Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
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50 free Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library drops twelve kids into the most extravagant library ever imagined, then refuses to let them out. To leave, they have to think like readers: follow clues through the shelves, decode picture riddles and decide whom to trust. It is a mystery, a game show and a love letter to libraries all at once, which is why classrooms and book clubs keep coming back to it. This quiz follows the story from Kyle Keeley's first bad decision to the final dash for the exit. Expect questions on the contestants and what drives them, the gadgets inside the building, the games played on the first night, the cheating that gets players thrown out, and the trail that leads to the way out. A handful cover the writer behind the series, the sequels and the TV movie. It is pitched for readers who have finished the book: students revising for a class quiz, teachers and librarians running a book-club session, and families who read it together. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something about the story.
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Q 01Which Roald Dahl novel have reviewers compared Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library to?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was the comparison reviewers reached for, with Mr. Lemoncello as a bookish Willy Wonka. The author's own website calls the novel a nod to Dahl's story.
Q 02Which children's TV network turned Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library into a live-action movie in 2017?
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon made the movie version, four years after the novel came out. Its library is wilder than the book's: storybook figures such as Frankenstein's monster come to life in the genre rooms.
Q 03Mrs. Gail Tobin, who helped young Mr. Lemoncello sell his first game, greets players in his new library as what?
A hologram
A hologram of Mrs. Tobin, shown as the 1960s librarian she once was, is the library's built-in helper. Players must summon her before they can use any outside help in the escape game.
Q 04In Mr. Lemoncello's library, which gadget floats readers up to books shelved three storeys above the floor?
Hover ladders
Hover ladders use electromagnets to float patrons up to the book they want. Bookworm Sierra Russell is the first contestant shown riding one, during the hunt for a hidden dessert.
Q 05What do the twelve winners discover the morning after their lock-in at Mr. Lemoncello's library is supposed to end?
The doors stay locked
The doors stay locked, and Mr. Lemoncello announces a new game: find the hidden way out to win his biggest prize ever. Nobody is forced to play, and three of the twelve choose to go home.
Q 06What prize does Mr. Lemoncello promise the first player to escape his library?
Starring in his commercials
Starring in his commercials is the reward: the winner becomes the paid spokesperson for Mr. Lemoncello's games. He only names the prize after Charles Chiltington asks what is in it for them.
Q 07What does Kyle Keeley smash at home to win a Lemoncello scavenger-hunt game, getting himself grounded for a week?
A basement window
A basement window is what Kyle kicks in, and bragging about it is how his dad finds out. The repair comes out of his allowance at fifty cents a week for a whole year.
Q 08Mr. Lemoncello's initials are L. L. L.; what is the first name of the billionaire game maker?
Luigi
Luigi L. Lemoncello is his full name, and its letters turn up in the final challenge of the escape game. Kyle Keeley idolises him for his board games, puzzles and video games.
Q 09Which US state is home to Alexandriaville, the town where Mr. Lemoncello builds his spectacular new library?
Ohio
Ohio is home to fictional Alexandriaville, and the real state returned the favour: young readers there voted the novel a Buckeye Children's and Teen Book Award.
Q 10Who is Kyle Keeley's best friend, the classmate who first tells him about Mr. Lemoncello's library contest?
Akimi Hughes
Akimi Hughes tells Kyle about the essay contest the morning after he is grounded. The two then stick together for the whole escape game, teaming up from its very first minutes.
Q 11Which American author, a former advertising writer and improv comedian, wrote Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library?
Chris Grabenstein
Chris Grabenstein published the novel in 2013 and went on to build a whole series around the same eccentric game maker. The first book stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 111 weeks.
Q 12What is quiet Sierra Russell almost always doing when the others see her in Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library?
Reading
Reading is Sierra's default setting, and it pays off when her eye for titles and authors helps crack a late clue. She also teaches Kyle Keeley to keep a must-read list.
Q 13Why does billionaire Mr. Lemoncello choose little Alexandriaville as the site of his dazzling new public library?
Q 21What prize does Charles Chiltington win in the opening trivia game at Mr. Lemoncello's library lock-in?
A night in a luxury suite
A night in a luxury suite is the prize: Charles gets Mr. Lemoncello's private bedroom to himself while the other boys unroll sleeping bags in the Children's Room.
