189 Fun Facts About House M.D.

On which network did House air from 2004 to 2012?

House aired on Fox for eight seasons and 177 episodes, from November 16, 2004 to May 21, 2012.

Who created House?

David Shore created House and served as its showrunner for all eight seasons; he gave the misanthropic hero his voice and directed the series finale himself.

At which fictional teaching hospital is House set?

Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital is fictional; its interiors were shot on sound stages at the Fox lot in Century City, Los Angeles.

What is House's medical double specialty?

House is double board-certified in infectious disease and nephrology, and heads Princeton-Plainsboro's Department of Diagnostic Medicine.

Which painkiller is House dependent on?

The season eight premiere is titled Twenty Vicodin, after the stash he needs to get through his last days in prison.

What caused the damage to House's right leg?

An infarction in his thigh muscle: an aneurysm clotted during a golf game, was misdiagnosed for days, and Stacy authorised removing the dead muscle while he was in a coma.

What is the street address of House's apartment?

House lives at 221B Baker Street, a deliberate nod to Sherlock Holmes's London address; the creator called House's own name a homage to Holmes, with Wilson as his Watson.

Under what name is the gunman who shoots House in the season two finale credited?

The shooter in No Reason is credited only as Moriarty, after Holmes's nemesis; most of the episode is a hallucination House has while unconscious.

Which hospital department does House's only real friend, Dr. James Wilson, head?

Oncology head James Wilson is played by Robert Sean Leonard; the friendship echoes Holmes and Watson and carries the whole final episode.

What is Dr. Lisa Cuddy's job at the hospital?

Dean of Medicine and chief administrator; Lisa Edelstein left the show after season seven when a salary cut was proposed.

Which member of House's original team is a neurologist?

Omar Epps's character had a juvenile record for burglary, which is partly why House hired him; he ends the series as Dean of Medicine.

Which actress plays immunologist Dr. Allison Cameron?

Jennifer Morrison played Cameron from the pilot through season six and returned for the finale; Jesse Spencer, who plays Chase, later moved on to Chicago Fire.

Which genetic condition does Thirteen inherit from her mother?

Thirteen, Dr. Remy Hadley, tests positive for Huntington's disease in season four, the illness that killed her mother; her nickname came from her number in House's hiring contest.

Why was Dr. Kutner written out of the show in season five?

The character is found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot in the episode Simple Explanation, and returns as a hallucination in the finale.

Which member of the later team is a former plastic surgeon?

Taub, played by Peter Jacobson, left a lucrative plastic surgery practice before joining House's team; House exploits his marriage troubles and the two daughters he fathers with different women.

How did House recruit his new team in season four?

He starts with 40 applicants and numbers them rather than learning names; the show called it its own version of Survivor.

Which Massive Attack song is the show's opening theme in the United States?

Teardrop, from Massive Attack's 1998 album Mezzanine, opens US episodes; rights issues meant many international broadcasts used different theme music.

Where did Hugh Laurie record his audition tape for House?

Laurie taped it in a hotel bathroom in Namibia while shooting Flight of the Phoenix there in 2004, apologising on the tape for the poor lighting.

Which director of the pilot did not realise Hugh Laurie was English?

Singer had reportedly said he wanted an American for the part; Laurie credits his accent to a misspent youth watching too many movies.

In which year was House the most-watched television programme in the world?

Eurodata TV Worldwide, which tracks ratings across dozens of countries, named House the most-watched television programme in the world for 2008.

Which episode drew the show's biggest audience, 29 million, after airing straight after Super Bowl XLII?

Frozen aired on February 3, 2008 straight after Super Bowl XLII and drew about 29 million viewers; Mira Sorvino guest-starred as a psychiatrist trapped at the South Pole, diagnosed over a video link.

Which billionaire, played by Chi McBride, tries to fire House in season one?

Edward Vogler, a pharmaceutical mogul who buys his way onto the hospital board, appears in five season-one episodes before the board chooses House over his money.

Why does Detective Michael Tritter, played by David Morse, pursue the doctor in season three?

The vendetta ends with House in court over forged prescriptions and Cuddy perjuring herself to save him.

Which actress plays Stacy Warner, House's ex-girlfriend, in seasons one and two?

Sela Ward played Stacy Warner, a lawyer who authorised the leg surgery that ended their relationship and returns in season two as the hospital's counsel.

How does Amber Volakis, Wilson's girlfriend, die in the season four finale?

Amber was on a bus that crashed; her damaged kidneys could not clear the amantadine she had taken, and House, a fellow passenger, cannot remember why he was there. The two-parter is House's Head and Wilson's Heart.

