Baldi's Basics
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40 free Baldi's Basics trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Baldi's Basics in Education and Learning looks like a cheap educational game from the 1990s, and that is the joke. Get one question wrong and the friendly teacher from the title screen starts hunting you through his school. One person built it in a couple of weeks and gave it away in 2018, and within months it was all over YouTube. This quiz covers the original game and what came after: Baldi and the strange cast who roam the halls, the items that keep you alive, the endings, the people and ideas behind the game, and the spin-offs up to Baldi's Basics Plus. It is pitched at fans who have played or watched a run or two. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will pick up something new even from the questions you miss.
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Q 01In Baldi's Basics, which classroom object does Baldi slap against his hand while chasing the player?
A ruler
A ruler gives him away: each slap marks his movement, and the slaps quicken as he gets angrier. The sound was recorded with a plastic one, though his is wooden.
Q 02How many notebooks must the player collect to escape the school in the original Baldi's Basics?
Seven
Seven is the target, and picking each one up opens a three-question quiz on a tablet called the You Can Think Pad.
Q 03Which school subject is the only one actually taught in the original Baldi's Basics?
Math
Math is the lone subject, though the store page jokingly promises spelling too. A spelling lesson was started during development and never finished.
Q 04In Baldi's Basics, what does the Principal of the Thing give a player caught running in the halls?
Detention
Detention lasts 15 seconds the first time and grows with every offence, up to 99 seconds. Being locked in also brings Baldi straight to the room.
Q 05In Baldi's Basics, which game does the little girl Playtime force the player to stop and play?
Jump rope
Jump rope with her means clearing five jumps in a row, and a miss starts the count again. All the while the player is stuck in place.
Q 06In Baldi's Basics, the slow-turning robot 1st Prize charges at the player because it loves what?
Hugging people
Hugging people is its only goal, but the embrace carries the player off down the corridor. The robot got its name by winning a science fair.
Q 07Which Baldi's Basics character bursts from a closet every few minutes and shoves everyone along?
Gotta Sweep
Gotta Sweep was meant to be a human janitor, but with the contest deadline close the creator photographed his own broom instead.
Q 08Which crowdfunding site raised more than $61,000 in 2018 to turn Baldi's Basics into a full game?
Kickstarter
Kickstarter backers pledged $61,375 against a $50,000 goal, and the expanded game they paid for reached early access two years later.
Q 09Baldi's Basics went viral once Markiplier, PewDiePie and Jacksepticeye each made what kind of video?
A Let's Play
A Let's Play from each of them spread the free game fast, and by August 2018 it had been downloaded more than a million times.
Q 10In Baldi's Basics, what does spraying a can of BSODA do to Baldi and other characters in its path?
Pushes them back
The blue spray pushes them back, and a character caught in it cannot move on its own until it hits a wall. A free can sits on a cafeteria table in the original game.
Q 11Which Baldi's Basics item ends Playtime's game early and makes the robot 1st Prize spin in circles?
Safety Scissors
Safety Scissors snip the robot's wires, leaving it spinning for 15 seconds in the original game. The in-game shop calls them the dullest pair ever made.
Q 12In the original Baldi's Basics, what does Baldi hand over for getting the first three answers right?
A quarter
A quarter is the reward, and it can buy a snack from a vending machine or work the pay phone, whose noise throws every character off the trail.
Q 13In Baldi's Basics, eating an Energy Flavored Zesty Bar instantly refills which player resource?
Stamina
Stamina is what lets the player run, and the snack overfills the meter so they can sprint about twice as long as usual.
Q 21Baldi's Basics was built in two weeks as an entry for which contest hosted on Itch.io?
Meta Game Jam
Meta Game Jam asked for games with self-aware twists, and this entry finished as runner-up, narrowly behind one called Farfalle OS.
Q 22Which 1996 educational game did the creator of Baldi's Basics cite as inspiring its eerie look?
Sonic's Schoolhouse
Sonic's Schoolhouse and similar 1990s edutainment struck him as somehow wrong when he watched footage, so he chased that feeling by mixing crude 3D with flat 2D art.
Q 23The creator of Baldi's Basics entered the contest it was made for mainly to practise which engine?
Unity
Q 14In Baldi's Basics, what does the ringing of a placed Alarm Clock item do to Baldi?
Draws him toward it
It draws him toward it ahead of most other noises, until he reaches the spot or sees the player. In the original game it rings 30 seconds after being set down.
Q 15In Baldi's Basics, what colour floods the school once the player reaches the first fake exit?
Red
Red light fills the halls, and the false way out turns into a wall showing a map of the building. Three of the four ways out are fakes.
Q 16In Baldi's Basics, what hidden trap guarantees that Baldi turns hostile on even the best players?
An unsolvable problem
An unsolvable problem ends every quiz after the first: the numbers turn to gibberish and his voice breaks into static as he reads them out.
Q 17According to a poster in Baldi's Basics, which of Baldi's senses makes him such a great teacher?
Hearing
Hearing is how he hunts: he can tell where a sound came from and who made it, so every door the player opens sends him the right way.
Q 18In Baldi's Basics, what colour is the long-sleeved shirt that Baldi wears with his blue jeans?
Green
Green is his usual colour, but in a microgame called Bad Ball by the same creator he wears a blue shirt, a slip the creator spotted only after recording it.
Q 19In Baldi's Basics, what kind of handmade object is the shy, jealous Arts and Crafters?
A sock puppet
A sock puppet with googly eyes, it hides from view for most of the game and resents anyone who holds more notebooks than it does.
Q 20Which solo developer, known online as mystman12, created Baldi's Basics in about two weeks?
Micah McGonigal
Micah McGonigal, from Waynesboro, Virginia, says he has beaten the original game only once, and that was during a livestream.
Unity was new to him, and he shelved remakes of his older handheld games so that he could learn it under a deadline.
Q 24Before Baldi's Basics made him a teacher, Baldi starred in his creator's childhood comics as what?
An inventor
An inventor whose gadgets always failed was the first Baldi, in the Baldimore comic strips his creator drew as an 11- or 12-year-old, years before the game.
Q 25In Baldi's Basics, why does the little girl Playtime speak in a flat, strangely deep voice?
Her creator voiced her
Her creator voiced her himself, and the recording peaks so often that she ranks among the loudest characters in the school.
Q 26Baldi's arm bends at an impossible angle when he waves hello in Baldi's Basics because of what?
An animation mistake
An animation mistake produced the wonky wave, and the creator kept it because it looked creepier than a normal greeting.
Q 27A Kotaku review likened Baldi's Basics to which 2012 horror game about a faceless forest stalker?
Slender: The Eight Pages
Slender: The Eight Pages has the same loop of gathering scattered objects while a pursuer closes in, and the reviewer jokingly called the classroom version her worst nightmare.
Q 28The mobile ports and later Baldi's Basics releases were published under which studio name?
Basically Games
Basically Games is a one-person label: its founder is the sole developer of every game in the series.
Q 29In the Baldi's Basics Field Trip demo, what must the player keep burning to stop Baldi giving chase?
A campfire
A campfire needs a steady supply of logs in the forest demo, which was released to promote the crowdfunding drive for the full game.
Q 30Baldi's Basics Birthday Bash, released on April 1, 2019, was a special edition marking what event?
Its first anniversary
Its first anniversary brought party hats, balloons and gift-wrapped random items, and the ending has the player blow out a candle on a giant cake.