Coco Trivia
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This Coco trivia quiz has 135 free questions with answers and covers Pixar's 2017 Day of the Dead film from Santa Cecilia to the sunrise concert. There are plot questions (why Imelda banned music, what happens when Miguel strums the guitar, what Héctor wants, how Ernesto really got his songs, and what Mamá Coco kept in her drawer) and character ones (Dante, Pepita, Abuelita Elena, the Frida Kahlo cameo, John Ratzenberger's one word). The making-of round covers the trademark row that changed the title, the boy whose voice broke, the two Mexican states the Riveras were based on, the potter said to be the real Mamá Coco, the songwriters behind 'Remember Me', the Oscars, the Morelia premiere, the record run in Mexico and China, and Coco 2. There is a little Day of the Dead and alebrije background too. Suitable for families who know the film by heart and for anyone who cried at the ending. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01In Coco's opening scenes, what does Abuelita keep piling onto Miguel's plate?
Tamales
Tamales: when Miguel politely says no, Abuelita asks again in a tone that makes him change his answer, a first taste of how firmly she runs the Rivera household.
Q 02Which vehicle, hidden in nearly every Pixar film, drives past Miguel's window in Coco?
The Pizza Planet truck
The Pizza Planet truck rattles down the street with its radio playing, and Abuelita shuts the window on the music before Miguel can enjoy it.
Q 03What is the name of the Mexican town where the Rivera family lives?
Santa Cecilia
The Riveras live in Santa Cecilia, a fictional town named for Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, a quiet joke for a family that bans music.
Q 04What trade does Mamá Imelda take up after banning music from the family?
Making shoes
Making shoes: as Miguel tells it, Imelda could have made candy or fireworks, but she chose shoes, taught each new generation the trade, and the workshop has held the Riveras together ever since.
Q 05How does Miguel teach himself to play guitar despite the family ban?
Watching a VHS documentary of his idol
Watching a VHS documentary of his idol: Miguel plays along to old Ernesto de la Cruz footage in a secret attic hideout lined with memorabilia, because no music is allowed downstairs.
Q 06What happens to Miguel the moment he strums Ernesto de la Cruz's guitar?
He becomes invisible to the living
He becomes invisible to the living: he can no longer reach anyone alive, yet he can suddenly see and talk to the skeletal dead, his own late relatives among them, who are visiting for the holiday.
Q 07Why is Mamá Imelda barred from crossing to the living?
Miguel removed her photo from the ofrenda
Imelda cannot cross because Miguel removed her photo from the ofrenda, breaking the frame and taking the picture; only the dead whose photos are displayed may visit the living.
Q 08What does Mamá Imelda smash with her boot after an agent says she cannot cross?
A computer
A computer: Imelda calls the machine a 'devil box' that tells nothing but lies and flattens it with the boot she has just pulled off, a shoemaker's weapon of choice.
Q 09In Coco, what do other skeletons tease Héctor for supposedly choking on?
A chorizo
A chorizo: the musicians rehearsing for Ernesto's show greet Héctor as 'Chorizo', a nickname he hates, and he insists he did not choke at all.
Q 10How did Ernesto de la Cruz really get his partner's songs?
He poisoned him and stole them
The truth is that he poisoned him and stole them: Ernesto laced a farewell toast with poison and took Héctor's songbook, passing off 'Remember Me' as his own.
Q 11Where does Ernesto have Miguel and Héctor thrown after seizing Héctor's photo?
A cenote pit
Ernesto's guards throw Miguel and Héctor into a cenote pit, a deep water-filled sinkhole, where they are stranded until Imelda arrives on Pepita to pull them out.
Q 12How is Ernesto de la Cruz finally undone at his concert in the Land of the Dead?
Crushed by a falling bell
Ernesto is crushed by a falling bell: with his confession broadcast on the stadium screens, Pepita flings him into a bell tower, and he ends exactly as he did in life.
Q 13What had Mamá Coco kept all those years that finally proves the truth?
Q 21Who voices Miguel in Coco?
Anthony Gonzalez
Anthony Gonzalez, a Los Angeles schoolboy, was first hired only to record temporary dialogue for Miguel before the filmmakers gave him the part itself.