Where does House spend the two-hour season six premiere, Broken?

He checks into Mayfield Psychiatric Hospital to detox from Vicodin after hallucinating Amber and Kutner at the end of season five.

What does House do to Cuddy's home in the season seven finale of House?

Drives his car into her living room in anger after Cuddy ended their relationship over his addiction; the stunt lands him in prison at the start of season eight.

Which team member takes over as head of the hospital in the final season?

Chase ends the series running the Department of Diagnostic Medicine that House left behind.

What is the title of the series finale?

Everybody Dies, directed by David Shore, bookends the pilot's alternate title, Everybody Lies; the retrospective Swan Song aired just before it on May 21, 2012.

How does House escape his troubles in the finale?

He swaps dental records with a dead patient so he can spend Wilson's last months riding motorcycles with him.

In the House finale, how do House and Wilson set off together in the final scene?

On motorcycles, cross-country; Wilson has only months left with cancer, and House tells him that cancer is boring.

Which motorcycle does House ride?

House rides a Honda CBR1000RR sportbike in orange Repsol racing livery, first seen in season two, to Cuddy and Wilson's alarm.

Which soap opera is House addicted to watching?

House watches General Hospital, the long-running ABC soap; when the real show was unavailable the writers invented a fake one for him, Prescription Passion.

From which medical school was House expelled for cheating?

House was expelled from Johns Hopkins after a classmate reported him for cheating on an exam, and had to finish his medical degree elsewhere.

Which New York Times Magazine column by Lisa Sanders inspired the show?

Lisa Sanders's Diagnosis column in the New York Times Magazine inspired the show; Sanders, a Yale physician, became a technical adviser, and the column spawned a 2019 Netflix series also called Diagnosis.

How many Golden Globes did Hugh Laurie win for playing House?

Laurie won two Golden Globes for House, in 2006 and 2007, but lost all six of his Emmy nominations for the role.

Who was Hugh Laurie's long-time comedy partner in Jeeves and Wooster?

Stephen Fry and Laurie met through Cambridge Footlights, where Laurie was president and Emma Thompson vice-president.

In which sport did Hugh Laurie compete for Cambridge against Oxford in 1980?

He had won a British junior title in the coxed pair in 1977, following his father, an Olympic gold-medal rower.

Which title did Guinness World Records give Hugh Laurie in 2011?

Guinness World Records 2011 listed Laurie as the most-watched leading man on television, based on House's global audience; he was also then among the highest-paid actors in US TV drama.

What working title did House carry after Fox picked it up?

The working title was Chasing Zebras, Circling the Drain: 'zebra' is medical slang for an obscure diagnosis, and 'circling the drain' means a terminal case.

Whose idea was the show's premise, before David Shore conceived the title character?

Producer Paul Attanasio conceived a CSI-style medical procedural in which diseases were the suspects; Shore then created House himself as its Holmes-like lead.

Fox originally rejected which idea for House's disability?

Shore originally wanted House in a wheelchair; Fox rejected it, so the writers gave him a damaged leg and a cane instead.

The pilot's main patient, Rebecca Adler, is named after a character from which Sherlock Holmes story?

Irene Adler, 'the woman' to Holmes, appears in A Scandal in Bohemia, the first of the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes short stories.

Which three instruments does House play?

House plays piano, guitar and harmonica, as Laurie does in real life, whereas his model Sherlock Holmes played the violin.

What Christmas gift does House receive in the season four episode 'It's a Wonderful Lie'?

House unwraps a second-edition Conan Doyle, one of the series' many nods to Sherlock Holmes, on whom the character is modelled.

Which season six episode did the show's leading man himself direct?

Laurie directed Lockdown, the 17th episode of season six, in which the hospital is sealed after a newborn goes missing.

What did the future star use as a cane in his improvised audition tape?

Laurie improvised with an umbrella as House's cane on the tape, shot in a hotel bathroom in Namibia during the Flight of the Phoenix shoot.

Which character did the show's star initially assume was the lead?

Laurie assumed Dr. James Wilson was the lead, reasoning no show would centre on someone as unpleasant as House, until he read the full pilot script.

Roughly how much per episode was the show's star earning by the final season?

Laurie was reported to earn about $700,000 an episode by season eight, making him one of the highest-paid actors in US network drama.

Robert Sean Leonard turned down auditioning for which CBS show because the role had too many scenes?

Leonard passed on Numb3rs because its lead was in nearly every scene; the smaller part of Wilson suited him, and he later joked that the less he worked the happier he was.

Which political drama's call-girl role won Lisa Edelstein the part of Cuddy after Bryan Singer saw it?

