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50 free Sweet Valley High trivia questions with answers — literature quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Sweet Valley High ran for twenty years and made Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield two of the best-known teenagers in publishing. One twin is thoughtful and dependable, the other is a born schemer, and between them they got through more boyfriends, feuds, kidnappings and brushes with death than any real high school could hold. This quiz covers the books and everything around them: the twins' family, friends and rivals, the storylines readers still talk about, the spin-offs that followed the sisters from childhood to adulthood, and the 1990s television series. A few questions look at Francine Pascal and how the series was made. It is written for anyone who grew up with the paperbacks. The early questions are ones most readers will remember, and the later ones reward people who kept reading long after the first few titles.
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Q 01Which real-life twin sisters played Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield in the 1990s Sweet Valley High television series?
Brittany and Cynthia Daniel
Brittany and Cynthia Daniel were both 18 when they were cast in 1994, after an earlier version with another pair of twins was never filmed. Brittany played the schemer and Cynthia the sensible one.
Q 02Sweet Valley, the fictional hometown of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield, is a suburb near which real Californian city?
Los Angeles
Los Angeles is the nearest big city, yet Francine Pascal had never been to Southern California when the first books appeared. She was a New Yorker inventing the place from afar.
Q 03In the first Sweet Valley High book, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield compete for the attention of which basketball star?
Todd Wilkins
Todd Wilkins chooses Elizabeth, and their on-off romance runs through the whole series. In a sequel set ten years on, he ends up marrying Jessica instead.
Q 04Which computer tycoon's daughter is both best friend and arch-rival to Jessica Wakefield at Sweet Valley High?
Lila Fowler
Lila Fowler is the poor little rich girl of the books, and her new-money family feuds with the old-money Patmans over whether the town should modernise.
Q 05Francine Pascal created Sweet Valley High, but who wrote most of the 181 books from her detailed plot outlines?
A team of ghostwriters
A team of ghostwriters turned out up to five books a month, each working from Pascal's plot outline and a character bible she kept on the twins and their town.
Q 06In The Evil Twin, which murderous lookalike plans to kill Elizabeth Wakefield and take her place in Sweet Valley?
Margo
Margo strikes at a New Year's Eve party, where Jessica intervenes just in time and the impostor dies instead. The villain still came back in Return of the Evil Twin.
Q 07The original Sweet Valley High books describe the figures of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield as which dress size?
Six
Size six was the twins' figure from the very first book. The 2008 reissues trimmed it to a four, and swapped their Fiat for a Jeep Wrangler.
Q 08Which disaster hits Sweet Valley near the end of the original book series, killing Olivia Davidson and wrecking homes?
An earthquake
An earthquake closes the junior-year books with real casualties. Its damage to El Carro High sends that school's students to Sweet Valley in the Senior Year spin-off.
Q 09Which future Supernatural star had one of his first TV roles as a guest in the third season of Sweet Valley High?
Jensen Ackles
Jensen Ackles played a boy called Brad in only his second television job. He joined the soap Days of Our Lives soon afterwards.
Q 10Which classmate, later reinvented as Alexandra at college, is Elizabeth Wakefield's best friend at Sweet Valley High?
Enid Rollins
Enid Rollins met Elizabeth in a creative-writing class. With a wild past behind her, she is by then a quiet model student, and joins a sorority only to keep her friend company.
Q 11Penny Ayala edits which Sweet Valley High student newspaper, where Elizabeth Wakefield is a regular writer?
The Oracle
The Oracle is where Elizabeth hones her writing, and one later plot turns on a boy copying her work and almost costing her the job there.
Q 12Which older brother of Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield comes out as gay in the sequel Sweet Valley Confidential?
Steven
Steven is away at college for most of the high-school books, where his big storyline is losing his girlfriend Tricia Martin to a fatal illness.
Q 13In Dangerous Love, Elizabeth Wakefield's parents forbid her to ride on which vehicle, which later puts her in a coma?
A motorcycle
Q 21In The New Jessica, Jessica Wakefield tires of being mistaken for her twin and dyes her blonde hair which colour?
Black
Black hair comes with a new name, Jessa Fields, and a bid to become a model. She dyes it back once the agency decides it would rather hire Elizabeth.
Q 22In Say Goodbye, Elizabeth Wakefield's steady boyfriend moves away from Sweet Valley with his family to which state?
