This Alexa and Katie trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers all four parts of the Netflix sitcom, from the shaved heads on the first day of freshman year to the June 2020 finale: the Mendoza and Cooper families, Lucas's band, Dylan and the Winter Formal, Gwenny and the basketball team, Wired the coffee shop and its grumpy manager Barry, Jack's dog Potato, Dr. Corts, Spencer and Aiden. It also covers the show behind the show: how it became Netflix's first multi-camera sitcom, who created it and who ran it, the three-week renewal, the split third season, the Primetime Emmy nomination and the Kids' Choice Award, and where the cast came from and went next, from Mighty Med and The Thundermans to 1883, Reacher and Saved by the Bell. The early questions are for anyone who watched with the family; the last stretch is for people who remember the recurring nurses. Every answer was checked against a reference source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01What illness is Alexa Mendoza being treated for in Alexa & Katie?
Leukemia
She is an ambitious basketball player who hates the pity her illness brings. Spencer, whom she meets in season three, has Hodgkin lymphoma.
Q 02What does Katie do to support Alexa before they start high school?
Shaves her head
Both girls start freshman year bald, which is what makes them feel like outsiders at a time when fitting in seems to matter most.
Q 03Who plays Alexa Mendoza?
Paris Berelc
She was born in Milwaukee and had played superhero Skylar Storm on Disney XD's Mighty Med and Lab Rats: Elite Force.
Q 04Which Paramount+ western did Isabel May star in after Alexa & Katie, playing Elsa Dutton?
1883
She also narrates its sequel 1923 as Elsa. She was born in November 2000, making her 17 when the sitcom premiered.
Q 05Which 1990s teen icon plays Alexa's mother, Lori Mendoza?
Tiffani Thiessen
She was Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell and Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210. Lori is strong-willed and competitive, and Nurse Chad is scared of her.
Q 06What is Dave Mendoza's job, which he loves to mention?
Airline pilot
Eddie Shin plays him. He struggles when Alexa shaves her head but comes round, and he shares his wife's competitive streak.
Q 07What does Alexa's older brother Lucas want to become?
A doctor
He is often played as dimwitted and conceited but wants to help others the way Alexa's doctors helped her. In season two he fronts his own band anyway.
Q 08Emery Kelly, who plays Lucas, was a member of which boy band formed on The X Factor USA?
Forever in Your Mind
Simon Cowell put him together with Ricky Garcia and Jon Klaasen in 2013. Garcia and Liam Attridge later played Lucas's bandmates on the show.
Q 09What is Katie's mother Jennifer studying to do while working?
Finish college
She is divorced and single, which is why the Coopers are less well off than the Mendozas. Alan Ritchson, later Reacher, guest-stars as her ex-husband Robbie.
Q 10What is the name of the dog that Katie's little brother Jack adopts?
Potato
Jack, played by Finn Carr, loves candy and video games but understands Alexa's situation better than most adults.
Q 11Which Thundermans star plays Dylan, Lucas's brainy best friend who tutors and then dates Alexa?
Jack Griffo
He was Max Thunderman on Nickelodeon from 2013 to 2018. Dylan is a main cast member only in season two.
Q 12To which school dance does Dylan invite Alexa, after which they start dating?
The Winter Formal
They break up in season two when he cannot say what will happen once he leaves for college, and settle on being friends.
Q 13Why does Alexa break up with Dylan in season two?
He can't say what happens when he leaves for college
Q 21Which George Lopez star plays Dr. Corts, Alexa's therapist in season three?
Constance Marie
She played Angie Lopez on the ABC sitcom and Selena's mother in the 1997 film. Katie also sees Dr. Corts for anxiety.
Q 22Where does Alexa meet Spencer, the boy she eventually dates in season three?
At the hospital
He has Hodgkin lymphoma. Gunner Burkhardt plays him, and Alexa initially has no romantic feelings for him at all.
Q 23Where does Aiden, Katie's season-three love interest, work when they first meet?
A Putt Putt golf course
He starts as a stress-free annoyance to Katie and later joins her behind the counter at Wired. Barrett Carnahan plays him.
Jack Griffo returned as a recurring character in season three after being a series regular in season two.
Q 14Who is Alexa's self-absorbed rival on the girls' basketball team?
Gwenny
Kerri Medders plays her. She turns unexpectedly kind after learning about Alexa's illness and dates Lucas in season two.
Q 15Which of Alexa and Katie's friends joins the school cheerleading team in season two and has two mothers?
Hannah
Merit Leighton plays her as the more naive of the pair; Reagan, played by Iman Benson, is the sensible but self-centred one.
Q 16Which running gag is attached to Reagan?
Her selfishness
Iman Benson plays her. Another running gag is Nathan, a student in the school play whose existence is constantly ignored.
Q 17Who gives Katie her first kiss?
Ryan
He is her awkward friend from the school play, played by Nathaniel J. Potvin. Their feelings are only acknowledged directly in the season two finale.
Q 18What is the name of the coffee shop where Katie works as a barista?
Wired
Its manager Barry, played by the creator's relative Scott Wordham, is relentlessly pessimistic. Aiden later works there too.
Q 19In what town is Alexa & Katie set?
Wellard
Wired coffee shop is described as a local business there. The show was shot as a multi-camera sitcom in front of a studio audience style.
Q 20Why does Alexa enjoy befriending new student Cody?
He doesn't know she has cancer
His locker sits between Alexa's and Katie's, and he is also the school mascot. Jordan Austin Smith plays him in seasons two and three.
Q 24What is the job of Joe Perry, the man Jennifer starts dating in season three?
Handyman
Brady Smith plays him. He shares his name, but nothing else, with the Aerosmith guitarist.
Q 25Which Reacher star plays Robbie, Katie and Jack's father, in season one?
Alan Ritchson
He was Aquaman on Smallville and Hawk on Titans before Reacher. He plays Jennifer's ex-husband.
Q 26Which friend from Alexa's treatment is implied to be recovering when she turns up at Alexa's sweet sixteen?
Megan
Nadja Alaya plays her. Vanessa is the school-play rival who lost the lead role to Katie and stays passive-aggressive about it.
Q 27Which basketball player initially assumes Britney is the student with cancer?
Mackenzie
Both girls are season-one guest characters played by Tess Aubert and Megan Truong. Coach Winters later puts Alexa on junior varsity when she tries out.
Q 28What is the running gag about Ms. Rogers, the drama teacher in season one?
Her one-sided relationship with her boyfriend
Katie Walder plays her, leading the school play in which Katie wins the lead over Vanessa.
Q 29Which of Alexa's doctors clears her to play basketball in season two thanks to her improved health?
Dr. Breitweiser
Gregg Daniel plays him. Coach Winters then disappoints Alexa by putting her on junior varsity.
Q 30Alexa & Katie holds what distinction in Netflix's history?
Its first multi-camera sitcom
Multi-camera means it was shot on a stage with several cameras like a classic network sitcom, rather than single-camera like most streaming comedies.