Mrs. Doubtfire Trivia
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48 free Mrs. Doubtfire trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
43 free Mrs. Doubtfire trivia questions with answers. Mrs. Doubtfire made $441 million in 1993 on the strength of one man in a latex mask, and the stories behind it are as good as the film: Robin Williams walking San Francisco in full costume unrecognised, a director who ran out of film because the improvising would not stop, and British censors fighting Fox over three lines. This quiz runs 48 questions on the plot (the cayenne pepper, the surname from a headline, Euphegenia's House), the casting stories (Tim Allen, Warren Beatty, a young Blake Lively), the San Francisco locations, the Oscar and Golden Globes, Anne Fine's original novel and the Broadway musical. It starts with the basics and works up to questions for people who own the deleted scenes. Every answer has been checked against reference sources, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a family movie night, a 90s film quiz or a Robin Williams tribute round.
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Q 01In Mrs. Doubtfire, what does Daniel hire for his son's birthday party, to Miranda's fury?
A petting zoo
A petting zoo: Miranda comes home to a goat eating her begonias and a pony eating the birthday cake, and by the end of the clean-up she has asked for a divorce.
Q 02Who directed Mrs. Doubtfire?
Chris Columbus
Chris Columbus spent three months rewriting the script and, with his star, held out against a reunion for the parents: most divorced couples never get back together, he argued.
Q 03Mrs. Doubtfire is based on a 1987 novel by which English author?
Anne Fine
Anne Fine borrowed the name from Madame Doubtfire, a real second-hand shop in Edinburgh whose owner had named it after her first husband.
Q 04What is Daniel Hillard's job at the start of Mrs. Doubtfire?
Voice actor
Voice actor: in the opening scene he is dubbing a cartoon bird, walks out when it is handed a cigarette, and later uses the same talent to pose as a string of dreadful nanny applicants on the phone.
Q 05What are the names of the three Hillard children?
Lydia, Chris and Natalie
Lydia, Chris and Natalie: when Lisa Jakub, who plays the eldest, was expelled by her school over the time she spent filming, Williams wrote asking it to take her back.
Q 06In the film, what is Mrs. Doubtfire's first name?
Euphegenia
Euphegenia also gives her name to Euphegenia's House, the children's TV show that Daniel ends up hosting in character after the disguise is blown.
Q 07Where does Daniel get the surname 'Doubtfire'?
A newspaper headline
A newspaper headline catches his eye at the very moment Miranda, on the phone, asks the nanny for a name he has not yet thought up: 'Doubtfire, dear,' he says.
Q 08Who plays Miranda Hillard?
Sally Field
Sally Field's own marriage, to producer Alan Greisman, ended in divorce around the time she played the divorcing Miranda.
Q 09Who plays Stu Dunmeyer, Miranda's handsome new boyfriend?
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brosnan says his character's discomfort at the restaurant took no acting: Williams kept improvising ever-cruder remarks at the table, and keeping a straight face was the hard part.
Q 10Who transforms Daniel into an old woman with makeup and prosthetics?
His brother Frank and Frank's partner Jack
His brother Frank and Frank's partner Jack try a string of glamorous looks on him before the latex goes on; their verdict on the finished nanny: 'Any closer and you'd be Mom.'
Q 11About how long did the Mrs. Doubtfire makeup take to apply each day?
Four hours
Four hours, give or take, starting at three in the morning; the result was good enough that the young cast, introduced to the nanny as the director's mother, believed it.
Q 12How do the older Hillard children learn Mrs. Doubtfire is their father?
They catch him standing up to urinate
They catch him standing up to urinate: the boy bursts in on the nanny at the toilet and runs to his sister, and once their father explains, both agree to keep the secret from their mother.
Q 13In Mrs. Doubtfire, what does Daniel secretly put on Stu's jambalaya, knowing his allergy?
Cayenne pepper
Q 21Besides the prize for its leading man, which Golden Globe did Mrs. Doubtfire win?
Best Picture, Musical or Comedy
Best Picture, Musical or Comedy went to a film whose reviews had been mixed: Roger Ebert, for one, called Tootsie by far the better film, more believable and funnier.
Q 22Which film beat Mrs. Doubtfire to become the highest-grossing film of 1993 worldwide?
