Trivia quiz
Friends Trivia
30 questions and answers: 9 easy, 12 medium, and 9 hard.
Ten seasons, one orange couch, and more breakups than anyone can count. This quiz runs from Central Perk regulars to deep cuts about weddings, pets, soap opera deaths, and the people behind the scenes. See how well you really know the six friends.
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Friends trivia questions and answers
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- Question 1Easy
What is the name of the coffee house where the friends spend most of their free time?
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Answer: B. Central Perk
Central Perk is the gang's second living room, complete with the famous orange couch. Gunther runs the place and keeps a watchful eye on Rachel from behind the counter.
Character guide: Gunther
- Question 2Easy
What is Ross Geller's profession for most of the series?
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Answer: D. Paleontologist
Ross studies dinosaurs, first at the Museum of Natural History and later as a professor at NYU. His friends never let him forget how excited he gets about fossils.
Character guide: Ross Geller
- Question 3Easy
Which character does Joey play on the soap opera Days of Our Lives?
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Answer: A. Dr. Drake Ramoray
Joey lands the role of neurosurgeon Drake Ramoray in season two. It is the biggest break of his acting career and the role he keeps returning to.
Character guide: Joey Tribbiani
- Question 4Easy
What is the name of Ross's pet capuchin monkey in season one?
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Answer: C. Marcel
Marcel is Ross's sidekick through much of season one. Fun fact: the animal actor who played him was a female named Katie.
Character guide: Ross Geller
- Question 5Easy
What is the title of Phoebe's best-known song at Central Perk?
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Answer: C. Smelly Cat
Phoebe debuts the song in "The One with the Baby on the Bus." It later gets a full music video, though the record company dubs in another singer's voice.
Episode: Season 2, Episode 6, "The One with the Baby on the Bus"
Character guide: Phoebe Buffay
- Question 6Easy
Which friend greets women he likes with the smooth line "How you doin'"?
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Answer: A. Joey
Joey's slow, smooth greeting became one of the most quoted lines in sitcom history. It even followed him to Los Angeles in the spinoff Joey.
Character guide: Joey Tribbiani
- Question 7Easy
What is Monica Geller's profession?
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Answer: D. Chef
Monica is a professional chef who works her way through several restaurant kitchens over the years. Her competitive streak in the kitchen is matched only by her love of cleaning.
Character guide: Monica Geller
- Question 8Easy
What is the name of Phoebe's identical twin sister?
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Answer: B. Ursula
Ursula is a waitress who is far less warm than Phoebe, and Lisa Kudrow plays both sisters. Ursula first turned up on Mad About You before crossing over to Friends.
Character guide: Phoebe Buffay
- Question 9Easy
Which couple's "we were on a break" argument becomes a running gag for years?
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Answer: A. Ross and Rachel
Ross and Rachel split in "The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break," and he sleeps with someone else that same night. Whether it counts as cheating is debated for the rest of the series.
Episode: Season 3, Episode 15, "The One Where Ross and Rachel Take a Break"
Character guides: Ross Geller, Rachel Green
- Question 10Medium
Which band performs the Friends theme song, "I'll Be There for You"?
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Answer: B. The Rembrandts
The Rembrandts recorded the theme, and a full-length version became a hit single. It reached number three on the UK Singles Chart.
- Question 11Medium
Whose name does Ross accidentally say at the altar while marrying Emily?
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Answer: A. Rachel
Ross blurts out Rachel's name during his vows in London in the season four finale. The slip dooms his marriage to Emily almost before it starts.
Character guides: Ross Geller, Rachel Green
- Question 12Medium
What word does Ross keep shouting while trying to carry his new couch up the stairs?
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Answer: D. Pivot
Ross balks at the delivery fee in "The One with the Cop," so Rachel and Chandler help him haul the couch up the stairwell by hand. It does not go well.
Episode: Season 5, Episode 16, "The One with the Cop"
Character guides: Ross Geller, Rachel Green, Chandler Bing
- Question 13Medium
What word does Ross claim means a state of total awareness, even though it is really a type of eel?
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Answer: C. Unagi
Ross stages surprise attacks on Rachel and Phoebe to prove they lack unagi after their self-defense class. The episode is "The One with Unagi."
Episode: Season 6, Episode 17, "The One with Unagi"
Character guides: Ross Geller, Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay
- Question 14Medium
Which two pets do Joey and Chandler adopt in season three?
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Answer: A. A chick and a duck
The birds arrive in "The One with a Chick and a Duck" and become fixtures of the apartment across the hall. The rooster's crowing later sparks a famous bet.
Episode: Season 3, Episode 21, "The One with a Chick and a Duck"
Character guides: Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing
- Question 15Medium
How many babies does Phoebe carry as a surrogate for her half-brother Frank Jr. and his wife Alice?
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Answer: C. Three
Phoebe gives birth to triplets in "The One Hundredth." Joey ends up in the same hospital with kidney stones while she is in labor.
Episode: Season 5, Episode 3, "The One Hundredth"
Character guide: Phoebe Buffay
- Question 16Medium
What is the profession of Richard Burke, Monica's much older boyfriend?
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Answer: B. Ophthalmologist
Richard is an eye doctor and an old friend of Monica's parents. Tom Selleck played him, and the age gap was a big part of the drama.
