53 Night at the Museum Trivia Questions & Answers

Answer: Tokyo, Japan

Larry Daley was the night guard of the New York City Museum of Natural History in the first three films in the series. In "Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again" (2022), Larry Daley works at the Tokyo Museum and he is amazed at how high tech the bathrooms are and that there are robots that give tours. Larry wants to find a replacement for his night guard position in New York but no one seems to keep the position for long.

Answer: Retired night guard Cecil played by Dick Van Dyke

While researching the tablet, Larry finds a photo of the dig and sees the 12 year old boy. He is told it is C. J. Fredericks and he deduces that is Cecil Fredericks, one of the night guards from the original movie. He goes to the retirement home where Cecil, Gus, and Reginald live and finds out that Ahkmenrah's parents are at the British Museum because it was a joint dig.

The movie was dedicated to Mickey Rooney and Robin Williams, both of whom died after filming but before the movie's release.

Answer: He is an inventor.

Mr. Daley moves on and is now creating things instead of guarding museum figurines. What does he create? Well, we will figure it out during this quiz!

Answer: Dakota

Cecil tried to escape, with the tablet, on the stage coach. Larry chased after him on Roosevelt's horse, trying to get him to stop. Cecil said, "These are trained horses, Larry. They won't stop until they hear a specific word." To which Larry replied, "Oh, you mean a word like...Dakota!" At which point the horses stopped so abruptly that Cecil was thrown off.

Answer: Manifest Destiny

Larry told him that if he blew it up he'd just hit a wall. But Jedadiah said that he was gonna blow it anyway. When asked why he was doing it he said, "It's Manifest Destiny! You can't control it and neither can I!" The explosion was relatively small and didn't do much anyway.

Answer: fetch

Larry read on the instructions left by the security guard to play fetch with the dinosaur. He threw a large bone for him to chase. He then decided to tie a bone to a toy car and had the dinosaur chase that.

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt and Sacagawea

At nighttime the exhibits of people and animals on display at the museum come to life. The night guards prior to Larry's son run away in horror shortly after the exhibits come to life once the sun sets. Both Theodore Roosevelt and Sacagawea recommend to Larry that his son Nick be the night guard since he knows what happens at night with the exhibits and he is like Larry but younger and healthier.

Answer: A DJ

Larry (Ben Stiller) comes home to find a wild party taking place in his apartment with his son, Nicky (Skyler Gisondo), acting as DJ. As they talk after everyone leaves, his son tells Larry he does not want to go to college but instead wants to take a year off. Later on in London Nicky tells Larry he wants to be a DJ on Ibiza, an island off the coast of Spain. Larry is incredulous and asks Nicky is he even knows how to speak Spanish, which Nicky doesn't.

Answer: A glow-in-the-dark flash light

The inventor is showing off his glow-in-the-dark flashlight in a hilarious commercial to a 'live' studio audience. Guest star George Foreman helps Daley sell the product to an enthusiastic crowd!

Answer: His guns wouldn't fire.

Jedadiah, played by Owen Wilson, tried to use his guns on Larry. When they didn't work, he said, "Now you know my shame. Jedadiah's impotent rage. His guns don't fire. Take me away."

Answer: Larry

Larry tried to make a name for himself as a self made millionaire. However, because none of his ideas took off he got a job as a security guard at the museum. He took the job as the security guard to make his son Nicky proud of him.

Answer: Mia

Mia is portrayed as a highly achieving student that has been friends with Nick for some time. They are talking by their lockers and Nick asks Mia what she is doing for the summer. She tells him that she doesn't have any plans and he starts to lead in asking her if she wants to go on a date but he abruptly ends the conversation and tells her to have a good summer. Luckily by the end of the film he has gained the courage to ask her out.

Answer: Rebel Wilson

Rebel Wilson plays Tilly, the night guard at the British Museum. Rebel also stars in "Pitch Perfect". At first Tilly has no idea what is going on but then she sees Laaa guarding the door. She captures Laaa and Larry and locks them in an office but they break out and stop her from informing the authorities. Laaa is left to guard Tilly in the guard shack and the two fall in love while staring at each other. At the end of the movie the two are reunited when Tilly comes to New York with a travelling exhibition from the British Museum.

