Golden Girls Trivia: Season 6

Does Rose meet her father? Does Dorothy remarry Stan? Is Sophia a nun? Does Blanche date a man in a wheelchair? Test your Golden Girls knowledge of season six.

In the sixth season of The Golden Girls, the ladies not only walk a fine line between comedy and sincerity, but they do so with grace and ease. Blanche confronts a ghost from her past who held deep significance for her. Dorothy grapples with tough decisions regarding her ex-husband Stan. Sophia faces every parent's nightmare of outliving their children. Rose's childhood dream of meeting a long-lost family member comes true. How well do you recall the details of how The Girls navigated these situations? See how many of these trivia questions you can answer.

When Rose confirms The Girls' Volunteer Vanguard Award banquet reservations, she's told her ticket is free, leading her to believe she's won the award. However, during the banquet, it's announced that the posthumous winner is Agnes Bradshaw. Why do they want Rose there?

To accept the award on behalf of Agnes
Episode 14 - "Sisters of the Bride"

Blanche is auditioning for the role of Kate, the fiery shrew in The Taming of the Shrew. Since she's babysitting, she brings her baby granddaughter, Aurora, to the audition. There, she meets Jason Stillman, who asks her out on a date. What does he think about Blanche and baby Aurora that she doesn't correct him on?

He thinks Blanche is Aurora's mother.
Episode 20 - "Even Grandmas Get the Blues"

Just before their wedding ceremony, Stan introduces Dorothy to his best man, who also happens to be his lawyer. He states that, since he's now a wealthy man, he has a lot of friends. What does Stan ask Dorothy that upsets her so much that she calls off the wedding?

He asks her to sign a prenuptial agreement.
Episode 17 - "There Goes the Bride, Part 2"
Stan: Dorothy, I want you to meet my best man, Marvin Mitchelson.
Dorothy: Oh! Oh! Oh! How lovely to meet you! What an honor.
Marvin: The honor is mine, Dorothy.
Stan: He's a lawyer.
Dorothy: I know who he is. Oh, Stanley, I'm impressed!
Stan: Yeah, well, since I made all this money, you wouldn't believe all the friends I have.
Marvin: How about this guy? Dorothy, you're every bit as lovely as Stan said you were.
Dorothy: Oh, why, thank you!
Marvin: Stanley.
Stan: Yeah, right. Listen, Marv and I were talking, and you know how persuasive he can be, and he said that I should...and I thought that...well, he's the lawyer and that's what I'm paying him for, so why don't you?
Dorothy: Why don't I what?
Stan: Just sign. It's nothing big. It's a little prenuptial agreement that says...ahem...what's yours is yours, and what's mine is mine.
Dorothy: You want me to sign a prenuptial agreement. You want me to sign a prenuptial agreement? Stanley, whatever happened to openness and honesty and trust, not to mention the 38 years that I spent as your wife, your partner, the mother of your children—the woman who held down 2 jobs while you were at home staring at a matchbook trying to draw Winky!

TRUE OR FALSE: Blanche is a member of the Daughters of the Old South Heritage Club.

False. She wasn't accepted because her family tree isn't 100% Southern.
Episode 21 - "Witness"

Dorothy says Blanche is a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. (Season 5, Episode 26 - "The President's Coming! Part 2")

Dorothy has dinner with John Noretti, the man who stood her up for senior prom. He says he's in town for a few days and wants to see her again before he leaves, but she warns him not to stand her up again. He's surprised at her response. What does he tell Dorothy?

He showed up for prom, but Sophia sent him away because she didn't like the way he was dressed.
Episode 22 - "What a Difference a Date Makes"
Dorothy: Just make sure you show up this time.
John Noretti: What do you mean?
Dorothy: Well, you didn't show up at our last prom. Not that I ever think of it.
John Noretti: What are you talking about? I showed up.
Dorothy: What?
John Noretti: Yeah, your mother sent me away.
Dorothy: She what?
John Noretti: She said I was dressed like a bum and slammed the door in my face.
Dorothy: She what?!
John Noretti: Something wrong?
Dorothy: Oh no. No, not at all, but I tell you on the way out, I would like to stop at the gift shop. I'm going to be needing one of those spiked balls on a chain.

