Themed Quizzes

50 Friends Quiz Questions & Answers

As well as 50 pub quiz questions & answers on the subject of the TV show “Friends”, I’ve added additional Friends Quiz resources such as tie-break questions & a “guest-stars” round.

I hope you will find these useful when preparing questions for your Friends themed quiz.

The Friends questions range in difficulty from easy through to difficult. I have also included some bonus round trivia.

Friends Quiz Jump Index:


Friends Font

To create posters and social media graphics for promoting your quiz, a good font to use is Gabriel Weiss’ Friends Font. Here is the download link from DaFont: Gabriel Weiss’ Friends Font


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Easy: Questions on Friends

1. Who played the character Rachel Green on the show Friends?

Answer: Jennifer Aniston

2. What is the name of Ross’s second wife?

Answer: Emily

3. What is the name of Joey’s stuffed penguin?

Answer: Hugsy

4. What is the name of the coffee shop where the Friends characters often hang out?

Answer: Central Perk

5. What is the name of Phoebe’s twin sister?

Answer: Ursula

6. What is Chandler Bing’s middle name?

Answer: Muriel

7. Which character is known for saying “How you doin’?” as a pick-up line?

Answer: Joey Tribbiani

8. What is the name of Ross and Monica’s father?

Answer: Jack Geller

9. What does Joey never share?

Answer: Food

10. What is the name of Ross’s second child?

Answer: Ben

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Medium: Questions on Friends

11. Which actress played the character of Monica Geller?

Answer: Courteney Cox

12. In which city is the TV show Friends primarily set?

Answer: New York City

13. What is the name of the song that Phoebe Buffay sings at Central Perk?

Answer: “Smelly Cat”

14. What is the name of Joey’s agent?

Answer: Estelle Leonard

15. What is Chandler Bing’s job?

Answer: Statistical Analyst/IT Procurement Manager

16. What is the name of Ross’s first wife?

Answer: Carol Willick

17. What is the name of the actor who plays Ross Geller?

Answer: David Schwimmer

18. What is the profession of Ross’s ex-wife, Carol?

Answer: She’s a lesbian and works in the fashion industry.

19. What is the name of the actress who played Ross’s second wife, Emily?

Answer: Helen Baxendale

20. What is the name of Rachel’s ex-fiancĂ© who ran away from their wedding?

Answer: Barry Farber

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Difficult: Questions on Friends

21. What is Chandler Bing’s job specifically in the earlier seasons?

Answer: He is a data processing manager for a large multinational corporation.

22. What is the name of Ross’s second wife’s cousin, whom he dated briefly?

Answer: Cassie Geller

23. Which friend is the only one to have kissed all the other friends?

Answer: Chandler Bing

24. What is the name of Joey’s identical hand twin?

Answer: Carl

25. Which actress played the role of Janice, Chandler’s on-again-off-again girlfriend?

Answer: Maggie Wheeler

26. What is the name of the real estate agent whom Chandler and Monica buy their house from?

Answer: Nancy

27. What is the name of the self-defense instructor that Ross tries to flirt with?

Answer: Phoebe Abbott

28. What is the name of Rachel’s sister who dates Ross?

Answer: Jill Green

29. What is the name of the doctor who delivers Ross and Rachel’s baby?

Answer: Dr. Franzblau

30. In which season do Monica and Chandler get married?

Answer: Season 7

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Very Difficult: Questions on Friends

31. What is the name of Ross and Chandler’s college band?

Answer: Way, No Way

32. Which character is allergic to lobster?

Answer: Ross Geller

33. What is the name of the restaurant where Monica works as a chef for part of the series?

Answer: Alessandro’s

34. What was the name of the dog that Phoebe finds?

Answer: Clunkers

35. What is the name of the actor who plays Joey’s father?

Answer: Robert Costanzo

36. What is the name of the magazine where Rachel starts working in Season 3?

Answer: Ralph Lauren

37. What is the name of the character who writes the letter to Rachel and Ross, saying they were “on a break”?

Answer: Mark Robinson

38. What is the name of the soda company that Joey gets a job as a spokesperson for?

Answer: Ichiban

39. What is the name of Joey’s character on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives”?

Answer: Dr. Drake Ramoray

40. What is the name of Ross’s monkey?

Answer: Marcel

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Bonus: Ultimate Challenge

41. What is Chandler Bing’s job at the end of the series?

Answer: Advertising copywriter.

42. What is the name of the book series that Joey is obsessed with?

Answer: “Little Women.”

43. What is the name of the female roommate who briefly lived with Chandler and Joey before moving out?

Answer: Kori

44. What is the name of Ross’s second wife’s stepson?

Answer: James

45. What is the name of Joey’s character on the TV show “Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.”?

Answer: Detective Mac Machiavelli

46. What is the name of the agency where Chandler works after he quits his job?

Answer: Ad Agency

47. What is the name of Joey’s stuffed penguin’s girlfriend?

Answer: Precious

48. What is the name of Phoebe’s albino rat?

Answer: Bob

49. What is the name of Ross’s girlfriend who was a scientist?

Answer: Charlie Wheeler

50. What is the name of the nanny hired by Ross and Rachel to take care of Emma?

Answer: Molly


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Guest Stars

Quiz Questions On Guest Stars In Friends

Here are an additional 20x quiz questions on guest-stars on Friends. Some of these might be useful for a specialist round in your themed quiz.