Q 22Finding a hidden dessert wins Kyle Keeley and a friend early entry to which room in Mr. Lemoncello's library?
Electronic Learning Center
Electronic Learning Center access goes to Kyle and his partner, who solve the dessert riddle together. The room is filled with interactive games and high-tech learning tools.
Q 23Why does Rose Vermette walk away from Mr. Lemoncello's escape game before it has even started?
It is his hometown
It is his hometown: he was born in Alexandriaville and credits its old public library with much of his success. It was there that he got help developing and selling his very first game.
Q 14What job does Dr. Yanina Zinchenko hold at Mr. Lemoncello's new library, after supervising its construction?
Head librarian
Head librarian is her title, and the story calls her world-famous in the role. She is also the only person who knows how to get out of the building during the escape game.
Q 15How are Mike and Curtis related to Kyle Keeley, the game-loving hero of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library?
His older brothers
His older brothers are the reason Kyle hates to lose: his teacher and his mother both compare him with them. Beating the pair at a scavenger hunt is what lands him in trouble.
Q 16Mr. Lemoncello invites twelve twelve-year-olds to opening night because the number matches what about Alexandriaville?
Its years without a library
Its years without a library: the town's only public library was torn down twelve years before the story begins, around the time the contestants were born.
Q 17After a teacher refuses his improved late essay, how does Kyle Keeley try to get it to Mr. Lemoncello?
By email
By email: Kyle tracks down an address for Mr. Lemoncello and sends the essay straight to him. At the school assembly he is named one of the twelve winners after all.
Q 18Which giant-screen cinema format has its own theater on the third floor of Mr. Lemoncello's library?
IMAX
IMAX is the format: on the first night the twelve winners troop into the library's own IMAX theater for a 3-D jukebox concert, where Mozart jams with Metallica.
Q 19Before his novels, the author of Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library wrote scripts for which famous TV puppets?
The Muppets
The Muppets gave him early work: he wrote for Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters on CBS while performing improv comedy in New York. A long spell writing radio and TV adverts came next.
Q 20Dr. Zinchenko designed the whole escape game in Mr. Lemoncello's library as what kind of gift for him?
A birthday present
A birthday present is what the whole game turns out to be, which is why Mr. Lemoncello cannot tell anyone the way out: he was never told it himself.
She has soccer
She has soccer at two o'clock that afternoon, so she chooses to leave before the game begins. Mr. Lemoncello still sends her home with a laptop computer and games.
Q 24What does Kyle Keeley do with the gift card each contest winner receives?
Splits it five ways at home
Splits it five ways at home: Kyle shares out the five hundred dollars, and his proud parents suspend his grounding. Charles Chiltington tells him it was a bad decision.
Q 25What must the players hand over to guards Clarence and Clement before the lock-in at Mr. Lemoncello's library?
Phones and other gadgets
Phones and other gadgets are collected because a lock-in rule forbids them. Once the escape game starts, outside help comes only through the three kinds of assistance it allows.
Q 26Andrew Peckleman is ejected from Mr. Lemoncello's game for taking Sierra Russell's library card, which she used as what?
A bookmark
A bookmark is all the card is to Sierra, which makes it easy for Andrew to get hold of. Charles Chiltington wants it to open the meeting room where the rival team keeps its clues.
Q 27What does Haley Daley do after Andrew Peckleman is thrown out of Mr. Lemoncello's game for cheating?
Switches to Kyle's team
Switches to Kyle's team: Haley walks away from Charles Chiltington, and Mr. Lemoncello lets her join the rivals. Charles is offered the same chance and turns it down.
Q 28Why is popular Haley Daley so determined to win Mr. Lemoncello's escape game?
Her parents need the money
Her parents need the money: behind the popular-girl act, Haley's household is struggling, and she is even seen trying to turn her prize gift card into cash.
Q 29What finally gets Charles Chiltington thrown out of Mr. Lemoncello's escape game in its last hours?
Tackling Kyle for a book
Tackling Kyle for a book costs Charles everything: he body-checks his rival to snatch the last title both sides need, is caught, and is removed from the game.
Q 30What reward does Kyle Keeley's team earn in Mr. Lemoncello's library for freeing a trapped Haley Daley?
A bonus clue
A bonus clue rewards the kindness: Haley had jammed her hand in the book depository and set a sorting treadmill running. Once free, she accuses Kyle of trying to slow her down.