187 Fun Facts About House M.D.

On which network did House air from 2004 to 2012?

House aired on Fox for eight seasons and 177 episodes, from November 16, 2004 to May 21, 2012.

Who created House?

David Shore created House and served as its showrunner for all eight seasons; he gave the misanthropic hero his voice and directed the series finale himself.

Which motor event does House love enough to take Cameron along in season one?

A monster truck rally: House has two all-access tickets, and when Wilson cannot make it he takes Cameron instead.

What is House's medical double specialty?

Infectious disease and nephrology are his board certifications, and tenure is his shield: in the pilot he tells Cuddy she cannot fire him.

Which painkiller is House dependent on?

The season eight premiere is titled Twenty Vicodin, after the stash he needs to get through his last days in prison.

What caused the damage to House's right leg?

An infarction in his thigh muscle: an aneurysm clotted during a golf game, was misdiagnosed for days, and Stacy authorised removing the dead muscle while he was in a coma.

What is the street address of House's apartment?

221B Baker Street is Sherlock Holmes's London address, borrowed on purpose: House is a Holmes for medicine, with Wilson as his Watson.

Under what name is the gunman who shoots House in the season two finale credited?

Moriarty, the name of Holmes's nemesis, is how the credits list the shooter in No Reason, and most of what follows turns out to be House's hallucination.

Which hospital department does House's only real friend, Dr. James Wilson, head?

Oncology head Wilson writes most of House's painkiller prescriptions, so in season three a detective freezes his bank account and suspends his prescribing.

In House, what is Dr. Lisa Cuddy's job at the hospital?

Dean of Medicine and chief administrator; Lisa Edelstein left the show after season seven when a salary cut was proposed.

What is Dr. Eric Foreman's medical specialty?

Neurology is Foreman's field; in season two he catches a patient's deadly brain infection and, believing he is dying, asks Cameron to be his medical proxy.

Which actress plays immunologist Dr. Allison Cameron?

Jennifer Morrison's Cameron walks out of her marriage and the hospital in season six after learning Chase let a dictator die; the actress returned for the finale.

Which genetic condition does Thirteen inherit from her mother?

Huntington's killed her mother; Thirteen tests positive at the end of season four and, after a self-destructive spell, joins a drug trial for the disease.

Kutner was written out in season five because actor Kal Penn took a job where?

The White House: Penn joined Barack Obama's Office of Public Engagement, so the writers gave Kutner a sudden death that the team never manages to explain.

Which member of the later team is a former plastic surgeon?

Taub gave up a lucrative plastic surgery practice after an affair with a nurse there, which his partners agreed to keep from his wife if he left.

How did House recruit his new team in season four?

Through a reality-show style elimination contest: House gives the applicants numbers instead of learning their names, then fires them a few at a time over the season.

Which Massive Attack song is House's opening theme in the United States?

Teardrop, from Massive Attack's 1998 album Mezzanine, opens US episodes; many broadcasts outside the US swapped in an instrumental written for the show.

Where did Hugh Laurie record his audition tape for House?

A hotel bathroom in Namibia was the only place with enough light, Laurie said; he was there filming Flight of the Phoenix when the role came up.

Which director of the pilot did not realise Hugh Laurie was English?

Bryan Singer held up the audition tape as proof that he wanted an American for the part; Laurie puts his accent down to a misspent youth in front of the screen.

In which year was House the most-watched television programme in the world?

Eurodata TV Worldwide, which tracks ratings across dozens of countries, named House the most-watched television programme in the world for 2008.

House's most-watched episode, Frozen, drew about 29 million viewers by airing straight after which event?

The Super Bowl: Frozen followed Super Bowl XLII in February 2008, with Mira Sorvino as a psychiatrist stranded at the South Pole whom House has to diagnose by video link.

Which billionaire, played by Chi McBride, tries to fire House in season one?

Edward Vogler, a pharmaceutical mogul, buys the chairmanship of the hospital board and demands House's dismissal, but the board votes to keep House and lose the money.

Why does Detective Michael Tritter, played by David Morse, pursue House in season three?

He was left with a rectal thermometer in an exam room after tripping House; refused an apology, he digs into House's pill habit and takes him to court.

Which actress plays Stacy Warner, House's ex-girlfriend, in seasons one and two?

Sela Ward played Stacy Warner, a lawyer who authorised the leg surgery that ended their relationship and returns in season two as the hospital's counsel.

How does Amber Volakis, Wilson's girlfriend, die in House's season four finale?

A bus crash: House, a fellow passenger left with amnesia, pieces together that Amber was aboard, and her damaged kidneys cannot clear the amantadine she had taken.

Where does House spend the two-hour season six premiere, Broken?

He checks into Mayfield, a psychiatric hospital, to come off Vicodin after hallucinating Amber through the end of season five.

