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50 free Sam & Cat trivia questions with answers. Sam & Cat only lasted one season in 2013 and 2014, but the Nickelodeon spin-off that put iCarly's Sam and Victorious's Cat in a Venice apartment together packed a lot into 35 episodes: a babysitting service with a very long name, a robot-staffed diner called Bots, a dim-witted cage fighter named Goomer, a Halloween doll called Clarice and a one-hour crossover with a tank of killer tuna. This quiz covers the whole run. Easy questions ask who played the two leads and how they met; medium ones dig into episode plots, guest stars from Laverne & Shirley and All That, and the hashtag episode titles; harder ones cover premiere numbers, the doubled episode order, the theme song and the messy behind-the-scenes story that ended the show. There is also a little on what both stars did next. Every answer was verified against Wikipedia and other published sources, and each question shows the citation, so you can check the facts yourself. Good for anyone who grew up on 2010s Nick or wants to settle a group-chat argument about #TheKillerTunaJump.
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Q 01Who created Sam & Cat, having also created the two Nickelodeon sitcoms it spun off from?
Dan Schneider
The creator also voiced Tandy, the red robot waiter at the show's restaurant hangout, in recurring appearances.
Q 02Sam & Cat was a spin-off of which two earlier Nickelodeon sitcoms?
iCarly and Victorious
It was a rare double spin-off, lifting one lead character from each parent show and dropping them into a shared apartment.
Q 03Which actress played Sam, the tomboy who arrives in Los Angeles on a motorcycle?
Jennette McCurdy
She had already played the character for six seasons on iCarly before the spin-off, and later wrote a best-selling memoir about her time in kids' TV.
Q 04Which future pop superstar played the bubbly, red-haired Cat?
Ariana Grande
Her debut album came out in August 2013, roughly two months into the show's run, and went straight to number one on the Billboard 200.
Q 05Rather than take ordinary after-school jobs, what kind of business do the two roommates start?
A babysitting service
The full company name was 'Sam and Cat's Super Rockin' Fun Time Babysitting Service', which later got them threatened with a trademark lawsuit.
Q 06Sam first meets Cat when she rescues her from the back of what?
A garbage truck
Sam had stopped at a food truck in Los Angeles when she saw the girl being dumped in and ran off to save her.
Q 07In which Los Angeles neighborhood is the show set?
Venice
Sam had been touring the West Coast on her motorcycle after her best friend Carly moved to Italy, and simply stopped there.
Q 08Cat's hair is dyed bright red to resemble her favorite snack. What is it?
A red velvet cupcake
The actress dyed her real hair red for the role in the early part of the show; she later switched to wigs.
Q 09Who played Dice, the neighbor who is always trying to make a buck?
Cameron Ocasio
He appeared in every aired episode and holds a black belt in martial arts in real life.
Q 10Besides managing a fighter, what unusual modeling job does Dice have?
Hair model
The gig drives whole episodes: he leaves town for a shoot in Phoenix in one, and lands a magazine cover in Arizona in the finale.
Q 11Which veteran soap actress played Nona, Cat's grandmother?
Maree Cheatham
She was billed as 'Starring' in the end credits but not the opening titles, and sat out well over a dozen episodes.
Q 12Nona moves out of the apartment to be nearer her friends at which retirement community?
Elderly Acres
Her move is what lets Sam stay on permanently, and the community becomes the setting for a rigged bingo game and an old-folks gaming addiction.
Q 13Goomer, the dim-witted friend Dice manages, competes professionally in what?
Mixed martial arts
He is 27 but acts far younger, and Dice took over as his manager after the previous one called him too dumb to manage.
Q 21On what date did the network confirm the show had been cancelled?
July 13, 2014
A promo had already told viewers only two episodes remained; the network said the last four episodes of the doubled order would never be made.
Q 22The series finale aired four days after cancellation as a lead-in to the first ever what?
Kids' Choice Sports
The finale, #GettinWiggy, ended with Cat sitting in an Arizona jail while Sam decided to keep Nona around as a dream roommate.
Q 23What is the title of the show's theme song, performed by Backhouse Mike?
Just Fine
Q 14What is the name of the restaurant where robots Tandy and Bungle wait tables?
Bots
Bungle, the blue female robot, was voiced by Lisa Lillien, the Hungry Girl food writer who is married to the show's creator.
Q 15On what date did the series premiere in the United States?
June 8, 2013
The creator had wanted a March launch right after the Kids' Choice Awards, but the network preferred fall; June was the compromise announced by the two stars on Twitter.
Q 16How many viewers watched the pilot episode on its US debut?
4.2 million
The second episode a week later dropped to 2.6 million, and only the big crossover special ever topped the premiere.
Q 17Which episode was the most watched of the series, beating even the premiere?
#TheKillerTunaJump
The one-hour special drew 4.8 million US viewers on January 18, 2014, and is counted as two episodes in production but one for airing purposes.
Q 18After strong early ratings, Nickelodeon doubled the initial 20-episode order to how many?
40
The doubled order was announced on July 11, 2013, and became a headache: the network later blamed the huge order for the production hiatus.
Q 19How many episodes of Sam & Cat were actually broadcast?
35
Thirty-six were produced, but two were merged into one hour-long special, so only 35 aired.
Q 20What do all of the show's episode titles begin with?
A hashtag
Titles were written as camel-case social-media tags like #TheBritBrats and #MyPoober, in keeping with the show's texting-era setting.
Backhouse Mike, real name Michael Corcoran, also scored the creator's other Nickelodeon shows and Disney's Shake It Up.
Q 24Which award did the series win at the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards?
Favorite TV Show
The win came at the same ceremony its co-star skipped, citing unfair treatment by the network, weeks before the show went on hiatus.
Q 25At the 2014 Kids' Choice Awards, Grande won which award for the show?
Favorite TV Actress
It was one of eleven Kids' Choice blimps she has collected, the latest coming in 2025 for the film Wicked.
Q 26Per Jennette McCurdy, what was the show's original title, with Sam as a school counselor?
Just Puckett
She revealed the original plan in her 2022 memoir, adding that the redevelopment into a joint spin-off happened after she was already attached.
Q 27McCurdy claimed which episode was shot without Grande because of the singer's music commitments?
#StuckInABox
In that episode Cat is trapped inside a defective magic box for the entire runtime and ends up bumped out of the car on the way to a theme park.
Q 28What is the title of McCurdy's 2022 memoir that discusses her time on the show?
I'm Glad My Mom Died
It sold out within 24 hours of release and spent more than 60 straight weeks on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list.
Q 29Which album did Grande release on August 30, 2013, while the show was airing new episodes?
Yours Truly
The doo-wop-flavored record debuted at number one with 138,000 first-week copies, and its rising success was among the reasons cited for the show's end.
Q 30A decade after the show, Grande played which character in the two-part film Wicked?
Glinda
She auditioned five times for the part and was credited under her full birth surname, Grande-Butera.