'Big Bang Theory' - Characters Trivia

1. Whose dad was dead before the show began?

From Quiz The Dads of "The Big Bang Theory"

Answer: Sheldon

"The Big Bang Theory" centers around adults who are in their 20s, and then in their 30s. Sheldon's dad died when Sheldon was 14. Sheldon's dad, George, can be seen on the spin-off "Young Sheldon", which takes place when Sheldon was nine.

From Quiz The Stuart Characterization

Answer: Bloom

Stuart Bloom is meek-mannered and kind-hearted. Little has been told about Stuart's life before owning the comic book store, but it was revealed that Stuart's uncle is Stan Lee's dermatologist and was able to arrange a special signing session at the store. (season 3) Stuart's parents have been mentioned as well; his mom used to call him her "little possum" (season 7), and his dad called on Stuart's birthday (season 8).

From Quiz Cooper vs. Hofstadter

Answer: Cooper

Several episodes of the show reference that Sheldon is from Texas. Jim Parsons, who plays Sheldon Cooper, was born in Houston on March 24, 1973. Leonard is from New Jersey. Johnny Galecki, who plays Leonard, was born on April 30, 1975 in Belgium, where his dad was in the US Air Force.

From Quiz Which Character?

Answer: Raj

Raj had selective mutism, meaning he couldn't talk to women. He meets a very shy girl in season six, and with her help, he gets better and better at overcoming his fear around women. She breaks up with him at the end of season six, causing him to cry next to Penny. However, when he realizes he's talking to Penny without a beer, he feels much much better. But then he overcompensates by talking in front of the women too much.

From Quiz Mommy!

Answer: Howard

Raj's and Amy's moms have only appeared via Skype in the first nine season, but we did see them. Bernadette's mom appears in an episode where Howard has dinner with Bernadette and her parents. Howard's mom in the first eight seasons was heard more than the other moms, but she was never seen.

From Quiz The Rostenkowski Theory

Answer: High voice

Bernadette's voice is not Melissa Rauch's natural voice. Rauch changes her voice for the show. Penny is the one with the fake breasts and she is also the one who dyes her hair blond.

From Quiz The Fowler Theory

Answer: The end of season 3

Amy first appeared in the final segment of the final episode of season 3. Also introduced in that episode was Zack, Penny's then-boyfriend who turned out to be too stupid even for Penny.

From Quiz "The Big Bang Theory": Leonard Hofstadter

Answer: Experimental physics

Howard is an engineer, Bernadette works in microbiology and Sheldon is a theoretical physicist. Leonard studies experimental physics at Caltech. He has been awarded the Newcomb Medal and has spent four months at sea testing one of Stephen Hawking's theories relating to hydrodynamic simulations of black holes.

From Quiz "The Big Bang Theory": Sheldon Cooper

Answer: Theoretical physicist

Leonard is an experimental physicist, Bernadette is a microbiologist and Howard is an aerospace engineer. Sheldon Cooper is a senior theoretical physicist working at Caltech. He studies string theory, and many episodes are focused on his work: in "The Romance Resonance" (S7E6), it is said that he discovers a new element.

From Quiz The Venus Configuration

Answer: Stephanie Barnett

Stephanie was a doctor, and did her medical internship in Texas, at the same hospital where Leonard's roommate, Sheldon, was born. Sheldon thought that she made the perfect addition to their "Star Trek" group as the medical officer, but Leonard felt that things were moving a bit too fast when Stephanie moved into his room; he texted her to break off the relationship.

From Quiz "The Big Bang Theory" Characters!

Answer: Leakey

In episode 6 season 1, "The Middle Earth Paradigm", Sheldon and Leonard are standing in their kitchen. Leonard says to Sheldon, "I need you not to embarrass me tonight". Then Sheldon replies with, "What exactly do you mean by embarrass you?" Leonard then says, "For example, tonight no one needs to know that my middle name is Leakey."

From Quiz The Koothrappali Theory

Answer: Particle astrophysics

We don't know how long he has held this job. In "The Pirate Solution" he is almost fired from his job after six months of failed research on the composition of Trans-Neptunian objects. If he lost his job he would have been deported back to India because he is in America on a work visa. He is very reluctant to go back to India. He says his work hours were spent "mostly checking e-mail and messing up Wikipedia entries". Eventually, he gets a job working with Sheldon.

