In the first season of The Golden Girls, we learn a great deal about these four mature women. We discover how they met, what they do for a living, and even meet some of their family members. As they tackle daily life as senior citizens, we get to know their distinct personalities. We join them on their dates and share in their humorously entertaining shenanigans. How much do you know about the early days of this iconic show? See how many of these trivia questions you can answer.
Based on the pilot episode, in what order do we meet the Golden Girls?
Dorothy, Rose, Blanche, and Sophia
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
TRUE OR FALSE: Rose once told The Girls a teacup pig saved her life. His name was Larry, and he walked to school with her every day on a leash she made out of kite string.
False. Larry was a mouse.
Episode 17 - "Nice and Easy"
What card game have Dorothy and Sophia played for 30 years, and Dorothy has never won a game?
Gin Rummy
Episode 3 - "Rose the Prude"
How does Rose say her late husband Charlie died?
He had a heart attack while he and Rose were making love.
Episode 3 - "Rose the Prude"
Rose tells Dorothy how Charlie died in Season 1, Episode 10 - "The Heart Attack". Blanche finds out in Season 1, Episode 15 - "In a Bed of Rose's".
What is the name of The Girls' cook featured in the pilot episode?
Coco
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
This was his first and only appearance on the show.
What popular dessert do The Girls often bond over while having conversation?
Cheesecake
Episode 25 - "The Way We Met"
Rose reluctantly agrees to a double date with Blanche and her date's brother. She meets Arnie, and they have a great time that night. When Arnie asks Rose to go on a Bahamas cruise with him, why is she hesitant about going?
She hasn't been sexually intimate with a man since her late husband, Charlie, died 15 years earlier.
Episode 3 - "Rose the Prude"
Harold Gould, who plays Arnie Peterson, returns to the show later as Rose's boyfriend, Miles Webber. (Season 5, Episode 6 - "Dancing in the Dark")
Rose: Arnie wants me to go away with him on a cruise to the Bahamas.
Blanche: Oh. Oh, and you're upset because he wants you to pay your own way?
Rose: I'm upset because we'll be all alone, in the middle of the ocean, on a ship, in a stateroom, with a bed.
Blanche: Oh.
Rose: I don't know what to do. I haven't...been with a man in that special way since Charlie died.
Blanche: Get outta here.
Rose: It's true. Charlie was the only lover I ever had, and my first time was on our wedding night.
Blanche: Get outta here!
Dorothy: Oh, back off, Blanche! Not all of us are classified by the Navy as a friendly port.
How did Dorothy and Rose first meet?
They met at Blanche's home after answering an ad that she posted in the supermarket to share her house.
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
What is the name of Blanche's family's house?
Twin Oaks
Episode 24 - "Big Daddy"
What does Dorothy do for a living?
She's a substitute teacher.
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
When Blanche gushes to The Girls about her beau, Harry, she says he's very gallant, a perfect gentleman, a great dancer, and doesn't make noise when he chews. She also says he doesn't talk loud at the movies, doesn't take his own pulse, and that he's still interested in what?
Sex
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
When Blanche first meets Rose, she's posting a notice in the supermarket about renting her house. Why is Rose looking for a place to stay?
Her landlord evicted her because the building's new owners don't allow cats. Rose isn't willing to part with her cat, Mr. Peepers.
Episode 25 - "The Way We Met"
Which Golden Girl believes her bosom has the power to make music?
Blanche 😉
Episode 25 - "The Way We Met"
Rose: Oh, my goodness, it's 2 o'clock in the morning!
Dorothy: And I am still wide awake.
Blanche: Me too!
Rose: You know, before I met you two girls, I was never up this late. Except, of course, during the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
Dorothy: Of course.
Blanche: I was never a night person, either, until I blossomed into young womanhood and realized I was even more devastating by moonlight.
Dorothy: Of course.
Blanche: I will never forget the night I made that discovery. It was during the spring cotillion. I was wearing a long white dress and my first push-up bra. And Bobby "Buck" McAllister and I were enjoying a glass of punch out on the veranda when a beam of moonlight hit my cleavage. Suddenly, the band began to play. It was at that moment I realized my bosoms had the power to make music!
Dorothy: Didn't Bette Midler win a special Grammy for that?
Answer
St. Olaf, Minnesota
Episode 20 - "Adult Education"
Rose also mentioned a city called Little Falls. (Episode 8 - "The Break-In")
What is Blanche's father's nickname?
Big Daddy
Episode 24 - "Big Daddy"
Blanche: Girls! My father's coming! Big Daddy's coming! He just called. Oh! Big Daddy's gonna be in Miami tomorrow. I can't believe it!
Dorothy: I can't believe I know anyone who calls her father Big Daddy.
TRUE OR FALSE: When Dorothy's daughter, Kate, first appears on the show, she announces that she and her boyfriend, Dennis, are flying to the Bahamas to get married.
True
Episode 2 - "Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding"
When Blanche reveals that her beau, Harry, has proposed and she accepted, Rose is concerned about her and Dorothy's well-being. Why?
She worries she and Dorothy will have to find another place to live.
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
As the show progresses, it's revealed that Sophia is hilariously witty and has quite a sharp tongue. Why does she speak so freely and boldly?
According to Blanche, when Sophia had a stroke, it destroyed the part of her brain that censors what she says.
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
What movie do The Girls watch that scares them and keeps them up one night talking and eating cheesecake?
Psycho
Episode 25 - "The Way We Met"
On the day of Blanche and Harry's wedding, Rose has a gut feeling something is off about Harry. Dorothy thinks Rose has a "crazy hunch," but Rose says her hunches are never wrong. Who does Rose say would still be alive if they had taken her phone call?
Mrs. Gandhi
Episode 1 - "Pilot (The Golden Girls)"
