Everybody Loves Raymond Trivia
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43 free Everybody Loves Raymond trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
50 free Everybody Loves Raymond trivia questions with answers. Nine seasons, 210 episodes and one very crowded kitchen table. This Everybody Loves Raymond trivia quiz covers the whole run of the CBS sitcom, from the Barones' Lynbrook homes to the finale that pulled in nearly 33 million viewers. You will be tested on the cast (Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Brad Garrett, Doris Roberts, Peter Boyle and Monica Horan), the characters' quirks and catchphrases, and the classic episodes fans still quote: Baggage, Marie's Sculpture, The Canister, Bad Moon Rising and the Italy two-parter. There are also questions on the show's Emmy record, the Russian remake and the Exporting Raymond documentary. It is built for anyone who grew up with the show or found it in reruns, and it works well for a family quiz night. Every question is verified against primary sources such as Wikipedia and official pages, and each answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01On Everybody Loves Raymond, Ray Barone is a sportswriter for which newspaper?
Newsday
Newsday is Ray's paper, and his father wants in: after Reader's Digest prints a piece of his, Frank writes a column of his own and asks Ray to hand it to his editor.
Q 02Which network aired Everybody Loves Raymond for its entire nine-season run?
CBS
CBS first put the show on Friday nights, where it flopped; moved to Mondays in March 1997, it found its audience and stayed on the network until 2005.
Q 03Whose late-night show led to Everybody Loves Raymond?
David Letterman
David Letterman's company signed Ray Romano after a five-minute Late Show set in 1995: 'by the end we already had lawyers lined up', its chief said. The sitcom that followed ran for 210 episodes.
Q 04In which Long Island town do the Barones live?
Lynbrook
Lynbrook, in Nassau County, is home to the Barones, though the family they are drawn from stayed in the city: Ray Romano grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, and in 1997 still lived in Queens, down the street from his parents.
Q 05Who created Everybody Loves Raymond?
Philip Rosenthal
Philip Rosenthal kept the show close to Ray Romano's real family because, he said, it was funnier than anything he could have dreamed up; his own relatives fed into the characters too.
Q 06Everybody Loves Raymond takes its title from a sarcastic remark by which of Ray Romano's relatives?
His brother
His brother Richard, comparing his own job with Ray's comedy awards, cracked that 'everybody loves Raymond'. Romano hated it as a title and asked the network to change it, in vain.
Q 07What nervous habit is Robert Barone known for?
Touching food to his chin before eating
Touching food to his chin before eating is the tic the family calls his 'crazy chin', and the show traces it to childhood anxiety: it began when baby Raymond took all of their mother's attention.
Q 08What is Robert Barone's profession?
NYPD police officer
NYPD police officer is Robert's job, and he nearly trades it for the FBI: he lands an interview, only for Marie to scorch his lucky suit with the iron and then send the interviewer a fax about her son.
Q 09What is Frank Barone's signature catchphrase?
"Holy crap"
"Holy crap" greets every shock in the Barone house, as when a woman tells the family she is 'kind of dating' Ray while his wife stands right there.
Q 10What did Frank Barone do for a living before retiring?
Bookkeeper
Bookkeeper, 'not even an accountant', is how Frank puts it: home from Korea with no skills, he lost a string of jobs first, one to a bowling alley's ball-return machine, and admits he hated the desk.
Q 11What is the name of the lodge Frank Barone belongs to?
Order of the Caribou
Order of the Caribou is the lodge that votes Frank its Man of the Year; filming a tribute for the big night, Ray and Robert find that none of his lodge brothers has a kind word to say about him.
Q 12What is Debra Barone's maiden name on Everybody Loves Raymond?
Whelan
Whelan: her wealthy Connecticut parents, Warren and Lois, look like the calm opposite of the Barones until one Thanksgiving shows how unhappy they are, and by the season's end they have separated.
Q 13Before marrying Ray Barone, Debra worked in public relations for which team?
New York Rangers
Q 21Who played Debra Barone?
Patricia Heaton
Patricia Heaton came to the part of a sportswriter's wife as a sportswriter's daughter. Her real pregnancies during the run were never written in: the show hid them, and Debra stayed a mother of three.
Q 22Who played Amy MacDougall?