What does House do to Cuddy's home in the season seven finale of House?

Drives his car into her house: he rams the dining room after Cuddy ends their relationship over his addiction, and starts season eight in prison.

Which team member takes over as head of the hospital in the final season?

Chase ends the series running the Department of Diagnostic Medicine that House left behind.

What is the title of House's series finale?

Everybody Dies, directed by David Shore, bookends the pilot's alternate title, Everybody Lies; the retrospective Swan Song aired just before it on May 21, 2012.

How does House escape his troubles in the series finale?

He fakes his death in a fire by switching his dental records for a dead patient's, giving up medicine for good rather than go back to jail while Wilson is dying.

In the House finale, how do House and Wilson set off together in the final scene?

On motorcycles: Wilson has only months to live, and when he starts to talk about it House cuts him off with 'cancer's boring' and the two ride away.

Which motorcycle does House ride?

House rides a Honda CBR1000RR sportbike in orange Repsol racing livery, first seen in season two, to Cuddy and Wilson's alarm.

Which soap opera is House addicted to watching?

General Hospital is the real soap he follows; the writers also gave him an invented one, Prescription Passion, whose star he later treats as a patient.

From which medical school was House expelled for cheating?

Johns Hopkins expelled House after a classmate reported him for cheating, which also cost him a prized internship at the Mayo Clinic.

Which New York Times Magazine column by Lisa Sanders inspired House?

Diagnosis, a column of real medical mysteries, gave the producers their detective format; Sanders became a consultant on House and got her own Netflix series in 2019.

Who was Hugh Laurie's long-time comedy partner in Jeeves and Wooster?

Stephen Fry was introduced to Laurie at Cambridge by their friend Emma Thompson, and the pair went on to make A Bit of Fry & Laurie.

In which sport did Hugh Laurie compete for Cambridge against Oxford in 1980?

Rowing ran in the family: his father won Olympic gold in 1948, but Hugh's Cambridge crew lost the 1980 Boat Race by a canvas, a few feet.

Which title did Guinness World Records give Hugh Laurie in 2011?

Most-watched leading man on television: Guinness World Records 2011 gave Laurie the title on the strength of House's audience around the world.

What working title did House carry after Fox picked it up?

Chasing Zebras, Circling the Drain: doctors are taught that hoofbeats mean horses, not zebras, and the show is about the zebras, the rare diagnoses others miss.

Whose idea was House's premise, before David Shore conceived the title character?

Producer Paul Attanasio conceived a CSI-style medical procedural in which diseases were the suspects; Shore then created House himself as its Holmes-like lead.

Fox originally rejected which idea for House's disability?

Shore originally wanted House in a wheelchair; Fox rejected it, so the writers gave him a damaged leg and a cane instead.

Pilot patient Rebecca Adler is named after Irene Adler, the woman who outwits Holmes in which story?

A Scandal in Bohemia ends with Irene Adler seeing through Holmes's disguise and slipping abroad, leaving him only her photograph.

Which instruments does House play?

House plays piano, guitar and harmonica, as Laurie does in real life, whereas his model Sherlock Holmes played the violin.

What Christmas gift does House receive in the season four episode 'It's a Wonderful Lie'?

A second-edition Conan Doyle comes from one of his fellows, a wink at the detective House is modelled on, after House turns the team's Secret Santa into gifts for himself.

Which season six episode of House did Hugh Laurie direct himself?

Laurie directed Lockdown, the 17th episode of season six, in which the hospital is sealed after a newborn goes missing.

What did Hugh Laurie use as a cane in his improvised audition tape for House?

An umbrella stood in for the cane, and the director watching the tape praised how well this 'American actor' had grasped the character.

Which House character did Hugh Laurie at first assume was the lead?

Dr. James Wilson was described as the handsome, wholesome one, so Laurie took House for the sidekick until the full pilot script arrived.

Roughly how much per episode was the show's star earning by the final season?

Laurie was reported to earn about $700,000 an episode by season eight, making him one of the highest-paid actors in US network drama.

Robert Sean Leonard turned down auditioning for which CBS show because the role had too many scenes?

Leonard passed on Numb3rs because its lead was in nearly every scene; the smaller part of Wilson suited him, and he later joked that the less he worked the happier he was.

Lisa Edelstein's role as a call girl in which series led House's pilot director to send her the script?

The West Wing cast Edelstein as a law student working as a high-priced call girl, and the director of the House pilot liked the performance enough to send her the script.

Which future Grey's Anatomy star was in the running for a part in House before the pilot was cast?

Patrick Dempsey missed out on House, whose producers went looking for a quintessentially American lead and ended up casting an Englishman, Hugh Laurie, from an audition tape.

Dr. Eric Foreman shared a near-identical name with the lead of which other Fox sitcom airing in 2004?

