120 Community Trivia Questions & Answers

Grab a seat in the study room because Greendale is accepting trivia students of every skill level.

These Community trivia questions cover all six seasons, including major character exits and finale spoilers.

Welcome to Greendale

Orientation begins with the school, the fake study group, and the people who somehow make it work.

1. What community college does Jeff Winger attend?
   Answer: Greendale Community College.
2. Why is Jeff forced to return to school?
   Answer: His bachelor’s degree is exposed as invalid.
3. What subject does Jeff pretend to organize a study group for?
   Answer: Spanish.
4. Whom is Jeff initially trying to impress with the study group?
   Answer: Britta Perry.
5. Who actually invites the other students into Jeff’s fake study group?
   Answer: Abed Nadir.
6. What room becomes the group’s usual meeting place?
   Answer: Study Room F.
7. What fictional state is Greendale located in?
   Answer: Colorado.
8. Who created Community?
   Answer: Dan Harmon.
9. Which network aired the first five seasons?
   Answer: NBC.
10. Which streaming service released season six?
    Answer: Yahoo Screen.
11. How many seasons does the series have?
    Answer: Six.
12. How many episodes are in Community’s original six-season run?
    Answer: 110 episodes.
13. What is Greendale’s school mascot?
    Answer: The Greendale Human Being.
14. What phrase appears on Greendale’s flag?
    Answer: “E pluribus anus.”
15. What school is Greendale’s recurring rival?
    Answer: City College.

The Greendale Seven

This round puts Jeff, Britta, Abed, Troy, Annie, Shirley, and Pierce under the study-room spotlight.

16. What kind of lawyer was Jeff before Greendale?
    Answer: A defense attorney.
17. Who plays Jeff Winger?
    Answer: Joel McHale.
18. Which study-group member is a passionate but often ineffective activist?
    Answer: Britta Perry.
19. Who plays Britta?
    Answer: Gillian Jacobs.
20. Which student interprets life through movies and television?
    Answer: Abed Nadir.
21. Who plays Abed?
    Answer: Danny Pudi.
22. Which former high-school football star becomes Abed’s best friend?
    Answer: Troy Barnes.
23. Who plays Troy?
    Answer: Donald Glover.
24. Which driven student once struggled with an Adderall addiction?
    Answer: Annie Edison.
25. Who plays Annie?
    Answer: Alison Brie.
26. Which study-group member runs a sandwich business and sings in church?
    Answer: Shirley Bennett.
27. Who plays Shirley?
    Answer: Yvette Nicole Brown.
28. Which elderly moist-towelette heir joins the group?
    Answer: Pierce Hawthorne.
29. Who plays Pierce?
    Answer: Chevy Chase.
30. What mishap ended Troy’s high-school football career?
    Answer: He injured himself doing a keg flip to escape the pressure of being a star athlete.

Deans, Teachers, and Campus Legends

Greendale’s faculty roster is as qualified, stable, and predictable as you remember.

31. Who is Greendale’s flamboyant dean?
    Answer: Craig Pelton.
32. Who plays Dean Pelton?
    Answer: Jim Rash.
33. Which unstable instructor begins as the group’s Spanish teacher?
    Answer: Ben Chang.
34. Who plays Chang?
    Answer: Ken Jeong.
35. What subject does Professor Ian Duncan teach?
    Answer: Psychology.
36. Who plays Professor Duncan?
    Answer: John Oliver.
37. What is the name of Greendale’s air-conditioning school leader?
    Answer: Vice Dean Robert Laybourne.
38. Who plays Vice Dean Laybourne?
    Answer: John Goodman.
39. Which professor teaches “Who’s the Boss?” as an academic course?
    Answer: Professor Sheffield.
40. What class does Professor Whitman teach?
    Answer: Accounting, while urging students to seize the day.
41. What is Leonard’s surname?
    Answer: Rodriguez.
42. Which elderly student frequently says “Pop pop!”?
    Answer: Magnitude.
43. What instrument does Vaughn play?
    Answer: Guitar.
44. Who is the star student of Greendale’s pottery class?
    Answer: Rich Stephenson.
45. What is Star-Burns’s real first name?
    Answer: Alex.

