The Pacifier
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40 free The Pacifier trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Pacifier asks what happens when a battle-hardened serviceman is handed a job no training covers: looking after a houseful of children. Vin Diesel plays Shane Wolfe, a tough guy who must cope with bottles, school runs and teenage moods while protecting the Plummer family from people who want their late father's secret. This quiz follows the whole story, from the mission that goes wrong in the opening minutes to the showdown at the family home. Expect questions on each of the Plummer children and what they are hiding, the pets and pranks, the school staff, the actors and where you have seen them since, and the people who wrote, directed and scored the film. It is pitched at families who have watched the film more than once and at anyone who grew up with it. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you with a good story.
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Q 01What kind of animal is Gary, the Plummer family pet who helps foil a gunman at the end of The Pacifier?
A duck
A duck named Gary lives with the Plummers and goes for Shane early on, then distracts the armed villain in the final standoff so he can be overpowered.
Q 02Teenager Seth Plummer secretly skips sports practice in The Pacifier to rehearse for which stage musical?
The Sound of Music
The Sound of Music gives Seth the part of Rolf, and when the show's director storms out, Shane takes over the production himself.
Q 03Before he is assigned to babysit in The Pacifier, Vin Diesel's Shane Wolfe serves as a lieutenant in which elite force?
Navy SEALs
Navy SEALs is Shane's unit, and he lands the babysitting job after a rescue mission ends with the children's father dead and Shane himself wounded.
Q 04Vice Principal Murney ends The Pacifier singing off-key on stage in a musical, dressed in which costume?
A nun's habit
A nun's habit is what the blustering Murney wears on stage, a humbling turn after Shane beat him in a showdown in front of the entire school.
Q 05The Pacifier was a comic change of pace for Vin Diesel, already famous as Dominic Toretto in which action franchise?
Fast & Furious
Fast & Furious made Diesel an action star in 2001, yet he turned down its first sequel and tried this family comedy before returning to the series.
Q 06At the end of The Pacifier, Shane Wolfe retires from the military and takes which job at the children's school?
Wrestling coach
Wrestling coach is Shane's new post, which keeps him close to the Plummers and to the principal he has fallen for.
Q 07Shane Wolfe helps eldest child Zoe Plummer in The Pacifier by giving her lessons in which everyday skill?
Driving
Driving is the skill, and it pays off when Zoe takes the wheel in the finale to get her brothers and sister away from a pursuing villain.
Q 08Which Everybody Loves Raymond star plays the blustering Vice Principal Murney, Shane Wolfe's rival in The Pacifier?
Brad Garrett
Brad Garrett, who played Robert Barone on the sitcom, was singled out in Variety's review as the film's one genuinely comic contribution.
Q 09Which Gilmore Girls star plays the school principal who falls for Shane Wolfe in The Pacifier?
Lauren Graham
Lauren Graham, Lorelai in Gilmore Girls, plays Claire Fletcher, a principal with a military past of her own who subdues the last villain herself.
Q 10Which skill does Shane Wolfe teach Lulu Plummer's scout troop in The Pacifier?
Martial arts
Martial arts lessons turn the tables, and the girls end up overpowering and tying up the boys who had been attacking their cookie stand.
Q 11Which Hollywood studio teamed with Spyglass Entertainment to produce and release The Pacifier as a family comedy?
Walt Disney Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures joined the project in November 2003 with Vin Diesel set to star, a month after Spyglass had announced the film.
Q 12Which of the five Plummer children is the baby of the family in The Pacifier, still in diapers when Shane moves in?
Tyler
Tyler is the baby of the household, a part shared on screen by two infants, Bo and Luke Vink.
Q 13Julie Plummer spends most of The Pacifier abroad in which country, trying to open her late husband's safety deposit box?
Switzerland
Switzerland is where the box sits in a bank, and a trip planned for a couple of days drags on for weeks because nobody can guess the password.
Q 21Where in the Plummer home does Shane Wolfe finally discover the hidden vault holding the secret in The Pacifier?
