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1. Who are the Gilmore Girls? Reveal Answer Lorelai and Rory Gilmore. 2. Where is the show set? Reveal Answer Stars Hollow, Connecticut. 3. What is the name of Lorelai’s Inn? Reveal Answer The Dragonfly Inn. 4. What is Rory’s full name? Reveal Answer Lorelai Leigh Gilmore. 5. Who is Luke? Reveal Answer Luke Danes is the owner of Luke’s Diner. 6. Why did Lorelai name her daughter Rory? Reveal Answer She named her after herself, as Rory is short for Lorelai. 7. What school does Rory go to for high school? Reveal Answer Chilton Preparatory School. 8. Who are Lorelai’s parents? Reveal Answer Richard and Emily Gilmore. 9. Who is Rory’s first boyfriend? Reveal Answer Dean Forester. 10. What college does Rory attend? Reveal Answer Yale University. 11. What is the name of the town festival that occurs in almost every episode? Reveal Answer The Festival of Living Art. 12. Who is Sookie St. James? Reveal Answer She’s Lorelai’s best friend and the chef at the Dragonfly Inn. 13. Who is Kirk Gleason? Reveal Answer He is a quirky character in Stars Hollow who has held numerous jobs. 14. Who is Miss Patty? Reveal Answer She is the town’s dance teacher and former Broadway actress. 15. Who does Lorelai marry? Reveal Answer She marries Luke Danes. 16. What does Rory want to be? Reveal Answer She wants to be a journalist. 17. What is the Friday Night Dinner? Reveal Answer It’s a weekly dinner at Emily and Richard’s house that Lorelai and Rory attend. 18. Who is Jess Mariano? Reveal Answer He’s Luke’s nephew and Rory’s second boyfriend. 19. Who is Paris Geller? Reveal Answer She is Rory’s high school and college rival, and later friend. 20. Who is Logan Huntzberger? Reveal Answer He is Rory’s boyfriend during her time at Yale. 21. Who is the creator of the show? Reveal Answer Amy Sherman-Palladino. 22. What are the final four words of the series? Reveal Answer Rory says, ‘Mom?’ Lorelai responds, ‘Yeah?’ Rory says, ‘I’m pregnant.’ 23. Who said, ‘Oy, with the poodles already’? Reveal Answer Lorelai Gilmore. 24. Who is Michel Gerard? Reveal Answer He is the sarcastic front desk clerk at the Independence Inn and later the Dragonfly Inn. 25. What is the name of Luke’s Diner before he owns it? Reveal Answer It was previously William’s Hardware. 26. Who are Richard and Emily’s maids? Reveal Answer They have many maids throughout the series, none of whom last very long. 27. Who does Rory date while at Yale? Reveal Answer Rory dates Logan Huntzberger while at Yale. 28. What does Lorelai do when it snows? Reveal Answer She likes to go out and appreciate the first snowfall of the year. 29. What does Rory steal when she’s upset over a fight with Logan? Reveal Answer She steals a yacht. 30. What book club does Rory join? Reveal Answer The Life and Death Brigade. 31. What is the name of the dog that Luke adopts? Reveal Answer Paul Anka. 32. Who is Babette? Reveal Answer Babette is a neighbor in Stars Hollow, known for her distinct voice and being an animal lover. 33. What is the name of Sookie’s husband? Reveal Answer Jackson Belleville. 34. What type of shop does Lane Kim’s mother own? Reveal Answer Mrs. Kim owns an antique shop. 35. What band is Lane in? Reveal Answer Hep Alien. 36. What item does Dean build for Rory? Reveal Answer Dean builds Rory a carport. 37. Who are the Troubadours? Reveal Answer They are various musicians who randomly appear in Stars Hollow to play music. 38. What are the names of Lorelai’s parents’ dogs? Reveal Answer Their names are Straub and Queenie. 39. Who runs the town meetings? Reveal Answer Taylor Doose runs the town meetings. 40. What does Lorelai have a fear of? Reveal Answer Lorelai has a fear of swans. 41. Who is April Nardini? Reveal Answer April Nardini is Luke’s biological daughter. 42. Who does Lane marry? Reveal Answer Lane marries her bandmate Zack. 43. What kind of business does Emily start after Richard’s death? Reveal Answer Emily starts a business leading tours at a whaling museum. 