Magic Tree House Trivia
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87 free Magic Tree House trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Magic Tree House has been sending Jack and Annie through time since the early 1990s, and the series is still growing: new numbered adventures keep arriving, the Merlin Missions added longer quests, and the Fact Trackers put real history and science beside every story. It is one of the few book series a seven-year-old and a parent can both be tested on. This quiz covers the whole shelf: where each book goes and who the kids meet there, the rules of the tree house and the people who send them, the apprentices Teddy and Kathleen, the British retitlings, the stage musical and the animated film, and the author's own life before the books. It is written for readers aged six to ten and for the parents, teachers and librarians who keep the series in their classrooms, with plain wording and an explanation that adds one more fact to every answer.
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Q 01Which Magic Tree House book opened the whole series, with a Pteranodon rescuing Jack and Annie from a T. rex?
Dinosaurs Before Dark
Dinosaurs Before Dark came out in July 1992 and planted the series' first puzzle: a gold medallion marked with the letter M that Jack finds in the Cretaceous.
Q 02The Magic Tree House stands in the woods of which made-up Pennsylvania town, where Jack and Annie live?
Frog Creek
Frog Creek, Pennsylvania is invented, but the tree house was inspired by a real one Osborne and her husband spotted on a walk in the Pennsylvania woods.
Q 03In which Magic Tree House book do Caribbean buccaneers lead Jack and Annie to the identity of the mysterious 'M'?
Pirates Past Noon
Pirates Past Noon ends with 'M' revealed as Morgan le Fay, the enchantress from King Arthur's court who owns the tree house. It is book four and closes the opening story arc.
Q 04Magic Tree House Fact Trackers, the non-fiction companions to the stories, originally carried what name?
Research Guides
Research Guides was the first name for the Fact Trackers, written so readers could dig deeper into the real topics behind each story; the first two were paired with the first two adventures.
Q 05Kathleen, the apprentice who joins Jack and Annie on several Merlin Missions, is what kind of magical creature?
A selkie
A selkie is a seal who can take human form, and Kathleen first appears in Summer of the Sea Serpent, helping the kids turn into seals for an underwater quest.
Q 06By its 25th anniversary in 2017, about how many Magic Tree House books had been sold worldwide?
134 million
134 million copies had sold by 2017, and Osborne has also given hundreds of thousands of the books away to underserved schools through the charity First Book.
Q 07Magic Tree House: The Musical, which premiered in 2007, is adapted from which book, the first Merlin Mission?
Christmas in Camelot
Christmas in Camelot became a stage musical scripted by Will Osborne with composer Randy Courts; Mary Pope Osborne hoped it would draw adults as well as kids, as The Lion King does.
Q 08A Big Day for Baseball, which restarted the main Magic Tree House series, shows which player's Major League debut?
Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson's 1947 debut for the Brooklyn Dodgers is the big day, and Jack and Annie expect to play but end up working the game as batboys.
Q 09In which Magic Tree House book do Jack and Annie land in Elizabethan England and meet William Shakespeare?
Stage Fright on a Summer Night
Stage Fright on a Summer Night puts Jack and Annie on stage in A Midsummer Night's Dream when Shakespeare has trouble with some of his actors.
Q 10Mary Pope Osborne co-writes the Magic Tree House Fact Trackers with her husband Will and which other relative?
Her sister Natalie
Her sister Natalie Pope Boyce co-writes the Fact Trackers, which exist, Osborne says, because kids liked the facts in the stories so much.
Q 11Which illustrator drew the original Magic Tree House books for nearly 25 years, until handing over in 2016?
Sal Murdocca
Sal Murdocca gave Jack his red glasses and Annie her double braids; Night of the Ninth Dragon in 2016 was his last book before AG Ford took over the art.
Q 12In which Magic Tree House book do Jack and Annie search Pompeii for a lost story before the city is buried?
Vacation Under the Volcano
Vacation Under the Volcano has the kids racing to find an ancient library before ash buries it, and the lost story they carry out is a tale of Hercules.
Q 13Day of the Dragon King drops Jack and Annie into a book burning 2,000 years ago in which country?
China
Q 21In Afternoon on the Amazon, which fruit is the second magical object Jack and Annie must find in the rainforest?