Paintball, Pillows, and Campus Chaos

When Greendale commits to a theme, the entire campus commits with alarming enthusiasm.

46. What prize starts Greendale’s first campus-wide paintball war?
    Answer: Priority registration.
47. Who wins the first paintball game?
    Answer: Britta, after Jeff gives her the final shot.
48. Who is hired as a paintball assassin in “Modern Warfare”?
    Answer: Senior Chang.
49. What western-themed identity does Abed use in the second paintball game?
    Answer: A mysterious gunfighter modeled on classic Western heroes.
50. Which ice-cream company sponsors the second paintball game?
    Answer: Pistol Patty’s Cowboy Creamery.
51. Which actor provides the documentary-style narration for the pillow-fort conflict?
    Answer: Keith David.
52. Which deadly rival dominates the Western-themed paintball game?
    Answer: The Black Rider.
53. What two forts divide the campus during the blanket-and-pillow war?
    Answer: Pillowtown and Blanketsburg.
54. Who leads Pillowtown?
    Answer: Abed.
55. Who leads Blanketsburg?
    Answer: Troy.
56. What documentary filmmaker narrates the pillow-fort conflict?
    Answer: Keith David provides the documentary-style narration.
57. What game sends the group on a fantasy quest in “Advanced Dungeons & Dragons”?
    Answer: Dungeons & Dragons.
58. Which student is the group trying to help during that game?
    Answer: Neil.
59. What video game must the group beat to claim Pierce’s inheritance?
    Answer: Journey to the Center of Hawkthorne.
60. What sport becomes an anime-style showdown between Jeff and Shirley?
    Answer: Foosball.

Dreamatoriums and Running Jokes

Now we are entering the part of the timeline where one word can launch a dozen callbacks.

61. What campus celebration traps the group during a zombie outbreak?
    Answer: A Halloween party.
62. What causes the season two zombie behavior?
    Answer: Contaminated military-surplus taco meat.
63. Who lowers the room temperature to stop the outbreak?
    Answer: Troy.
64. What fictional science-fiction series does Abed adore?
    Answer: Inspector Spacetime.
65. Who is Inspector Spacetime’s companion?
    Answer: Constable Reggie.
66. What phrase becomes the fandom’s rallying cry?
    Answer: “Six seasons and a movie.”
67. Which short-lived superhero series inspires that phrase?
    Answer: The Cape.
68. What word does the group use when Britta ruins something?
    Answer: “Britta’d.”
69. What exclamation is Troy and Abed’s signature greeting?
    Answer: “Troy and Abed in the morning!”
70. What imaginary program do Troy and Abed host?
    Answer: A morning talk show.
71. Where do Troy and Abed build their imagination room?
    Answer: Their apartment’s second bedroom.
72. What do they call that room?
    Answer: The Dreamatorium.
73. What animal does Troy secretly keep in the study room?
    Answer: A monkey.
74. What is Troy’s pet monkey named?
    Answer: Annie’s Boobs.
75. Which study-group member secretly hooks up with Jeff during season two?
    Answer: Britta.

Relationships and Growing Up

Behind the genre spoofs, these characters keep fumbling toward friendship and adulthood.