44. What gift does Luke make for Lorelai? Reveal Answer Luke makes Lorelai a chuppah for her wedding. 45. Who is Christopher Hayden? Reveal Answer Christopher Hayden is Rory’s father and Lorelai’s childhood sweetheart. 46. Who are Stars Hollow’s town selectmen? Reveal Answer Taylor Doose is the long-time town selectman. 47. What is the name of Rory’s childhood doll? Reveal Answer Her doll’s name is Bitty. 48. Who officiates Luke and Lorelai’s wedding? Reveal Answer Reverend Archie Skinner officiates their wedding. 49. Who are the Life and Death Brigade? Reveal Answer The Life and Death Brigade is a secret society at Yale that Logan is part of. 50. What is the title of Jess’s novel? Reveal Answer The Subsect. 51. What’s the name of Lorelai’s first Inn? Reveal Answer Independence Inn. 52. Who is Mrs. Kim’s cousin that runs the beauty supply shop? Reveal Answer Kyon. 53. What’s the title of the Stars Hollow musical? Reveal Answer Stars Hollow: The Musical. 54. Who is Rory’s childhood best friend? Reveal Answer Lane Kim. 55. What’s the name of the Gilmore’s long-time housekeeper? Reveal Answer Gypsy. 56. What character does Sean Gunn play? Reveal Answer Kirk Gleason. 57. What does Rory do after graduating from Yale? Reveal Answer She joins Barack Obama’s presidential campaign as a journalist. 58. Who is Rory’s first boss at The Yale Daily News? Reveal Answer Doyle McMaster. 59. What is the name of Rory’s first article for the Yale Daily News? Reveal Answer The Life and Death Brigade. 60. What is the nickname Rory’s grandparents give her? Reveal Answer Rory. 61. Who does Paris end up with? Reveal Answer Doyle McMaster. 62. Where is Luke’s apartment? Reveal Answer It’s located above Luke’s Diner. 63. Who is ‘Roon’? Reveal Answer He is a Stars Hollow resident who was temporarily the town’s harpist. 64. What is the Stars Hollow High School’s mascot? Reveal Answer The Minuteman. 65. Who is Caesar? Reveal Answer He is a worker at Luke’s Diner. 66. What’s the name of the inn where Lorelai and Sookie start working together? Reveal Answer Independence Inn. 67. Who teaches Rory how to drive? Reveal Answer Lorelai. 68. What’s the name of the store that Dean works at? Reveal Answer Doose’s Market. 69. Who is the dance marathon champion before Lorelai wins? Reveal Answer Kirk Gleason. 70. What’s the name of the group that performs at the ‘End of Summer Madness Festival’? Reveal Answer The Bangles. 71. What’s the name of the actor who plays Logan Huntzberger? Reveal Answer Matt Czuchry. 72. Who is Gypsy? Reveal Answer She is the town’s mechanic. 73. What item is in the time capsule that Jess finds? Reveal Answer A Twinkie. 74. What’s the name of the actor who plays Luke Danes? Reveal Answer Scott Patterson. 75. What film do Lorelai and Rory watch every time Lorelai gets engaged? Reveal Answer Casablanca. 76. What is the title of the theme song and who sings it? Reveal Answer ‘Where You Lead’ by Carole King and Louise Goffin. 77. Who is Marty? Reveal Answer Marty is Rory’s friend at Yale who later pretends not to know her. 78. What is the name of the newspaper that Rory works for after college? Reveal Answer The Stamford Eagle Gazette. 79. What is the title of the episode where Rory and Lorelai first meet Luke? Reveal Answer Pilot. 80. Who does Paris go to prom with? Reveal Answer Jamie. 81. What does ‘Oy with the poodles already’ mean? Reveal Answer It’s a phrase Lorelai made up to replace ‘enough already’. 82. What is the name of Lorelai’s childhood home? Reveal Answer The Gilmore Mansion. 83. Who is Rachel? Reveal Answer Rachel is Luke’s ex-girlfriend who is a photographer. 84. What is the secret society that Rory’s boyfriend Logan is part of at Yale? Reveal Answer The Life and Death Brigade. 85. What does Lorelai eat when she is upset? Reveal Answer She usually turns to junk food, such as ice cream. 86. What are the names of Lorelai’s parents’ maids? Reveal Answer The names change frequently, as Emily Gilmore frequently fires and hires new maids. 87. Who does Emily set up on a date with Lorelai? Reveal Answer Chase Bradford. 