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Ready to scrub in at Princeton Plainsboro? Take our quiz and find out how you'd fare working alongside Chase and Foreman, Cameron and Thirteen ... and, of course, the irascible Dr. House!
What legendary fictional character inspired Dr. Gregory House?
Marcus Welby
Captain Ahab
Dr. Jekyll
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes's creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, based Sherlock on a doctor named Joseph Bell, who was a gifted diagnostician.
Where did Hugh Laurie film his audition for the role of Gregory House?
A hospital waiting room
A bathroom
He was filming "Flight of the Phoenix" in Namibia.
A garage
An attic
What did Rebecca Adler, the patient in the pilot episode, do for a living?
Cabdriver
Nurse
Schoolteacher
She collapsed in front of her class after being struck unexpectedly with an inability to speak clearly.
Dog trainer
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Which of the following was not a specialty of House's three original trainees?
Neurologist
Cardiologist
Foreman was a neurologist, Cameron an immunologist, and Chase an intensivist. Technically, their position was called 'fellow', not trainee.
Intensivist
Immunologist
In the episode 'Heavy', which character has little sympathy for fat people?
Lisa Cuddy
Eric Foreman
Robert Chase
The issue came up when the team treated a grade-school girl who had a heart attack.
House himself
In the episode 'Love Hurts', what actor guest-starred as a socially-awkward patient into S&M?
John Cho
Cho only made one appearance, but his 'Harold & Kumar' co-star, Kal Penn, was a series regular.
Matt Damon
Michael Cera
Scott Foley
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In the 'Autopsy' episode, Chase does what highly unprofessional thing with a nine-year-old girl?
Slaps her wrist
Refuses to treat her
Kisses her
Yep, right on the lips.
Tells her outright she's going to die
In "Hunting," what crisis inspires Cameron to seduce Chase?
House tries to fire her
Her mother dies
She accidentally kills a patient
She's exposed to HIV-infected blood
The pair finally married at the end of Season Five.
In 'House vs. God,' what unusual factor causes Wilson's terminal cancer patient to briefly improve?
She gets food poisoning from the hospital cafeteria.
She contracts an STD.
She gets herpes from the teenage evangelist who is House's patient of the week.
She's exposed to radiation in the nuclear medicine department.
A psychologist briefly convinces her that her problem is psychosomatic.
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What is the name of the patient who shoots House?
Tritter
Moriarty
Professor Moriarty was Holmes's nemesis in the books.
Blake
We never learn his name.
What does House do to earn the enmity of cop Mike Tritter?
Refuses to treat him
Makes fun of his weight
Tells his wife that he's cheating on her
Uses a rectal thermometer on him and leaves for the day while it's still in place.
Tritter, played by former 'St. Elsewhere' regular David Morse, sought revenge for half a season.
What is hospital administrator Lisa Cuddy's medical specialty?
Neurologist
Trauma medicine
Endocrinologist
Oddly, Cuddy is revealed to have taken an herbal supplement to improve fertility, something a board-certified endocrinologist would be highly unlikely to do.
We never learn this
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Why doesn't Foreman like the doomed patient in 'House Training'?
He's secretly attracted to her
She reminds him of House
She reminds him of his mother
She's a low-level grifter who only works long enough to qualify for unemployment
Foreman was implied to have a working-class background, which probably contributed to his disdain.
All of House's three fellows leave at the end of Season Three. Which of them is actually fired?
Foreman
Cameron
Chase
None of the three left Princeton Plainsboro for good -- at least, not then.
None of them
Why did some fans refer to the first half of Season Four as the "Survivor" story arc?
Jeff Probst had a recurring role
Each episode featured a song by the band Survivor
Several patients died in the early episodes
House turns his search for three new fellows into a highly-competitive game, like a reality TV show
House hired several dozen candidates and winnowed them down, pitting them against each other.
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Why does candidate Remy Hadley insist on going by her number, 'Thirteen'?
She doesn't want to get invested.
Hadley, played by Olivia Wilde, continued to be called 'Thirteen' throughout her time on the show.
She's always hated her first name
She's proving a point about not being superstitious
She has a criminal record under her real name.
The oldest of the candidates for House's team was revealed not to be a doctor. What career did he actually come from?
