150+ The Big Bang Theory Trivia Questions and Answers

The Big Bang Theory is among the most popular comedy shows on Netflix. The series has been able to attract up to 20 million viewers. Similar to friends, both shows revolved around the lives of a group of friends but are differentiated in their approaches to humor.

This series is premised on the leading explanation for how the universe began. It explains how the universe started as an infinitely hot and dense single point that inflated and stretched to unimaginable speeds, and then develops at a more measurable rate.

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David Saltzberg, a professor of Physics and Astronomy at UCLA, has been on retainer since the beginning of the series. He has attended the weekly screening of The Big Bang Theory where he offers corrections and ensures the whiteboards used in the scenes are accurate.

The adorable cast members make up some of the world’s highest-paid TV actors.  According to Variety (2017), some of the top paid actors in comedy are Kaley Cuoco, Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Simon Helberg, and Kunal Nayyar— all earning an average of $900,000 per episode.

Gather your friends together for a trivia night. Use this list of The Big Bang Theory questions with answers to test how much you know about the series.

1. What is Leonard’s surname?

Hofstadter

 

2. What does Sheldon’s mom call him?

Shelly

 

3. In which US state is Big Bang Theory set?

California

 

4. Who plays Sheldon’s older brother, Georgie?

Jerry O’Connell

 

5. Who officiates Sheldon and Amy’s wedding?

Mark Hamill

 

6. Which actress portrays Penny?

Kaley Cuoco

 

7.  How many times does Sheldon have to knock on a door and say a person’s name before he’ll go in?

Three

 

8. Sheldon hosts a YouTube show during the series. What is it called?

“Sheldon Cooper Presents: Fun With Flags”

 

9. Who does Howard live with at the beginning of the show?

His mum

 

10. What does Sheldon rename his show after Amy joins in?

“Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Amy Farrah Fowler Present: Dr. Sheldon Cooper’s Fun With Flags”

 

11. How many seasons of Big Bang Theory are there?

12

 

12. Who said ‘Our babies will be smart and beautiful’?

Leonard

 

13. What state is Sheldon originally from?

Texas

 

14. What is Sheldon’s IQ?

187

 

15. What store was Sheldon born in?

Kmart

 

16. Where does Sheldon’s twin sister work?

Fuddruckers

 

17. What apartment do Penny and Leonard live in?

4A

 

18. Who does Penny marry?

Leonard

 

19. What song does Penny sing to Sheldon when he’s sick?

“Soft Kitty”

 

20. What meaningful gift does Penny give to Sheldon for Christmas one year?

A napkin signed by Leonard Nimoy

 

21. What state is Penny from? Nebraska

Nebraska

 

22. Why did she move to Los Angeles?

To become an actress

 

23. In which US state is Big Bang Theory set?

California

 

24. What restaurant does Penny work at for a large part of the series?

The Cheesecake Factory

 

25. What academic theory does Sheldon specialize in?

String theory

 

26. Who is Sheldon’s nemesis?

Wil Wheaton

27. What is Sheldon’s favorite number?

73

 

28. What’s his name?

Kurt

 

29. Where is Rajesh from?

India

 

30. What are Penny’s parents’ names?

Wyatt and Susan

 

31. Where do Sheldon, Amy, Raj, Howard, and Leonard work?

Caltech

 

32. Which character goes to space?

Howard

 

33. What is Leonard’s middle name?

Leakey

 

34. Who does Leonard marry on the show?

Penny

 

35. What astronaut nickname is Howard given by his space friends?

 

36. How long is Howard on the space station?

Five months

 

37. Which character’s surname is Farrah Fowler?

Amy

 

38. What is Howard’s middle name?

Joel

 

39. Where did Howard get his engineering degree?

MIT

 

40. Early in the series, what is Howard’s main mode of transportation?

Vespa

 

41. What is Howard allergic to?

Nuts

 

42. Where does Leonard get married?

 

43. Where did Leonard graduate from?

Princeton

 

44. At the beginning of the show, who can’t Rajesh talk to?

Women

 

45. What instrument does Leonard play?

Cello

 

46. What does Leonard’s mom do for work? She’s a psychiatrist and neuroscientist

Cello

 

47. What does Leonard’s dad do for work?

He’s an anthropologist

 

48. Where do Sheldon, Howard, Leonard, Raj and Amy work?

The California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

 

49. Which actor portrays Sheldon Cooper?

Jim Parsons

50. What does Penny name her gaming character in Age of Conan?

Queen Penelope, Guardian

 

51. What breed of dog does Raj have?

 

52. What is Raj’s dog’s name?

Cinnamon

 

53. What does Raj call his apartment in the first several seasons of the show?

Raj Mahal

 

54. What is Raj’s sister’s name?

Priya

 

55. When Howard and Bernadette’s daughter, Halley, won’t stop crying, what does Bernadette do?

Crawls into the crib with her

 

56. What does Bernadette’s dad say to Howard when he gives her away at the wedding?

“Here ya go.”

