Friends Trivia

Gunther pours the coffee and pines for Rachel at this Greenwich Village hangout. Name it.

• The Daily Grind
• Monk's Cafe
• Java Joe's
• Central Perk

Answer: Central Perk. Central Perk, where Gunther spent ten seasons behind the counter carrying a torch for Rachel.

Famous for 'We were on a break!', his day job is all about these. Which friend?

• Ross
• Joey
• Chandler
• Monica

Answer: Ross. Ross Geller, palaeontologist, first at a museum and later a university professor.

Ross, Rachel and Chandler try to carry a new sofa up a narrow stairwell while Ross keeps shouting one word at them. Which word?

• Lift
• Pivot
• Push
• Turn

Answer: Pivot. Pivot! The sofa never makes it up, and Ross ends up returning it cut in half ('The One with the Cop', season 5).

Jennifer Aniston later called her layered shoulder-length cut the ugliest haircut she ever had, yet salons were flooded with requests for it. What was it called?

• The Aniston
• The Rachel
• The Shag
• The Perk

Answer: The Rachel. The Rachel, cut by her stylist Chris McMillan. It became one of the most copied hairstyles of the 1990s.

The theme song opens with 'So no one told you life was gonna be this way'. Which band recorded it?

• Hootie & the Blowfish
• Counting Crows
• The Cranberries
• The Rembrandts

Answer: The Rembrandts. The Rembrandts. 'I'll Be There for You' topped the US airplay chart for eight weeks in 1995.

Joey and Chandler adopt two birds in season 3, and they become part of the family. Which pair?

• A chick and a duck
• Two parrots
• A pigeon and a crow
• A goose and a hen

Answer: A chick and a duck. Joey brought home the chick and Chandler came back with the duck, in 'The One with a Chick and a Duck' (1997).

Chandler's middle name is a woman's name the gang never lets him forget. What is it?

• Maurice
• Mildred
• Muriel
• Marion

Answer: Muriel. Chandler Muriel Bing. Say it out loud and you'll see why he keeps it quiet.

Phoebe insists Ross and Rachel are meant to be, because this sea creature mates for life. Biologists say it doesn't. Which creature?

• Seahorse
• Dolphin
• Octopus
• Lobster

Answer: Lobster. 'She's his lobster', from 'The One with the Prom Video' (season 2). Real lobsters are not monogamous, but the line stuck.

Chandler is sulking on Thanksgiving, so Monica dances for him with something on her head, topped with a fez and big sunglasses. What is it?

• A pumpkin
• A pie tin
• A turkey
• A lampshade

Answer: A turkey. A raw turkey. Chandler laughs so hard he says 'I love you' to her for the first time ('The One with All the Thanksgivings').

Rachel swaps waitressing for fashion as a buyer at which New York department store?

• Bloomingdale's
• Barneys
• Saks Fifth Avenue
• Macy's

Answer: Bloomingdale's. Bloomingdale's, before she moves on to Ralph Lauren.

Episode one: Rachel walks into Central Perk in a wedding gown. Which dentist did she leave at the altar?

• Paolo
• Russ
• Barry
• Pete

Answer: Barry. Barry Farber. Russ, the Ross lookalike, is a periodontist, not a dentist.

Joey will not share food, and he will not share his bedtime penguin with baby Emma either. What is the penguin called?

• Waddles
• Hugsy
• Pengy
• Snuggles

Answer: Hugsy. Hugsy. Joey even buys Emma a lookalike so he can keep the original, and she can tell the difference.

Fans still queue outside the corner building used as the friends' apartment block. Which NYC neighbourhood?

• Greenwich Village
• Harlem
• Upper East Side
• Brooklyn Heights

Answer: Greenwich Village. 90 Bedford Street, at Grove Street, in the Greenwich Village Historic District.

Ross tells Rachel and Phoebe that karate taught him a state of total awareness. Phoebe points out his word really means freshwater eel. What is the word?

• Sashimi
• Wasabi
• Tempura
• Unagi

Answer: Unagi. Unagi, Japanese for freshwater eel. Ross ambushes his friends to prove his point and ends up attacking two strangers ('The One with Unagi', season 6).

Before NBC settled on 'Friends', the show went through working titles such as 'Friends Like Us' and 'Six of One'. What was the very first one?

• Coffee Talk
• Across the Hall
• Insomnia Cafe
• Manhattan Mornings

Answer: Insomnia Cafe. Insomnia Cafe, from late 1993. Marta Kauffman and David Crane then tried Friends Like Us and Six of One before the final name.