47 National Treasure Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Prison

Shaw figured that since prisons are made of iron bars, it must have meant the next clue was in a prison. They later figured that "iron pen" meant a contract. The Declaration of Independence is what the rest of the clue words engraved on the pipe led them to.

Answer: Meerschaum pipe on the Charlotte

After taking the pipe apart, while aboard the Charlotte, Ben notices intricate carvings on the stem of the pipe. To see what the carvings depict, Ben cuts open his finger to use his blood as ink to roll on the stem of the pipe. When Ben rolls the pipe onto paper it reveals the aforementioned quotation. The copy of "Common Sense" that Ben steals from his father only reveals that Ben knows his father's secret hiding place for money.

Answer: First

We find this out as Ben's grandfather is telling the story behind the treasure. Before the knights discovered the treasure, it had been missing for over a thousand years.

Answer: Patrick

When the FBI invaded Patrick's home after Ben, Riley and Abigail left, one of the police officers told the chief that the car stolen was registered to Patrick Gates.

Answer: Cage

Ben Gates is a brilliant man, seeking the ultimate treasure that has been gathered throughout history, and was hidden by the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Answer: The smuggler's hold.

A smuggler's hold is a cargo trunk that is hidden in the bottom of certain ships to hide items being smuggled into foreign countries from the authorities. After escaping, they then had to walk several miles through the snow to find transportation back home.

Answer: Duplicate of the Declaration of Independence

Ben says, "A souvenir. I thought it might be a good idea to have a duplicate, turns out I was right. Actually, I had to pay for the real one and the duplicate, so you owe me $35, plus tax." Abigail owes him the money for the duplicate because she loses it to Ian when she is hanging off the door of the catering truck. Ben being the great guy that he is, never actually collects the money from Abigail, probably since they fall in love by the end of the movie. The souvenir that Ben is speaking of is a duplicated copy of the Declaration of Independence that he buys in the National Archives Building's gift shop. The New England Current is the newspaper that Benjamin Franklin submitted the Silence Dogood Letters to, since this was the paper run by his brother. Franklin had pretended to be a middle-aged house wife in order to have his ideas published in the paper anonymously.

Answer: Temple of Solomon

We also find this out in the story that Ben's grandfather tells him. Once the knights from the First Crusade found the treasure, they brought the treasure back to Europe and took the name "The Knights Templar".

Answer: Charlotte

At the beginning, his grandfather told Ben that 'The secret lies with Charlotte'. Ben figured out the location of the Charlotte and eventually found the word 'CHARLOTTE' under the ice.

Answer: Voight

Voight played Patrick Gates in the movie. Patrick Gates abandoned the idea of the existence of the treasure. However, when Ben's grandfather told him about the story behind the treasure, Ben rejected his dad's belief about there not being any treasure.

Answer: Abigail Chase

Dr. Abigail Chase worked as a curator at the National Archives. Abigail did not believe that the Declaration could be stolen since it was so securely protected. When Ben and Riley told her about the clues on the pipe and she asked to see it, they told her they lost it. She then asked sarcastically, "Did Bigfoot take it?" She later got kidnapped by Ian and helped Ben and Riley find the treasure.

Answer: Paul Brown

Ben Gates gives the name Paul Brown because "the name Gates is not very highly respected in the academic community." As Abigail says after the chase scene, "Gates, you're that family with the conspiracy theory about the founding fathers." She would never have believe him if he had presented himself as his true identity. They never give any clues to as where he came up with his alias though.

Answer: Free Masons

They named themselves Free Masons, in honor of the builders of the great temple. At the time of the Revolutionary War, the Free Masons hid the treasure again. At the time, Masons included such famous people as Paul Revere, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin.

Answer: Escaping

Chief Sadusky told Ben the options of punishments for stealing the Declaration of Independence. 'Door number one, you go to prison for a very long time. Door number two, we get the Declaration back and you go to prison for a very long time'. Ben told the FBI that he had discovered Door Number Three and was going to take it, but he was only bluffing.

Answer: Riley

Riley is a tech nerd. Ian is the "leader" of the rival group. Riley and Ben barely make it out of the Charlotte before it explodes.

Answer: Saxony German

While talking to Abigail about Ian's plan to steal the Declaration, Ben guessed that her accent was Pennsylvania Dutch. She corrected him by saying "Saxony German".

Answer: New Jersey

He ends up in New Jersey where Ian's men give him new clothes and put him in a car to take to Ian. He is taken to New Jersey when in the river because Ian and his men do not want to get caught or have Ben caught. Losing Ben would mean losing the treasure. Since they begin in New York for this part of the movie, they would obviously not end up where they had begun. Pennsylvania is not accessible via the Hudson, and Parkington Lane is a person's grave that they are in search of when they reach Trinity Church at the corner of Heere and Wall.

Answer: Bigfoot

Ben needed to tell someone that Ian was going to steal the Declaration, so they went in to see Abigail using the names Paul Brown and Bill. Ben told her that someone was going to steal the Declaration. Eventually Ben told Abigail he believed that there was an invisible map on the back. Abigail asked Ben why he thought there was an invisible map, and he said that they had found a 200-year-old pipe with an inscription. She asked for the pipe and they didn't have it. She asked 'Did Bigfoot take it?'. Ben then stood up and left.

Answer: Henry

Patrick Henry was an important person in the American Revolution. "Give me liberty or give me death" is Henry's most famous quote.

Answer: High treason

High treason is what the men were committing when they signed the Declaration of Independence. It sounded better to Abigail when he explained it to her.

Answer: In the preservation room

The preservation room is where documents and their casings are cleaned/repaired. There is much less security here than where the declaration is on display.

Answer: Abigail was pregnant

Ben had to go to his dad's house to hide from the FBI, look for the map on the Declaration, and get the Silence Dogood letters. When Ben, Riley and Abigail arrived at Patrick's door, Ben said 'Dad, I'm in trouble' and his dad thought that he meant Abigail was pregnant. She was rather offended by this remark, so Ben replied 'If she is, would you leave the mother of your grandchild out in the cold?' Patrick let them in, and left Abigail feeling fat.

Answer: Charlotte

Thomas Gates was only ten years old at the time and was driving Carroll's carriage. He drove Carroll to the White House to deliver a message to Andrew Jackson, but Jackson was not there that night.

Answer: Red

We saw the van when Riley was sitting in it and communicating with Ben through his headset. We also saw it when Ben and Riley chased Ian to save Abigail who had been kidnapped by mistake. Ian's van was white.

Answer: Franklin Institute in Philadelphia

Patrick Henry Gates had donated the original Silence Dogood letters to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. Since Ben's digital scans are inaccessible and the originals are in the Franklin Institute, Riley pays a young boy one dollar a post-it to find the letters using the cyphers he has written down for him. Though Riley has a good idea in doing this, Ian soon catches on when he notices the young boy entering and exiting the museum several times.