Q 01/05

At Grace Cahill's will reading in The Maze of Bones, what must each heir give up to receive the first clue?

A) Grace's mansion

B) A million dollars

C) A jade necklace

D) A Swiss bank vault

Answer · why

B) A million dollars

A million dollars is what most of the relatives walk away with. Amy and Dan want the money too, until they decide Grace would have wanted them to take...

Q 02/05

Which Hollywood director bought the film rights to The 39 Clues in June 2008, before the first book was published?

A) Steven Spielberg

B) Chris Columbus

C) Guillermo del Toro

D) Peter Jackson

Answer · why

A) Steven Spielberg

Steven Spielberg bought the rights about three months before The Maze of Bones went on sale. Shawn Levy, director of the Night at the Museum films, wa...

Q 03/05

In The 39 Clues, what are the thirty-nine clues that the Cahill family's rival branches race to collect?

A) Fragments of a map

B) Keys to a vault

C) Serum ingredients

D) Lines of a cipher

Answer · why

C) Serum ingredients

Serum ingredients are what the family fights over: together they make a formula said to turn whoever completes it into the most powerful person in the...

Q 04/05

Which American founding father left the trail that sends Amy and Dan Cahill to Paris in The Maze of Bones?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) John Adams

C) George Washington

D) Benjamin Franklin

Answer · why

D) Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin is the first famous relative on the trail. In the story he hid a clue beneath Paris while serving there as an American diplomat.

Q 05/05

Which au pair follows Amy and Dan Cahill around the world in The 39 Clues and turns out to be a pilot?

A) Nellie Gomez

B) Reagan Holt

C) Cara Pierce

D) Cheyenne Wyoming

Answer · why

A) Nellie Gomez

Nellie Gomez charges most of the flights and hotels to her own credit card to keep the hunt going. It later emerges that Grace herself had picked her ...