The Mad Men Quiz
Mad Men's fifth season ends Sunday June 10th. How much do you remember about earlier episodes of the critically-aclaimed show?
- 1.Who created Mad Men and is executive producer of the series?
- A.
David Chase
- B.
David Simon
- C.
Aaron Sorkin
- D.
Matthew Weiner
- 2.Which colleague at the advertising agency knows Don Draper's true identity?
- A.
Pete Campbell
- B.
Joan Harris
- C.
Peggy Olson
- D.
Roger Sterling
- 3.Don Draper wows a prospective client with a pitch called "The Carousel." What product is he pitching?
- A.
A camera
- B.
A slide projector
- C.
A new ride for an amusement park
- D.
A cocktail
- 4.What book do "the girls" who answer the phones at Sterling Cooper giggle over?
- A.
Sex and the Single Girl
- B.
The Feminine Mystique
- C.
Lady Chatterly's Lover
- D.
Atlas Shrugged
- 5.What brand of cigarettes does Don Draper smoke?
- A.
Lucky Strike
- B.
Marlboro
- C.
Old Gold
- D.
Pall Mall
- 6.Who won the 1960 presidential election, which was one of the closest in American history?
- A.
Lyndon Johnson
- B.
John F. Kennedy
- C.
Henry Cabot Lodge
- D.
Richard Nixon
- 7.During the heigh of the Cuban Missile Crisis, what do the characters on the show do?
- A.
Betty has sex with a stranger
- B.
Peggy tells Pete that she had his baby
- C.
Trudy flees New York with her silverware
- D.
All of the above
- 8.What book does Sally Draper read with Grandpa Gene?
- A.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- B.
The Sound and the Fury
- C.
Lady Chatterly's Lover
- D.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- 9.Why does Betty Draper fire Carla, the Draper family's longtime housekeeper and babysitter?
- A.
She's upset that Carla took time off from work to participate in a Civil Rights march
- B.
Gene, Betty's father, accuses Carla of stealing
- C.
Carla allows Glen Bishop, a friend of Sally's, to come in the house
- D.
Betty and the children are moving
- 10.Mad Men episodes often reference pop culture and news events of the 1960s. What high-profile murder occurs in 1966 and serves as the backdrop for one of the episodes?
- A.
The murder of civil rights activist Medgar Evers
- B.
The bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, which kills four young girls
- C.
The murder of 8 nursing students by Richard Speck
- D.
The murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others by Charles Manson
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