Everybody Hates Chris Trivia
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This Everybody Hates Chris trivia quiz has 46 free questions with answers and covers all four seasons of the sitcom Chris Rock built from his Bedford-Stuyvesant teens: the move out of the projects, the bus to Corleone Junior High, Julius and his two jobs, Rochelle's catchphrase, Drew, Tonya and Greg, and the neighbourhood regulars from Doc to Risky to Mr. Omar. It runs up to the Sopranos-style G.E.D. finale and the 2024 animated revival on Comedy Central. It is written for people who watched it on UPN and The CW, or found it later in streaming reruns, with easy questions any viewer will get and harder ones about actors, networks, dates, awards and the cast's later careers. Every answer was checked against encyclopedic sources before it went live, and each question explains itself as soon as you pick.
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Q 01Which writer-producer co-created Everybody Hates Chris and directed its final episode himself?
Ali LeRoi
Ali LeRoi co-created the series and stayed hands-on to the end, writing the final season's opening episode and directing the last one himself.
Q 02On which network did Everybody Hates Chris premiere on September 22, 2005?
UPN
The series premiered on UPN on September 22, 2005, and aired its first season there before UPN shut down in 2006 after merging with The WB.
Q 03In which Brooklyn neighbourhood is Everybody Hates Chris set?
Bedford-Stuyvesant
Bedford-Stuyvesant is where the family lands after leaving a housing project in the first episode; the narrator jokes they'd have picked elsewhere had they known a crack epidemic was coming.
Q 04Everybody Hates Chris is set during which US president's years in office?
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan was in the White House for the show's whole 1982–87 span; the real comedian turned 13 back in 1978, so the series moves his teens a few years later.
Q 05Reviewers in 2005 described Everybody Hates Chris as an urban take on which earlier coming-of-age series?
The Wonder Years
The Wonder Years set the template of an adult narrator looking back on his teens; one reviewer said the grown-up Chris was simply playing 'the Daniel Stern role'.
Q 06Which actor plays the teenage Chris on Everybody Hates Chris?
Tyler James Williams
Tyler James Williams was 12 when the series began; when it returned as a cartoon in 2024, both his screen parents came back to voice their roles, but a new actor took over young Chris.
Q 07Who plays Julius, Chris's penny-pinching father?
Terry Crews
Terry Crews plays Julius; before acting he was an NFL linebacker, playing 32 games for the Rams, Chargers and Redskins between 1991 and 1995.
Q 08Which actress plays Rochelle, Chris's temperamental mother?
Tichina Arnold
Tichina Arnold plays Rochelle, and 15 years after the finale she came back to voice the same sharp-tongued mother in the animated revival.
Q 09What is the name of Chris's popular, athletic younger brother?
Drew
Drew, played by Tequan Richmond, is Chris's younger brother, who despite being younger is taller, more athletic and luckier with girls than Chris.
Q 10Chris's little sister, spoiled by her father and fond of tattling on her brothers, is called what?
Tonya
Tonya, played by Imani Hakim, is the baby of the family; when Chris is suspended from school, she makes him pay for her silence.
Q 11What is the surname of Greg, Chris's small, nerdy best friend at school?
Wuliger
Greg Wuliger, played by Vincent Martella, is Chris's undersized best friend; when Greg heads to a prestigious academy for high school, Chris tries and fails to follow him there.
Q 12Chris is bused across town to a junior high school that shares its name with which movie crime family?
Corleone
Corleone Junior High shares its name with the Godfather family; Chris is its only Black student after his mother insists on a school outside the neighbourhood.
Q 13The title Everybody Hates Chris spoofs a hit sitcom built around which stand-up comedian?
Ray Romano
Ray Romano starred in Everybody Loves Raymond, which ended its nine-season CBS run in May 2005; four months later the spoof flipped 'Loves' to 'Hates' for its bullied Brooklyn teenager.
Q 21What is the name of the homeless man who hangs around Chris's neighbourhood?
Kill Moves
Kill Moves, played by Jeris Lee Poindexter, is the block's street-corner martial artist; in one episode Chris helps him track down his estranged mother for a school assignment.
