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100 free Cheers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free Cheers trivia questions with answers. Cheers trivia questions and answers, for anyone who has ever shouted 'Norm!' at a bar door. These 100 questions cover all eleven seasons of the NBC sitcom, from the pilot that landed 74th in the ratings to the 1993 finale that stopped the country: Sam Malone's Red Sox past, Diane's abandoned fiancé, Coach's death and Woody's pen-pal arrival, Rebecca and the Lillian Corporation, Frasier and Lilith, Carla's eight children, Cliff's postal wisdom and Norm's unseen wife Vera. There is plenty from behind the bar too: the Boston pub found in a phone book whose owner charged $1 for photos, the record Emmy haul, the actor who invented Cliff at his audition, the picture of Geronimo hung on the set, the theme song's writers, the two spin-offs and the finale broadcast that ended with a live Tonight Show from the real bar. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and every answer is checked against a documented source. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows the answers.
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Q 01On which night of the week did NBC air Cheers?
Thursday
Thursday. When The Cosby Show joined the same night in 1984 it pulled in a huge new audience, and many of those viewers discovered Cheers for the first time.
Q 02Cheers was created by James Burrows and which pair of brothers?
Glen and Les Charles
Glen and Les Charles wrote and produced Taxi, where Burrows was their regular director. The three then formed their own company and created Cheers together.
Q 03Which NBC programming chief championed Cheers and kept it on air through its dismal first-season ratings?
Brandon Tartikoff
Brandon Tartikoff backed the show while it sat near the bottom of the ratings. It helped that the reviews were glowing and NBC had no hit comedy to put in its place.
Q 04Cliff Clavin appears as a contestant on which real game show?
Jeopardy
Jeopardy. Cliff had the game locked up, wagered everything on the last clue and blew it, and fans of the real show now call an all-in bet like that a breach of Clavin's Rule.
Q 05Before owning the bar, Sam Malone was a relief pitcher for which team?
The Red Sox
The Red Sox. Sam was written as a retired football player until the part was cast; the creators decided their new lead was far more believable as a pitcher.
Q 06What was Sam Malone's baseball nickname?
Mayday
Mayday. Sam Malone bought the bar in his drinking days and now tends it as a recovering alcoholic, pouring what he can no longer drink.
Q 07In the pilot, Diane Chambers is abandoned at the bar by her fiancé, a professor named what?
Sumner Sloane
Sumner Sloane. He flies off with his ex-wife on the tickets booked for his wedding trip with Diane, leaving her without a job or money until Sam offers her work.
Q 08What is the title of the Cheers pilot, in which Diane's fiancé abandons her at the bar?
Give Me a Ring Sometime
Give Me a Ring Sometime. He goes to collect a wedding ring from his ex-wife, and by the time Diane phones the airport the two of them have used the honeymoon tickets.
Q 09The actor who became Norm first auditioned to play a Cheers customer whose entire part was which single word?
Beer!
Beer! Before the pilot was filmed the one-word customer had given way to Norm, a regular who never leaves the bar.
Q 10What is Cliff Clavin's job?
Postal worker
Postal worker. John Ratzenberger thought he had blown his audition, so on his way out he asked whether the bar had a know-it-all and improvised Cliff on the spot.
Q 11What is the name of Norm Peterson's never-seen wife?
Vera
Vera. When she finally walks into shot, at a Thanksgiving dinner that has turned into a food fight, a pie hits her square in the face before viewers can see it.
Q 12What is Norm Peterson's occasional profession?
Accountant
Accountant. One of the show's creators based Norm on a regular at a bar where he worked after college, a man who always came for just one and had to be helped out.
Q 13Carla names one of her twin sons after which singer, her idol?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley. The twins are Elvis and Jesse, and Carla, who is sentimental about almost nothing else, makes a pilgrimage to Graceland every year.
Q 21Kelsey Grammer was Emmy-nominated as Frasier Crane on Cheers, Frasier and which third sitcom?
Wings
Wings. The Nantucket airport comedy came from three Cheers writers, so Frasier dropped in for a 1992 episode, and that one guest spot brought Grammer the nomination.
