George Lopez Trivia
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49 free George Lopez trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
George Lopez went from San Fernando Valley stand-up to one of the few Latinos ever to headline a network sitcom, after Sandra Bullock caught his set at the Brea Improv and pitched him a show. The series ran 120 episodes on ABC and then became a bigger hit in reruns than it ever was in prime time. This quiz covers the sitcom (Benny, Angie, Ernie, Max and Carmen, the Powers Brothers factory, the War theme song, the Cavemen cancellation fight), the man (his kidney transplant, his golf, his autobiography) and everything after: Lopez Tonight, Saint George, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Rio, Blue Beetle and the NBC comedy he made with his daughter Mayan. Every answer is explained, so even casual fans of the Nick at Nite reruns can learn something.
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Q 01On which network did the sitcom George Lopez originally air from 2002 to 2007?
ABC
ABC first ran the show in spring 2002 as a short tryout of just a few episodes. Only after that did the network order a full season, and the sitcom stayed until 2007.
Q 02Which actress saw Lopez perform in 2000 and pitched him a sitcom backstage?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock went backstage after his set at the Brea Improv and, Lopez recalled, said she 'wanted to be in the George Lopez business'. She kept pushing even after her own agents told her they didn't see a show in it.
Q 03Which Latino comic does Lopez credit with inspiring him to become a stand-up?
Freddie Prinze
Freddie Prinze. Lopez was a boy when he saw him star in Chico and the Man, and decades later he became one of the few Latinos since Prinze to lead a network sitcom of his own.
Q 04George Lopez co-creator Bruce Helford had earlier co-created which stand-up's sitcom?
The Drew Carey Show
The Drew Carey Show. Helford had also worked on Roseanne, and with that record in comic-led sitcoms he was brought in to help build a show around Lopez's stand-up.
Q 05Lopez hosted which awards show in 2003 and 2004?
Latin Grammys
Latin Grammys. Lopez fronted the last two ceremonies that CBS aired; the network then dropped the show, and from 2005 it went out in Spanish on Univision.
Q 06On the sitcom George Lopez, George works at a factory that makes what?
Aircraft parts
Aircraft parts. George manages the fictional Powers Brothers plant, a job drawn from life: Lopez once worked on the floor of an aerospace factory himself.
Q 07On George Lopez, what is the name of George's neglectful, hard-drinking mother?
Benny
Benny. She is written as a sharp-tongued worker at George's own factory, a mother who let him grow up believing that his father was dead.
Q 08On George Lopez, which learning difference does George's son Max have?
Dyslexia
Dyslexia. Max has to work extra hard at school, and it runs in the family: the show makes George dyslexic as well.
Q 09On George Lopez, what is the profession of Angie's wealthy father, Vic Palmero?
Doctor
Doctor. Vic left Cuba and made his fortune as a cardiologist, and at first he makes no secret of thinking George isn't good enough for his daughter.
Q 10On George Lopez, what is the first name of George's awkward best friend and co-worker?
Ernie
Ernie Cardenas has been George's best friend since second grade. Valente Rodriguez played him, and Lopez based the character on one of his own childhood friends.
Q 11On George Lopez, which relative moves in with a large trust fund that George has to manage?
Niece Veronica
Niece Veronica. Angie's spoiled niece arrives after her mother dies, and her inheritance is put in George's care rather than her own.
Q 12In the 2015 film Spare Parts, Lopez coaches a team of Latino high-school students in what kind of contest?
Robotics
Robotics. The film is based on the true story of students from a mostly Latino high school who entered a 2004 underwater-robot competition and won; Lopez also produced it.
Q 13On George Lopez, what is George preparing to donate to his father Manny when Manny dies?
A kidney
Q 21George Lopez grew up in which Los Angeles valley?
San Fernando
San Fernando Valley. His hard-up childhood there has supplied material for his stand-up ever since, and his sitcom drew on it too.
Q 22Lopez was brought up mainly by which relative after both of his parents left?
