The Parent Trap Trivia
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90 free The Parent Trap trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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 90 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
Lindsay Lohan was an 11-year-old newcomer in her first movie, and playing both twins turned her into an overnight star.
Q 02Which filmmaker directed and co-wrote the 1998 Parent Trap?
Nancy Meyers
Nancy Meyers had to shoot the twin scenes twice, choosing a take for one twin and matching the other to it on the spot.
Q 03Who play the divorced parents, Nick Parker and Elizabeth James?
Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson
Dennis Quaid and Natasha Richardson play the divorced parents, and Nick's scheming fiancée wants to marry him for his money.
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
Camp Walden, a summer camp in Maine, punishes the girls' escalating prank war by sending both of them to its isolation cabin.
Q 06Which fruit does Hallie hold behind Annie's ear while piercing it?
An apple
An apple slice is the landing pad for the needle. British censors cut the moment from the film so that children would not copy it.
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 08In the 1961 Parent Trap, which city is the proper twin raised in by her mother?
Boston
Boston is the proper twin's home, while out west their father is about to marry a much younger woman who is after his money.
Q 09What is the name of the Parkers' housekeeper, played by Lisa Ann Walter?
Chessy
Chessy has known Hallie all her life, so she is the one who works out that the girl back from camp is really Annie.
Q 10What is the name of the James family's butler in the 1998 Parent Trap?
Martin
Martin drops Annie off at camp, and before she goes the two of them perform a long secret handshake of many moves.
Q 11Who plays Meredith Blake, Nick Parker's fiancée in the 1998 Parent Trap?
Elaine Hendrix
Elaine Hendrix plays her as the film's villain, a fiancée who tries to get the twins sent away from their father.
Q 12Which 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 13How 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 21What snack do both twins eat with peanut butter in the 1998 Parent Trap?
Oreos
Oreos with peanut butter are the taste the girls bond over in the isolation cabin, just before they learn they are twins.
Q 22Which 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 23In the 1961 Parent Trap, what did its star say helped hide her wavering American accents?
The twins keep swapping places
The twins keep swapping places, so each is always faking the other's accent, and the star felt that covered her slips.
Q 14How 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 15In the 1998 Parent Trap, what did its young star say helped her turn into the other twin?
Putting on a wig
Putting on a wig, the long hair she wore as Annie, made her feel different, stepping out of her comfort zone into the other character.
Q 16Which creature do the twins sneak onto Meredith's head in the 1998 Parent Trap?
A lizard
A lizard makes Meredith shriek, yet the actress who played her loves lizards and says every bit of that fear was acting.
Q 17Which film kept the 1998 Parent Trap from the number one spot on its opening weekend?
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan was already in its second weekend, yet it still took more than double The Parent Trap's $11.1 million.
Q 18Who 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 19Which 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 20Which 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 24Who plays both twins in the original 1961 Parent Trap?
Hayley Mills
Hayley Mills played both twins, so after dishing out a cream pie as one sister she had to switch roles and take one in the face.
Q 25Who wrote and directed the 1961 Parent Trap?
David Swift
David Swift still shares the writing credit on the 1998 remake, nearly four decades later.
Q 26Who play the divorced parents in the 1961 Parent Trap?
Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith
Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith play the parents, who reunite once a disastrous camping trip sends his fiancée fleeing.
Q 27What are the twins called in the 1961 Parent Trap?
Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers
Sharon McKendrick and Susan Evers share their mother Maggie's and father Mitch's surnames respectively.
Q 28Who 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.
Q 29Who sang the 1961 film's title song?
Tommy Sands and Annette Funicello
They were on the Disney lot shooting Babes in Toyland; Funicello also sings 'Let's Get Together' on the camp record player.
Q 30For which two Academy Awards was the 1961 original nominated?
Best Sound and Best Film Editing
It grossed $25.1 million.