That '70s Show's hero is Eric Forman, one letter away, yet the name stayed and the two series shared Fox's schedule for two seasons.

Where was House's pilot episode filmed?

Vancouver hosted only the pilot; once Fox ordered the series, filming moved to soundstages in Los Angeles for the rest of the run.

Which Princeton University building appears in aerial views of House's hospital?

Frist Campus Center supplies the aerial views because the pilot's director set the series beside his own hometown, West Windsor in New Jersey.

Which novel did Hugh Laurie publish in 1996, eight years before House began?

The Gun Seller got a second life from House: once the show was a hit in France, a translation of the 13-year-old spy spoof topped the country's book sales in March 2009.

With a cane and pill bottle vetoed by Fox, what appears beside Jennifer Morrison's name in House's opening titles?

Rowers on the water were the replacement shot: the network turned down a cane and a bottle of Vicodin, and Morrison's card was the one left needing an image.

Which singer performs the vocals on the full version of House's Massive Attack theme?

Elizabeth Fraser of the Cocteau Twins also wrote the words, and has said the song feels partly about Jeff Buckley, her former partner, who drowned while she was recording it.

In which House episode does House first admit that he is addicted to Vicodin?

Detox turns on Cuddy's challenge to go a week without his pills; the withdrawal is so severe that his team starts to doubt his judgment.

How much does a pharmaceutical billionaire donate to House's hospital in season one to chair its board?

$100 million bought the chairmanship, but when the board refused to fire House on his orders, the donor left and took the money with him.

Which condition does House diagnose in Stacy Warner's husband Mark in the season one finale?

Acute intermittent porphyria explains Mark's delusions, and House confirms it with a dangerous drug cocktail that Stacy backs and his own team refuses to.

How long is House sentenced to jail for contempt of court in the Tritter storyline?

The judge in Words and Deeds dismisses the forgery case after Cuddy perjures herself, but jails House for one night for contempt of court.

How many doctors does House initially consider when recruiting his new team in season four?

40 doctors fill a lecture hall at the start; when Cuddy says the budget cannot carry them all, House fires an entire row on the spot.

Before hiring the new team, House 'borrows' a janitor and calls him what?

Dr. Buffer earns the name by guessing floor-buffer faults for five dollars, which House translates into possible diagnoses.

What was Amber Volakis's medical specialty?

Interventional radiology was Amber's field; as an applicant she pretends to quit so that rivals will walk out with her, then comes straight back.

What was Kutner's specialty before joining House's team?

Sports medicine was Kutner's training; as an applicant he shocks a patient's heart inside an oxygen chamber and starts a fire, which only makes House notice him.

Why did Thirteen spend six months in prison, as revealed in the 150th episode 'The Dig'?

She helped euthanise her brother, who had asked her to end his life during one of his last lucid spells, and served six months for it.

Which classic detective show partly inspired private investigator Lucas Douglas?

The Rockford Files, a favourite of the show's creator, partly inspired Lucas, the private eye House hires to trail Wilson.

In which season five episode do House and Cuddy kiss for the first time?

Joy, the sixth episode of season five, ends with House and Cuddy kissing after the adoption she had hoped for falls through.

In which season two episode do Cameron and Chase have a one-night stand?

In Hunting, a meth-high Cameron sleeps with Chase after an HIV exposure scare; they marry in the season five finale, Both Sides Now.

What is Cuddy's own medical specialty?

Endocrinology is Cuddy's own field, though she seldom practises; in Humpty Dumpty she puts herself on the case when her handyman falls from her roof.

What does Foreman tell House when he resigns in 'Family'?

Foreman tells House 'I don't want to turn into you' when he hands in his notice in Family; in the finale Human Error, House fires Chase and Cameron resigns.

Which talent show's lead-in helped House reach its ratings peak in season three?

American Idol's performance shows aired on Tuesday nights, and with that lead-in House averaged 19.4 million viewers an episode in season three, its peak.

Which award's 2005 citation called House's hero a television physician like no other?

A Peabody Award went to House for 2005; the citation calls its tactless, self-medicating hero a television physician like no other, whose saving grace is his diagnostic brilliance.

For which episode did House's creator win the 2005 Emmy for drama writing?

Three Stories, in which House lectures medical students on three patients with leg pain and the third proves to be himself, won its writer the 2005 Emmy for drama series writing.

Greg Yaitanes won a directing Emmy in 2008 for which episode?

House's Head won Greg Yaitanes the 2008 Emmy for directing a drama series; Hugh Laurie, nominated the same night, lost the lead-actor award to Breaking Bad's Bryan Cranston.

In a 2008 poll, House was voted the second-sexiest TV doctor ever, behind which ER character?

Doug Ross, George Clooney's ER paediatrician, took the top spot in the poll even though Clooney had left ER in 1999, nine years before the vote.

