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We'll take it easy on you for the first question. Hosting Saturday Night Live is a coveted gig, but who got the honor of being the first person to ever host SNL?

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Chevy Chase
Paul Simon
George Carlin
Lily Tomlin
Richard Pryor
Rob Reiner

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Hosting SNL is such a big deal, it's normal for hosts to get competitive about how many times they've been asked back. Who's hosted Saturday Night Live the most out of anyone?

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Alec Baldwin
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Steve Martin
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Drew Barrymore
Christopher Walken

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It wasn't always called Saturday Night Live. What was the name of the show when it originally aired?

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Not Yet Ready For Primetime Players
Second City TV
Upright Citizen’s Brigade
NBC’s Saturday Night
Weekend Update

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There was a time before Saturday Night Live and Lorne Michaels had to get the original cast members on board. He pitched the show to Laraine Newman by describing it as what?

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“Mad TV but better”
“Monty Python meets 60 Minutes”
“Scripted, organized improv”
“A living newspaper”
“A sketch-comedy version of The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson“

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Out of its original cast members, who was the first person to officially be signed as a cast member on Saturday Night Live?

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Garrett Morris
Chevy Chase
John Belushi
Jane Curtain
Gilda Radner
Dan Aykroyd
Laraine Newman

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Sometimes Saturday Night Live casts people who can't legally drink at the time. Really! Most of these people were cast as teenagers, but which young cast member was actually cast at 20-year-old?

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Eddie Murphy
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Robert Downey Jr.
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Pete Davidson
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Anthony Michael Hall

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We've all come to know Lorne Michaels as the show's fearless leader and executive producer, but rumor has it that he left the show at one point in time. When did that happen exactly?

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After the first season wrapped
1980
1995
After 9/11
He never left the show. It’s just a rumor.

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It's not just cast members who have recurring characters. Sometimes the hosts do something so amazing they wind up bringing it back over and over again. Which frequent host has a recurring original character that's NOT an impression of another person?

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Christopher Walken
Ben Affleck
Danny DeVito
Scarlett Johansson
Drew Barrymore

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Becoming a cast member is hard enough, but staying on the show can be a unique test in itself. Which cast member has had the longest tenure on the job?

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Darrell Hammond
Will Ferrell
Kristen Wiig
Kenan Thompson
Tina Fey
Horatio Sanz

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None of these people have appeared on television as a Saturday Night Live cast member, but who actually quit shortly after being hired?

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Jim Carrey
Stephen Colbert
Adam McKay
Lisa Kudrow
Steve Carrell
Catherine O’Hara

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Saturday Night Live is also well known for its musical guests. They typically get to play two songs on the show, but which musical act clocked in the most musical numbers performed? Hint: They performed four times.

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U2
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Bruce Springsteen
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The Rolling Stones
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Paul McCartney

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Some weird stuff goes down at the legendary Studio 8H. Which one of these SNL "facts" is actually fiction?

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Chris Farley got reprimanded for mooning people out of a limo and making late-night prank phone calls.
Adam Sandler was the highest paid cast member to date, making $25,000 an episode.
Larry David quit his job as a writer then came back the next week like pretending nothing had happened.
Chris Parnell was fired from the show twice.
The character Larry the Lobster from SpongeBob SquarePants was named after an SNL sketch from 1982.

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We'll take it easy on you for the first question. Hosting Saturday Night Live is a coveted gig, but who got the honor of being the first person to ever host SNL?

Hosting SNL is such a big deal, it's normal for hosts to get competitive about how many times they've been asked back. Who's hosted Saturday Night Live the most out of anyone?

It wasn't always called Saturday Night Live. What was the name of the show when it originally aired?

There was a time before Saturday Night Live and Lorne Michaels had to get the original cast members on board. He pitched the show to Laraine Newman by describing it as what?

Out of its original cast members, who was the first person to officially be signed as a cast member on Saturday Night Live?

Sometimes Saturday Night Live casts people who can't legally drink at the time. Really! Most of these people were cast as teenagers, but which young cast member was actually cast at 20-year-old?

We've all come to know Lorne Michaels as the show's fearless leader and executive producer, but rumor has it that he left the show at one point in time. When did that happen exactly?

It's not just cast members who have recurring characters. Sometimes the hosts do something so amazing they wind up bringing it back over and over again. Which frequent host has a recurring original character that's NOT an impression of another person?

Becoming a cast member is hard enough, but staying on the show can be a unique test in itself. Which cast member has had the longest tenure on the job?

None of these people have appeared on television as a Saturday Night Live cast member, but who actually quit shortly after being hired?

Saturday Night Live is also well known for its musical guests. They typically get to play two songs on the show, but which musical act clocked in the most musical numbers performed? Hint: They performed four times.

Some weird stuff goes down at the legendary Studio 8H. Which one of these SNL "facts" is actually fiction?

Last question - how would you rate this quiz?

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