Vermont
Vermont keeps him out of the story for about 35 books, long enough for Elizabeth to fall for a soccer star before he comes back.
Q 23Which Sweet Valley High student, deaf since birth, is offered a year of treatment in Switzerland in Head Over Heels?
Regina Morrow
A motorcycle had already killed her cousin, hence the ban. She rides anyway, and in the next book wakes from the crash behaving like her flirtatious twin.
Q 14Which Sweet Valley High class clown, long smitten with Jessica Wakefield, lands in an all-women's dorm at college?
Winston Egbert
Winston Egbert owes the mix-up to a clerical error, and it is in that dorm that he meets Denise Waters, the great love of his life.
Q 15During the Wakefield twins' internship in London, Elizabeth's English friend Luke is revealed to be which creature?
A werewolf
A werewolf was a sharp turn for a high-school romance series. The three London books of 1994 play as horror, and Elizabeth is left devastated when Luke dies.
Q 16Alice Wakefield, mother of Jessica and Elizabeth, works in which profession at one of Sweet Valley's major firms?
Interior designer
Interior designer Alice was a flower child at college, engaged to the wealthy Hank Patman until she met her future husband and called the wedding off.
Q 17Jessica Wakefield is co-captain of which Sweet Valley High team, a post she must share with rival Heather Mallone?
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is Jessica's kingdom, so when Heather Mallone muscles in she quits and sets up a rival squad, with Elizabeth of all people on it.
Q 18In Sweet Valley Twins, Jessica Wakefield joins which exclusive group of her middle school's most popular girls?
The Unicorn Club
The Unicorn Club proved such a draw that it earned a spin-off series of its own, following its members a school year further on.
Q 19Elizabeth Wakefield, the elder Sweet Valley twin by four minutes, hopes to become what when she grows up?
A journalist
A journalist is what she becomes. In Sweet Valley Confidential the grown-up Elizabeth lives in New York, writing for a magazine that reviews Off-Broadway theatre.
Q 20In A Night to Remember, Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield dream up which theme for the Sweet Valley High prom?
A jungle
A jungle prom turns dark when Jessica spikes her twin's punch to win the crown. The drive home ends in a crash that kills Jessica's own boyfriend.
Regina Morrow regains her hearing, but in On the Edge she falls in with a new crowd and dies after trying cocaine at a party.
Q 24Bruce Patman, the rich and handsome snob of Sweet Valley High, drives a car with the plate 1BRUCE1 from which maker?
Porsche
Porsche suits a boy who races cars and plays tennis. The books treat him as Jessica's mirror image: the twins only look alike, while those two think alike.
Q 25What is the profession of Ned Wakefield, father of Jessica and Elizabeth, who heads a prominent Sweet Valley firm?
A lawyer
A lawyer in general practice, he feeds the plots too: Jessica takes a job at his firm in Racing Hearts, and gossip about one of his colleagues runs through the very first book.
Q 26Which soccer star dates Elizabeth Wakefield at Sweet Valley High while her first love is living out of state?
Jeffrey French
Jeffrey French arrives in Taking Sides with two other girls already competing for him, and he simply vanishes from the series after the break-up.
Q 27Which childhood best friend of Elizabeth Wakefield moves back to Sweet Valley in Bitter Rivals as a boy-crazy gossip?
Amy Sutton
Amy Sutton wrote for the same school paper as Elizabeth when they were children, but the girl who comes back falls out with her old friend's circle and sides with Jessica.
Q 28Which Sweet Valley High super edition of 1985 became the first young-adult title on the New York Times bestseller list?
Perfect Summer
Perfect Summer sends the twins and their friends on a cycling trip along the coast. By January 1986, 18 of the top 20 titles on B. Dalton's teen chart were from the series.
Q 29Which book opened the Sweet Valley High series in 1983, ahead of Secrets and Playing with Fire?
Double Love
Double Love has both twins falling for the same boy. The publisher bought the whole series on the strength of a six-page proposal.
Q 30After a prom-night crash kills her sister's boyfriend, Elizabeth Wakefield is arrested on which criminal charge?
Manslaughter
Manslaughter is the charge in The Arrest, where guilt over spiking her twin's drink gives Jessica nightmares. Elizabeth is acquitted in the next book, The Verdict.