Three's Company Trivia
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48 free Three's Company trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free Three's Company trivia questions with answers. Three's Company ran for eight seasons on ABC from 1977 to 1984 and stayed in the top ten for six of them. This quiz covers the whole thing: the British sitcom it was copied from, the three pilots it took to get right, Jack's fake sexuality and real cooking school, the Ropers and their replacement Mr. Furley, the Regal Beagle regulars, Suzanne Somers' salary war and one-minute phone calls, the two roommates who followed Chrissy, and the spin-offs at either end. It starts with questions any rerun watcher can answer (who plays Jack, what Janet does for a living) and works up to details for the true fan: what Somers asked for per episode, whose baby is in the opening credits, which real Santa Monica address stood in for the building, and what Norman Fell's contract promised him. Free to use for a classic-TV trivia night. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, its spin-offs, its characters and its cast, and each question carries its source. No recycled listicle errors.
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Q 01Which British sitcom was Three's Company based on?
Man About the House
Man About the House, a Thames Television hit, had a premise so risqué that the American network which finally made the remake had first passed on it.
Q 02Which actor played Jack Tripper?
John Ritter
John Ritter, son of the singing cowboy Tex Ritter, made Jack a master of the pratfall, and in 1984 the role won him both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.
Q 03In which California city do Jack, Janet and Chrissy share their apartment?
Santa Monica
Santa Monica gave the show its beachside opening: in the first credits Jack turns to watch a passing woman and falls off his bicycle.
Q 04In Three's Company, what lie do the roommates tell the landlord so that Jack can move in?
That he is gay
That he is gay: Janet says so to Mr. Roper, who will not have unmarried men and women sharing, and the landlord lets Jack stay and jokes about it for years.
Q 05What is Janet Wood's job?
Florist
Florist, and later manager of the Arcade Flower Shop; in the first, unsold pilot the sensible roommate was not Janet at all but a character called Jenny.
Q 06What is Chrissy Snow's real first name?
Christmas
Christmas Snow is a minister's daughter: when her father, Reverend Snow, visits and learns that she shares the flat with a man, he orders her home, then relents on seeing how the others care for her.
Q 07What does Jack Tripper's best friend from upstairs do for a living?
Sells used cars
Sells used cars, and causes Jack no end of trouble: he often gives women Jack's name instead of his own, which sends their angry boyfriends after the wrong man.
Q 08In which branch of the military had Jack Tripper served?
Navy
Navy: his service pays his college fees through the G.I. Bill, and although he boxed while in uniform he usually backs away from a fight.
Q 09In Three's Company, what does the trio's resident chef call the restaurant he finally opens?
Jack's Bistro
Jack's Bistro began as a con: he is tricked into renting a run-down restaurant, and his friends talk him into fixing the place up instead of walking away.
Q 10Who played landlord Stanley Roper?
Norman Fell
Norman Fell had played this kind of landlord before: in The Graduate he is the suspicious rooming-house owner forever looking for an excuse to evict Dustin Hoffman's character.
Q 11Which actress played Helen Roper?
Audra Lindley
Audra Lindley's Helen sees through the roommates' cover story almost at once, but she is fond of 'the kids' and never lets her husband in on it.
Q 12Who took over as the building manager, Ralph Furley, in 1979?
Don Knotts
He had already won five Emmys as Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show.
Q 13Who fires Mr. Furley in the Three's Company episode 'Furley vs. Furley'?
His brother
His brother Bart, his boss, sacks him after Jack complains about repairs; Jack then lands the manager's job by accident, and the roommates scheme to get Mr. Furley rehired.
Q 21Before Three's Company, its leading man was best known as a young minister on which family drama?
The Waltons
The Waltons cast him as the Reverend Matthew Fordwick, about as far from pratfalling Jack as a part could be; programmer Fred Silverman saw something more and urged him to audition.
Q 22In the 1979 episode 'An Anniversary Surprise', what does Stanley Roper do that changes Three's Company for good?
