Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls
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40 free Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Allie Finkle is nine, loves order, and has just been told her family is leaving the suburbs for a creaky old house across town. Over six novels from the author of The Princess Diaries, she survives a new school, a class bully, a bossy newcomer, a school play, a glamorous birthday party and a field trip with her old classmates, adding to her notebook after every mess she lands in. This quiz covers all six books, from Moving Day to Blast from the Past: the friends and frenemies of Room 209, the Finkle family and its pets, the best-known entries in Allie's notebook, and a few facts about how the series came to be written and published. It is pitched for readers who grew up with the books, and for parents, teachers and librarians running a book club or a classroom read-aloud. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01In Moving Day, what does Allie Finkle become convinced is lurking in the attic of her new house?
A zombie hand
A zombie hand is Allie's best argument against the creaky old house. The audiobook even adds a bonus zombie-hand story read by the author herself.
Q 02One of Allie Finkle's rules warns against shoving which kitchen utensil down a best friend's throat?
A spatula
A spatula features in one of Allie's best-known rules from Moving Day. She often makes her rules after the fact, to keep the peace with a best friend who cries easily.
Q 03Which author of The Princess Diaries also wrote the Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series?
Meg Cabot
Meg Cabot said younger girls kept writing that their moms wouldn't let them read her teen books, so she created nine-year-old Allie for them.
Q 04New girl Cheyenne joins Allie Finkle's class in Best Friends and Drama Queens from which country?
Canada
Canada sends Pine Heights a girl who wears high-heeled boots and calls anyone who won't follow her orders a big baby.
Q 05Which part does Allie Finkle get in the Stage Fright class play instead of the lead she wanted?
The evil queen
The evil queen is no consolation prize: by opening night Allie has learned that a smaller part played with heart can matter as much as the lead.
Q 06How do Allie Finkle and Brittany Hauser's other birthday guests travel to the dress-up store Glitterati?
A stretch limo
A stretch limo is the reason Allie goes at all: riding in one is her lifelong dream, even though she thinks Brittany and her friends are snobby.
Q 07Where does Allie Finkle's class go on the field trip at the center of Blast from the Past?
A one-room schoolhouse
A one-room schoolhouse awaits, and Allie's teacher urges everyone to dress up as someone from the 1850s, which some of her friends actually do.
Q 08Which ex-best friend from her old school becomes Allie Finkle's assigned buddy in Blast from the Past?
Mary Kay
Mary Kay betrayed Allie right before the move, so sharing an old-fashioned desk with her for a whole day is the last thing Allie wants.
Q 09Which animal does Allie Finkle rescue from the Lung Chung restaurant in Moving Day?
A turtle
A turtle goes home with Uncle Jay, but only after Allie promises to pretend she is happy about the family's move.
Q 10Allie Finkle starts at Pine Heights Elementary as the new girl in which school grade?
Fourth
Fourth grade puts Allie in Room 209 at Pine Heights, a run-down, old-fashioned school just two blocks from her new house.
Q 11In Moving Day, Allie Finkle's family swaps a suburban split-level for an ancient house in which style?
Victorian
Victorian, and about a hundred years old: the unrenovated house is so gloomy that Allie suspects it may be haunted.
Q 12What color is the wall-to-wall carpeting that Allie Finkle hates giving up in Moving Day?
Pink
Pink carpet gives way to creaky floorboards, secret passageways and a bedroom Allie is half-scared to enter.
Q 13Which classmate threatens to beat Allie Finkle up after school in The New Girl?
Rosemary
Rosemary later admits she was jealous of how easily Allie made friends, a confession that comes after Allie invites her over to meet her new kitten.
Q 21What is the name of the family dog who lives with Allie Finkle and her annoying little brothers?
Marvin
Marvin was the family pet first: Allie's longed-for kitten only arrives in the second book.
Q 22Which lead role do Allie Finkle and almost every girl in Room 209 want in the Stage Fright class play?
Princess Penelope
Princess Penelope is also the dream part of Allie's best friend Sophie, who wants it even more than Allie does and is widely thought the better fit.
Q 23What does bossy newcomer Cheyenne make Allie Finkle's classmates play in Best Friends and Drama Queens?
A kissing game
A kissing game is Cheyenne's idea of being mature, and she gets really mad when Allie refuses to join in.
Q 14In Blast from the Past, what is Allie Finkle not allowed to own until sixth grade?
A cell phone
A cell phone has to wait, even though some of Allie's friends already have one.
Q 15In which activity does Missy, big sister of Allie Finkle's best friend, compete at a regional contest?
Baton twirling
Baton twirling is the draw at the regional Twirltacular, the contest Allie skips for a birthday party and then lies about to her best friends.
Q 16Which publisher known for school book fairs released the Allie Finkle's Rules for Girls series?
Scholastic
Scholastic signed the author in 2007 for three new series at once: Allie Finkle for readers aged 8 to 12, plus the teen trilogies Airhead and Abandon.
Q 17Which teacher of Allie Finkle shares a name with the author's own beloved childhood teacher?
Mrs. Hunter
Mrs. Hunter was the real teacher the author loved and found inspiring. Writing a short piece about her for a friendship anthology led to the Allie books.
Q 18Which prized collection is Allie Finkle told she cannot take along to the new house in Moving Day?
Geodes
Geodes are such an Allie trademark that her official website had a Geode Match-Up game.
Q 19Which new neighbor does Allie Finkle befriend as she gets ready to start at Pine Heights Elementary?
Erica
Erica changes Allie's mood about the move: things look up once Allie meets her and sees her room all fixed up.
Q 20What name does Allie Finkle give the kitten she picks from a show cat's litter in The New Girl?
Mewsie
Mewsie, also called Mewsette, is Allie's first pick from the litter of show cat Lady Serena Archibald.
Q 24Allie Finkle's mom joins the local cable show Good News! in Stage Fright to do which job?
Film critic
Film critic on local TV makes Mrs. Finkle practically a Hollywood insider in Allie's eyes, a connection Allie hopes will help her win a part in the class play.
Q 25Which two school subjects does Allie Finkle like so much because they come with clear rules?
Math and science
Math and science appeal to Allie because you always know where you stand with them. She keeps a notebook of her own rules for everything else.
Q 26In The New Girl, Allie Finkle is embarrassed to take her little brother to school dressed as what?
A pirate
A pirate outfit comes back to haunt Allie in a later book, when girls at a birthday party force her to wear one herself.
Q 27Which school contest does Allie Finkle plan to throw in The New Girl until a friend calls that cheating?
A spelling bee
A spelling bee is one of several tests of Allie's first weeks at Pine Heights, where she also gets in trouble for talking in class on her very first day.
Q 28The class play that Allie Finkle's Room 209 stages in Stage Fright is set in the Realm of what?
Recycling
Recycling suits a play about doing your part to help save the environment. Sophie has her part taken away after lashing out at Allie.
Q 29What is the name of the modern suburban elementary school Allie Finkle leaves behind in Moving Day?
Walnut Knolls
Walnut Knolls comes back in Blast from the Past, when Allie's old class is paired with her new one for a field trip.
Q 30Whose 82nd rule does Allie Finkle translate into advice about keeping promises in Blast from the Past?
George Washington
George Washington wrote out 110 rules of civility in his school book when he was about 14. Allie boils the 82nd down to finishing what you start and keeping your promises.