My Big Fat Greek Wedding Trivia
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49 free My Big Fat Greek Wedding trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding cost $5 million, never topped the box office for a single weekend, and still became the highest-grossing romantic comedy in American history. This quiz covers the whole franchise. Forty-two questions take in Toula Portokalos and Ian Miller, Gus and Maria, Aunt Voula, Dancing Zorba's, the pottery-class cover story, the baptism, the ugly bridesmaid dresses and the house next door. Behind the scenes there is Nia Vardalos's one-woman show, the executives who wanted the family made Hispanic, Rita Wilson dragging Tom Hanks to see it, John Corbett being cast in a Toronto bar, the East York house that played the Portokalos home, the Oscar nomination and the lawsuits over Hollywood accounting. The 2003 sitcom, the 2016 sequel with its unsigned marriage certificate, and the 2023 trip to Gus's village all get questions too. Easy questions ask which city the family lives in; hard ones want the Second City connection and the film that finally beat its 'never number one' record. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films and cast, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In My Big Fat Greek Wedding, which household product does Gus believe can cure almost any ailment?
Windex
Windex. Gus sprays it on everything from a rash to a swollen toe, and the gag pays off on the wedding day, when Ian admits he used it to clear a pimple.
Q 02In which city is My Big Fat Greek Wedding set?
Chicago
Chicago. Much of what is on screen is a stand-in: the film was largely shot in Toronto, which is where the Portokalos family house really stands.
Q 03What is the name of the Portokalos family restaurant?
Dancing Zorba's
Dancing Zorba's. Ian later suggests it for a date as a great Greek place he knows, with no idea that her family owns it or that she once served him there.
Q 04Gus has long told Toula she is starting to look what?
Old
Old. He has said it since she was 15, because to him a nice Greek girl has three jobs in life: marry a Greek boy, make Greek babies and feed everyone until she dies.
Q 05What is Toula's full first name?
Fotoula
Fotoula. Growing up she longed to blend in: she remembers herself as a swarthy six-year-old with sideburns among the delicate blonde girls at school.
Q 06What is Ian Miller's job?
High school teacher
High school teacher. By the 2016 sequel he has risen to principal, at the very school where his teenage daughter is trying to escape her family's attention.
Q 07What does Toula tell her parents she wants to study at college?
Computers
Computers. Gus weeps that she wants to leave him and argues she is already smart enough for a girl, at which point Maria takes over the fight and wins it.
Q 08After her makeover, Toula goes to work at which of Aunt Voula's businesses?
The travel agency
The travel agency. Her mother and aunt stage the conversation so that Gus proposes the move himself and goes away believing it was all his idea.
Q 09What does Toula fear Ian will remember her as from the restaurant?
'Frump girl'
'Frump girl'. Ian's answer is that he doesn't remember Frump Girl at all: the person he remembers from that day at the restaurant is simply her.
Q 10What class does Toula pretend to be taking as a cover for seeing Ian?
Pottery
Pottery. Gus approves at once, since the Greeks invented pottery, but the cover is blown when a family friend spots the couple kissing in a car park.
Q 11What does Ian agree to do to win over Toula's family?
Be baptised into the Greek church
Be baptised into the Greek church. Toula is sure he will decide she is not worth it, but he comes out of the ceremony covered in oil and announces, 'I'm Greek now.'
Q 12What mistake appears on the wedding invitations?
Ian's mother's name is misspelled
Ian's mother's name is misspelled. Harriet is printed as 'Harry', and the relative who ordered the invitations reasons that she never noticed, so the Millers won't either.
Q 13What gift do Gus and Maria reveal at the wedding reception?
Q 21What do Ian's parents bring to the Portokalos party that baffles Maria?
A Bundt cake
A Bundt cake. Maria puzzles over the word, thanks her guests warmly, then confides in alarm that there's a hole in this cake.
Q 22What was unusual about My Big Fat Greek Wedding's $241 million US box-office run?