Question: Which famous actor played the role of Ross’s girlfriend’s father, billionaire Richard Burke?
Answer: Tom Selleck

Question: Who played the role of Joey’s agent, Estelle Leonard?
Answer: June Gable

Question: Which actress guest-starred as Ross’s love interest, Elizabeth Stevens, a student of his?
Answer: Alexandra Holden

Question: Which famous actor played the role of Ross’s ex-wife Carol’s girlfriend, Susan Bunch?
Answer: Jessica Hecht

Question: Who portrayed Joey’s grandmother, Nonnie, in the episode “Joey’s Grandma Dies”?
Answer: Brenda Vaccaro

Question: Which musician and actress guest-starred as Ursula Buffay, Phoebe’s twin sister?
Answer: Lisa Kudrow (Ursula was originally a character from the show “Mad About You”, also played by Lisa Kudrow)

Question: What famous comedian played the role of Chandler’s cross-dressing father, Charles Bing, also known as Helena Handbasket?
Answer: Kathleen Turner

Question: Who guest-starred as Emily’s stepmother, Andrea Waltham, in the episode where Ross and Emily are getting married?
Answer: Jennifer Saunders

Question: Which actor guest-starred as Dr. Richard Burke’s son, Timothy, who dated Rachel?
Answer: Michael Vartan

Question: Who played the role of Monica and Ross’s cousin, Cassie Geller?
Answer: Denise Richards

Question: Which famous actor played the role of Mike Hannigan, Phoebe’s eventual husband?
Answer: Paul Rudd

Question: Who guest-starred as Ross’s girlfriend, Charlie Wheeler, a paleontologist?
Answer: Aisha Tyler

Question: Which actor played the role of Eddie Menuek, Chandler’s eccentric roommate?
Answer: Adam Goldberg

Question: Who portrayed Phoebe’s birth mother, Phoebe Abbott?
Answer: Teri Garr

Question: Which famous actress played the role of Ross’s second wife, Emily Waltham?
Answer: Helen Baxendale

Question: Who guest-starred as Amanda Buffamonteezi, a woman who thought Joey was really Drake Ramoray, his character on “Days of Our Lives”?
Answer: Jennifer Coolidge

Question: Which actor played the role of Leonard Hayes, the author of the self-help book “Be Your Own Windkeeper” that the girls read?
Answer: Jeff Goldblum

Question: Who guest-starred as Ross’s girlfriend, Julie, who dated Ross before Rachel?
Answer: Lauren Tom

Question: Which famous actor played the role of Ross and Monica’s cousin, Cassie’s husband, and co-founder of the “I Hate Rachel Green Club”?
Answer: George Clooney

Question: Who played the role of Roy Gublik, Phoebe’s bald-headed boyfriend who she thought was a former ice dancer?
Answer: Danny DeVito


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Friends Quiz Tie Breaker Questions

Here are 20 numerical tie-breaker questions and answers related to the TV show Friends:

As usual with tie-break questions, the closest to the correct answer wins.

Try and combine some of these by asking to add up the total of the answers to any of the following:

Question: How many seasons of Friends were aired?
Answer: 10

Question: How many apartments did the character Monica Geller live in throughout the series?
Answer: 2

Question: How many times was Ross Geller married throughout the series?
Answer: 3

Question: In the episode “The One with All the Thanksgivings,” how many different Thanksgivings do the friends remember?
Answer: 5

Question: How many sisters does Joey Tribbiani have?
Answer: 7

Question: What is the number of the apartment across the hall from Monica and Rachel’s apartment?
Answer: 20

Question: In the episode “The One Where No One’s Ready,” how many minutes does Ross give his friends to get ready before they have to leave for an event?
Answer: 30

Question: How many seasons was Joey Tribbiani’s spin-off show, “Joey,” on air?
Answer: 2

Question: What is the total number of main characters on the show Friends?
Answer: 6

Question: How many episodes were there in total across all seasons of Friends?
Answer: 236

Question: In the episode “The One with Five Steaks and an Eggplant,” how many steaks does Joey order?
Answer: 5

Question: How many times does Ross say “We were on a break” throughout the series?
Answer: 4

Question: How many times do Ross and Rachel get back together throughout the series?
Answer: 3

Question: What is the total number of siblings Ross and Monica Geller have?
Answer: 1 (Monica)

Question: How many wedding dresses did Monica try on when she and Chandler were shopping for wedding attire?
Answer: 13

Question: In the episode “The One with Ross’s Wedding,” how many women does Ross say “Rachel” instead of “Emily” to?
Answer: 2

Question: How many cats does Ross adopt over the course of the series?
Answer: 2

Question: In the episode “The One with the Proposal,” how many pages is Rachel’s letter to Ross?
Answer: 18

Question: How many times does Phoebe Buffay get married throughout the series?
Answer: 3

Question: What is the maximum number of failed attempts Ross makes before successfully kissing Rachel for the first time?
Answer: 3