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Start searching your soul — and brain — for the best answers to this Ally McBeal quiz.
Ally McBeal belongs to this type of TV series.
legal drama
Even though it is technically a drama, the show also has comedic elements, thus also being categorized as a comedy-drama.
medical drama
police drama
fantasy drama
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Ally McBeal debuted on 1997 over the Fox Network. Who created the show?
Gene Roddenberry
David E. Kelley
The prolific TV writer-producer is married to Hollywood actress Michelle Pfeiffer.
Joss Whedon
Tim Kring
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Who played the titular role of Ally McBeal?
Calista Bravehart
Calista Rinehart
Calista Flockhart
Flockhart is married to Hollywood actor Harrison Ford.
Calista Blackhart
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In the pilot episode, Ally is introduced as a new employee of this kind of office.
law firm
Ally eventually becomes a partner in this new law firm.
hospital
non-profit organization
corporation
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In which city does the story of Ally McBeal take place?
New York
Chicago
Boston
Boston is the capital of the state of Massachusetts.
Los Angeles
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At the beginning of the series, Ally starts working in this fictitious Boston law firm named after her ex-classmate and his business partner. What was its name?
Mark and Spencer
Jules and Verne
Abercrombie and Fitch
Cage and Fish
Ally actually left her previous law firm due to a sexual harassment case.
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What is the name of Ally’s ex-classmate, the co-owner of their law firm, characterized as an extroverted person who enacts sexual fetishes from time to time?
Spencer Fish
Mark Fish
Langley Fish
Richard Fish
Fish was played by Greg Germann.
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What is the full name of the other owner of Ally’s law firm, the lawyer whose trademark is whistling through his nose?
John Updike
John Roberts
John Elias
John Cage
Cage was played by Peter MacNichol.
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Ally strikes up a close friendship with her boss John Cage because they both have something vivid, which produces occasional hallucinations. What is this vivid thing?
reputation
ambition
aspiration
imagination
Co-workers often describe the two of them as variations of being eccentric.
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Perhaps the most famous hallucination of Ally involves this creature, a symbolism of her biological clock.
Al Green sleeping
Barry White crooning
dancing baby
The dancing baby is already a popular Internet image during the 1990s prior to being used in Ally McBeal.
frog leaping
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A unique but also progressive characteristic of the Cage and Fish law firm is having this kind of bathroom.
unisex bathroom
The unisex bathroom featured many comedic subplots within the series.
PWD bathroom
one-gender bathroom
open bathroom
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The series’ running theme is more about Ally’s personal than professional life, especially her eternal search for this famed persona.
"Mr. Right"
"the boyfriend"
"the partner"
“The One"
Ally dates lawyers and non-lawyers alike throughout the series’ run.
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Majority of the show’s early seasons had Ally carrying the torch for this ex-boyfriend of hers. What is his name?
Billy Buck
Billy Madison
Billy Thomas
Thomas was played by Gil Bellows.
Billy Wilder
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To her surprise, Ally becomes her ex-boyfriend Billy’s colleague in the law firm. To her even bigger surprise, she finds out this fact about Billy.
He is already married.
He has a partner who’s a lawyer, too.
He has a romantic relationship with a co-worker in the law firm.
all of the above
As it turns out, Billy is already married to a lawyer who also joins Cage and Fish later.
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What is the name of Billy’s lawyer wife?
Denise
Allison
Mallory
Georgia
Georgia was played by Courtney Thorne-Smith.
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What is the name of Ally’s female best friend?
Renée Raddick
Raddick was played by Lisa Nicole Carson.
Chris Raddick
Pat Raddick
Timmy Raddick
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Ally’s brutally honest best friend, Renée, also works in the legal profession in this capacity.
barrister
prosecutor
district attorney
In one episode, Renée ends up defending Ally in a lawsuit during a supermarket altercation.
paralegal
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What is the name of Ally’s perky and quirky office secretary?
Elaine Vassal
Vassal was played by Jane Krakowski.
Aileen Vassal
Linda Vassal
Melanie Vassal
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What is the unique invention of Elaine which she tried to market in an infomercial?
the face-panty
the face-tampon
the face-bra
Elaine’s invention was allegedly copied from a relative, so she ended up being sued by her aunt.
the face-sparkler
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Perhaps this Ally McBeal actress is the only person to actually have some legal background in real life.