Which charity benefited from 'Everybody Lies' T-shirt sales from 2007?

National Alliance on Mental Illness: the cast launched the 'Everybody Lies' shirts on set in April 2007 to shine a light on mental health, and the charity's director thanked the show for lending its celebrity.

Doctor Richter, the first official remake of House, was made for television in which country?

Russia: the state channel Rossiya 1 commissioned Doctor Richter, the first official remake, which ran from 2017 with Aleksei Serebryakov as its pill-dependent diagnostician.

What did network chief Gail Berman ask of House's future producers?

She did not want to see white coats: before House was even an idea, Berman told its producers, 'I want a medical show, but I don't want to see white coats going down the hallway', and House himself avoids wearing one.

Which filming technique, also a staple of ER, does House use for its corridor scenes?

Walk and talk shots carry the doctors' arguments down the hospital corridors, a device that makes characters look busy and keeps long conversations moving; ER leaned on it too.

Which often-suggested condition does House dismiss with the running gag 'It's never' that?

Lupus: in Finding Judas, a colleague finds House's pill stash hidden inside a lupus textbook, and House explains, 'It's never lupus'; in season four a patient really does have it.

Which two rival dramas did House overtake to become the world's most-watched show?

CSI and CSI: Miami had each been named the world's most-watched drama before House took the title with 81.8 million viewers in 66 countries; CSI won it back the following year.

Which country ranked House its top-rated TV programme in 2008?

Eurodata's 2008 figures made House the top-rated programme in Germany, where it aired on RTL; it was number two in Italy and number three in the Czech Republic.

In the UK, which channel broadcast the first four seasons of House?

Five (later Channel 5) aired the first four seasons in the UK; Sky1 acquired first-run rights from season five in 2009.

House's father John served in which branch of the US military?

Marine Corps aviator John House raised his son from base to base and punished him like a recruit, making him sleep in the yard and take ice baths, which fed House's lifelong resentment.

In which episode does a DNA test confirm John House is not House's biological father?

In Birthmarks, House takes skin from his father's ear at the funeral, and the DNA test proves John House was not his biological father; a later test rules out the family friend he suspected too.

At what age did House decide a family friend with the same birthmark was his real father?

House says he worked it out at 12, spotting a birthmark he shared with a family friend; his father's harsh discipline fed his lifelong resentment.

What is the name of House's mother?

Blythe House, played by Diane Baker, first appears in Daddy's Boy; House loves her but avoids both parents, dodging a dinner with them in that episode.

Which unusual habit does House have with his cane?

Most people hold a cane on the side opposite the injury.

Where did Cuddy first meet House and share a one-night stand?

Cuddy met House at the University of Michigan, where she was a pre-med student; in Known Unknowns they finally talk about their night together, and House admits he had hoped it would lead somewhere.

What name does Cuddy give the baby girl she takes in as a foster mother?

Rachel is the newborn of the team's teenage patient, who believed her stillborn and left her in an abandoned house; Cuddy finds her alive and takes her in, after another adoption had fallen through.

What was Cameron's first husband dying of when she married him?

Cameron married her first husband knowing he had terminal thyroid cancer; he died six months later, as she tells House in Fidelity.

Which teenage crime from Foreman's past does House like to needle him about?

He used to steal cars: Foreman was arrested as a teenager, and House says that record helped get him hired; by Honeymoon even Cameron, mimicking House, asks if he is too tired from stealing cars.

Who plays Foreman's estranged brother Marcus?

Orlando Jones played Marcus Foreman in season six: in and out of prison for years, he pays a surprise visit to the hospital and House promptly hires him as his assistant.

Chase's estranged father Rowan was an acclaimed specialist in what?

Rheumatology made Rowan Chase's name; he walked out when Robert was a teenager, leaving his son to care alone for an alcoholic mother.

Which actress plays Wilson's first wife Sam Carr, whom he dates again in season six?

Cynthia Watros, who was Libby on Lost, played Sam Carr, the first of Wilson's three ex-wives, and House sets about testing their second try.

Why does House marry Dominika Petrova in season seven?

So she can get a green card: House marries Dominika Petrova, a Ukrainian immigrant, in his apartment, and in return she keeps house for him; Cuddy, there as a witness, breaks down during the vows.

Which actor plays Dr. Darryl Nolan, House's therapist at Mayfield?

Andre Braugher plays Dr. Nolan, who refuses to clear House to practise medicine again until he commits to treatment; Braugher won two Emmys and later starred in Brooklyn Nine-Nine.

Which candidate punches House after he calls Joseph Smith a 'horny fraud'?

Cole, the Mormon candidate played by Edi Gathegi, punches House for the jibe, a show of spine that only impresses House.

What is the name of House's pet rat?

Steve McQueen is the rat House hunts in Stacy's attic; seeing from its tilted head that it is ill, he treats it instead of killing it and keeps it as a pet.