Q 22Which sitcom veteran plays Vanessa, Rochelle's wise-cracking best friend from the beauty salon?
Jackee Harry
Jackee Harry, an Emmy winner for 227, plays Vanessa; when Rochelle's slacker brother asks Vanessa out, Rochelle tries to talk her friend out of going.
Q 23Which Oscar winner plays Louise, the nosy next-door neighbour and Tasha's grandmother?
Whoopi Goldberg
Q 14Which well-meaning white teacher on Everybody Hates Chris treats Chris with condescending stereotyped assumptions?
Ms. Morello
Ms. Morello, played by Jacqueline Mazarella, means well but assumes the worst: when Chris brings in cans for the needy, she decides his own family is needy and sends the food to them.
Q 15What is the name of the red-haired bully who torments Chris at school?
Caruso
Joey Caruso, played by Travis T. Flory, torments Chris for years; when a kid he picked on beats him up he goes soft, and school turns so chaotic that Chris tries to toughen him up again.
Q 16In Rochelle's catchphrase, what does she say her man has?
two jobs!
'I don't need this, my man has two jobs!' is Rochelle's parting shot each time she walks out of a job of her own, which she does more often in a month than most people do in a lifetime.
Q 17Which funeral director neighbour is known for exclaiming 'Tragic! Tragic!'?
Mr. Omar
He is played by Ernest Lee Thomas, best known as Raj on What's Happening!!
Q 18What is the name of the local grocery store owner Chris later works for?
Doc
Doc, played by Antonio Fargas, Huggy Bear in Starsky & Hutch, runs the corner store; Chris once quit over his pay to work at a Chinese restaurant, then came back.
Q 19Which street dealer on Everybody Hates Chris sells goods that are always bootlegged or stolen?
Risky
Risky, played by Mike Estime, deals only in bootleg or stolen goods; the knock-off perfume Chris buys from him for Mother's Day brings Rochelle out in a rash.
Q 20Which neighbourhood character routinely greets Chris with 'Lemme hold a dollar'?
Jerome
Jerome, played by Kevontay Jackson, starts out as a block hustler shaking Chris down for a dollar a day, then warms into a big-brother figure who hands out advice.
Whoopi Goldberg plays Louise, who moves in next door with her granddaughter Tasha and at once pushes Rochelle to set up a neighbourhood watch.
Q 24Who plays Rochelle's soft-spoken but critical mother, Grandma Maxine?
Loretta Devine
Loretta Devine plays Grandma Maxine, a retired maths teacher and an even bigger 'ghetto snob' than her daughter; she is the one Chris secretly turns to when algebra defeats him.
Q 25Chris's high school shares its name with which Godfather crime family?
Tattaglia
Tattaglia High School, which Chris enters at the start of the fourth and final season, shares its name with one of the rival mob families in The Godfather; he lands in an all-white homeroom.
Q 26What is the title of the Everybody Hates Chris series finale?
Everybody Hates the G.E.D.
In 'Everybody Hates the G.E.D.' Chris, told that one more late arrival means repeating the grade, quits school to sit the G.E.D. instead, mirroring his creator's own path.
Q 27The final scene of Everybody Hates Chris spoofs which HBO drama's famous ending?
The Sopranos
The finale cuts to black mid-scene, mimicking The Sopranos, whose June 2007 ending cut out on Tony's diner visit.
Q 28In the first episode of Everybody Hates Chris, which song scores Chris's slow-motion fight with a white bully?
Ebony and Ivory
Ebony and Ivory, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder's chart-topping ode to racial harmony, plays while the two boys trade punches: a song about getting along, laid over a brawl.
Q 29Which Seinfeld star guest-starred on Everybody Hates Chris as Principal Edwards?
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander, Seinfeld's George Costanza, plays Principal Edwards, who spends a snow day alone at school with Chris, the only pupil to turn up; Alexander also directed two episodes.
Q 30On Everybody Hates Chris, Julius greets any wasted food by announcing what about it?
Its exact price
Its exact price: Julius costs spilt milk or uneaten beans and rice to the cent on sight, a habit one 2005 reviewer called the show's best running gag.