Edelstein's recurring role as a law student moonlighting as a call girl in The West Wing caught Bryan Singer's eye, and he sent her the House pilot script.

Which future Grey's Anatomy star also auditioned for the role of Dr. Chase?

Patrick Dempsey auditioned for Chase but lost out to Jesse Spencer, then landed Dr. Derek Shepherd on Grey's Anatomy in 2005.

Dr. Eric Foreman shared a near-identical name with the lead of which other Fox sitcom airing in 2004?

Fox's That '70s Show starred Topher Grace as Eric Forman, one letter from Omar Epps's Dr. Eric Foreman; Epps drew on his earlier ER intern role for the character.

Where was the pilot episode filmed?

The pilot was shot in Vancouver; all later episodes were filmed on the Fox lot in Century City, Los Angeles.

Which Princeton University building appears in aerial views of Princeton-Plainsboro?

Aerial establishing shots of the hospital show Princeton's Frist Campus Center; director Bryan Singer set the series near his hometown of West Windsor, New Jersey.

Which abandoned New Jersey site stood in for Mayfield in season six?

Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, a shuttered 1876 Kirkbride asylum in Parsippany-Troy Hills, provided Mayfield's exteriors for Broken.

With a cane and Vicodin bottle vetoed by Fox, what appears beside Jennifer Morrison's name in the titles?

Morrison's name sits over a shot of rowers on a lake after Fox vetoed the planned cane and Vicodin bottle; the other cast names appear over anatomical drawings.

Why was Massive Attack's 'Teardrop' chosen as the theme?

The producers picked Teardrop because its pulsing tempo mimics a heartbeat; José González's acoustic cover of it closes the season four finale, Wilson's Heart.

Which Cocteau Twins singer performs the vocals on 'Teardrop'?

Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins sang Teardrop and wrote its lyrics; the track appeared on Massive Attack's 1998 album Mezzanine.

In which season-one episode of House does House admit he is addicted to Vicodin?

Detox, the 11th episode, has him argue the pills 'let me do my job, and they take away my pain'.

What did Edward Vogler donate to the hospital in exchange for chairing its board?

Vogler donated $100 million to Princeton-Plainsboro in exchange for the board chairmanship, a villain the writers added at Fox's urging and dropped after five episodes.

Which condition does House diagnose in Stacy Warner's husband Mark in the season one finale?

In Honeymoon, House diagnoses Mark Warner with acute intermittent porphyria, a rare enzyme disorder, after Stacy brings him to Princeton-Plainsboro.

How long is House sentenced to jail for contempt of court in the Tritter storyline?

The judge in Words and Deeds dismisses the forgery case after Cuddy perjures herself, but jails House for one night for contempt of court.

How many doctors does House initially consider when recruiting his new team in season four?

House starts with 40 applicants in The Right Stuff, numbering them rather than learning names, and ends the contest by hiring Kutner, Taub and Thirteen.

Before hiring the new team, House 'borrows' a janitor and calls him what?

In the season four premiere Alone, House passes off a janitor as 'Dr. Buffer', which pushes Cuddy to make him recruit a real team.

What was Amber Volakis's medical specialty?

House nicknamed her 'Cutthroat Bitch'.

What was Kutner's specialty before joining House's team?

Kutner trained in sports medicine before joining House; Taub was a plastic surgeon and Thirteen an internist.

Why did Thirteen spend six months in prison, as revealed in the 150th episode 'The Dig'?

Thirteen helped euthanise her brother, who had advanced Huntington's disease, and served six months for it, as she tells House in The Dig.

Which classic detective show partly inspired private investigator Lucas Douglas?

Shore modelled Lucas Douglas partly on The Rockford Files' Jim Rockford and hoped to spin him off into his own show, but the character never caught on.

In which season five episode do House and Cuddy kiss for the first time?

Joy, the sixth episode of season five, ends with House and Cuddy kissing after the adoption she had hoped for falls through.

In which season two episode do Cameron and Chase have a one-night stand?

In Hunting, a meth-high Cameron sleeps with Chase after an HIV exposure scare; they marry in the season five finale, Both Sides Now.

What is Cuddy's own medical specialty?

She is also the hospital's chief administrator.

What phrase does Foreman use when he resigns in the season three episode 'Family'?

Foreman tells House 'I don't want to turn into you' when he hands in his notice in Family; in the finale Human Error, House fires Chase and Cameron resigns.

The show peaked in season three at an average audience of about how many viewers per episode?

Season three averaged about 19.4 million viewers an episode, the series' high, helped by an American Idol lead-in on Tuesday nights.

Which honour did the show receive in 2005 for its 'medical Sherlock Holmes'?