Which cancer is Wilson diagnosed with in the final season of House?

Thymoma: Wilson tells House in Body and Soul that he has a stage II tumour; when a punishing round of treatment fails, he refuses to spend his last months in and out of hospital.

Who guest-stars in 'Half-Wit' as Patrick, a savant piano prodigy?

Dave Matthews plays Patrick, a brain-damaged piano savant; House proposes brain surgery that will cost Patrick his musical gift in exchange for a more normal life, and his father agrees.

Which future Pretty Little Liars star plays Andie, the young cancer patient in 'Autopsy'?

Sasha Pieterse plays Andie, a nine-year-old with terminal cancer whose courage House suspects is itself a symptom; she later played Alison DiLaurentis in Pretty Little Liars.

Which rock star plays dying patient Eddie Novack in 'Simple Explanation'?

Meat Loaf plays Eddie Novack, who lies dying when his wife Charlotte collapses; as she worsens he begins to recover, and she tries to give her life so that he can have her heart.

House's season six finale, 'Help Me', centres on what disaster?

A crane collapse buries Hanna under rubble; House stays with her and at last amputates her leg to free her, but she dies of a fat embolism soon afterwards.

In 'Last Resort', where does gunman Jason take House, Thirteen and others hostage?

Jason, played by Zeljko Ivanek, holds House, Thirteen and patients hostage in Cuddy's office demanding a diagnosis; Thirteen takes the test drugs for him.

Which Family Matters star plays a fellow inmate in the season eight premiere of House?

Jaleel White, Family Matters' Steve Urkel, plays Porter, the prison's well-connected fixer, who gets House contraband for a price; the episode also introduced Odette Annable as Dr. Jessica Adams.

Who plays children's author Alice Tanner in the House episode 'Unwritten'?

Amy Irving plays Alice Tanner, whom House can hold for only 72 hours after her suicide attempt; convinced the answer lies in her latest novel, he reads a character's symptoms as her own.

'A Pox on Our House' opens in the 18th century aboard what kind of vessel?

The cold open is set aboard an 18th-century Dutch slave ship deliberately sunk to contain smallpox; the modern patient touches a jar salvaged from its wreck.

Which actor plays subway hero musician Jack in 'Larger than Life'?

Matthew Lillard plays Jack, a bassist hailed as a hero for saving a woman on the subway tracks; House alone doubts the heroism, and Jack decides to give up touring for his wife and daughter.

In 'Out of the Chute', the team treats a professional in what rodeo event?

Bull riding: the rider is trampled by a loose bull after a winning ride, and his old injuries rule out an MRI; House, holed up in a hotel, ends the episode by jumping from his balcony into the pool.

Which Iranian-born actress plays performance artist Afsoun Hamidi in 'Moving On'?

Shohreh Aghdashloo plays Afsoun Hamidi, a performance artist whose illness is partly staged, in Moving On, Lisa Edelstein's last episode.

Which Battlestar Galactica actor plays secret-hiding patient Bob Harris in 'The Confession'?

Jamie Bamber, Apollo in Battlestar Galactica, plays Bob Harris, who has been hiding dark secrets; when he confesses them to his family and community, he puts the treatment that could save his life at risk.

Which Disney Channel star plays teenage runaway Callie in season eight's 'Runaways'?

Bridgit Mendler of Good Luck Charlie plays Callie, a runaway living on her own who needs surgery only a parent can consent to, in Runaways.

In 'Post Mortem', what does pathologist Peter Treiber cut open in the middle of an autopsy?

His own scalp: Treiber trusts no doctor but House, so while House is away on a road trip with Wilson the team pretends he is calling the shots.

What sport was Derrick, the patient in 'Holding On', practising when he had a nosebleed?

Cheerleading practice brings on Derrick's nosebleed; the 19-year-old, played by Skylar Astin, hears his dead brother's voice and resists surgery for fear of never hearing it again.

Which House episode is told from Cuddy's point of view as she battles a big insurer?

5 to 9 follows Cuddy through a single day as she faces down the insurer Atlantic Net over a contract while juggling House and a sick daughter at home.

Who plays Dr. Chi Park, the doctor who joins House's team in season eight?

Charlyne Yi plays Chi Park, a resident sent to House after punching a supervisor who groped her; she joins the team in Transplant, the second episode of season eight.

In 'Selfish', whom do House and Cuddy agree they must tell about their new relationship?

Human resources: on their first day back at work as a couple the pair agree to keep quiet until HR is told, but House promptly announces it to his team, and Wilson takes it for a prank.

Which honour did Hugh Laurie receive in the 2018 New Year Honours?

Laurie was appointed CBE in the 2018 New Year Honours for services to drama, eleven years after his 2007 OBE.

What was the title of Hugh Laurie's 2011 debut blues album?

