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This Sex and the City quiz has 122 free questions with answers and covers all six seasons of the HBO series, both films and the And Just Like That... revival. It starts with the basics every fan knows, then moves through the men (Big, Aidan, Berger, Trey, Harry, Steve, Smith), the friends (Stanford, Anthony, Magda), the running gags (the Post-it, the $40,000 in shoes, the Cosmopolitans) and into hard SATC trivia: the real GQ publisher who inspired Mr. Big, the college the show gave Charlotte, the critic whose review haunts Carrie, and where the Abu Dhabi scenes were really filmed. It works as a solo test or as a themed round for a hen night, brunch or bar quiz. Every answer has been checked against a reference source and each question shows its citation, so you can settle the argument about who was originally cast, who left, and who came back.
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Q 01What nickname does Mr. Big use for Carrie on Sex and the City?
Kid
Kid is what Big calls Carrie from season three on, and it ends his goodbye a season later, when he says he won't miss New York but he will miss her.
Q 02On a Los Angeles trip in Sex and the City, Samantha gets the friends invited to a party at which famous home?
The Playboy Mansion
The Playboy Mansion: Samantha meets her idol Hugh Hefner in Los Angeles and comes away with an invitation to one of his Playmate pool parties.
Q 03Where in the Sex and the City franchise is Mr. Big's first name revealed at last?
The series finale
The series finale: in its last scene Carrie's phone lights up with 'John', the name the show had dodged ever since she nicknamed him Mr. Big in the pilot.
Q 04What was Samantha Jones's profession in Sex and the City?
PR executive
PR executive: Samantha runs her own public relations firm, and in season four she pitches for a hotel magnate's account and ends up sleeping with her new boss.
Q 05What was Charlotte York's profession when Sex and the City began?
Art Dealer
Art Dealer: Charlotte works at a Manhattan gallery until season four, when she quits to pursue motherhood full-time and tells Miranda it is her life and her choice.
Q 06What is Miranda Hobbes's profession in Sex and the City?
Lawyer
Lawyer: the Harvard-educated Miranda even tries it on a policeman, pleading 'I am a lawyer and a mother' when Carrie is caught smoking a joint.
Q 07In which Manhattan neighbourhood were the exterior shots of Carrie Bradshaw's apartment filmed?
Greenwich Village
Greenwich Village: the stoop is on Perry Street in the West Village, although the show places Carrie's apartment on East 73rd Street on the Upper East Side.
Q 08The first Sex and the City film knocked which hero off the US top spot?
Indiana Jones
Indiana Jones had been tipped to hold the top spot for a second weekend, but an overwhelmingly female audience carried Sex and the City far past its forecasts.
Q 09Candace Bushnell's original 'Sex and the City' column ran in which weekly newspaper?
The New York Observer
The New York Observer ran Bushnell's column, and its Mr. Big was modelled on a man she was dating, magazine publisher Ron Galotti.
Q 10On Sex and the City, Charlotte names the dog she is given in the final season after which film star?
Elizabeth Taylor
Elizabeth Taylor: the dog arrives with the kennel name Princess Dandyridge Brandywine, which Charlotte swaps at once for the name of 'the prettiest girl in the world'.
Q 11Carrie Bradshaw starts freelancing for which fashion magazine in season four of Sex and the City?
Vogue
Vogue: her first article is torn apart by editor Enid, who says the magazine asked for 500 words on accessories and got an essay about men.
Q 12In the Sex and the City finale, Big tells Carrie she is what?
The one
The one: Carrie's three friends tell Big to go and get their girl, and he flies to Paris to say the words she had waited years to hear.
Q 13To marry her divorce attorney Harry, Charlotte converts to which religion?
Judaism
Judaism: Harry says he can only marry a Jew, and when a rabbi turns Charlotte away he explains that tradition calls for three refusals, so she keeps knocking.
Q 21Which actor played Charlotte's first husband, the cardiologist she marries in season three of Sex and the City?
