In the third season of The Golden Girls, we have a better understanding of who the girls are as individuals; now we learn about their concerns and life experiences. Rose worries about nuclear war, Dorothy wants more compatible friendship, Blanche wishes to be closer to her favorite daughter, and Sophia wants to make new friends. How much detail do you know about how the girls handled these topics? See how many of these trivia questions you can answer.
When the girls confront Blanche about having an affair with city councilman candidate Gil Kessler, she adamantly states there's nothing going on between them. Later that evening during Gil's press conference, he's questioned about his relationship with Blanche. What does he say?
Answer
He and Blanche are having an affair.
Episode 7 - Strange Bedfellows
Blanche is upset when her date with Stan's brother Ted doesn't go as she expected; Ted is aloof and even cuts the date short. The next morning, Stan comes by looking for his brother, but he's not there. When Blanche and Stan locate Ted, who are they surprised to learn he spent the night with?
Answer
Dorothy
Episode 8 - Brotherly Love
Rose experiences a series of sleepless nights and drinks tea to help her sleep. When Dorothy reads the label on the tea, she immediately understands why Rose isn't sleeping. What does Rose misunderstand to be "calcium" that causes her to stay awake?
Answer
Caffeine
Episode 8 - Brotherly Love
Dorothy: Rose, have you been drinking much of this?
Rose: Only at night when I can't sleep.
Dorothy: This is loaded with caffeine.
Rose: But we need caffeine, especially women our age. Or our bones will get brittle, and we'll walk all stooped over.
Dorothy: That's calcium, Rose. Calcium, not caffeine.
After Mr. Terrific is fired from his tv show, and the producer refuses to bring him back, Mr. Terrific goes out on the ledge of the studio building. Dorothy and Rose attempt to talk him down, but he insists he's going to fly. When he jumps from the ledge, what is Dorothy surprised to see?
Answer
Mr. Terrific is "flying". He's rigged in a double harness suspended by steel cables. It's a publicity stunt to get his job back.
Episode 24 - Mister Terrific
TRUE OR FALSE: When Rose writes a letter to President Reagan and Premier Gorbachev expressing her concern for nuclear war, Gorbachev was so moved by her simplistic, heartfelt words that he wanted to meet her because he thought she was a little girl.
Answer
TRUE
Episode 6 - Letter to Gorbachev
Sophia is obsessed with money, constantly thinking of new money-making gimmicks to make a quick buck. Why does she want the money?
Answer
To buy a tv for her bedroom
Episode 2 - One for the Money
Sophia actually bought a big screen tv in Season 7, Episode 22 - Rose, Portrait of a Woman. When Dorothy got a job as a motivational trainer for the video games company Borealis, she gave Sophia a generous raise in her allowance.
Dorothy strikes up a friendship with local novelist Barbara Thorndyke when she meets her after a lecture at her school. Dorothy says she enjoys their stimulating conversation. When Blanche and Rose have Barbara over for dinner, what is their impression of her?
Answer
They think Barbara is phony and condescending.
Episode 15 - Dorothy's New Friend
What is the name of the tv game show host of Grab That Dough?
Answer
Guy Corbin
Episode 16 - Grab That Dough
Guy Corbin: Good morning, ladies. Welcome to our show. I'm Guy Corbin, and this morning I've arranged something especially for you - fresh ground coffee and prune danish. Tiffany, why don't you tell them all about it right now.
The girls are at city councilman candidate Gil Kessler's campaign headquarters, and he calls a staff meeting. Not only does he admit that he and Blanche are not having an affair, but he also reveals what secret about himself?
Answer
Gil is a transgender man. Before his operation in 1968, he lived life as part-time stenographer and housewife Anna Maria Bonaducci.
Episode 7 - Strange Bedfellows
Rose wants her cousin Sven from St. Olaf to feel welcomed when he visits. She worked late and barely had time to pick up a cake. She goes to the "Get It While It's Hot" erotic bake shop and gets a cake in the shape of....well, a man's member. What did Rose think it was in the shape of?
Answer
The state of Florida
Episode 9 - A Visit from Little Sven
Blanche: Rose, that cake is from the "Get It While It's Hot" erotic bake shop.
Dorothy: Whoa-ho!
Blanche: Why, Rose Nylund. Why, that cake is in the shape of-
Dorothy: Blanche, we know what it is.
Rose: I thought it was in the shape of Florida.
When the girls arrive at their hotel the night before appearing on the tv game show Grab That Dough, they discover that not only is the hotel completely booked but so is every hotel in the city. Where does the receptionist say the girls can sleep for $75, and she won't have them arrested for loitering?
Answer
In the lobby
Episode 16 - Grab That Dough
Sophia's brother Angelo from Sicily is visiting the family in Brooklyn, but he wants to come to Miami to see Dorothy and Stan to wish them a happy 40th wedding anniversary. What favor does Sophia ask of Dorothy and Stan?
Answer
She wants them to pretend their still married and living in the same house with Sophia.
Episode 17 - My Brother, My Father
When Rose's cousin Sven comes to visit, Blanche agrees to show him around Miami. While they're are out to lunch, Floyd McCallum, the man who keeps canceling dates with Blanche, walks in with a much younger woman. What does Blanche do to make Floyd jealous?
Answer
She kisses Sven.
Episode 9 - A Visit from Little Sven
Dorothy and Stan's brother Ted go on a date. Stan interrupts the evening to tell Dorothy about the flight and hotel reservations he overheard Ted making. Stan thinks Ted is planning something big and wants to propose to Dorothy. What does Ted ask Dorothy?
Answer
He asks if she could babysit the kids of a stewardess he invited to Acapulco with him.
Episode 8 - Brotherly Love
The girls are on their way to compete on the tv game show Grab That Dough...and they're having a bit of bad luck. They end up sleeping in the hotel lobby because all the rooms are booked. When they awake the next morning, they discover someone "grabbed their dough". What happened?
Answer
Their purses were stolen.
Episode 16 - Grab That Dough
What does Dorothy's daughter Kate do for a living?
Answer
She's an interior decorator in New York.
Episode 17 - My Brother, My Father
When Sophia gets pranked at the senior citizens center by practical joker Maury Hazeltine, she plays tricks on Dorothy to practice her revenge on Maury with the perfect gag. Which one of her practical joke does Dorothy fall for on more than one occasion?
Answer
The dribble glass
Episode 13 - The Artist
When Blanche and Rose both audition for The Sound of Music, what roles do they get?
Answer
They're casted as nuns.
Episode 17 - My Brother, My Father
Why does Rose have a fear of public speaking?
Answer
She choked up on her high school graduation speech.
Episode 5 - Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself
Rose also said she never officially graduated from high school due to contracting mononucleosis or "mono" from participating in a kissing booth. (Season 4, Episode 1 - Yes, We Have No Havanas)
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