Nine-Nine! These 120 Brooklyn Nine-Nine trivia questions cover Jake, Amy, Holt, Rosa, Terry, Boyle, Gina, Hitchcock, Scully, Doug Judy, Halloween Heists, Jimmy Jab Games, weddings, cases, running jokes, and eight seasons inside the 99th precinct.
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Jake, Amy & the 99th Precinct
Q: Who plays Jake Peralta?
A: Andy Samberg.
Q: What is Jake's job?
A: NYPD detective.
Q: What Brooklyn precinct does Jake work in?
A: The fictional 99th Precinct.
Q: Who becomes the precinct's captain in the pilot?
A: Raymond Holt.
Q: Who is Jake's main romantic partner?
A: Amy Santiago.
Q: Who plays Amy?
A: Melissa Fumero.
Q: What is Amy famous for loving?
A: Organization, binders, rules, studying, and office supplies.
Q: What does Amy want to become professionally?
A: Captain, and eventually a high-ranking police reform leader.
Q: What friendly competition begins Jake and Amy's romantic arc?
A: A bet over who can make more felony arrests.
Q: What does Jake win when he beats Amy in the bet?
A: A terrible date that turns unexpectedly sincere.
Q: What is Jake's favorite action movie?
A: Die Hard.
Q: Which Die Hard actor does Jake idolize?
A: Bruce Willis.
Q: What does Jake shout when excited?
A: “Cool cool cool cool cool.”
Q: What does Jake call great things?
A: “Noice” and “toit” are among his recurring slang.
Q: What food does Jake eat constantly?
A: Junk food, especially pizza and snacks.
Q: What is Jake bad at managing?
A: Money and adult responsibilities.
Q: Who is Jake's father?
A: Roger Peralta.
Q: What is Roger's profession?
A: Airline pilot.
Q: Who is Jake's mother?
A: Karen Peralta.
Q: What is Amy's competitive brother's name?
A: David Santiago.
Q: Who proposes, Jake or Amy?
A: Jake proposes to Amy.
Q: During what event does Jake propose?
A: The fifth Halloween Heist.
Q: What goes wrong on Jake and Amy's wedding day?
A: A bomb threat disrupts their planned venue.
Q: Where do they actually marry?
A: Outside the precinct.
Q: Who officiates their wedding?
A: Captain Holt.
Q: What is Jake and Amy's son's name?
A: Mac.
Q: What does Mac's name honor?
A: John McClane from Die Hard.
Q: What does Jake do at the end of the series?
A: He leaves the NYPD to focus on parenting Mac.
Q: Does Jake stop loving heists after leaving the NYPD?
A: No. The finale shows the group continuing the tradition.
Q: Why do Jake and Amy work as a comic pair?
A: His improvisational chaos contrasts with her meticulous planning.
Captain Holt, Terry & Rosa
Q: Who plays Captain Raymond Holt?
A: Andre Braugher.
Q: What is Holt's usual emotional presentation?
A: Extremely controlled and deadpan.
Q: Who is Holt married to?
A: Kevin Cozner.
Q: What is Kevin's profession?
A: Classics professor.
Q: What is Holt and Kevin's dog named?
A: Cheddar.
Q: What breed is Cheddar?
A: Pembroke Welsh Corgi.
Q: What does Holt call Cheddar when an impostor appears?
A: He immediately knows the substitute is “not Cheddar.”
Q: What organization does Holt lead outside normal police work?
A: A group supporting Black and LGBTQ officers, including AAGLNYCPA.
Q: What lifelong discrimination shaped Holt's career?
A: Racism and homophobia in policing.
Q: What rank does Holt eventually achieve?
A: Deputy Commissioner of Police Reform.
Q: What recurring enemy torments Holt professionally?
A: Madeline Wuntch.
Q: How does Holt describe Wuntch?
A: With elaborate deadpan insults comparing her to monsters, animals, and evil entities.
Q: Who plays Terry Jeffords?
A: Terry Crews.
Q: What rank does Terry hold early in the series?
A: Sergeant.
Q: What food does Terry love?
A: Yogurt.
Q: What does Terry refer to himself as in the third person?
A: Terry.
Q: Who is Terry's wife?
A: Sharon.
Q: What are Terry's twin daughters named?
A: Cagney and Lacey.
Q: What is Terry's younger daughter's name?
A: Ava.
Q: What rank does Terry eventually reach?
A: Captain of the 99th Precinct.
Q: Who plays Rosa Diaz?
A: Stephanie Beatriz.
Q: What is Rosa's personality at work?
A: Tough, private, intimidating, and highly competent.
Q: What does Rosa reveal about her sexuality?
A: She comes out as bisexual.
Q: Who is Rosa's serious boyfriend who later proposes?
A: Adrian Pimento.
Q: Who plays Pimento?
A: Jason Mantzoukas.
Q: What undercover experience affects Pimento's behavior?
A: Years infiltrating the mob.
Q: Does Rosa marry Pimento?
A: No.
Q: What job does Rosa choose after leaving the NYPD?
A: Private investigator.
Q: What does Rosa ride?
A: A motorcycle.
Q: What makes Holt, Terry, and Rosa strong authority figures?
A: They model very different versions of discipline, leadership, privacy, and professional integrity.
Boyle, Gina, Hitchcock, Scully & Doug Judy
Q: Who plays Charles Boyle?
A: Joe Lo Truglio.
Q: Who is Boyle's best friend?
A: Jake Peralta.
Q: What subject does Boyle discuss with uncomfortable enthusiasm?