Kyle MacLachlan
Kyle MacLachlan, already known for Twin Peaks, played the old-money doctor whose marriage to Charlotte is undone by impotence and a meddling mother.
Q 22Who does Miranda Hobbes eventually marry in Sex and the City?
Steve Brady
The baby came before the wedding. Steve Brady, the bartender Miranda Hobbes kept breaking up with, fathered her son and later married her.
Q 23On Sex and the City, Samantha rebrands a much younger waiter-actor with which stage name?
Smith Jerrod
Smith Jerrod is the name she gives waiter Jerry Jerrod, promising that gay fans will come first, then women, then the industry, and a film offer duly follows.
Q 14What does Charlotte give Carrie so she can afford a down payment on her apartment?
Her engagement ring
Her engagement ring: in 'Ring a Ding Ding' Charlotte hands over the Tiffany diamond from her failed marriage, so Carrie can buy her apartment instead of losing it.
Q 15Which Sex and the City lead won the show's only Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress?
Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall won it for playing Samantha, a role she later left behind: she sat out the sequel series apart from a single scene.
Q 16Season five of Sex and the City opens with the friends out on the town during which annual New York event?
Fleet Week
Fleet Week: sailors on shore leave flood the city, and Samantha talks the friends into a Navy party, calling it their patriotic duty as New York women.
Q 17In the Sex and the City pilot, Carrie and her friends vow to start having sex like whom?
Men
Men: at Miranda's birthday dinner the four agree to stop hunting for the perfect partner and try sex without feelings, and Carrie tests the idea on an ex.
Q 18Which cocktail became Carrie Bradshaw's signature drink on Sex and the City?
Cosmopolitan
Cosmopolitan: by the 2008 film the friends had dropped them, and when Miranda asks why they ever stopped, Carrie answers, 'Because everyone else started.'
Q 19Which ballet legend played Aleksandr Petrovsky, the Russian artist who takes Carrie to Paris?
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Mikhail Baryshnikov, the Kirov-trained ballet star who defected in 1974, played Aleksandr Petrovsky in season six; Carrie follows him to Paris and ends up isolated while he prepares his show.
Q 20In the 2008 Sex and the City film, Carrie's wedding gown, gifted after a magazine shoot, was by whom?
Vivienne Westwood
Vivienne Westwood sent Carrie the gown as a gift after the bridal shoot, and it displaced the plain vintage suit she had planned to marry in.
Q 24Where do Carrie and her friends celebrate Charlotte's 36th birthday in season five?
Atlantic City
Atlantic City: Charlotte, who would rather stay 35, is coaxed to the casinos, and it is there that Samantha finally walks out on her cheating boyfriend.
Q 25What is Stanford Blatch's profession?
Talent agent
Talent agent: in season one Stanford's biggest client is Derek, an underwear model nicknamed the Bone, whom Stanford adores from a hopeless distance.
Q 26In the 2008 Sex and the City film, where is Carrie and Big's wedding set to take place?
The New York Public Library
The New York Public Library: Carrie comes across a wedding there while returning overdue library books, and chooses it for her own.
Q 27What is the name of the bar Aidan Shaw opens with his friend Steve?
Scout
Scout: Steve names the bar after his dog, and Carrie has to be talked into going to the opening, where she will face her ex Aidan.
Q 28Which Ralph Lauren employee does Mr. Big get engaged to after only five months together?
Natasha
Natasha, played by Bridget Moynahan, marries Big in season three; his affair with Carrie ends when Natasha comes home early, chases her out and cracks a tooth on the stairs.
Q 29At the end of season four, Mr. Big leaves New York for which region, where he has bought a vineyard?
Napa Valley
Napa Valley: Carrie finds his apartment already stripped of furniture, then insists on a proper New York farewell, complete with a carriage ride in Central Park.
Q 30In the sequel series And Just Like That..., how does Mr. Big die?
A heart attack after a Peloton workout
A heart attack after a Peloton workout: Big dies in the premiere, Peloton's shares fell, and within days the company put out an ad with Chris Noth, narrated by Ryan Reynolds.