TRUE OR FALSE: When Stan's uncle Morris dies, he leaves Stan and Dorothy his house.

False. He leaves them an apartment building, making them landlords and business partners.
Episode 23 - "Love for Sale"

Dorothy is teaching an honors program class. Unfortunately, it's not going the way she expected; the students are making her feel stupid. What lie does Sophia tell Dorothy to help her get along with her students?

She says that when Dorothy was a child, the school said she was the brightest kid in Brooklyn, NY, with an IQ of 173.
Episode 20 - "Even Grandmas Get the Blues"
Sophia: Hi, Pussycat. How was school?
Dorothy: Oh, I hate those smart kids! They may be our brightest, but they're also our rudest, considering most of them are guests in our country. Oh, give me a class of red-blooded underachievers.
Sophia: Pussycat, when you were in junior high school, and the kids gave you a hard time, what did I say?
Dorothy: Ah, you told me I was extra special, and they were just jealous.
Sophia: That's right. And if they still gave you a hard time, what did I tell you to say?
Dorothy: "My mother can have you eliminated with one phone call." But Ma, this is different. You know, I've always wanted to teach an honors class, but now that I am, well, the kids are making me feel stupid.
Sophia: Dorothy, I'm going to tell you something I never told you before. When you were about 12, and we lived in Brooklyn, they called me into the school to tell me you had the highest IQ in the borough.
Rose: Well, that's a coincidence. I was told I had the IQ of a burro.
Dorothy: Ma, I had no idea! The brightest kid in Brooklyn? Well, that certainly explains the feeling of being right all the time. What is it?
Sophia: 173.
Rose: I don't know if you know this, but a burro can find its way back home.
Dorothy: Have fun shopping, Rose.
: Oh, I'll be back!

TRUE OR FALSE: According to Rose, the St. Olaf County jail is also a library.

False. It's also a deli.
Episode 25 - "Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 2"
Blanche: How's Sophia?
Dorothy: Well, she's over that crazy idea about Sicily, but she's still very concerned about going to jail.
Rose: Who wouldn't be? It's a terrifying prospect to think about. Prison? The coldness of it, the steel bars, the wedges of cheese hanging overhead, tantalizingly just out of reach.
Dorothy: Let me guess. St. Olaf County Jail.
Rose: And deli.

Returning home from her date with John Noretti, Dorothy confronts Sophia, armed with the newfound truth about her missed prom. For years, Dorothy believed John had stood her up, but during dinner, he revealed what truly happened that night. Why didn't her mother tell her John showed up?

When Sophia sent him away to change his clothes, he never came back. She didn't tell Dorothy because she thought she'd never forgive her.
Episode 22 - "What a Difference a Date Makes"

Sophia's brother Angelo arrives, confessing he's lost everything, including his home, after lavishing expensive gifts and vacations on a young aerobics instructor who left him for an American basketball player. Where does Dorothy suggest that Angelo stay?

In the apartment building Stan's uncle Morris left her and Stan
Episode 23 - "Love for Sale"
Angelo: I met a beautiful, young Sicilian aerobics instructor - gorgeous eyes, angelic mouth, and a behind that must have been made on a Saturday because even the good Lord Himself would want to take a day off to admire it! I lost my heart, and I opened my wallet, eh? Oh, the expensive gifts and fancy dinners, and the weekends in Mykonos, eh? I even wore one of those tiny speedo swimsuits. Shows all your gingerbread and everything, yeah? And she leaves me. What does a 6 '7 American basketball player got that I don't?
Blanche: Well, Angelo, speaking in terms of the gingerbread alone-
Dorothy: Blanche!

Blanche calls her backup boyfriend if one of her dates cancels. She describes him as "Fred Flintstone with a better car". What is his name?

