Sam & Cat Trivia
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50 free Sam & Cat trivia questions with answers. Sam & Cat only lasted one season in 2013 and 2014, but the Nickelodeon spin-off that put iCarly's Sam and Victorious's Cat in a Venice apartment together packed a lot into 35 episodes: a babysitting service with a very long name, a robot-staffed diner called Bots, a dim-witted cage fighter named Goomer, a Halloween doll called Clarice and a one-hour crossover with a tank of killer tuna. This quiz covers the whole run. Easy questions ask who played the two leads and how they met; medium ones dig into episode plots, guest stars from Laverne & Shirley and All That, and the hashtag episode titles; harder ones cover premiere numbers, the doubled episode order, the theme song and the messy behind-the-scenes story that ended the show. There is also a little on what both stars did next. Every answer was verified against Wikipedia and other published sources, and each question shows the citation, so you can check the facts yourself. Good for anyone who grew up on 2010s Nick or wants to settle a group-chat argument about #TheKillerTunaJump.
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Q 01Who created Sam & Cat, having also created the two Nickelodeon sitcoms it spun off from?
Dan Schneider
Dan Schneider. After nearly a quarter century of making hits for Nickelodeon, he and the network parted ways in 2018.
Q 02Sam & Cat was a spin-off of which two earlier Nickelodeon sitcoms?
iCarly and Victorious
iCarly and Victorious. Nickelodeon ordered the series within a week of iCarly's finale, carrying one star over from each of its ending hits.
Q 03Which city did Sam leave behind before riding her motorcycle to Los Angeles?
Seattle
Seattle. Once her best friend Carly moved abroad, Sam took off down the West Coast on her motorcycle and told Cat she was in no rush to go back.
Q 04What is Cat's surname in Sam & Cat?
Valentine
Valentine. Catarina Valentine has been living with her grandmother ever since her parents went away to be near her brother.
Q 05Which restaurant rewards Sam and Cat with free food for life after they revive its manager?
Inside-Out Burger
Inside-Out Burger. Its manager collapsed while chasing three runaway kids around the parking lot, and the girls brought him round with their own version of CPR.
Q 06Sam first meets Cat when she rescues her from what?
A garbage truck
A garbage truck. Cat had climbed into a bin after a lost kitten and then her dropped gum, and Sam abandoned a burrito to jump in after her.
Q 07In which Los Angeles neighborhood is Sam & Cat set?
Venice
Venice. Cat had been living there with her grandmother, and when the older woman moved out the apartment became the two girls' own.
Q 08Cat says she dyed her hair to match which favorite snack?
A red velvet cupcake
A red velvet cupcake. The look cost the actress who played her: dyeing her hair every other week for the role left it badly damaged.
Q 09Who played Dice, Sam and Cat's neighbor who is always trying to make a buck?
Cameron Ocasio
Cameron Ocasio. In one episode his character locks the girls in a hidden room to sneak off to a poker game, which turns out to be a job dancing at a child's birthday party.
Q 10Besides managing a fighter, what unusual modeling job does Dice have?
Hair model
Hair model. In the finale he wins a magazine cover only after Cat attacks a rival's 'wig', which turns out to be real hair and gets her arrested.
Q 11Which pet must Sam and Cat hide when a boy claiming to be their landlord's son threatens eviction?
A pygmy goat
A pygmy goat. The threat was a bluff: the 'landlord' was not the boy's father at all, and his real dad sold wide shoes to wide-footed women.
Q 12Nona moves out of the apartment to be nearer her friends at which retirement community?
Elderly Acres
Elderly Acres. Her move frees up the apartment for Sam, and the community later hosts the rigged bingo game that wins back Cat's bike.
Q 13Goomer, the dim-witted friend Dice manages, competes professionally in what?
Mixed martial arts
Q 21Sam & Cat's final episode, aired days after its cancellation, leaves Cat in jail in which state?
