Holes Trivia
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108 free Holes trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
56 free Holes trivia questions with answers. Holes is the rare book that kids read for school and then keep on the shelf, and the 2003 movie is just as loved. This quiz covers both: Stanley Yelnats and Zero at Camp Green Lake, the Warden with her venomous nail polish, Mr. Sir and his sunflower seeds, the D-Tent nicknames, the hundred-year-old story of Kissin' Kate Barlow and Sam, the curse that started with Elya Yelnats and Madame Zeroni, and the two companion books, Small Steps and Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide. About a third of the questions are easy enough for a fourth-grader who just finished the book. The rest climb through the film's cast and production, the awards, and details only a re-reader remembers, like the name of Sam's donkey or how Myra Menke tried to pick a husband. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the novel, the film, the author and the sequels, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who wrote the novel Holes?
Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar's first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, sold poorly at first, yet it slowly won him a devoted following among children.
Q 02In which US state is Camp Green Lake located?
Texas
Texas: Green Lake was once the largest lake in the state, but the camp now sits on a dry lakebed beside a ghost town.
Q 03How big is each hole the boys at Camp Green Lake must dig every day?
Five feet wide and deep
Five feet wide and deep, every day; the 2003 film's director has said his crew dug about 400 holes and made them look like thousands.
Q 04Why did Stanley have no lawyer at his trial over the sneakers?
His parents couldn't afford one
His parents couldn't afford one, and only after his father's invention finally works can they hire the lawyer who gets Stanley out.
Q 05Who plays Stanley Yelnats in the 2003 film Holes?
Shia LaBeouf
Shia LaBeouf plays a Stanley who isn't the book's overweight boy: the director said no child actor could convincingly show the character's weight loss.
Q 06Who plays the Warden in the 2003 film Holes?
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver plays the Warden, who has the boys dig holes to 'build character' while she's secretly hunting for buried treasure.
Q 07Clyde 'Sweet Feet' Livingston, whose donated shoes land Stanley in trouble, is a star in which sport?
Baseball
Baseball star Sweet Feet's sneakers, stolen by Zero, fell from an overpass onto Stanley, who was then convicted of taking them.
Q 08What nickname do the other campers give Stanley?
Caveman
Caveman is what the D Tent boys call him, and the soft, bullied newcomer slowly grows stronger as he digs day after day.
Q 09What is Zero's real first name?
Hector
Hector Zeroni turns out to be the great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni, the fortune teller whose curse haunts Stanley's family.
Q 10What does Stanley agree to teach Zero in exchange for help digging?
To read
To read: Zero learns quickly, though Mr. Pendanski keeps insisting he's too stupid to learn.
Q 11Mr. Sir is constantly eating what?
Sunflower seeds
Sunflower seeds are Mr. Sir's stand-in for cigarettes: he has quit smoking and chews them constantly instead.
Q 12What happens at Camp Green Lake for the first time in 110 years as Stanley is driven away?
It rains
It rains: not a drop had fallen on Green Lake since the day Sam was killed, so the downpour hints that an old wrong is finally over.
Q 13Who plays Mr. Sir in the 2003 film Holes?
Jon Voight
Jon Voight plays Mr. Sir, who, once the Warden has scratched his face, takes revenge on Stanley by refusing to fill his canteen.
Q 21How is the Warden related to Charles 'Trout' Walker?
She is his granddaughter
She is his granddaughter, and her family has hunted Kate Barlow's loot since Kissin' Kate let a lizard bite her rather than tell Trout where it was.
Q 22How did Kissin' Kate Barlow earn her nickname?
She kissed the men she killed
She kissed the men she killed, while men she only robbed, like Stanley's great-grandfather, were left alive in the desert.
Q 23What does Stanley find in his hole with the initials 'KB' on it?
A lipstick tube
Q 14Why do the deadly lizards leave Stanley and Zero alone at the end?
The boys smell of onions
The boys smell of onions: yellow-spotted lizards don't like onion blood, and Stanley and Zero had been living on Sam's wild onions.
Q 15What did Katherine Barlow, the schoolteacher, become famous for making?
Spiced peaches
Spiced peaches were her specialty, and trading jars of them with Sam, who then fixed up her schoolhouse, is how their romance began.
Q 16Which Camp Green Lake camper is the hero of the spin-off novel Small Steps?
Armpit
Armpit is the hero of Small Steps, trying to turn his life around beside his ten-year-old neighbor Ginny.
Q 17Where does X-Ray's nickname come from?
Pig Latin for his real name
Pig Latin for his real name, Rex, and X-Ray later tries to shame Stanley out of letting Zero dig part of his hole.
Q 18Why is Charles Walker nicknamed 'Trout'?
His feet smell like dead fish
His feet smell like dead fish, and after Katherine Barlow rejects him, the wealthy Trout later shoots Sam dead on the lake.
Q 19The Warden wears nail polish laced with what?
Rattlesnake venom
Rattlesnake venom is in the polish she's wearing when she swipes Mr. Sir across the face for bothering her, and he collapses in pain.
Q 20What is the Warden's catchphrase?
'Excuse me?'
'Excuse me?' is the Warden's quiet warning, and once the attorney general shuts the camp down, she is forced to sell the land.
A lipstick tube: Stanley hands it to X-Ray, who 'finds' it next morning for a day off, and the Warden has the boys dig that area for days.
Q 24In which country does Stanley's great-great-grandfather Elya Yelnats grow up?
Latvia
Latvia is where Elya grew up, until he sailed to America and his family's long run of bad luck began.
Q 25Who is the girl Elya Yelnats hopes to marry?
Myra Menke
Myra Menke: Madame Zeroni warns that her head is as empty as a flowerpot, and Elya ends up marrying another woman in America instead.
Q 26What promise to Madame Zeroni does Elya fail to keep?
To carry her up the mountain
To carry her up the mountain; generations later Stanley carries her descendant Zero up a mountain, which seems to break the family curse.
Q 27How does the Yelnats family insult go: Stanley's 'no-good-dirty-rotten-...-great-great-grandfather'?
pig-stealing
Pig-stealing is the family's joke charge against Elya, yet Madame Zeroni gave him that piglet; what he really broke was a promise to her.
Q 28Stanley Yelnats I survived a desert robbery by climbing a mountain the family calls what?
God's Thumb
God's Thumb hid Sam's old field, and a century later that same spot keeps Stanley and Zero alive too.
Q 29What does Zero use his share of the suitcase money to pay for?
Private investigators
Private investigators track down his mother, and at a party a year and a half later she sings him a verse of the Yelnats family lullaby.
Q 30Who directed the 2003 film Holes?
Andrew Davis
Andrew Davis, director of The Fugitive, talked the novel's author into writing the screenplay, his first.