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60 free Laverne & Shirley trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Laverne and Shirley trivia quiz covers all eight seasons of the Happy Days spin-off, from the basement apartment and the bottle-capping line in late-1950s Wisconsin to the gift-wrap counter after the gang moved west. Expect questions on the hopscotch chant that opens every episode, Laverne's monogram and her drink of choice, Shirley's stuffed cat, Carmine's nickname, Frank DeFazio's hangout, and the upstairs neighbours who barge in at the worst possible moment. The easy rounds suit anyone who grew up with the reruns; the harder ones dig into the Army Reserve episodes, the Saturday-morning cartoon with a talking-animal sergeant, the in-character albums, the lawsuit that ended one star's run, and the studio executive who hid a screen-test reel in a closet. It works for a 1970s TV night, a family game with the grandparents, or a solo test of how much you really remember. Every answer has been checked against encyclopaedia entries on the series and its cast, and each question shows its explanation and source after you answer.
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Q 01On which network did Laverne & Shirley run for its eight seasons?
ABC
ABC aired Laverne & Shirley for its entire run in the Tuesday half-hour after its parent show, and it was America's most-watched program in the 1977-78 season.
Q 02Laverne & Shirley was a spin-off of which sitcom?
Happy Days
Happy Days introduced Laverne and Shirley in a November 1975 episode as dates for Richie and his pal; the spin-off premiered two months later, in January 1976.
Q 03What was the name of the fictitious brewery where Laverne and Shirley worked?
Shotz
Shotz Brewery was invented for the show; Pabst, Schlitz and Blatz were all real brewing companies.
Q 04In which city was the show set for its first five seasons?
Milwaukee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was the setting for the first five seasons; the sixth season, starting in late 1980, moved the characters west to California.
Q 05Which actress played Laverne DeFazio?
Penny Marshall
Penny Marshall played Laverne DeFazio for all eight seasons and later directed the films Big (1988) and A League of Their Own (1992).
Q 06Which actress played Shirley Feeney?
Cindy Williams
Cindy Williams played Shirley Feeney; before the sitcom she had starred as Laurie in George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973).
Q 07What job did the two women do at the brewery?
Bottle-cappers
Bottle-cappers on the brewery's assembly line, the pair lost those jobs in season six when automated capping machines replaced them, prompting the move west.
Q 08Michael McKean and David Lander created Lenny and Squiggy while students at which university?
Carnegie Mellon
Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh is where McKean and Lander met as drama students in the late 1960s, creating the characters they later performed with the comedy troupe The Credibility Gap.
Q 09With which single word, said in a dopey voice, does Squiggy make almost every entrance?
"Hello"
"Hello" is Squiggy's nasal greeting as he and Lenny barge in, usually just as the women finish describing something disgusting.
Q 10What is the name of Shirley's beloved stuffed cat?
Boo Boo Kitty
Boo Boo Kitty is the stuffed toy cat Shirley keeps on her bed and confides in, a running gag throughout the series.
Q 11What is Laverne's favourite drink?
Milk and Pepsi
Milk and Pepsi, poured together in one glass, was Laverne's signature drink, a quirk the show played for laughs throughout its run.
Q 12What was Carmine Ragusa's nickname?
The Big Ragu
The Big Ragu was the nickname of Carmine Ragusa, Shirley's on-and-off boyfriend, a singer and dancer forever chasing a show-business break.
Q 13Which actor played Carmine?
Eddie Mekka
Eddie Mekka played Carmine; a Tony-nominated stage performer, he sang and danced whenever the scripts put the character on stage.
Q 21How many episodes of Laverne & Shirley were made?
178
178 episodes aired across the show's eight seasons, beginning in January 1976; Shirley's actress left early in the eighth, so Laverne carried the final run.
Q 22Which television producer created the series along with Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman?
Garry Marshall
Garry Marshall created the series with Lowell Ganz and Mark Rothman; he had already created the parent show and went on to create Mork & Mindy and direct Pretty Woman (1990).
Q 23During which season did the women join the Army Reserve?
Fifth
The brief stint was enough to inspire an entire Saturday-morning cartoon set in the Army.
Q 14Before the move west, Laverne's father Frank ran which local hangout?
The Pizza Bowl
The Pizza Bowl, Frank DeFazio's combined pizzeria and bowling alley, was the gang's regular hangout before the move west.
Q 15Who played Edna Babish, the landlady who married Laverne's father?
Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett played Edna Babish; the actress had earlier starred opposite Frank Sinatra in the MGM musicals Take Me Out to the Ball Game and On the Town (both 1949).
Q 16To which California city did the gang move for the sixth season?
Burbank
Burbank became the setting from season six, with the timeline jumping to the mid-1960s as the pair moved into a new apartment in Southern California.
Q 17At which department store did Laverne and Shirley work as gift wrappers in California?
Bardwell's
Bardwell's Department Store employed the pair as gift wrappers after the move west, one of the odd jobs that replaced their brewery work in the California seasons.
Q 18What is the title of the show's theme song?
"Making Our Dreams Come True"
"Making Our Dreams Come True" was written by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox and, released as a single, peaked at number 25 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1976.
Q 19Which singer performed the theme song?
Cyndi Grecco
Cyndi Grecco recorded the theme, and her single version reached the US top 30 in 1976, her best-known recording.
Q 20The opening hopscotch chant runs "Schlemiel! Schlimazel!" and then which two-word phrase?
Hasenpfeffer Incorporated
The chant is a Yiddish-American hopscotch rhyme from Laverne's actress's own childhood; schoolchildren recite it in the final season.
Q 24What was the nickname of Sgt. Alvinia T. Plout, the drill sergeant played by Vicki Lawrence?
The Frog
She returned in season six having gone AWOL after a four-star general jilted her.
Q 25In the animated spin-off, what kind of animal was the drill sergeant Squealy?
A pig
A pig named Sgt. Squealy, a talking porker in uniform, barked orders at the duo in the 1981 Saturday-morning cartoon Laverne & Shirley in the Army.
Q 26Which Welcome Back, Kotter actor voiced Sgt. Squealy in the cartoon?
Ron Palillo
He was best known as Arnold Horshack, the class clown with the wheezing laugh.
Q 27Michael McKean's role was cut back in the final season because he was filming which film?
This Is Spinal Tap
This Is Spinal Tap, shot in 1982 and released in 1984, took McKean away from the set, so Lenny appeared in only a handful of final-season episodes as a guest.
Q 28What was the title of the 1979 in-character album released by McKean and Lander?
Lenny and the Squigtones
Lenny and the Squigtones was recorded live and issued by Casablanca Records in 1979, with McKean and Lander staying in character throughout.
Q 29Which future rock-mockumentary character, played by Christopher Guest, first appeared on the Squigtones album?
Nigel Tufnel
Nigel Tufnel is the name under which Christopher Guest was credited as guitarist on the 1979 album, half a decade before the character's 1984 mockumentary.
Q 30For how much did the actress who played Shirley sue Paramount when she left in 1982?
$20 million
$20 million was the sum of the 1982 suit against Paramount; the actress, pregnant, said the studio had scheduled her to work on her due date, and the case settled out of court.