88. What is the name of Luke’s boat? Reveal Answer Rachel. 89. What is the name of Emily and Richard’s lawyer? Reveal Answer Robert. 90. What is Lorelai’s middle name? Reveal Answer Victoria. 91. Who is Luke’s sister? Reveal Answer Liz Danes. 92. Who is the actress that plays Sookie St. James? Reveal Answer Melissa McCarthy. 93. What is the name of Rory’s school project partner who she kisses while with Dean? Reveal Answer Tristan Dugray. 94. What is the secret bar in Stars Hollow? Reveal Answer It is called The Secret Bar and is revealed in the revival. 95. Who does Richard Gilmore work for? Reveal Answer He was an executive at Gehrman-Driscoll Insurance, then later started his own business. 96. What is the name of Dean’s wife? Reveal Answer Lindsay Lister. 97. What is the name of Lorelai’s dog? Reveal Answer Paul Anka. 98. Who is Christopher’s girlfriend that Lorelai fights with? Reveal Answer Sherry Tinsdale. 99. What is the name of Sookie’s three children? Reveal Answer Davey, Martha, and a third child whose name is unknown. 100. What is Emily Gilmore’s maiden name? Reveal Answer Emily’s maiden name is not mentioned in the series. 101. What character does Sally Struthers play? Reveal Answer Babette Dell. 102. What is the name of the business Lorelai and Sookie want to open? Reveal Answer The Dragonfly Inn. 103. Who is Dave Rygalski? Reveal Answer He is Lane’s boyfriend in high school, who later moves to California. 104. Where does Emily want to send Rory when she gets arrested? Reveal Answer She wants to send her to a ‘good’ European boarding school. 105. Who is Tristan Dugray? Reveal Answer He is a classmate of Rory’s at Chilton, who has a crush on her. 106. What college does Paris initially want to go to? Reveal Answer Harvard. 107. What job does Dean have when he’s married to Lindsay? Reveal Answer Dean works in construction. 108. What is the name of the rival town to Stars Hollow? Reveal Answer Woodbridge. 109. Who does Luke push into the lake during the annual Stars Hollow reenactment? Reveal Answer Kirk. 110. What animal does Jess hit with Rory’s car? Reveal Answer A dog. 111. Who plays the troubadour in ‘Gilmore Girls’? Reveal Answer Grant-Lee Phillips. 112. What is the name of the festival where Lorelai and Sookie buy the inn? Reveal Answer The Bid-A-Basket Festival. 113. What is the name of Lorelai’s dollhouse? Reveal Answer The Dollhouse. 114. Who is T.J.? Reveal Answer T.J. is Liz Danes’ husband and thus Luke’s brother-in-law. 115. Who is Bootsy? Reveal Answer Bootsy is a character in ‘Gilmore Girls’ who runs the local newspaper stand. 116. Who does Emily Gilmore hire to paint a portrait of Rory? Reveal Answer She hires an artist named Granville. 117. What kind of shop does Sophie run? Reveal Answer Sophie runs a music shop. 118. What is the first thing we see Lorelai eat in the series? Reveal Answer A doughnut. 119. Who does Logan propose to? Reveal Answer Logan proposes to Rory. 120. What is the name of Lorelai’s Jeep? Reveal Answer Her Jeep is unnamed in the series. 121. What does Luke serve Lorelai in their first on-screen meeting? Reveal Answer Coffee. 122. Who is Rune? Reveal Answer Rune is Jackson’s cousin. 123. What is the name of Luke’s daughter? Reveal Answer April Nardini. 124. What is the title of the first episode of the show? Reveal Answer Pilot. 125. Who takes over the Independence Inn after a fire? Reveal Answer Michel Gerard. 126. What is the name of the actor who plays Richard Gilmore? Reveal Answer Edward Herrmann. 127. What is the title of the book Rory writes about her and Lorelai’s life? Reveal Answer Gilmore Girls. 128. Who does Emily hire to be her personal therapist? Reveal Answer Dr. Pamela Foster. 129. What happens to Michel’s chow-chow dogs? Reveal Answer One of them, Paw-Paw, dies and is replaced by another chow-chow, Chin-Chin. 130. What does Logan’s family do for a living? Reveal Answer They own a large, successful newspaper and media company. 131. Who is Lindsay? Reveal Answer Lindsay is Dean’s wife. 132. Who is Mrs. LaCosta? Reveal Answer Mrs. LaCosta is a Gilmore maid. 133. What is Rory’s full name? Reveal Answer Lorelai Leigh Gilmore. 