Character guides: Richard Burke, Monica Geller
- Question 17Medium
What instrument does Mike Hannigan play after leaving his career as a lawyer?
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Answer: D. Piano
Mike walked away from law to play piano, which fits perfectly with Phoebe's musical side. Paul Rudd played him in the last two seasons.
Character guides: Mike Hannigan, Phoebe Buffay
- Question 18Medium
What is the name of the son Ross has with his ex-wife Carol?
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Answer: D. Ben
In "The One with the Birth," Ross and Susan end up stuck together in a janitor's closet, and the name on a janitor's uniform in there gives them Ben. Carol is happy to go along with it.
Episode: Season 1, Episode 23, "The One with the Birth"
Character guides: Ross Geller, Carol Willick
- Question 19Medium
What costume does Ross wear to teach his son Ben about Hanukkah?
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Answer: A. The Holiday Armadillo
Ross cannot find a Santa suit on short notice, so he improvises with an armadillo costume. Ben loves Christmas, so Ross has some convincing to do.
Episode: Season 7, Episode 10, "The One with the Holiday Armadillo"
Character guide: Ross Geller
- Question 20Medium
In which city do Monica and Chandler first sleep together?
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Answer: C. London
Their romance starts the night of Ross's wedding in London. They keep it secret from the group for months afterward, with Joey reluctantly covering for them.
Character guides: Monica Geller, Chandler Bing
- Question 21Medium
Where does Chandler pretend to be moving so he can escape Janice?
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Answer: B. Yemen
In "The One with All the Rugby," Chandler is mid-manicure with Rachel when Janice shows up, and his escape plan is a made-up job transfer to Yemen. Ross, meanwhile, gets battered playing rugby with Emily's British friends.
Episode: Season 4, Episode 15, "The One with All the Rugby"
Character guides: Chandler Bing, Janice
- Question 22Hard
In "The One with the Embryos," what do Monica and Rachel lose in Ross's trivia contest?
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Answer: D. Their apartment
The women lose the tie breaker and have to swap apartments with Joey and Chandler. Rachel's desperate guess that Chandler is a "transponster" seals their fate.
Episode: Season 4, Episode 12, "The One with the Embryos"
Character guides: Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Joey Tribbiani
- Question 23Hard
What is Chandler Bing's middle name?
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Answer: D. Muriel
Chandler's full name is Chandler Muriel Bing, a detail the group finds hilarious. It is a running source of embarrassment for him.
Character guide: Chandler Bing
- Question 24Hard
How many sisters does Joey have?
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Answer: B. Seven
Joey is the only son in a family with seven sisters. In "The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister," Chandler fools around with one of them and cannot recall which.
Episode: Season 3, Episode 11, "The One Where Chandler Can't Remember Which Sister"
Character guides: Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing
- Question 25Hard
Phoebe's grandmother's "secret" cookie recipe turns out to come from where?
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Answer: C. The back of a Nestle Toll House bag
In "The One with Phoebe's Cookies," the only written copy of the recipe was lost in a fire, so Monica bakes batch after batch trying to crack it. The treasured family secret turns out to be the familiar Toll House recipe.
Episode: Season 7, Episode 3, "The One with Phoebe's Cookies"
Character guides: Phoebe Buffay, Monica Geller
- Question 26Hard
Which friend's name is given to one of Phoebe's surrogate triplets?
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Answer: A. Chandler
Phoebe delivers the triplets in "The One Hundredth," and they are named Frank Jr. Jr., Leslie, and Chandler. Afterward Phoebe finds it hard to hand the babies over to Frank Jr. and Alice.
Episode: Season 5, Episode 3, "The One Hundredth"
Character guides: Phoebe Buffay, Chandler Bing
- Question 27Hard
What are the names of the twins Monica and Chandler adopt in the finale?
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Answer: C. Jack and Erica
Birth mother Erica surprises everyone by delivering twins in "The Last One." The new family then moves out of the city to a house in the suburbs.
Character guides: Monica Geller, Chandler Bing
- Question 28Hard
After quitting his job in Tulsa, what new career does Chandler start as an unpaid intern?
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Answer: D. Advertising
Chandler lands an unpaid advertising internship in "The One with the Mugging" and feels out of place among much younger interns. He later becomes a junior copywriter.
Episode: Season 9, Episode 15, "The One with the Mugging"
Character guide: Chandler Bing
- Question 29Hard
How is Dr. Drake Ramoray killed off Days of Our Lives in season two?
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Answer: A. He falls down an elevator shaft
Joey brags to Soap Opera Digest that he writes his own lines, and the angry writers drop Drake down an elevator shaft. The episode is "The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies."
Episode: Season 2, Episode 18, "The One Where Dr. Ramoray Dies"
Character guide: Joey Tribbiani
- Question 30Hard
What skill reportedly got background extra James Michael Tyler placed behind the Central Perk counter as Gunther?
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Answer: B. Running the cappuccino machine
Tyler had worked as a real barista, and he was the one extra on set who could properly run the cappuccino machine, so he landed behind the counter. He went on to appear in 148 episodes, more than any other recurring actor on the show.
Character guide: Gunther
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