What is MacGyver's first name?
Richard Dean Anderson's MacGyver spent seven seasons solving impossible problems with nothing but a Swiss Army knife, duct tape, and his genius brain. The resourceful secret agent could turn a paper clip into a missile disabler and chocolate bars into acid leak stoppers, but for most of the show's run, viewers had no idea what to call him besides "Mac." What is MacGyver's first name?
▼
Correct Answer: Angus
(Source)The writers had been teasing fans for years, turning MacGyver's refusal to share his first name into one of the show's longest-running jokes. They finally decided to make a big production out of the reveal with a two-part fantasy episode ("Good Knight MacGyver") complete with medieval time travel sequences. In the episode, he meets a 7th-century Scottish ancestor named Angus M'Iver and admits they share the same name. By the series finale, we learn that MacGyver's son got saddled with "Angus" as a middle name and inherited his father's embarrassment about it. You can't really blame either of them for preferring "Mac" to a name that immediately makes people think of either Scottish Highland warriors or premium beef.
Share This Trivia
Want More Nostalgia?
Check out our other quizzes and random trivia questions!
More Trivia
- Which snake species is the longest?
- What show was Michael J. Fox on while filming "Back to the Future"?
- What sport did Tony play on "Who's the Boss?"
- Who tied with Barbra Streisand for Best Actress at the Oscars?
- Who's the only actor to win an Oscar for 1967's "Bonnie and Clyde"?
- What group of fish can walk on land?
- What speed does the DeLorean in "Back to the Future" need to reach for time travel?
- What do you call a baby porcupine?