What’s Your Classic Soap Opera IQ?

What’s Your Classic Soap Opera IQ?
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What’s Your Classic Soap Opera IQ?

Sex! Intrigue! Murder! People rising from the dead after being murdered! More sex! Divorces! Affairs! Affairs with exes! Catfights! You may love soap operas, but how much do you know about them? Take our classic soap quiz to find out!

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Question 1/10

Before the catfighting starts, let’s toss you an easy one: In what fictional town is “Young and the Restless” set?

  • Star’s Hollow
  • Genoa City
  • Port Charles
  • Llanview
Question 2/10

In 1981, this event drew more viewers – 30 million – than any soap opera episode in history.

  • The marriage of Luke and Laura on "General Hospital"
  • Karen admitting she was a prostitute on "One Life to Live"
  • The marriage of Cliff and Nina on "All My Children"
  • Katherine Chancellor’s real-life facelift on "Young & The Restless"
Question 3/10

In 1973, "All My Children" broke new – and controversial – ground when Erica Kane became the first American television character to do this.

  • Come out as gay
  • Have an abortion
  • Use a sex surrogate
  • Have an interracial relationship
Question 4/10

In a classic soap opera move, which "Guiding Light" character (and not her clone) stripped off her clothes and baptized herself “The Slut of Springfield”?

  • Lizzie Spaulding
  • Holly Norris
  • Olivia Spencer
  • Reva Shayne
Question 5/10

If you did some investigating you’d know that this actress got her start in 1983 as Siobhan Ryan on "Ryan’s Hope".

  • Marg Helgenberger
  • Michelle Pheiffer
  • Rene Russo
  • Demi Moore
Question 6/10

In 1995, "Days of Our Lives" got huge ratings (and some unintended laughs) when they got weird and this happened to Marlena.

  • She turned into a ghost
  • She went to heaven
  • She turned into a vampire
  • She was possessed by the devil
Question 7/10

Speaking of weird, on "One Life to Live", in what strange place did show writers trap Tina, Cord, Viki, and others?

  • Hell
  • Outer space
  • The lost city of Eterna
  • New Jersey
Question 8/10

During series finale week of "All My Children", this actress made a return visit to the show in a cameo role as a mental patient who claims she’s Erica Kane’s daughter and has been seeing vampires since “before they were trendy.”

  • Emma Caulfield
  • Anna Paquin
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Alyson Hannigan
Question 9/10

This popular – but short-lived – soap opera aired from 1966 to 1971 and featured storylines about vampires, zombies, werewolves, and ghosts. It was even made into a movie in 2012.

  • "The Phantom"
  • "Dark Shadows"
  • "The Edge of Night"
  • "As the Werewolf Turns"
Question 10/10

Talk about nine lives, this "Days of Our Lives" character has come back from the dead after being shot, a car crash, drowning, a stroke, a tunnel collapse, a stabbing, a fire, and three separate explosions.

  • Hope Brady
  • Jack Deveraux
  • Steve “Patch” Johnson
  • Stefano DiMera
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