shepherd
e. Digger Barnes
Bonus points: Give yourself one point for every actor who played any of the characters named in question No. 20 that you can remember.
ANSWERS
1. Kristin Shepherd (Mary Crosby), his sister-in-law/mistress.
2. Sue Ellen, just after her lover, Nicholas Pearce (Jack Scalia) had been tossed off a high-rise balcony in a fight with J.R.
3. Katherine Wentworth (Morgan Brittany), his sister-in-law, in the 1982 cliffhanger.
4. Southfork was located in fictional Braddock County.
5. Jock Ewing (Jim Davis) and Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Southworth Ewing.
6. Barnes - as in Digger, Cliff and Pamela.
7. Miss Texas.
8. All of them.
9. Pamela Ewing's (Victoria Principal).
10. Kristin Shepherd and her drug-dealer husband, Jeff Faraday (Art Hindle).
11. Time magazine.
12. All three married and divorced their first wives, then married and divorced them again. (Only Gary remarried his first wife - Valene - a third time, and that was on "Knots Landing.")
13. Three. Sue Ellen - the mother of John Ross III (Omri Katz); Vanessa Beaumont (Gayle Hunnicut), the mother of James Richard Beaumont (Sasha Mitchell); and Cally Harper Ewing (Cathy Podewell), the mother of an unnamed infant son.
14. Ray Krebbs (Steven Kanaly). It was forgotten because it turned out that Ray was Jock Ewing's illegitimate son - and, thus, Lucy's uncle.
15. The car she was driving struck a tanker truck - which exploded.
16. Weststar.
17. Bobby's half brother, Ray.
18. Barbara Eden, Hagman's "I Dream of Jeannie" co-star.
19. April Stevens (Sheree J. Wilson), who was murdered during their honeymoon in Paris.
20. Jenna Wade - who was played by three different actors.
Bonus points: Gary - David Aykroyd, then Ted Shackelford.
Miss Ellie - Barbara Bel Geddes, then Donna Reed, then Bel Geddes again.
Jenna Wade - Morgan Fairchild, then Francine Tacker, then Priscilla Presley.
Kristin Shepherd - Colleen Camp, then Mary Crosby.
Digger Barnes - David Wayne, then Keenan Wynn.
YOUR SCORE
0-10 points: You may have read about "Dallas," but you never watched it.
11-30 points: You occasionally looked in on the Ewings.
31-50 points: You were definitely one of the 90 million people who tuned in to find out who shot J.R.
51-70 points: You watch "Dallas" reruns, don't you?
71-90 points: You were - and still are - obsessed with the show.
90 points or more: You had no life from 1978-91.