Big Nate Trivia
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50 free Big Nate trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free Big Nate trivia questions with answers. Nate Wright has been failing social studies, drumming badly and drawing brilliantly since Lincoln Peirce's comic strip debuted in 1991. This quiz covers the strip, the eight New York Times bestselling novels from In a Class by Himself to Blasts Off, the Poptropica island, the stage musical and the animated series that ran on Paramount+ and Nickelodeon. You will meet the whole P.S. 38 crowd: Francis and his Book of Facts, Teddy and his square-root middle name, Chad, Dee Dee, teacher's pet Gina, the mysterious foreign exchange student who keeps beating Nate at chess, and of course Mrs. Godfrey. There are also questions about Nate's dad and sister, the band, the rival school, and Peirce himself. Questions were checked against Wikipedia's Big Nate pages, so parents and teachers can use them for a classroom quiz. Easy character questions come first; the seven-detention plot details and publishing history are for serious fans.
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Q 01Which bestselling author wrote Lincoln Peirce a fan letter in college and later helped him land the Big Nate novels?
Jeff Kinney
Jeff Kinney was a student cartoonist when he wrote, and the two became pen pals; years later, after Diary of a Wimpy Kid took off, he helped Peirce secure the book deal for the Big Nate novels.
Q 02What grade is Nate Wright in?
Sixth
Sixth grade is harder for Nate because his older sister got there first: his teachers keep asking why he can't be more like her.
Q 03What is the name of Nate's school?
P.S. 38
P.S. 38 turns a hundred years old in the novel Lives It Up, and it shows: the building is so run-down that a ceiling tile drops on Nate's head.
Q 04What subject does Nate's nemesis Mrs. Godfrey teach?
Social studies
Social studies is Mrs. Godfrey's subject, and for all their feuding she once saved Nate's life, using the Heimlich manoeuvre when he choked on a peppermint in her class.
Q 05In the Big Nate comic strip, what is the name of Nate's rock band?
Enslave the Mollusk
Enslave the Mollusk began with Nate as lead singer, until a classmate dropped in on a rehearsal, sang 'I Fought the Law' and got the job; the TV series renames the band Fear the Mollusk.
Q 06Which instrument does Nate play in his band?
Drums
Drums are Nate's job, and he takes it seriously: when a power cut silenced the band at a school dance, he offered to keep the crowd happy with a killer drum solo.
Q 07Which classmate sings lead in Nate's band, dates his crush and beat him at chess?
Artur
Artur, an exchange student from Belarus in the strip, seems to Nate to be perfect at everything, yet he has no idea he is resented and counts Nate as a friend.
Q 08In Big Nate, which classmate became Nate's long-running crush back in first grade?
Jenny
Jenny has never been interested, yet Nate kept coming back to her: Peirce once had him break up with a girlfriend he met at soccer camp because he couldn't get over the crush.
Q 09Which teacher's pet, Mrs. Godfrey's favourite student, does Nate loathe?
Gina
Gina prides herself on a spotless record, so it stings when a shouting match with Nate in the library earns her the first detention of her life at the end of Strikes Again.
Q 10Which of Nate's classmates loves 'The Book of Facts' and owns a cat named Pickles?
Francis Pope
Francis Pope sealed his friendship with Nate back in third grade by confiding his embarrassing middle name, Butthurst, and in Flips Out Nate blurts it out in the heat of an argument.
Q 11What is Teddy Ortiz's middle name?
The square root symbol
The square root symbol is Teddy's middle name because both of his parents are maths teachers, which makes him, in full, Teddy Square Root Ortiz.
Q 12What is the name of Nate's older sister?
Ellen
Ellen is the responsible one now, but she began the strip as a ditzy, rebellious teenager; only later did she become the model student Nate is forever compared with.
Q 13What is Nate's dad's first name?
Martin
Martin Wright is a health nut who hands out prunes instead of sweets at Halloween, and the neighbourhood's trick-or-treaters turn them down every single year.
Q 21Which book, published in 2010, was the first Big Nate novel?
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself
Big Nate: In a Class by Himself covers a single school day: a fortune cookie tells Nate he will surpass all others, so he spends the day looking for a way to prove it right.
