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Q 01What is the name of the coffee shop where the Friends gang hangs out?
Central Perk
Central Perk is the coffee house directly below Monica's apartment; Rachel's first job on the show is waiting tables there, badly.
Q 02What is Joey Tribbiani's signature pickup line?
How you doin'?
Joey's line is "How you doin'?", delivered with a slow nod; it became so tied to Matt LeBlanc that it followed him into the spin-off Joey.
Q 03What is Monica's profession throughout most of the series?
Chef
Monica is a chef, rising from Iridium to head chef at Alessandro's; her kitchen perfectionism is why the gang eats at her place every holiday.
Q 04How many seasons did Friends run?
10
Friends ran for 10 seasons, from September 1994 to May 2004; the finale was watched by more than 50 million Americans.
Q 05What are the first names of Ross and Monica's parents?
Jack and Judy
Jack and Judy Geller are played by Elliott Gould and Christina Pickles; their obvious favouritism toward Ross over Monica is a running joke.
Q 06What is Phoebe's most famous song?
Smelly Cat
Smelly Cat debuts in season two's The One with the Baby on the Bus; its later music video dubs another singer's voice over Phoebe's, which she hates.
Q 07What is Ross Geller's profession?
Paleontologist
Ross Geller is a paleontologist with a PhD; he works at the Museum of Prehistoric History before moving into university teaching.
Q 08What phrase does Ross repeatedly shout while trying to move a couch up the stairs?
PIVOT!
Ross yells "Pivot!" on the stairwell in The One with the Cop; the sofa ends up sawn in half and he gets four dollars of store credit.
Q 09How many years older than Monica is her season-two boyfriend Richard Burke?
21
Richard, played by Tom Selleck, is one of her father's best friends, and they split because he does not want more children.
Q 10What is the name of Joey's stuffed penguin?
Hugsy
Joey's bedtime penguin is Hugsy; in season nine he buys Ross and Rachel's baby her own Hugsy but cannot bear to part with the original.
Q 11Which language does Gunther, the Central Perk manager, unexpectedly speak fluently?
Dutch
Gunther speaks fluent Dutch; in The One with the Stain he calls Ross an 'ezel' (donkey) to his face in Dutch.
Q 12Which cast member was the first person cast on the show?
David Schwimmer
The writers had Schwimmer in mind for Ross from the start after working with him on an earlier pilot.
Q 13What is the name of Ross's first wife who leaves him for another woman?
Carol
Carol Willick leaves Ross for Susan Bunch, and the two women raise Ross's son Ben alongside him.
Q 21On which real game show does Joey appear as a celebrity guest in season 10?
Pyramid
Joey is a celebrity contestant on Pyramid in The One Where the Stripper Cries, with Donny Osmond hosting as himself; his clue for 'things that are white' is 'paper, snow, a ghost'.
Q 22In which city does Ross marry Emily Waltham?
London
Ross marries Emily in London in the season-four finale, saying Rachel's name at the altar; Phoebe's scenes were shot in Burbank because Lisa Kudrow was pregnant.
Q 23What does Joey refuse to share, according to his famous season-10 outburst on a date?
Food
"Joey doesn't share food!" erupts in The One with the Birth Mother when his date Sarah takes fries from his plate.
Q 14What name does Monica give up so it can go to Ross and Rachel's daughter?
Emma
Monica had been saving the name Emma for her own future daughter and hands it over to an indecisive Rachel in The One Where Rachel Has a Baby.
Q 15What is Janice's iconic catchphrase?
'Oh... my... God!'
Janice's catchphrase is a nasal 'Oh... my... God!', delivered by Maggie Wheeler; Chandler's on-and-off girlfriend first appears in season one and last in season ten.
Q 16What animal does Ross own as a pet that eventually has to go to the zoo?
A monkey
Ross's pet is a capuchin monkey named Marcel; he is sent to a zoo after reaching sexual maturity and later resurfaces as a movie star.
Q 17What soap opera does Joey star in?
Days of Our Lives
Joey plays a doctor on Days of Our Lives, a real NBC daytime soap on air since 1965; his character is later dropped down an elevator shaft.
Q 18Who nurses a secret crush on Rachel for most of the series?
Gunther
Gunther, played by James Michael Tyler, pines for Rachel from season one and only confesses his love in the series finale.
Q 19What is the name of Phoebe's twin sister?
Ursula
Lisa Kudrow was already playing Ursula on Mad About You, so the writers made her Phoebe's twin.
Q 20In the series finale, where does Rachel accept a job that almost takes her away from Ross?
Paris
Rachel accepts a Louis Vuitton job in Paris; Ross races to the airport, and in the finale's last minutes she gets off the plane.
Q 24How many times does Ross Geller get divorced over the course of Friends?
3
3 divorces, the third after a drunken Las Vegas wedding to Rachel that he quietly failed to annul.
Q 25How many episodes of Friends were produced in total?
236
Friends produced 236 episodes over ten seasons, from the 1994 pilot to the two-part finale The Last One in May 2004.
Q 26Who does Phoebe marry in the final season?
Mike Hannigan
Phoebe marries Mike Hannigan, played by Paul Rudd, in The One with Phoebe's Wedding; a blizzard moves the ceremony to the snowy street outside Central Perk.
Q 27In The One with the Embryos, what name is on Chandler and Joey's TV Guide label?
Chanandler Bong
The TV Guide at Chandler and Joey's is addressed to Chanandler Bong; Chandler insists it is actually 'Miss Chanandler Bong', a question from The One with the Embryos.
Q 28What do Monica and Chandler name their adopted twins?
Jack and Erica
Monica and Chandler adopt twins named Jack (after Monica's father) and Erica (after their birth mother) in the series finale.
Q 29What is Monica's catchphrase?
I know!
Monica's catchphrase is "I know!", which Courteney Cox delivers in a high squeal whenever Monica is excited, usually while jumping.
Q 30What is the number of Monica's apartment, corrected by the producers after the first few episodes?
20
Monica's apartment is number 20, across the hall from Chandler and Joey's 19; early episodes showed it as 5, which made no sense for a unit several floors up.