House won a Peabody Award for 2005, whose citation praised it as a 'medical Sherlock Holmes'; the AFI also named it one of its 10 Television Programs of the Year.

For which episode did David Shore win the 2005 Emmy for drama writing?

Shore's Three Stories, in which House lectures students on three patients and reveals his own leg's history, won the 2005 Emmy for drama series writing.

Greg Yaitanes won a directing Emmy in 2008 for which episode?

It was the first half of the season four finale.

In a 2008 poll, House was voted the second-sexiest TV doctor ever, behind whom?

Doug Ross, George Clooney's ER paediatrician, topped the 2008 poll, with House voted second.

Which charity benefited from 'Everybody Lies' T-shirt sales from 2007?

Proceeds from the 'Everybody Lies' T-shirts, sold from 2007, went to the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and cast and crew appeared in its advertisements.

What is the name of the authorised Russian remake of House?

Doctor Richter, the licensed Russian adaptation, premiered on Russia-1 in 2017 with Aleksei Serebryakov in the House role.

What was Fox president Gail Berman's warning to the creative team about the pitch?

Fox's Gail Berman told the creators she did not want to see 'white coats going down the hallway', pushing their CSI-style hospital whodunit toward character.

Which filming technique, popularised by shows like ER, does House use for its corridor scenes?

House uses ER-style 'walk and talk' tracking shots down corridors; producer Katie Jacobs said Laurie's six-foot-two height makes them 'pop'.

House was ranked at what number on Entertainment Weekly's 2007 'New TV Classics' list?

Entertainment Weekly placed House at number 62 on its 2007 'New TV Classics' ranking of the best series of the preceding 25 years.

Which two rival dramas did House overtake to become the world's most-watched show?

Eurodata's 2008 ranking put House first with 81.8 million viewers worldwide, ahead of CSI and CSI: Miami.

Which country ranked House its top-rated TV programme in 2008?

Eurodata's 2008 figures made House the top-rated programme in Germany, where it aired on RTL; it was number two in Italy and number three in the Czech Republic.

In the UK, which channel broadcast the first four seasons of House?

Five (later Channel 5) aired the first four seasons in the UK; Sky1 acquired first-run rights from season five in 2009.

House's father John served in which branch of the US military?

John House was a Marine Corps pilot, and House moved from base to base as a 'military brat', including a stint in Japan he describes in Son of Coma Guy.

In which episode does a DNA test confirm John House is not House's biological father?

In Birthmarks, House swabs his father's corpse at the funeral and the DNA test proves John House was not his biological father; a season eight test later rules out Thomas Bell too.

At what age did House decide a family friend with the same birthmark was his real father?

House says he worked it out at 12, spotting a birthmark he shared with a family friend; his father's harsh discipline fed his lifelong resentment.

What is the name of House's mother?

Blythe House, played by Diane Baker, first appears in Daddy's Boy; House loves her but avoids both parents, dodging a dinner with them in that episode.

Which unusual habit does House have with his cane?

Most people hold a cane on the side opposite the injury.

Where did Cuddy first meet House and share a one-night stand?

Cuddy met House at the University of Michigan, where she was an undergraduate and he already a campus legend; their one-night stand is recalled in Known Unknowns.

What name does Cuddy give the baby girl she becomes foster mother to in 'Joy to the World'?

Rachel came after an earlier adoption, of a baby to be named Joy, fell through.

What was Cameron's first husband dying of when she married him?

Cameron married her first husband knowing he had terminal thyroid cancer; he died six months later, as she tells House in Fidelity.

What crime did House cite as a reason for hiring Foreman in the pilot?

House valued his 'street smarts'.

Who plays Foreman's estranged brother Marcus?

Orlando Jones played Marcus Foreman in season six, fresh out of prison, whom House hires as his assistant partly to needle Foreman.

Chase's estranged father Rowan was an acclaimed specialist in what?

He left his alcoholic wife and teenage son and later remarried.

Which actress plays Wilson's first wife Sam Carr, whom he dates again in season six?

Cynthia Watros, best known as Libby on Lost, played Sam Carr, the first of Wilson's three ex-wives, who moves back in with him late in season six.

Why does House marry Dominika Petrova in season seven?

House marries Ukrainian immigrant Dominika Petrova in Fall from Grace so she can get a green card, announcing it partly to needle Cuddy.

Which actor plays Dr. Darryl Nolan, House's therapist at Mayfield?

Braugher won two Emmys in his career and starred in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Which candidate punches House after he calls Joseph Smith a 'horny fraud'?

Cole, the Mormon candidate played by Edi Gathegi, punches House for the jibe, a show of spine that only impresses House.

