Junie B. Jones
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50 free Junie B. Jones trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Junie B. Jones has been making new readers laugh since 1992, when Barbara Park introduced an almost-six-year-old with strong opinions about school buses, baby brothers and nearly everything else. Across 28 chapter books she talks her way through kindergarten and into first grade, usually straight into trouble. This quiz follows her book by book. There are questions on the Stupid Smelly Bus, A Little Monkey Business, That Meanie Jim's Birthday, Is Not a Crook, Is a Party Animal and Captain Field Day, then on the first-grade stories: Toothless Wonder, Cheater Pants, Boo...and I MEAN It! and Jingle Bells, Batman Smells. A few cover the author, the stage musical and the people in Junie B.'s life. It is written for children who have just finished a book and want to check what they remember, for parents and teachers running a read-aloud, and for grown-ups who met Junie B. the first time around. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Hiding at school on her first day, what does Junie B. Jones do when she finds the bathroom locked?
Call 911 for help
She decides to call 911 for help, treating a locked bathroom as an emergency. That call is how the frantic adults who have been searching for her finally find her.
Q 02The B in Junie B. Jones stands for which name, one the kindergartner says she does not even like?
Beatrice
Beatrice is the name she refuses to use. "I just like B and that's all," she says when she introduces herself.
Q 03Junie B. Jones calls her kindergarten teacher by which one word, ignoring her other name?
Mrs.
Mrs. is all she ever calls her. "She has another name, too. But I just like Mrs. and that's all," Junie B. explains.
Q 04In Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!, which gift tradition does Room One hold before winter break?
Secret Santa
Secret Santa hands her the one name she dreads. Junie B. wonders whether the gift is her chance to give May exactly what she deserves.
Q 05In That Meanie Jim's Birthday, what does Jim tell Junie B. Jones a farmer will bring to his party?
A petting zoo
A petting zoo is coming to his front yard, with a lamb, a goat, a burro, rabbits and a pony to ride. Jim has named the party Old MacDonald's Farm.
Q 06What really causes Junie B. Jones's trouble in class when she starts first grade in Room One?
She needs glasses
She needs glasses, which her teacher works out when she cannot read the board. He sends her to the school nurse for an eye exam.
Q 07In Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal, which friend's rich nanna hosts the sleepover at her big house?
Lucille
Lucille has the rich nanna, who phones Junie B.'s mother on Friday with the invitation. Junie B. zooms around the house shouting the news.
Q 08In Boo...and I MEAN It!, what does fear of real monsters stop Junie B. Jones doing on Halloween?
Go trick-or-treating
To go trick-or-treating feels far too risky to her. She decides she will need a super scary costume to keep the monsters away.
Q 09In Cheater Pants, what does Junie B. Jones copy from a classmate, arguing it cannot be cheating?
Homework
Homework is her loophole: "homework isn't even a test!" she reasons. The first-grade story follows her attempts to justify what she did.
Q 10Which author is sometimes mistaken for the Junie B. Jones writer, as her name resembles Junie B.?
Judy Blume
Judy Blume gets the credit by mistake, thanks to a similar style and a similar-sounding name. Blume was one of Barbara Park's main influences and praised the series.
Q 11Where does Junie B. Jones hide after her first kindergarten day to avoid the bus ride home?
A supply closet
A supply closet keeps her hidden until everyone but the janitor has gone. She then explores her teacher's desk, the library and the nurse's office.
Q 12On her first ride in the Stupid Smelly Bus, Junie B. Jones says the bus smells like which food?
An egg salad sandwich
An egg salad sandwich is her verdict on the hot, noisy bus. She cannot roll down her window because it has no handle.
Q 13Which driver tells Junie B. Jones to hurry up and find a seat on the stupid smelly bus?
Mr. Woo
Q 21In Boo...and I MEAN It!, Junie B. Jones worries that pumpkins with sharp teeth can do what?
Eat your feet
Eat your feet is the danger she has in mind. Her other Halloween shock is that candy corn, if you can believe it, isn't really corn.
