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50 free Diary of a Wimpy Kid trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
48 free Diary of a Wimpy Kid trivia questions with answers. Greg Heffley would want you to know it is a journal, not a diary. This quiz covers the whole Wimpy Kid universe: the Cheese Touch, Zoo-Wee Mama, Löded Diper, Mom Bucks, Spag Union, the Magic 8 Ball, Silas Scratch, the Upper Surrey snowball war and more, book by book from the 2007 original to No Brainer and beyond. There are also questions on the live-action films (and the #NotMyRodrick affair), the Disney+ animated reboots, and Jeff Kinney's own story: Funbrain, Poptropica, Igdoof and his bookshop An Unlikely Story. Most questions are answerable by any 8-to-12-year-old who has read the books; a handful at the end are for parents and superfans. Use it for a classroom reading reward, a birthday party or a family quiz night. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the series, the individual books, the films and the author, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Which of these authors created Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
Jeff Kinney
He spent eight years working on the first book before showing it to a publisher, and also created the online game Poptropica.
Q 02What is the name of Greg's overbearing mother, who gives him the diary?
Susan
He insists it is a journal, not a diary; his mother Susan bought it for him.
Q 03On which website did Diary of a Wimpy Kid first appear, as daily online entries in 2004-05?
Funbrain
It had been read nearly 20 million times by 2009 before readers asked for a printed version.
Q 04At which 2006 event did Kinney sign the multi-book deal that turned the web version into a print series?
New York Comic Con
The deal came in February 2006; the first hardcover arrived on 1 April 2007.
Q 05What is the name of Greg's best friend?
Rowley
Greg calls him immature, but Rowley got his own spin-off series starting in 2019.
Q 06What is the schoolyard curse in the first book, caught by touching a mouldy slice on the court?
The Cheese Touch
You are shunned until you pass it on; at the book's climax Rowley ends up eating the cheese while Greg fakes a dairy allergy.
Q 07What is the name of Greg's teenage brother, who plays drums in a heavy-metal band?
Rodrick
His band is Löded Diper, spelled deliberately wrong.
Q 08What is the name of the older Heffley brother's band?
Löded Diper
In Rodrick Rules he plays the school talent show hoping to send the tape to record labels and drop out of school.
Q 09What is the name of Greg's spoiled toddler brother?
Manny
Greg's parents are Frank and Susan; in the 2010 film Manny was played by twins Connor and Owen Fielding.
Q 10What comic strip do Greg and his best friend create for the school newspaper in the first book?
Zoo-Wee Mama!
Rowley gets the credit and the fame, and insists it was his idea all along.
Q 11In the first book Greg auditions for the school's Wizard of Oz play. What part does he get?
A tree
Patty Farrell, who got him in trouble over a geography test, is cast as Dorothy; Greg is too nervous to sing.
Q 12Which student organisation does Greg join in the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, only to be thrown out?
The Safety Patrol
Rowley was wrongly suspended for it first, then reinstated and promoted.
Q 13What is the name of the school Greg attends?
Larry Mack Junior Middle
The school is never given a state; Kinney has said the setting is deliberately vague.
Q 21Which deranged farmer is the subject of campfire rumours in Old School?
Silas Scratch
The book's black cover was chosen because Kinney felt black was a cartoon colour they had not used; Susan's petition tries to ban electronics for a weekend.
Q 22What kind of film do Greg and his best friend try to make with gummy worms in Double Down?
A horror movie
'Night of the Night Crawlers' began when Greg needed to explain a melted chocolate-chip mess; the book sold over 1.1 million print copies in 2016.
Q 23In The Getaway, the Heffleys skip Christmas to fly to which resort, where Frank and Susan honeymooned?
Isla de Corales
Q 14What is the name of the reward system Susan invents in the second book to get her sons to behave?
Mom Bucks
Greg later finds Rowley has identical play money and stashes it under his mattress.
Q 15Where does Greg's big brother lock him while throwing a secret party in the second book?
The basement
The party is exposed weeks later by a photo, and Greg is punished as an 'accomplice'.
Q 16In the third book, Frank threatens to send Greg to which military academy for the summer?
Spag Union
A reformed neighbourhood troublemaker, Lenwood Heath, had gone there; Frank relents after Greg saves him from embarrassment.
Q 17Which popular girl does Greg try to impress in the third book?
Holly Hills
He decides she is not worth his time; the book was released in January 2009.
Q 18Which November 2011 book, the year's fastest-selling, traps the Heffleys at home in a blizzard?
Cabin Fever
Greg thinks the police note on the door is about his holiday bazaar posters; the power cut floods the basement.
Q 19In Hard Luck, Greg starts making all his decisions using what?
A Magic 8 Ball
He finds it under Rodrick's bed on Easter, after Rowley ditches him for a girlfriend named Abigail.
Q 20Which relative's fourth wedding forces Greg to miss a popular kid's party in the fifth book?
Uncle Gary
Gary later moves in with the Heffleys in The Third Wheel after being scammed in Boston.
They claim the wrong suitcase, get scared by an iguana and find the fun activities are now adults-only.
Q 24The Meltdown, published in 2018, centres on a neighbourhood war fought with what?
Snowballs
The 2018 book opens on a hot January day with Greg worrying about climate change.
Q 25In Wrecking Ball, whose death leaves the inheritance Susan spends on expanding the kitchen?
Great Aunt Reba
The renovation exposes wasps and mice and nearly makes the family move house.
Q 26Which team sport does Greg reluctantly sign up for in Big Shot?
Basketball
Sports Day is a disaster first: teachers trade students and the lunch staff win a Friday off.
Q 27In No Brainer, plummeting test scores lead the superintendent to bring which retired principal back?
Mr. Bottoms
He cuts classes and founds the High Flyers Club; the book is the 18th in the series.
Q 28How many main Diary of a Wimpy Kid books had been published by October 2025?
Twenty
Roughly one a year since 2007; the twentieth, Partypooper, arrived in October 2025, alongside an activity book and three Rowley spin-offs.
Q 29Roughly how many copies had the series sold worldwide as of 2020?
250 million
It has been translated into 56 languages and sat on the New York Times series list for over 800 weeks.
Q 30Who played Greg in the 2010 live-action film and its first two sequels?
Zachary Gordon
Robert Capron, Devon Bostick, Steve Zahn and Rachael Harris filled out the family and friends; a future star played a new character, Angie.