What is the name of House's pet rat?

House catches the rat in Stacy's attic in Hunting and names him Steve McQueen; the rat turns up in several later episodes.

Which cancer is Wilson diagnosed with in the final season?

Wilson reveals in Body and Soul that he has a stage II thymoma; aggressive chemotherapy fails, and he is given five months to live.

Who guest-stars in 'Half-Wit' as Patrick, a savant piano prodigy?

Dave Matthews plays Patrick, a brain-damaged piano savant, in Half-Wit, which was also producer Katie Jacobs's directorial debut.

In 'Autopsy', how old is Andie, the terminal cancer patient on whom the team performs a live autopsy?

Andie is nine; Sasha Pieterse played her, and Lawrence Kaplow's script won the Writers Guild Award for episodic drama.

Which rock star plays dying patient Eddie Novack in 'Simple Explanation'?

Meat Loaf plays Eddie Novack, whose dying wife turns out to be the real patient, in Simple Explanation, the episode better remembered for Kutner's death.

The season six finale 'Help Me' centres on what disaster?

A crane collapses onto a building in Trenton; House stays with Hanna, trapped in the rubble, and amputates her leg, but she dies of a fat embolism on the way to hospital.

In 'Last Resort', where does gunman Jason take House, Thirteen and others hostage?

Jason, played by Zeljko Ivanek, holds House, Thirteen and patients hostage in Cuddy's office demanding a diagnosis; Thirteen takes the test drugs for him.

Which Family Matters star guest-stars in the season eight premiere 'Twenty Vicodin'?

Jaleel White, Family Matters' Steve Urkel, plays an inmate in Twenty Vicodin, the season eight premiere that also introduced Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams.

Who plays the ill children's author Alice Tanner in the season seven episode 'Unwritten'?

Amy Irving plays Alice Tanner, author of a children's series House loves; he keeps her on a 72-hour psychiatric hold after her suicide attempt.

'A Pox on Our House' opens in the 18th century aboard what kind of vessel?

The cold open is set aboard an 18th-century Dutch slave ship deliberately sunk to contain smallpox; the modern patient touches a jar salvaged from its wreck.

Which actor plays subway hero musician Jack in 'Larger than Life'?

Matthew Lillard plays Jack, a musician who collapses after pulling a stranger off the subway tracks in Larger than Life.

In 'Out of the Chute', the team treats a professional in what rodeo event?

House meanwhile checks into a hotel with prostitutes and Vicodin.

Which Iranian-born actress plays performance artist Afsoun Hamidi in 'Moving On'?

Shohreh Aghdashloo plays Afsoun Hamidi, a performance artist whose illness is partly staged, in Moving On, Lisa Edelstein's last episode.

Which Battlestar Galactica actor plays secret-hiding patient Bob Harris in 'The Confession'?

Jamie Bamber, Apollo in Battlestar Galactica, plays Bob Harris, the patient whose confessions drive The Confession; the episode also returns Chase and Taub to the team.

Which Disney Channel star plays teenage runaway Callie in season eight's 'Runaways'?

Bridgit Mendler of Good Luck Charlie plays Callie, a runaway living on her own who needs surgery only a parent can consent to, in Runaways.

In 'Post Mortem', which hospital pathologist starts slicing his own scalp open during an autopsy?

Dr. Peter Treiber, played by Jamie Elman, is a pathologist who will trust no doctor but House, forcing the team to fake House's involvement while he and Wilson go on a road trip.

What sport was Derrick, the patient in 'Holding On', practising when he had a nosebleed?

Derrick, a 19-year-old college cheerleader played by Skylar Astin, has a nosebleed during cheerleading practice; the team links his symptoms to grief over his dead brother.

Which episode is told from Cuddy's point of view as she battles a big insurer?

5 to 9 follows Cuddy through a single day as she faces down insurer AtlanticNet over a contract while juggling House and her daughter Rachel.

Which actress plays Dr. Chi Park, the fellow who joins House's team in season eight?

Charlyne Yi plays Chi Park, a resident sent to House after punching a supervisor who groped her; she joins the team in Transplant, the second episode of season eight.

In which season seven episode does the team treat Della, a teenager with sickle-cell trait?

In Selfish, the second episode of season seven, House and Cuddy go public at work while the team treats Della, a teenager with sickle-cell trait, played by Alyson Stoner.

Which honour did Hugh Laurie receive in the 2018 New Year Honours?

Laurie was appointed CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to drama, eleven years after his 2007 OBE.

What was the title of the show's star's 2011 blues album?

Let Them Talk, recorded in New Orleans and released in 2011, was Laurie's debut blues album; his second, Didn't It Rain, followed in 2013.

