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40 free Daddy Day Care trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Daddy Day Care starts from a simple what-if: two laid-off dads, led by Eddie Murphy's Charlie Hinton, decide to mind other people's children for a living. Critics were unimpressed, audiences turned up anyway, and the film went on to spawn sequels of its own. This quiz covers the whole story, from the marketing flop that costs Charlie his job to the showdown with the formidable Miss Harridan. Expect questions on the children and their quirks, the grown-up cast and where you have seen them since, the people behind the camera, and what happened next in Daddy Day Camp and Grand-Daddy Day Care. It is pitched at families who have watched the film more than once and at anyone who remembers it fondly from childhood. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still leaves you with a good story.
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Q 01Which future star of Maleficent and The Great made an early film appearance as Jamie in Daddy Day Care?
Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning won the part of Jamie at the age of four, her first role independent of her older sister Dakota.
Q 02In Daddy Day Care's final scene, which job has the defeated headmistress Miss Harridan been reduced to doing?
Crossing guard
Crossing guard is where Miss Harridan ends up once her pricey preschool closes, and her frantic stop-sign waving soon causes a traffic jam.
Q 03Eddie Murphy's Charlie Hinton wrestles in which vegetable costume while promoting a doomed cereal in Daddy Day Care?
Broccoli
Broccoli is Charlie's costume, while his friend Phil suits up as a carrot, and the pair crush a table as they wrestle.
Q 04Which actress, an Oscar winner for Prizzi's Honor, plays the strict headmistress Miss Harridan in Daddy Day Care?
Anjelica Huston
Anjelica Huston plays the ruthless head of an expensive, over-academic preschool who schemes to shut her cheaper rivals down.
Q 05Which actor took over from Eddie Murphy as Charlie Hinton when the sequel Daddy Day Camp arrived in 2007?
Cuba Gooding Jr.
Cuba Gooding Jr. inherited the role, but Daddy Day Camp was panned by critics and won a Razzie as the year's worst sequel.
Q 06Which real rock band plays itself at the Rock for Daddy Day Care charity fundraiser in the film?
Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick turn up as themselves and perform their 1978 hit Surrender at the charity event meant to fund bigger premises.
Q 07In Daddy Day Care, a boy named Tony refuses to take off the costume of which DC superhero?
The Flash
The Flash is the hero Tony wants to be, and Jimmy Bennett, the boy who played him, went on to play the young James T. Kirk on the big screen.
Q 08Which actress plays Kim Hinton, the wife who goes back to work while Charlie minds the children in Daddy Day Care?
Regina King
Regina King plays Kim, years before she won an Oscar for her role in If Beale Street Could Talk.
Q 09Which actor plays Marvin, the awkward former colleague hired as the third carer at Daddy Day Care?
Steve Zahn
Steve Zahn plays Marvin, a reluctant single friend who turns out to have an instinctive connection with small children.
Q 10Daddy Day Care reunited Eddie Murphy and director Steve Carr, who had first worked together on which comedy?
Dr. Dolittle 2
Dr. Dolittle 2 came first, in 2001, and one trade review judged the day-care comedy less crude than the Dolittle pictures.
Q 11Charlie Hinton is laid off in Daddy Day Care after children reject which vegetable-flavoured breakfast cereal?
Veggie-Os
Veggie-Os flops so badly in a focus group that angry children hurl their bowls and set upon the costumed mascots.
Q 12When Charlie loses his income in Daddy Day Care, his wife Kim returns to work in which profession?
Lawyer
Lawyer is Kim's profession, and her return to work is what leaves Charlie looking after their young son Ben.
Q 13Which agency does Miss Harridan tip off in her first attempt to get Daddy Day Care shut down?
Child services
Child services sends an inspector, Mr Kubitz, who proves well-meaning and simply lists the problems the dads must fix.
Q 21Where do the two dads first run Daddy Day Care before the business outgrows the space?