Q 22What does Junie B. Jones get to wear as captain of Room Nine's team in Captain Field Day?
A superhero cape
A superhero cape comes with the job, and a fancy one. The field day is for afternoon kindergarten, the session Junie B. attends.
Q 23In Captain Field Day, which rival classroom keeps beating the team that Junie B. Jones captains?
Room Eight
Room Eight keeps winning the events. It is another kindergarten class, the one handsome Warren walks out of at recess in an earlier book.
Mr. Woo is at the wheel on her first day. He later picks Junie B. up and helps her off after she is knocked down in the crush at the door.
Q 14Whose 'cutest little monkey' remark convinces Junie B. Jones that her new brother is a real monkey?
Her grandmother
Her grandmother means it as a compliment, but Junie B. takes her seriously. She tells her class the baby is "A REAL, ALIVE, BABY MONKEY."
Q 15In A Little Monkey Business, Junie B. Jones wants to name the new baby after whom at her school?
The cafeteria lady
The cafeteria lady, whose surname is Gutzman, has a name that "sticked right in my head," says Junie B. Her mother is not sure it suits a tiny baby.
Q 16Where does Junie B. Jones land after trading peeks at her 'monkey' brother for classmates' things?
The principal's office
The principal's office is where she lands once she tries to turn in extra snack tickets she collected. By then she also holds a locket, a ring and a red chair.
Q 17Left out of Jim's birthday party, Junie B. Jones thinks about moving to which famous place?
Disneyland
Disneyland is her escape plan, and she has the It's a Small World ride in mind. Her other ideas are a party of her own without Jim, or talking her friends out of his.
Q 18In That Meanie Jim's Birthday, Junie B. Jones says her grampa's balloon animals all look like what?
Wiener dogs
Wiener dogs are all Grampa Frank Miller can manage so far, "only he's working on it." She brings him up to top Jim's boast about two circus clowns.
Q 19What is stretched to the floor when Junie B. Jones and May tug over a notebook before winter break?
A sweater sleeve
A sweater sleeve, May's, hooks on Junie B.'s thumb and never bounces back. "If you grow one arm to the ground, it will fit like a glove," she offers.
Q 20In Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!, which word does May wrongly claim Junie B. Jones wrote about her?
Bladdermouth
Bladdermouth is what May reports, adding that "bladder is not a nice word." Junie B. had really written blabbermouth, spelled with b's.
Q 24In Captain Field Day, Junie B. Jones hopes to boss people around, but a captain's real job is what?
Cheering on classmates
Cheering on classmates is the whole job, she finds. Staying cheerful gets harder each time the other class wins an event.
Q 25In Toothless Wonder, Junie B. Jones insists the tooth fairy is really what kind of creature?
A witch
A witch is her theory: a tiny, cheek-pinching Tooth Witch who flies on a toothbrush and collects teeth to eat. Her mother's doubts earn an eye roll.
Q 26In Toothless Wonder, which toothless relative of Sheldon does Junie B. Jones fear looking like?
His uncle
His uncle Lou is the toothless face she pictures. She also imagines looking so different that nobody at school will recognize her.
Q 27In Cheater Pants, what happens during a test to make Junie B. Jones wonder if she has cheated?
A friend shares an answer
A friend shares an answer she never asked for, which muddies her rule that cheating is just plain wrong. She wonders if she is a cheater pants without knowing it.
Q 28In Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal, which sleepover rule do her parents stress with 'absolutely'?
No head-butting
No head-butting closes a long list of rules, from no squealing to no fibbing. "That doesn't actually leave me much to work with," Junie B. sighs.
Q 29Which gift from her grandfather goes missing at school in Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook?
Black furry mittens
Black furry mittens were bought for her "for no good reason," which she calls the bestest reason she ever heard of. She shows them to "a variety of strangers."
Q 30After her own things are taken in Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, what does Junie B. find and keep?
A pen
A pen, a "wonderful" one lying on the floor, seems fair game to her. If nobody gave her things back, she reasons, she should be allowed to keep it.