Kindergarten Cop Trivia
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48 free Kindergarten Cop trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Kindergarten Cop is the movie where the Terminator loses a battle of wills to 30 five-year-olds and a ferret wins the day. Ivan Reitman's 1990 comedy sent Arnold Schwarzenegger's LAPD detective John Kimble undercover in a small Oregon classroom, made about $202 million, and left behind a stack of endlessly quoted lines. This quiz has 48 questions on all of it: the plot and characters, the Astoria locations and the real school used for filming, the actors who nearly got the part, the child actors who went on to bigger things, the score, the reviews, the box office fight with Home Alone, the Criterion April Fools' prank and the direct-to-video sequel with Dolph Lundgren. It runs from easy questions anyone who has seen the film once can answer to production details for people who own the 4K disc. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia, Wikiquote and the source cited under each question, so if you argue with a result you'll at least be arguing with a citation. Play it solo, or use it as the movie round at a 90s-themed trivia night.
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Q 01Kindergarten Cop's 'Kissing Boy' is the director's son Jason Reitman, who grew up to direct which Oscar-nominated comedy?
Juno
Juno brought Jason Reitman an Oscar nomination for directing. He has said the kiss in his father's film was his first in real life too: 'My kissing was half as bad as my acting.'
Q 02In Kindergarten Cop, Kimble's classroom game asks each child which question?
Who is your daddy?
'Who is your daddy, and what does he do?' is really police work: Kimble has to pick out one particular boy among his pupils. The director said half the children's answers were true stories about their own fathers.
Q 03Kimble goes undercover as a kindergarten teacher in which small Oregon town?
Astoria
The town had already hosted The Goonies and Short Circuit, and would later host Free Willy.
Q 04Kindergarten Cop reunited Arnold Schwarzenegger and director Ivan Reitman after which earlier comedy?
Twins
Twins was their 1988 hit. Schwarzenegger said he insisted on the same director here because he was sweating at the thought of acting opposite a room full of five-year-olds.
Q 05While filming Kindergarten Cop in Oregon, Schwarzenegger saw which vehicle pass the set and set out to buy one?
Humvee
A Humvee convoy rolling past on its way to a military base gave him the idea. He pestered the maker until it sold him one, and a civilian model, the Hummer, went on sale in 1992.
Q 06In Kindergarten Cop's opening, Kimble warns off some street toughs by giving his name and adding that he loves what?
His car
His car: 'My name is John Kimble... and I love my car' is a warning to the toughs loitering beside it, and one of them promptly offers to keep an eye on it for him.
Q 07Why did the Oregon school seen in Kindergarten Cop cancel a trip for its pupils to watch the film?
It was too violent
It was too violent, the principal decided after watching it first. Many of her pupils had been paid $35 a day as extras, but she left it to their parents to take them.
Q 08Where were Kindergarten Cop's classroom interiors filmed?
Universal Studios in Hollywood
Universal Studios in Hollywood housed the classroom, on a sound stage, after a calm month of exteriors in Oregon. The director said pandemonium began the moment thirty children saw the cameras.
Q 09In Kindergarten Cop, Kimble reads his class a nap-time poem, 'Spring Morning', by which children's author?
A. A. Milne
A. A. Milne, creator of Winnie-the-Pooh, wrote it for When We Were Very Young. It works too well: the children drift off, and so does Kimble, who has a nightmare about the man he is after.
Q 10In Kindergarten Cop, which famous speech do Kimble's five-year-olds learn to recite line by line?
The Gettysburg Address
The Gettysburg Address comes out as 'Fourscores and seven years ago', and when the class reaches 'our forefathers' one pupil wants to know whether Lincoln really had four fathers.
Q 11How did Arnold Schwarzenegger say he won over the child actors on Kindergarten Cop?
With jumping jacks
With jumping jacks: he admitted he was sweating like his character until he tried exercise, and a hundred children joined in. 'From that point on,' he said, 'I had them totally on my side.'
Q 12Which future Oscar nominee has a small role as a flight attendant in Kindergarten Cop?
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett serves breakfast on the flight to Oregon, three years before her Oscar-nominated turn as Tina Turner. Asked minutes later whether his queasy 'wife' is okay, Kimble replies, 'Compared to what?'
Q 13In Kindergarten Cop, what does O'Hara tell Kimble to take to his first day of teaching after all?
His gun
Q 21In Kindergarten Cop, Kimble's partner O'Hara stays in town posing as what?
