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50 free A Bug's Life trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
A Bug's Life was Pixar's second feature, released on November 25, 1998, three years after Toy Story. John Lasseter directed, Andrew Stanton co-directed and wrote, and the story grew from Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper: a misfit inventor ant named Flik goes looking for warriors to save his colony from Hopper's gang and comes back with a troupe of unemployed circus bugs instead. This quiz covers the film from every angle: the plot on Ant Island, the sitcom-heavy voice cast (Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Spacey, David Hyde Pierce), the technical firsts like subsurface scattering and crowd software for 800 ants, the public feud with Jeffrey Katzenberg over DreamWorks' Antz, Randy Newman's Grammy-winning score, the record Thanksgiving opening, the Star Wars trailer that people bought tickets just to see, and the first all-digital DVD transfer. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it out for a Pixar night.
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Q 01Who directed the film?
John Lasseter
Stanton co-directed, a role Lasseter created to groom him for Finding Nemo.
Q 02Which Aesop fable inspired the plot?
The Ant and the Grasshopper
Stanton and Ranft's twist was that the grasshopper would come back with a gang and simply take the food.
Q 03Who voices Flik?
Dave Foley
The NewsRadio star headed a cast full of sitcom actors of the day.
Q 04Who voices Hopper?
Kevin Spacey
Lasseter's first choice, Robert De Niro, turned it down repeatedly; Spacey signed on after meeting him at the 1995 Oscars.
Q 05Who voices Princess Atta?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
She was starring in Seinfeld at the time.
Q 06Who voices Dot, Atta's little sister?
Hayden Panettiere
Ashley Tisdale voices the leader of the Blueberry Scouts that Dot belongs to.
Q 07Who voices Molt, Hopper's dim younger brother?
Richard Kind
The Spin City actor's character ends up as a circus strongman.
Q 08David Hyde Pierce voices Slim, which kind of insect?
A stick bug
The Frasier star's clown is forever used as a stand-in for stick-like props.
Q 09Who voices Heimlich the caterpillar?
Joe Ranft
Lasseter's wife Nancy heard the story artist on a scratch track and suggested he keep the role.
Q 10Denis Leary's Francis is which kind of bug, constantly mistaken for a female?
A ladybug
He reluctantly becomes den mother to the Blueberry Scouts.
Q 11Who voices Manny, the English-accented mantis magician?
Jonathan Harris
The Lost in Space star's wife and assistant, Gypsy, is voiced by Madeline Kahn.
Q 12Bonnie Hunt voices Rosie, which kind of creature?
A black widow spider
Rosie acts as 'tamer' to Dim the rhinoceros beetle.
Q 13Which Pixar regular voices P.T. Flea, the circus ringmaster?
John Ratzenberger
He has voiced a character in every Pixar feature since Toy Story.
Q 14Brad Garrett voices Dim, which kind of insect?
Q 21How does Hopper meet his end?
A real bird feeds him to its chicks
He taunts the bird, convinced it is another fake.
Q 22What emerges from Heimlich's cocoon at the end?
A caterpillar with tiny wings
Francis and Manny carry him off as he flaps his undersized butterfly wings.
Q 23Which three other Pixar films were conceived at the same 1994 lunch as this one?
Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and WALL-E
Lasseter, Stanton, Docter and Ranft made up the studio's head story team.
A rhinoceros beetle
The Everybody Loves Raymond star's blue beetle carries the other performers around.
Q 15Which veteran actor made his final film appearance as Mr. Soil?
Roddy McDowall
He died shortly before the film's theatrical release.
Q 16What is the name of the ants' home?
Ant Island
It sits on a small hill in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed.
Q 17What is 'the city' Flik travels to?
A trash heap under a trailer
There he mistakes a jobless circus troupe for warriors, and they mistake him for a talent agent.
Q 18How does Flik accidentally anger Hopper at the start?
He spills the food offering
His grain harvester knocks the whole offering into the creek, and Hopper demands double.
Q 19What do the ants build to scare the grasshoppers?
A fake bird
Flik's crude ornithopter works until P.T. Flea sets it on fire.
Q 20Who sets the ants' decoy on fire, ruining the plan?
P.T. Flea
He is fooled by the bird too and attacks it to save his troupe.
Q 24Flik was originally which circus-bug character before Stanton's rewrite?
Red the red ant
In the first draft the Circus Bugs came to cheat the colony, which Stanton decided made them unlikable.
Q 25Lasseter envisioned the film as an epic in the tradition of which movie?
Lawrence of Arabia
Critics still compared the bandit-plagued colony to Kurosawa's Seven Samurai.
Q 26What was the 'Bugcam'?
A tiny camera on Lego wheels
Pushed through grass on a stick, it showed the translucent stained-glass canopy insects live under.
Q 27Which French documentary did the team study for inspiration?
Microcosmos
The 1996 film looks at love and violence in the insect world.
Q 28How many legs were the film's ants given?
Four
Designers swapped six legs for two arms and two legs and removed mandibles to make them likable.
Q 29Up to how many ants appear in the biggest crowd shots?
800
Bill Reeves led software that let a few dozen 'universal ants' be randomly varied into crowds.
Q 30Which rendering technique was used in a Pixar film for the first time here?
Subsurface scattering
Ed Catmull had developed it as a graduate student at Utah in the 1970s.