2010s Movie Trivia
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110 free 2010s Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
49 free 2010s Movie trivia questions with answers. The 2010s were the decade Marvel took over the box office, Disney bought everything, and the Oscars gave Best Picture to a horror-adjacent thriller, a silent-mute fish romance and a Korean-language film. This quiz covers the blockbusters and the prestige pictures side by side: Inception and Interstellar, The Avengers and Endgame, Frozen and Toy Story 3, Skyfall, The Hunger Games, Fury Road, Get Out, Whiplash, La La Land, Moonlight, Black Panther, Joker and Parasite. The easy questions ask what The Social Network is about and which film features Elsa of Arendelle. The hard ones want the physicist behind Interstellar, the fairy tale that inspired Frozen, which Best Picture winner took only one other Oscar, and how many f-words are in The Wolf of Wall Street. Ideal for movie nights and pub quizzes with a millennial crowd. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on each film, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In Inception, what does Cobb use as a totem to test whether he is dreaming?
A spinning top
A spinning top: if it keeps spinning Cobb is dreaming, if it topples he is awake. The final shot cuts away before the top falls.
Q 02Which French song is used in Inception to signal the 'kick' that wakes the dreamers?
Non, je ne regrette rien
Non, je ne regrette rien: Édith Piaf's 1960 recording is played to cue the kick, and Hans Zimmer slowed it down to build the film's booming brass motif.
Q 03Before making it a heist film, Christopher Nolan first envisioned Inception in which genre?
Horror
Horror was Nolan's first idea for his dream-thief story; he then set the project aside for years, feeling he needed experience on bigger productions such as the Batman films.
Q 04The Social Network is based on which book?
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich's 2009 book on which Eduardo Saverin consulted; Aaron Sorkin adapted it while Zuckerberg and Facebook declined to take part.
Q 05Who plays Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network?
Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield first met David Fincher about playing Mark Zuckerberg, but Fincher felt his emotional openness suited the betrayed Eduardo Saverin better and gave the lead to Jesse Eisenberg.
Q 06Which band's members composed the award-winning score for The Social Network?
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor at first turned David Fincher down, drained after a long tour, then reconsidered and wrote the Oscar-winning score with Atticus Ross.
Q 07Toy Story 3 was the first animated film to do what?
Gross $1 billion
Gross $1 billion: Disney first planned a Toy Story 3 without Pixar, about a recalled Buzz shipped to Taiwan, and scrapped it after buying Pixar in 2006. Pixar's own version then made the record.
Q 08Where are the toys accidentally donated in Toy Story 3?
Sunnyside Daycare
Sunnyside Daycare seems a toy paradise until its strawberry-scented boss, Lotso, turns out to run it like a prison and has Andy's toys locked up when they try to leave.
Q 09The King's Speech centres on which monarch's struggle with a stammer?
George VI
George VI never expected the crown: his brother Edward VIII abdicated in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson, leaving the stammering Duke of York to become king and address a nation at war.
Q 10Why did the writer of The King's Speech delay the project for decades?
The monarch's widow asked him to wait
The monarch's widow asked him to wait: the Queen Mother's office told David Seidler not to pursue the story in her lifetime, as the memories were still too painful. She died in 2002 and the film followed in 2010.
Q 11Bridesmaids was co-written by Annie Mumolo and which of its stars?
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Wiig met Mumolo at the Los Angeles improv troupe the Groundlings, where they wrote sketches together, and Mumolo has a cameo in the film as a nervous flyer beside Annie.
Q 12In which city does Bridesmaids' Annie Walker live after her bakery fails?
Milwaukee
Milwaukee: after the recession shuts her bakery, Cake Baby, Annie sells jewellery there and shares a flat, while her rich rival bridesmaid Helen lives in style in Chicago.
Q 13Who wrote and directed The Avengers (2012)?
Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon rewrote a script Zak Penn had been developing since 2006, and while Scarlett Johansson's return was in doubt he drafted a pile of pages starring the Wasp instead.