In which English city was the show's star born in 1959?

Laurie was born in Oxford on 11 June 1959 and grew up in the city's Blackbird Leys area before Eton and Cambridge.

Olivia Wilde made her feature directorial debut with which 2019 film?

Olivia Wilde, who played Thirteen, directed Booksmart in 2019, a high-school comedy starring Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein.

Robert Sean Leonard is best known on film for playing Neil Perry in which 1989 movie?

Leonard played Neil Perry, the student driven to suicide, in Dead Poets Society; he later won a 2001 Tony for The Invention of Love.

Jennifer Morrison went on to play Emma Swan in which fantasy series?

Morrison starred as Emma Swan in ABC's Once Upon a Time from 2011 to 2017; she also played Kirk's mother Winona in the 2009 Star Trek film.

Jesse Spencer played Billy Kennedy on which Australian soap before House?

Spencer played Billy Kennedy on Neighbours from 1994 to 2000 before House; he later played firefighter Matthew Casey on Chicago Fire.

House star Omar Epps made his film debut alongside Tupac Shakur in which 1992 film?

Juice, a crime drama, came before Epps's starring turn in Love & Basketball.

Kal Penn is best known for a stoner-comedy film series with which title?

Kal Penn played Kumar in the Harold & Kumar films, starting with Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle in 2004; he later played Seth Wright on Designated Survivor.

Amber Tamblyn earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for playing the title role in which series?

Tamblyn played Joan Girardi, the title role of CBS's Joan of Arcadia, earning Emmy and Golden Globe nominations in 2004; her father is actor Russ Tamblyn.

David Shore later developed which US medical drama, adapted from a South Korean series?

Shore developed The Good Doctor, ABC's 2017 adaptation of a 2013 South Korean series, starring Freddie Highmore; before television he practised law in Canada.

David Shore was born in which Canadian city?

Shore was born in London, Ontario, in 1959 and studied law at the University of Toronto before turning to television writing.

Sela Ward won her first Emmy for playing Teddy Reed in which NBC drama?

Ward won the 1994 Emmy for lead actress in a drama as Teddy Reed on NBC's Sisters, then a second in 2000 for Once and Again.

Charlyne Yi's screenwriting debut Paper Heart won a screenwriting award at which festival?

Paper Heart, co-written by Yi and Nicholas Jasenovec, won the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.

Before House, Odette Annable played Beth McIntyre in which 2008 monster movie?

Annable, then credited as Odette Yustman, played Beth McIntyre in Cloverfield, the 2008 found-footage monster film; she later played Reign on Supergirl.

Peter Jacobson appeared twice on which legal drama as crusading defence attorney Randy Dworkin?

Jacobson played showboating defence attorney Randy Dworkin in two Law & Order episodes; he also appeared as a teacher in Transformers.

Vicodin combines paracetamol with which opioid?

Vicodin pairs the opioid hydrocodone with paracetamol (acetaminophen); hydrocodone is a semi-synthetic opioid derived from codeine.

How many episodes did season six of House have?

Season six ran 22 episodes, counting the two-hour premiere Broken as two; across eight seasons the series totalled 177.

Ran Laurie, the Olympic gold medallist father of House star Hugh Laurie, spent thirty years in which profession?

A physician, Ran Laurie was the real thing, and his son said he felt bad about being paid more to play a fake version of his own father.

Before House made him a star in America, Hugh Laurie played the father opposite Geena Davis in which family film?

Stuart Little cast him as Frederick Little, adoptive father of a talking mouse, and gave him early practice at the American accent he later used as Gregory House.

Hugh Laurie was nominated six times for playing Gregory House, without ever winning, at which major awards?

The Primetime Emmys shortlisted him as lead actor in 2005 and every year from 2007 to 2011, yet the statuette never came, even as the role won him two Screen Actors Guild awards.

Gregory House, the title character of House, is head of which department at his New Jersey teaching hospital?

Diagnostic Medicine is his domain, a small unit that takes only the puzzling cases other doctors have failed to solve, and he turns down any he finds dull.

Which hospital chore does Gregory House grudgingly perform, or inventively dodge, in a running comic subplot of House?

Clinic duty puts him in the walk-in clinic with routine complaints, where his blunt remarks stun patients and a trivial case sometimes cracks the team's real one.

After playing Dr. Robert Chase on House, Jesse Spencer went on to play Captain Matthew Casey in which NBC drama?

Chicago Fire began in 2012, the year the hospital drama ended, and he stayed with it as a regular until 2021.

After House ended, Hugh Laurie won a Golden Globe as arms dealer Richard Roper in which John le Carré adaptation?

