50 free Frasier trivia questions with answers. Frasier ran for eleven seasons on NBC and won 37 Emmys, and this quiz covers all of it: the apartment with the impossible Space Needle view, the KACL crowd from Bulldog to Noel, Niles's unseen wife Maris and his slow-burn pursuit of Daphne, Martin's chair and his dog Eddie, Café Nervosa, the celebrity callers, and the finale that sent Frasier to Chicago instead of San Francisco. There are questions on the Cheers years and the 2023 Paramount+ revival too. It starts easy (which city, which station, what breed is Eddie) and works up to the trivia only devoted fans know: Niles's licence plate, the IQ gap between the brothers, who was originally cast as Roz, and what the creators pitched before they settled on Frasier at all. Difficulty is marked on every question. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the show, its characters and its finale, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01What are the call letters of the radio station where Frasier hosts his call-in show?
KACL
The studio set was modelled on ABC's then-new radio studios in Los Angeles.
Q 02Frasier's father Martin was forced to retire from the Seattle police after being shot where?
In the hip
The wound leaves him unable to live alone, which is how he and Eddie end up in Frasier's apartment.
Q 03Daphne Moon, Martin's live-in physiotherapist, comes from which English city?
Manchester
She is the only daughter in a family of nine children, and claims to be a bit psychic.
Q 04What breed is Martin's dog, Eddie?
Jack Russell Terrier
Eddie was played by a dog called Moose and later by Moose's son, Enzo.
Q 05Which coffee shop do the Crane brothers frequent?
Café Nervosa
It sits alongside the apartment and KACL as one of the show's three main sets.
Q 06How many Primetime Emmy Awards did Frasier win over its run, a record for a scripted series at the time?
37
It beat The Mary Tyler Moore Show's long-standing 29 and held the record until Game of Thrones passed it in 2016.
Q 07Frasier won Outstanding Comedy Series how many years in a row?
Five
The run from 1994 to 1998 is tied with Modern Family for the most consecutive wins in the category.
Q 08Which actress was originally cast as Roz Doyle before being replaced by Peri Gilpin during rehearsals?
Lisa Kudrow
The producers wanted someone who could seem more assertive and take control of Frasier at the station; Kudrow went on to Friends.
Q 09Roz Doyle was named in memory of a producer on which other sitcom from the same creators?
Wings
She died of breast cancer in 1991; Roz was the only main role that required an audition, with about 300 actresses seen.
Q 10Roz Doyle grew up in the small town of Bloomer, in which state?
Wisconsin
Her mother Joanna, played by Eva Marie Saint, is the state's Attorney General.
Q 11Roz names the daughter she has in season five what?
Alice
The father was a 20-year-old college student she had a brief fling with.
Q 12Niles's never-seen first wife is called what?
Maris
She is mentioned in nearly every episode of their marriage yet never appears; her divorce lawyers cost Niles his Mercedes.
Q 13After Maris, Niles briefly marries Mel Karnofsky. What is Mel's profession?
Plastic surgeon
She was Maris's surgeon; the marriage lasts two days before Niles confesses his love for Daphne on the eve of her wedding to Donny.
Where do Niles and his new bride finally elope at the end of season nine?
Q 21Frasier's closing theme, sung by Kelsey Grammer, is called what?
Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs
Composer Bruce Miller was told to avoid mentioning radio or psychiatry; the lyricist chose the title because both are, like patients, "mixed up".
Q 22Frasier's title card shows a white line drawn in the shape of what?
The Seattle skyline
The title colour changed every season, from blue in season one to metallic gold in season eleven.
Q 23How did the celebrity callers on Frasier's radio show record their lines?
Reno, Nevada
Niles had just failed to reconcile Daphne's parents, which left her doubting marriage altogether.
Q 15Niles's vanity licence plate on his Mercedes reads what?
5HR1NK
Frasier drives BMWs; after the divorce Niles is reduced to a Geo Metro he refuses to let Frasier see.
Q 16Niles's IQ is stated to be 156. What is Frasier's?
129
Niles's mysophobia, wiping his hands after any human contact, is traced back to a childhood babysitter, Ronee Lawrence.
Q 17Frasier and Niles's mother Hester named her sons after what?
Her laboratory rats
Hester was a psychiatrist herself; Rita Wilson played her in a Frasier dream sequence.
Q 18The character of Niles was not in the original concept. What prompted the producers to create him?
A casting director spotted David Hyde Pierce's likeness to Grammer
Awkwardly, Frasier had told his Cheers friends he was an only child.
Q 19Before settling on Frasier, the creators pitched Grammer a series in which he would play what?
A rich paraplegic publisher working from his apartment
The wealthy, Malcolm Forbes-like character was to clash with a live-in nurse; Paramount preferred a straight Frasier Crane spin-off.
Q 20Martin Crane was based on creator Peter Casey's father, who spent 34 years with which police department?
San Francisco
NBC told the producers that if they could land John Mahoney he could be hired without an audition; they flew to Chicago with the pilot script.
They phoned their parts in from wherever they were
During filming, anonymous voice actors read the lines; the celebrity versions were dropped in afterwards, and season finales credited them with headshots.
Q 24Kelsey Grammer voiced which Simpsons character, whose brother Cecil is voiced by David Hyde Pierce?
Sideshow Bob
The 1997 episode "Brother from Another Series" even used a Frasier-style title card and theme.
Q 25Frasier co-creator David Angell was killed in what event in 2001?
The September 11 attacks
He and his wife Lynn were aboard American Airlines Flight 11; the baby born in the finale is named David after him.
Q 26Which Cheers regular was the only one to become a recurring Frasier character, in twelve episodes?
Lilith Sternin
Bebe Neuwirth's frosty ex-wife; every surviving Cheers regular except Kirstie Alley's Rebecca turned up at some point.
Q 27In the season nine episode "Cheerful Goodbyes", Frasier returns to Boston for whose retirement party?
Cliff Clavin's
Cliff is retiring to Florida; the Cranes bump into him at the airport and end up with the whole gang.
Q 28Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe hosts which programme on KACL?
The Gonzo Sports Show
Behind the machismo he is terrified of reptiles and once used a pregnant Roz as a human shield.
Q 29Frasier's ruthless agent Bebe Glazer is described by Niles as "Lady Macbeth without the ___"
sincerity
Harriet Sansom Harris played her; she first appears as Bulldog's agent in the season one episode "Selling Out".
Q 30KACL technician Noel Shempsky is a Star Trek fanatic who speaks which fictional language fluently?
Klingon
That skill, along with his Spanish, keeps him employed when the station changes format in season five.