 

57. What is Bernadette’s graduate degree?

Microbiology

 

58. What is the name of Bernadette’s son?

Neil Michael Wolowitz

 

59. What nickname did Howard give to Bernadette?

Bernie

 

60. How does Bernadette meet Penny?

They work together at The Cheesecake Factory

 

61. Which character is from Texas?

Sheldon Cooper

 

62. Why is it hard for Raj to talk to women he’s not related to?

He has selective mutism

 

63. What’s Leonard and Sheldon’s apartment number?

4A

 

64. Amy brings home one of her monkeys from the lab in season four, and he has a terrible habit. What is it? Smoking

Smoking

 

65. Where is Leonard from?

New Jersey

 

66. Where did Amy get her undergraduate degree?

Harvard

 

67. How do Sheldon and Amy meet?

 

68. What’s Rajesh’s job?

Astrophysicist

 

69. Sheldon and Amy win the Nobel Prize for their work on what?

Super-asymmetry theory

 

70. The night Amy and Sheldon finally have sex for the first time, what event does Sheldon miss out on?

The premiere of a new Star Wars movie

 

71. Which one of these characters does not wear glasses?

Howard

 

72. What is the name of the science-show host played by Bob Newhart that Sheldon and Leonard love so much?

Professor Proton

 

73. Which color is Penny’s laptop?

Pink

 

74. Who performs the “Big Bang Theory” theme song?

Barenaked Ladies

 

75. Stuart runs a comic book store. What is the name of the store?

The Comic Center of Pasadena

 

76. How many episodes of “The Big Bang Theory” are there?

279

 

77. What year did the show premiere?

2007

 

78. What’s the name of the “Big Bang Theory” spinoff?

“Young Sheldon”

 

79. How many Emmys did the show win?

10

 

80. How many times was it nominated?

55

 

81. Which couple gets married first?

Bernadette and Howard

 

82. Which characters don’t have PhDs?

Penny and Howard

 

83. When the men enter the Physics Bowl, they name their team PMS. What does PMS stand for?

Perpetual Motion Squad

 

84. How did the group try to teach Sheldon to drive?

With a driving-simulator computer game

 

85. What is Leonard’s primary health concern?

He is lactose intolerant

 

86. What does Sheldon always wear?

A short-sleeved T-shirt on top of a long-sleeved T-shirt

 

87. When does Penny kiss Leonard for the first time?

At Penny’s Halloween party, on Leonard and Sheldon’s couch

 

88. What’s on the shower curtain of Leonard and Sheldon?

 

89. Which US state is Penny from?

Nebraska

 

90. What does Penny always call Sheldon?

Sweetie

 

91. What is Leonard’s mum’s first name?

Beverly

 

92. What is Sheldon’s favorite number?

73

 

93. For which discovery do Sheldon and Amy get a Nobel Prize?

Super asymmetry

 

94. Which character always says ‘Bazinga’?

Sheldon Cooper

 

95. When does Sheldon do his laundry?

8.15 pm on Saturdays

 

96. What is the name of Sheldon’s twin sister?

Missy

 

97. How is Sheldon’s Youtube channel/podcast called?

Fun with flags

 

98. What was the name of the song that Sheldon wanted Penny to sing to him when he was sick?

‘Soft Kitty’

 

99. Who is Debbie?

Howard’s mum

100. How old was Sheldon when he got his first P.h.d?

16

 

101. What is the name of Rajesh’s dog?

Cinnamon

 

102. In the first episode, what does Penny ask Leonard to pick up from his ex-boyfriend’s house?

Her TV

 

103. What does Sheldon order by fiber content?

His cereals

 

104. How old is Sheldon from ‘The Big Bang Theory’?

26

 

105. What is the name of the pharmaceutical company where Bernadette works?

ZanGen Pharmaceuticals

 

106. Complete Sheldon’s sick day lullaby. “Soft kitty, warm kitty, Little ball of fur, Happy kitty, sleepy kitty, ______ _______ _____”.