Charlie's own home
Charlie's own home hosts the centre until an inspector points out that a family house cannot take more than 12 children.
Q 22At which event does Charlie confront Miss Harridan and win the Daddy Day Care parents back?
A student orientation
A student orientation at her own preschool is where Charlie tells the assembled parents how little she cares about their children.
Q 23Which former Saturday Night Live Weekend Update anchor plays Bruce, one of the parents in Daddy Day Care?
Kevin Nealon
Q 14Which Curb Your Enthusiasm actor plays Phil Ryerson, Charlie's best friend and business partner in Daddy Day Care?
Jeff Garlin
Jeff Garlin, Jeff Greene in the HBO sitcom, plays Phil, who loses his job alongside Charlie and joins him in the new venture.
Q 15What does Miss Harridan dump into the concession stands to wreck the Daddy Day Care fundraising fair?
Cockroaches
Cockroaches go into the food, and she also sets the petting zoo animals loose, so the fair fails to raise enough money.
Q 16What is the name of the pricey preschool run by Miss Harridan that Ben Hinton has to leave in Daddy Day Care?
Chapman Academy
Chapman Academy dresses its four-year-olds in crested blazers, and one reviewer said it came across more like Oxford than a preschool.
Q 17At Miss Harridan's elite preschool in Daddy Day Care, four-year-olds take prep classes for which exam?
The SAT
The SAT prep classes sit alongside tai chi and Freudian readings of Goldilocks on the preschool's timetable.
Q 18In the chaos of Daddy Day Care's first days, what do the pillow-shredding children drink?
Bubble solution
Bubble solution is the drink of choice, and the children are soon jumping on the furniture and running headlong into walls.
Q 19While putting up flyers to advertise Daddy Day Care, what does Phil accidentally staple?
His own hand
His own hand ends up stapled to a flyer, one of several slapstick injuries for Phil, who is also kicked by a child at a karate dojo.
Q 20Which messy parenting chore does Phil shrink from early in Daddy Day Care, even for his own son?
Changing diapers
Changing diapers defeats Phil in a flashback set in an expensive restaurant, though he grows more involved as the centre finds its feet.
Kevin Nealon spent nine seasons on the sketch show, from 1986 to 1995, and later played Doug Wilson in the series Weeds.
Q 24Which future Mean Girls actress plays Jennifer, Miss Harridan's hesitant assistant, in Daddy Day Care?
Lacey Chabert
Lacey Chabert plays the reluctant helper a year before Mean Girls, and by the end Jennifer has switched sides to work for the dads.
Q 25Which comedian, the voice of an animated therapist, plays the kindly inspector Mr Kubitz in Daddy Day Care?
Jonathan Katz
Jonathan Katz, the star of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist, plays the official whose checklists push the dads to raise their standards.
Q 26Steve Carr, who directed Daddy Day Care, went on to direct which 2009 comedy?
Paul Blart: Mall Cop
Paul Blart: Mall Cop paired Steve Carr with Kevin James, who co-wrote the script and played the title role.
Q 27In the same year as Daddy Day Care, Eddie Murphy starred in which film based on a Disneyland attraction?
The Haunted Mansion
The Haunted Mansion cast Eddie Murphy as a realtor who becomes trapped with his family in the ghostly house of the title.
Q 28Which studio first developed Daddy Day Care, then let Revolution Studios take the project over?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox planned to make the comedy later, but Eddie Murphy wanted to shoot it sooner, so the studio let Revolution Studios pick it up.
Q 29Daddy Day Care was filmed during 2002 in which American city?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles hosted the shoot, and one critic complained that the film's whole world looked as if it existed only on a studio lot.
Q 30What runs under the closing credits of Daddy Day Care, giving the boy who plays Ben the final word?
Outtakes
Outtakes roll under the credits, and the last of them belongs to Khamani Griffin, who shared a Young Artist Award nomination with the film's young cast.