Jurassic Park
Jurassic Park, Steven Spielberg's dinosaur blockbuster, topped 1993 with more than $900 million worldwide, roughly double what Mrs. Doubtfire earned in second place.
Q 23Made for $25 million, Mrs. Doubtfire grossed roughly how much worldwide?
$440 million
Cayenne pepper, which Stu is allergic to; when he starts choking, a guilty Daniel performs the Heimlich manoeuvre and his mask peels away in front of Miranda.
Q 14Why is Daniel, out of costume, also due at Miranda's birthday restaurant?
A job meeting with his boss
A job meeting with his boss: the station owner wants to discuss a new children's show, so a tipsy Daniel shuttles between two tables and two outfits until he sits down at the wrong one in the wrong clothes.
Q 15While cooking her first dinner for the Hillards, what does Mrs. Doubtfire accidentally set on fire?
Her false bust
Her false bust: the padding catches light at the stove, prompting the line 'My first day as a woman and I'm getting hot flashes' and a hasty order for a takeaway dinner.
Q 16In which city is Mrs. Doubtfire set and filmed?
San Francisco
San Francisco: the Hillards' Victorian house became a landmark for fans, who covered its steps with flowers and letters when Williams died in 2014.
Q 17What is the address of the Hillard family house, which became a fan memorial in 2014?
2640 Steiner Street
2640 Steiner Street is the address Miranda gives the new nanny over the phone, and it is the house's real one, which is why fans knew exactly where to leave their tributes.
Q 18Which legendary animator directed the cat-and-bird cartoon seen at the start of Mrs. Doubtfire?
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones, the Looney Tunes veteran, and a small team animated five minutes of the short, though barely a minute of it reaches the screen.
Q 19Where was the jambalaya dinner scene in Mrs. Doubtfire filmed?
Bridges in Danville, California
Bridges in Danville, California, thirty miles inland from the film's setting, shut for weeks while the crew spent about a fortnight on the sequence.
Q 20Which Oscar did Mrs. Doubtfire win?
Best Makeup
Best Makeup: Greg Cannom's foam-latex face took so long to apply that the director never scheduled Williams as the nanny two days running.
$440 million, more than seventeen times its cost and just over half of it from outside North America, even though the reviews had been mixed.
Q 24How did Mrs. Doubtfire's director capture the cast's reactions to his star's improvising?
Multiple cameras at once, documentary-style
Multiple cameras at once, documentary-style: Williams would give a few scripted takes and then say 'let's play', so up to four cameras stayed on his co-stars until, more than once, the film ran out.
Q 25What did Mrs. Doubtfire's director say in 2021 about a rumoured NC-17 cut?
Only R-rated footage exists
Only R-rated footage exists, he said, ruling out any NC-17 version: Williams improvised so freely that in 2023 the director was still hoping to cut a making-of film from the outtakes.
Q 26What does Mrs. Doubtfire call hitting Stu with fruit by the pool?
A run-by fruiting
A run-by fruiting: stung at hearing Stu call him a loser, Daniel bounces a piece of fruit off Stu's head, then blames an angry member of the kitchen staff.
Q 27How does Daniel stop rivals answering Miranda's housekeeper advert in Mrs. Doubtfire?
He changes its phone number
He changes its phone number on the form, then rings Miranda himself as a parade of alarming applicants, one of whom can say only 'I am job', before calling as the perfect nanny.
Q 28Which band's hit 'Dude (Looks Like a Lady)' plays as Mrs. Doubtfire settles in with the Hillard children?
Aerosmith
Aerosmith's hit is one of several winking song choices: Frank Sinatra's 'Luck Be a Lady' plays while the mask is made, and the Four Seasons' 'Walk Like a Man' is on the soundtrack too.
Q 29What job does Daniel take at the TV station while secretly working as Mrs. Doubtfire?
Shipping clerk
Shipping clerk: a place in the shipping department is all the court liaison can find for him, until the station's owner overhears him clowning on the set of a dull dinosaur show and asks for ideas.
Q 30At the restaurant, what does Mrs. Doubtfire accidentally drop into her glass of wine?
Her false teeth
Her false teeth: fishing for them with a fork brings the pun 'Carpe dentum, seize the teeth', a nod to Williams's own Dead Poets Society; the director counts the gag among the star's best improvisations.