Q 21Disney's Frozen (2013) was loosely inspired by which 1844 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale?
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen: Elsa was the villain in early drafts until the song Let It Go recast her as a frightened young woman, and the first act was rewritten around two sisters.
Q 22Which songwriting team wrote the songs for Frozen, including Let It Go?
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez found Let It Go on a walk to Brooklyn's Prospect Park, where she climbed onto a picnic table and pictured it as Elsa's mountaintop.
Q 23Gravity's almost entirely digital space scenes were created by which British visual effects company?
Q 14Which alien race does Loki lead against Earth in The Avengers?
The Chitauri
The Chitauri pour through a portal above Manhattan, and the whole army collapses the instant Iron Man flies a nuclear missile into their mothership.
Q 15The first Hunger Games film (2012) was shot mainly in which state?
North Carolina
North Carolina: the arena is DuPont State Forest and District 12 is the abandoned Henry River Mill Village, and fan tours went on to visit both.
Q 16Which studio produced The Hunger Games films?
Lionsgate
Lionsgate had not turned a profit in five years, so it pruned the budgets of its other films and looked for assets to sell to pay for the gamble.
Q 17Which two Bond regulars returned in Skyfall after being absent for two films?
Moneypenny and Q
Moneypenny and Q: Naomie Harris plays a field agent who shoots Bond by accident in the opening and only at the end takes a desk job and gives her surname. Ben Whishaw is the new Q.
Q 18Skyfall's production was suspended in 2010 because of what?
MGM's bankruptcy
MGM's bankruptcy: the studio's money troubles froze Bond 23 through 2010 and writer Peter Morgan walked away. Work resumed only once MGM left Chapter 11 that December.
Q 19Argo dramatises the rescue of six US diplomats from which city?
Tehran
Tehran was where the 'Canadian Caper' played out during the 1979-81 Iran hostage crisis, with a science-fiction shoot as the cover story.
Q 20Ben Affleck's Argo won Best Picture, but the Academy famously snubbed it in which category?
Director
Director: Affleck took the Directors Guild, Golden Globe and BAFTA directing prizes that season, yet the Academy left him out, a first for a Best Picture winner since Driving Miss Daisy.
Framestore
Framestore built nearly everything on screen by computer, so Sandra Bullock performed inside a cramped box of LED panels that lit her face with the scenes to be added later.
Q 2412 Years a Slave was based on whose 1853 memoir?
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup, a free Black New Yorker kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in Louisiana, published his memoir in 1853; Chiwetel Ejiofor played him.
Q 25The Wolf of Wall Street set a record for what?
Uses of a particular expletive
Uses of a particular expletive: the F-word is heard more than 500 times, which set a Guinness record for swearing in a film, and Kenya's censors banned it outright.
Q 26Whiplash grew out of an 18-minute short film that premiered at which festival?
Sundance
Sundance: producers dared Damien Chazelle to film a slice of his script as a short, and its jury prize there won the backing to shoot the full feature.
Q 27Interstellar was developed from a treatment by producer Lynda Obst and which theoretical physicist?
Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne's equations drove the film's black hole images, which proved accurate enough to be published as physics papers he co-wrote with the effects team.
Q 28Which Guardian of the Galaxy is voiced by Vin Diesel?
Groot
Groot: Vin Diesel recorded his catchphrase, 'I am Groot', in several other languages too, so that foreign releases kept his voice.
Q 29Birdman is presented as though it were filmed how?
In one continuous take
In one continuous take: the cuts are hidden between long, tightly choreographed shots, so each day began with hours of rehearsal and a single slip meant starting the take again.
Q 30Mad Max: Fury Road stars Charlize Theron as which character?
Imperator Furiosa
Imperator Furiosa, the shaven-headed war-rig driver who smuggles Immortan Joe's wives to freedom; Anya Taylor-Joy played her younger self in the 2024 prequel Furiosa.