Let Them Talk is a set of classic blues songs with guests including Tom Jones, Irma Thomas and Dr. John; Laurie launched it with an intimate New Orleans club gig, and Didn't It Rain followed in 2013.

In which English city was Hugh Laurie born in 1959?

Oxford was Laurie's birthplace, but he chose its rival for university: after Eton he read archaeology and anthropology at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and joined the Footlights.

Olivia Wilde made her feature directorial debut with which 2019 film?

Booksmart, directed by Olivia Wilde, House's Thirteen, follows two model students who learn on the eve of graduation that their partying classmates got into top colleges too.

Robert Sean Leonard is best known on film for playing Neil Perry in which 1989 movie?

Dead Poets Society cast Leonard as Neil Perry, who wins the part of Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream against the wishes of a father set on medical school; Leonard won a Tony in 2001.

Jennifer Morrison went on to play Emma Swan in which fantasy series?

Once Upon a Time starred Morrison as Emma Swan, a Boston bail bond agent who learns she is the long-lost daughter of Snow White and Prince Charming.

Jesse Spencer played Billy Kennedy on which Australian soap before House?

Neighbours cast Spencer as Billy Kennedy from 1994 to 2000; he came back for a cameo in 2022, in what was then the soap's final episode.

House star Omar Epps made his film debut alongside Tupac Shakur in which 1992 film?

Juice was Epps's film debut: he played Q, a Harlem teenager who dreams of being a DJ and is pushed into a store robbery by his friend Bishop, played by Tupac Shakur.

Kal Penn is best known for a stoner-comedy film series with which title?

Harold & Kumar began with 2004's Go to White Castle, in which Penn's Kumar Patel and John Cho's Harold Lee smoke marijuana and set off on an adventure to reach a burger restaurant.

Amber Tamblyn earned Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for playing the title role in which series?

Joan of Arcadia starred Tamblyn as Joan Girardi, a teenager given tasks by God, who appears to her as strangers from small children to elderly ladies; on House she played medical student Martha Masters.

House's creator later developed which US medical drama, adapted from a South Korean series?

The Good Doctor, ABC's 2017 remake of a 2013 South Korean series, stars Freddie Highmore and was developed by House's creator, who practised law in Canada before he wrote for television.

David Shore was born in which Canadian city?

Shore was born in London, Ontario, in 1959 and studied law at the University of Toronto before turning to television writing.

Sela Ward won her first Emmy for playing Teddy Reed in which NBC drama?

Ward won the 1994 Emmy for lead actress in a drama as Teddy Reed on NBC's Sisters, then a second in 2000 for Once and Again.

Paper Heart, co-written by the actor who plays Dr. Park, won a screenwriting award at which festival?

Sundance gave Paper Heart its Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in 2009, to its makers' surprise: the part-documentary about love had been shot without a conventional script.

Before House, Odette Annable played Beth McIntyre in which 2008 monster movie?

Cloverfield cast Annable, then billed as Odette Yustman, as Beth McIntyre, whom Rob and his friends cross a monster-struck Manhattan to rescue from her apartment.

Peter Jacobson appeared twice on which legal drama as crusading defence attorney Randy Dworkin?

Jacobson played showboating defence attorney Randy Dworkin in two Law & Order episodes; he also appeared as a teacher in Transformers.

Vicodin combines paracetamol (acetaminophen) with which opioid?

Hydrocodone is Vicodin's opioid, a semi-synthetic made from codeine; the paracetamol beside it is what can cause liver failure when too much is taken.

How many episodes did season six of House have?

Season six ran 22 episodes, counting the two-hour premiere Broken as two; across eight seasons the series totalled 177.

Ran Laurie, the Olympic gold medallist father of House star Hugh Laurie, spent thirty years in which profession?

A physician, Ran Laurie was the real thing, and his son said he felt bad about being paid more to play a fake version of his own father.

Before House made him a star in America, Hugh Laurie played the father opposite Geena Davis in which family film?

Stuart Little cast him as Frederick Little, adoptive father of a talking mouse, and gave him early practice at the American accent he later used as Gregory House.

Hugh Laurie was nominated six times for playing Gregory House, without ever winning, at which major awards?

The Primetime Emmys shortlisted him as lead actor in 2005 and every year from 2007 to 2011, yet the statuette never came, even as the role won him two Screen Actors Guild awards.

Gregory House, the title character of House, is head of which department at his New Jersey teaching hospital?

Diagnostic Medicine is his domain, a small unit that takes only the puzzling cases other doctors have failed to solve, and he turns down any he finds dull.

Which hospital chore does Gregory House grudgingly perform, or inventively dodge, in a running comic subplot of House?

Clinic duty puts him in the walk-in clinic with routine complaints, where his blunt remarks stun patients and a trivial case sometimes cracks the team's real one.

