The Ultimate "King of Queens" Quiz

Answer: Montreal, Canada

In the episode "Dog Shelter", Doug learned for the first time that he was not born in the United States. Doug's parents confessed that he was born in Montreal, Canada, while the couple was there to attend the wedding of a friend. Janet and Joe Heffernan thought it wasn't that important to tell their son of his true birthplace. Up to that point, Doug believed that he was born in New York City.

Answer: in the IPS garage

The circumstances surrounding the initial meeting of Doug and Deacon were revealed in a flashback sequence in episode #3 during the eighth season, "Consummate Professional". In that episode, Doug was unemployed during the beginning of his romance with Carrie.

After a date, Doug wanted to advance his physical relationship with Carrie to the next level, but Carrie was reluctant because Doug had no job or clear prospects for the future. To get to the next stage, Doug lied to Carrie and told her that he did in fact have a job.

As Doug left Carrie's apartment the next day, he noticed that she was following him in her car, obviously to see where he was going to work. Doug quickly ducking into one of the first places he saw, which was the IPS garage, where he first saw Deacon preparing for his work shift. Doug asked Deacon if he could borrow on of his IPS uniform shirts (to prove to Carrie that he worked for IPS) to which Deacon replied, "Do I know you?".

When Deacon stepped away, Doug took a shirt from his locker and put it on just as Carrie entered the garage. Deacon returned to find Carrie questioning Doug about whether or not he worked for IPS. Sensing Carries overly demanding nature, when Carrie asked Deacon if Doug worked there, Deacon covered for Doug, by saying that Doug was an IPS employee. With this started the friendship of the two men.

Answer: Simone Spooner

According to the storyline, Carrie was born as Simone Spooner on June 19, 1968, in Manhattan, New York. As a young child, her father Arthur, a compulsive gambler, lost her name in a poker game, and was forced to switch names with her cousin, Carrie. Carrie did not realize this until she accompanied Arther to the grave of her mother and read the inscription on her headstone which described Sophia (Carrie's mother) as "Mother of Simone". Arther confessed the truth only after Carrie inquired about what was written on the headstone.

Answer: She didn't attend university right after high school

Throughout her senior year and during her post high schools, Carrie worked to help support her family. Carrie worked a number of jobs, including being a waitress, and working as a cashier at Waldbaums Supermarket.
As she never received an acceptance after applying to several universities, Carrie felt that she was unworthy to go to college, and concentrated on working after graduating from high school. Later in season three, she decided to go back to college.

Answer: asthma

Throughout the series, several references were made to Danny's affliction with asthma. In one episode, Danny was seen using his asthma puffer before taking a long drag on a cigarette during a break in a poker game.

Danny Heffernan was played by Gary Valentine, who is the real life brother of series star Kevin James. For his stage name, Gary used his father's middle name (Valentine) as his last name.

The siblings were born Kevin George Knipfling on April 26, 1965 and Gary Knipfing on November 22, 1961.

Answer: Sara

Sara Spooner (played by Lisa Rieffel) was seen on the show only during the first season. She moved in (along with Arthur) with Doug and Carrie after Arthur accidental burned down his house. Sara's character was written out of the script at the conclusion of season one.

Sara Spooner made her initial appearance in the pilot episode of the series, which initially aired on September 2, 1998.

Answer: Florida State University

But Carrie never knew. She found out years later. When Arthur entered the hospital to have an Angioplasty procedure perform, he ask Carrie and Doug to bring his sleep mask from home. While searching for the sleep mask, Carrie found a box containing many of Arthur's things, including a letter of acceptance addressed to her from Florida State University, a school Carrie applied for and assumed that her application had been rejected. To her shock, Carrie saw a "pros and cons" list written on the back of the letter by Arthur, listing reasons why he should or should not inform Carrie of the letter. Carrie became furious when she read that Arthur's main reason for not giving her the letter was that her not going away to college would result in a "better life for him".

This fact was revealed in episode #7 in season four, entitled, "Lyin' Hearted".

Answer: Kaplan, Hornstein and Steckler

Carrie was a hard working paralegal secretary for the law firm. Her immediate boss was Doug Pruzan, a slightly inept attorney who subsequently cost the firm millions of dollars. Prozan was given the opportunity to resign from the firm in lieu of being fired, which also caused the elimination of Carrie's job.
One of Pruzan's final request to Carrie as her boss was to have "Omelet Man" cater his good-bye party. Pruzan knew that Omelet Man was what the firm provided for it's most favored employees. When Carrie approached Mr. Kaplan, the head of the firm, about having Omelet Man cater the affair, Kaplan informed her that not only was Pruzan responsible for the loss of 47 million dollars for the firm, but that if Pruzan wanted Omelet Man, he would have to pay for it himself ... which he subsequently did.

Carrie later worked a real estate firm secretary, reporting to her new boss, Mr. Kaufman.

Answer: fire fighter

Richie was a New York City Firefighter, and affectionately referred to Doug as "Moose".
Richie Ianucchi was one of Doug's best friends during the first two seasons of the show. Richie was often seen hang out with Doug, watching sports events on television at Doug's house. Richie had the reputation by his friends as being the "Ladies Man" of the group. Richie's character was written out of the show after one appearance in season three.

Answer: Rocky

Rocky was Doug's "best friend" while he was growing up. In the episode "Dog Shelter" (season 5, episode 23) originally aired in May 5, 2003, Doug and Carrie went to visit Doug's parents in Florida, and Doug was gleefully reunited with his pet. It was Carrie that notice that the dog appeared in family picture when Doug was growing up, and noticed that the dog didn't seem to age.

It was then that Doug was finally told by his parents that his dear pet had passed away many years ago, but to prevent them from upsetting Doug with the news, they simply replaced the dog with a look alike pet ... several times over a 30 year period.