TV Show Timelines Challenge – A 10-Question Trivia Quiz

Fawlty Towers made just 12 episodes while The Simpsons has passed 35 seasons, and the TV show timelines challenge asks you to place famous shows in time. Learn when I Love Lucy, Star Trek, M*A*S*H, Cheers, Seinfeld, Friends, The Sopranos and Breaking Bad began and ended, and how long each ran.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 150s

Lucy
When did I Love Lucy premiere?
Trek
When did the original Star Trek premiere?
MASH
How long did M*A*S*H run?
Cheers
When did Cheers end?
Seinfeld
How many seasons did Seinfeld have?
Friends
Which years did Friends air?
Sopranos
When did The Sopranos premiere?
Breaking
When did Breaking Bad premiere?
Thrones
When did Game of Thrones end?
Fawlty
When did Fawlty Towers first air?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: When did I Love Lucy premiere?
Answer: 1951
It ran until 1957.
Q2: When did the original Star Trek premiere?
Answer: 1966
It ran for three seasons.
Q3: How long did M*A*S*H run?
Answer: 11 seasons
Longer than the Korean War.
Q4: When did Cheers end?
Answer: 1993
It ran for 11 seasons.
Q5: How many seasons did Seinfeld have?
Answer: Nine
It ended in 1998.
Q6: Which years did Friends air?
Answer: 1994 to 2004
It had 10 seasons.
Q7: When did The Sopranos premiere?
Answer: 1999
It ran until 2007.
Q8: When did Breaking Bad premiere?
Answer: 2008
It ended in 2013.
Q9: When did Game of Thrones end?
Answer: 2019
It ran eight seasons.
Q10: When did Fawlty Towers first air?
Answer: 1975
Its second series came in 1979.

Tv Show Timelines Challenge – Television Through the Decades

Television history can be traced through landmark shows. I Love Lucy premiered in 1951 and helped define the sitcom, and the original Star Trek launched in 1966, running for three seasons before becoming a huge franchise.

The 1970s and 1980s brought M*A*S*H, which ran for 11 seasons, Fawlty Towers with just 12 episodes over two series and Cheers, which ended in 1993. Seinfeld ran for nine seasons until 1998, and Friends aired from 1994 to 2004.

The 1999 premiere of The Sopranos marked a new era of prestige drama, followed by Breaking Bad from 2008 to 2013 and Game of Thrones, which ended in 2019. The Simpsons has run continuously since 1989, spanning many of these milestones.

What This Quiz Teaches

TV fans and history lovers will enjoy these questions.

When I Love Lucy began
How long M*A*S*H ran
When Friends aired
When The Sopranos began
When Game of Thrones ended

Did You Know?

The Twilight Zone began in 1959.
Dallas aired from 1978.
The X-Files began in 1993.
Lost aired from 2004 to 2010.
Mad Men began in 2007.