This Brooklyn Nine-Nine trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers all eight seasons of the 99th precinct, from the day Captain Holt walked in wearing a tie to the series finale heist. Expect questions on Jake and Amy, Rosa, Charles Boyle, Terry, Gina, Hitchcock and Scully, and on the recurring favourites: Doug Judy the Pontiac Bandit, Madeline Wuntch, the Vulture, Adrian Pimento, Kevin and of course Cheddar. It also digs into the show's history and cast: which network cancelled it and who saved it thirty hours later, the real Brooklyn precinct used for the exterior, the Golden Globes, the Halloween heist that ended in a proposal, and what the actors did before and after the show, from SNL and the NFL to Encanto. About a third are easy for casual viewers; the rest reward the fans who have watched every cold open twice. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its episodes and characters, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Which two writers, who had worked together on Parks and Recreation, created Brooklyn Nine-Nine?
Dan Goor and Michael Schur
They had known each other since they were students at Harvard and felt the police station had been under-used as a sitcom setting since Barney Miller.
Q 02Brooklyn Nine-Nine aired its first five seasons on which network?
Fox
NBC had originally passed on the show, and its chairman later expressed regret about it when the network finally picked it up.
Q 03After Fox cancelled the show in May 2018, which network picked it up roughly thirty hours later?
NBC
TBS, Hulu and Netflix had all been in talks, but a fan social-media campaign helped push the deal through within a day and a half.
Q 04How many seasons of Brooklyn Nine-Nine were made in total?
8
The 10-episode final season, delayed by the pandemic and rewritten after the murder of George Floyd, aired two episodes a week over five weeks in 2021.
Q 05Who plays the stern, deadpan Captain Raymond Holt?
Andre Braugher
Braugher was already famous as Detective Frank Pembleton in Homicide: Life on the Street; he earned four Emmy nominations for Holt.
Q 06Holt takes pride in being the first NYPD commanding officer to be what?
Openly gay and Black
He is married to Kevin Cozner, chair of Columbia University's classics department.
Q 07What is the name of Holt and Kevin's beloved corgi?
Cheddar
In the series finale Holt's mysterious tattoo is finally revealed to be Kevin's head on the dog's body.
Q 08Kevin Cozner, Holt's husband, is a professor of what at Columbia University?
Classics
He is played by Marc Evan Jackson, and the couple's marriage was praised as unprecedented representation on television.
Q 09What is the name of Jake and Amy's son, born at the end of season 7?
Mac
His full name is McClane, after the hero of Jake's favourite action film.
Q 10Jake constantly quotes which action film, and even names his son after its hero?
Die Hard
He also has a habit of referencing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Q 11Which crook, played by Craig Robinson, steals only Pontiacs and keeps escaping Jake?
Doug Judy
He first appears in season one when Rosa arrests him and he claims to have information on the Bandit, then reveals he is the Bandit and escapes.
Q 12Which Major Crimes captain, nicknamed 'The Vulture', is notorious for swooping in on nearly solved cases?
Keith Pembroke
Played by Dean Winters, he later steals Jake and Amy's wedding venue at the last second for his own wedding.
Q 13Which actress plays Madeline Wuntch, Holt's despised long-time rival in the NYPD hierarchy?
Kyra Sedgwick
Wuntch and Holt were once partners and friends; she once banished him to run the NYPD Public Affairs Division to humiliate him.
Q 21In which annual event do the detectives compete for the title of 'Amazing Detective/Genius'?
The Halloween heist
The fifth heist, in the episode 'HalloVeen', ends with Jake changing the inscription on the belt to a marriage proposal to Amy.
Q 22Jake proposes to Amy at the end of the fifth annual precinct heist. What is the title of that episode?
HalloVeen
Boyle bursts into the evidence locker, sees the newly engaged pair and faints from happiness; Holt is put out that nobody officially won.
Q 23Which real Brooklyn precinct's building was used for the exterior of the fictional Nine-Nine?
The 78th
Q 14Jake and Holt hide from Jimmy 'The Butcher' Figgis in witness protection in which state?
Florida
Holt worked at a family fun centre under the alias Greg Stickney; when the squad took Figgis down they were punished with the night shift.
Q 15Which unhinged former undercover detective, played by Jason Mantzoukas, gets engaged to Rosa?
Adrian Pimento
He had spent 12 years undercover inside Figgis's organisation, and the wedding was derailed when he had to fake his own death.
Q 16Terry's twin daughters are named after which classic TV cop duo?
Cagney and Lacey
His third daughter, Ava, is born on Thanksgiving in season 3, and Jake becomes her godfather.
Q 17Terry famously refers to himself in the third person and declares his love for which food?
Yogurt
The catchphrase 'Terry loves yogurt' has become one of the show's most quoted lines.
Q 18Charles Boyle and his partner Genevieve adopt a son from Latvia. What is his name?
Nikolaj
Charles's exaggerated pronunciation of the name became a running gag, and he dotes on the boy relentlessly.
Q 19Gina Linetti has a child, Enigma ('Iggy'), with a member of which colleague's family?
Charles Boyle's cousin
Milton Boyle is played by Ryan Phillippe; the maternity leave storyline was written around Chelsea Peretti's real pregnancy.
Q 20Which musician plays Marcus, Holt's nephew, who dates Rosa in season 2?
Nick Cannon
Rosa later comes out as bisexual in the show's 99th and 100th episodes, a storyline widely praised for its representation.
Brooklyn precinct numbers can run from 60 to 99, but no real precinct has ever been given the number 99.
Q 24Where was Brooklyn Nine-Nine actually filmed?
CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles
Its first-season episode with New Girl aired as a special one-hour lead-out after Super Bowl XLVIII.
Q 25Brooklyn Nine-Nine's first season won which major award for Best Television Series, Musical or Comedy?
The Golden Globe
On the same night Andy Samberg won the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a TV comedy.
Q 26For its LGBTQ+ portrayals, the show won which organisation's 2018 award for Outstanding Comedy Series?
GLAAD
Rosa's coming-out storyline in episodes 99 and 100 was cited as a landmark for bisexual representation.
Q 27Before Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Andy Samberg was a cast member of which show from 2005 to 2012?
Saturday Night Live
With his Lonely Island bandmates Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone he popularised the SNL Digital Shorts.
Q 28Terry Crews played which position in the NFL before acting?
Defensive end and linebacker
He played for the Rams, Chargers and Washington, and later became famous for his Old Spice commercials.
Q 29The actor who plays Holt earlier starred as Detective Frank Pembleton in which 1990s police drama?
Homicide: Life on the Street
He won two Primetime Emmys over his career and died in December 2023.
Q 30Stephanie Beatriz, who plays Rosa, voiced which lead character in Disney's Encanto?
Mirabel Madrigal
She also played Carla in the film of In the Heights and Quiet in the Twisted Metal series.