How I Met Your Mother
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153 free How I Met Your Mother trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Legen... wait for it... this HIMYM trivia quiz runs 153 free questions with answers across all nine seasons of How I Met Your Mother, from MacLaren's and the blue French horn to Robin Sparkles, the slap bet, the pineapple incident, Barney's real job and the finale that split the fandom. Easy questions cover the cast and catchphrases; the harder ones dig into Robin Daggers, Marvin's middle name, guest stars and the show's production history. It works for a rewatch night, a themed pub quiz or settling arguments in the group chat. Every answer has been checked against a published reference, so the trivia holds up even for people who have seen every episode twice.
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Q 01In the pilot of How I Met Your Mother, what hits Lily in the eye just after Marshall proposes?
A champagne cork
A champagne cork flies into Lily's eye when Marshall opens the bottle to celebrate their engagement, leaving her in an eyepatch.
Q 02On How I Met Your Mother, what does Ted insist his friends hold after learning they scrapped one over his engagement?
An intervention
An intervention was the gang's answer to everything, from Lily's fake British accent to Robin's spray-tan habit, until they held an intervention about holding too many interventions.
Q 03On How I Met Your Mother, which blue instrument does Ted steal from a restaurant for Robin on their first date?
French Horn
Ted's blue French horn bookends the show: stolen from a restaurant in the pilot, it is back in his hands outside Robin's window in the series' final scene.
Q 04Which country is Robin Scherbatsky originally from?
Canada
Robin moved south for a news job, and her past as a teenage pop star becomes a running joke for the gang.
Q 05What was Lily Aldrin's day job for most of How I Met Your Mother?
Kindergarten Teacher
Lily Aldrin was a kindergarten teacher who painted on the side until season eight, when she became art consultant to a millionaire known as The Captain.
Q 06Which band performs 'Hey Beautiful', the theme of How I Met Your Mother, the sitcom created by Carter Bays and Craig Thomas?
The Solids
The Solids count the show's creators, Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, among their members, so the 'Hey Beautiful' theme was written in-house.
Q 07On How I Met Your Mother, which Canadian kids' show had a teenage Robin and Jessica Glitter solving mysteries with math?
Space Teens
Space Teens sent a teenage Robin and Jessica Glitter through space in a curling-stone-shaped ship; when the gang finally watch a tape, they find the script riddled with accidental innuendo.
Q 08What is the first name of Barney Stinson's mother?
Loretta
Loretta Stinson, played by Frances Conroy, raised Barney and James and papered over Barney's lonely childhood with kind lies, which the gang uncover while clearing out her house.
Q 09On How I Met Your Mother, which food sends Marshall on a years-long hunt for a restaurant he can't find again?
A burger
A burger Marshall ate when he first moved to New York was so good that he spends years trying to find the place again; Regis Philbin, a fellow fan of it, joins the hunt.
Q 10Which actor was the uncredited voice of the older Ted who narrates How I Met Your Mother?
Bob Saget
Bob Saget voiced Future Ted without a credit for nine seasons; when the older Ted finally appears on camera in the finale, the show's own lead plays him instead.
Q 11Which actor plays Ted Mosby on screen in How I Met Your Mother?
Josh Radnor
Josh Radnor was a little-known actor when he landed Ted, a character that co-creator Carter Bays modelled loosely on himself.
Q 12Who plays the suit-loving Barney Stinson?
Neil Patrick Harris
Neil Patrick Harris played Barney Stinson, earning four consecutive Emmy nominations for the role from 2007 to 2010 and hosting the 2009 Emmy ceremony himself.
Q 13On How I Met Your Mother, which song is permanently stuck in the tape deck of Marshall's car?
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers is all the stereo will play, because a cassette single of it jammed in the deck; Ted and Marshall loop it on every college road trip.
Q 21In the first-season finale of How I Met Your Mother, what does Ted learn in a last bid to win Robin?