It never reached number one
It never reached number one. No film had earned so much in America without once topping the weekly chart, a record it kept until the 2016 cartoon Sing overtook it.
Q 23Aunt Voula tells Ian's startled parents that a lump she had removed turned out to contain what?
Her twin
A house for Toula and Ian
A house for Toula and Ian. The catch only becomes clear in the epilogue: the generous gift stands right next door to her parents' own home.
Q 14My Big Fat Greek Wedding ends with Toula and Ian walking their daughter to what?
Her first day of Greek school
Her first day of Greek school. She would rather go to Brownies, just as Toula once wished, so her mother promises her the one freedom she fought for: to marry whoever she wants.
Q 15My Big Fat Greek Wedding was shot in Toronto, but Nia Vardalos based it on her own family in which Canadian city?
Winnipeg
Winnipeg. She built the show by asking friends which of her family stories were the funniest, then strung them around her own wedding of the year before.
Q 16Which actress of Greek heritage saw the stage show in Los Angeles and went on to produce My Big Fat Greek Wedding?
Rita Wilson
Rita Wilson. She told Vardalos the show nailed what it is like to grow up Greek, lent her name to a bigger staging and then helped get the film made.
Q 17Executives who wanted to buy Nia Vardalos's stage show planned to give her role to which actress?
Marisa Tomei
Marisa Tomei. Vardalos pointed out that Tomei is Italian rather than Greek, turned the offer down and set about adapting the show herself so that she could keep the part.
Q 18When Aunt Voula hears that Ian is a vegetarian, what does she offer to cook him instead?
Lamb
Lamb. The news that he eats no meat stops the whole party dead, until she waves the problem away: that's okay, she will make lamb.
Q 19Challenged by a schoolgirl, Gus 'proves' that which Japanese word really comes from Greek?
Kimono
Kimono. He derives it from the Greek word for winter, on the grounds that a robe is what you put on to keep warm when it is cold.
Q 20What was My Big Fat Greek Wedding's production budget?
$5 million
$5 million. On that budget it sold about $370 million of cinema tickets around the world, which makes it one of the most profitable films ever released.
Her twin. She caps the story by reporting that the doctor found teeth and a spinal cord inside, then cheerfully raises a glass to her horrified new in-laws.
Q 24My Big Fat Greek Wedding received its only Academy Award nomination in which category?
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay. Executives who wanted the story had told Nia Vardalos she had never written a screenplay, so she taught herself by poring over old film scripts.
Q 25Joel Zwick spent decades directing what before My Big Fat Greek Wedding?
Sitcoms
Sitcoms. He came from Laverne & Shirley, Perfect Strangers and Full House, and the critics' consensus on Rotten Tomatoes is that his film sometimes feels like a television sitcom.
Q 26Which member of NSYNC appears in My Big Fat Greek Wedding as cousin Angelo?
Joey Fatone
Joey Fatone. He has come back as Angelo for the TV spin-off and both sequels, and the second film reveals that the character's business partner is also his boyfriend.
Q 27Michael Constantine, who plays Gus, won an Emmy in 1970 for playing a principal on which series?
Room 222
Room 222. Constantine's own given name was Gus: the son of Greek immigrants spent five seasons as that school's weary principal, then found late fame playing his namesake.
Q 28Andrea Martin, who plays Aunt Voula, is a two-time Tony winner best known for which sketch series?
SCTV
SCTV. She played Edith Prickley, the leopard-print boss of its fictional TV station, and wrote as well as performed: her two Emmys from the show are for its scripts.
Q 29John Corbett first made his name as DJ Chris Stevens on which 1990s series?
Northern Exposure
Northern Exposure. By the time he played Ian he was also Carrie's boyfriend Aidan on Sex and the City, a show he admits he had never watched before he was offered the part.
Q 30Nia Vardalos honed her comedy at which improv troupe, the training ground of many Saturday Night Live stars?
The Second City
The Second City. By her own account she was working in its box office when a performer called in sick; she said she knew the show, went on that night and was hired the next day.