Answer: They would turn to dust.

When the caveman escaped on Larry's second night on the job, Larry didn't realize he was gone until it was too late. The sun came up, the caveman turned to dust, and was swept up by the street cleaner.

Answer: a weirdie

Gus was one of the old night guards. He was the shortest of the three, and a very rude person. He often called Larry names like, hot-shot, hot-dog, butterscotch, and lunch box. This line was at the very beginning of the movie, when Larry went to apply for the job, he met Gus (who seemed to dislike him right away) just as he was waking up.

Answer: Natural History

Larry worked in a Natural History Museum. The museum was home to several cool wax statues, such as a dinosaur, Christopher Columbus, Mayan people, Civil War statues, and much more. They showed the name of the museum at the beginning of the movie where they showed the actors. The sign said Museum of Natural History.

Answer: Deejay

Nick Daley has an ear for music and he proudly tells people that he can identify any note in any song. He is also adept at mixing different sounds so he auditions to be a deejay for the jazz band. The audition with Ms. Montefusco is going well until someone else walks in and Nick gets nervous, makes an error and doesn't complete the audition.

Answer: Trixie

Trixie has the three distinctive horns on her head of a Triceratops. The audience learns her name at the end of the movie when she comes back and is well behaved. She is never explicitly identified as a Triceratops but her name and appearance make it clear. Larry, along with Teddy (Robin Williams), Sacagawea (Mizuo Peck), Jedediah (Owen Wilson), Octavius (Steve Coogan), Ahkmenrah (Rami Malek), and Attila the Hun (Patrick Gallagher) set out to find Ahkmenrah's parents when they run into Trixie. At first Larry tries to get her to play fetch like he did with Rexy in the first movie but it fails miserably and the group is sent fleeing from Trixie.

Answer: Jedediah calls Larry's home phone.

It is a mystery how the little figurine cowboy, Jedediah, dials the phone let alone how he has Larry's home phone number. Nonetheless, Jedediah lets Larry know that the monkey stole the tablet when it was supposed to stay at the Museum of Natural History. We also learn that Akhmenrah's older brother, Kahmunrah, wants the tablet for evil, self-serving purposes.

Teddy Roosevelt, from the Museum of Natural History, tells Larry that the tablet was going to be left behind, while the rest of the unwanted exhibit pieces were going to be shipped, without the life-giving tablet. So of course Larry wants to do something to keep all the figures in the Museum of Natural History.

Answer: Columbus

On his first night at the museum, Larry called him Tin Man. At the end of the movie, talking to Tin Man, Larry said, "My explorer friend, whose name escapes me." His son, Nicky, reminded him that it was Columbus. Larry then apologized, using the excuse that Columbus wore no name plate, and thus there was no way he could've know who he was.

Answer: Dexter

As Cecil was leading Larry through his first tour of the museum, they went to the Hall of African Mammals. Larry pointed out the monkey because he liked them. Cecil then told him that he and the other night guards called him Dexter. Larry also called the monkey by his name several times.

Answer: Keys

Dexter the monkey stole the keys to the cage more than once. Dexter stole the keys the first time, and then Larry got smart and placed baby keys on his belt for Dexter to steal. The keys that Dexter kept stealing were the keys to the entire museum including all of the exhibits.

Answer: Fruit texts

Nick's mom, Erica Daley, is voiced by Gillian Jacobs. She sends Nick with a piece of fruit to school each day and then several hours later she will make a goofy joke asking him if he ate it. He shows Mia some of these 'fruit texts' where his mom messaged "apple-lutely" and "orange you going to tell me how your day is going".

Answer: Lancelot

While fleeing Trixie, the group runs into a knight in full body armor, who steps in to battle Trixie. He ends up punching her in the head which makes Trixie leave. After Trixie leaves, the knight takes off his helmet and introduces himself as Sir Lancelot. Lancelot then insists on leading the group to the Egyptian exhibit as any good knight must do for those in need.

Answer: Lock up the lions or they'll eat you.

On the list of instructions, given to Larry by the old night guards, the first instruction said to throw the bone, and the second one said, lock up the lions or they'll eat you. Larry didn't get past the second instruction, but he did read it.