It's Not Trivia. It's HBO.
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15 questions · Published August 8, 2022
Trivia questions (5 of 15)
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1. What does the acronym HBO stand for?
FUN FACT
Home Box Office was intended to be a placeholder name; management planned on coming up with something else, but the name stuck.
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2. Which of these premium cable networks is considered HBO's "sister station?"
Initially developed as a companion to HBO to focus on recent and classic films, Cinemax launched on August 1, 1980.
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3. What comic starred in the very first HBO comedy special?
Airing in 1975, the first HBO comedy special was "An Evening with Robert Klein." Klein would go on to produce numerous solo comedy specials for HBO, most recently in 2010 with "Robert Klein: Unfair and Unbalanced."
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4. What was the first program to air on HBO when it launched in 1972?
At 7:30 p.m. on November 8, 1972, HBO began its broadcast history by airing a hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Vancouver Canucks.
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5. Which of these is NOT a slogan that has been used by HBO?
"No Limits" is a slogan from rival cable network Showtime.
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