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  Raising Hope: 10 Questions    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz revolves around miscellaneous info from the hilarious television show, "Raising Hope". From the cast and characters to episode tidbits and references, this quiz has it all!
Average, 10 Qns, BooshGirl, Sep 17 16
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  Average Raising Hope Quiz - 10 Questions    
Multiple Choice
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This is such a cute show from the same creator of "My Name is Earl". This covers the first season of the show.
Average, 10 Qns, furiousfemale, Sep 17 16
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  "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The premiere episode of Fox's "Raising Hope" introduces us to the off-beat and lovable Chance family. Let's see what you remember about these quirky Natesvillians.
Average, 10 Qns, ScruffyCity, Sep 17 16
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Raising Hope Trivia Questions
1. The Chances manage to fit a lot of people under one roof: Burt, Virginia, Maw Maw, Jimmy, baby Hope, and cousin Mike. Who owns the house they all live in?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: Maw Maw

Maw Maw, played by the legendary Cloris Leachman, spends most of her days in a state of highly comical senility, seemingly unaware that her family shamelessly mooches off her. However, during her rare moments of lucidity, the sharp-tongued octogenarian has no problem telling her family that she thinks they're losers. For example, after Cousin Mike tells Maw Maw that he lives in a tent in her laundry room, she responds: "No, not any more you don't. You guys pack up all your gypsy circus and find another teat to suck on!"

2. In the first episode, who keeps blowing leaves into the pool Jimmy is cleaning?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: His dad, Burt

In the beginning of the first episode, Jimmy is annoyed that his boss keeps blowing leaves into the pool. Later, Jimmy goes home after quitting his job and we find out his boss is actually his dad.

3. What is the first and last name of the show's well-meaning, 23-year-old main character?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Jimmy Chance

In the pilot episode, Jimmy has a brief affair with a girl wanted for multiple murder charges (played by Bijou Philips) and ends up gaining full custody of their love child (Hope) when the mother is sent to the electric chair.

4. What does Virginia do for a living?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: She works as a maid for Knock, Knock, Knock Housekeeping.

Virginia Chance is played by "The Goonies" alum Martha Plimpton.

5. What does Jimmy have to go out and buy the night he met Lucy?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Bubble gum ice cream

Everyone else calls "not it", so Jimmy is forced to go and buy ice cream when they run out.

6. Hope was the name eventually settled on for the main character's new baby girl, but what eccentric given name was actually printed on Hope's birth certificate?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Princess Beyonce

Jimmy thought her real name was unique, but his parents, Virginia and Burt, convinced him to change it.

7. The Chances run out of their favorite ice cream. They send Jimmy out on a very fateful trip to get more. What flavor is the ice cream that changes Jimmy's life forever?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: Bubblegum

Sadly, the ice cream never makes it home to the Chances. It melts on the dashboard of Jimmy's van while he is busy with Lucy in the back of the van.

8. How does the Chance family find out that Lucy is a wanted serial killer?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: News report

Lucy uses the bathroom after her one night stand with Jimmy and the report comes on the television. Virginia uses it to knock out Lucy so they can call the police.

9. Finish the quote made by Virginia in the episode "Blue Dots": "We're so poor we live next to the ___ mall."

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: dangerous

In the "Blue Dots" episode Jimmy and several other parents competed to get a scholarship for an expensive pre-school. Jimmy won after embellishing Hope's application.

10. Which '80s teen star proved to audiences that she's still got it by starring as the hilarious Virginia Chance?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Martha Plimpton

Martha Plimpton quickly became an audience favourite playing the housekeeping mother of Jimmy Chance.

11. What are Lucy Carlyle's aliases?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: Joan Doyle and Selma Wrightsdale

Lucy's aliases are mentioned in the news report that the Chances are watching on television while Lucy is in the bathroom. The report also happens to mention that Lucy is wanted for murdering her boyfriends. Oops.

12. Where does Jimmy get the money to send Hope to daycare?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Virginia gives him the money she spends on cigarettes.

Virginia decides to quit smoking for Hope's sake. She then gives Jimmy the money she would have used to buy cigarettes.

13. In the episode "Halloween", Virginia took Maw Maw trick-or-treating around the neighbourhood. What, or who, was Maw Maw dressed as?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: A cat

When a neighbour exclaimed that Maw Maw was too old for a treat, Virginia helped her grandmother with a trick - they toilet papered the neighbour's house!

14. What is Lucy's last meal request?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: A McRib and a Shamrock Shake

The prison guard tells Jimmy, "Your girlfriend is pretty clever. For her last meal, she asked for a McRib and a Shamrock Shake. That should buy her a few months. Those two are almost never available at the same limited time."

15. What holiday does Jimmy invite Hope's maternal grandparents (Lucy's parents) over for?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Thanksgiving

Lucy's parents are a bit odd. Her dad is a therapist and her mother is one of his patients!

16. In the episode "Burt Rocks", Jason Lee guest starred as Smokey Floyd, a hair-metal rocker from the '80s. What promotional event did Barney the Grocer hire Smokey to play at?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Grocerypalooza

Jason Lee was the star of "My Name is Earl", a show created by Gregory Thomas Garcia. "Raising Hope" was created by the same genius writer, causing the show to have more than a few former "My Name is Earl" actors appear as guest stars.

17. Why does Jimmy start working at the grocery store?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: He wants Hope to have health insurance.

Hope catches a cold and when Jimmy tries to get a doctor's appointment for her, he finds out they have no health insurance. Sabrina tells him he can work at the store and be eligible for their insurance.

18. Who is the sweet and clever girl that has an affinity for lollipops and works at the grocery store?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Sabrina

Sabrina is Jimmy's obvious crush and tends to be the voice of reason in his life.

19. What does Virginia want Jimmy to do with the baby?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: Safe drop her at the fire station

She tells him to drop her off at the fire station, but she adds, "Only make sure you hand it to someone. You can't just drop it in the bin out front. That's for canned goods and puppies."

20. What song does Virginia sing to the baby to get her to sleep?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: "Danny's Song"

After hours of Hope's relentless crying, Virginia soothes the baby by singing the Kenny Loggins-penned classic, "Danny's Song". This is a pivotal moment, as you see Virginia softening toward the baby and becoming more open to the idea of keeping her.

21. Why do Virginia and Sabrina both go to the free clinic?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: They both go for pregnancy tests.

Virginia is really bad at keeping secrets and tries to keep Sabrina's secret for her. Virginia and Sabrina both end up not being pregnant and Burt reluctantly gets a vasectomy.

22. In the episode "Meet the Grandparents", what was used in place of the regular family dinner table because it was the only thing that seated seven?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: Maw Maw's coffin

Virginia claimed it wasn't necessarily for Maw Maw, just whoever died first.

23. Who named the baby Hope?

From Quiz "Raising Hope" 1.1: "Pilot"

Answer: Virginia

Virginia says that they need to come up with another name for the baby because, "I'm not parading my granddaughter around church with a name like Princess Beyonce," which is the unfortunate name that the baby's mother saddled her with. So Jimmy asks Virginia to name the baby.

24. In the episode "Cultish Personality", which song did Mike's brother-husbands sing to Hope?

From Quiz Raising Hope

Answer: "Old Religions are Dusty"

The character Mike left the show in the second episode of the first season and returned for the sixteenth episode in an RV with a wife - and several husbands. This was just part of embracing his new found spirituality.

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