Suit Up For The Ultimate How I Met Your Mother Quiz
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When How I Met Your Mother was on the air, TV viewers spent the better part of a decade following Ted Mosby’s journey through New York City and the world of modern dating in an effort to find “the one” and fall in love and get married and have kids. Along the way, he dated some girls who were great (Victoria) and some who were terrible (Stella). Aside from its incredibly controversial series finale – complete with an unwanted twist ending – How I Met Your Mother still stands as one of the best sitcoms of the 21st century, with a great cast of actors who all have excellent chemistry with one another. The show was nominated for 28 Emmy Awards over the course of its run and won nine of them. The critics were up and down in their reception of HIMYM, but the audience always loved it. How I Met Your Mother has legions of fans, who all have either found love and enjoy watching romance on TV or haven’t found it yet and want to live vicariously through Ted. So, whether you yourself have found “the one” yet, are you the biggest fan of HIMYM in the world? Suit up and take this quiz to find out!
What type of barnyard animal beat up Ted?
A running thread throughout the entire series was Ted getting beaten up by a barnyard animals. For seasons and seasons, we got the occasional little flash of this fight, but we didn’t get a full explanation for years. We got the story in dribs and drabs and it’s a small part of the overall serialized plot that kept us hooked for all those years. Lily brought it home from work to avoid it being killed and it beat up Ted during a party. What animal was it?
What level of education does Lily teach?
Lily Aldrin has always wanted to make a career out of being an artist, but since that can be tricky, she gets by as a teacher. Her true passion creates a lot of problems over the course of the show – she often thinks of just taking off on Marshall, and later on their baby too, and just running away somewhere to become an artist. But for all intents and purposes, she’s a teacher. What level of education does Lily teach?
What unexplained fruit did Ted find in his apartment after a drunken night out?
In a season 1 episode that is often cited by both fans and critics as one of the greatest episodes of How I Met Your Mother’s entire run, the group gets Ted drunk on shots at MacLaren’s Pub and he ends up having a wild night that involves jukebox karaoke and drunk dialing Robin and wandering into the women’s bathroom and taking a girl home – and a piece of fruit also ends up inexplicably in his apartment. What fruit is it?
What US state is Marshall from?
The state that Marshall is from is really, really cold, hence all the snowbound trips to his hometown and the winter coats he wears in every single one of his flashback sequences. This state doesn’t necessarily have a tradition for having very tall residents, that’s more of an Eriksen family thing. Marshall and all of his really tall brothers and his really tall father are huge Vikings fans (that’s a hint for all you NFL fans). What US state is Marshall from?
Who played Barney Stinson?
The actor who played Barney Stinson is actually gay in real life, so he must be a good actor if he can convincingly play a straight sex pest. In fact, that’s how he played himself in the Harold and Kumar stoner comedy movies. That’s how he got the part on How I Met Your Mother. He started as a child actor, played a young doctor (a very young doctor) named Doogie Howser on a popular TV show. Who played Barney Stinson?
If Ted and Barney opened their own bar, what would it be called?
According to the older Ted Mosby, the one who is narrating the whole story to us from the year 2030 with the voice of Bob Saget (for some unknown reason), there are a number of sentences constructed with five words each that every man says at some point in his life and are a mistake to say: “I can jump that far,” “We should buy a bar” etc. If Ted and Barney opened their own bar, what would it be called?
What is Robin’s favorite hockey team?
Robin Scherbatsky is from Canada, and her character traits adhere to a lot of the stereotypes of the Canadian people. But what’s good is that she subverts some of them, too. Canadians are stereotypically really nice, whereas Robin is very aggressive and blunt and mean. Another stereotype is that they love hockey, and Robin definitely loves hockey. She loves it so much that when she’s drunk she smacks a puck around the apartment. What is Robin Scherbatsky’s favorite hockey team?
How many seasons of How I Met Your Mother were there?
Some critics and viewers would say that How I Met Your Mother went on for one season too long, because the very end of the second to last season revealed who the mother was and it took place like two days before she met Ted, so they stretched those two days across an entire 24 episode season of television. It could’ve done with being one season shorter, to be fair. How many seasons of How I Met Your Mother were there in the end?
What strip club does Barney frequently visit?
It may come as no surprise that Barney Stinson enjoys going to strip clubs and watching women take their clothes off and getting lap dances. What a shocker! There’s one strip club in particular that he likes to go to a lot. It is here that he meets Lily’s stripper doppelganger and where one of the women he’s been engaged to works. What strip club does Barney frequently visit, so much so that every stripper there knows who he is?
Who played Marshall Eriksen?
The actor behind the role of Marshall Eriksen, the nice Minnesotan environmental lawyer who’s in love with Lily and enjoys playing with whips until it hits him in the face, has arguably had the best post-HIMYM career out of everyone in the cast. This is because he writes movies for himself to star in, like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and The Five Year Engagement. He also starred alongside Cameron Diaz in Sex Tape and Bad Teacher. Who is this funny actor?
What did Ted steal for Robin?