Sells the apartment building
Sells the apartment building, though Helen and the trio first suspect him of having an affair; the Ropers' own spin-off went on the air straight after the episode.
Q 23Larry Gelbart, co-writer of the first, unsold Three's Company pilot, was best known for developing which hit series?
Q 14Which actor played Larry, Jack's womanising friend from upstairs?
Richard Kline
Richard Kline served as an Army lieutenant in Vietnam before turning to acting; by the show's own account he was struck by lightning there and came through five rocket attacks.
Q 15Besides Jack and Janet, which character appears in all eight seasons of Three's Company?
Larry Dallas
Larry Dallas, the neighbour from upstairs, began as an occasional guest and was promoted to the regular cast in season four, outlasting the Ropers, Chrissy and Cindy.
Q 16Network chief Fred Silverman cast Suzanne Somers as Chrissy after remembering her from which talk show?
The Tonight Show
The Tonight Show had booked her to promote a book of her poetry; Silverman remembered the appearance, and she won the role just before the third and final pilot was taped.
Q 17After Suzanne Somers demanded a fivefold raise in 1980, how did Three's Company go on showing Chrissy?
In one-minute phone calls
In one-minute phone calls: her scenes were taped on separate days, away from the rest of the cast, and tacked on to the end of a handful of episodes.
Q 18In Three's Company's storyline, why does Chrissy go home to Fresno in season five?
To care for her sick mother
To care for her sick mother was only the on-screen excuse: the real reason was a contract fight with the actress, and Chrissy never set foot in the apartment again.
Q 19How is Cindy Snow, who takes over Chrissy's room in season five, related to her?
Her cousin
Her cousin, a farm girl whose trademark was clumsiness: she was forever bumping into things or spilling them, and Jack usually took the knock.
Q 20What was the profession of Terri Alden, the roommate played by Priscilla Barnes from season six?
Nurse
Nurse: she and Jack meet in the emergency room, where she treats his cut and gives him an injection in the backside, and he takes a while to forgive her.
M*A*S*H
M*A*S*H's Gelbart wrote a first pilot in which the male roommate was a would-be filmmaker called David Bell; the network judged it too weak to air, and two more pilots followed.
Q 24Which comedy legend hosted the 1982 retrospective special The Best of Three's Company?
Lucille Ball
Lucille Ball, the First Lady of Comedy, summed up the show's appeal in 1982: 'It didn't set out to change the world, it just made us laugh and that is why we love it.'
Q 25Three's Company's theme composer was best known for which children's show?
Sesame Street
Sesame Street owes Joe Raposo its theme tune, 'Bein' Green' and 'C Is for Cookie'; for the sitcom he supplied only the melody, the words coming from one of its producers.
Q 26Whose baby son toddles up to Janet at the zoo in Three's Company's later opening credits?
The lead actor's
The lead actor's toddler, Jason, was an impromptu extra, grabbed by the director when families came along to the zoo shoot; he grew up to act too, with an Emmy nomination for Parenthood.
Q 27What is the name of the neighbourhood pub where the Three's Company roommates meet their dates?
The Regal Beagle
The Regal Beagle was one of the show's three standing sets, with Jim behind the bar, but it faded from view in later seasons as the action moved elsewhere.
Q 28In which 1990s family sitcom did Suzanne Somers return to prime time opposite Patrick Duffy?
Step by Step
Step by Step put her back in a long-running sitcom a decade after Three's Company dropped her; in between she had spent years headlining in Las Vegas showrooms.
Q 29The Ropers' 1979 spin-off was loosely based on which British sitcom?
George and Mildred
George and Mildred sent its bickering landlords to a smarter neighbourhood, and the American copy did the same, moving Stanley and Helen into a posh townhouse among neighbours who never took to them.
Q 30Which future Arrested Development star played the Ropers' snobbish neighbour, a realtor named Brookes?
Jeffrey Tambor
Jeffrey Tambor's Jeffrey P. Brookes III lived next door and never got used to the Ropers' antics; after the spin-off ended he turned up on Three's Company three times, as three different characters.