Desperate Housewives Trivia

1. In the first episode of "Desperate Housewives", Susan met the new plumber on the street, Mike Delfino. Where did the pair meet?

From Quiz How Well Do You Know Susan and Mike Delfino?

Answer: Mary Alice's funeral

Susan and Mike began talking when Susan suggested Mike didn't eat her macaroni and cheese because it didn't taste good. She declared that she only brought it out of respect.

From Quiz Desperate Housewives #1

Answer: Natalie Klein

She runs into her old friend from work at the supermarket. Klein asks her how she likes being a mother, and Lynette lies, saying she enjoys being a mother as her boys run into an elderly lady with a shopping cart.

From Quiz Susan Scandals

Answer: Boots

Yes, Susan's boss got the wrong impression and tried to prove her point by asking about why Susan was wearing the boots. Susan took this to mean that they were 'homosexual' boots and disposed of them.

From Quiz 'Desperate Housewives': Season 4

Answer: Lynette

Lynette asks all the other housewives to accompany her to chemo sessions. They all immediately volunteer except for Gabby, who later reveals that she watched her father die in hospital when she was only 5.

From Quiz The Desperate Details of Gabrielle Solis

Answer: Marquez

Gabrielle's maiden name was mentioned several times throughout the shows first three seasons. She returned to this name after her divorce and was referred to as Gabrielle Marquez when she worked for Vern's beauty pageant consulting firm, as well as when she married her second husband, Victor Lang.

From Quiz The Desperate Details of Lynette Scavo

Answer: Lynquist

Lynette's maiden name has only been mentioned once, in the flashback that detailed when she had first met Tom. This flashback was shown after Lynette had arrived at Tom's office, only to discover that his former girlfriend had been working with him for three months without her knowledge. Annabelle, his ex, was dating him when Lynette "stole him" away from her, and Lynette thought she was trying to settle the score.

From Quiz Quotes of Desperation: Part 2

Answer: Bree Van De Kamp

This quote comes from the second season's "Silly People" episode which began with Bree and other women of the Junior League dining at a luncheon thrown by Maxine Bennett. Bree did not trust that Maxine had the time, skill, and overall ability to prepare such elaborate luncheons without any help. Bree's suspicions were confirmed when the FBI came to the house and rescued Xiao-Mei, a Chinese immigrant Maxine had forced into culinary slavery, forcing her to cook day and night in a locked room.

From Quiz "Desperate Housewives" Season 4

Answer: Katherine Mayfair

As Bree Hodge, Susan Delfino, Gabrielle Lang and Lynette Scavo watch her and her family move into the street, Susan recognizes her and runs up to hug her. At Katherine's home, she introduces her husband Adam Mayfair who is a doctor, and her daughter Dylan Mayfair.

From Quiz Who Played Who?

Answer: Marcia Cross

Bree Van De Kamp was a "perfect" mother of two children, Andrew and Danielle. Marcia Cross earned Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nomination for Leading Actress-Comedy Series.

From Quiz 2.11 "One More Kiss"

Answer: A marching band geek (who would never have been kissed by a cheerleader)

While Gabi insisted that anyone else would find the harmless kiss to be a nice joke, Lynette found herself feeling uncomfortable about the kiss, and even more so when she learned (from Bree) that Gabrielle was known to have had an affair...

From Quiz More "Desperate Housewives"

Answer: 23

Marc Cherry gave us 23 wonderful episodes of "Desperate Housewives" in season one, where the secret lives of housewives aren't always what they seem. "Desperate Housewives" is a combination drama, comedy, and mystery prime time soap opera. The show starts out when suburban housewife Mary Alice Young takes her own life and then narrates the lives of her four best friends. There is lonely single mother Susan Mayer, ex-career woman, Lynette Scarvo, June Cleaver-on-steroids Bree Van De Kamp, and former model, Gabrielle Solis.

From Quiz "Desperate Housewives"

Answer: Bree

Marcia Cross plays the obsessive compulsive Bree Van de Kamp.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know Susan and Mike Delfino?

Answer: Zack

Zack, or "Dana", was adopted by Mary Alice and Paul when he was a baby. His mother, Deirdre, was seeing Mike when she became pregnant. Mike left assuming she'd had an abortion.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know Lynette Scavo?

Answer: Lindquist

This is mentioned in season 1 episode 20 titled "Fear No More".

From Quiz Desperate Housewives #1

Answer: He forgets to cancel a limo that he had arranged, and Lynette is taken out to and dropped off in the middle of nowhere

Earlier in the episode he plans a romantic date to celebrate his and Lynette's anniversary, but when Lynette says that she wants to stay home, he reluctantly agrees, but forgets to cancel the limo. Lynette is then taken out to the middle of nowhere and dropped off, but is later picked up by Tom after he remembers that he didn't cancel it.

