Night at the Museum Trivia
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47 free Night at the Museum trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Night at the Museum turned the American Museum of Natural History into a playground, and this quiz covers all three live-action films plus the animated spin-off. Forty-one questions take in Larry Daley's first disastrous shift, Rexy the T. rex, Dexter the capuchin, Jedediah and Octavius, Teddy Roosevelt and Sacagawea, the Easter Island head who wants gum-gum, and the Tablet of Ahkmenrah that makes it all happen. The sequels get their share: Kahmunrah, Amelia Earhart, Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone at the Smithsonian, then Sir Lancelot, Tilly and Laaa in London for Secret of the Tomb, and the Disney+ cartoon that hands the flashlight to Nick. Easy questions ask who plays Larry; harder ones want the children's book the films are based on, the film debut of a future Oscar winner, and the museum director who cannot remember Larry's name. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the films, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who plays night guard Larry Daley in the Night at the Museum films?
Ben Stiller
Ben Stiller shares the first film with his own mother: Anne Meara plays Debbie, the job agent who sends Larry to the museum.
Q 02Who directed the three live-action Night at the Museum films?
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy also slips in front of the camera: he plays the dad in Larry's television infomercial at the start of the second film.
Q 03Which real New York institution is the setting of Night at the Museum?
The American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History lent the film its look and its exterior, but the halls Larry patrols were built on a soundstage.
Q 04Which real gadget does Larry Daley say stole the thunder of his own failed invention?
The Clapper
The Clapper turns lights on at a clap; Larry's Snapper did it at a snap of the fingers, and he tells the job agent the rival 'stole a bit of our thunder'.
Q 05In Night at the Museum, what does Larry name the Tyrannosaurus skeleton after taming it with a bone?
Rexy
Rexy behaves more like a puppy than a predator once Larry throws the bone, and his footprints in Central Park help turn the museum into front-page news.
Q 06Dexter, the mischievous monkey who keeps stealing Larry's keys, is what kind of monkey?
A capuchin
A capuchin, Dexter causes even more trouble in the sequel, where he steals the tablet itself and so brings the whole Smithsonian to life.
Q 07In Night at the Museum, what does the Easter Island head call Larry?
Dum-Dum
Dum-Dum is all the giant head will call him, even after Larry protests that his name is Larry; what the head wants in return is 'gum-gum'.
Q 08Who plays the wax Theodore Roosevelt who mentors Larry in Night at the Museum?
Robin Williams
Robin Williams's Roosevelt gallops to Larry's rescue on horseback on the very first night, and Williams returned to the part in both sequels.
Q 09In Night at the Museum, Teddy Roosevelt is secretly in love with which exhibit?
Sacagawea
Sacagawea leaves Teddy too shy to speak, until he is cut in half pushing her out of a stagecoach's path and she repairs his wax body.
Q 10In Night at the Museum, which conqueror and his men chase Larry through the halls on his first nights as a guard?
Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun starts out as Larry's most frightening pursuer and ends up a friend: by the third film he is one of the exhibits who stow away to London to help him.
Q 11Which actor plays the miniature cowboy Jedediah, going uncredited in the first Night at the Museum film?
Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson took no billing for the first film, even though his cowboy is one of its biggest parts; from the sequel on, his name is on the cast list.
Q 12Which actor plays the veteran night guard who hires and trains Larry in Night at the Museum?
Dick Van Dyke
Dick Van Dyke's old guard is in effect hiring his own successor: the museum is losing money, so its three veterans are being swapped for one new man.
Q 13Which comedian plays Dr. McPhee, the museum director and Larry's boss, in the Night at the Museum films?
Ricky Gervais
Q 21In Battle of the Smithsonian, which actor plays Kahmunrah and also voices The Thinker and the Lincoln Memorial statue?
Hank Azaria
Hank Azaria plays the villain as a vain pharaoh who bristles when a henchman asks why he is wearing a dress: 'This is not a dress. This is a tunic.'
Q 22Which famous figure, played by Amy Adams, becomes Larry's love interest in Battle of the Smithsonian?
