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1 The death of which character's father caused the death of a patient?
Answer: Robert Chase

In this season 2 episode entitled "The Mistake", we learn that Robert Chase's father has died from lung cancer. He received the call while giving test results to a patient. This lead to him misdiagnosing an ulcer.
    Your options: [ Allison Cameron ] [ Greg Foreman ] [ Robert Chase ] [ Thirteen ]
  From Quiz: Events in "House"
2 It's Monday morning and House is late for work. Again. He walks into the door thirty minutes late. What is your response?
Answer: Roll your eyes and make a sarcastic comment.

House walks in late nearly every other day! Why reprimand him when he will just do it again? Making a sarcastic comment is on his level and the best course of action. It's how you two communicate.
  From Quiz: "His Cane Makes Me Melt"
3 In the last episode of season four, "Wilson's Heart", who dies?
Answer: Amber

Amber does eventually succumb to her serious injuries of the bus crash.
  From Quiz: "House, M.D." Trivia
4 "Fidelity" - "A patient comes to us because she's sleeping sixteen hours a day and it takes ten doctors and a coma ____________."
Answer: To diagnose sleeping sickness

In this episode, House and his team treat a woman with an extremely rare condition known as African Sleeping Sickness. House's usual disgust with missing an obvious diagnosis is the above quote.
    Your options: [ To think of checking for neurological problems ] [ To figure out there might be something wrong ] [ To diagnose sleeping sickness ] [ To notice a sleeping disorder ]
  From Quiz: House-isms 2
5 "Poison" - "You put the Queen on your money. _________."
Answer: You're British

This is said to Chase, who is Australian. The issue comes up when House berates Chase for his turn of phrase;

House: "I assume 'minimal at best' is your stiff upper lip British way of saying 'no chance in hell'?"
Chase: "I'm Australian."
House: "You put the Queen on your money. You're British."
    Your options: [ You're British ] [ That proves my point ] [ You're all idiots ] [ That shows you're either British or want to be ]
  From Quiz: House-isms
6 "When you break into someone's house, it's always better to have a white chick with you."
Answer: Dr. Foreman

Dr. Foreman said this to Dr. Cameron in episode one ("Everybody Lies") of season one after Dr. House instructed him to search the patient's house to see if they were hiding anything.
    Your options: [ Dr. Chase ] [ Dr. Foreman ] [ Dr. House ] [ Dr. Wilson ]
  From Quiz: "HouseMD" - Name the Quote
7 A is for: Dr. Cameron's first name.
Answer: Allison

Dr. Cameron is known for being the most sensitive member of the medical team. Allison is also known for her truthfulness, ethics and morals.
    Your options: [ Anthony ] [ Aiden ] [ Allison ] [ Alice ]
  From Quiz: "House" from A-Z
8 What is Dr Gregory House's speciality?
Answer: Infectious disease, nephrology

House says this in the episode "Occam's Razor" to people in the waiting room. He also tells them he's forced to be there against his will, and other things to put them off visiting him so he gets no clinic duty.
  From Quiz: "House MD" - The Show
9 House has two specialties. One is infectious disease and the other is being a what?
Answer: Nephrologist

House has a double specialty, one is infectious disease and nephrology, which has to do with kidneys. Chase's dad, Rowan, is a rheumatologist. Foreman is a neurologist and Cameron is an immunologist.
  From Quiz: House, Gregory
10 In the pilot episode, who did Wilson say that the patient was to convince House to take the case of the patient?
Answer: Wilson's cousin

Wilson lied to House and told him the patient was his cousin, which made House say, "You lied to a friend to save a stranger. You don't think that's screwed up?"
  From Quiz: All "House, MD"
11 Dr. Gregory House suffered from what in his leg?
Answer: infarction

An infarction is when the muscle dies. They had to take out muscle in his right leg and he is in constant pain.
  From Quiz: "House MD"
12 Who is the neurologist on Dr. House's team?
Answer: Dr. Eric Foreman

Dr. Wilson is an oncologist and House's best friend. Dr. Chase is an intensivist. Dr. Cameron is an immunologist and very interested in House.
  From Quiz: House
13 "I only have two things that work for me - this job and this stupid screwed up friendship." Who said this?
Answer: Dr. Wilson

This was an interesting scene for House and Wilson. Wilson had decided to resign, causing House to admit that their friendship meant something to him.
  From Quiz: House
14 Whose house did Greg House drive into at the end of season 7, which results in his going to jail?
Answer: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

Dr. Greg House could not accept that his physical and intimate relationship with Dr. Lisa Cuddy was over. He was sent over the edge when he drove to her house and saw her with another man.
    Your options: [ Dr. Chris Taub ] [ Eric Foreman ] [ Dr. Lisa Cuddy ] [ Dr. James Wilson ]
  From Quiz: Events in "House"
15 A patient from the clinic is upset because House has said something rude (for the millionth time). What do you do?
Answer: Make House apologize.