From Quiz Susan Scandals

Answer: Under the mattress

Yes, Edie finds this picture and she and Karl break up for a short while. During this time, Karl sleeps with Susan and then gets back with Edie the next morning when Susan rejects his interests in a relationship.

From Quiz 'Desperate Housewives': Season 4

Answer: Katherine

Katherine Mayfair moves back to Wisteria Lane, after leaving many years ago when her daughter died. She adopts a Romanian orphan to 'replace' her, calling her Dylan, and she has a husband named Adam.

From Quiz The Desperate Details of Edie Britt

Answer: Travers

Travers appeared on the show when Edie was dating Carlos and also appeared just after her death in the show's fifth season. Edie described her relationship with him by saying, "I love him enough to let him hate me," for abandoning him so that he could have a better life away from her. She did appear to love her son deeply, but she simply lacked the capability of being the kind of mother he deserved.

From Quiz The Desperate Details of Gabrielle Solis

Answer: Alejandro

Gabrielle's mother visited in the show's second season and her relationship with Gabrielle was clearly contentious and unrewarding. Gabby sought to get her out of the house while Carlos sought to mend the rift that stemmed from Alejandro's assault. When Carlos spoke to her mother, he discovered that she blamed Gabrielle and denied any unsolicited act had occurred; she even went so far as to say that she 'forgave' Gabrielle for her jealousy and betrayal. Carlos finally saw what Gabrielle saw in her mother and he realized that "blood isn't everything" when it came to a family.

From Quiz Quotes of Desperation: Part 2

Answer: Tom Scavo

This quote came from the end of the fifth season when Tom Scavo saw himself rejoining the academic world as a college student pursuing a degree in Chinese. Lynette attempted to sabotage his application by not telling him the examination date had changed and then by taking him out for margaritas the night before he was supposed to take it. Fortunately Tom was able to ace the test regardless of his wife's deception.

From Quiz Quotes of Desperation: Part 1

Answer: Karen McCluskey

Mrs. McCluskey has had some of the greatest one-liners in the entire show and her cantankerous personality is what has made for some hilarious moments. This quote came from the third seasons "My Husband the Pig" episode, when the buzz of Valentine's Day was sweeping Wisteria Lane. Ian provided Susan with an engagement ring and played Mike for her in a hand of poker, while Tom tried to surprise Lynette with a romantic evening that she vetoed, but that he forgot to cancel.

From Quiz Gruesome Discoveries and Neighborhood Secrets

Answer: Andrew Van De Kamp

The mystery of Juanita's hit-and-run had yet to be revealed as of the start of the show's sixth season, but (among many other things) it was this incident and Andrew's refusal to take adequate responsibility for his actions that lead to Bree abandoning him along the roadside in the show's second season.

From Quiz "Desperate Housewives" Season 4

Answer: Because her father died of cancer

Gabrielle reveals to Lynette that when she was five, her father died from cancer, and her mother told her not to cry because she wanted her husband to feel well dying. She said she smiled all night - even after he had died - and later made a great career (as a model) where all she had to do was smile.

From Quiz 2.11 "One More Kiss"

Answer: 18

The common consensus is that 18 is ridiculously old for a teenage boy to be experiencing his first kiss, and that is part of the overall reason that Gabrielle kissed Tom, the marching band player.

From Quiz More "Desperate Housewives"

Answer: Mental hospital

Paul sends Zach to a mental hospital because he is starting to remember parts of his past. He wants Zach kept on drugs so he does not remember who Dana is. Zack does not realize that he IS Dana.

From Quiz "Desperate Housewives"

Answer: John

Jesse Metcalfe plays John the underage gardener spicing up Gabrielle's life.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know Susan and Mike Delfino?

Answer: Bremmer

Susan was first married to Karl Mayer, so for a while she went by that name. She Later married Mike and became Susan Delfino.

From Quiz How Well Do You Know Lynette Scavo?

Answer: Lymphoma

Lynette finds out she has Lymphoma after she hits her head and has to get a CAT scan. Swollen lympmh nodes are detected from the scan.

From Quiz Susan Scandals

Answer: She had been snooping around Orson's office

Susan's car broke down when she forgot to replace the tyres, when she goes on a date with a man from Edie's building site, against Edie's will. Julie is held hostage at the supermarket by Carol Bigsby in Season 3, but this is earlier on. Ian's parents did not arrive when they were supposed to, but Susan had no idea of this while she was snooping around Orson's office.

From Quiz 'Desperate Housewives': Season 4

Answer: Bree

During this season, Bree wears false padded stomachs to simulate a pregnancy; this is so that when her daughter, Danielle, gives birth, she can pretend the baby is hers and Orson's. Danielle was exiled to a convent during her pregnancy, but later escapes to stay with Rex's mother.

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