The King of Queens Trivia
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100 free The King of Queens trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
44 free The King of Queens trivia questions with answers. The King of Queens ran nine seasons and 207 episodes on CBS, and its reruns have never really stopped. This King of Queens trivia quiz covers Doug and Carrie Heffernan's Rego Park house, Arthur in the basement, the IPS depot, Cooper's, Deacon and Kelly, Spence, Danny, Holly the dog walker, Lou Ferrigno next door and Ray Barone's crossover visits. It also digs into the details fans argue about: Doug's secret Canadian birth, Carrie's real first name, the sister who vanished after season one, why Richie left, Billy Vera's theme song, Kevin James's Emmy episode, and everything in the China Syndrome finale from the vegetable-crisper passport to Arthur's return to the basement. About a third of the questions are for casual rerun watchers, a third for regulars, and the rest for people who know Spence's birthday. Every answer is checked against a cited source shown under the question.
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Q 01On which network did The King of Queens air from 1998 to 2007?
CBS
CBS landed the show only after NBC, which had developed the pilot, passed on it; it then ran for nine seasons, mostly as a Monday-night staple.
Q 02What did Kevin James first try on Long Island in 1989?
Stand-up comedy
Stand-up comedy: Kevin James had played college football at SUNY Cortland before he first tried it at a Long Island club in 1989 and traded sport for punchlines.
Q 03Who plays Carrie Heffernan on The King of Queens?
Leah Remini
Leah Remini grew up in Brooklyn, and for a show called The King of Queens, none of its three lead actors actually came from Queens.
Q 04In which Queens neighbourhood do the Heffernans live?
Rego Park
Rego Park is home to the Heffernans' made-up address, 3121 Aberdeen Street, but the house seen on screen actually stands across the Hudson in Cliffside Park, New Jersey.
Q 05What is the full name of the delivery company Doug Heffernan drives for?
International Parcel Service
International Parcel Service, IPS for short, is the show's thinly veiled UPS, and Doug drives its trucks until the final episodes, when he quits for a sales job at Carrie's urging.
Q 06What is Carrie Heffernan's job for most of The King of Queens?
Legal secretary
Legal secretary at a Manhattan law firm is Carrie's job for most of the run; after the firm lets her go, she lands a new post at a real-estate company.
Q 07Who plays Carrie's father Arthur Spooner?
Jerry Stiller
Jerry Stiller planned to retire after Seinfeld, but Kevin James begged him to take the part, telling him he couldn't do the show without him.
Q 08Why does Arthur move in with the Heffernans in the pilot?
He burns down his own house
He burns down his own house, which turns out to be uninsured, so he takes over the den where Doug had just set up his prized 70-inch TV.
Q 09Who plays Doug's best friend and co-worker Deacon Palmer?
Victor Williams
Victor Williams plays Deacon, the level-headed family man of the group, until he is caught seeing another woman in season three and his marriage to Kelly breaks up for a while.
Q 10Which comedian plays the nerdy Spence Olchin?
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt once stood completely motionless through an entire opening scene at Doug's 40th birthday party, an in-joke the writers set up to see whether anyone would notice.
Q 11Gary Valentine plays Doug's cousin Danny, but what is he to Kevin James in real life?
Brother
Brother: Gary Valentine is Kevin James's older brother, and the surnames differ because each invented a stage name, Gary borrowing their father's middle name.
Q 12What does Holly Shumpert do for a living on The King of Queens?
Dog walker
Dog walker: Doug and Carrie are so worn down by Arthur that they pay Holly to take him along on her daily rounds with the dogs.
Q 13Which celebrity plays himself as the Heffernans' next-door neighbour on The King of Queens?
Lou Ferrigno
Lou Ferrigno plays himself from the third season on, and the running joke is that his neighbours can't stop making Incredible Hulk cracks, which he can't stand.
Q 21Which band performs The King of Queens theme song?