From Quiz The Penny Theory

Answer: Kaley Cuoco

Kaley Cuoco has played Penny since the "Pilot" episode. Kaley Cuoco also had a role in the comedy "8 Simple Rules". Penny is the attractive, normal neighbor of Leonard and Sheldon, two geeky roommates who are both socially-awkward physicists.

From Quiz The Cooper Theory

Answer: K-Mart

Sheldon was born in Galveston, Texas, and his mom said he was born at a K-Mart in episode 4 of the series, "The Luminous Fish Effect." However, Sheldon said he was born at Lawrence Memorial Hospital in the episode "The White Asparagus Triangulation." Sheldon's mother is Mary Cooper, his father, George, is deceased, his sister is Missy Cooper, and he has an older brother that has not been named. He was born between April 20th and May 20th, 1980, because his astrological sign is Taurus, the bull.

From Quiz The Hofstadter Theory

Answer: Leakey

Leonard's name comes from Nobel prize winner Robert Hofstadter and actor/producer Sheldon Leonard. "The Big Bang Theory's" creator, Chuck Lorre, named him. The middle name Leakey comes from Louis Leakey, a very famous archeologist, who worked with Leonard's father. During the episode where Leonard's middle name was revealed to be Leakey, Sheldon remarked that it could also have been related to Leonard's bed-wetting.

From Quiz The Wolowitz Theory

Answer: Aerospace Engineer

He works at Caltech's Applied Physics department. Caltech is a nickname for the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. His work often involves building equipment for NASA missions and the ISS. He doesn't have a Ph.D., and Sheldon teases him a lot for it, but he does have a Master's degree in engineering from MIT, and justifies himself by pointing that out. Being an engineer, he once made a killer robot for the guys in a competition.

From Quiz The Sheldon Summarization

Answer: Grandfather

Sheldon has described his maternal grandfather, who he called "Pop-Pop", as the only person in his family to support him in his pursuit of science. Pop-Pop died when Sheldon was five years old, which led him to ask Santa Claus to bring him back for Christmas. When this proved impossible, Sheldon developed a long-lasting hatred of the holidays and Santa. However as he gets older, he comes to tolerate Christmas traditions, including the exchange of gifts and trimming the tree (although he prefers it be done how he likes it).

From Quiz The Dads of "The Big Bang Theory"

Answer: Howard

Howard's father probably got tired of his always-yelling wife and so he left. If he didn't have a kid, probably no one would blame him. Howard hated him for it and never forgave him. Howard's dad sent Howard a letter when Howard was 18. Howard didn't find the letter until he was at least 30. Howard never read the letter, feeling his father doesn't deserve a chance to explain himself, so he destroyed it. Sheldon read the letter, and he told all his friends except Howard what was in the letter. Then, they all went to Howard's house and gave him six different testimonies of what the letter said. Sheldon's testimony is clearly false, but the other five testimonies all sounded nice and made Howard feel better. It is never revealed which testimony was the true one.

From Quiz The Stuart Characterization

Answer: Artist

Stuart went to the Rhode Island School of Design, and that is really the only hint that has been given about his life before meeting the "Big Bang Theory" group of friends. In "The Hofstadter Isotope" (season 2), Stuart drew a picture of Penny, who was looking for a comic book for her nephew, charming her with his talent and humor. After Leonard introduced the two, Stuart replied with, "Oh, really? Blink twice if you're here against your will".

From Quiz Cooper vs. Hofstadter

Answer: Hofstadter

One of the main themes in the show was the relationship between Leonard and Penny. Johnny Galecki and Kaley Cuoco, the actors who played Leonard and Penny, dated for a couple of years in real life while their characters were also dating on the show until Cuoco got married in 2013. Jim Parsons who played Sheldon was in a relationship outside the show the entire time the show ran prior to Cuoco getting married.

From Quiz Which Character?

Answer: Sheldon

Sheldon has Asperger's Syndrome, a disability that makes you a brilliant genius but also make it difficult to interact in social situations. Although Sheldon's disability often makes him the butt of jokes, he is the reason this show is so popular.

From Quiz Mommy!