A rain dance
A rain dance is Ted's last resort: with Robin about to leave on a work camping trip, he learns one from a woman with a doctorate in Native American studies, and the storm duly arrives.
Q 22What was Robin's teen-pop stage name, "Robin ___"?
Sparkles
Robin Sparkles was the secret Robin kept from her friends until Barney unearthed her old music video, sure it would be something far more scandalous.
Q 23On How I Met Your Mother, which song first made a teenage Robin a minor pop star back home?
Let's Go to the Mall
Q 14How many episodes aired in total over the run of the series?
208
Nine seasons in the same bar booth: it outlasted most sitcoms of its era by a wide margin.
Q 15What is the title of the one-hour series finale of How I Met Your Mother, aired on March 31, 2014?
Last Forever
'Last Forever' turns on the kids' reaction to the whole story, a scene shot back in 2006 during the second season so the young actors would not visibly age.
Q 16Where was the alternative ending to How I Met Your Mother released?
A DVD box set
A DVD box set of the final season carried the alternative ending, in which Future Ted's voiceover closes the story on his first meeting with the Mother rather than years later.
Q 17In How I Met Your Mother's 2030 frame story, Ted's son is named after which Star Wars hero?
Luke Skywalker
Luke Skywalker gave Ted's son his name, a nod to Ted's love of the original trilogy; viewers only learned the names of Luke and his sister Penny in the final season.
Q 18On How I Met Your Mother, Ted grew up in which Ohio suburb?
Shaker Heights
Co-creator Carter Bays is himself from Shaker Heights, one of many autobiographical touches in the show.
Q 19Marshall Eriksen was born and raised in which Minnesota city?
St. Cloud
St. Cloud is home to the towering Eriksens, among whom 6-foot-4 Marshall is the runt; their Thanksgiving game is 'bask-ice-ball', a no-rules brawl of basketball and ice hockey.
Q 20Robin Scherbatsky was born in which Canadian city?
Vancouver
Fittingly, she is a Vancouver Canucks fan, and actress Cobie Smulders is a Vancouver native too.
'Let's Go to the Mall' was a minor hit that a teenage Robin sang on an endless tour of shopping centres, which is why she can no longer bear to set foot in one.
Q 24What stage surname did Robin adopt for her angry grunge phase, 'Robin ___'?
Daggers
As Robin Daggers she screamed the grunge anthem 'P.S. I Love You'; the persona surfaces in season eight's 'P.S. I Love You' through a mock rock documentary of Canadian celebrities.
Q 25What is the middle name of Marshall and Lily's son Marvin?
Waitforit
Waitforit was Barney's price for getting Marshall back to New York in time for the birth, so the boy is Marvin Waitforit Eriksen.
Q 26Barney's job title 'P.L.E.A.S.E.' finally turns out to stand for what?
Provide Legal Exculpation and Sign Everything
P.L.E.A.S.E. means Provide Legal Exculpation and Sign Everything: Barney was the fall guy for his company's misdeeds while secretly feeding the FBI evidence, revenge on the man who stole his first girlfriend.
Q 27Which actor plays James, Barney's half-brother?
Wayne Brady
Wayne Brady plays James, whose plan to marry Tom and adopt a baby appals Barney until he realises it will make him an uncle.
Q 28Robin's teenage sister Katie is played by which actress?
Lucy Hale
Lucy Hale played Katie in 2007's 'First Time in New York', where the teenager's plans with her boyfriend set the gang swapping stories of their own first times; Pretty Little Liars later made Hale a star.
Q 29On How I Met Your Mother, which set of rules does Barney cite to govern how male friends treat each other?
The Bro Code
The Bro Code, which Barney quotes whenever it suits him, jumped off the screen when the show's writers published it as a real book credited to Barney Stinson.
Q 30Which girlfriend left Ted at the altar on How I Met Your Mother to go back to her ex, Tony?
Stella
Stella Zinman, the dermatologist played by Sarah Chalke, left Ted at the altar for her ex Tony, who later turned it into the movie The Wedding Bride.