Everybody Hates Chris Trivia
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This Everybody Hates Chris trivia quiz has 47 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
Ali LeRoi co-created the series with Rock and served as showrunner; the pair had earlier co-written Rock's 2003 comedy film Head of State.
Q 02On which network did Everybody Hates Chris premiere on September 22, 2005?
UPN
The series premiered on UPN on September 22, 2005, and aired its first season there before UPN shut down in 2006 after merging with The WB.
Q 03How many seasons did Everybody Hates Chris run?
Four
The show ran for Four seasons, premiering in September 2005 and ending with its series finale in May 2009.
Q 04In which Brooklyn neighbourhood is the show set?
Bedford-Stuyvesant
The Rock family moves into a Bedford-Stuyvesant apartment in the pilot, the Brooklyn neighbourhood where Rock himself grew up; the show often shortens it to Bed-Stuy.
Q 05Which years does the series cover?
1982 to 1987
The series is set from 1982 to 1987, opening in 1982 with a 13-year-old Chris bussed to a mostly white junior high and ending in 1987 with Chris in high school.
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
Tyler James Williams, born in October 1992, was 12 when the series premiered; his younger brothers Tyrel and Tylen are also actors.
Q 08Who plays Julius, Chris's penny-pinching father?
Terry Crews
Terry Crews plays Julius; before acting he was an NFL linebacker and defensive end with the Rams, Chargers and Redskins in the early 1990s.
Q 09Which actress plays Rochelle, Chris's temperamental mother?
Tichina Arnold
Tichina Arnold plays Rochelle, the family's sharp-tongued mother; Arnold later played another matriarch, Tina Butler, on the CBS sitcom The Neighborhood.
Q 10What is the name of Chris's popular, athletic younger brother?
Drew
Drew, played by Tequan Richmond, is Chris's younger brother, who despite being younger is taller, more athletic and luckier with girls than Chris.
Q 11Chris's little sister, spoiled by her father and fond of tattling on her brothers, is called what?
Tonya
Tonya, played by Imani Hakim, is the youngest Rock child; spoiled by Julius, she delights in tattling on her two brothers.
Q 12What is the surname of Greg, Chris's small, nerdy best friend at school?
Wuliger
Greg Wuliger, played by Vincent Martella, is Chris's loyal, undersized best friend from their first day at junior high; Martella also voiced Phineas on Phineas and Ferb.
Q 13Chris is bused across town to a junior high school slyly named after which movie crime family?
Corleone
Corleone Junior High takes its name from the Godfather family; Chris is its only Black student after his mother insists on a school outside the neighbourhood.
Q 21Which neighbourhood character routinely greets Chris with 'Lemme hold a dollar'?
Jerome
Jerome, played by Kevontay Jackson, is the perpetually broke older kid who greets Chris as 'little dude' before asking to hold a dollar.
Q 22What is the name of the homeless man who practises martial arts around the neighbourhood?
Kill Moves
Kill Moves, played by Jeris Lee Poindexter, is the homeless neighbourhood martial artist; Phylicia Rashad once guest-starred as his mother.
Q 23Which sitcom veteran plays Vanessa, Rochelle's wise-cracking best friend who owns the beauty salon?
Jackee Harry
Jackee Harry, an Emmy winner for 227 who later starred on Sister, Sister, plays Vanessa, the salon owner and Rochelle's confidante.
Q 14The show's title parodies which CBS sitcom?
Everybody Loves Raymond
The title spoofs Everybody Loves Raymond, which ended its nine-season CBS run in May 2005; the joke is that, unlike Raymond, nobody seems to be on Chris's side.
Q 15Which well-meaning white teacher treats Chris with condescending stereotyped assumptions?
Ms. Morello
Ms. Morello, played by Jacqueline Mazarella, is the well-meaning teacher whose sympathy for Chris rests on wild assumptions about his home life, such as that his father is absent.
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 17In Rochelle's catchphrase, what does she say her man has?
two jobs!
Rochelle's retort is 'I don't need this, my man has two jobs!'; Julius juggles multiple jobs and is so frugal he knows the price of every item in the house to the cent.
Q 18Which 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 19What is the name of the local grocery store owner Chris later works for?
Doc
Doc, played by Antonio Fargas (Huggy Bear from Starsky & Hutch), runs the corner store where Chris works after school.
Q 20Which street dealer sells goods that are always bootlegged or stolen?
Risky
Risky, played by Mike Estime, is the neighbourhood hustler whose merchandise always turns out to be stolen or bootlegged; Malvo, by contrast, is the petty criminal who robs the store Chris works at.
Q 24Which Oscar winner plays Louise, the nosy next-door neighbour and Tasha's grandmother?
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg plays Louise, grandmother of Chris's crush Tasha (Paige Hurd); the pair move into the house next door from season two.
Q 25Who plays Rochelle's soft-spoken but critical mother, Grandma Maxine?
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine plays Grandma Maxine; she had just finished a run on Boston Public and went on to play Adele Webber on Grey's Anatomy.
Q 26Chris's high school shares its name with which Godfather crime family?
Tattaglia
Tattaglia High School, where Chris starts in season three after leaving junior high, takes its name from one of The Godfather's Five Families.
Q 27What is the title of the series finale?
Everybody Hates the G.E.D.
In 'Everybody Hates the G.E.D.' Chris, told that one more late arrival means repeating the grade, quits school to sit the G.E.D. instead, mirroring Rock's own path.
Q 28The final scene of the series is a spoof of which HBO drama's famous ending?
The Sopranos
The finale cuts to black mid-scene, mimicking The Sopranos, whose June 2007 ending cut out on Tony's diner visit.
Q 29What is the title of the very first episode?
Everybody Hates the Pilot
The first episode is titled Everybody Hates the Pilot; it aired on September 22, 2005, and introduced the Rock family's move to a new neighbourhood.
Q 30Which Seinfeld star guest-starred as Principal Edwards?
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander, Seinfeld's George Costanza, guest-starred as Principal Edwards, the head of Chris's junior high, in season two.