Mel Bushman
Episode 19 - "Melodrama"
Blanche: I'll call Mel Bushman!
Dorothy: Of course. Mel Bushman. Old reliable. Mr. Backup. How long has it been? What? Three years that the two of you have been insignificant others.
Blanche: Yeah, I guess it has been. You know, Mel and I have something really unique. We're like...well, I don't know. What do you call it when two people get together when they need somebody but don't make demands on each other when they're apart?
Sophia: Out-call massage.

TRUE OR FALSE: Sophia enjoys looking through the obituaries to see the ages of people who died younger than her.

True
Episode 26 - "Henny Penny - Straight No Chaser"

The Girls attend the Daughters of the Old South initiation banquet to support Blanche. Rose unknowingly confides in her date, Karl, that Miles has returned and is staying with her. Unbeknownst to Rose, Karl is actually The Cheeseman, the gangster who's looking for Miles. What happens when they return home from the banquet?

The Cheeseman holds them hostage at gunpoint.
Episode 21 - "Witness"

TRUE OR FALSE: Believing John Noretti had stood her up for prom shattered Dorothy's self-esteem, leading her to settle for Stan, whom she married after becoming pregnant with his child.

True
Episode 22 - "What a Difference a Date Makes"

Despite a previous awful experience, Dorothy reluctantly agrees to participate in the bachelorette auction for the children's hospital charity. To Dorothy's embarrassment and dismay, who arrives and outbids everyone to be her date?

Stan
Episode 23 - "Love for Sale"
Rose: Alright, now let's start the bidding at $5!
Male Bidder: $5.
Stan: $100.
Dorothy: Stanley, what are you doing here?
Stan: Buying a date with the woman I love.
Dorothy: Oh, jeez. Not in front of people.

What is the date of the Shady Pines retirement home fire?

September 4, 1985
Episode 24 - "Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 1"

Which Golden Girl's ex-boyfriend is an obituary editor and listed her in the local newspaper as dead to get revenge for dumping him?

Blanche
Episode 26 - "Henny Penny - Straight No Chaser"
Sophia: 78, yes. 64, yes. 81, yes!
Dorothy: Ma, what are you doing?
Sophia: Reading the obituaries and checking out the people who died younger than I am now. 83, close one. 68, whoa!
Blanche: What is it?
Sophia: You!
Blanche: What about me?
Sophia: You're dead.
Blanche: Say what?
Sophia: I told you. You're dead. You must be, it says so in the paper.
Blanche: "Blanche Devereaux, age 68-" 68!?
Dorothy: That's terrible. They're almost as far off on your age as you are. I wonder how this could've happened.
Blanche: I know how it happened because I know who took that picture—Chugger Dietz, the obituary editor. I never dreamed when I dropped him he'd be so vindictive. 68! Can you believe that? 68!
Dorothy: And dead. Don't forget dead.

When Sophia misplaces her glasses, she stubbornly refuses to buy a new pair, instead reporting them stolen to the police. Luckily, their neighbor, Barbara Weston, finds the glasses and returns them to Sophia. What happened to them?

The Westons' dog, Dreyfuss, got them when Sophia left them on the lanai.
Episode 21 - "Witness"

When The Girls participate in a charity bachelorette auction, which Golden Girl raises the most money?

Dorothy
Episode 23 - "Love for Sale"
Dorothy: Oh, who's keeping score? What's important is that we made a lot of money. I mean, together we made a consid—they were fighting over me, did you see it!?
Blanche: Well, Dorothy, to be fair, one of them was Stan.
Dorothy: Do I sense a tinge of envy there Miss Going-Going-Gone-for-$25.50?
Blanche: You can't put a price tag on beauty, Dorothy.
Dorothy: Oh, sure you can. $25.50.

Worried when her backup boyfriend, Mel Bushman, doesn't answer her repeated calls, Blanche fears the worst. Upon seeing him again, she realizes just how much he means to her. What does she say to him?

She tells him she loves him and wants to be a one-man woman with him.
Episode 19 - "Melodrama"
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