The thing that Ted stole for Robin from a restaurant as a romantic gesture would go on to become a motif throughout the series as a signal of Ted's love for Robin. It's iconic! Ted would use this as an image to woo Robin over the years. First, he stole it from the restaurant. Then he stole it from them again so many times that they ended up putting a chain and padlock on it. Then he got a whole orchestra of that thing to play for Robin when he was trying to win her back. It's one of the biggest recurring images on HIMYM. What is it?
What's the name of Marshall and Lily's baby?
Marshall and Lily had always wanted to have kids, and that's why it was such a relief when they finally managed to conceive a baby and get started on the road to being a family. But when Lily actually went into labor, Marshall was drunk off his ass in Atlantic City with Barney, which presented quite a few problems. But in the end, he made it to the hospital and they named the baby after his father. What's the name?
What does Marshall talk about in his standup comedy act?
Marshall has written his own standup comedy act that only he finds funny. His friends hate it, but he still uses it. We've seen him deliver this routine on stage twice at open mic nights at comedy clubs. Once, he did it in his normal voice and it was excruciating to watch. The second time, he did it in the style of Chris Rock, and it was still terrible. We also saw him use this material to stall at a meeting at work while Ted was digging through the garbage for his charts. What does Marshall talk about in his standup comedy act?
What singer did Barney compare blond Ted to?
Remember when Ted dyed his hair blond? It was hilarious! As soon as there was a mention of whether or not he could pull it off, they had a telepathic discussion where they decided to use that as a catapult towards getting him to do it, and it ended up saving him from making a huge mistake as he leaned in to kiss Robin and she started laughing at his newly dyed hair. What singer did Barney compare blond Ted to?
Who played Ted Mosby?
The actor who played Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother is back on TV airwaves now in the musical drama series Rise. He’s also a director of small, quirky indie movies like Liberal Arts and appeared in the American Civil War drama series Mercy Street on PBS. He also directed the confusingly titled comedy drama film Happythankyoumoreplease. That title is five words rolled into one long one. Which actor played Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother?
Which character can never take a bad picture?
Some people are just photogenic. That’s a cold and plain and simple fact. While the rest of us are out there, taking terrible and embarrassing pictures that flood social media and make us look stupid, there are some people who just never take a bad picture. We found this out about a character from How I Met Your Mother when every picture that gets taken of them, they look really suave and cool. Which character can never take a bad picture?
Which character always blinks in pictures?
Just like one of the characters from How I Met Your Mother can’t seem to ever take a bad picture, one of them always takes a bad picture, because every time a camera is on them that snaps a shot, they blink. Every time, without fail, they blink or do some other faux pas that makes them look like a complete dope. These two things were revealed in the same episode. Which How I Met Your Mother character always blinks in pictures?
What is the mother's real name?
The actress who played the mother in How I Met Your Mother made her first appearance at the end of the second to last season having never watched the show. It was only when she binge watched the whole thing over the summer hiatus between the penultimate season and the final season that she realized just how important she was to the plot of the show. Throughout the show's last ever season, we learn a lot about the mother who we've been waiting to meet for so long, including her full real name. What is it?
What was the name of Marshall's hot co-worker?
There was an episode of How I Met Your Mother in the 2010 season that guest starred Amanda Peet as a hot new co-worker of Marshall's who develops an attraction to him. Marshall hides the fact that she's a female from Lily, fearing that she will get jealous if she knows the truth. The episode was directed by Neil Patrick Harris in his directing debut. This was the only time in the show's more than 200 episodes that one of them was directed by a cast member. What was the name of Marshall's hot co-worker?
Who played Lily Aldrin?
The character of Lily Aldrin was based on one of the two creators of How I Met Your Mother, since Ted and Marshall were based on them and so she had to be a part of the cast. The real life Lily was initially reluctant to have a character on the show be based on her, but she agreed to let them do it if they could get a certain actress from American Pie and Buffy the Vampire Slayer to play her, and they did! Who is the actress?
What city do the main characters live in?
Ted is from Ohio, Marshall is from Minnesota, Robin is from Canada – but for them all to become close friends who hang out at an Irish bar every night, they all had to move to one of the greatest cities on the face of the Earth. The city is often nicknamed “the Big Apple” and it’s the setting of a lot of TV shows. Seinfeld, Friends, Sex and the City, 30 Rock, Mad Men, Girls, Will and Grace, I Love Lucy – they’re all set there. What city is it?
Which Breaking Bad actor played Ted’s boss Hammond Druthers?
Hammond Druthers was a character who only appeared in three episodes of How I Met Your Mother, but he made a big impact, because he was played by a beloved actor, who was the star of Breaking Bad and also played memorable roles on other sitcoms, like Seinfeld and Malcolm in the Middle. He also played former President Lyndon B. Johnson in the HBO drama movie All the Way to some acclaim. Which Breaking Bad actor played Ted’s boss Hammond Druthers?
What does this look mean?
