Trivia quiz
Community Trivia
20 questions and answers: 6 easy, 8 medium, and 6 hard.
Pull up a chair at the study room table and see how well you know Greendale. This quiz covers the study group's friendships and feuds, Troy and Abed's best bits, Chang's many reinventions, the Dean's costumes, a few famous episodes, and some facts from behind the scenes. Six seasons and a quiz.
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Community trivia questions and answers
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- Question 1Easy
What is the name of the community college where the show is set?
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Answer: A. Greendale Community College
Greendale is the school nobody takes seriously, and its bitter rivalry with nearby City College becomes a running joke.
Character guides: Jeff Winger, Craig Pelton
- Question 2Easy
What was Jeff Winger's career before he enrolled at Greendale?
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Answer: D. Lawyer
Jeff was a hotshot lawyer until his firm found out his bachelor's degree from Columbia was fake, so he heads to Greendale to earn a real one.
Episode: Season 1, Episode 1, "Pilot"
Character guide: Jeff Winger
- Question 3Easy
In the pilot, Jeff starts a fake study group for which class?
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Answer: D. Spanish
Jeff invents a Spanish study group as a way to spend time with Britta, but she brings Abed along, Abed invites more classmates, and suddenly Jeff has a real group.
Episode: Season 1, Episode 1, "Pilot"
Character guides: Jeff Winger, Britta Perry
- Question 4Easy
What is the name of Troy and Abed's pretend morning show?
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Answer: B. Troy and Abed in the Morning
Hosting their own pretend morning news show is one of many goofy traditions Troy and Abed share as best friends.
Character guides: Troy Barnes, Abed Nadir
- Question 5Easy
Who plays Troy Barnes?
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Answer: C. Donald Glover
Donald Glover played Troy through the first four seasons and the first five episodes of season five, then stepped away as a regular.
Character guide: Troy Barnes
- Question 6Easy
What does Dean Pelton love to wear when he barges in with an announcement?
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Answer: B. An outlandish costume
In the early seasons, the Dean turns up at events and announcements dressed as everyone from Julius Caesar to Lady Gaga.
Character guide: Craig Pelton
- Question 7Medium
In "Remedial Chaos Theory," how does Jeff decide who goes down to collect the pizza?
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Answer: B. He rolls a die
Abed points out that the roll creates six different timelines, and the episode plays out each one, including the infamous darkest timeline.
Episode: Season 3, Episode 4, "Remedial Chaos Theory"
Character guides: Jeff Winger, Abed Nadir
- Question 8Medium
What does Pierce Hawthorne's family company make?
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Answer: D. Moist towelettes
Hawthorne Wipes made Pierce a millionaire, and after his death his shares go to Troy.
Character guide: Pierce Hawthorne
- Question 9Medium
Which line from Abed became the fans' rallying cry during the show's cancellation scares?
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Answer: A. Six seasons and a movie
Abed says it in "Paradigms of Human Memory" about a short-lived superhero show, and fans adopted it for Community itself.
Episode: Season 2, Episode 21, "Paradigms of Human Memory"
Character guide: Abed Nadir
- Question 10Medium
In season three, Troy and Abed's friendship is tested by a campus-wide war between pillow forts and what?
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Answer: A. Blanket forts
"Pillows and Blankets" is told in the style of a Ken Burns Civil War documentary as the whole school picks a side.
Episode: Season 3, Episode 14, "Pillows and Blankets"
Character guides: Troy Barnes, Abed Nadir
- Question 11Medium
Who sets sail around the world with Troy when he leaves Greendale?
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Answer: B. LeVar Burton
Troy's lifelong idol joins him in "Geothermal Escapism," after Abed turns Troy's last day into a schoolwide game of The Floor Is Lava.
Episode: Season 5, Episode 5, "Geothermal Escapism"
Character guide: Troy Barnes
- Question 12Medium
What does Shirley name the baby she delivers during the anthropology final?
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Answer: D. Ben
In "Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts," Chang helps Shirley through labor, and she names her son Ben in his honor even though Andre is the father.
Episode: Season 2, Episode 22, "Applied Anthropology and Culinary Arts"
Character guides: Shirley Bennett, Ben Chang
- Question 13Medium
What Spanish nickname does Ben Chang give himself, even putting it on the back of his jacket?
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Answer: A. El Tigre Chino
The name translates to "the Chinese tiger," and Chang is proud enough of it to wear it, tiger picture included, on the back of his jacket.
Character guide: Ben Chang
- Question 14Medium
What is Annie's wide-eyed look for guilting people into doing what she wants called?
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Answer: C. Her Disney face
Annie turns on the Disney face whenever she wants to guilt the group into going along with one of her plans.
Character guide: Annie Edison
- Question 15Hard
In which state is Greendale Community College located?
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Answer: A. Colorado
The show places Greendale, both the college and the fictional town around it, in Colorado.
Character guide: Jeff Winger
- Question 16Hard
Which streaming service picked up Community for its sixth and final season?
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Answer: C. Yahoo Screen
NBC aired the first five seasons, and the sixth season streamed on Yahoo Screen in 2015.
- Question 17Hard
Troy's Spider-Man pajamas in "Anthropology 101" helped inspire Marvel to create which version of Spider-Man?
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Answer: D. Miles Morales
Troy's pajama look helped inspire Marvel to create Miles Morales, and the movie returned the favor: Troy in those pajamas shows up on a TV screen in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.
Episode: Season 2, Episode 1, "Anthropology 101"
Character guide: Troy Barnes
- Question 18Hard
Dean Pelton actor Jim Rash won an Academy Award for co-writing which film?
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Answer: B. The Descendants
Rash shared the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay with Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon, and he also wrote a season four episode of Community.
Character guide: Craig Pelton
- Question 19Hard
What mascot do the Dean and Pierce come up with to replace the Greendale Grizzly?
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Answer: C. The Human Being
In "Football, Feminism and You," the Dean wants a mascot that could not possibly offend anyone, and the result is a blank-faced figure called the Human Being.
Episode: Season 1, Episode 6, "Football, Feminism and You"
Character guides: Craig Pelton, Pierce Hawthorne
- Question 20Hard
Jeff's last name is a nod to Bill Murray's character in which movie?
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Answer: C. Stripes
Bill Murray plays John Winger in Stripes, and Jeff's surname borrows from him.
Character guide: Jeff Winger
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