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Take the 50-question quizWhich name does the adopted family pet finally get after the quads argue over it in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Squishy Paws was Dawn's suggestion, and it won only after a wealthy stranger tried to claim the animal and the quads found a fair way to settle the name.
Which WNBA star plays herself as Dawn's idol, whose bus the quads sneak onto in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Candace Parker forgives the stowaways, who are mistaken for a Russian dance troupe booked for her workout video, because her own brothers mess things up for her too.
In Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, who really spreads Dawn's secret crush around school after a confession circle?
The family parrot, Mike, simply repeated what it overheard, voiced by SpongeBob actor Tom Kenny. Dawn had already blamed her brothers and broadcast their secrets in revenge.
Which Dance Moms star plays Eiffel, the gifted ballerina in Dawn's ballet class, in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Maddie Ziegler returned in season three, when Eiffel fronts a reality show beside a sister played by her real sibling Mackenzie.
Aidan Gallagher, Nicky in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, later played time-traveling Number Five in which Netflix series?
The Umbrella Academy cast him as a 58-year-old stuck in his 13-year-old body, a breakthrough part that began in 2019, the year after the quads' sitcom ended.
Which Wizard of Oz role does Dawn lose to rival Rose Durkin after a poor audition in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Dorothy goes to Dawn after all once Rose is hurt on stage, but only after a dream trip to Oz in which she gives up the part to rescue her captured brothers.
What are Aunt Jackie's lookalike sculptures of the quads made from in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Butter proves a risky medium: when Dawn cuts the power to the air conditioner the heads melt, so the quads smear themselves and pose as the sculptures.
At summer camp in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, what do Nicky and Ricky wrongly believe Dicky is turning into?
A werewolf is what they think they hear when a friend describes her older brother's puberty, so they lock the smelly Dicky in a room, and later Dawn with him.
Which Thundermans star do the quads spot among a criminal gang in the Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn special Go Hollywood?
Jack Griffo, known to the quads as Max, chases them across town in what turns out to be a staged adventure screened to a packed auditorium.
What punishment do the parents give all four quads after Dawn's fake-diary feud in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Bald heads all round was the verdict after Dicky, faking a haircut to make Dawn feel guilty, ended up cutting off his hair for real.
What is the name of the sporting goods store run by parents Tom and Anne in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Get Sporty gains a copycat in season one, when an old rival couple from the parents' dance-contest days open a lookalike shop with an almost identical name.
Which actor, Arwin on The Suite Life of Zack & Cody, plays dad Tom in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Brian Stepanek stayed with the network afterwards, voicing another dad of a big brood, Lynn Loud Sr., in The Loud House from 2016.
Which basketball star plays himself, signing his new shoes at the family store, in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Isaiah Thomas draws such a crowd that Nicky, Ricky, Dawn and their friend Britt try everything they can to cut the line rather than wait their turn.
Which birthday character does dad Tom dress up as to grant each quad one wish in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
The Quadfather is unmasked when Nicky, the last believer, hears him sneeze just like Tom, yet the party guests still demand his return.
Which friend of the quads often calls herself the fifth quad in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Mae is Dawn's best friend, and she nearly earns the title for real when each quad fakes illness and asks her to take their place in a bobsled race.
Which instrument does Dawn take up in an orchestra while already on the soccer team in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Tuba practice and soccer collide when a concert and a match land on the same evening, and her brothers help her dash between the two unnoticed.
To which country does Dicky ship himself in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Australia is also where newcomer Britt comes from, and Nicky and Ricky later scheme to stop him being sent back there.
What does Dawn want that makes her declare her own Independence Day from her parents in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Pierced ears are what Anne refuses, so Dawn rebels while her brothers do the same over a snake, and an unsanitary home piercing leaves several girls with infections.
Allison Munn, mom Anne in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, earlier played Fez's girlfriend Caroline on which sitcom?
That '70s Show used her as a recurring guest, while a sitcom opposite Amanda Bynes, What I Like About You, gave her a regular part as Tina Haven.
The Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn special Go Hollywood won a 2016 Primetime Emmy for which craft?
Cinematography for a multi-camera series was the category, handed out at the Creative Arts Emmys; the show also earned two Kids' Choice nominations for favorite show.
What do parents Tom and Anne fake to win customers' sympathy during a store sale in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
A pregnancy drew sympathy shoppers the year Anne was expecting the quads, so the couple stage another one until a talk about honesty with Dawn pricks Anne's conscience.
Which zombie movie do the quads watch against their parents' wishes in season one of Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Field of Brains scares them into thinking Tom and Anne are turning into zombies, so they brew a cure and slip it into their parents' shoes.
What are Tom and Anne looking at on the old Valentine's Day tape the quads find in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
A sonogram showing quadruplets explains why the couple stopped marking the day: no gift, they say, could ever live up to their children.
What were the quads' bank-robbing quadruplet ancestors called in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
The Sugar Beet Gang turn up in an old newspaper found in a locked room at the family store, where the outlaws were said to have hidden their loot.
Which rival do the quads call the but-er in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn because she always one-ups them?
Madison is the snob of Boulderly Hills Country Club, and Dawn is later made her assistant in a summer job there before the two briefly unite against a two-timing DJ.