This facial expression and the meaning behind it is often included on lists of reasons why Lily Aldrin was a terrible human being. But she only used this look to denounce a handful of people, and who among us hasn’t hated a select few individuals before? This facial expression of Lily’s is enough to strike fear into the heart of anyone who is unfortunate enough to bear witness to it. According to future Ted Mosby, what does this look mean?
Which writing duo created How I Met Your Mother?
How I Met Your Mother was conceived by a very talented writing duo who lived in a big US city when they were working as writers on Late Show with David Letterman and ended up getting into a ton of wacky escapades that would end up being featured in episodes on their show. They built the premise of a guy telling his kids how he met their mother around their twentysomething lives. Which writing duo created How I Met Your Mother?
Who played Robin Scherbatsky?
The actress behind the role of the Canadian character of Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother is also Canadian in real life. After HIMYM ended, she has graduated to the big screen and taken on another recurring franchise role, this time in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as a badass agent named Maria Hill. She originally aspired to be a marine biologist, but as various opportunities came up, she moved into acting. Which The L Word actress played Robin Scherbatsky?
Which game show host does Barney think is his father?
What developed Barney Stinson as a character and gave him some serious dimension and depth was his abandonment issues, which he got from the fact that his father left before getting to know him. For a very long time, he believed that a famous game show host – who also appeared as himself in the Adam Sandler comedy classic Happy Gilmore – was his biological father. He even went on the show. Which game show host does Barney think is his father?
Which of these is NOT the name of one of Ted’s love interests?
Over the course of the series, Ted had a lot of different relationships and love interests who were potentially “the one,” before he met the actual one when he met the kids’ mother, which was good for the longevity of the series, but not good for the premise that Ted is supposed to be telling his kids how he met their mother, and he’s really telling his kids about all the other women he dated. Which of these is NOT the name of one of Ted’s love interests?
Which of these is NOT a real doppelganger?
There’s a running gag throughout How I Met Your Mother where the group often run into doppelgangers of themselves. It became such a regular occurrence that after they had spotted four of them, Lily decided to use it as a sign from the universe to tell her when would be the right time to start trying for a baby. She ended up seeing a doppelganger in someone who wasn’t one, which showed Marshall that she was ready. Which of these is NOT a real doppelganger?
What trilogy does “Trilogy Time” refer to?
Every three years since they met in college, Ted and Marshall have watched a movie trilogy, and in the episode about this tradition, entitled “Trilogy Time,” we get an insight into the various points in their lives where they’ve watched this trilogy. Each time, they’ve speculated about where they’ll be in three years and been wrong, but three years after we catch up with them, Ted has a baby! So, it all worked out. What trilogy does “Trilogy Time” refer to?
Who voices older Ted?
In an episode of Family Guy once, Peter Griffin takes issue with the fact that an actor who appeared on Full House does the voice of the older incarnation of Ted who is telling the story of how he met their mother to his kids, because it’s like, does current Ted turn into the Full House guy later in his life? Does his voice change to that of the guy from Full House over the course of twenty or so years? Anyway, who voices older Ted?
What number does Barney use for every statistic he ever makes up?
Barney Stinson is known for making up statistics to back up his points. They’re usually asinine points that don’t make any sense, which is why he feels the need to back it up with some figures, even though those figures are obviously made up. Why is it obvious? Because he uses the exact same percentage number for every single one statistic that he decides to fabricate out of thin air. What number does Barney use for every statistic he ever makes up?
Which season's finale ends with Marshall and Lily breaking up?
It was one of the heaviest moments in the history of television when Lily broke up with Marshall to go and pursue an art scholarship in San Francisco. Luckily, within a few episodes of the following season, the two had gotten back together and were heading to Atlantic City to elope (although this plan didn't end up panning out and they ended up having a big, lavish, traditional wedding). Point is, when Marshall and Lily broke up, it was heartbreaking. So heartbreaking that the writers made it a big season cliffhanger ending. What season was it?
Who left Ted at the altar?
All throughout the fourth season of How I Met Your Mother, Ted is planning a wedding with a woman who isn’t necessarily the kids’ mother, and it was intriguing, because you knew it wasn’t going to turn out well. It all happened too quickly. He had hardly been dating her a few months when he gave her an impromptu proposal and started off on the road to marriage. Then they impulsively took her sister’s wedding plans that fell through and it ended in tragedy. Who left Ted at the altar?
What is the name of Barney’s baby?
One of the best parts of the controversial series finale that rounded off the whole series was Barney fathering a child with one of his one night stands. The problem with the finale was that we didn’t quite reach a satisfying conclusion in the search for the mother and Ted’s ultimate happiness. But we did get some very strong endings for the individual characters. One of them was Barney’s child, which was the perfect end for his character arc. What is the name of Barney’s baby?
Who played The Mother?
The show kept us waiting forever for the reveal of The Mother, as she was colloquially known by fans through the final season, but when we finally met her and got to know her through various flashbacks and flashforward sequences, we fell in love with her just as Ted did. She’s a really lovable character, which is helped along by the lovable actress who played her. Which actress from The Wolf of Wall Street played The Mother on the show?