The Daily Courier

Jerks

- BY JOHN CROOK

Questions:

1) What was the name of the snarky dispatcher played by Danny DeVito on “Taxi”?

2) He won four consecutiv­e Emmys as best supporting actor for his portrayal of insensitiv­e assistant prosecutor Dan Fielding in “Night Court.” Name him.

3) David Leisure played Charley Dietz, the obnoxious freeloader and compulsive liar who lived next door to Dr. Harry Weston in what situation comedy?

4) What irritating and Machiavell­ian character from “thirtysome­thing” was resurrecte­d in the later ABC drama “Once and Again”?

5) What NBC sitcom featured a swaggering ladies man named Kirk Morris (Jere Burns), whose crass comments frequently disrupted a singles support group?

6) Veteran character actor Charles Lane was memorably nasty as a railroad official trying to shut down the Hootervill­e Cannonball on “Petticoat Junction.” What was his character’s name?

7) What 1960s ABC sitcom set in 1870s Seattle featured an abrasive and scheming sawmill operator named Aaron Stempel (Mark Lenard)?

8) Who played caustic talk show host Bill Bittinger in the NBC comedy series “Buffalo Bill”?

9) On what vintage sitcom would you find a pompous psychiatri­st named Dr. Alfred Bellows?

10) What was the name of Dorothy’s (Bea Arthur) ne’er-do-well ex-husband on “The Golden Girls”?

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