Diary of a Wimpy Kid Trivia
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100 free Diary of a Wimpy Kid trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
48 free Diary of a Wimpy Kid trivia questions with answers. Greg Heffley would want you to know it is a journal, not a diary. This quiz covers the whole Wimpy Kid universe: the Cheese Touch, Zoo-Wee Mama, Löded Diper, Mom Bucks, Spag Union, the Magic 8 Ball, Silas Scratch, the Upper Surrey snowball war and more, book by book from the 2007 original to No Brainer and beyond. There are also questions on the live-action films (and the #NotMyRodrick affair), the Disney+ animated reboots, and Jeff Kinney's own story: Funbrain, Poptropica, Igdoof and his bookshop An Unlikely Story. Most questions are answerable by any 8-to-12-year-old who has read the books; a handful at the end are for parents and superfans. Use it for a classroom reading reward, a birthday party or a family quiz night. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the series, the individual books, the films and the author, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Which hobby project does Greg's dad keep working on in Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
A Civil War battlefield
A Civil War battlefield in miniature is his pride: he declares the room it sits in off-limits to the children and sneaks away from family film nights to work on it.
Q 02In the fourth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, what name does the dog Greg's dad brings home end up with?
Sweetie
Sweetie is short for Sweetheart, a name Greg cannot stand; the dog causes so much trouble over the summer that Greg's dad ends up giving him away to Gramma.
Q 03On which website did Diary of a Wimpy Kid first appear, as daily online entries in 2004-05?
Funbrain
Funbrain ran the story in daily entries from September 2004 to June 2005; it drew about 20 million views, and readers' requests for a printed version led to the 2007 book.
Q 04At which 2006 event did Kinney show Diary of a Wimpy Kid to the editor who published it?
New York Comic Con
New York Comic Con, then in its very first year, is where Kinney showed his samples to an Abrams editor in February 2006; the first book followed in 2007 and was an instant bestseller.
Q 05What is the name of Greg Heffley's best friend?
Rowley
Rowley is cheerful and childish, which embarrasses Greg; when a game Greg invents leaves him in a cast, the girls' sympathy for Rowley makes Greg jealous.
Q 06In the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, what is the curse of the mouldy playground cheese called?
The Cheese Touch
The Cheese Touch makes its holder an outcast until it is passed on; at the end Greg takes the blame for the missing cheese to protect his best friend, and is stuck with it himself.
Q 07Which instrument does Greg's older brother Rodrick play in his band in Diary of a Wimpy Kid?
Drums
Drums: Rodrick is his heavy-metal band's founder and drummer, and when he is grounded their dad cuts the punishment short just to stop the daily practice at home.
Q 08What is the name of Rodrick Heffley's heavy-metal band?
Löded Diper
Löded Diper plays the school talent show in Rodrick Rules, hoping a tape of the set will win a record deal; the recording is ruined because the boys' mother talks over it.
Q 09What is the name of Greg Heffley's spoiled toddler brother?
Manny
Manny is three and gets away with things Greg is punished for, such as drawing on a bedroom door; twins Connor and Owen Fielding shared the role in the first three live-action films.
Q 10Which comic strip do Greg and his best friend create in the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book?
Zoo-Wee Mama!
Zoo-Wee Mama! starts as a joint effort; Greg drops it to draw his own cartoon, and his friend later lands the school paper's cartoonist job with it and takes all the credit.
Q 11Which part does Greg land in his school's Wizard of Oz play in the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book?
A tree
A tree, a part Greg picks so he can pelt Dorothy with apples; she is played by Patty Farrell, who got him in trouble over a test, and on the night he is too nervous to sing.
Q 12Which student organisation does Greg join in the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, only to be thrown out?
The Safety Patrol
The Safety Patrol drops Greg after he chases kindergartners with a worm and lets his best friend take the blame; the friend, suspended by mistake, is reinstated and promoted.
Q 13Greg's school, unnamed for 17 books, ends No Brainer with which name?
Larry Mack Junior Middle
Q 21Which deranged farmer is the subject of campfire rumours in Old School?
Silas Scratch
Silas Scratch turns out to be a hoax: Greg's dad invented the crazed farmer years earlier to scare other campers away from a hideout he had found, and Greg decides to keep the legend going.
Q 22What kind of film do Greg and his best friend try to make with gummy worms in Double Down?