Ricky joins a snooty country club team to take on his siblings at which game in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Mini golf at the family store is a joke to his siblings, so serious Ricky defects to a snooty club team, then hands them the win after catching his partner secretly nudging a ball.
How does the quads' class president election end after a negative campaign in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
A four-way tie leaves every quad a winner, until Ricky persuades his siblings that the job is nothing but hard work.
What do classmates pay the quads with for settling disputes at their Quad Court in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Food was the fee because Anne's healthy-eating drive left the quads craving their classmates' lunches, and they soon framed a friend just to drum up cases.
Whose DNA makes one of the quads look unrelated to the others in a test in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Their dog's sample had got mixed in, a twist that arrives only after the quads have agreed they are siblings whatever the result says.
Which identical quadruplets replace the Harpers in Honest Abe's tire commercial in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
The Kramdens do everything in unison and become recurring rivals, later facing the Harpers in a bobsled race, a space-program tryout and a hashtag contest.
Which Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn star left the series about five episodes before the end of its final season?
Mace Coronel, who played Dicky, was announced in October 2017 to be leaving both the show and its network, and the cancellation was announced the following month.
Lizzy Greene, Dawn in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, went on to play Sophie Dixon in which family drama?
A Million Little Things began on ABC in 2018, the year the quads' sitcom ended, and she stayed with it until it finished in 2023.
Which future sitcom Emmy winner plays the wealthy woman who claims the quads' pet in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Sheryl Lee Ralph won her Emmy in 2022 as Barbara Howard in Abbott Elementary; here she is Eleanor Dumont, whom the quads take for a real-life Cruella de Vil.
Nicky is secretly which anonymous blogger who pans his siblings' new café dish in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
The Gourmet Guy refuses to fake a rave, insisting a critic must be honest, which sets off a fight among the quads shortly before the café itself goes up in flames.
What do the quads name dad Tom's invention, shoes that can be modified on the go, in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Sweet Foot Rides win over an investor after Dawn uses a pair to leap onto a hotel chandelier, then falls and passes it off as part of the pitch.
What are the quads doing as their sled wins the big race in the Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn episode Quadsled?
Sleeping after a nervous, restless night, the four slump together in the sled, and their dead weight carries it down the mountain faster than their rivals.
Dawn assumes Millie is a girl stealing her best friend's boyfriend in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn; what is Millie really?
A flight simulator had been keeping the boyfriend and her brothers busy, and once Dawn fights her way inside she agrees it was worth all the fuss.
What does Ricky get whenever his crush and school news co-anchor Avery talks to him in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Hiccups betray his feelings to his siblings, who drill him by all imitating her exaggerated Valley girl accent until he can stay calm.
Which gift from their grandmother causes chaos in Ricky's cautionary tale in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
A drone is what Ricky imagines in the unopened box: it wrecks the house, uncovers a bike-theft plot and lands three quads in jail before the story returns to the kitchen.
In Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, the butler of young inventor Simone turns out to be who in disguise?
Her father had gone undercover to help test whether the quads would leak her secrets, a scheme Dawn tells Simone is no way to make real friends.
In Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, where does Dawn, Ricky's rival for leadership, rank among the quads by age?
The oldest quad, she bickers with her brothers constantly yet cares about them deeply, while the youngest of the four is Nicky.
What must the quads work as over Christmas break as punishment for present-snooping in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Elves at the family store is the sentence, and after squabbling over tips the quads pool the money to buy store worker Josie a new guitar.
In the Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn pilot, which prized possession of dad Tom does the newly adopted pet urinate on?
A signed jersey takes the hit during a squabble over what to call the newcomer, and the quads' joint cover-up is what persuades Anne to let him stay.
Who created Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn and stepped back from the series when its third season was ordered?
Matt Fleckenstein created the series, which Michael Feldman developed, and moved to a consulting role after season two.
Which fictional actor moves in with the quads to practice being a suburban dad in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
JT Steele swaps homes with Tom and Anne, then loses his nerve when Dawn dents his confidence, and the quads have to save his career at a barbecue in front of a TV crew.
Which real-life guest plays himself when the boys decide Dawn is a bad luck charm in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Science Bob, played by Bob Pflugfelder as himself, appears in three episodes, this time after a prank meant to make Ricky superstitious shakes his trust in experiments.
What does dad Tom name the universal remote Anne gives him as an anniversary gift in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Clicky causes chaos when Dawn and Dicky sneak it out of their parents' bedroom and start pressing the wrong controls.
What kind of injured bird, named Charity, do Dawn and her best friend raise money for in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
A goose that cannot fly to rejoin its flock inspires the fundraiser, where Dawn's secret romance with a boy from a feuding family is exposed.
Which other Nickelodeon series was canceled in the same November 2017 announcement as Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
School of Rock, based on the 2003 film, ended after three seasons; its cast had supplied the quads' show with guest stars including Breanna Yde and Jade Pettyjohn.
What does a nervous Dawn do instead of singing whenever she auditions in Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn?
Yodels vanish once her brothers hypnotize her into a swaggering diva alter ego; watching the video back, she finds the nerve to try out for glee club as herself.
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