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Q 01What is Phoebe Buffay's day job on Friends?
Masseuse
Masseuse: Phoebe rails against chain spas for taking work from independents like her, then is caught working at one when Rachel turns up with a gift certificate.
Q 02What is Joey Tribbiani's signature pickup line?
How you doin'?
"How you doin'?" is Joey's whole method, as he explains to Rachel in season four: look a woman up and down and say it. He tries it on a scoffing Phoebe, who giggles despite herself.
Q 03What is Monica's profession for most of Friends?
Chef
Chef: Monica is offered the head chef job at Alessandro's, a restaurant she has just savaged in a review for a neighbourhood paper.
Q 04In the Friends opening credits, what do the six friends dance and splash about in?
A fountain
A fountain: it was not in New York at all but on the Warner Bros. Ranch in California, a backlot set also seen in Bewitched and Hocus Pocus.
Q 05What are the first names of Ross and Monica's parents?
Jack and Judy
Jack and Judy Geller dote on Ross: Judy can forget Monica exists, and Jack once used boxes of her childhood things to keep rainwater off his Porsche, then gave her the car to make amends.
Q 06What is Phoebe's most famous song?
Smelly Cat
Smelly Cat gets a music video in season two, but the producer secretly dubs another woman's voice over Phoebe's, and Phoebe is the last to realise she isn't the one singing.
Q 07What is Ross Geller's profession?
Paleontologist
Paleontologist: Ross is forced to take time off from his museum after exploding at a colleague who ate his sandwich, and he later moves into teaching the subject at university.
Q 08What phrase does Ross repeatedly shout while trying to move a couch up the stairs?
PIVOT!
Ross yells "Pivot!" on the stairwell in The One with the Cop; the sofa ends up cut in half, and the store offers him four dollars of credit for it.
Q 09Which actor plays Richard Burke, the eye doctor Monica dates on Friends?
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck plays Richard, a friend of Monica's father who is 21 years her senior; they split because she longs for a family and he has already raised one.
Q 10What is the name of Joey's stuffed penguin?
Hugsy
Joey's bedtime penguin is Hugsy; in season nine he buys Ross and Rachel's baby her own Hugsy but cannot bear to part with the original.
Q 11Which language does Gunther unexpectedly turn out to speak fluently on Friends?
Dutch
Gunther speaks fluent Dutch; in The One with the Stain he calls Ross an 'ezel' (donkey) to his face in Dutch.
Q 12Which Friends cast member was the first to be cast?
David Schwimmer
David Schwimmer was cast first: the creators had worked with him before and wrote Ross, the lovable neurotic of the six, with him in mind.
Q 13What is the name of Ross's first wife who leaves him for another woman?
Carol
Carol leaves Ross for Susan and then tells him she is pregnant with his child, so all three end up at the sonogram arguing over whose surname the baby should carry.
Q 21On which real game show does Joey appear as a celebrity guest in season 10?
Pyramid
Pyramid: with Donny Osmond hosting, Joey hears the clues 'you put this in your coffee' and 'it's white' and shouts 'Paper! Snow! A ghost!' instead of cream.
Q 22In which city does Ross marry Emily Waltham?
London
Ross marries Emily in London and says Rachel's name at the altar; Phoebe stays behind in New York because Lisa Kudrow was too heavily pregnant to fly.
Q 23What does Joey refuse to share, as he roars in a famous Friends outburst?
Food
Food: after his date Sarah takes a few of his fries, he won't call her again and roars 'Joey doesn't share food!' at Phoebe, who set them up.
Q 14What name does Monica give up so it can go to Ross and Rachel's daughter?
Emma
Monica had been saving the name Emma for her own future daughter and hands it over to an indecisive Rachel in The One Where Rachel Has a Baby.
Q 15What is Janice's iconic catchphrase?
'Oh... my... God!'
'Oh... my... God!' comes with a braying laugh that Maggie Wheeler invented at the first rehearsal, so she could laugh at Matthew Perry's jokes without breaking character.
Q 16What animal does Ross own as a pet that eventually has to go to the zoo?
A monkey
Ross's pet is a capuchin monkey named Marcel; he is sent to a zoo after reaching sexual maturity and later resurfaces as a movie star.
Q 17What soap opera does Joey star in?
Days of Our Lives
Days of Our Lives is a real soap, running since 1965; Joey's character is dropped down an elevator shaft after Joey tells an interviewer that he writes his own lines.
Q 18What does Phoebe drive around New York on Friends?
A taxi
A taxi: in the finale Phoebe's reckless driving gets Ross to the airport in it, where the two have to buy a ticket just to get past security and look for Rachel's flight.
Q 19What is the name of Phoebe's twin sister?
Ursula
Lisa Kudrow was already playing Ursula on Mad About You, so the writers made her Phoebe's twin.
Q 20Which city's job offer nearly takes Rachel away from Ross at the end of Friends?
Paris
Rachel accepts a Louis Vuitton job in Paris; Ross races to the airport, and in the finale's last minutes she gets off the plane.
Q 24In which city do a drunk Ross and Rachel marry on Friends?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas: Ross and Rachel stumble out of a chapel married at the end of season five, and because he can't face a third divorce he secretly skips the annulment.
Q 25Which animals does Phoebe say Ross and Rachel are on Friends, because they mate for life?
Lobsters
Lobsters, Phoebe insists, fall in love and grow old holding claws in their tank; when Rachel kisses Ross after the prom video, Phoebe says, 'See, he's her lobster.'
Q 26Who does Phoebe marry in the final season of Friends?
Mike Hannigan
Mike Hannigan marries Phoebe in the snow-covered street outside the coffee house, after a freak blizzard wrecks the wedding they had planned.
Q 27In The One with the Embryos, what name is on Chandler and Joey's TV Guide label?
Chanandler Bong
The TV Guide at Chandler and Joey's is addressed to Chanandler Bong; Chandler insists it is actually 'Miss Chanandler Bong', a question from The One with the Embryos.
Q 28What do Monica and Chandler name their adopted twins?
Jack and Erica
Jack and Erica arrive in the finale as a shock: Monica and Chandler were expecting one baby, and they name the surprise second, a girl, after her birth mother.
Q 29What is Monica's catchphrase?
I know!
"I know!" is Monica's high-pitched cry of agreement; in season five she and Rachel swap catchphrases over an answering-machine message, Monica wailing 'Noooo!' and Rachel squealing 'I know!'
Q 30What do Ross and Monica call the old school dance number they revive to get on TV on Friends?
The Routine
The Routine wins them a place on the dancers' platform at last, but only because the director wants the cameras to catch it for the bloopers show.