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126 free Modern Family trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
30 free Modern Family trivia questions with answers. Are you a true Modern Family fan? Put your knowledge to the test with our 126-question trivia quiz covering characters, memorable moments, and behind-the-scenes facts. From the Pritchett family to the Dunphys, see how well you remember this beloved ABC comedy series that ran for 11 seasons.
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Q 01On Modern Family, Jay Pritchett's company, which his daughter Claire later runs, makes what?
Closets and blinds
Closets and blinds: Jay built the firm from scratch after his partner Earl Chambers walked out on their first closet company and badmouthed him to half their clients.
Q 02In what city is 'Modern Family' primarily set?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is also where the show films, so faithfully that Luke and Manny attend the real public high school their Westside neighbourhood would send them to.
Q 03What is Phil Dunphy's profession?
Real Estate Agent
Real Estate Agent: Phil sells houses with relentless optimism, and late in the series he takes on Gloria as his intern and then as his business partner.
Q 04Mitchell and Cameron's daughter Lily was partly named after which animal from Cam's farm childhood?
A pig
A pig: Cam's childhood pet was a sow he called his Aunt Lily, and years later Mitchell knocks over the urn holding her ashes and stages a cover-up rather than confess.
Q 05Who plays Jay Pritchett, the Pritchett family patriarch?
Ed O'Neill
Ed O'Neill got the part only after talks with Craig T. Nelson fell through, and took it for less than his usual fee because, he said, he had a feeling about the show.
Q 06Modern Family anchored its network's comedy line-up on which night?
Wednesday
Wednesday: the pilot aired on 23 September 2009, and by February 2010 the show was the centrepiece of its network's Wednesday comedy night and already renewed for a second season.
Q 07Which Benjamin Bratt character is Gloria's ex-husband?
Javier
Javier Delgado dazzles everyone on his rare visits, Jay included, which is why Jay grumbles that the thrill-seeker is really just a dad who doesn't show up.
Q 08Which university did Alex Dunphy attend from season 7?
Caltech
Caltech: Alex leaves for college in season 7 sooner than her parents expect, so it is Haley, of all people, who settles her into the dorm and hands out the advice.
Q 09What is Gloria Pritchett's country of origin?
Colombia
Colombia is Gloria's homeland, and when her mother and sister fly in for baby Joe's christening they bring its traditions with them, plus a family name Jay can't stand.
Q 10Which comedy ended Modern Family's run of five straight Outstanding Comedy Series Emmys in 2015?
Veep
Veep took the 2015 prize and kept it for three years running, so Modern Family, nominated each time, never won the award again.
Q 11What is the name of the dog that becomes a beloved member of the Pritchett family?
Stella
Stella is Jay's beloved dog; he dotes on her more than on Gloria, and after retiring he launches a dog-bed business named after her.
Q 12What is Cameron's classically trained clown persona called?
Fizbo
Fizbo first appears at Luke's birthday party in season 1, and on the way there the clown-suited Cam faces down a man menacing Mitchell at a gas station, to Mitchell's amazement.
Q 13On Modern Family, Jay and Gloria's son Joe goes by his middle name; what is his first name?
Fulgencio
Fulgencio is the family name Gloria's mother insists on at the christening; Jay gives in and agrees to Fulgencio Joseph, then tells Gloria they are never going to call him that.
Q 21Alex Dunphy's scientific research later takes her to a posting on which continent?
Antarctica
Antarctica: Alex opens the final season on a research internship there, and by the next episode she is home again, in time to help catch Claire faking an illness.
Q 22Which alias does Phil use for Valentine's role-play with Claire?
Clive Bixby
Clive Bixby is Phil's smooth-talking visiting businessman; his seduction of Claire's 'Julianna' ends with her coat, and nothing under it, leaving the pair trapped on an escalator.
Q 23In season 1, the whole family turns out to watch Manny excel at which sport?
Fencing
Fencing: Manny reaches the final, then announces his retirement rather than face a girl, until Gloria tells him that refusing to fight her is the real insult.
Q 14Which hobby does Phil Dunphy pursue with the most enthusiasm on Modern Family?
Magic
Magic is Phil's lifelong passion: he performs tricks whenever the family gathers, and late in the series he goes as far as owning his own magic shop.
Q 15Where do the Pritchetts and Dunphys holiday late in season 1, when Phil and Claire renew their vows?
Hawaii
Hawaii: Phil springs the vow renewal on Claire there because they never had a proper wedding or honeymoon, Claire having been pregnant with Haley when they married.
Q 16Which lifestyle company hires Haley Dunphy as a style editor late in Modern Family's run?
NERP
NERP hires Haley in season 9, after she barges into Alex's college class to get help preparing for her interview with the pseudoscience-peddling brand.
Q 17In season 1, Jay accidentally kills Manny's pet turtle and blames which animal for the crime?
A raccoon
A raccoon is Jay's scapegoat: after a poster he hangs falls and crushes the turtle, he fakes a break-in complete with claw marks, until Gloria sees through it and makes him confess.
Q 18Cameron grew up on a farm in which state?
Missouri
Missouri is where Cam grew up on the family farm, and where the series leaves him: in the finale he, Mitchell and the children move there so he can coach college football.
Q 19Which Modern Family actor won the cast's first Emmy, in 2010, for an episode about their character's clown act?
Eric Stonestreet
Eric Stonestreet won for an episode drawn from his own childhood: as a boy in Kansas he invented a clown act and was performing it at younger children's birthday parties by the age of 11.
Q 20What does Phil Dunphy call the book of fatherly maxims he gives Haley?
Phil's-osophy
Phil's-osophy is the homemade book of life lessons Phil hands Haley as he drops her at college; mortified by her parents that day, she phones later to thank them, leaving all three in tears.
Q 24Cameron was a starting center on the football team of which university?
Illinois
Illinois football is the one thing Cam and Jay bond over, much to Mitchell's envy, and the sport later becomes Cam's career when he takes a job as a high-school football coach.
Q 25On Modern Family, what breed is Jay's dog, introduced in the season 2 episode 'Good Cop Bad Dog'?
French Bulldog
French Bulldog: Jay dotes on her, so it is a blow when baby Joe's rash is blamed on the dog and she is sent away for a week, until the culprit turns out to be Gloria's face cream.
Q 26Lily, adopted by Mitchell and Cameron, was born in which country?
Vietnam
Vietnam is Lily's birthplace, and when she grows curious about where she comes from, her fathers decide to teach her about her heritage with a trip to a Vietnamese restaurant.
Q 27Which Modern Family cast member won acting Emmys for the show in both 2011 and 2014?
Ty Burrell
Ty Burrell won as Phil both times; the creators already knew him from Back to You, their short-lived sitcom, and cast him again a year after it was cancelled.
Q 28Modern Family is filmed in which style?
Mockumentary
Mockumentary: the format shaped where the show landed, since one interested network would not commit as heavily as its rival, having so little experience with single-camera comedy.
Q 29Modern Family's five straight Outstanding Comedy Series Emmys matched a record set in the 1990s by which sitcom?
Frasier
Frasier won five in a row from 1994 to 1998, and the link is personal: Modern Family co-creator Christopher Lloyd was one of Frasier's producers, so the record his show tied was one he had helped set.
Q 30As Modern Family ends, what is left on at the Dunphy house?
The porch light
The porch light stays on because Phil has just told Claire they must always leave it on, so that the children, all moving out at once, know they can come back.