House may be the best doctor you have but he can't get away with being rude to the patients! You ALWAYS make him apologize even if it means dragging him into your office and demanding one in your presence. After all, the hospital couldn't survive if House was sued every other week!
  From Quiz: "His Cane Makes Me Melt"
16 During the episode "Frozen", what did the boyfriend of the severely injured girlfriend have to do last?
Answer: Snap her toe in place since it was broken

It definitely hurt a lot. He had to drink her urine to test the taste. I know, that is gross. He had to drill a hole in her head to drain the blood to relieve the pressure. He did not do any of these LAST, though. He never gave her antibiotics.
  From Quiz: "House, M.D." Trivia
17 "The Socratic Method" - "And if it wasn't for that raving untreated schizophrenic Socrates, we wouldn't have the Socratic Method, the best way of teaching everything - apart from ___________."
Answer: Juggling chainsaws

In this episode, House is fascinated by the workings of the mind of a supposedly schizophrenic woman in her late thirties, who turns out to have a rare condition known as Wilson's Disease. This is a genetic condition where the body accumulates too much copper. This quote comes in the middle of a conversation between House and Wilson, who are discussing the advances in the treatment of schizophrenia over the centuries.
    Your options: [ Juggling broadswords ] [ Juggling bombs ] [ Juggling chainsaws ] [ Juggling nuclear warheads ]
  From Quiz: House-isms 2
18 "Autopsy" - "Is it still illegal to perform ___________?"
Answer: an autopsy on a living person

In this fascinating episode, House and his team race against time to locate a blood clot which is killing a terminally ill nine year old cancer patient. In desperation, they perform an 'autopsy' on her, technically killing her for just over a minute. In the end, the clot is located in her hippocampus, and she is saved from the clot, if not from the cancer.
  From Quiz: House-isms
19 "If they don't know what you look like, they can't yell at you."
Answer: Dr. House

Dr. House explains his famous dislike of meeting patients in the episode "Paternity" of season one.
    Your options: [ Dr. Cuddy ] [ Dr. House ] [ Dr. Cameron ] [ Dr. Chase ]
  From Quiz: "HouseMD" - Name the Quote
20 B is for: One of the production companies for the show.
Answer: Bad Hat Harry Productions

Bad Hat Harry Productions is one of many production companies that work on the show including: Heel and Toe Films, Shore Z Productions and the NBC Universal Television Studio.
    Your options: [ Bag of Scrimps and Juice Productions ] [ Burt Ward Corporation ] [ Bad Hat Harry Productions ] [ Beedles Company ]
  From Quiz: "House" from A-Z
21 What department does House head?
Answer: Diagnostic Medicine

House solves the cases the other doctors cant figure out. James Wilson is the head of Oncology, NICU is where infants are and Cuddy is the administrator.
  From Quiz: House, Gregory
22 What pill was House addicted to in the first season?
Answer: Vicodin

In the episode "Detox," we found out that House was addicted to Vicodin but that he doesn't think it is a problem because it lets him pay his bills and do his job.
  From Quiz: "House MD"
23 Who is the hospital administrator?
Answer: Dr. Lisa Cuddy

Cuddy and House have had a past romance. It was first revealed in "Mob Rules."
  From Quiz: House
24 "You can trust me." Who said this to House?
Answer: Dr. Chase

Seeing as it was Chase who ratted out House, Chase can't be trusted. House found out it was Chase when Vogler wouldn't let House fire Chase.
  From Quiz: House
25 Which actor plays Dr. Greg House?
Answer: Hugh Laurie

Hugh Laurie thought that James Wilson was the lead when he first read the script.
    Your options: [ Peter Jacobson ] [ Omar Epps ] [ Hugh Laurie ] [ Jesse Spencer ]
  From Quiz: Events in "House"
26 What is the last name of the doctor who House calls "Thirteen"?
Answer: Hadley

The scene I was thinking was when House locked himself and Thirteen in a room with a dying patient and Cuddy yells for "Doctor Hadley!" meaning Thirteen. House then told her not to and said, "See, she doesn't even know your first name!" Under House's command, Thirteen revives the patient.
  From Quiz: "House, M.D." Trivia
27 "The Mistake" - "Chase loves me...__________."
Answer: And isn't Turkish

In this episode, chaos ensues when Chase makes a mistake that causes the death of a female patient. It later transpires that he made the mistake because he was distracted due to the unexpected death of his father from lung cancer. He and House both have to make an appearance before a disciplinary board, where Chase is given a week's suspension and House is put under Foreman's supervision for a month. This particular quote also comes from a conversation between Wilson and House. House is responding to Wilson's suggestion that Chase might turn him in to save his own skin. The Turkish remark is because Wilson makes his point in a dreadful imitation of an Australian accent.
    Your options: [ And isn't Chinese ] [ And isn't a moron ] [ And isn't Turkish ] [ And isn't an idiot ]
  From Quiz: House-isms 2
28 "House vs. God" - "You talk to God, you're religious. God talks to you, ________."
Answer: you're psychotic