His maternal grandmother
His maternal grandmother, a factory worker, raised him with her husband in Mission Hills. Her gruff manner later became the model for his mother on the sitcom.
Q 23Lopez was how old when his father walked out on the family?
Two months
Two months. His mother stayed until he was ten, then remarried and moved away, and Lopez has wrung stand-up material out of both exits ever since.
A kidney. The storyline came from life: Lopez has a genetic condition that wore down his own kidneys, and he had a transplant himself in 2005.
Q 14Which band recorded 'Low Rider', the theme song of the sitcom George Lopez?
War
War. The bond outlasted the sitcom: when the band got a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 2025, Lopez spoke at the ceremony and the musicians arrived in lowriders.
Q 15Masiela Lusha, the only non-Latina in George Lopez's main cast, was born in which country?
Albania
Albania. Lusha was born in Tirana and played George's daughter Carmen for five seasons, until the character was written out and packed off to college.
Q 16When his sitcom was cancelled in 2007, Lopez scoffed at which new comedy the network had just picked up?
Cavemen
Cavemen. 'So a Chicano can't be on TV, but a caveman can?' Lopez asked; the comedy, spun off from insurance commercials, was pulled after only six episodes had aired.
Q 17Which studio, rather than the network that aired it, made George Lopez on its Burbank lot?
Warner Bros. Television
Warner Bros. Television. Lopez said that was part of why the sitcom was dropped in 2007: the network kept weaker comedies that its own studio owned.
Q 18Which cable block began airing reruns of George Lopez in 2007?
Nick at Nite
Nick at Nite. The reruns arrived within months of the sitcom's cancellation and by 2008 were the block's highest-rated show, as it traded nostalgia like I Love Lucy for newer family comedies.
Q 19Which actress played George's wife Angie on George Lopez?
Constance Marie
Constance Marie. Fifteen years after the sitcom ended, she and several castmates reunited with Lopez for a Christmas episode of his comedy Lopez vs Lopez.
Q 20In 2003, Lopez was among the comedians who shared hosting duties at which awards ceremony?
The Emmy Awards
The Emmy Awards. The show had no single host that year, so the job was split between eleven comics, among them Ellen DeGeneres, Jon Stewart and Wanda Sykes.
Q 24Which HBO sports show featured Lopez as a cast member for the 2003–04 season?
Inside the NFL
Inside the NFL. HBO used Lopez for comedy segments that season, and the league then picked him to host its televised Opening Kickoff show in September 2004.
Q 25Lopez Tonight, which George Lopez hosted from 2009 to 2011, aired on which network?
TBS
TBS. The programme went out four times a week from November 2009, but its ratings slid after a schedule change and the network cancelled it in August 2011.
Q 26Which host's arrival at the network in 2010 pushed Lopez Tonight back to midnight?
Conan O'Brien
Conan O'Brien. He was reluctant to bump another host, so Lopez phoned and urged him to come, then joked on air, 'I was on Team Coco, now I'm on Team Loco!'
Q 27Which basketball star was a guest on the very first episode of Lopez Tonight in 2009?
Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant. He broke his own rule about turning down such invitations for the premiere, and handed Lopez a pair of his signature shoes on air.
Q 28Lopez was the first Mexican-American to host what on English-language US television?
A late-night talk show
A late-night talk show. Lopez Tonight arrived in November 2009 with a promise to bring change to the format, and it ran for two seasons before falling ratings ended it.
Q 29Saint George, Lopez's 2014 sitcom, followed Charlie Sheen's Anger Management onto which network?
FX
FX. Both were made on a '10/90' deal, in which hitting a ratings target over ten episodes triggers an order for ninety more; Saint George missed it and was cancelled after one season.
Q 30Lopez, George Lopez's 2016 single-camera sitcom about his own life, debuted on which channel?
TV Land
TV Land. The series played his real life for laughs, including the end of his 17-year marriage and how awkward it had become to see old friends now that he was rich.