Q 22Which school record does Nate set in the first Big Nate novel?
Most detention slips in one day
Most detention slips in one day: seven, each from a different member of staff, which is not quite what Nate expected when a fortune cookie promised that he would 'surpass all others'.
Q 23In Big Nate, which elderly science teacher is rumoured never to have laughed at anything?
Q 14What snack does Nate love above all others?
Cheez Doodles
Cheez Doodles come straight from Nate's creator: Lincoln Peirce says he loves them too, just as he shares Nate's hatred of egg salad.
Q 15What is the name of the neighbour's dog, the closest thing Nate has to a pet of his own?
Spitsy
Spitsy wears a cone because he would chew his own paws off without it, and Nate, who longs for a real dog of his own, calls him 'the ultimate dog nerd'.
Q 16What is Nate's favourite comic book series?
Femme Fatality
Femme Fatality is the comic Nate swears he reads only for the stories; it inspired his own heroine, Eve of Destruction, whom he later rewrote as a man called Steve.
Q 17Which modern rival school beats Nate's classmates at almost everything?
Jefferson Middle School
Jefferson Middle School has a food court where Nate's school has a cafeteria, and when water damage shut his own building his whole class was sent there, to be taught in trailers.
Q 18Which phobia does Nate Wright suffer from?
Fear of cats
Fear of cats, or ailurophobia, finally pays off for Nate in Flips Out: the school Trivia Slam comes down to a question about that very word, and he wins it for his team.
Q 19In the Big Nate comic strip, which day do students treat as 'Prank Day'?
The last day of school
The last day of school is Prank Day, and one year a heavily pregnant Mrs. Godfrey spent the eve of it warning her class that no student with a shred of dignity would prank her.
Q 20What was Lincoln Peirce's day job before Big Nate was syndicated in 1991?
Art teacher
Art teacher: he spent three years teaching art and coaching baseball at a boys' school in Manhattan, and he says one of his students became the model for a friend of Nate's.
Mr. Galvin
Mr. Galvin confiscates Nate's pen in the first novel, and it leaks in his pocket: Nate is the one who can't stop laughing as the ink stain spreads across the teacher's shirt, and Mr. Galvin punishes him for it.
Q 24In Big Nate Strikes Again, which historical figure is Nate assigned to research?
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin wins Nate over, and the comics he draws about him rescue the grade: Mrs. Godfrey is about to fail the pair over his partner's unoriginal visual aids, then gives the project an A-plus.
Q 25In Big Nate Strikes Again, what is the official name of the fleece-ball team Nate captains?
Kuddle Kittens
Kuddle Kittens was handed in by a teammate before Nate could submit Psycho Dogs, the name the dog next door had inspired; he refuses to use it, and the Kittens still win the title.
Q 26In Big Nate: On a Roll, what are the Timber Scouts selling to raise money for camping gear?
Warm Fuzzies
Warm Fuzzies are wall hangings with little sayings on them; Nate only bothers because the top seller wins a skateboard, and after a dead heat he takes it on the flip of a coin.
Q 27In Big Nate Goes for Broke, what do the members of Mr. Rosa's cartooning club call themselves?
The Doodlers
The Doodlers were all boys until Mr. Rosa suggested inviting girls, and when Nate stammered out the first invitation she took it as an invitation to the school dance and said yes.
Q 28In Goes for Broke, what contest does Nate invent to finally beat the rival school?
A snow-sculpting contest
A snow-sculpting contest, which Nate calls the Snowdown, goes his school's way because the rivals have only packed snow over an old suit of armour; his own team sculpts Achilles with an icicle in his heel.
Q 29In Big Nate: In the Zone, Chad's good-luck charm is a small plastic what?
Foot
Foot it is: Chad found the charm on the cafetorium floor, and it brings Nate a run of good luck until Mrs. Godfrey spots it, calls it a toy and shuts it in her desk drawer.
Q 30In Big Nate Lives It Up, the new student Nate is assigned to buddy has what elaborate name?
Breckenridge Puffington III
Breckenridge Puffington III turns out to be 'Bobby', the boy who picked on Nate when they were small; Nate blows up at him, then forgives him and puts him on his scavenger-hunt team.