Laverne & Shirley Trivia
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58 free Laverne & Shirley trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
This Laverne and Shirley trivia quiz covers all eight seasons of the Happy Days spin-off, from the basement apartment and the bottle-capping line in late-1950s Wisconsin to the gift-wrap counter after the gang moved west. Expect questions on the hopscotch chant that opens every episode, Laverne's monogram and her drink of choice, Shirley's stuffed cat, Carmine's nickname, Frank DeFazio's hangout, and the upstairs neighbours who barge in at the worst possible moment. The easy rounds suit anyone who grew up with the reruns; the harder ones dig into the Army Reserve episodes, the Saturday-morning cartoon with a talking-animal sergeant, the in-character albums, the lawsuit that ended one star's run, and the studio executive who hid a screen-test reel in a closet. It works for a 1970s TV night, a family game with the grandparents, or a solo test of how much you really remember. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia entries on the series and its cast, and each question shows its explanation and source after you answer.
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Q 01On which network did Laverne & Shirley run for its eight seasons?
ABC
ABC aired all eight seasons, mostly on Tuesdays after its parent show; a 1979 switch to Thursdays sent ratings tumbling, and the network moved it back within months.
Q 02Laverne & Shirley was a spin-off of which sitcom?
Happy Days
Happy Days introduced the pair as double dates in a 1975 episode; within two years their spin-off had overtaken it as America's most-watched show.
Q 03What was the name of the brewery where Laverne and Shirley worked?
Shotz
Shotz Brewery was invented for the show, though Pabst and Schlitz were real; its owner's annual talent show gave the cast several song-and-dance episodes.
Q 04In which city was Laverne & Shirley set for its first five seasons?
Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the setting for the first five seasons; the sixth season, starting in late 1980, moved the characters west to California.
Q 05Which actress played Laverne DeFazio?
Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall played Laverne DeFazio for all eight seasons, then turned director: her 1988 comedy Big was the first film directed by a woman to gross over $100 million.
Q 06Which actress played Shirley Feeney?
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams played Shirley Feeney, though she nearly passed on the series: unsure about the spin-off at first, she had to be talked into it.
Q 07What job did Laverne and Shirley do at the brewery?
Bottle-cappers
Bottle-cappers on the brewery's assembly line, the pair lost those jobs in season six when automated capping machines replaced them, prompting the move west.
Q 08Michael McKean and David Lander created Lenny and Squiggy as students at which Pittsburgh university?
Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon, then called Carnegie Tech, is where McKean and Lander met as freshmen; they played the pair for years in the troupe The Credibility Gap before the sitcom hired them as writers.
Q 09With which single word, said in a dopey voice, does Squiggy make almost every entrance?
"Hello"
"Hello" is Squiggy's nasal greeting as he and Lenny barge in, usually just as the women finish describing something disgusting.
Q 10What is the name of Shirley's beloved stuffed cat?
Boo Boo Kitty
Boo Boo Kitty got its name by accident: the actress playing Shirley forgot a line in rehearsal and blurted out the name of her mother's cat.
Q 11What is Laverne's favourite drink?
Milk and Pepsi
Milk and Pepsi came from real life: the actress playing Laverne drank it as a child, after her mother poured the soda into an unrinsed milk glass.
Q 12What nickname did Shirley's boyfriend Carmine go by?
The Big Ragu
The Big Ragu, Carmine Ragusa, was a part-time boxer turned song-and-dance man who followed the gang to California, still chasing his show-business break.
Q 13Which actor played Carmine?
Eddie Mekka
Eddie Mekka played Carmine; a Tony-nominated stage performer, he sang and danced whenever the scripts put the character on stage.
Q 21Which producer created Laverne & Shirley along with Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman?
Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall created the series with Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman and, with no time for a full pilot, sold it on a hastily shot short scene; he later directed Pretty Woman.
Q 22Which studio made the Saturday-morning cartoon Laverne & Shirley in the Army?
Hanna-Barbera
Hanna-Barbera made the 1981 cartoon, with both stars voicing their characters; it grew out of a brief Army Reserve stint in the sitcom's fifth season.
Q 23Which comedian played Alvinia Plout, the drill sergeant who terrorised Laverne and Shirley in the Army?
Vicki Lawrence
Q 14Before the move west, Laverne's father Frank ran which local hangout?
The Pizza Bowl
The Pizza Bowl hosted the gang's get-togethers; when the family went west, Frank traded it for a barbecue restaurant.
Q 15Who played Edna Babish, the landlady who married Laverne's father?
Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett played Edna Babish; a star of three MGM musicals in 1949, she lost years of screen work after her husband, Larry Parks, was blacklisted.
Q 16To which California city did Laverne and Shirley move in the sixth season?
Burbank
Burbank became the setting from season six, with the timeline jumping to the mid-1960s as the pair moved into a new apartment in Southern California.
Q 17After moving to California, Laverne and Shirley took what job at a department store?
Gift wrappers
Gift wrappers at Bardwell's department store, the pair began by wrapping rum-filled chocolates and later plotted a break-in to retrieve a rude note they had sent the boss.
Q 18What is the title of the Laverne & Shirley theme song?
"Making Our Dreams Come True"
"Making Our Dreams Come True" was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox and, released as a single, peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.
Q 19Which singer performed the Laverne & Shirley theme song?
Cyndi Grecco
Cyndi Grecco was singing at a California theme park when the song's writers spotted her and offered her the theme, which became her only chart hit.
Q 20Laverne & Shirley's opening chant runs "Schlemiel, Schlimazel" and then which two-word phrase?
Hasenpfeffer Incorporated
Hasenpfeffer Incorporated ends a hopscotch chant that Laverne's actress recited on her way to school as a child and taught her co-star for the opening credits.
Vicki Lawrence's Sergeant Plout came back a season later as a fugitive: jilted by a general, the tough sergeant had gone AWOL and hid out with her former recruits.
Q 24In the cartoon Laverne & Shirley in the Army, what kind of animal was the pair's drill sergeant?
A pig
A pig named Sergeant Squealy gave the orders in the 1981 cartoon, forever threatening to report the pair to his own superior, Sergeant Turnbuckle.
Q 25Which Welcome Back, Kotter actor voiced the drill sergeant in the Laverne & Shirley cartoon?
Ron Palillo
Ron Palillo, the wheezing class clown Arnold Horshack, voiced the sergeant; in later life the former Sweathog stood at the front of the class himself, as a teacher.
Q 26Michael McKean's Lenny all but vanished from Laverne & Shirley's final season while he made which film?
This Is Spinal Tap
This Is Spinal Tap, the spoof rock documentary, kept McKean off the set, so Lenny turned up in only a few final-season episodes, billed as a guest star.
Q 27What was the title of the 1979 in-character album released by McKean and Lander?
Lenny and the Squigtones
Lenny and the Squigtones came out on Casablanca Records in 1979, once the two sidekicks had grown popular enough to carry an album of songs entirely in character.
Q 28Which future rock-mockumentary character is credited on McKean and Lander's 1979 album?
Nigel Tufnel
Nigel Tufnel is the name under which Christopher Guest was credited as guitarist on the 1979 album, half a decade before the character's 1984 mockumentary.
Q 29The actress who played Shirley quit in 1982 after being scheduled to work on which day?
Her baby's due date
Her baby's due date was written into the contract she was asked to sign, so she refused, sued Paramount for $20 million and settled out of court.
Q 30In Laverne & Shirley's final season, Laverne took a job in which industry?
Aerospace
Aerospace work at Ajax Aerospace soon had Laverne in trouble: she tried out an experimental anti-gravity suit with a co-worker and the test went badly wrong.