50 free The Parent Trap trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
42 free The Parent Trap trivia questions with answers. The Parent Trap has been made three times over: as a German novel Erich Kästner was banned from filming under the Nazis, as Disney's 1961 Hayley Mills hit with its Sherman Brothers songs, and as Nancy Meyers's 1998 debut that made 11-year-old Lindsay Lohan a star and premiered in front of the Queen. This quiz runs 50 questions on the 1998 film (Camp Walden, the fencing match, Chessy and Martin, Meredith Blake, the Napa vineyard, the Concorde, the Oreos, the motion-control twin trick, the family cameos), the 1961 original (Susan and Sharon, Camp Inch, the honey and the bear cubs, the Oscar nominations, 'Let's Get Together'), the TV sequels and the novel Das doppelte Lottchen. It starts easy and works up to questions for the real fans. Every answer has been checked against reference sources, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a sleepover, a family movie night or a 90s film round at pub trivia.
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Q 01Who plays both twins, Hallie Parker and Annie James, in the 1998 Parent Trap?
Lindsay Lohan
It was her film debut; the other three all auditioned or were considered, and Jena Malone turned the roles down more than once.
Q 02The 1998 film was the directorial debut of which filmmaker?
Nancy Meyers
Her then-husband Charles Shyer produced and co-wrote it, shortly before their divorce; the twins are named after their daughters.
Q 03Who play the divorced parents, Nick Parker and Elizabeth James?
Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson
Quaid said in 2025 that sequel talk ended with Richardson's death in 2009: 'I don't think we'd have the heart for it.'
Q 04What are the parents' professions in the 1998 film?
A wine grower and a wedding-gown designer
They married aboard the QE2 in 1986 and remarry on the same ship at the end.
Q 05Where do Hallie and Annie meet?
Camp Walden, a summer camp in Maine
They first come face to face at the end of a fencing match, then escalate from poker to a prank war and the isolation cabin.
Q 06Where was the fictional Camp Walden actually shot?
Seely in Crestline, California
Filming also took Lohan to Napa, San Francisco, Lake Arrowhead, Los Angeles and London.
Q 07What sport are the twins playing when they first see each other's faces?
Fencing
They lift their masks and are stunned to be looking at themselves.
Q 08What clue tells Hallie and Annie that the two of them are sisters?
A shared birthday and matching halves of a torn photo
In the novel the girls compare birthdates too: both born on October 14 in Linz.
Q 09Which real Napa Valley estate stood in for Parker Knoll?
Staglin in Rutherford
The estate is called Parker Knoll in the film.
Q 10What is the name of the Parkers' housekeeper, played by Lisa Ann Walter?
Chessy
She is based on Verbena in the 1961 film and Resi in the novel, and she is the first to work out that 'Hallie' is Annie.
Q 11What is the name of the James family's butler, who ends up with the Parkers' housekeeper?
Martin
Simon Kunz plays him; he proposes to Chessy at the parents' second wedding aboard the QE2.
Q 12Who plays Meredith Blake, the 26-year-old publicist engaged to Nick?
Elaine Hendrix
Her mother Vicki is played by Joanna Barnes, who was the gold-digger Vicky Robinson in the 1961 original.
Q 13Which actress is a gold-digger in the 1961 film and her mother in the 1998 film?
Joanna Barnes
Vicky Robinson in 1961, Vicki Blake in 1998.
Q 21Which Nat King Cole song plays over the opening wedding sequence?
L-O-V-E
The 1961 song 'Let's Get Together' is quoted over the Disney logo and in Alan Silvestri's end-credits suite.
Q 22Which song plays when Hallie walks into Annie's poker game at camp?
Bad to the Bone
'Parents Just Don't Understand' by DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince plays on Meredith's car radio.
Q 23What treat features in the 1998 film in place of the 1961 film's Fig Newtons?
Oreos
Both twins, it turns out, eat them with peanut butter.
Q 14How does the family finally get rid of Meredith?
The twins torment her on a camping trip
Elizabeth insists Meredith go camping in her place; the pranks mirror the 1961 honey-and-bear-cubs sequence.
Q 15How do Nick and Hallie beat Elizabeth and Annie back to London at the end?
The Concorde
Elizabeth's father Charles, played by Ronnie Stevens, had earlier caught Hallie on the phone and coaxed out the truth.
Q 16How was the effect of one actress playing two twins on screen created in 1998?
Motion control with a stand-in double
Erin Mackey doubled for Lohan; Meyers said she asked for shots that, had she known better, she would not have.
Q 17Roughly how many young actresses submitted audition tapes for the twin roles?
1,500
Lohan was 11 when she filmed it and won a Young Artist Award for the performance.
Q 18What was the 1998 film's budget and worldwide gross?
$15 million and $92 million
It opened second behind Saving Private Ryan.
Q 19Which film kept The Parent Trap out of the number one spot on its opening weekend?
Saving Private Ryan
It took $11.1 million from 2,247 theatres.
Q 20Who attended the film's London premiere in November 1998?
Queen Elizabeth II
It was a Royal Film Performance; a deleted scene had Jeannette Charles playing the Queen meeting Hallie.
Q 24Which relative of Lohan's plays the 'Lost Boy' who did not realise Camp Walden was all-girls?
Her brother Michael
Her mother Dina and siblings Aliana and Dakota also appear uncredited at the London airport.
Q 25Who plays the captain who marries Nick and Elizabeth aboard the QE2 in the opening?
Dean Cundey, the cinematographer
Meyers and Shyer's daughters Hallie and Annie also cameo, credited as Lindsay and Towel Girl.
Q 26Who plays the twins in the original 1961 Parent Trap?
Hayley Mills
It was the second of six films she made for Disney, straight after Pollyanna with the same director.
Q 27Who wrote and directed the 1961 film?
David Swift
He is still credited as a co-writer of the 1998 remake alongside Meyers and Shyer.
Q 28Who play the divorced parents in the 1961 film?
Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith
The characters are Maggie and Mitch; the twins are Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers.
Q 29What are the twins called in the 1961 film?
Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers
Sharon lives in Boston with their mother; Susan on their father's California ranch.
Q 30Who wrote 'Let's Get Together' and the other songs for the 1961 film?
The Sherman Brothers
Hayley Mills's double-tracked single, credited to 'Hayley Mills and Hayley Mills', reached number 8 on the Billboard chart.