76. What is Abed’s phrase when something delights him?
    Answer: “Cool. Cool cool cool.”
77. What does Chang call his self-styled detective persona?
    Answer: Detective Chang.
78. What condition does Chang fake after returning to Greendale?
    Answer: Changnesia.
79. Which board game does the group play during the apartment housewarming?
    Answer: Yahtzee.
80. How many children does Shirley have when the series begins?
    Answer: Two, Elijah and Jordan.
81. Who does Jeff kiss at the end of season one?
    Answer: Annie.
82. Who moves in together after leaving the dorms?
    Answer: Troy, Abed, and Annie.
83. What number is on the door of Troy and Abed’s apartment?
    Answer: 303.
84. Whom does Shirley remarry?
    Answer: Andre Bennett.
85. Who is Shirley’s former husband?
    Answer: Andre Bennett.
86. What business does Shirley open at Greendale?
    Answer: Shirley’s Sandwiches.
87. Who competes with Shirley for the cafeteria storefront?
    Answer: Subway.
88. What corporate name is Britta’s boyfriend forced to use?
    Answer: Subway.
89. What is that character’s birth name?
    Answer: Rick.
90. Who becomes a Jehovah’s Witness while struggling with holiday traditions?
    Answer: Troy.

Episodes, Homages, and Meta Mayhem

Class is now in session for timelines, documentaries, claymation, and lovingly specific genre parodies.

91. Which character leaves Greendale to sail around the world?
    Answer: Troy.
92. Whose boat does Troy take on that voyage?
    Answer: Pierce’s boat, the Childish Tycoon.
93. Which episode explores six alternate outcomes from a die roll?
    Answer: “Remedial Chaos Theory.”
94. What object does Jeff toss to decide who gets the pizza?
    Answer: A six-sided die.
95. Which timeline becomes the “Darkest Timeline”?
    Answer: The one created when Troy leaves to get the pizza.
96. What injury does Pierce suffer in the Darkest Timeline?
    Answer: He is shot in the leg.
97. What does Troy lose in the Darkest Timeline?
    Answer: His larynx.
98. What happens to Annie’s apartment in the Darkest Timeline?
    Answer: It catches fire.
99. What form does “Abed’s Uncontrollable Christmas” use?
    Answer: Stop-motion animation.
100. What does Abed believe he must find at the North Pole?
     Answer: The meaning of Christmas.
101. What is the answer Abed finds inside the gift box?
     Answer: The first season of Lost on DVD.
102. Which episode parodies Ken Burns-style war documentaries?
     Answer: “Pillows and Blankets.”
103. Which episode turns a missing pen into a bottle episode?
     Answer: “Cooperative Calligraphy.”
104. Who took Annie’s pen?
     Answer: Annie’s Boobs, the monkey.
105. Which episode is presented largely as footage shot for a documentary about Pierce?
     Answer: “Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking.”

Season Six and the Final Study Session

Spoilers ahead as Greendale adds new faces and the group imagines what comes after six seasons.

106. Who joins the committee in season six as an administrative consultant?
     Answer: Frankie Dart.
107. Who plays Frankie Dart?
     Answer: Paget Brewster.
108. Which inventor joins the group in season six?
     Answer: Elroy Patashnik.
109. Who plays Elroy?
     Answer: Keith David.
110. What secret campus competition returns in “Modern Espionage”?
     Answer: Paintball.
111. What is the title of the series finale?
     Answer: “Emotional Consequences of Broadcast Television.”
112. What hypothetical future do the characters pitch in the finale?
     Answer: Different imagined versions of a seventh season.
113. Where is Abed going when he leaves Greendale?
     Answer: Los Angeles.
114. What kind of job has Abed accepted?
     Answer: A production assistant job on a television series.
115. Where is Annie headed in the finale?
     Answer: Washington, D.C.
116. What career opportunity takes Annie there?
     Answer: An internship with the FBI.
117. Who remains at Greendale as a law professor?
     Answer: Jeff.
118. Where do Jeff and the remaining friends share their final drinks?
     Answer: At the bar where Britta works.
119. What does Jeff do with Abed at the airport before saying goodbye?
     Answer: He hugs Abed twice.
120. What closing gag follows the finale’s story?
     Answer: A meta commercial for a fictional Community board game.

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Sources and Further Reading

• Peacock official Community series page
• Peacock guide to all six seasons of Community
• Television Academy awards page for Community
• Television Academy feature on Community’s move to Yahoo