Frasier Trivia
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97 free Frasier trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Frasier trivia questions with answers. Frasier ran for eleven seasons on NBC and won 37 Emmys, and this quiz covers all of it: the apartment with the impossible Space Needle view, the KACL crowd from Bulldog to Noel, Niles's unseen wife Maris and his slow-burn pursuit of Daphne, Martin's chair and his dog Eddie, Café Nervosa, the celebrity callers, and the finale that sent Frasier to Chicago instead of San Francisco. There are questions on the Cheers years and the 2023 Paramount+ revival too. It starts easy (which city, which station, what breed is Eddie) and works up to the trivia only devoted fans know: Niles's licence plate, the IQ gap between the brothers, who was originally cast as Roz, and what the creators pitched before they settled on Frasier at all. Difficulty is marked on every question. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the show, its characters and its finale, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01Frasier's apartment, number 1901, is in which fictional Seattle building?
Elliott Bay Towers
Elliott Bay Towers takes its name from the real bay on Seattle's waterfront; there Frasier feuds with his upstairs neighbour Cam Winston, who at one point unfurls a giant American flag over Frasier's balcony.
Q 02Frasier's father Martin was forced to retire from the Seattle police after being shot where?
In the hip
Martin was shot in the hip in the line of duty, leaving him with a cane and unable to live alone; he and Eddie move into Frasier's apartment.
Q 03Daphne Moon, Martin's live-in physiotherapist, comes from which English city?
Manchester
Manchester is where Daphne says she is from at her job interview in the pilot, where she also senses, correctly, that Martin was a policeman and confesses she is a bit psychic.
Q 04What breed is Martin's dog, Eddie?
Jack Russell Terrier
Eddie is a Jack Russell Terrier, played by a dog called Moose and later by Moose's son Enzo.
Q 05Which coffee shop do the Crane brothers frequent?
Café Nervosa
Café Nervosa is where the brothers meet from the pilot onwards; in their first scene there Frasier orders two caffè latte supremos and assures Niles that he loves his new solitary life.
Q 06Frasier's record 37 Primetime Emmys for a scripted series stood until which show passed it in 2016?
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones reached 38 Emmys with the awards for only its sixth season, overtaking a total that Frasier had needed eleven seasons to build.
Q 07Frasier won which Emmy five years running, from 1994 to 1998?
Comedy Series
Outstanding Comedy Series went to Frasier in each of its first five seasons and never again in the six that followed.
Q 08Which actress was originally cast as Roz Doyle before being replaced by Peri Gilpin during rehearsals?
Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Kudrow won the part over Peri Gilpin, but by the third day of rehearsals the producers saw she could not play forceful enough to boss Frasier around, and they brought Gilpin back.
Q 09Roz Doyle shares her name with a producer on which other sitcom from the same creators?
Wings
Wings, the creators' earlier sitcom, lost its producer Roz Doyle to breast cancer in 1991; they gave her name to Frasier's radio producer as a tribute.
Q 10Roz Doyle grew up in the small town of Bloomer, in which state?
Wisconsin
Wisconsin is Roz's home state: she grew up in Bloomer, and when she first tells Frasier that her mother is its Attorney General he assumes she is joking.
Q 11Roz names the daughter she has in season five what?
Alice
Alice is the name Roz gives her daughter; the father, Rick, a young coffee-shop waiter, offers to quit college and marry her, but Roz gently turns him down.
Q 12Niles's never-seen first wife is called what?
Maris
Maris is talked about constantly but never shown; in the pilot Frasier says he likes her from a distance, the way you like the sun, except without the warmth.
Q 13What is the profession of Mel Karnofsky, Niles's short-lived second wife?
Plastic surgeon
Plastic surgeon Mel Karnofsky had treated Niles's first wife; Niles elopes with her, runs off with Daphne two days later, and is then made to play the happy husband before Mel will grant a divorce.
Q 21Frasier's title card shows a white line drawn in the shape of what?
The Seattle skyline
The Seattle skyline is traced in a single white line on the title card, yet the show was shot in Los Angeles: only one episode, 'The 1000th Show', was filmed in Seattle itself.
Q 22How did celebrity callers to Frasier's radio show record their lines?
By phoning them in
By phoning them in: most celebrity callers recorded from wherever they were, without visiting the set, and their voices replaced those of the stand-in actors who had read the lines during filming.
