The Ultimate ‘Pop’ Quiz for Father’s Day

We hardly ever see the widowed father of three boys, played by Robert Reed, actually designing buildings on the show — though there is a drafting table in the office off the sunken living room. It’s a shame that he never decided to build an addition to his split-level home so that his six kids didn’t have to cram together in just two rooms.

According to the U.S. government, 34 states have a Springfield — but neither the ’50s comedy Father Knows Best nor The Simpsons identifies the state in which it’s set. By the way, Mayfield is the home of the Cleavers in Leave It to Beaver; Mayberry is the setting for The Andy Griffith Show; and Hooterville hosted both Petticoat Junction and Green Acres. None of those shows identified the state either, although Griffith is said to have based Mayberry on his hometown of Mount Airy, North Carolina.

In the movie, custody is ultimately awarded to Billy’s mother, Joanna (Meryl Streep). The film won five Oscars, including best picture and acting prizes for both Hoffman and Streep — who had a notoriously strained relationship on set. (As director Robert Benton later recalled, Hoffman actually slapped Streep on the face just before they shot their first scene together in an awkward, unannounced attempt to get her into a raw emotional state.)

Redd Foxx, who played the cantankerous junk dealer Fred Sanford in Norman Lear’s hit 1970s sitcom, was born John Elroy Sanford — and both his father and brother were named Fred Sanford.

Tom Hagen, an orphan who was informally adopted by the Corleones after Michael brought him home when they were both boys, was played by Robert Duvall in Francis Ford Coppola’s film trilogy. Tom becomes a lawyer who is both a trusted consigliere and a bit of an outsider in the family. “He’s an adopted son,” Duvall said in 2022. “So he couldn’t step over the line. I couldn’t step over the line as an actor or as the character. And it was great to be part of the family.”