Q 22Why was Emilio Fuentes, who played Miguel in Coco's early years, replaced during production?
His voice deepened with puberty
His voice deepened with puberty: Emilio Fuentes had been Miguel through a couple of years of development, long enough to grow out of the part before the final recording.
Q 23Which Mexican actor voices Héctor in Coco?
Gael García Bernal
Héctor's letters and the torn photo corner
Mamá Coco had kept Héctor's letters and the torn photo corner showing his face; the letters hold his handwritten lyrics, proving Héctor wrote the songs Ernesto claimed.
Q 14What does Abuelita brandish to drive the plaza mariachi away from Miguel?
Her sandal
Her sandal: Abuelita's chancla is her weapon of choice, waved at the mariachi who offers Miguel his guitar and later thrown at Dante the street dog.
Q 15'Remember Me' was written by which songwriting team, also behind Frozen's 'Let It Go'?
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote 'Remember Me' to be sung two ways with the same words: as a showman's big farewell number and, quietly, as a private goodbye.
Q 16Which recurring Pixar in-joke code appears on an office door in Coco's Land of the Dead?
A113
A113 was the number of an art-school classroom where many Pixar animators trained, so they slip it into their films; here it also turns up on a record sleeve in Miguel's attic.
Q 17Who composed Coco's score?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino composed Coco's score, and orchestrator Germaine Franco made repeated trips to Mexico to record local musicians for it.
Q 18Miguel's dog Dante is what breed?
Xoloitzcuintle
Dante is a Xoloitzcuintle, the ancient hairless dog of Mexico, which Aztec tradition held could guide souls through the underworld, fitting for Miguel's spirit guide.
Q 19What is the name of the colourful perforated banners strung across the streets in Coco?
Papel picado
Papel picado is cut by driving chisels through a stack of tissue sheets, dozens at a time, so a single pass yields a whole string of matching banners.
Q 20Pedro Linares said alebrijes, Coco's spirit-guide creatures, first came to him how?
In a fever dream
In a fever dream: Linares said that while very ill he saw fantastical beasts shouting the nonsense word 'Alebrijes!', and once recovered he set about building them in papier-mâché.
Gael García Bernal voices Héctor, then recorded the part again himself for the Spanish-language release, so audiences in Mexico hear the same actor.
Q 24What job is Miguel doing in the plaza when a mariachi lends him his guitar?
Shining shoes
Miguel is shining shoes when the mariachi hands over his guitar and dares him to sign up for that night's music contest, moments before Abuelita storms in.
Q 25Which Mexican artist makes a cameo in the Land of the Dead, voiced by Natalia Cordova-Buckley?
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo appears in the Land of the Dead rehearsing a surreal opening act for Ernesto's concert; earlier, Héctor disguises himself as her to try to sneak across to the living world.
Q 26How big a part does Pixar's good-luck charm John Ratzenberger have in Coco?
One word
One word: Ratzenberger says a single 'Gracias!' as Juan Ortodoncia, a skeleton remembered by his dentist, because Lee Unkrich refused to be the director who broke his Pixar streak.
Q 27The Associated Press called Coco one of the largest US productions ever to feature what?
An all-Latino principal cast
An all-Latino principal cast: the film cost at least $175 million, and Lee Unkrich said that finding a Latino boy who could act and sing as Miguel was vitally important.
Q 28Coco premiered in October 2017 at a film festival in which city in Michoacán?
Morelia
Morelia hosted the premiere on 20 October 2017, a week before Coco opened across Mexico; co-director Adrian Molina said the team was honoured to launch it in the country it celebrates.
Q 29In pesos, Coco overtook which superhero film as Mexico's biggest?
The Avengers
The Avengers had been Mexico's top earner in pesos until Coco passed it within weeks of opening, a Pixar film toppling a Marvel one from the same Disney stable.
Q 30Which folk song does Imelda sing on stage at Ernesto's big concert?
La Llorona
'La Llorona': chased onto the stage by Ernesto's guards, Imelda sings to cover herself, and Ernesto turns it into a duet so he can get close enough to snatch Héctor's photo.