Alexa and Katie Trivia
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This Alexa and Katie trivia quiz has 47 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
Leukemia: Alexa plans to keep the diagnosis from her new classmates and start high school like anyone else, until the side effects of chemotherapy threaten to give her away.
Q 02What does Katie do to support Alexa before they start high school?
Shaves her head
Shaves her head: Katie works out why Alexa has been acting up, climbs in through her bedroom window and joins her, promising that Alexa will never go through anything alone.
Q 03Who plays Alexa Mendoza?
Paris Berelc
Paris Berelc began as a child model, discovered by Ford Models at nine and seen in hundreds of store ads, and did not take an acting class until she was twelve.
Q 04Isabel May, who plays Katie, went on to play which member of the Dutton family in the Yellowstone prequel 1883?
Elsa Dutton
Elsa Dutton came to her after a failed audition: she had read for another Taylor Sheridan drama, Mayor of Kingstown, and two weeks later he rang to offer her the lead of his new western.
Q 05Which 1990s teen icon plays Alexa's mother, Lori Mendoza?
Tiffani Thiessen
Tiffani Thiessen spent the 1990s as a TV teenager, Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell and Valerie Malone on Beverly Hills, 90210, and here she is the parent laying down the rules.
Q 06What is Dave Mendoza's job, which he loves to mention?
Airline pilot
Airline pilot: young Jack asks Dave, not his own mother, to come to his school's career day, leaving Jennifer working overtime to convince her son that her job is cool too.
Q 07What does Alexa's older brother Lucas want to become?
A doctor
A doctor: Lucas wants to help people the way Alexa's medical team helped her, and in season three he throws himself into pre-med until a report card of Bs shakes his confidence.
Q 08Emery Kelly, who plays Lucas, was a member of which boy band formed on The X Factor USA?
Forever in Your Mind
Forever in Your Mind began with a rejection: Emery Kelly was cut at boot camp as a solo singer, then Simon Cowell kept him on the show as one third of a new trio.
Q 09Which job does Katie's mother, Jennifer, take at the girls' own high school in their senior year?
School counsellor
School counsellor: Jennifer is so nervous on her first day that she struggles to make friends with the other staff and ends up hiding in the bathroom.
Q 10What name does Katie's little brother Jack give the rescue dog the Coopers adopt?
Potato
Potato arrives after Jack's first try at a pet, a 'stray' cat that sets off Dave's allergies; his mother gives in to the begging and brings home a rescue puppy.
Q 11Which Thundermans star plays Dylan, Lucas's brainy best friend who tutors and then dates Alexa?
Jack Griffo
Jack Griffo had just spent four seasons as Max Thunderman, a teenager set on becoming a supervillain, before turning up here as the straight-A student who tutors Alexa in maths.
Q 12To which school dance does Dylan invite Alexa, after which they start dating?
The Winter Formal
The Winter Formal almost happens without her: a flu outbreak means Alexa cannot risk the crowd, until Katie gets everyone to come in medical masks, and the pair share a first kiss through them.
Q 13At which party does a quarrel between Alexa and Dylan end in their break-up in season two?
A Halloween party
Q 21Which George Lopez star plays Dr. Corts, Alexa's therapist in season three?
Constance Marie
Constance Marie spent six seasons as Angie, George's wife, and her Dr. Corts ends up with two patients: Katie starts seeing her about her anxiety as well.
Q 22Where does Alexa meet Spencer, the boy she eventually dates in season three?
At the hospital
At the hospital: the two swap numbers in the gift shop on the day Alexa expects her final appointment, and for a long while she insists he is only a friend.
Q 23Where is Aiden, Katie's season-three love interest, working before he becomes her fellow barista?
A Putt Putt golf course
A Halloween party: Katie is sure she can patch up the couple's quarrel there and only makes it worse, and the two do not make peace until months later.
Q 14Who is Alexa's self-absorbed rival on the girls' basketball team?
Gwenny
Gwenny turns sugary-sweet once she learns Alexa is ill, which Alexa cannot stand, so she plays prank after prank until her rival goes back to being mean.
Q 15Which of Alexa and Katie's two closest school friends is the bubbly, naive one who rarely gets the joke?
Hannah
Hannah comes through when it counts: in season three she takes over a part in Katie's self-written competition play at the last minute, script in hand.
Q 16In season two, Katie takes on odd jobs to pay for an acting programme in which city?
London
London: when a broken espresso machine swallows Katie's savings, Alexa moves her own sweet sixteen home so that the venue refund can cover the $2,000 tuition.
Q 17Who gives Katie her first kiss?
Ryan
Ryan is cast opposite her in the school play, so Katie's first kiss is a scripted one, written into her part.
Q 18What is the name of the coffee shop where Katie works as a barista?
Wired
Wired takes Katie on in season two after she applies behind her mother's back, and by the following year she has worked her way up to assistant manager.
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
He doesn't know she has cancer: Cody is the new boy at the locker between theirs, and with him Alexa finally gets to be treated like any other student.
A Putt Putt golf course: Aiden's cure for stress is to let Katie take it out on the course itself, windmill included.
Q 24What is the job of Joe Perry, the man Jennifer starts dating in season three?
Handyman
Handyman: Jennifer finds Joe Perry on Yelp when her sliding door sticks, and by the time the job is done he has asked her on a date.
Q 25Which action star plays Robbie, Katie and Jack's father, in season one?
Alan Ritchson
Alan Ritchson, years before he became TV's Jack Reacher, appears as Jennifer's ex-husband, a dad who upsets Katie by still treating her like a little girl.
Q 26Which friend from Alexa's time in hospital turns up at her sweet sixteen?
Megan
Megan is the fellow patient who shares Alexa's chemo session, and Katie's donuts, in the show's very first scene, so her arrival at the party suggests she is on the mend too.
Q 27Cleared to play basketball again in season two, which squad does Alexa end up on?
Junior varsity
Junior varsity: a year away has dulled her game, and it takes a heart-to-heart with a young cancer patient to remind her how far she has already come.
Q 28What do Alexa and Katie both miss in season three when Katie has a panic attack?
The SAT
The SAT: Alexa had taken her out beforehand to take her mind off the exam, but the panic came anyway, and Katie works on her anxiety with the therapist Dr. Corts.
Q 29Ordered to stay home in season one, how does Alexa still get to her classes?
By video chat on an iPad
By video chat on an iPad: her immune system is too weak for crowded corridors, so Katie carries her from class to class on a screen.
Q 30Alexa & Katie's creator wrote for which Disney hit?
Hannah Montana
Hannah Montana and the sitcom Reba were Heather Wordham's training ground, and from the second season she took charge of her own show as its showrunner.