A mango
A mango is handed over by the monkey that has been trailing Jack and Annie through the rain forest, past killer ants and vampire bats.
Q 22In Dragon of the Red Dawn, Jack and Annie seek the first secret of happiness with which haiku poet?
Matsuo Bashō
Matsuo Bashō hosts the kids for a day because Merlin has sunk into a deep sadness, and the four secrets of happiness are meant to cure him.
Q 23Monday with a Mad Genius has Jack and Annie spending a whole day in Italy helping which Renaissance figure?
Leonardo da Vinci
China's Dragon King was the real emperor Qin, and the kids' mission is to rescue one story before his book burning destroys it.
Q 14Civil War on Sunday has Jack and Annie helping which nurse, known as the Angel of the Battlefield?
Clara Barton
Clara Barton, who later founded the American Red Cross, has the kids helping wounded soldiers, on a trip to fetch the first of four special writings Morgan has asked for.
Q 15In Revolutionary War on Wednesday, Jack and Annie cross the icy Delaware River alongside which general?
George Washington
George Washington is doubting his surprise attack as the storm worsens, and the kids end up in his boat, helping to keep the crossing on track.
Q 16Earthquake in the Early Morning drops Jack and Annie into which city's famous 1906 disaster?
San Francisco
San Francisco's 1906 quake is the setting, and the hopeful message the kids bring back from it is used to inspire a despairing King Arthur.
Q 17Thanksgiving on Thursday seats Jack and Annie at the 1621 Plymouth feast with the Pilgrims and which Native people?
Wampanoag
Wampanoag guests join the Pilgrims' 1621 feast, and Jack and Annie are asked to help prepare it despite knowing nothing about cooking or clamming the Pilgrim way.
Q 18Which Magic Tree House book closed the original 28-book run?
High Tide in Hawaii
High Tide in Hawaii came out in 2003, and the numbered main series then paused for 14 years until A Big Day for Baseball arrived in 2017.
Q 19In Tonight on the Titanic, Jack and Annie are helped by Teddy, a young magician stuck in the form of which animal?
A dog
A dog is what Teddy became after one of his own spells backfired, and the kids spend four books collecting gifts to make him human again.
Q 20Which mouse rides along while Jack and Annie hunt four magical objects to free Morgan from a spell?
Peanut
Peanut turns out to be Morgan herself, changed into a mouse by the spell, who had been travelling with the kids and guiding them all along.
Leonardo da Vinci tests his flying machine and crashes, leaving him downcast until Annie's magic gives them all bird wings and they fly.
Q 24In a Magic Tree House Merlin Mission, Jack and Annie visit 18th-century Austria to help which composer?
Mozart
Mozart is inspired to write The Magic Flute after hearing the kids play their own magic flute to round up escaped palace-zoo animals.
Q 25A Good Night for Ghosts takes Jack and Annie to New Orleans, where they meet which jazz legend as a boy?
Louis Armstrong
Louis Armstrong's story later became A Night in New Orleans, a musical with a live jazz band co-written by composer Allen Toussaint.
Q 26Which Victorian novelist gets Jack and Annie out of trouble with the police in a Magic Tree House story?
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens despairs of his writing, so the kids call up three ghosts to change his mind, in a story that plays on his own A Christmas Carol.
Q 27Leprechaun in Late Winter has Jack and Annie cheering up an Irish girl who becomes which Abbey Theatre co-founder?
Lady Gregory
Lady Gregory is young Augusta here, and the kids' visit inspires her to share Ireland's old legends and folktales with the world and, later, to start a theatre.
Q 28Stallion by Starlight has Jack and Annie in ancient Macedonia meeting which future conqueror and his horse Bucephalus?
Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great, in Plutarch's telling, won Bucephalus as a boy by taming a horse nobody else could mount; the book meets him while he is still young.
Q 29High Time for Heroes sends Jack and Annie to Egypt to learn a secret of greatness from which nursing pioneer?
Florence Nightingale
Florence Nightingale is met in Egypt in 1850, before she has become a nurse at all, which leaves the kids wondering whether Merlin sent them to the wrong person.
Q 30In Soccer on Sunday, Jack and Annie visit the 1970 World Cup in Mexico to ask which player about greatness?
Pelé
Pelé is the player the kids are sure will share the secret, but first they must work out how to reach him in a crowd of 100,000 fans.