After playing Dr. Robert Chase on House, Jesse Spencer went on to play Captain Matthew Casey in which NBC drama?

Chicago Fire began in 2012, the year the hospital drama ended, and he stayed with it as a regular until 2021.

After House ended, Hugh Laurie won a Golden Globe as arms dealer Richard Roper in which John le Carré adaptation?

The Night Manager made him the main antagonist opposite Tom Hiddleston, and it was his first role on British television in thirteen years.

Which medical student, played by Amber Tamblyn, joins Gregory House's team in season seven while Thirteen is away?

Martha Masters is a brilliant student whose strict honesty, even when a lie would help a patient, keeps putting her at odds with her new boss.

Lisa Edelstein, who played Lisa Cuddy, left House before its final season after refusing what from the producers?

A reduced salary was asked of three stars whose contracts ran out after season seven; Omar Epps and Robert Sean Leonard came to terms, but she did not.

By the end of the season three finale of House, Human Error, what has Gregory House lost?

His whole team goes in quick succession: one fellow resigns, another is dismissed and the third quits, leaving him to start the next season alone.

In the House episode Bombshells, Lisa Cuddy's first dream turns the hospital staff into a parody of which sitcom?

Two and a Half Men is the first of five pastiches in her dreams, which also run through a zombie film, a 1950s sitcom, a Western and a stage number.

Lisa Cuddy's health scare in the House episode Bombshells ends with which turning point for her and Gregory House?

They break up after her kidney mass proves benign, because she realises he could only face her bedside with painkillers in his system.

In the House pilot, what does the team discover has lodged in the brain of kindergarten teacher Rebecca Adler?

A tapeworm larva from undercooked pork was behind her seizures, and the giveaway was an opened pack of ham found when two of the team broke into her kitchen.

In the season five House finale Both Sides Now, Gregory House's night with Lisa Cuddy turns out to be what?

A hallucination, it was conjured by his painkiller abuse, and once he can no longer tell fantasy from reality he agrees to be admitted for treatment.

In the House episode After Hours, where does Gregory House try to cut tumours out of his own leg?

In his bathtub, working from a CT scan, he goes after growths caused by an experimental drug tested only on rats, until he has to phone Lisa Cuddy for help.

Which song, long associated with Judy Garland, does Gregory House sing in the dream musical number of Bombshells?

Get Happy closes Lisa Cuddy's run of dreams, with him dressed as part ringmaster, part cabaret magician in a scene choreographed by Mia Michaels.

In the House episode Two Stories, Gregory House recounts a case to children while attending what event?

A school career day brought him to an elementary school as a favour, to help Lisa Cuddy's daughter win a place there, and the class was gripped by a man who coughed up a lung.

In the House episode Half-Wit, the team learns that Gregory House has posed as a patient with which illness?

Brain cancer was the cover story: he sent someone else's file to a Massachusetts hospital, hoping its trial would implant a drug in his brain's pleasure centre.

In the season two episode House vs. God, Gregory House's teenage patient Boyd has made his name as what?

A faith healer, Boyd seems to shrink a woman's tumour by laying on hands, until the cause is traced to a virus he passed to her by touch.

Dr. Gregory House, who mocks patients and colleagues for their beliefs, holds which position on religion?

An atheist, he calls religious belief illogical, yet in one episode he is curious enough about an afterlife to risk his own life testing the idea.

Which footwear did Hugh Laurie choose for Gregory House, arguing that a man with a cane needs practical shoes?

Sneakers were his suggestion, and the wardrobe department kept thirty-seven pairs of Nike Shox on hand for the part.

Which sport was Dr. Gregory House playing when the leg pain that left him with a permanent limp first struck?

Golf was the game, and the pain was misdiagnosed for three days before he worked out the cause himself.

Before committing to medicine, the fictional Dr. Gregory House majored in and considered a doctorate in which science?

Physics was his first subject: he thought about a doctorate researching dark matter, and the final season shows it as the path he might have taken outside medicine.

Dr. Gregory House began dating constitutional lawyer Stacy Warner after she shot him during which kind of game?

Paintball brought them together about ten years before the series begins, at a match that pitted lawyers against doctors.

Which drug treatment, given after Gregory House is shot, briefly frees him from his cane at the start of season three?

Ketamine let him walk and even run without pain, but the relief faded and he went back to the cane and his pills.

Which loud live events is Dr. Gregory House known to attend, once taking Allison Cameron along?

Monster truck rallies are a favourite outing, usually shared with his closest friend; the trip with her comes midway through season one.

As a 14-year-old military child, the future Dr. Gregory House chose medicine after an incident in which country?

Japan is where, after a friend's rock-climbing accident, he saw an outcast doctor win respect by solving a case that had beaten everyone else.

In the House episode Lines in the Sand, which condition does James Wilson suggest Gregory House may have?