Purr, purr purr

 

107.  When was Sheldon Cooper born?

26 February 1980

 

108. Which one of Rajesh’s girlfriends was a dermatologist (1 point for the first name, 1 point for the surname)

Emily Sweeney

 

109. What is Bernadette’s middle name?

Rostenkowski

 

110. Which Star Trek language does Sheldon speak?

Klingon

 

111. What is Sheldon’s IQ?

187

 

112. When Bernadette is being offered a job at a pharmaceutical company. How does she describe the salary?

“buttload of money”

 

113. What is Amy allergic to?

Penicillin

 

114. How many siblings have Bernadette?

5 sisters

 

115. Who played the role of Leonard Hofstadter?

Johnny Galecki

 

116. What is Amy’s favorite singer?

 

117. According to Sheldon, which pudding is the best?

Chocolate

 

118. How tall is Bernadette?

4′ 10″

 

119. In which TV show does Penny get a small role?

NCIS

 

120. Who officiated Sheldon and Amy’s wedding?

Mark Hamill

 

121. In the second season, Penny’s Christmas gift to Sheldon is a napkin autographed by?

Leonard Nimoy

 

122. What is the picture on Sheldon’s refrigerator?

After the death of the actress Carol Ann Susi, who was the voice behind Howard’s mother, the producers added her photo to the side of the refrigerator as a tribute to her.

 

123. What is the ‘Penny Blossoms’?

Hair clips

 

124. Who was Elizabeth Plimpton?

She was a cosmological physicist from Princeton University.

 

125. Who were Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady?

Producers of the show.

 

126. What was Penny’s last name?

Her last name was not mentioned before her marriage.

 

127. What was unique about the show in terms of season and contract renewal?

‘The Big Bang Theory’ was the first scripted television series that received back-to-back three season renewals.

 

128. Why do we never see Raj’s apartment and Howard’s’ house in the same episode?

Because the sets are made in the same space by redecorating..

 

129. The theme song mentions, “autotrophs began to drool”. What does that mean?

It is a science joke because autotrophs are plants and algae that make their own food and do not need to eat.

 

130. What is special about Wheaton’s house number 1701?

It is also the number of U.S.S. Enterprise in ‘Star Trek: The Next Generation’.

 

131. In a second season episode, Sheldon performed his knocking on Penny’s door, but instead of calling out her name, he had voice-generating software on his laptop say her name. He believed he had an inflamed larynx and couldn’t speak. Why did he go to Penny’s at this moment?

To ask for tea.

 

132. When Professor Proton did a fun science show at Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment in season six, what part particularly amazed Penny?

Potato clock

 

133. What singer did Howard and Amy realize they both liked in “The Scavenger Vortex”?

Neil Diamond

 

134. The apartment of Sheldon and Leonard has a flag with a gold lion rampant. What colour is the flag’s background?

Azure

 

135. Early in the fourth season, Sheldon and Amy decided to part ways after disagreeing over whose work was more important. In his post-‘break up’ depression, Sheldon got a bunch of cats that he named after scientists. There was one exception; what was that cat’s name?

Zazzles

 

136. How does Sheldon choose his seat at the movie theatre?

He looks for the ‘acoustic sweet spot’.

 

137. During season three, in Sheldon and Leonard’s apartment, Penny dances to a song by whom?

Shania Twain

 

138. Where does Penny do her one performance of ‘Anne Frank’?

A room above a bowling alley

 

139. In the season three episode “The Cornhusker Vortex”, Sheldon gave Leonard lessons on what topic he was surprisingly an expert in.

Football

 

140. Name one of Sheldon’s quirky traits?

Always needs to sit in the same spot

 

141. After Raj says “Excuse me! I don’t think Penny is out of line at all. You don’t own her,” who does he claim is his girl?

Beyonce

 

142. From where was the fifteen-year-old science prodigy that worked with Sheldon and Leonard in “The Jerusalem Duality”?

Korea

 

143. In the third season, Penny had a crisis when she dislocated her shoulder. Sheldon, unable to ignore a damsel in distress, took her to the hospital and stayed with her. When filling out her admission form, what did Sheldon put for cause of injury?

Lack of adhesive ducks

 

144. Fill in the blank of the following Sheldon quote: ‘I often forget other people have …..…… It’s so sad.’

Limitations

 

145. Weigh tryst sting?

Waitressing

 

146. Which character said the following line: ‘I do wanna fling my poop at her’

Penny

 

147. From 1991 to 1995, which BBT actress played the title character of the NBC sitcom Blossom?

Mayim Bialik

 

148. In the first season’s Halloween episode, Penny invited the guys to her costume party. What did all four of them originally want to dress up as?

The Flash

 

149. What was the very final episode of the show called?

The Stockholm Syndrome

150. Unlike most TV shows, what is real on the set of the Big Bang Theory?

The food

 

151. What was Raj and Howard’s reaction when they saw Amy and Sheldon together?

“Good God, what have we done?”

 

152. How does Sheldon try to lengthen his life span in ‘The Cruciferous Vegetable Amplification’?

Jogging

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