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171 free New Girl trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free New Girl trivia questions with answers. Are you a true New Girl fan? Test your knowledge of Jess Day, her quirky roommates, and all the unforgettable moments from the beloved Fox sitcom. From Schmidt's designer obsessions to Winston's hilarious antics, see how much you really remember about the show that ran from 2011 to 2018.
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Q 01Jess lands a substitute-teaching job at which middle school, later becoming its vice principal?
Coolidge
Coolidge Middle School is where Jess teaches and later becomes vice principal; Coach joins the staff as a gym and health teacher, and its ban on administrator-teacher romance complicates her relationship with Ryan.
Q 02What is the apartment number of the loft where the main characters live?
4D
4D is the loft's number; in the series finale Nick and Jess finally move out of it, but not before one last game of True American with the gang.
Q 03What is the name of Winston Bishop's beloved pet cat?
Furguson
Furguson first belonged to Winston's girlfriend Daisy; when he learns she is seeing someone else, he ends things and keeps the cat for himself.
Q 04What is the name of the bar where Nick Miller works and later co-owns?
The Griffin
The Griffin is where Nick tends bar and where Cece, a novice at mixing drinks, later joins him behind the counter; he and Schmidt eventually buy into the place as co-owners.
Q 05Schmidt's first name, kept secret until late in season 6, turns out to be what?
Winston
Winston is the name, which is why Schmidt goes by his surname: two Winstons in one loft would be confusing.
Q 06What is the fundamental rule of the drinking game 'True American'?
You can't touch the ground
You can't touch the ground because 'the floor is lava'; players have to clamber across chairs, couches and tables to get around the room.
Q 07Which creature does a heartbroken Schmidt become fixated on owning after losing Cece in season 2?
A lionfish
A lionfish: Schmidt buys an aquarium for one and drags Winston to the ocean to catch it, while everyone else reads the obsession as pining for Cece.
Q 08Which Fox series was the lead-in for New Girl's series premiere in September 2011?
Glee
Glee led into the pilot at 8 p.m., yet the newcomer outdrew its lead-in: about 10 million people watched, and Fox won the night among adults aged 18 to 49.
Q 09What is the full name of Jess Day's older sister?
Abby Day
Abby Day is the wild older sister Jess has to collect from jail in season 3; she then moves into the loft, dates Schmidt and is gone again within three episodes.
Q 10Which actor plays Nick Miller?
Jake Johnson
Jake Johnson plays Nick Miller, who starts the series as a broke, grumpy bartender and ends it as a published novelist just back from a book tour.
Q 11What is the title of the detective novel Nick writes, which later sends him and Jess abroad on a book tour?
The Pepperwood Chronicles
The Pepperwood Chronicles is turned down by a publisher at first, so Reagan talks a bookshop into stocking it and hosting a reading.
Q 12Panicking about moving in with his ex in New Girl's season 1 finale, what does Nick hurl into a desert gully?
The van keys
The van keys: Nick drives the moving truck straight past his new apartment and out into the desert, throws the keys away, and after a night stranded with the gang ends up back at the loft.
Q 13Which musician played himself in New Girl's post-Super Bowl episode, giving Jess a makeover and nudging her toward Nick?
Q 21Which film does a heartbroken Jess watch over and over on the couch in New Girl's pilot?
Dirty Dancing
Dirty Dancing is Jess's break-up film of choice; her new roommates grow so sick of it that they end up cheering her on by singing '(I've Had) The Time of My Life' in a restaurant.
Q 22What is Coach's real first name?
Ernie
Ernie Tagliaboo is Coach's real name, though almost nobody uses it; the cocky ex-athlete even ends up living the nickname, coaching sport and teaching health at Jess's school.
Q 23In New Girl, Schmidt loses the party bus booked for his 29th birthday to which former child star?
Frankie Muniz
Frankie Muniz gets the bus, so Jess rescues the night by throwing Schmidt's party on a school bus instead and inviting her own boss along.
Prince
Prince had turned down a cameo the season before; then his manager called to ask whether the show still wanted him, and the post-Super Bowl episode was written around him.
Q 14Who is Jess Day's live-in boyfriend, caught cheating in the pilot?
Spencer
Spencer's cheating sends Jess looking for somewhere new to live, which is how she comes to answer three strangers' ad for a roommate.
Q 15Which instrument does Jess teach to a group of detention-dodging students, only for Winston to prove a natural at it?
Handbells
Handbells: in season 1, Winston sits in with Jess's troubled-youth bell group, turns out to be instantly good at it and leaves the teacher herself jealous.
Q 16Which actor portrays Schmidt in New Girl?
Max Greenfield
Max Greenfield plays Schmidt both as the vain, gym-honed marketing man of the present and, in flashbacks, as the badly overweight college student he used to be.
Q 17In New Girl's season 3 premiere 'All In', Nick and Jess run off to which country?
Mexico
Mexico is where the new couple hides out in 'All In'; a beach security guard hauls Nick off for having no tourist bracelet, and Jess has to fetch Schmidt and Winston to get him out.
Q 18In New Girl's first season, wealthy Schmidt eats $80 worth of what by himself?
Sushi
Sushi: Schmidt eats all $80 of it alone, shortly before he and Nick fall out over money, with Nick choosing to bodge the loft's broken toilet himself sooner than pay a plumber.
Q 19How does Jess try to thaw the frozen turkey before her first Thanksgiving dinner at the loft, setting it on fire?
In the tumble dryer
In the tumble dryer: with hours to go Jess tries warming the frozen bird there, it catches fire, and dinner has to move to a neighbour's apartment.
Q 20What does Schmidt rename Thanksgiving in season 4, ordering each friend to bring a date for someone else?
Bangsgiving
Bangsgiving is Schmidt's cure for a loft full of single people; Coach's pick for Jess turns out to be Ryan, the teacher she is trying hard not to fall for.
Q 24What is the title of the novel Nick finally finishes in season 2?
Z Is for Zombie
Z Is for Zombie is the long-stalled novel Nick finally finishes in 'Eggs'; the result is so bad that Winston calls it the worst thing he has ever read.
Q 25Who plays Winston Bishop?
Lamorne Morris
Lamorne Morris joined after the pilot, when Coach's actor went back to Happy Endings; Winston's elaborate, badly judged pranks became a running joke.
Q 26Winston returns to the loft in episode two after playing pro basketball in which country?
Latvia
Latvia is where Winston played professional basketball; he comes back to the loft in the season 1 episode 'Kryptonite' and sets about winning his old room back from Schmidt.
Q 27Which actress played Reagan Lucas, Nick's temporary love interest and roommate while Jess was away?
Megan Fox
Megan Fox plays Reagan Lucas, a pharmaceutical rep who arrives insisting she doesn't do relationships, yet ends up dating Nick well into season 6.
Q 28Which actor plays Bearclaw, the over-eager beer delivery man who falls hard for Jess in New Girl?
Josh Gad
Josh Gad plays Bearclaw, who only lands a date with Jess because Nick hands her number to the wrong delivery man; he turns up again in seasons 3 and 4.
Q 29Where is Schmidt originally from?
Long Island
Long Island is where Schmidt grew up 'born rich', in Nick's words; years later it is his money that bought the loft's couch, as he pointedly reminds Nick in the same row.
Q 30Who is Winston's partner on the LAPD, whom he later marries?
Aly
Aly Nelson at first refuses even to be friends with Winston, because her last partner fell in love with her and it ended badly; she ends up marrying this one.