This episode is the one in which House and his team treat a 15 year old faith healer who claims that God talks to him. This quote is House's reaction to that claim. Later, the faith healer is apparently proved true when he tells House that God wants him to invite Wilson to his poker game, even though there was no way he could have known about the game.
    Your options: [ you're psychotic ] [ you're lucky ] [ you're mad ] [ you're very religious ]
  From Quiz: House-isms
29 "You've got the Rubik's complex; you need to solve the puzzle."
Answer: Dr. Wilson

Dr. Wilson tells House this in the episode "DNR" of season one, trying to prove his point that House won't let go of a patient until he has everything figured out.
    Your options: [ Dr. Cuddy ] [ Dr. Wilson ] [ Dr. Foreman ] [ Dr. Chase ]
  From Quiz: "HouseMD" - Name the Quote
30 C is for: What made the patient in the episode "Insensitive" feel no pain.
Answer: C.I.P.A.

C.I.P.A., or Congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis, is a disorder that affects the nervous system in which the patient is insensitive to heat, cold or pain.
    Your options: [ Capos Syndrome ] [ Cooks Syndrome ] [ C.I.P.A. ] [ Crandall Syndrome ]
  From Quiz: "House" from A-Z
31 In the episode "Role Model," why did House fire Dr Cameron?
Answer: He never did

House never fired Cameron, she quit. She agreed to come back to work if House went on a date with her. He went on a date with her in the episode "Love Hurts."
  From Quiz: "House MD" - The Show
32 House's parents are whom?
Answer: John and Blythe

House was born on June 11, 1959. His dad was a Marine.
  From Quiz: House, Gregory
33 Which drug, generally used to calm a person, does the team use a lot when a person has a seizure?
Answer: Ativan

Ativan is the drug they give a patient having a seizure, although not an anti-convulsant. Vicodin is what House takes for pain. Viagra is for erectile dysfunction.
    Your options: [ Viagra ] [ Vicodin ] [ Ativan ] [ Cialis ]
  From Quiz: All "House, MD"
34 Why did House hire Dr. Foreman?
Answer: he was a delinquent

House hired Foreman because he was a delinquent, Chase because his dad called and Cameron because she was "extremely pretty."
  From Quiz: "House MD"
35 What drug is it that House takes for his leg pain?
Answer: Vicodin

In the episode "Detox", House chooses to continue taking it, despite his apparent addiction.
  From Quiz: House
36 What specialty does Dr. James Wilson, Dr. House's best friend, have?
Answer: oncology

James Wilson practices oncology, which is the study of cancer.
  From Quiz: Events in "House"
37 By season 3, lupus had become an inside joke on the series. In the episode "Finding Judas", House reveals that he secretly stores what in a lupus textbook?
Answer: His Vicodin stash

"Finding Judas" centers around a young girl who suffers from acute intermitten porphyria, essentially an allergy to light. However, the main subplot of the episode is House's battle with Detective Tritter, who is seeking information about House's drug habits to ruin his medical career. After running out of Vicodin, House has to access pills from his "secret stash", leading to an interesting exchange.

Dr. Foreman: "You hide drugs in a lupus textbook?"
Dr. House: "It's never lupus."

"It's never lupus" became somewhat of a motto for the television show, spawning a T-shirt craze with the phrase written underneath House's face.
  From Quiz: It's Never Lupus
38 House tells you that he's pretty sure he knows what is wrong with his patient. However, the treatment he presents is unethical and there is a very large chance the patient will die. What do you say to House?
Answer: "No way Jose! Find another method!"

There is NO way you can let House treat a patient unethically. He could kill them! No matter how much he argues you say no. However, he always does the treatment anyway and you forgive him because he is almost always right. That's one of the reasons why he gets away with so much.
  From Quiz: "His Cane Makes Me Melt"
39 "Spin" - "Green for food, orange for beverages, red for __________."
Answer: Impure thoughts

House treats a cyclist suffering from unexplained respiratory arrest in this episode. He expects to be routine, but there is a twist in that the cyclist admits to taking drugs. This ends up being crucial to diagnosing his underlying condition. This particular House-ism is from a scene between Wilson and House in the cafeteria.

[House walks into the cafeteria, spots Wilson and grabs a bag of potato chips off his tray.]

Wilson: "Is there a light somewhere that goes on when I have food?"
House: "Green for food, orange for beverages, red for impure thoughts. That bulb burns out every two weeks."
    Your options: [ Caring ] [ Slacking off ] [ Impure thoughts ] [ Stupid decisions ]
  From Quiz: House-isms 2
40 "Damned If You Do" - "Candy canes? Are you _____?"
Answer: mocking me

This is the annual Christmas episode from Season One, where Cameron's caring backfires on her when she fails to realize the possible significance of decorating their office with candy canes.
  From Quiz: House-isms
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