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Modern Family Trivia Quiz

Dunphy Life Dunphys, Pritchetts and Tucker-Pritchetts: the family chaos and the mockumentary moments. Phil would ace this.

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This Modern Family Trivia Quiz has 151 questions: 54 easy, 61 medium and 36 hard. It is free. Play it with friends in a room for 2 to 12 players, on phones or in a browser, or play it solo. Type your answers: close enough counts, so a small typo still scores.

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  1. Phil proudly calls himself the "cool ___".

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    Dad

    "That's my thing. I'm hip. I surf the web. I text."

  2. Which actor plays the Dunphy dad?

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    Ty Burrell

    He won the supporting actor Emmy twice for the role, including for "Good Cop Bad Dog", the episode Stella arrives.

  3. Cam is always telling odd stories about what kind of place he grew up on?

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    A farm

    He calls the livestock his brothers and sisters, and he had to pick up 100 rocks before breakfast.

  4. Which actress won two Emmys playing the Dunphy mom?

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    Julie Bowen

    She was pregnant with twins while shooting the pilot.

  5. Which actor plays Mitchell, and earned a run of Emmy nominations for it?

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    Jesse Tyler Ferguson

    He was nominated every year from 2010 to 2014.

  6. In the pilot, strangers keep mistaking Jay for what relation to his young wife Gloria?

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    Her father

    EW notes how fully every character was formed from the very first episode, this gag included.

  7. Which actress plays the eldest Dunphy kid?

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    Sarah Hyland

    She grew up in New York, the city the Dunphys visit in the season 8 premiere.

  8. Which Colombian actress plays Gloria?

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    Sofía Vergara

    Like Gloria, she is from Barranquilla, and many of Gloria's word mix-ups were her own improvisations.

  9. Jay is played by an actor already famous as Al Bundy on Married... with Children. Who?

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    Ed O'Neill

    Fans spotted Jay reading a newspaper that had been a prop on Married... with Children.

  10. In "Unplugged", Phil and Claire ban the whole family from what for a week?

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    Electronics

    Haley cheats with a decoy phone she carved out of soap, while Phil and Claire crack too.

  11. Many of Gloria's famous word mix-ups weren't in the script. Who came up with them?

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    Sofía Vergara

    The mispronunciations are the character's most frequent running gag, and Vergara confirmed many were improvised.

  12. In the finale, Mitch and Cam move away with Lily and baby Rexford. To which state?

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    Missouri

    Their flight keeps getting delayed, so the family has to say a tearful goodbye again and again.

  13. Why do Mitch and Cam move away in the finale?

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    Cam's coaching job

    Cam lands his dream job as a college football head coach in Missouri.

  14. Claire asks Luke why he smells so strong after the mall. Luke explains: "Dad attacked the ___ guy and then hugged me."

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    Cologne

    The victim is Mitch and Cam's friend Longines, who works at the store.

  15. Starting with its very first season, how many years in a row did Modern Family win the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series?

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    Five

    The show won 22 Primetime Emmys in all, including two each for Ty Burrell and Eric Stonestreet.

  16. What do fans call the scenes where characters speak straight into the camera?

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    Confessionals

    "Connection Lost" was the first episode with none of them at all.

  17. Cool-dad Phil boasts in the pilot that he knows all the dances to which teen musical movie?

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    High School Musical

    EW's favorite pilot sight gag is Phil performing it in a Wildcats letterman jacket.

  18. The first owner of Jay's dog, a dog trainer who asks Jay for business advice, is played by which future Hamilton creator?

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    Lin-Manuel Miranda

    His character Guillermo can't keep the dog, so Jay's family takes her in.

  19. In "Mother's Day", Cam is upset that everyone, Mitchell included, sees him as what in their relationship?

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    The wife

    Cam is especially hurt that even Mitchell has been quietly thinking of him as Lily's mother.

  20. After a few drinks, Claire offers Mitch and Cam something so their next baby would be related to both families. What?

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    Her eggs

    The episode is called "Aunt Mommy", and Claire quickly gets cold feet once she sobers up.

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