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart knows all along that she is only a wax figure, so after taking the New York exhibits home she kisses Larry goodbye and heads back to Washington.
Q 23Which three historical villains does Kahmunrah recruit as henchmen in Battle of the Smithsonian?
Ricky Gervais's McPhee stays in the dark for almost the whole series: in the third film he loses his job over the planetarium chaos and still thinks the living exhibits are special effects.
Q 14Night at the Museum was the film debut of which future Academy Award winner, playing the pharaoh Ahkmenrah?
Rami Malek
Rami Malek's pharaoh is a mummy who steps out of his sarcophagus late in the film and helps Larry restore order; twelve years later Malek won Best Actor as Freddie Mercury.
Q 15In Battle of the Smithsonian, Dexter meets Able, a fellow monkey who earned a place in a museum by doing what?
Flying into space
Flying into space in May 1959 made the real Able famous, and the monkey is on display to this day at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington.
Q 16In Night at the Museum, who plays Rebecca Hutman, the docent writing a dissertation on the Shoshone guide?
Carla Gugino
Carla Gugino's Rebecca takes Larry's talk of living exhibits for mockery, until she watches them troop back into the museum at dawn and meets the subject of her dissertation in person.
Q 17In Night at the Museum, which actor plays Don, the fiancé of Larry's ex-wife Erica?
Paul Rudd
Paul Rudd's Don works in finance and is the one invited to Career Day at Nick's school, which is what stings Larry into holding down a steady job.
Q 18Who composed the score for the films?
Alan Silvestri
He replaced John Ottman on the first film and returned for the whole trilogy.
Q 19In Battle of the Smithsonian, why are the exhibits shipped off to Washington?
They are being replaced with holograms
They are being replaced with holograms as the museum goes high-tech, and because the tablet is staying behind in New York, the crated exhibits expect never to wake again.
Q 20In Battle of the Smithsonian, Larry escapes a group of soldiers by jumping into a famous photograph of which event?
V-J Day in Times Square
V-J Day in Times Square, the 1945 photo of a sailor kissing a woman in white, becomes a black-and-white world that Larry can walk around in, complete with a young sailor called Joey Motorola.
Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone
Ivan the Terrible, Napoleon and Al Capone are sent to get the tablet back; Capone comes from a photograph, so he stays in black and white, and Larry ends up turning the three against each other.
Q 24In Battle of the Smithsonian, what do the Einstein bobbleheads say the tablet's combination is?
The value of pi
The value of pi has to be found fast: the villain has sealed Larry's friend Jedediah inside an hourglass and given Larry one hour before the sand runs out.
Q 25Which SNL star plays General George Custer in Battle of the Smithsonian?
Bill Hader
Bill Hader's Custer is all swagger until Larry talks him out of his dread of repeating the Little Bighorn, and only then does he rejoin the fight.
Q 26In Battle of the Smithsonian, Larry and his companion escape their pursuers in which historic aircraft?
The Wright Flyer
The Wright Flyer, the first powered aeroplane, lifts the pair clear of their pursuers, and they promptly crash it straight back into the Smithsonian.
Q 27Which boxing champion appears as himself in Battle of the Smithsonian?
George Foreman
George Foreman, famous for selling his own grill on television, turns up beside Larry, who has quit the museum to sell his inventions the same way.
Q 28In Secret of the Tomb, which character turns out to have been at the 1938 Egyptian dig as a boy?
Cecil Fredericks
Cecil Fredericks was the son of the archaeologist who opened the tomb, and the locals' warning that 'the end will come' is what tells him, decades later, that the tablet's magic is dying.
Q 29In Secret of the Tomb, Larry travels to which London institution to save the tablet's magic?
The British Museum
The British Museum holds the mummies of Ahkmenrah's parents, and they are the only ones who know what is wrong with the tablet.
Q 30In Secret of the Tomb, what is the name of the new Neanderthal model who thinks Larry is his father?
Laaa
Laaa was ordered by the museum as a model that looks like its night guard, which is why he greets Larry as 'Dada' and stows away on the trip to London.