Beneath the garage
Beneath the garage lies a vault that only opens with a two-pronged key, the very thing the children's mother has gone abroad to fetch.
Q 22Which animal features in the name of the bedtime song that sends toddler Peter Plummer to sleep in The Pacifier?
Panda
Panda completes the Peter Panda song, and the bedtime dance his father used later gets Shane through the booby traps guarding the vault.
Q 23Which insect gives its name to the cookie-selling scout troop that Lulu Plummer belongs to in The Pacifier?
Firefly
Q 14The Pacifier's director and the actress who plays Zoe Plummer reunited two years later for which movie musical?
Hairspray
Hairspray cast Zoe's actress as the bratty Amber Von Tussle, with the filmmaker behind The Pacifier both directing and choreographing.
Q 15Which actress, later Chloe in the Pitch Perfect films, plays rebellious eldest child Zoe Plummer in The Pacifier?
Brittany Snow
Brittany Snow, known at the time for the TV drama American Dreams, played Zoe years before her a cappella fame.
Q 16The two masked intruders who break into the Plummer house in The Pacifier are eventually unmasked as whom?
The next-door neighbors
The next-door neighbors, the Chuns, are the culprits, a twist Roger Ebert said any viewer could predict from how much dialogue they were given.
Q 17The Pacifier is set in suburban Maryland, but which Canadian city stood in for it during filming?
Toronto
Toronto doubled for the Plummers' American suburb, and Variety's reviewer quipped that the resemblance was hard to miss.
Q 18The Pacifier's writers, Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant, went on to script which hit family film series?
Night at the Museum
Night at the Museum is among the pair's credits, and their screenplays have together earned more than $1.4 billion at the worldwide box office.
Q 19What is the spooky code name of the top-secret program Howard Plummer was developing in The Pacifier?
GHOST
GHOST is what the villains are after, and Shane's real mission in the house is to find where the dead scientist hid it.
Q 20Which trusted figure from Shane Wolfe's career is revealed as a double agent near the end of The Pacifier?
His commanding officer
His commanding officer, Captain Bill Fawcett, knocks Shane out cold and helps hold the Plummer family hostage.
Firefly is the troop's name, and rival boy scouts wreck the girls' cookie stall outside a store while Shane is inside doing the shopping.
Q 24Shane Wolfe, no good with names, at first refers to the Plummer children in The Pacifier by which military-style label?
Red Team
Red Team is his name for the brood, with each child given a number, a system that does nothing to win them over.
Q 25Which actress, Oscar-nominated for Hester Street and seen in The Princess Bride, plays nanny Helga in The Pacifier?
Carol Kane
Carol Kane plays Helga with a thick accent, and the nanny storms out for good after a prank the older children meant for Shane hits her instead.
Q 26Which actress, an Emmy nominee as Corky Sherwood on Murphy Brown, plays widowed mother Julie Plummer in The Pacifier?
Faith Ford
Faith Ford spends much of the film away from her screen children, since Julie is overseas while Shane runs the household.
Q 27Which actor, later Dylan Massett in Bates Motel and the star of Fire Country, plays Seth Plummer in The Pacifier?
Max Thieriot
Max Thieriot had made his film debut only a year earlier, and playing Seth earned him a Young Artist Award nomination.
Q 28Which choreographer turned director, later a judge on So You Think You Can Dance, made The Pacifier?
Adam Shankman
Adam Shankman once danced in pop videos for Paula Abdul and Janet Jackson, and took on Vin Diesel's comedy straight after Bringing Down the House.
Q 29In the climactic chase of The Pacifier, the Plummer children force Mr. Chun to crash into which kind of business?
A car dealership
A car dealership takes the hit, though the stubborn villain still makes it back to the house to hold everyone at gunpoint.
Q 30What does the villainous Mrs. Chun lose to a booby trap guarding the vault in The Pacifier?
Her eyebrows
Her eyebrows are burned clean off, which stops the crooks in their tracks until someone who knows the safe way through arrives.