TV writer on a longtime medical show
X-ray technician
Medical-school admissions officer
Henry Dobson was dismissed not because he wasn't an MD, but because he thought too much like House. "You don't need someone to tell you what you're already thinking."
Actor
Anne Dudek's character, Amber, was cut from the competition, but returned to the show in what capacity?
She covered for Cuddy during her maternity leave.
She and House had a brief affair
She was revealed to be dating Wilson
Tragically, their relationship ended with Amber's death in the two-part "House's Head/Wilson's Heart".
She had an experimental fling with Thirteen
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Before Cuddy named her adopted child Rachel, what name was she going to give a daughter?
Mercy
Joy
The name comes up in the titles of episodes "Joy" and "Joy to the World."
Faith
Hope
Which of the following actors was not a guest star in Season Five?
Martin Henderson
Lin-Manuel Miranda
The 'Hamilton' creator didn't appear on 'House' until Season Six's two-hour pilot, 'Broken'.
Jimmi Simpson
Michael Weston
Michael Weston's PI character, Douglas, has what fashion tic?
He wears trilby hats
He wear suspenders
He wears argyle socks
In 'Not Cancer,' we see them under the hem of his lab coat when he impersonates a doctor at a key moment.
He doesn't wear socks
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House and Wilson, estranged as Season Five begins, make up as a result of what crisis?
House's father dies
Wilson is tasked with driving House to his father's funeral, which House is desperate not to attend.
House has a cancer scare
Wilson has a cancer scare
House's entire team threatens to quit
Why does Kal Penn's character, Kutner, commit suicide?
He was despondent over a romantic breakup
He accidentally killed a patient
He was unable to come to grips with being adopted
We never learn this
The show's writers seem to have made a deliberate decision not to provide a pat answer here. A suicide-awareness PSA followed this episode.
Why did actor Kal Penn actually leave the show?
He was dissatisfied with how the role of Kutner was written
He got a great offer to do a film
He took a job in the Obama Administration
Penn went to work in the White House. He later returned to acting, appearing in 'How I Met Your Mother.'
He felt the show's treatment of Vicodin use was irresponsible
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Why did Taub's wife have a secret bank account?
She was saving up to redecorate
She was saving to buy him a car
Rachel bought him a Porsche.
She had a job he didn't know about
It wasn't actually secret
What unexpected result came from a gift of a Porsche?
Taub decided to leave House's team
Taub and Rachel renewed their vows
Taub came clean about his infidelity
Earlier, Taub left his plastic-surgery practice because of an affair he had there.
None of the above
What was the name of Lin-Manuel Miranda's character, House's hyperactive roommate, in 'Broken'?
Andy
Alvie
'Freedom Master' was the superhero name of the patient House takes to a county fair with disastrous results.
Howie
'Freedom Master'
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In "Teamwork," who refuses to come back to work for House?
Allison Cameron
Taub, Hadley and Chase returned. Martha Masters hadn't yet been hired.
Christopher Taub
Remy "Thirteen" Hadley
Martha M. Masters
Who of the following was not a guest star in Season Six?
Eva Amurri
Peter Dinklage
The most famous guest appearance was probably Jones's; he played the African dictator whom Chase allows to die.
Jon Seda
James Earl Jones
What makes Martha M. Masters different from House's other trainees?
She's related to House
She has cancer
She has a physical disability
She's still in medical school
Masters, played by Amber Tamblyn, also held degrees in art history and applied math.
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In 'Bombshells,' Cuddy's dreams about House lead her to what realization?
He's more nervous about her illness than he's letting on
He's back on Vicodin
House took Vicodin more or less throughout the show's run.
He's cheating on her
He's about to propose
When House picks up Thirteen at the prison, what does he bring her?
A fresh set of clothes
Her termination paperwork
Her car
A martini
The bottle and glass come in an elaborate carrying case.
In the episode 'Chase,' Robert Chase develops feelings for a patient training for what kind of work?
Social work
Sex therapy
Life as a nun
She was preparing to be a nun. Chase attended a seminary before turning to medicine.
The space program
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Which actor did not return for the series finale, "Everybody Dies"?
Lisa Edelstein
That's right, it was easier to work two dead characters into the finale than Lisa Cuddy.
Amber Tamblyn
Anne Dudek
Kal Penn
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