My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish
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40 free My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mo O'Hara's My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish books begin with an ordinary fish, a big brother with a taste for evil experiments and a rescue that goes strangely right. Frankie comes back to life with a few surprising abilities, and Tom's life is never quiet again. This quiz covers the whole series: how Frankie became a zombie, the friends and villains around him, and the two stories in each book. There is a full run of questions on Fins of Fury, plus The SeaQuel, Any Fin Is Possible, Live and Let Swim and Jurassic Carp, the spin-off and the author's own childhood goldfish. It is pitched for young readers who have finished the books, and for parents, teachers and librarians who want a quick check on what was read. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01In My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, what do Tom and his best friend use to zap Frankie back to life?
A battery
A battery does the trick, and the idea is true to life: Mo O'Hara and her big brother once brought their own pet goldfish back from the brink of death.
Q 02Which special power does Frankie gain after coming back as a zombie in My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish?
Hypnosis
Hypnosis is Frankie's zombie gift, and in book one he turns it on the little sister of Tom's best friend. One look from the fish and she is under his spell.
Q 03What is the name of Tom's evil scientist big brother in My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish?
Mark
Mark is the villain of the family, and he later got a spin-off series of his own, which he narrates, signing himself The Great and Powerful Mark.
Q 04Who is Tom's best friend and fellow fish rescuer in the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish books?
Pradeep
Pradeep is Tom's partner in every rescue, and in The SeaQuel he wins the lead role in the school play while Tom has to settle for a supporting part.
Q 05What is the name of the kitten kept by Tom's big brother in the My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish books?
Fang
Fang is billed as mostly evil, and her idea of the perfect snack is a certain big fat zombie goldfish.
Q 06In The Fintastic Fishsitter, the tips for minding Frankie say zombie goldfish only eat food of which colour?
Green
Green is the rule, and the menu is as gross as it sounds: mouldy Brussels sprouts, jelly beans and stinky pond slime.
Q 07After he is zapped back to life in My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish, Frankie appoints himself Tom's what?
Bodyguard
Bodyguard is the job Frankie gives himself, which is handy when your big brother's hobbies include wedging you in the dog flap and trying to take over the world.
Q 08Mo O'Hara and her brother once revived their real pet goldfish with a part taken from which household item?
An alarm clock
An alarm clock gave up one of its parts for the rescue, and it worked. The real fish gained no zombie powers: it just went back to swimming to and fro in its bowl.
Q 09In The SeaQuel, which sea creature becomes a Super Zombie rival for Frankie during a seaside trip?
An eel
An eel is the monster of the story: the Evil Eel of Eel Bay, a legend that Tom's big brother finds far too interesting to leave alone.
Q 10What does Tom's big brother dunk Frankie into for his first experiment in My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish?
Toxic gunk
Toxic gunk all but finishes Frankie off, and the mix of chemicals and the electric jolt that revives him is what turns an ordinary pet into a zombie.
Q 11Which little sister of Tom's best friend agrees to zombie-sit Frankie in The Fintastic Fishsitter?
Sami
Sami takes the job seriously, but a sneaky vampire kitten charms her into kitten-sitting as well as fish-sitting.
Q 12Which computer-hacker big brother of Tom's best friend joins the evil plans in My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish?
Sanj
Sanj turns up in book one after being expelled from boarding school, and he soon teams up with Tom's big brother on a plan to take over their school.
Q 13Which Yorkshire-based artist illustrated every book in Mo O'Hara's My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish series?
Marek Jagucki
Marek Jagucki drew the chapter stories and the spin-off series too. He trained at Falmouth School of Art and Design.
Q 21In The SeaQuel, which story is Tom's school staging as the production that Frankie has to rescue?
Robin Hood
Robin Hood is the production, and the story opens with the two best friends drifting apart when one of them wins the starring role.
Q 22In The SeaQuel, what strikes the family's seaside holiday base and turns a local legend into a super-powered monster?
Lightning
Lightning hits during a storm, and the jolt turns the creature in the evil plan into something far more shocking than anyone intended.
Q 23In Any Fin Is Possible, which cursed mummy do the evil big brothers try to bring back to life?
The Cat of Kings
Q 14In My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish: Fins of Fury, what kind of trip do Tom and his best friend take Frankie on?
Camping
Camping leads the trio into woods where a mysterious beast is said to roam, and for once the trouble has nothing to do with the zombie fish.
Q 15In Fins of Fury, Tom and Frankie end up uncovering the truth about the legendary Beast of which Woods?
Burdock
Burdock Woods is where the Beast is said to lurk, and the hunt for it turns a trip outdoors into a mystery that is not Frankie's fault for once.
Q 16Which outdoor hero appears in the first story of Fins of Fury?
Grizzly Cook
Grizzly Cook is the wilderness expert of the story, joining a cast that already includes a dangerous beast on the loose and an evil game hunter.
Q 17In Fins of Fury, which of the missing paranormal pets has the power to teleport?
A tortoise
A tortoise that can teleport goes missing along with a mostly invisible poodle and a levitating budgie, so Tom fears Frankie will be next.
Q 18In My Big Fat Zombie Goldfish: Fins of Fury, what worrying change comes over Tom's evil big brother?
He becomes nice
He becomes nice, and even oh-so polite, which is so out of character that Tom and his best friend decide to find out what is really going on.
Q 19Which strong female character makes her debut in the paranormal pets story of Fins of Fury?
Geeky Girl
Geeky Girl arrives in the second story, and she returns in the spin-off series, where she turns out to be surprisingly good at being evil.
Q 20In The SeaQuel, Tom's family stay in what kind of seaside building, where an old local warns of a monster?
A lighthouse
A lighthouse is the holiday base, and Tom is never sure whether its keeper is a friend or a foe, which gives the story the feel of a Scooby-Doo mystery.
The Cat of Kings is the target during a sleepover at the museum, and Frankie has to dodge booby traps to avoid ending up as a mummified kitty snack.
Q 24In Any Fin Is Possible, which school event do Tom's big brother and his vampire kitten try to win by cheating?
Sports day
Sports day turns strange when the athletic kids lose their abilities while Tom's big brother suddenly becomes amazing at every single event.
Q 25In Live and Let Swim, a trip to which attraction turns into a race to save Frankie from being eaten?
The aquarium
The aquarium is where the evil big brothers hatch their latest scheme, which is nothing less than a plot to take over the world.
Q 26Which hungry psychic sea creature threatens to make a meal of Frankie in Live and Let Swim?
An octopus
An octopus with psychic powers is the threat, in a story that carries the punning title Agent Octopus-Sea.
Q 27Which TV show comes to town in Live and Let Swim, just as paranormal animals start losing their abilities?
My Pet's Got Talent
My Pet's Got Talent brings the cameras to town, and Frankie has to catch the thief without revealing his own secret zombie skills.
Q 28In Jurassic Carp, what is found beneath the school playground that lets Tom's big brother clone a prehistoric fish?
A fossil
A fossil of a Jurassic carp is the find, and the clone leaves the school facing not one big fat zombie goldfish but two.
Q 29In Jurassic Carp, Frankie tries to save the day at a re-enactment of what kind of historical contest?
A medieval joust
A medieval joust is the setting, where one of the knights is acting very suspiciously and a certain vampire kitten is lurking nearby.
Q 30Unlike the chapter-length adventures, The Fintastic Fishsitter starring Frankie was published in what format?
A picture book
A picture book for younger readers, it pits fish against kitten in a duel that one review likened to Tom and Jerry.