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50 free Married with Children trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Married with Children trivia questions with answers. Married... with Children ran for eleven seasons and 259 episodes as the show a whole network was built on, so there is far more to it than shoe jokes. These 50 questions cover the Bundys in detail: the name of the shop Al hates, the fictional high school he beat in 1966, the make of the car, and the uncle Ed O'Neill quietly based the whole performance on. Every member of the family gets their own questions — Peg's maiden name and the Wisconsin county it comes from, Kelly's origins in a heavy metal documentary, Bud's full name and his suave alter ego — plus the neighbours, the duelling acronym clubs, the Frank Sinatra theme and the 1989 boycott campaign that made the show a household name. Every answer was checked against a primary reference before publication, so the episode counts, air dates and character details are accurate. Play it solo or use it as a round for anyone who spent the nineties watching television they were not supposed to.
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Q 01On which network did Married... with Children air?
Fox
It was the first primetime series the network ever broadcast. It ran from April 1987 to June 1997.
Q 02What distinction does the show hold on that network?
Longest-running live-action sitcom
Eleven seasons and 259 episodes is a long run by any measure. Only cartoons have lasted longer there.
Q 03In which city is the Bundy family home?
Chicago
The suburb is fictional but the city is not. Al supports its sports teams with grim loyalty.
Q 04What is Al Bundy's job?
Women's shoe salesman
He hates it and says so in almost every episode. The shop sits in a shopping mall.
Q 05What is the name of the shop where Al works?
Gary's Shoes for Today's Woman
It sits in the fictional New Market Mall. He loses or quits the job several times and is always rehired.
Q 06What is Al's endlessly repeated sporting achievement?
Four touchdowns in a single game
It happened in the 1966 city championship for Polk High.
Q 07Which fictional school did Al's team beat in that championship game?
Andrew Johnson High
The game was the city final in 1966. His own school was Polk High.
Q 08What kind of car does Al drive?
A 1970s Dodge
It is only ever called by its make on screen. The model shown is sometimes a Plymouth Duster instead.
Q 09Who did Ed O'Neill say he based his performance on?
One of his uncles
He said so in a 2016 interview. The performance ran for eleven seasons.
Q 10Which actress played Peg Bundy?
Katey Sagal
She later starred in Sons of Anarchy and voiced Leela in Futurama. She sang professionally before acting.
Q 11What is Peg Bundy's maiden name?
Wanker
Her family come from a fictional Wisconsin county of the same name. The joke got past the censors for a decade.
Q 12Which three chores does Peg flatly refuse to do?
Work, cook or clean
The family lives on frozen food and takeaway as a result. Her hair, however, is immaculate at all times.
Q 13What changed about Peg's appearance after the first two seasons?
She became a redhead
The bouffant and the spandex stayed throughout. She had been a brunette to begin with.
Q 21What is the name of Bud's suave alter ego?
Cool Bud
He eventually merges with the persona. The results are rarely dignified.
Q 22Which song is the show's theme tune?
Love and Marriage
Frank Sinatra performs it. The choice is entirely sarcastic given what follows.
Q 23Who performs the show's theme song?
Frank Sinatra
The song was written by Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen in the 1950s. It had originally been a wholesome hit.
Q 24What are the surnames of the Bundys' next-door neighbours?
Q 14Why did the writers give Peg a baby storyline in season six?
Katey Sagal was expecting in real life
The storyline was later reversed on screen. The show handled it in a way few sitcoms would attempt.
Q 15Which actress played Kelly Bundy?
Christina Applegate
She was fifteen when the show began. She won an Emmy years later for a guest role in Friends.
Q 16Where did the actress who played Kelly say she found the model for the character?
A metal documentary from 1988
It was an exotic dancer called Cindy in The Decline of Western Civilization Part II. The character became less realistic and more extreme as the series went on.
Q 17How is Kelly portrayed in the first season, compared with later ones?
As a fairly normal teenage girl
After the first year she steadily becomes denser and more provocative. The wardrobe changed with the writing.
Q 18What work does Kelly take up after leaving school in 1990?
Modelling and waitressing
Her advertising work includes the notorious Verminator campaign. Her brother, by contrast, keeps a high grade point average.
Q 19Which actor played Bud Bundy?
David Faustino
He was thirteen when the show started. His character is born on screen in January 1974.
Q 20How does Bud compare academically with the rest of his family?
He is the most able of them
He maintains a high grade point average right through school. It does him no good at all socially.
Rhoades
Steve and Marcy move in early in the run. Marcy stays for the whole series, remarrying along the way.
Q 25Which anti-man support group does Marcy found?
FANG
Al runs the rival organisation with the longer acronym. The two groups exist mainly to insult each other.
Q 26What does the acronym NO MA'AM stand for?
National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood
Al founds it in the later seasons. The joke is that the name is longer than the group's list of achievements.
Q 27Who attempted to organise a boycott of the show in 1989?
Terry Rakolta
She was a viewer from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The campaign made the show far more famous than it had been.
Q 28How many episodes of Married... with Children were made?
259
They were spread across eleven seasons. That is the longest live-action run in the network's history.
Q 29How many seasons did the show run?
Eleven
The network cancelled it without a proper finale.
Q 30In which year was the series cancelled?
1997
The decision came from the network. The cast learned about it in the press.