A horror movie
A horror movie called 'Night of the Night Crawlers' starts when Greg, hunting for paper towels to hide a chocolate mess, finds a bag of gummy worms; the shoot falls apart once the family pig starts eating them.
Q 23In The Getaway, the Heffleys skip Christmas to fly to which resort, where Greg's parents honeymooned?
Isla de Corales
Larry Mack Junior Middle is its third name in one book: revealed as Larry Mack Middle, it sells its naming rights and becomes 1-800-DED-BUGS Middle School, then takes the name of the first Larry Mack's son, who pays to reopen it.
Q 14In Rodrick Rules, which play-money scheme is invented to make Greg and his brother get along?
Mom Bucks
Mom Bucks can be traded in for real cash; Greg finds identical play money at a friend's house and smuggles it home, and the scheme collapses when his brother tries to cash in a fortune.
Q 15In Rodrick Rules, where does Greg's big brother lock him while throwing a secret house party?
The basement
The basement is where Greg spends the party, sent down for chairs and then locked in; the secret holds for weeks until a photo gives it away, and Greg is punished too, as an 'accomplice'.
Q 16In The Last Straw, Greg's dad threatens to send him to which military academy for the summer?
Spag Union
Spag Union is where a neighbourhood troublemaker was straightened out, which gives Greg's dad the idea; he relents after Greg accidentally saves him from embarrassment at a party.
Q 17Which popular girl does Greg spend The Last Straw trying to impress?
Holly Hills
Holly Hills finally speaks to him at the roller rink, only to mistake him for the weirdest boy in school; Greg loses interest on the spot and declares he is done with girls.
Q 18What traps the Heffleys at home for days in the sixth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book?
A blizzard
A blizzard snows in everyone but Greg's dad, who is stuck at a hotel; the power fails, and Greg later finds it was switched off for every room except his little brother's.
Q 19In Hard Luck, Greg starts making all his decisions using what?
A Magic 8 Ball
A Magic 8 Ball turns up on Easter, just after Greg's best friend has ditched him for a girlfriend; he lets it decide everything until he drops it during a test he was using it to cheat on.
Q 20Which relative's fourth wedding makes Greg miss a popular kid's party in The Ugly Truth?
Uncle Gary
Uncle Gary is marrying for the fourth time, and Greg is demoted to assistant flower boy; he later learns he dodged a bullet, as the party's host only wanted younger kids as servants.
Isla de Corales has changed since the honeymoon: the fun parts are now adults-only, the family claims the wrong suitcase, and Greg meets an iguana, then a tarantula in his slipper.
Q 24The Meltdown, published in 2018, centres on a neighbourhood war fought with what?
Snowballs
Snowballs fly when the kids of Upper and Lower Surrey Street build forts and go to war, yet the book opens on a freakishly hot January day with Greg fretting about climate change.
Q 25In Wrecking Ball, whose death leaves the inheritance Greg's mom spends on a bigger kitchen?
Great Aunt Reba
Great Aunt Reba's money goes on a kitchen extension that exposes wasps and mice, then has to be torn down for standing too close to the neighbours; the Heffleys come close to moving away.
Q 26Which team sport does Greg reluctantly sign up for in Big Shot?
Basketball
Basketball comes only after a disastrous school Sports Day; in one crucial game Greg's mom trades him to the opposing team as a 'secret weapon', and his fluke last-second shot wins it.
Q 27In No Brainer, falling test scores bring which retired principal back to run Greg's school?
Mr. Bottoms
Mr. Bottoms replaces the sacked Mrs. Mancy and launches gimmicks such as the High Flyers Club, then a paid 'Platinum' tier; he ends up handing the job to Greg for a day.
Q 28Which Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, the twentieth, arrived in October 2025?
Partypooper
Partypooper arrived on 21 October 2025; in it Greg's family forgets his birthday, and he treats the party they throw to make up for it as a chance to maximise his haul of presents.
Q 29About how many Diary of a Wimpy Kid books had been sold worldwide by 2020?
250 million
250 million copies by 2020, for a story that began as a free web comic whose readers had to ask for a printed version.
Q 30Who played Greg Heffley in the 2010 live-action Diary of a Wimpy Kid film and its two sequels?
Zachary Gordon
Zachary Gordon played Greg three times in three years; by the third film the cast was outgrowing middle school, so the next adaptation, five years on, started again with new actors.