Monica Horan
Monica Horan, who married the show's creator in 1990, kept being written back as Amy: she and Robert split up again and again over six seasons before finally marrying at the end of the seventh.
Q 23The child actors who played the Barone twins, Geoffrey and Michael, were real-life brothers of which young actress?
Madylin Sweeten
New York Rangers: when Ray, a futon delivery man who dreamed of sportswriting, learned that his customer did the team's PR, his first question was whether she knew the players.
Q 14What does Robert Barone ask whenever he walks into a room and the family falls silent?
Is this about me?
"Is this about me?" is Robert's reflex after a lifetime in his brother's shadow: a happy room must be about Raymond, he reasons, so a tense one must be his fault.
Q 15What were the Barone twins named in the pilot, before they became Geoffrey and Michael?
Gregory and Matthew
Gregory and Matthew are Ray Romano's real twin sons; after the pilot the boys on screen were renamed, though Ally went on sharing a name with his real daughter for all nine seasons.
Q 16How was Robert Barone once injured on the job?
Gored by a bull at an illegal rodeo
Gored by a bull at an illegal rodeo, Robert took the horn in the backside and lost his nerve for work; he tried telemarketing until Ray took him to a petting zoo to make peace with the bull.
Q 17Who played Frank Barone?
Peter Boyle
Peter Boyle got lost on the way to his audition and walked in flustered and irritable, which was Frank to the life; the role brought him seven Emmy nominations and no win.
Q 18The actor who played Ray Barone's father on Everybody Loves Raymond had earlier starred in which Mel Brooks film?
Young Frankenstein
Young Frankenstein (1974) cast him as the Monster, famously tap-dancing to 'Puttin' on the Ritz'; he also played the cabbie Wizard in Taxi Driver.
Q 19Who played the meddling matriarch Marie Barone?
Doris Roberts
Doris Roberts heard that over a hundred actresses had already read for Marie and drove to her audition unprepared and in a bad mood; her frustration made the room laugh, and the part won her four Emmys.
Q 20Who played Ray's towering brother Robert?
Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett won three Emmys as Ray's put-upon older brother, though he is the younger man by more than two years: he was born in April 1960, Romano in December 1957.
Madylin Sweeten, who played Ally, is the big sister of Sawyer and Sullivan Sweeten; her twin brothers took over the parts after the pilot, in which a set of triplets had shared them.
Q 24Which Italian dish does Debra Barone finally cook so well that Marie takes it as a threat?
Braciole
Braciole, stuffed beef, has Ray, Robert and Frank coming back for more after years of her lemon chicken; a jealous Marie confronts Debra, and it is war.
Q 25Which King of Queens cast member first played a friend of Ray Barone's on Everybody Loves Raymond?
Kevin James
Kevin James played Ray's golf buddy Kevin Daniels in the early seasons, and the guest spots led to a sitcom of his own in 1998; Ray Barone then turned up on The King of Queens in several crossovers.
Q 26Which comic actor played Amy's father, Hank MacDougall, in the later seasons?
Fred Willard
Fred Willard played Hank MacDougall as a strait-laced Pennsylvanian who turns up to talk Amy out of marrying Robert; the part brought him an Emmy nomination in each of the show's last three seasons.
Q 27Ray Romano is also the voice of which character in the Ice Age films?
Manny the mammoth
Manny the mammoth was first imagined with a big voice like James Earl Jones's; the director found that too obvious and, once Romano read a few of the lines, called it a eureka moment.
Q 28Ray Barone turns up at a high-school reunion on which other sitcom, whose star was Ray Romano's real classmate?
The Nanny
The Nanny sends Fran Fine to her class reunion, where the man at the buffet turns round and is Ray Barone: Romano and Fran Drescher really were classmates at Hillcrest High in Queens.
Q 29In 2002 three Everybody Loves Raymond actors won Emmys, but which show beat it to Outstanding Comedy Series?
Friends
Friends took the series prize, and its star Jennifer Aniston took one more from Raymond: the lead-actress Emmy, which Raymond's own leading lady had won in each of the two years before.
Q 30Which Everybody Loves Raymond episode, about Debra's PMS, won the actress who plays her the show's first acting Emmy?
Bad Moon Rising
Bad Moon Rising, co-written by Ray Romano, has Ray record one of his wife's outbursts and play it back to her to prove his point; the fight that follows is what won the actress her Emmy.