Never Have I Ever
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50 free Never Have I Ever trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Never Have I Ever arrived on Netflix in April 2020 with a 15-year-old Tamil-American sophomore from Sherman Oaks, a dead father, three months of unexplained paralysis, and John McEnroe narrating her every bad decision. Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher built four seasons out of Devi Vishwakumar's grief, rage and romantic chaos, and the show was hailed as a watershed for South Asian representation on American television. This quiz covers the people and places behind the series: the open casting call that found Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, the Oscar-party conversation that landed the narrator, the Caltech lab, the dermatology practice, the robotics team, Ben's absent parents, the Hot Pocket, the guest narrators, the studio where season two was shot, the critics' scores and the finale that sends Devi east. Fifty questions with four options each and a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a watch-party night.
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Q 01Who co-created Never Have I Ever with Mindy Kaling?
Lang Fisher
Lang Fisher, like Kaling, lost a parent unexpectedly, so the pair built the comedy around a teenager grieving her father.
Q 02Which animal does Devi Vishwakumar believe might be her late father reincarnated?
Coyote
Coyote: Devi sees one play with her dad's old tennis ball, and when she drunkenly talks to a coyote, it attacks her.
Q 03Devi lives in which Los Angeles neighbourhood?
Sherman Oaks
Sherman Oaks is in the San Fernando Valley, and the pilot opens with Devi praying to the Hindu gods for a popular sophomore year.
Q 04Who plays Devi Vishwakumar?
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan sent in a video audition, made with a friend's help, after spotting Kaling's casting call on social media.
Q 05Which country did the winner of Mindy Kaling's 15,000-response casting call come from?
Canada
Canada: after her first tape, Kaling's team called her back and brought her to Los Angeles to screen-test in person.
Q 06Which tennis great narrates most of Never Have I Ever?
John McEnroe
John McEnroe was the idol of Devi's late father, which is why a tennis star voices a teenage girl's inner thoughts.
Q 07Devi's family is Indian-American from which linguistic community?
Tamil
Tamil: in the Kaling-written episode about feeling 'super Indian', Devi squirms through a Ganesh Puja celebration with her family.
Q 08What is the name of Devi's late father?
Mohan
Mohan: in the season 1 finale Devi, her mother and Kamala scatter his ashes at the beach, and Devi agrees to move back home.
Q 09At which school event does Devi's father die suddenly in Never Have I Ever's backstory?
Orchestra concert
Orchestra concert: the shock then left Devi psychologically paralysed and unable to walk for three months.
Q 10What is Nalini Vishwakumar's profession?
Dermatologist
A dermatologist: when lonely Ben Gross breaks down while she treats his pimple, Nalini invites him home for a family dinner.
Q 11Devi's cousin Kamala is completing a PhD at which institution?
Caltech
Caltech: her lab's research article credits everyone but Kamala until, inspired by Devi, she puts her own name on it.
Q 12Who is the engineer Kamala's family sets her up with for an arranged marriage?
Prashant
Prashant: he and Kamala really do like each other, but she runs out of their dinner because she isn't ready to marry.
Q 13What does Kamala hide from her family in Never Have I Ever's first season?
A secret boyfriend
A secret boyfriend, Steve: she dumps him over her arranged match, then takes him back after a Riverdale scene inspires her.
Q 21Aneesa, who arrives in Never Have I Ever's second season, practises which faith?
Islam
Islam: a jealous Devi starts a rumour that Aneesa is anorexic, unaware that it is true and the reason she switched schools.
Q 22Which rapper and actor plays Dr. Chris Jackson, Nalini's love interest in Never Have I Ever?
Common
Common plays Dr. Jackson, a star doctor who laughs off Nalini's offer to sell him her patients before the two fall for each other.
Q 23Manish Kulkarni, who ends up with Kamala, teaches which subject at Devi's school?
English
English: Manish has his class stage a mock trial over whether The Great Gatsby's Daisy Buchanan was responsible for Gatsby's murder.
Q 14Devi's friend Fabiola is a member of which school team?
Robotics
Robotics: Fabiola captains the team until she skips so many meetings to spend time with Eve that Eric tells her she's out as captain.
Q 15Where does Paxton say he saw Eleanor's mother working?
A restaurant
A restaurant: Eleanor believed Joyce was acting on a cruise ship, but she had been back in town for months without a word.
Q 16Paxton captained which school sport before a car accident ended his career in it?
Swimming
Swimming: Paxton blames Devi for the broken arm that ends his swimming-scholarship hopes, and makes her do his homework.
Q 17Where does Paxton enrol after graduating from high school?
Arizona State University
Arizona State University: Paxton quits it to work at his old high school, then goes back to college at the end of the series.
Q 18What does Ben Gross's father do for a living?
Entertainment lawyer
An entertainment lawyer, and one so absent that Ben is left mostly in the care of the family housekeeper.
Q 19Which popular student dates Ben Gross for his money in Never Have I Ever's first season?
Shira
Shira: Ben knows she only likes his money, yet he keeps dating her because being with her raises his social standing.
Q 20Who plays Devi's therapist, Dr. Jamie Ryan?
Niecy Nash
Niecy Nash plays Dr. Ryan, the therapist Devi at first stubbornly refuses to talk to about her father's death.
Q 24Malcolm Stone, a transfer student in Never Have I Ever, was formerly a child actor for which company?
Disney
Disney: the former child star turns Eleanor against Devi and Fabiola when they suspect he is cheating, then dumps her anyway.
Q 25Which university has Devi dreamed of attending since childhood?
Princeton
Princeton: rejected by every other Ivy and waitlisted there, Devi writes an essay about her father and finally gets in.
Q 26Fabiola ultimately enrols where, turning down Devi's dream school?
Howard University
Howard University: Fabiola had got into Devi's dream school while Devi was deferred, and at first she hid it from her friend.
Q 27Where does Kamala move for a promotion at the end of Never Have I Ever?
Baltimore
Baltimore: Kamala first turns her advisor's offer down to stay and protect the family, until Nalini urges her to take it.
Q 28Who plays Len, who marries Devi's grandmother in Never Have I Ever's finale?
Jeff Garlin
Jeff Garlin plays Len, whom Kamala suspects of scheming to take her grandmother's money, until she is proven wrong.
Q 29Who plays Ethan Morales, the rebellious senior Devi briefly dates in Never Have I Ever's final season?
Michael Cimino
Michael Cimino plays Ethan, the 'bad boy' Devi dumps after he steals the wallet of a visiting college representative.
Q 30Why does Des's mother Rhyah tell him to break up with Devi?
She 'has too many problems'
She 'has too many problems', says Rhyah, and Nalini storms back that Devi does not have problems, she has survived something unimaginable.