Arizona
Arizona. Arrested at a photo shoot there, she is left behind bars because Sam would rather enjoy her grandmother's home cooking for two more weeks.
Q 22Sam & Cat's finale aired four days after its cancellation as a lead-in to the first ever what?
Kids' Choice Sports
Kids' Choice Sports. The episode was never written as an ending: it was just the last one filmed, and promos relabeled it the series finale.
Q 23What is the title of Sam & Cat's theme song, performed by Backhouse Mike?
Just Fine
Just Fine. Backhouse Mike is the stage name of composer Michael Corcoran, who in 2020 married actress Elizabeth Gillies.
Mixed martial arts. Goomer is 27 but acts far younger, and Dice became his manager after the last one quit, calling him too stupid to manage.
Q 14What is the name of the restaurant where Tandy and Bungle wait tables?
Bots
Bots. In one episode the restaurant's security cameras solve a mystery, showing who rode off on Sam's motorcycle.
Q 15In #GoomerSitting, where does Cat mistakenly put Goomer's tongue drops the night before his big fight?
In his eyes
In his eyes. Fighting half-blind, he is losing badly until his opponent insults Dice, his manager and best friend, just as his sight comes back.
Q 16What does a faulty delivery drone carry off from Sam and Cat's apartment instead of a return parcel?
A baby
A baby. At the retailer the girls find a room full of things its drones grabbed by mistake, and have to work out which of several lookalike infants is theirs.
Q 17Which episode of Sam & Cat was its most watched, beating even the premiere?
#TheKillerTunaJump
#TheKillerTunaJump. The hour-long special reunited the girls with old friends from both parent shows and drew 4.8 million viewers.
Q 18Why did Nickelodeon say Sam & Cat went on hiatus?
A long shoot
A long shoot. The network called it an unusually long production cycle and said everyone was tired; the last four of the 40 episodes it had ordered were never made.
Q 19Which prize do Sam and Cat win in #TextingCompetition, only to find it is toy-sized?
A speedboat
A speedboat. The girls care just as little for the other prize, a meeting with the Vice President that their young rival's mother was desperate to win.
Q 20Which fruit gives its name to the phones used in Sam & Cat, a running parody of the iPhone?
Pear
Pear. In #TheBritBrats Dice pays $500 for five unreleased Pear Phones and opens the package to find rocks.
Q 24What is the surname of Dice, Sam and Cat's wheeler-dealer neighbor?
Corleone
Corleone. When a rich family claims his dog Opee, the gang hands over a vicious lookalike instead, and it attacks their daughter on live TV.
Q 25Which award did Ariana Grande win at the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards?
Favorite TV Actress
Favorite TV Actress. She collected it alone: her co-star, nominated in the same category, stayed away and accused the network of unfair treatment.
Q 26In her memoir, Jennette McCurdy says Sam & Cat was first planned as which solo series?
Just Puckett
Just Puckett. It would have followed Sam as a school counselor; McCurdy writes that it was reworked into a joint spin-off after she had already signed on.
Q 27McCurdy claimed which episode was shot without Grande because of the singer's music commitments?
#StuckInABox
#StuckInABox. Cat spends the whole episode locked inside a faulty magic box, which ends up bouncing out of the car on the way to a theme park.
Q 28What is the title of McCurdy's 2022 memoir that discusses her time on Sam & Cat?
I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died. It began as a one-woman stage show of the same name, which she turned into a book after the pandemic cancelled its tour.
Q 29Which debut album did Ariana Grande release in 2013 while Sam & Cat was still airing new episodes?
Yours Truly
Yours Truly. It debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, and her fast-rising music career was later counted among the reasons the sitcom ended.
Q 30A decade after Sam & Cat, Ariana Grande played which character in the two-part film Wicked?
Glinda
Glinda. She asked to be billed under her full name, Ariana Grande-Butera, because that was who she was when she first saw the stage show at 10.