Anne Frank Trivia
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96 free Anne Frank trivia questions with answers — history quiz, new questions added Oct 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 city was Anne born in 1929?
Frankfurt
Frankfurt: after Hitler came to power, her parents moved the family to the Netherlands, where Anne soon felt at home at her new school.
Q 02What was Anne Frank's full first name?
Annelies
Annelies, sometimes spelt Anneliese; in 1941 the Nazis stripped her of her citizenship, leaving her stateless.
Q 03Which actress did Otto Frank ask to play Anne in the 1959 film of the diary?
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn: she declined, feeling too old for the part, though like Anne she had spent her adolescence under the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands.
Q 04What did Otto Frank's first company in Amsterdam sell?
Pectin, a fruit extract
Pectin, a fruit extract: it helps jam set, and in 1942 the family went into hiding in the annex behind the company's own offices.
Q 05What was the name of Anne's older sister?
Margot
Margot kept a diary of her own, Anne wrote, but unlike Anne's, it has never been found.
Q 06What kind of education did Anne receive from 1934 at an institution later renamed in her honour?
Montessori
Montessori lessons ended for Anne in 1941, when the Nazi occupiers forced Jewish pupils out into separate Jewish schools.
Q 07What destroyed Otto Frank's US visa paperwork in May 1940?
The Rotterdam consulate was bombed
The Rotterdam consulate was bombed on 14 May 1940 and all papers were lost; Otto kept trying, but his bid for a Cuban visa was cancelled in December 1941.
Q 08The only known film footage of Anne shows her doing what?
Watching a neighbour's wedding from a window
Watching a neighbour's wedding from a window, she leans out for a better look at the bride and groom; the couple later shared the film with the Anne Frank House.
Q 09What occasion brought Anne Frank her red-and-white checkered diary?
Her thirteenth birthday
Her thirteenth birthday brought it on 12 June 1942, and less than a month later Anne took it with her into hiding.
Q 10Which imaginary friend did Anne Frank address her diary letters to?
Kitty
Kitty began as one of several imaginary friends Anne wrote letters to, and in time she wrote to Kitty alone.
Q 11What forced the Franks into hiding ten days earlier than planned, on 6 July 1942?
A call-up for Anne's sister
A call-up for Anne's sister came on 5 July; next morning the 16-year-old cycled to the hiding place while Anne and her parents walked.
Q 12Which toys did Anne ask neighbour Toosje Kupers to keep, fearing they might fall into the wrong hands?
Her marbles
Her marbles went to Kupers along with a tea set and a book, and the Kupers also took in the family's cat, Moortje.
Q 13On which canal was the building containing the Secret Annex?
Prinsengracht
Q 21What career did Anne say she wanted in her diary entry of 5 April 1944?
Journalist
Journalist was her ambition by 1944, though in October 1942 she had still dreamed of becoming a Hollywood film star.
Q 22What did Anne do after an exiled minister's March 1944 radio appeal?
Began rewriting her diary
Began rewriting her diary, once minister Gerrit Bolkestein had urged listeners to keep diaries and letters as a record of the occupation.
Q 23What did helper Victor Kugler do on a 1945 prisoner march?
Escaped in an air raid
He escaped in an air raid, got help from strangers for a few days, then went home and hid in his own house.
Prinsengracht held Otto Frank's business, so the hiding place lay behind offices where his most trusted employees went on working.
Q 14What concealed the door to the Secret Annex?
A bookcase
A bookcase hid the entrance, yet police searching the building in August 1944 still found the door behind it.
Q 15Which country did the Franks pretend they had fled to when they went into hiding?
Switzerland
Switzerland was a plausible story, since Otto Frank had family living there.
Q 16What did Fritz Pfeffer do with his young son after Kristallnacht, before fleeing to the Netherlands himself?
Sent him to England
Sent him to England, where the boy was raised by an uncle, survived the war and later emigrated to the United States.
Q 17What did Edith Frank pass through a hole in a wall to her daughters at Auschwitz?
Extra food
Extra food went to the girls through that hole; soon separated from them, Edith stayed in Auschwitz and died there in January 1945.
Q 18What was the profession of Fritz Pfeffer, the eighth person to join the annex in November 1942?
Dentist
Dentist Fritz Pfeffer was barred by Nazi race laws from marrying his Catholic partner, Charlotte; after the war their marriage was recognised posthumously.
Q 19From whom did Anne receive her first kiss in the annex?
Peter van Pels
Peter van Pels was at first dismissed by Anne as a shy, gawky youth, yet the two fell in love in the annex.
Q 20Which of the helpers did Otto Frank say was Anne's closest friend?
Bep Voskuijl
Bep Voskuijl signed up for a Latin correspondence course in her own name so that Anne's sister could secretly take it.
Q 24Which SS sergeant led the police raid on the Secret Annex?
Karl Silberbauer
Karl Silberbauer was found in 1963 serving in the Vienna police; he was suspended but never prosecuted.
Q 25To which transit camp were the eight prisoners sent after their arrest?
Westerbork
Westerbork put them in its Punishment Barracks, because Jews caught in hiding were treated as criminals.
Q 26Why were Anne's diary papers left on the annex floor after the arrest?
An officer emptied a briefcase for loot
An officer emptied a briefcase for loot, tipping the papers out; helpers later gathered them up and kept them in a desk drawer.
Q 27What alternative to betrayal did the Anne Frank House's 2016 research suggest for the raid?
An investigation into ration-card fraud
An investigation into ration-card fraud fits the raiders' usual work on financial crimes, and two salesmen linked to the building had been arrested over coupons.
Q 28What did Ambo Anthos do with its 2022 book naming a Jewish notary as Anne Frank's betrayer?
Recalled it from shops
Ambo Anthos recalled it from shops after historians disputed that the Jewish Council ever held a list of hiding places the notary could draw on.
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 30Why was Anne Frank moved into a separate barracks at Auschwitz?
She had scabies
She had scabies, and her sister caught it too, so both girls were isolated in the sick barracks, away from their mother.