Q 23Which Simpsons character has Kelsey Grammer voiced since 1990?
Sideshow Bob
Q 14Where do Niles and Daphne slip away to elope at the end of season nine?
Reno, Nevada
Reno, Nevada, is where the couple head in the season-nine finale 'Moons Over Seattle', after Niles's bid to reconcile Daphne's parents falls flat; they marry in a casino there as season ten opens.
Q 15What does the fastidious Niles do before sitting down in a coffee shop?
Wipes the chair with a handkerchief
Wipes the chair with a handkerchief: Niles does it in his very first scene in the pilot, then offers the handkerchief to Frasier, who declines.
Q 16Which of Martin's belongings clashes most with Frasier's designer apartment?
His recliner
His recliner, a battered split-pea green striped chair patched with duct tape, arrives with him in the pilot and stays among Frasier's designer pieces until a mover takes it away in the finale.
Q 17Frasier and Niles's mother Hester named her sons after what?
Her laboratory rats
Her laboratory rats gave the boys their names: in season four they read their mother's journal and take its entries about 'Frasier and Niles' to be about themselves, until it proves to be a research log.
Q 18Before settling on a spin-off, the creators pitched Kelsey Grammer a sitcom in which he would play what?
A paraplegic publisher
A paraplegic publisher, a Malcolm Forbes-like tycoon running his empire from his Manhattan penthouse and clashing with a live-in nurse, was the pitch; Paramount disliked it and asked for Frasier Crane.
Q 19Which actor's one-off Cheers role as a jingle writer led the creators to cast him as Martin Crane?
John Mahoney
John Mahoney had played a hack jingle writer on Cheers the year before; Casey, Lee and Angell saw the episode and thought him perfect for Frasier's father, a part he kept for eleven seasons.
Q 20Frasier's closing theme, sung by Kelsey Grammer, is called what?
Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs
'Tossed Salads and Scrambled Eggs' was composed by Bruce Miller, who was asked not to mention radio or psychiatry; his lyricist's title foods stand for things that are mixed up, like Frasier's patients.
Sideshow Bob is Grammer's role; in 1997's 'Brother from Another Series' David Hyde Pierce voiced Bob's brother Cecil, reuniting the Crane brothers in Springfield.
Q 24Frasier co-creator David Angell and his wife Lynn died in which disaster?
The September 11 attacks
The September 11 attacks killed David and Lynn Angell, passengers on American Airlines Flight 11; Niles and Daphne's son, born in the 2004 finale, is named David in tribute.
Q 25Which Cheers regular was the only one to become a recurring Frasier character, in twelve episodes?
Lilith Sternin
Lilith Sternin, played by Bebe Neuwirth, first returns as a caller to Frasier's show, going on air to rubbish his advice; every other surviving Cheers regular except Rebecca also appeared, but only as guests.
Q 26In season nine's "Cheerful Goodbyes", Frasier lands in Boston and ends up at whose retirement party?
Cliff Clavin's
Cliff Clavin's: the postman is retiring to Florida, and Frasier, in town to give a conference speech, hears his voice in an airport bar and is swept along to the party with the old Cheers gang.
Q 27Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe hosts which programme on KACL?
The Gonzo Sports Show
Bulldog hosts 'The Gonzo Sports Show' on Frasier's station; in 'Bad Dog' he is hailed as a hero after a hold-up in which he actually used pregnant Roz as a shield.
Q 28Which word completes Niles's description of agent Bebe Glazer: 'Lady Macbeth without the ___'?
sincerity
Sincerity is the missing word: Niles delivers the line as Bebe walks into the café in season two, and Frasier, who likes her no better, admits she is still a terrific agent.
Q 29KACL's Noel Shempsky is a Star Trek obsessive who speaks which fictional language fluently?
Klingon
Klingon is Noel's second language; in 'Star Mitzvah' he teaches Frasier a blessing in it for Frederick's bar mitzvah, passing it off as Hebrew.
Q 30What is the name of KACL's pompous restaurant critic?
Gil Chesterton
Gil Chesterton, played by Edward Hibbert, hosts 'Restaurant Beat'; his colleagues are stunned when he says he is married to Deb, a Sarah Lawrence graduate they had assumed was his cat.