Characters and Quotes Quiz | 'Big Bang Theory' - Characters

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1. "That's no reason to cry. One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad."

Answer: Sheldon

Penny is upset because she can't understand Leonard's work, so she goes to Sheldon for help. When Sheldon asks Penny why she is crying, she responds "Because I'm stupid." Sheldon responds with the quote above. In the end though, Sheldon teaches Leonard's work to Penny.

At the end of the episode, Penny criticizes Leonard's work (using lots of words, including some words she doesn't normally use). This leaves everybody baffled.

2. "We're putting the play on for one night in this little 99-seat theater. Can you come? Oh great! Do you know 98 other people that might want to come?"

Answer: Penny

Penny is heard saying this on the phone when Sheldon is about to call her from the train going to San Francisco. Sheldon wants to give his flash drive to George Smoot, but he forgot it at home and he needs Penny to help him get it.

3. "I wanted to go to Hawaii, not Hell!"

Answer: Bernadette

Bernadette says this to Howard when Howard suggests that she should use her vacation time to take care of his injured mother. The two of them ultimately decide to hire a nurse, but the nurses keep quitting. They can't even get Penny to do it, and she was desperate for money. They finally get Stuart to take care of her.

4. "Who's there? Are you a sex criminal?"

Answer: Mrs. Wolowitz

There is one episode where every time Howard opens the door to his house with his keys, his mother shouts this quote. The third and final time she does this, a frustrated Howard replies "No one wants to do that to you, ma."

5. "Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you are not a real boy"

Answer: Leonard

In the season 4 episode "The Hot Troll Deviation", Leonard tells Sheldon the story of how Bernadette and Howard got back together. We all know Sheldon doesn't care about other people's lives, so he asks Leonard why he is telling him all this. Leonard's response is this quote.

6. "I swear to cow!"

Answer: Raj

In an episode where Raj reveals he lost his job and they might deport him back to India, he says the he will miss beef the most of all. Leonard asks Raj why Indians can't eat beef. Raj replies "We think cows are Gods." Sheldon says that's not technically true and that Indians think cows are LIKE Gods. Raj replies "Do not tell me about my own culture, Sheldon! In the mood I'm in, I'll take you out, I swear to cow!"

7. "Could you please stop staring? They're just girls. It's nothing you haven't seen in movies or in drawings."

Answer: Stuart

While the guys go to Bakersfield for a Comic-Con, Penny, Amy, and Bernadette go to the comic book store so they can learn why their boyfriends like comic books so much. Females are rarely seen at Stuart's comic book store, and Stuart's customers rarely have girlfriends, so when they see three girls walk in the store, they stare for as long as they can. Stuart stands up to his male customers and protects the girls.

8. "She doesn't have much in the way of career prospects, don't make her responsible for her own orgasms as well."

Answer: Mrs. Hofstadter

Leonard's mother has never respected him. He just wasn't as smart as anybody else in his family, except for possibly his father whom his mother also doesn't respect. She has even less respect for Leonard when she learns he's dating a waitress who dropped out of community college. Penny takes Mrs. Hofstadter to a bar so they can bond. Mrs. Hofstadter gets drunk and she gains some amount of respect for Penny.

She then realizes that Penny's only hope at a decent life is if Leonard takes care of her, so she asks him to do so. Mrs. Hofstadter's opinion of Penny improves when Sheldon speaks fondly of Penny to her.

9. "Well, at least when we do make love, Sheldon won't be thinking about his mother. And yes, that is a cleverly veiled reference to Howard's lifelong obsession to crawl back into her spacious womb."

Answer: Amy

Sheldon and Howard get into a fight over a parking space that had been assigned to Sheldon but is re-assigned to Howard when he comes back from space. Sheldon hates this change even though he doesn't drive, because he hates change in general and because he is mad that Howard suddenly has more fame than him.

Their significant others get in on the fight, too. Bernadette tells Amy some nasty things about Sheldon, but when Amy responds with this particular quote about Howard, Bernadette runs home. Howard, upon Raj's request, ends up conceding the spot to Sheldon so they'd stop fighting.

10. "Once you're fluent, you'll have a billion more people to annoy instead of me."

Answer: Howard

Sheldon asks Howard to teach him Mandarin so he can complain to the manager at the Chinese restaurant about the tangerine chicken. This doesn't end well for Sheldon, as he makes many amusing errors and nearly gets arrested. Nonetheless, Howard says he's glad Sheldon is trying to learn Mandarin. When Sheldon asks why, Howard gives us this quote.

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Characters and Quotes Trivia Quiz

Match each quote with the character that said that quote on "The Big Bang Theory."

Questions		Choices
1. "That's no reason to cry. One cries because one is sad. For example, I cry because others are stupid, and that makes me sad."		Leonard
2. "We're putting the play on for one night in this little 99-seat theater. Can you come? Oh great! Do you know 98 other people that might want to come?"		Penny
3. "I wanted to go to Hawaii, not Hell!"		Raj
4. "Who's there? Are you a sex criminal?"		Bernadette
5. "Sometimes your movements are so lifelike I forget you are not a real boy"		Mrs. Wolowitz
6. "I swear to cow!"		Sheldon
7. "Could you please stop staring? They're just girls. It's nothing you haven't seen in movies or in drawings."		Mrs. Hofstadter
8. "She doesn't have much in the way of career prospects, don't make her responsible for her own orgasms as well."		Amy
9. "Well, at least when we do make love, Sheldon won't be thinking about his mother. And yes, that is a cleverly veiled reference to Howard's lifelong obsession to crawl back into her spacious womb."		Howard
10. "Once you're fluent, you'll have a billion more people to annoy instead of me."		Stuart