The Night Manager made him the main antagonist opposite Tom Hiddleston, and it was his first role on British television in thirteen years.

Which medical student, played by Amber Tamblyn, joins Gregory House's team in season seven while Thirteen is away?

Martha Masters is a brilliant student whose strict honesty, even when a lie would help a patient, keeps putting her at odds with her new boss.

Lisa Edelstein, who played Lisa Cuddy, left House before its final season after refusing what from the producers?

A reduced salary was asked of three stars whose contracts ran out after season seven; Omar Epps and Robert Sean Leonard came to terms, but she did not.

By the end of the season three finale of House, Human Error, what has Gregory House lost?

His whole team goes in quick succession: one fellow resigns, another is dismissed and the third quits, leaving him to start the next season alone.

In the House episode Bombshells, Lisa Cuddy's first dream turns the hospital staff into a parody of which sitcom?

Two and a Half Men is the first of five pastiches in her dreams, which also run through a zombie film, a 1950s sitcom, a Western and a stage number.

Lisa Cuddy's health scare in the House episode Bombshells ends with which turning point for her and Gregory House?

They break up after her kidney mass proves benign, because she realises he could only face her bedside with painkillers in his system.

In the House pilot, what does the team discover has lodged in the brain of kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler?

A tapeworm larva from undercooked pork was behind her seizures, and the giveaway was an opened pack of ham found when two of the team broke into her kitchen.

In the season five House finale Both Sides Now, Gregory House's night with Lisa Cuddy turns out to be what?

A hallucination, it was conjured by his painkiller abuse, and once he can no longer tell fantasy from reality he agrees to be admitted for treatment.

In the House episode After Hours, where does Gregory House try to cut tumours out of his own leg?

In his bathtub, working from a CT scan, he goes after growths caused by an experimental drug tested only on rats, until he has to phone Lisa Cuddy for help.

Which song, long associated with Judy Garland, does Gregory House sing in the dream musical number of Bombshells?

Get Happy closes Lisa Cuddy's run of dreams, with him dressed as part ringmaster, part cabaret magician in a scene choreographed by Mia Michaels.

In the House episode Two Stories, Gregory House recounts a case to children while attending what event?

A school career day brought him to an elementary school as a favour, to help Lisa Cuddy's daughter win a place there, and the class was gripped by a man who coughed up a lung.

In the House episode Half-Wit, the team learns that Gregory House has posed as a patient with which illness?

Brain cancer was the cover story: he sent someone else's file to a Massachusetts hospital, hoping its trial would implant a drug in his brain's pleasure centre.

In the season two episode House vs. God, Gregory House's teenage patient Boyd has made his name as what?

A faith healer, Boyd seems to shrink a woman's tumour by laying on hands, until the cause is traced to a virus he passed to her by touch.

Dr. Gregory House, who mocks patients and colleagues for their beliefs, holds which position on religion?

An atheist, he calls religious belief illogical, yet in one episode he is curious enough about an afterlife to risk his own life testing the idea.

Which footwear did Hugh Laurie choose for Gregory House, arguing that a man with a cane needs practical shoes?

Sneakers were his suggestion, and the wardrobe department kept thirty-seven pairs of Nike Shox on hand for the part.

Which sport was Dr. Gregory House playing when the leg pain that left him with a permanent limp first struck?

Golf was the game, and the pain was misdiagnosed for three days before he worked out the cause himself.

Before committing to medicine, the fictional Dr. Gregory House majored in and considered a doctorate in which science?

Physics was his first subject: he thought about a doctorate researching dark matter, and the final season shows it as the path he might have taken outside medicine.

Dr. Gregory House began dating constitutional lawyer Stacy Warner after she shot him during which kind of game?

Paintball brought them together about ten years before the series begins, at a match that pitted lawyers against doctors.

Which drug treatment, given after Gregory House is shot, briefly frees him from his cane at the start of season three?

Ketamine let him walk and even run without pain, but the relief faded and he went back to the cane and his pills.

Which loud live events is Dr. Gregory House known to attend, once taking Allison Cameron along?

Monster truck rallies are a favourite outing, usually shared with his closest friend; the trip with her comes midway through season one.

As a 14-year-old military child, the future Dr. Gregory House chose medicine after an incident in which country?

Japan is where, after a friend's rock-climbing accident, he saw an outcast doctor win respect by solving a case that had beaten everyone else.

In the House episode Lines in the Sand, which condition does James Wilson suggest Gregory House may have?

Asperger syndrome was his suggestion, though he later admits he never believed it and said so only to soften Lisa Cuddy's opinion of his friend.

In which city did Dr. Gregory House first meet James Wilson, bailing him out after a bar fight at a convention?

