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50 free Buzz Lightyear trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Buzz Lightyear started life as a one-man band toy called Tinny, passed through names like Lunar Larry and Morph, and ended up as a lime-green-and-purple space ranger because John Lasseter owed his wife an apology for working late. Named after Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and voiced by Tim Allen, he is the toy who does not know he is a toy, and his rivalry-turned-friendship with Woody has carried four Toy Story films, a TV series, a 2022 origin movie and a real trip to the International Space Station. This quiz covers the whole arc: the actors who turned the role down, the screen test that used audio from When Harry Met Sally, the design holes and rivets, the stun-to-kill laser, Utility Belt Buzz, demo mode and Spanish mode, Bunny and Ducky, Sox the robot cat, the Christmas 1996 toy shortage, and the action figure NASA named the longest-serving astronaut in space. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a family quiz night.
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Q 01Who voices Buzz in the Toy Story films?
Tim Allen
It was his first animated film; Lasseter liked his stand-up and wanted the character to be funny.
Q 02Buzz is named after which real astronaut?
Aldrin
The producers thought he had the coolest astronaut name; he was never paid for it.
Q 03What fee did the astronaut receive for Disney's use of his nickname?
Nothing
In 2009 he admitted being exasperated but said you don't tangle with Disney's lawyers.
Q 04What kind of toy was Buzz's earliest ancestor, Tinny?
A one-man band
Lasseter decided a one-man band was outdated and switched him to an action figure.
Q 05Toy Story grew out of which 1988 Pixar short?
Tin Toy
Its success prompted Disney to approach Pixar about computer-animated features.
Q 06Which of these was an early name for the character before he became Buzz?
Lunar Larry
He was then called Tempus and Morph, who wore a red space suit.
Q 07Which action figure was Lasseter's childhood favorite and an early model for the redesign?
G.I. Joe
The concept then drifted toward the space hero Major Matt Mason.
Q 08Why did Lasseter settle on lime green and purple for the space suit?
As an apology to his wife for working late
Lime green was his favorite color and purple was hers.
Q 09Which Space Patrol actor's look helped inspire the character?
Ed Kemmer
He played Commander Buzz Corry in one of the first science-fiction series on American TV.
Q 10Which actor turned down Buzz and later called it the biggest regret of his career?
Billy Crystal
He went on to voice Mike Wazowski for Pixar in Monsters, Inc.
Q 11Lasseter's early screen test for Buzz used audio from which film?
When Harry Met Sally...
The intended voice at that stage passed on the role.
Q 12What drew Lasseter to the actor who was finally cast as Buzz?
His stand-up comedy
The honesty of his first reading pushed Pixar to make Buzz unaware he is a toy.
Q 13Who voiced Buzz in the 2000 2D animated TV series?
Patrick Warburton
The series followed a direct-to-video origin film in which the Toy Story voice returned.
Q 21Gliding toward the moving van, Buzz says he is not flying but doing what?
Falling with style
It is the moment he accepts he is a toy and still saves the day.
Q 22What does Buzz see at Sid's house that reveals he is a toy?
A TV commercial
In denial, he tries to fly and breaks his arm.
Q 23What is the name of Sid's dog, which Buzz fights off to rescue Woody?
Scud
Woody then uses RC to rescue Buzz in return.
Q 24Which greedy collector kidnaps Woody in Toy Story 2?
Q 14Who voiced Buzz in the 2022 film Lightyear?
Chris Evans
It was his first voice-acting role; he lowered his tone to avoid a shameless impression.
Q 15Who voices Zurg in Lightyear?
James Brolin
The twist is that Zurg is an older Buzz from an alternate future.
Q 16Who voiced Buzz's Latin-lover alter ego in Toy Story 3?
Javier Fernandez-Peña
He returned for the short Hawaiian Vacation.
Q 17Who voiced Buzz in The Simpsons short Plusaversary?
Hank Azaria
The short marked the second anniversary of Disney+.
Q 18What is Buzz's signature catchphrase?
To infinity and beyond
A 2014 Radio Times poll ranked it the best film quote of all time.
Q 19Buzz insists he must rendezvous with which organisation to report Zurg's secret weapon?
Star Command
He complains that Woody is delaying him.
Q 20Buzz readies for danger by switching his laser from stun to what?
Kill
The laser is really a blinking red light bulb on his wrist.
Al McWhiggin
He plans to sell the Woody's Roundup toys to a museum in Japan.
Q 25The rival Buzz figure who 'arrests' Andy's Buzz in the toy store sports what accessory?
A utility belt
The other toys mistake him for Andy's Buzz for much of the film.
Q 26Which toy accidentally knocks Zurg down the elevator shaft in Toy Story 2?
Rex
Zurg had just announced he was Utility Belt Buzz's father.
Q 27Zurg telling a Buzz figure that he is his father mimics a scene from which film?
Star Wars
Lightyear flipped the joke by making Zurg an older Buzz.
Q 28On which Woody's Roundup toy does Buzz develop a crush?
Jessie
By Toy Story 3 his Spanish mode makes no secret of the feeling.
Q 29Lotso's henchmen switch Buzz to which mode at Sunnyside?
Demo
His space ranger delusions from the first film come flooding back.
Q 30Trying to restore Buzz's memory, the toys accidentally reset him to which mode?
Spanish
Director Lee Unkrich wanted a switch from his usual state and landed on a Latin lover.