Q 01/05

Which streaming service rescued The Mindy Project days after its broadcast network cancelled it?

A) Netflix

B) Hulu

C) Amazon

D) Yahoo

Answer · why

B) Hulu

Hulu ordered a 26-episode fourth season nine days after Fox dropped the show in May 2015. It stayed there until its sixth and final season.

Q 02/05

What kind of doctor is Mindy Lahiri, the romantically frustrated lead of The Mindy Project?

A) An OB/GYN

B) A pediatrician

C) A dermatologist

D) A cardiologist

Answer · why

A) An OB/GYN

An OB/GYN was a choice close to home: Mindy Kaling modelled the character on her own mother, who practised the same specialty in Boston.

Q 03/05

Mindy Kaling, creator of The Mindy Project, first found fame playing which character on the sitcom The Office?

A) Pam Beesly

B) Angela Martin

C) Kelly Kapoor

D) Erin Hannon

Answer · why

C) Kelly Kapoor

Kelly Kapoor made Kaling a familiar face, but she was hired as a writer first, joining The Office at 24 as the only woman on a staff of eight.

Q 04/05

Which late-night host guest-starred on The Mindy Project as the strict new priest at Danny Castellano's church?

A) David Letterman

B) Conan O'Brien

C) Jimmy Fallon

D) Stephen Colbert

Answer · why

D) Stephen Colbert

Stephen Colbert played the priest as a reformed bad boy from Danny's old neighborhood, and Mindy pretends to be Catholic to win his approval.

Q 05/05

Which actress appears as herself in a hallucination when Mindy Lahiri gets trapped on a hike in The Mindy Project?

A) Reese Witherspoon

B) Jennifer Aniston

C) Catherine Zeta-Jones

D) Sandra Bullock

Answer · why

A) Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon turns up as a vision while Mindy is pinned 127 Hours-style, having finally taken her unused honeymoon by herself.