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60 free Anne Frank trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Anne Frank trivia quiz covers the girl behind the most widely read diary of the twentieth century: the Frankfurt birth, the move to Amsterdam, the thirteenth-birthday present she named Kitty, the two years behind the bookcase on the Prinsengracht, and the diary her father published in 1947. The easy questions cover the city, the hiding place, the name of the diary, the sister and the father who survived. From there it moves through the detail: the pectin company Opekta, the Montessori school, the call-up notice that sent the family into hiding ten days early, the Van Pels family and the dentist, the four helpers, and the radio broadcast that made Anne start editing for publication. The harder end covers the pseudonyms she invented, the marbles she left with a neighbour, the last transport from Westerbork, the theories about who betrayed the annex, the five pages Otto Frank removed, the court cases against Holocaust deniers, the horse-chestnut tree and its saplings, and the 270 schools that carry her name. Every answer was checked against the Anne Frank encyclopaedia entry before publishing and the supporting sentence is stored with each question. Our World War II and history quizzes are the natural next stop.
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Q 01In which German city was Anne Frank born in 1929?
Frankfurt
The family lived in the Dornbusch area, where the Anne Frank Educational Centre opened in 1997.
Q 02What was Anne Frank's full first name?
Annelies
She was born Annelies Marie Frank at the Maingau Red Cross Clinic.
Q 03To which city did the Frank family move in 1934 after Hitler came to power?
Amsterdam
Otto Frank went first to set up a business; the family reunited there in February 1934.
Q 04What did Otto Frank's company Opekta sell?
Pectin, a fruit extract
His second firm, Pectacon, sold herbs and spices for sausage-making.
Q 05What was the name of Anne's older sister?
Margot
Margot was three years older and, despite early language problems, became a star pupil in the new country.
Q 06What kind of education did Anne receive from 1934 at an institution later renamed in her honour?
Montessori
She met her friend Hanneli Goslar there; the 6th Montessori School became the Anne Frank School in 1957.
Q 07Why was Otto Frank's application for a US visa never processed?
The Rotterdam consulate was bombed
All the paperwork was lost when the consulate was bombed on 14 May 1940.
Q 08The only known film footage of Anne shows her doing what in July 1941?
Watching a neighbour's wedding from a window
She is visible for about a second, leaning out to see the bride and groom; the couple later gave the film to the Anne Frank House.
Q 09For which birthday did Anne receive the red-and-white checkered book she used as a diary?
Her thirteenth
It was an autograph book with a small lock, given on 12 June 1942.
Q 10What name did Anne give her diary?
Kitty
Kitty was a character in the Joop ter Heul novels by Cissy van Marxveldt that Anne loved.
Q 11What forced the Franks into hiding ten days earlier than planned, on 6 July 1942?
Margot received a call-up notice for a work camp
The notice from the Central Office for Jewish Emigration arrived on 5 July.
Q 12What did Anne Frank ask neighbour Toosje Kupers to look after before going into hiding?
Her marbles
She also gave her a book and a tea set; a note asked the Kupers to care for the cat Moortje.
Q 13On which canal was the building containing the Secret Annex?
Prinsengracht
The Anne Frank House there received about 1.2 million visitors a year between 2011 and 2020.
Q 21What career did Anne say she wanted in her diary entry of 5 April 1944?
Journalist
'I want to go on living even after my death!' she wrote in the same entry.
Q 22Which exiled Dutch minister's March 1944 broadcast prompted Anne to edit her diary for publication?
Gerrit Bolkestein
He promised a public record of the occupation, including letters and diaries.
Q 23On what date was Anne's last diary entry written?
1 August 1944
The annex was raided shortly afterwards.
Q 24Which SS officer led the police raid on the Secret Annex, three days after the final diary entry?
Q 14What concealed the door to the Secret Annex?
A bookcase
It was built by Johannes Voskuijl, father of the helper Bep.
Q 15Which country did Otto Frank's note hint the family had fled to?
Switzerland
The apartment was left in disarray to suggest a sudden departure.
Q 16Which four employees knew about the people in hiding and acted as their helpers?
Kugler, Kleiman, Gies and Voskuijl
Jan Gies and Johannes Voskuijl also helped; all knew they risked the death penalty.
Q 17Who joined the Franks in the annex on 13 July 1942?
The Van Pels family
Hermann, Auguste and 16-year-old Peter; Anne renamed them Van Daan in her edited diary.
Q 18What was the profession of Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth person to join the annex in November 1942?
Dentist
Anne had to share her room with him and found him insufferable; she called him Albert Düssell in the diary.
Q 19From whom did Anne receive her first kiss in the annex?
Peter van Pels
She had at first dismissed him as shy and awkward, and later questioned whether her feelings were real or a product of confinement.
Q 20Which helper did Otto Frank say was Anne's closest friend, 'the young typist'?
Bep Voskuijl
Anne's sister took an elementary Latin correspondence course in Bep's name.
Karl Silberbauer
Simon Wiesenthal tracked Silberbauer down in 1963 to disprove claims that Anne never existed.
Q 25To which transit camp were the eight prisoners sent after their arrest?
Westerbork
Having been caught in hiding they were classed as criminals and put in the Punishment Barracks.
Q 26Which two secretaries gathered Anne's papers from the annex floor after the arrest?
Miep Gies and Bep Voskuijl
Gies resolved to give them back to Anne after the war, and instead gave them to Otto in July 1945.
Q 27What did the Anne Frank House's 2016 research suggest as a possible alternative to betrayal for the raid?
An investigation into ration-card fraud
The report also noted other activities in the building might have drawn police, without ruling out betrayal.
Q 28Which Jewish Council member did a 2022 cold-case team name as the suspected informant, a theory scholars called thin?
Arnold van den Bergh
The Dutch publisher recalled the book after historians disputed that the council even had a list of hiding places.
Q 29What was notable about the 3 September 1944 train that took the annex group east from the transit camp?
It was the last one ever sent to Auschwitz
Of its 1,019 passengers, 549 were gassed on arrival, including every child under 15.
Q 30How many months earlier had Anne turned 15, the age that spared her from immediate gassing at Auschwitz?
Three
She was one of the youngest spared from her transport, and never learned that all eight from the annex survived the selection.