Asperger syndrome was his suggestion, though he later admits he never believed it and said so only to soften Lisa Cuddy's opinion of his friend.

In which city did Dr. Gregory House first meet James Wilson, bailing him out after a bar fight at a convention?

New Orleans was hosting a medical convention when Wilson, in the middle of his first divorce, broke a mirror and started a brawl; a bored stranger paid for the damage and bailed him out.

Which Broadway star, years before his biggest hit, plays Gregory House's rapping roommate Alvie in season six?

Lin-Manuel Miranda played Juan "Alvie" Alvarez in 2009, six years before Hamilton reached the stage, and returned to the role the following May.

Which veteran actor with a famously deep voice plays African dictator Dibala in the House episode The Tyrant?

James Earl Jones played President Dibala, whose plans for genocide drive one of the team to falsify a blood test so that he is treated for the wrong illness.

Which rapper turned actor plays Clarence, a death row inmate, in the House season two premiere Acceptance?

LL Cool J played the condemned man in 2005, four years before NCIS: Los Angeles made him a weekly television lead.

Which actor, then known for The Wire and Friday Night Lights, plays a blind patient in the House episode Love Is Blind?

Michael B. Jordan played a man who falls ill just as he is about to propose, three years before he took the title role in Creed.

Which rapper and actor plays the paralysed patient through whose eyes much of the House episode Locked In is shown?

Mos Def played a cyclist written off as brain-dead until Gregory House, lying injured in the next bed, notices his eyes following the staff.

Which sitcom veteran and five-time Emmy winner plays Arlene, mother of Lisa Cuddy, in season seven of House?

Candice Bergen made Arlene a match for her daughter's boyfriend; in Family Practice she refuses to be treated by him, so the team has to cure her in secret.

Which actor, also the voice of Sarge in the Toy Story films, plays John House, father of Gregory House?

R. Lee Ermey, often typecast as an authority figure, played the strict father in two episodes and turned up on Scrubs as the Janitor's father too.

Which Scottish comedian plays Thomas Bell, the man Gregory House long believed to be his real father, on House?

Billy Connolly appears in the final season, when a second DNA test shows that Bell is not the biological father either.

Which Sex and the City star plays Anica, a patient who invents her own illnesses, in the House episode Deception?

Cynthia Nixon played a woman with Munchausen syndrome, and the twist is that beneath the invented symptoms she has a real infection.

Which of the four leads of the film The Craft plays the first patient ever treated on House, in the pilot?

Robin Tunney played a schoolteacher who collapses in front of her class, and went on to co-star as Teresa Lisbon in The Mentalist.

Which industry dispute cut season four of House from a planned 24 episodes to just 16?

A writers' strike halted production in late 2007, and Katie Jacobs said the eight lost episodes made it hard to finish the storylines the season had begun.

Which future Avengers star plays a reckless punk guitarist in the season four House episode Games?

Jeremy Renner played the uncooperative musician, whose baffling illness turns out to be nothing more exotic than measles.

Which Oscar winner plays a psychiatrist stranded at the South Pole, treated by webcam, in season four of House?

Mira Sorvino played Dr. Cate Milton, whose mystery illness is finally traced to a broken toe she could not feel in the cold.

In season four's 97 Seconds, how does Gregory House deliberately come close to death to test the idea of an afterlife?

He electrocutes himself to find out, wakes dissatisfied with the result, and goes back to denying that anything follows death.

In the season four House episode Ugly, who trails Gregory House and his candidates as they treat a teenager?

A documentary crew is filming the boy, who has a major facial deformity and suffers a heart attack before his reconstructive surgery.

In season four's Whatever It Takes, which organisation recruits Gregory House to diagnose one of its dying agents?

The CIA tells him almost nothing about the agent's history or past assignments, so he resorts to unorthodox methods to reach a diagnosis in time.

The House doctor nicknamed Thirteen, who joins the team in season four, has which real name?

Remy Hadley got the nickname from the number she was given as an applicant, and it stuck with her for the rest of the series.

Early in season four of House, a fighter pilot asks Gregory House for secret treatment so she can still become what?

An astronaut is what Greta hopes to be, and she fears NASA will reject her if it learns that she has begun to see sounds as images.

Which actress, also Francine Hanson in Mad Men, plays ruthless applicant Amber Volakis in season four of House?

Anne Dudek's character lost out on a place in the team but stayed for the rest of the season as the girlfriend of James Wilson.

In the House episode Wilson's Heart, which risky procedure does Gregory House undergo to recover his missing memories?

Deep brain stimulation brings the memories back, but he suffers a seizure while still wired to the equipment and is left unconscious.

Although House is set in New Jersey, nearly every episode was filmed on a studio lot in which part of Los Angeles?

Century City, a business district of Los Angeles, housed the hospital sets for every episode after the pilot.