Rich Dad Poor Dad
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40 free Rich Dad Poor Dad trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Rich Dad Poor Dad is one of the best-selling personal finance books ever written, and one of the most argued over. Robert Kiyosaki's story of two fathers with opposite ideas about money has shaped how millions of readers think about earning, spending and investing, while critics have questioned both the advice and the tale itself. This quiz covers the book from several sides: the lessons rich dad teaches and the terms Kiyosaki uses for them, the childhood stories behind those lessons, the author's career before he started writing, the unlikely route the book took to the bestseller lists, and the games, sequels and controversies that followed. It suits readers who have just finished the book, book clubs and personal finance classes looking for a discussion starter, and anyone who wants to check how much of rich dad's advice has stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which family game did rich dad play with young Robert Kiyosaki while teaching the lessons of Rich Dad Poor Dad?
Monopoly
Monopoly was the classroom: rich dad shared his financial insights over the game with Robert and his own son, starting when Robert was nine.
Q 02Whose talk show gave Rich Dad Poor Dad its biggest sales lift after publishers had turned Robert Kiyosaki down?
Oprah Winfrey
Oprah Winfrey had the Kiyosakis on her show, and the company's own history credits that appearance with making the book famous worldwide.
Q 03Which famous businessman co-wrote Why We Want You to Be Rich with Robert Kiyosaki, nine years after Rich Dad Poor Dad?
Donald Trump
Donald Trump had been impressed by the sales of Rich Dad Poor Dad, and the pair's joint book opened at number one on the New York Times list.
Q 04Which Hollywood actor said he taught his son about financial independence by reading Rich Dad Poor Dad?
Will Smith
Will Smith said he used it with his son Jaden, handing a book that began life self-published one of its best-known celebrity endorsements.
Q 05What does Rich Dad Poor Dad call the cycle of earning more and spending more without ever getting ahead?
The rat race
The rat race traps people, the book argues, because each pay rise is spent instead of invested, so earning more never gets them ahead.
Q 06Rich Dad Poor Dad stirred debate by classing the home a family lives in as what?
A liability
A liability, the book says, because mortgage, taxes and upkeep drain cash; a house counts as an asset only once it is rented out at a profit.
Q 07Which rule from Rich Dad Poor Dad means setting money aside to invest before settling any bills or expenses?
Pay yourself first
Pay yourself first is meant to create pressure: with the investment already made, a person is forced to find new ways to cover the bills.
Q 08In which US state did Robert Kiyosaki grow up with the two father figures of Rich Dad Poor Dad?
Hawaii
Hawaii in the 1950s is the setting: Kiyosaki was born in Hilo into a family of Japanese descent.
Q 09At about nine, Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki charged other children ten cents for two hours with what?
Comic books
Comic books that a store was about to destroy stocked the shelves, and the venture kept earning even when the two boys who owned it were not there.
Q 10Rich Dad Poor Dad grew out of a brochure Robert Kiyosaki drafted to explain which hard-to-market product?
A board game
A board game called Cashflow came first, and the brochure written to sell it swelled into the book the Kiyosakis self-published in 1997.
Q 11In Rich Dad Poor Dad, what is the first name of Robert Kiyosaki's best friend, whose father is the rich dad?
Mike
Mike sat in on the same lessons from the age of nine, and both boys spent their Saturdays working in one of his father's stores.
Q 12Which accountant is credited as co-author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, though the story is told in Robert Kiyosaki's voice?
Sharon Lechter
Sharon Lechter co-wrote 14 more Rich Dad titles and ran the company as chief executive for about ten years before the partnership ended.
Q 13Which bookstore chain at first declined to stock the self-published Rich Dad Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki's account?
Barnes & Noble
Q 21Which president appointed the co-author of Rich Dad Poor Dad to a White House advisory council on money skills?
George W. Bush
George W. Bush named her to a two-year term in 2008, while her lawsuit against her former writing partner was still before a Nevada court.