His Austrian sister
His Austrian sister, 'Ursula', is a cover she invents on the spot, accent and all, when she spots a romance starting between Kimble and Joyce over dinner.
Q 22In Kindergarten Cop, what is the true identity of Joyce, the teacher Kimble grows close to?
The drug dealer's runaway wife
The drug dealer's runaway wife has been living under a new name with their son, and is said to have taken $3 million of his money with her. Kimble works out who she is for himself.
Q 23In Kindergarten Cop, Kimble restores order with a game called 'police school', in which the children become what?
His gun: she first tells him to take it off, then hears him say that six-year-olds can't be much trouble. 'On second thought,' she says, 'take the gun.'
Q 14In early January 1991, Kindergarten Cop climbed to second at the US box office behind which film?
Home Alone
Home Alone held number one for twelve straight weekends, from November to early February, so Kindergarten Cop never reached the top.
Q 15In Kindergarten Cop, how does principal Miss Schlowski react when Kimble punches a pupil's abusive father?
She approves
She approves: having told him he is a very good teacher, she asks for one more honest answer, what it felt like to hit the man. 'It felt great,' says Kimble.
Q 16Which critic said Kindergarten Cop's parts 'shouldn't fit, but somehow they do'?
Ebert
Roger Ebert gave it three stars. There was no way Schwarzenegger could plausibly teach a class, he wrote, but that didn't stop him finding 'warm-hearted possibilities in the role'.
Q 17On April Fools' Day 2012, Kindergarten Cop was jokingly announced by which prestige video label?
The Criterion Collection
The Criterion Collection went all in, with a full product page and joke extras such as 'From Fingers to Finger-Painting', an interview with the film's cinematographer.
Q 18In Kindergarten Cop's opening, where does Kimble finally arrest the villain, Cullen Crisp?
A beauty salon
A beauty salon: Crisp complains that he was only trying to get a manicure, and when Kimble is ordered to drop his gun he has to shout that he is the cop.
Q 19Which action star headlined the 2016 direct-to-video sequel, Kindergarten Cop 2?
Dolph Lundgren
Dolph Lundgren took over 26 years after the original, with none of its cast. Schwarzenegger's own wish for a sequel turned into something quite different: an animated series.
Q 20In Kindergarten Cop, which animal does Kimble bring to class as a mascot?
A ferret
A ferret, which Kimble swears never bites when a pupil warns the class about rabies. It makes one exception in the finale, sinking its teeth into the villain so that Dominic can get away.
Deputy trainees
Deputy trainees is his name for them, after O'Hara tells him to treat the classroom like any other police situation. They learn to freeze at his whistle and march in step, and the principal is impressed.
Q 24In Kindergarten Cop, why does the murder case against Cullen Crisp collapse?
The key witness dies
The key witness dies of a drug overdose before she can testify, so Crisp walks out of jail a free man and heads straight for Oregon and the son he wants back.
Q 25In Kindergarten Cop's finale, how does Crisp create a diversion at the school?
He starts a fire
He starts a fire and grabs Dominic in the confusion. As the school empties, two pupils caught kissing tell Kimble they thought it was just another drill.
Q 26In Kindergarten Cop, how does O'Hara finally stop Eleanor Crisp?
Knocks her out with a baseball bat
Knocks her out with a baseball bat: Eleanor had run O'Hara down minutes earlier and was holding the wounded Kimble at gunpoint. 'You're not so tough without your car, are you?' says O'Hara.
Q 27In Kindergarten Cop, what does Kimble do once the case is closed?
He stays on as a teacher
He stays on as a teacher: O'Hara flies back without him, while Kimble accepts the principal's offer of a permanent job, walks back into his classroom and kisses Joyce in front of the cheering children.
Q 28In Kindergarten Cop, which ailment does a pupil say might be a tumor?
Headache
Headache is Kimble's complaint. Lowell, who has already told the principal that 'everyone dies, you know', offers his diagnosis, and Kimble roars back that it is nothing of the kind.
Q 29In Kindergarten Cop, what does Kimble say after blasting a thug's sofa with a shotgun?
"I'm the party pooper."
"I'm the party pooper." He says it before he ever sees a classroom, having just cleared a drug den to lean on his reluctant murder witness, when a thug on the sofa asks who he is.
Q 30In Kindergarten Cop, which line ends Kimble's rant at his class about complaining?
"There is no bathroom!"
"There is no bathroom!" is his answer to a class that has spent days asking to go. It closes the speech in which he tells them their mommies are no longer around to help.