Lucy Liu
Calista Flockhart
Portia de Rossi
An Australian by birth, De Rossi studied law at the University of Melbourne.
Vonda Shepard
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Nelle Porter’s sarcastic demeanor and biting one-liners earned her this nickname.
sub-zero Nelle
Nelle is a sort of femme fatale which the other women found as aggressive.
zero-gravity Nelle
ground-zero Nelle
zero-hero Nelle
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Nelle introduces this other sarcastic future associate in Cage and Fish, also known for being cold and ferocious.
Ling Woo
The presence of Ling Woo during the '90s to early 2000s became significant for Asian-American female representation on television.
Lourdes Chan
Neela Rasgrota
Trini Kwan
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Ling Woo is partly depicted as a mysterious Asian woman who possesses "sexual secrets from the orient.” Naturally, she attracts this male colleague, with whom she has sexual relations later.
John Cage
Richard Fish
In one episode, Richard and Ling perform fetish-like foreplay like dropping hot wax on his body.
Billy Thomas
Larry Paul
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It was in season four when Ally meets a lawyer who could potentially be “the one.” What was his name?
Larry King
Larry Paul
Show creator David E. Kelley rewrote the episode where Ally and Larry should have gotten married when the actor playing Larry ran into some trouble.
Larry Bird
Larry Moe
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Which Avengers star portrayed Ally’s supposed fiancé Larry Paul?
Robert Downey, Jr.
Downey’s role was written out due to the actor’s real-life legal problems.
Chris Evans
Chris Hemsworth
Mark Ruffalo
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This operatic pop singer appeared in two significant series enders of the show.
Jaye Groban
Jack Groban
Jude Groban
Josh Groban
Groban played a high school senior who sued this girl for promising to be his prom date then later backed out.
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Aside from the office, the Cage and Fish associates and employees also converge in this kind of establishment from time to time, usually after office hours.
sports bar
strip bar
club bar
piano bar
This piano bar was graced by real-life musical celebrities in cameo appearances.
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This singer sang the main theme of the show, as well as covers which became popular soundtrack pieces of the show.
Sheryl Crow
Vonda Shepard
Shepard released the soundtrack album Songs From Ally McBeal in 1998.
Alanis Morissette
Alana Davis
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John Cage actually channels this R&B crooner’s songs when he wants to get “into the zone” of things.
Barry Gold
Barry Black
Barry Green
Barry White
White also became popular through his other song entitled "Can’t Get Enough of Your Love, Babe."
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On the third season, Billy Thomas suddenly died of a cerebral hemmorhage, to Ally’s devastation. Where did he die?
in bed
in the shower
in court
Billy collapsed after giving his closing arguments in which he also mentions his sustained love for Ally.
in the bathroom
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When Billy Thomas died, he occasionally appears to Ally in this form during the later episodes.
as a reflection
as a dream
as a ghost
Actor Gil Bellows was about to star in The Agency during the time he was doing Ally McBeal, so he had to be written out.
as a hallucination
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When Billy died, Ally begins the day after by being chased by this singer to provide her emotional soundtrack of sorts.
Marcia Gaynor
Diana Gaynor
Sheila Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor
Throughout this episode, Ally gets “chased” by more disco music.
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This Friends co-star had a recurring role during the last season of the show.
Matt LeBlanc
David Schwimmer
Matthew Perry
Jon Bon Jovi and Christina Ricci also had recurring roles during this season.
Elliot Gould
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As a prelude to the season finale, a girl named Maddie Harrington was introduced as Ally’s daughter, the result of an egg bank mix-up where Ally deposited her eggs a decade ago. Which Heroes co-star portrayed the daughter?
Hayden Panettiere
Panetierre currently plays Juliette Barnes in the TV series Nashville.
Kristen Bell
Al Larter
Dania Ramirez
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In the series finale, Ally is about to leave Boston to move into another city. Which city was this?
New Orleans
New York
Ally wants to join her daughter Maddie in New York.
New Jersey
New England
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