134. What is the name of Sookie and Jackson’s first child? Reveal Answer Davey. 135. What does Luke give Lorelai for her birthday? Reveal Answer He gives her a necklace. 136. What class does Rory teach at Chilton in ‘A Year in the Life’? Reveal Answer She gives a guest lecture at a journalism class. 137. What is the name of Lorelai’s bed and breakfast? Reveal Answer The Dragonfly Inn. 138. What does Rory say to Logan before they break up? Reveal Answer She says, ‘I’m going to be fine.’ 139. Who is Reverend Skinner? Reveal Answer He is the town reverend. 140. Who does Dean build a car for? Reveal Answer Dean builds a car for Rory. 141. What does Jess steal from Rory? Reveal Answer Jess steals Rory’s ‘Portable Dorothy Parker’ book. 142. What is the Stars Hollow tradition when a new person moves to town? Reveal Answer The town throws a welcome party. 143. Who becomes the new chef at the Dragonfly Inn when Sookie is pregnant? Reveal Answer Norman is the chef when Sookie is pregnant. 144. Who is Sherry? Reveal Answer Sherry is Christopher’s girlfriend and later wife. 145. What is the name of Emily and Richard’s dog? Reveal Answer They have several dogs throughout the series. One of them is named Princess. 146. Who is the headmaster of Chilton? Reveal Answer Headmaster Charleston. 147. Who does Richard hire as Rory’s life coach? Reveal Answer Terrance. 148. What is the name of Lorelai’s business partner? Reveal Answer Sookie St. James. 149. What is the name of Rory’s friend who comes out as gay in college? Reveal Answer Marty. 150. What is the name of the coffee shop in Stars Hollow? Reveal Answer Luke’s Diner. 151. Who says the final line in the original series? Reveal Answer Rory Gilmore. 152. What is the name of the secret organization Logan is a part of? Reveal Answer The Life and Death Brigade. 153. What is the name of Richard’s mother? Reveal Answer Lorelai ‘Trix’ Gilmore. 154. What type of business does Lorelai’s father run? Reveal Answer Richard is in the insurance business. 155. Who is the actress who plays Miss Patty? Reveal Answer Liz Torres. 156. What is the first word in the pilot episode? Reveal Answer ‘Please’. 157. Who is the leader of the town meetings? Reveal Answer Taylor Doose. 158. Where do Lorelai and Rory go when Rory decides not to go back to Yale? Reveal Answer They go on a road trip. 159. Who is Paul? Reveal Answer Paul is Rory’s forgettable boyfriend in the revival. 160. What is the name of the store where Lorelai and Rory shop for groceries? Reveal Answer Doose’s Market. 161. Who does Emily Gilmore think is trying to date Lorelai? Reveal Answer She mistakenly thinks it’s Luke. 162. Who is the first person Lorelai calls when Rory is in a car accident? Reveal Answer Christopher. 163. What is the last word in the series revival? Reveal Answer ‘Pregnant’. 164. Who is Dean’s best man at his wedding to Lindsay? Reveal Answer His younger brother. 165. What is the ‘big letter’ that Lorelai writes for Rory? Reveal Answer It’s a character reference letter for her court date. 166. Who is the actor who plays Dean Forester? Reveal Answer Jared Padalecki. 167. Who owns the dance studio in Stars Hollow? Reveal Answer Miss Patty. 168. What is the name of the newspaper that Rory ends up running? Reveal Answer The Stars Hollow Gazette. 169. What is the name of the actress who plays Lane Kim? Reveal Answer Keiko Agena. 170. Who is the actor who plays Taylor Doose? Reveal Answer Michael Winters. 171. What is the name of the song that troubadour Grant-Lee Phillips sings in the pilot? Reveal Answer Mockingbirds. 172. Who is Nicole? Reveal Answer Nicole Leahy is Luke’s girlfriend and brief wife. 173. What are the last four words in the series revival? Reveal Answer ‘Mom.’ ‘Yeah?’ ‘I’m pregnant.’ 174. What is the name of Rory’s ex-boyfriend who she sleeps with in the revival? Reveal Answer Logan Huntzberger. 175. What is the name of the actor who plays Jess Mariano? Reveal Answer Milo Ventimiglia. Sharing is Caring:
