Holes Trivia Questions

Answer: Caveman

Stanley drives the truck into a hole by accident even though he was trying to get the truck to Zero.

Answer: Walker

She is Trout Walker's granddaughter. The police called her 'Miss Walker' when they were arresting her.

Answer: Bearded Dragons

Yellow Spotted Lizards have 11 spots each.

Answer: No one thinks anything is in his head

Mr. Pendanski gave him that nickname because he doesn't think Zero has anything in his head. Zero doesn't talk much, so when people ask him questions, he doesnt answer them. Mr. Pendanski is the counselor for D-Tent. The boys in D-Tent call him mom.

Answer: No, but he breaks a promise to a fortune teller.

Elya Yelnats makes a deal (involving a pig and a pretty girl) with Madame Zeroni the fortune teller. Unfortunately, Elya is on a boat to America when he remembers that he forgot to fulfill his side of the bargain: carrying Madame Zeroni up a mountain to drink from a fountain-of-youth-type stream.

Answer: Zeroni

When Stanley carries Zero up the mountain he breaks the curse that has affected his family for generations.

Answer: Oven knob

He showed the oven knob to the warden who asked him if he was trying to be funny or if he thought she was stupid. He ended up losing his shower tokens for a week.

This didn't happen if the book. However the book also held a scene that didn't occur in the movie (it's in the deleted scenes, however). That would be the scene where Zigzag hit Stanley behind the ear with his shovel.

Answer: Squid

You can hear this when Caveman asks Armpit where he can fill has canteen, and Armpit gets Stanley in a headlock.

Answer: scorpions, rattlesnakes, and yellow-spotted lizards

Armpit had great expectations of it raining.

Answer: Hector

Zero doesn't know how to read but generally he is a smart kid. His full name is Hector Zeroni.

Answer: yellow

This is the backpack he takes when he goes to Camp Green Lake.

Answer: a kid in his class

They found "KB" on a lipstick tube.

Answer: Caveman

Zero asked Stanley a question about the shoes that Stanley was accused of stealing. When Zero said that, everyone in D-Tent stared at him. They asked him what else he had in his head.

Answer: His great-grandfather was robbed by an outlaw from Green Lake, Texas.

Stanley's great-grandpa, Stanley Yelnats the First, makes a fortune in the New York Stock Market. He loses his fortune to the outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow when she robs the stagecoach he's on. Kate is Green Lake's former schoolteacher.

Answer: Twitch

Twitch is called that because he has a tendency to start twitching around cars that he wants to steal.

Answer: Mr. Sir ordered tents C and F over to help dig in X-Ray's hole

Stanley was assigned to D-tent. "D stands for diligence" according to Dr. Pendanski. In D-tent, Stanley lived with Rex, Ricky, Alan, Theodore, Jose and Hector. Or in the words of the boys: X-Ray, Zigzag, Squid, Armpit, Magnet and Zero.
In the book, Stanley was told by Dr. Pendanski that the counselors slept in F.

Answer: sploosh

Later on in the movie, when Stanley's father makes the special formula for the non-stinkiness of shoes, he calls the formula sploosh.

Answer: Caveman

All the boys have nicknames and they start calling Stanley Caveman after a little while.

Answer: neighbors

At the end they were neighbors, but that doesn't happen in the book.

Answer: 7

D-tent is the tent that Zero, Caveman, Magnet, Armpit, X-Ray, Squid, and ZigZag are assigned to. When Zero runs away, Twitch comes over and takes his place.

Answer: rattlesnake venom

She scratches her nails across Mr. Sir's face when he brings Stanley to her because he accuses Stanley of stealing his sunflower seeds.

Answer: Peaches

The trees all along the shores of the lake, during Katherine's lifetime, grew peaches, which she used to make spiced peaches. Katherine kept one ingredient secret from everybody else, so nobody would steal her recipe. She also received a special award every summer because of delicious peaches.
Between the book and the movie this was exactly the same.

Answer: Magnet

Magnet is very greedy, and he has an interesting laugh.

Answer: Hold on for me.

X-ray softens up to Stanley at the end of the movie.

Answer: fossil

Stanley found a fossil in his hole, but it was nothing special.