Q 22Frasier's wife Lilith Sternin was played by which actress?
Bebe Neuwirth
Bebe Neuwirth. Lilith was written for a single scene, one disastrous date with Frasier, but the writers enjoyed her dialogue so much that they kept bringing her back.
Q 23Which Cheers star received the Golden Globes' 2025 Carol Burnett Award?
Ted Danson
Ted Danson. He was Emmy-nominated as Sam Malone in every one of the show's eleven seasons, and lost seven years running before he finally won in 1990.
Q 14Which Cheers cast member won four Emmys for the show?
Rhea Perlman
Rhea Perlman. She had been sweet Zena, Louie's girlfriend, on Taxi, the Cheers creators' previous show, before they cast her as the venomous Carla.
Q 15Before playing Coach on Cheers, Nicholas Colasanto was a mob boss in which Martin Scorsese film?
Raging Bull
Raging Bull. Colasanto was the menacing Tommy Como two years before he became the lovable Coach, and like Sam Malone he was a recovered alcoholic in real life.
Q 16Whose portrait from Nicholas Colasanto's dressing room was hung on the Cheers set after the Coach actor died?
Geronimo
Geronimo. The portrait stayed on the bar's back wall for the rest of the run, and in the very last scene of the series Sam walks over and straightens it.
Q 17Farm boy Woody Boyd comes to Boston and Cheers from a small town in which state?
Indiana
Indiana. Woody travels from Hanover to meet his pen pal Coach, learns that he has died, and is hired on the spot to take the old man's place behind the bar.
Q 18Why does Sam Malone sell Cheers after Diane leaves him?
To sail the world
To sail the world. Sam sinks his boat instead, and comes home to find a corporate manager running the bar and has to beg her for a bartending job.
Q 19For how much was Cheers sold back to Sam in the eighth-season finale?
85 cents
85 cents. The corporation offered Sam the bar for a dollar as thanks for exposing a tycoon's insider trading; he had no cash on him, so he passed the hat.
Q 20Where does Diane abandon Frasier Crane, ending the romance that first brought him to Cheers?
At the altar
At the altar. Frasier was written as a short-term rival for Sam, but after Diane walks out on their wedding in Europe he stays on as one of the bar's regulars.
Q 24Diane leaves Sam and Cheers in the season-five finale to finish what?
Her novel
Her novel. Diane promises Sam she will be back in six months, and does not walk into the bar again until the very last episode.
Q 25After years of chasing millionaires, Rebecca Howe ends Cheers by marrying a man in which trade?
Plumber
Plumber. Don turns up to fix the taps at the bar, and the woman who had pursued one rich executive after another quits her job to marry him.
Q 26Which Cheers actor was Emmy-nominated six years running for the show without ever winning?
George Wendt
George Wendt. Norm lost all six, the last of them in 1989 to Woody Harrelson, the bartender who spent his evenings pouring Norm's drinks.
Q 27Judy Hart Angelo co-wrote the Cheers theme "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" with which singer, who performed it?
Gary Portnoy
Gary Portnoy. The producers first wanted a number from a stage musical he and Judy Hart Angelo had written, and only when that fell through did the pair write a new song for the show.
Q 28The real Boston pub used for the exterior shots of Cheers was originally called what?
The Bull & Finch
The Bull & Finch, said to be a play on the name of Boston architect Charles Bulfinch. Tourists who knew it from the show flocked there, and in 2002 the owner renamed the pub Cheers.
Q 29The pub seen in the Cheers opening stands on which Boston street, facing the Public Garden?
Beacon Street
Beacon Street. Only the outside made it to television: the basement pub's interior differs from the studio set, so the owner later added a replica of the TV bar upstairs for visitors.
Q 30What is the name of the fancy restaurant upstairs from Cheers, whose owner feuds with Sam?
Melville's
Melville's. The feud starts when its new owner shows Sam a deed proving that the bar's pool room and toilets belong to the restaurant, and Sam has to pay him rent.