This Everybody Hates Chris trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers all four seasons of the sitcom Chris Rock built from his Bedford-Stuyvesant teens: the move out of the projects, the bus to Corleone Junior High, Julius and his two jobs, Rochelle's catchphrase, Drew, Tonya and Greg, and the neighbourhood regulars from Doc to Risky to Mr. Omar. It runs up to the Sopranos-style G.E.D. finale and the 2024 animated revival on Comedy Central. It is written for people who watched it on UPN and The CW, or found it later in streaming reruns, with easy questions any viewer will get and harder ones about actors, networks, dates, awards and the cast's later careers. Every answer was checked against encyclopedic sources before it went live, and each question explains itself as soon as you pick.
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Q 01Everybody Hates Chris was created by Chris Rock and which writer-producer?
Ali LeRoi
The show was first developed for Fox before UPN picked it up.
Q 02On which network did Everybody Hates Chris premiere on September 22, 2005?
UPN
It moved to The CW when UPN and The WB merged, and ran there until May 8, 2009.
Q 03How many seasons did Everybody Hates Chris run?
Four
Each season had 22 episodes for a total of 88.
Q 04In which Brooklyn neighbourhood is the show set?
Bedford-Stuyvesant
The series follows Rock's own teenage years there from 1982 to 1987.
Q 05Which years does the series cover?
1982 to 1987
The family has just moved out of the low-income housing projects when the show begins.
Q 06Who narrates the show?
Chris Rock
The real Chris Rock provides intermittent narration over his younger self's misadventures.
Q 07Which actor plays the teenage Chris?
Tyler James Williams
He was about 12 when the show launched and later won a Golden Globe for Abbott Elementary.
Q 08Who plays Julius, Chris's penny-pinching father?
Terry Crews
Before acting he played defensive end and linebacker in the NFL for the Rams, Chargers and Redskins.
Q 09Which actress plays Rochelle, Chris's temperamental mother?
Tichina Arnold
She had already spent five seasons as Pam on a Fox sitcom and won an NAACP Image Award for this role.
Q 10What is the name of Chris's popular, athletic younger brother?
Drew
He is played by Tequan Richmond and, to Chris's annoyance, is bigger than his older brother.
Q 11Chris's little sister, spoiled by her father and fond of tattling on her brothers, is called what?
Tonya
Imani Hakim plays her; she enjoys getting her brothers in trouble by whining to their parents.
Q 12What is the surname of Greg, Chris's small, nerdy best friend at school?
Wuliger
Vincent Martella plays him; his father Art is played by Gary Basaraba.
Q 13Chris is bused across town to a junior high school slyly named after which movie crime family?
Corleone
The all-white school is where he meets Greg, Ms. Morello and the bully Caruso.
The show's title parodies which CBS sitcom?
Q 21Which street dealer sells goods that are always bootlegged or stolen?
Risky
Mike Estime plays him; Malvo, by contrast, is the petty criminal who robs Chris at Doc's.
Q 22Which neighbourhood character routinely greets Chris with 'Lemme hold a dollar'?
Jerome
Kevontay Jackson plays the perpetually broke older kid.
Q 23What is the name of the homeless man who practises martial arts around the neighbourhood?
Kill Moves
Jeris Lee Poindexter plays him, and Phylicia Rashad once guest-starred as his mother.
Q 24Which sitcom veteran plays Vanessa, Rochelle's wise-cracking best friend who owns the beauty salon?
Everybody Loves Raymond
The joke being that, unlike Raymond, nobody in Chris's world seems to be on his side.
Q 15Which well-meaning white teacher treats Chris with condescending stereotyped assumptions?
Ms. Morello
Jacqueline Mazarella plays her, and by the final season she has become principal of Chris's high school.
Q 16What is the name of the red-haired bully who torments Chris at school?
Caruso
Joey Caruso is played by Travis T. Flory.
Q 17Complete Rochelle's catchphrase: 'I don't need this, my man has...'
two jobs!
Julius does indeed work two jobs, and has been a newspaper deliveryman, security guard, cab driver and fish packer.
Q 18Which of these is NOT one of Julius's jobs during the series?
Subway conductor
He also drives a cab, and famously knows the price of every item in the house to the cent.
Q 19Which funeral director neighbour is known for exclaiming 'Tragic! Tragic!'?
Mr. Omar
He is played by Ernest Lee Thomas, best known as Raj on What's Happening!!
Q 20What is the name of the local grocery store owner Chris later works for?
Doc
He is played by Antonio Fargas, Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch.
Jackee Harry
Rochelle later manages the salon herself.
Q 25Which Oscar winner plays Louise, the nosy next-door neighbour and Tasha's grandmother?
Whoopi Goldberg
Tasha, played by Paige Hurd, moves into Keisha's old house next door.
Q 26Who plays Rochelle's soft-spoken but critical mother, Grandma Maxine?
Loretta Devine
Devine had recently finished a run on Boston Public and went on to Grey's Anatomy.
Q 27In season four Chris moves up to a high school named after which Godfather family?
Tattaglia
Coach Thurman, played by Paul Ben-Victor, is his homeroom teacher and football coach there.
Q 28What is the title of the series finale?
Everybody Hates the G.E.D.
Chris drops out to sit the test after being told one more late arrival will make him repeat tenth grade.
Q 29The final scene of the series is a spoof of which HBO drama's famous ending?
The Sopranos
It cuts to black mid-scene, just as Tony Soprano's diner visit did in 2007.
Q 30What is the title of the very first episode?
Everybody Hates the Pilot
It aired on September 22, 2005.