New Orleans was hosting a medical convention when Wilson, in the middle of his first divorce, broke a mirror and started a brawl; a bored stranger paid for the damage and bailed him out.

Which Broadway star, years before his biggest hit, plays Gregory House's rapping roommate Alvie in season six?

Lin-Manuel Miranda played Juan "Alvie" Alvarez in 2009, six years before Hamilton reached the stage, and returned to the role the following May.

Which veteran actor with a famously deep voice plays African dictator Dibala in the House episode The Tyrant?

James Earl Jones played President Dibala, whose plans for genocide drive one of the team to falsify a blood test so that he is treated for the wrong illness.

Which rapper turned actor plays Clarence, a death row inmate, in the House season two premiere Acceptance?

LL Cool J played the condemned man in 2005, four years before NCIS: Los Angeles made him a weekly television lead.

Which actor, then known for The Wire and Friday Night Lights, plays a blind patient in the House episode Love Is Blind?

Michael B. Jordan played a man who falls ill just as he is about to propose, three years before he took the title role in Creed.

Which rapper and actor plays the paralysed patient through whose eyes much of the House episode Locked In is shown?

Mos Def played a cyclist written off as brain-dead until Gregory House, lying injured in the next bed, notices his eyes following the staff.

Which sitcom veteran and five-time Emmy winner plays Arlene, mother of Lisa Cuddy, in season seven of House?

Candice Bergen made Arlene a match for her daughter's boyfriend; in Family Practice she refuses to be treated by him, so the team has to cure her in secret.

Which actor, also the voice of Sarge in the Toy Story films, plays John House, father of Gregory House?

R. Lee Ermey, often typecast as an authority figure, played the strict father in two episodes and turned up on Scrubs as the Janitor's father too.

Which Scottish comedian plays Thomas Bell, the man Gregory House long believed to be his real father, on House?

Billy Connolly appears in the final season, when a second DNA test shows that Bell is not the biological father either.

Which Sex and the City star plays Anica, a patient who invents her own illnesses, in the House episode Deception?

Cynthia Nixon played a woman with Munchausen syndrome, and the twist is that beneath the invented symptoms she has a real infection.

Which of the four leads of the film The Craft plays the first patient ever treated on House, in the pilot?

Robin Tunney played a schoolteacher who collapses in front of her class, and went on to co-star as Teresa Lisbon in The Mentalist.

Which industry dispute cut season four of House from a planned 24 episodes to just 16?

A writers' strike halted production in late 2007, and Katie Jacobs said the eight lost episodes made it hard to finish the storylines the season had begun.

Which future Avengers star plays a reckless punk guitarist in the season four House episode Games?

Jeremy Renner played the uncooperative musician, whose baffling illness turns out to be nothing more exotic than measles.

Which Oscar winner plays a psychiatrist stranded at the South Pole, treated by webcam, in season four of House?

Mira Sorvino played Dr. Cate Milton, whose mystery illness is finally traced to a broken toe she could not feel in the cold.

In season four's 97 Seconds, how does Gregory House deliberately come close to death to test the idea of an afterlife?

He electrocutes himself to find out, wakes dissatisfied with the result, and goes back to denying that anything follows death.

In the season four House episode Ugly, who trails Gregory House and his candidates as they treat a teenager?

A documentary crew is filming the boy, who has a major facial deformity and suffers a heart attack before his reconstructive surgery.

In season four's Whatever It Takes, which organisation recruits Gregory House to diagnose one of its dying agents?

The CIA tells him almost nothing about the agent's history or past assignments, so he resorts to unorthodox methods to reach a diagnosis in time.

The House doctor nicknamed Thirteen, who joins the team in season four, has which real name?

Remy Hadley got the nickname from the number she was given as an applicant, and it stuck with her for the rest of the series.

Early in season four of House, a fighter pilot asks Gregory House for secret treatment so she can still become what?

An astronaut is what Greta hopes to be, and she fears NASA will reject her if it learns that she has begun to see sounds as images.

Which actress, also Francine Hanson in Mad Men, plays ruthless applicant Amber Volakis in season four of House?

Anne Dudek's character lost out on a place in the team but stayed for the rest of the season as the girlfriend of James Wilson.

In the House episode Wilson's Heart, which risky procedure does Gregory House undergo to recover his missing memories?

Deep brain stimulation brings the memories back, but he suffers a seizure while still wired to the equipment and is left unconscious.

Although House is set in New Jersey, nearly every episode was filmed on a studio lot in which part of Los Angeles?

Century City, a business district of Los Angeles, housed the hospital sets for every episode after the pilot.