Q 22A 2002 Slate review said Rich Dad Poor Dad owed its appeal to which storytelling format, blurred with autobiography?
The parable
The parable was in fashion, the reviewer noted, and Kiyosaki's twist was to present his fable as something that had really happened to him.
Q 23Robert Kiyosaki's first book, written before Rich Dad Poor Dad, told seekers of wealth and happiness to skip what?
School
Barnes & Noble said no, he recalled, so he turned to radio and television instead, and the book went on to spend over six years on the New York Times list.
Q 14Which of rich dad's six lesson titles in Rich Dad Poor Dad sounds more like a rebuke than financial advice?
Mind your own business
Mind your own business is lesson three; the idea is to keep a day job while steadily building an asset column of one's own.
Q 15Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki passed up an airline pilot's career to learn selling at which firm?
Xerox
Xerox was a deliberate choice: rich dad had told him that selling is the number-one skill of an entrepreneur.
Q 16Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, flew which aircraft in combat during the Vietnam War?
Helicopter gunships
Helicopter gunships nearly cost him his life: he crashed three times in Vietnam before coming home to learn how to sell.
Q 17Robert Kiyosaki's first company, Rippers, sold which surfer-style product made of nylon and Velcro in the 1970s?
Wallets
Wallets made Rippers an instant hit, yet the company itself struggled, a failure Kiyosaki lived through two decades before Rich Dad Poor Dad.
Q 18Richard Kimi, named after his death as the model for rich dad in Rich Dad Poor Dad, made his fortune in what?
Hotels
Hotels for budget travellers were his niche: he opened the 30-room Hukilau in 1956 for islanders who could not afford resort prices.
Q 19In Robert Kiyosaki's Cashflow game, what name is given to impulse purchases that drain cash from a player?
Doodads
Doodads sit along the track as tempting spaces, and players log each one on a personal financial statement instead of a score card.
Q 20According to Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki, the education system mainly prepares people to become what?
Employees
Employees are what classrooms turn out, Kiyosaki argues, which is why he says real financial education has to happen outside them.
School is what the title tells readers to skip: the book is called If You Want to Be Rich and Happy, Don't Go to School?
Q 24In the Cashflow Quadrant from Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad series, what does the letter S stand for beside E, B and I?
Self-employed
Self-employed people, in Kiyosaki's phrase, own a job: they must keep working to earn, while the wealthy aim for the B and I side.
Q 25The poor dad of Rich Dad Poor Dad struggled with money all his life despite holding which advanced qualification?
A doctorate
A doctorate reflected his belief in specialising deeply, while rich dad urged knowing a little about a lot, from sales to accounting.
Q 26After a failed 1970 election bid, the real-life poor dad of Rich Dad Poor Dad sank his savings into what?
An ice-cream franchise
An ice-cream franchise swallowed the savings of a man who had once run the state's public education system, and it eventually failed.
Q 27Robert Kiyosaki of Rich Dad Poor Dad has a sister who gave up material wealth to become a nun in which religion?
Buddhism
Buddhism led Tenzin Kacho to ordination by the Dalai Lama, and in 2007 her brother phoned to propose that the two of them write a book together.
Q 28Which seminar promoter won a $23.7 million judgment against one of Robert Kiyosaki's Rich Dad companies?
The Learning Annex
The Learning Annex had staged his early talks for a share of the profits; the firm it sued, Rich Global LLC, filed for bankruptcy in 2012.
Q 29Rich Dad Poor Dad author Robert Kiyosaki urges readers to buy which pair of metals, calling them God's money?
Gold and silver
Gold and silver sit beside property and businesses in his own portfolio, and he has since added Bitcoin to the things he urges people to hold.
Q 30What does Rich Dad Poor Dad's Robert Kiyosaki call borrowing that puts money in the borrower's pocket each month?
Good debt
Good debt is a tool, he argues, and in 2024 he said he was carrying more than $1 billion of borrowing himself.