A: Food and intimate personal details.
Q: What cuisine does Boyle love exploring?
A: Almost every cuisine, especially unusual and highly specific food experiences.
Q: What is Boyle's adopted son's name?
A: Nikolaj.
Q: How does Boyle insist Nikolaj's name is pronounced?
A: With a Latvian pronunciation that others struggle to imitate.
Q: Who is Nikolaj's mother?
A: Genevieve Mirren-Carter.
Q: What extended family does Boyle constantly discuss?
A: The extremely close Boyle clan.
Q: Who plays Gina Linetti?
A: Chelsea Peretti.
Q: What is Gina's original precinct job?
A: Civilian administrator and Holt's assistant.
Q: What does Gina believe about herself?
A: That she is a unique genius and cultural icon.
Q: What dance group is Gina part of?
A: Floorgasm.
Q: What happens to Gina involving a bus?
A: She is hit by a bus and survives.
Q: What does Gina later become professionally?
A: A famous online personality and entrepreneur.
Q: Who are Hitchcock and Scully?
A: Veteran detectives known for laziness and eating.
Q: Which one is Michael Hitchcock?
A: The bald detective played by Dirk Blocker.
Q: Who plays Norm Scully?
A: Joel McKinnon Miller.
Q: What surprising fact is revealed about young Hitchcock and Scully?
A: They were once athletic, handsome, highly capable detectives.
Q: What food is central to their origin story decline?
A: Wing Slutz chicken wings.
Q: Who is Doug Judy?
A: A charming car thief known as the Pontiac Bandit.
Q: Who plays Doug Judy?
A: Craig Robinson.
Q: What criminal nickname does Doug Judy use?
A: The Pontiac Bandit.
Q: What is Doug Judy's relationship with Jake?
A: Rival, target, occasional informant, and genuine friend.
Q: What is Doug Judy's sister's nickname?
A: Trudy Judy.
Q: Who plays Trudy Judy?
A: Nicole Byer.
Q: What recurring format does Doug Judy's return usually follow?
A: A criminal case becomes a buddy adventure with Jake and several betrayals.
Q: What talent does Doug Judy share with Jake?
A: Singing, joking, and improvising elaborate stories.
Q: What makes Boyle's friendship with Jake funny?
A: Boyle's devotion is far more intense than Jake expects.
Q: What makes Gina's relationship with the squad unusual?
A: She is a civilian who behaves as if she is above the entire institution.
Q: What makes Hitchcock and Scully unexpectedly useful?
A: Their long experience and hidden competence occasionally solve problems no one else can.
Heists, Jimmy Jabs & Hard Nine-Nine Trivia
Q: What annual competition begins with Jake trying to steal Holt's medal?
A: The Halloween Heist.
Q: What title does the Heist winner often claim?
A: An increasingly elaborate version of “amazing human/genius.”
Q: Who wins the first Halloween Heist?
A: Jake.
Q: Who wins the second?
A: Holt.
Q: Who wins the third Heist?
A: Amy.
Q: What major life event happens during the fifth Heist?
A: Jake proposes to Amy.
Q: What workplace competition uses strange events when Holt is away?
A: The Jimmy Jab Games.
Q: Why are they called Jimmy Jab Games?
A: Jake mispronounces the name of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad while inventing them.
Q: What famous cold open involves a police lineup singing?
A: The “I Want It That Way” lineup.
Q: What band performs “I Want It That Way”?
A: Backstreet Boys.
Q: What does Jake say after the lineup sings?
A: He gets emotionally absorbed before remembering one of them is the murder suspect.
Q: What recurring phrase does Holt say with comic intensity?
A: “BONE?!” is one famous example during a relationship conversation.
Q: What candy is Captain Holt unexpectedly fond of?
A: He generally presents restrained tastes, with his passions emerging in oddly specific ways.
Q: What is the name of Holt's rival police captain friend who dies?
A: Madeline Wuntch is his great rival, not friend.
Q: What happens after Wuntch dies?
A: Holt expects one final scheme and prepares for a posthumous trap.
Q: What prison storyline affects Jake and Rosa?
A: They are framed by corrupt officer Melanie Hawkins and sent to prison.
Q: What undercover criminal name does Jake use in prison?
A: Beef Baby becomes part of Jake's prison persona jokes.
Q: Who frames Jake and Rosa?
A: Lieutenant Melanie Hawkins.
Q: What corrupt commissioner becomes a major final-season conflict?
A: Frank O'Sullivan is the police union president, while the final season focuses heavily on reform conflicts.
Q: Who leads the police union in the final season?
A: Frank O'Sullivan.
Q: Who plays Frank O'Sullivan?
A: John C. McGinley.
Q: What career path does Amy pursue in the final season?
A: Police reform.
Q: Who becomes captain of the 99 after Holt leaves?
A: Terry.
Q: What does Holt become?
A: Deputy Commissioner of Police Reform.
Q: What does Rosa do after leaving the force?
A: Private investigation.
Q: What does Jake do?
A: Leaves the NYPD to be a full-time parent.
Q: What does the finale reveal about the group one year later?
A: They reunite for another Halloween Heist.
Q: What number appears in the show's signature chant?
A: Ninety-nine.
Q: What response often follows “Nine-Nine!”?
A: The squad repeats “Nine-Nine!” together.
Q: Why is Brooklyn Nine-Nine especially deep trivia material?
A: Eight seasons mix police cases, cold opens, recurring criminals, workplace competitions, relationship arcs, absurd aliases, reform stories, and one of sitcom television's densest collections of running jokes.
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