Question 1

What is the name of the hilltop town where the story takes place?

Accepted Answer

Cheesebridge

Question 2

What do the Boxtrolls wear as clothing and shelter?

Accepted Answer

Boxes

Question 3

How does each Boxtroll get its name?

Accepted Answer

From whatever was originally packed in the box it wears.

Question 4

What is the name of the human boy raised underground by the Boxtrolls?

Accepted Answer

Eggs

Question 5

Which Boxtroll acts as Eggs' guardian and father figure?

Accepted Answer

Fish

Question 6

What does Archibald Snatcher demand as payment for exterminating the Boxtrolls?

Accepted Answer

A white hat and a seat in the cheese tasting room.

Question 7

Snatcher craves cheese even though eating it nearly kills him.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 8

Winnie is disappointed to learn that the Boxtrolls are gentle rather than monstrous.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 9

What substance is Snatcher violently allergic to?

Accepted Answer

Cheese

Question 10

Eggs first ventures above ground because Fish has been captured.

Accepted Answer

true

Question 11

What color hats do Snatcher's henchmen wear?

Accepted Answer

Red

Question 12

What are the names of Snatcher's three henchmen?

Accepted Answer

Mr. Trout, Mr. Pickles and Mr. Gristle

Question 13

What disguise does Snatcher use to whip the townspeople into a panic about Boxtrolls?

Accepted Answer

Madame Frou Frou, a cabaret performer.

Question 14

According to the song Madame Frou Frou performs for the crowd, what do the Boxtrolls do to children?

Accepted Answer

Snatch them and eat them.

Question 15

Who leads the White Hats, the men who actually run the town?

Accepted Answer

Lord Portley-Rind

Question 16

The Boxtrolls speak fluent English among themselves.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 17

What did the White Hats buy with money that should have gone toward a children's hospital?

Accepted Answer

An enormous wheel of cheese.

Question 18

What are the Boxtrolls actually doing when they creep through the streets at night?

Accepted Answer

Scavenging junk and mechanical parts.

Question 19

What is a Boxtroll's instinctive reaction to fear?

Accepted Answer

Pulling itself entirely inside its box.

Question 20

How does Archibald Snatcher meet his end?

Accepted Answer

He eats the cheese he has always craved, swells up and bursts.

Question 21

What story does Snatcher tell the town about the missing Trubshaw baby?

Accepted Answer

That the Boxtrolls murdered the boy's father and devoured the child.

Question 22

What truth does Winnie reveal to Eggs about who he really is?

Accepted Answer

He is the Trubshaw baby the town believes was eaten.

Question 23

Where does Eggs find his father, Herbert Trubshaw?

Accepted Answer

Caged inside Snatcher's factory.

Question 24

What is Snatcher really doing with the Boxtrolls he captures?

Accepted Answer

Forcing them to labor on his enormous machine.

Question 25

How does Eggs get himself inside the Portley-Rind mansion during the ball?

Accepted Answer

He dresses in a fine suit and passes himself off as a gentleman.

Question 26

Who coaches Eggs on how to behave like a proper human boy?

Accepted Answer

Winnie

Question 27

What running argument do Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles have with each other throughout the story?

Accepted Answer

Whether they are actually the good guys.

Question 28

What does Snatcher do the moment he finally gets his white hat?

Accepted Answer

Heads straight for the cheese tasting room.

Question 29

The Boxtrolls really do eat children, exactly as the townspeople believe.

Accepted Answer

false

Question 30

Eggs' father, Herbert Trubshaw, is alive for the entire story.

Accepted Answer

true

The Ultimate The Box Trolls Trivia Quiz

2) What do the Boxtrolls wear as clothing and shelter?

3) How does each Boxtroll get its name?

4) What is the name of the human boy raised underground by the Boxtrolls?

5) Which Boxtroll acts as Eggs' guardian and father figure?

6) What does Archibald Snatcher demand as payment for exterminating the Boxtrolls?

7) Snatcher craves cheese even though eating it nearly kills him.

8) Winnie is disappointed to learn that the Boxtrolls are gentle rather than monstrous.

9) What substance is Snatcher violently allergic to?

10) Eggs first ventures above ground because Fish has been captured.

11) What color hats do Snatcher's henchmen wear?

12) What are the names of Snatcher's three henchmen?

13) What disguise does Snatcher use to whip the townspeople into a panic about Boxtrolls?

14) According to the song Madame Frou Frou performs for the crowd, what do the Boxtrolls do to children?

15) Who leads the White Hats, the men who actually run the town?

16) The Boxtrolls speak fluent English among themselves.

17) What did the White Hats buy with money that should have gone toward a children's hospital?

18) What are the Boxtrolls actually doing when they creep through the streets at night?

19) What is a Boxtroll's instinctive reaction to fear?

20) How does Archibald Snatcher meet his end?

21) What story does Snatcher tell the town about the missing Trubshaw baby?

22) What truth does Winnie reveal to Eggs about who he really is?

23) Where does Eggs find his father, Herbert Trubshaw?

24) What is Snatcher really doing with the Boxtrolls he captures?

25) How does Eggs get himself inside the Portley-Rind mansion during the ball?

26) Who coaches Eggs on how to behave like a proper human boy?

27) What running argument do Mr. Trout and Mr. Pickles have with each other throughout the story?

28) What does Snatcher do the moment he finally gets his white hat?

29) The Boxtrolls really do eat children, exactly as the townspeople believe.

30) Eggs' father, Herbert Trubshaw, is alive for the entire story.