Answer: Sheldon

Sheldon is nothing like his mom. He took after his father and grandfather, who are both dead. Sheldon's mom isn't a genius in the pure sense, but she is very wise. She can control Sheldon, which most people can't do, but she is also very loving. She helps Sheldon feel better and at times has also been known to help Raj and Leonard feel better. She had Sheldon tested for insanity when he was a child. The doctor said he was fine, as Sheldon also said many times. However, Sheldon's mom does wish she had followed up with the specialist in Houston.

From Quiz The Rostenkowski Theory

Answer: Have overbearing mothers

On the first date, things originally don't appear to be going well as Howard can't find anything Bernadette likes. However, after a phone call from his mother, Howard gets upset. Bernadette relates as she too has an overbearing mother and a discussion about their mothers is what first bonds Howard and Bernadette.

From Quiz The Fowler Theory

Answer: Howard and Raj put Sheldon's information on a dating site

When Leonard saw that Penny had moved on, Howard and Raj encouraged him to get onto a dating site so he could move on too. Then, while telling Leonard about that dating sites had done for him, Howard says that dating sites can find a match for anybody. This gives him an idea. Let's put Sheldon's info on a dating site and see if they can find a match for him. Sure enough, the site did find a match for him. Sheldon was very reluctant to go along with this. Then, Raj blackmailed him by hiding a dirty sock in his apartment. So they took Sheldon to Amy and they hit it off right away. If you answered "Penny introduced her to Howard," you are thinking of Bernadette.

From Quiz "The Big Bang Theory": Sheldon Cooper

Answer: an eidetic memory

According to Sheldon (in "The Big Fish Paradigm"), he hasn't forgotten a single thing since the day his mother stopped breastfeeding him (and then starts to describe it, saying "it was a drizzly Tuesday"). His eidetic memory is referenced many times during the series, and often the source of jokes or used to talk about past events. ("The Lunar Excitation": S3E23) Leonard: "How many times have I asked you not to do that?" Sheldon: "Counting this instance? 317." ("The Creepy Candy Coating Corollary": S3E5) Leonard: "Yeah, I don't remember that." Sheldon: "June 30th, 2004. Opening day of Spider-man 2 at the AMC Pasadena. They only had red Icees, no blue.""

From Quiz "The Big Bang Theory" Characters!

Answer: Bernadette

At their wedding at the end of episode 24 season 5, "The Countdown Reflection", the main characters are on Sheldon, Leonard, and Penny's roof. Sheldon, Leonard, Penny, Raj, and Amy all say, "By the power vested in us, by the state of California..." Sheldon interrupts by saying, "...and the Klingon high council", then all of them say "We now pronounce you husband and wife!"

From Quiz The Koothrappali Theory

Answer: New Delhi

We learn this, for example, in the episode "The Jiminy Conjecture", where Caltech's entomologist refers to Raj as being from Bangalore, he replies, "I'm from New Delhi!" Despite this, he dislikes Indian food, and Sheldon often claims he knows more about Indian culture and Hinduism than Raj does.

From Quiz The Penny Theory

Answer: Waitress

During "The Financial Permeability" she described Plan A of her career path as, "Be a waitress for six months and then become a movie star!" to Leonard. Leonard replied, "Plan B?" Penny said, "TV star." She is an aspiring actress and we sometimes hear her mention the parts she tried out for. These mentioned parts include playing Anne Frank and a role in an anti-depressant commercial.

From Quiz The Cooper Theory

Answer: Snowball

He suffered radiation burns, and was taken in a helicopter to Lawrence Memorial Hospital. Snowball was incinerated by the CAT scanner, and it led to an expression in his household, "Not Snowball's chance in a cat scanner". We learn this in the episode "The White Asparagus Triangulation".

From Quiz The Wolowitz Theory

Answer: Judaism

He is only Jewish character in the series, but is only kosher during the Jewish holidays. Howard is not very serious about his faith, and when the price of pork from a restaurant went up, he remarked, "It's getting harder and harder to be a bad Jew." When Raj and Howard went to a goth nightclub to meet women, he did not get real tattoos, he wore fake-tattoo sleeves on his arms, so did Raj. He almost got tattoos though for the chance of having sex.

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