Billy Vera and the Beaters
Billy Vera and the Beaters sing 'Baby All My Life I Will Be Driving Home to You', which arrived in season two; the first season opened with only an eight-second shot of a passing subway window.
Q 22In one season-three episode, why are Doug and Deacon stuck at home for weeks?
Their union is on strike
Their union is on strike, and by the third week the idle pair have teamed up with Arthur as a trio of pranksters, driving Carrie and Kelly up the wall.
Q 23Who created The King of Queens?
Q 14Kevin James's guest spots on which comedian's sitcom led to The King of Queens?
Ray Romano
Ray Romano gave his friend a recurring part on Everybody Loves Raymond, which led to the new show, and later returned the favour by playing Ray Barone in four King of Queens episodes.
Q 15Where do Doug and Carrie fly to in the finale of The King of Queens?
China
China is where the Heffernans race each other to collect the baby girl they are adopting, only for Carrie to discover on the trip that she is pregnant as well.
Q 16Arthur Spooner's actor was already famous for playing which Seinfeld character?
Frank Costanza
Frank Costanza, the inventor of Festivus, revived the actor's career in his sixties, and like Arthur he was a short-fused father from Queens.
Q 17Whom does Arthur marry in the King of Queens finale after his intended bride walks out?
Veronica, Spence's mother
Veronica, Spence's mother, says yes after Arthur, jilted minutes before the ceremony, refuses to call the wedding off and proposes to her on the spot.
Q 18In the King of Queens finale, which game show does Doug stay home watching rather than attend Arthur's wedding?
The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right keeps a sulking Doug on the couch, yelling at the contestants' bids, until Deacon turns up and hauls him to the ceremony anyway.
Q 19On his 40th birthday, what does Doug Heffernan decide he finally wants to do?
Riding a roller coaster
Riding a roller coaster he once chickened out of is Doug's answer when Carrie presses him, on his 40th birthday, to want more from his life.
Q 20What is Spence Olchin's day job on The King of Queens?
Subway token clerk
Subway token clerk Spence is the group's sickly science-fiction fan, and once he moves in with Danny the two are soon bickering like an old married couple.
Michael J. Weithorn and David Litt
Michael J. Weithorn and David Litt wrote the pilot together, and Weithorn closed the circle nine years later by writing the double-length finale himself.
Q 24Which pub-restaurant is the regular hangout on The King of Queens?
Cooper's
Cooper's was modelled on a real Queens ale house, since renamed Yerman's Irish Pub, though the gang's scenes there were recreated on a studio set.
Q 25Where was Doug Heffernan born, a fact he only discovers in season five?
Montreal
Montreal: Doug's overprotective parents had kept his Canadian birth from him all his life, and the secret finally slips out when he goes to visit them.
Q 26What was Carrie Heffernan's original first name on The King of Queens?
Simone
Simone was her given name until Arthur staked it in a poker game when she was small and lost, which is how she came to be called Carrie instead.
Q 27Which King of Queens character was quietly written out in season three so his actor could join another sitcom?
Richie Iannucci
Richie Iannucci vanished when Larry Romano left to star in the NBC sitcom Kristin, which was cancelled after only six episodes; cousin Danny was promoted to fill the gap.
Q 28Which King of Queens character vanished after the first season and was later treated as if she had never existed?
Sara Spooner
Sara Spooner, Carrie's half-sister, was dropped because, as Kevin James later explained, the writers could not think of storylines for her.
Q 29Which talk-show host plays Doug's sister Stephanie on The King of Queens?
Ricki Lake
Ricki Lake plays Stephanie as a gym teacher convinced their parents favour Doug, who once takes a substitute-teaching job at her school and manages to get himself fired.
Q 30Which university did Deacon Palmer attend on The King of Queens?
St. John's University
St. John's University, a real campus in Queens, is Deacon's alma mater, which makes him a college graduate who spends the series driving a delivery truck alongside Doug.