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109 free Despicable Me trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
76 free Despicable Me trivia questions with answers. Despicable Me started as a pitch about a hero with villainous habits, was animated in Paris by about 100 artists on a $69 million budget, and grew into the highest-grossing animated franchise ever made, overtaking Shrek in 2017 and passing $6 billion at the box office. This quiz runs 109 questions across the whole series: the 2010 original and its moon heist, Despicable Me 2 and the Al Pacino walkout, the twin-brother sequel, Despicable Me 4 and the Mega Minions, plus the Minions prequels, The Rise of Gru and its Gentleminions craze, and the 2026 film Minions & Monsters. Expect voice-cast questions, villain lore, studio history, memes and theme-park facts, starting easy and finishing with the kind of detail only franchise obsessives know. Every answer has been checked against reference sources and is shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a family movie night or an animation round at pub quiz.
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Q 01Which actor voiced Gru in all four Despicable Me films from 2010 to 2024?
Steve Carell
Steve Carell credits his children with the voice: he tried a few on them and kept the one that made them laugh; in the third film he also plays Gru's twin brother Dru.
Q 02In the first Despicable Me, what are the three orphans selling when Vector lets them into his fortress?
Cookies
Cookies get the girls past Vector's defences, which is why Gru adopts them: he uses their delivery as cover to take back the shrink ray Vector stole from him.
Q 03Which landmark is stolen at the start of the first Despicable Me film, wounding supervillain Gru's pride?
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is taken by a newcomer who turns out to be Vector; hearing that the heist makes every other villain look lame is what pushes Gru to plan something bigger.
Q 04Gru's accent in the Despicable Me films is usually described as what?
Eastern European
Eastern European is the usual label, though the actor behind it calls the accent a blend of every middle European country plus a little Latin America; it spawned the 'Gorl' meme, after the way Gru says 'girl'.
Q 05What is Gru's rarely used first name?
Felonious
Felonious passes to his baby son in Despicable Me 4: Felonious Gru Jr. is the target of the film's villain and only at the very end rewards his father by calling him 'Dada'.
Q 06Who voices Vector, Gru's rival in the first Despicable Me?
Jason Segel
Jason Segel voices Vector, the nerdy rival who steals the Moon from Gru and ends the film stranded there; the 2023 short Mooned revisits his attempts to escape.
Q 07Which British comedian voiced Dr. Nefario from 2010 to 2022?
Russell Brand
Russell Brand voiced the hard-of-hearing inventor in the first two films and Minions: The Rise of Gru; in the first, Gru asks him for a dart gun and is handed a fart gun.
Q 08In Despicable Me 4, the relocated family hides in Mayflower under which surname?
The Cunninghams
The Anti-Villain League moves the family to Mayflower as the Cunninghams, with Gru posing as solar-panel salesman Chet Cunningham and Lucy as hairdresser Blanche.
Q 09Which Oscar-winning actress voices Gru's mother Marlena?
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews, an Oscar winner as Mary Poppins, plays against type as the withering Marlena: when young Gru says he will go to the moon, she replies that NASA has stopped sending monkeys.
Q 10Kristen Wiig voices Lucy Wilde in the sequels, but which character did she voice in the first Despicable Me?
Miss Hattie
Miss Hattie owns the girls' home and sends the orphans out to sell for her, and late in the film Dr. Nefario phones her to take the girls back; Wiig returned in the sequels as agent Lucy Wilde.
Q 11Who voices Margo, the eldest of Gru's adopted daughters?
Miranda Cosgrove
Miranda Cosgrove's Margo falls for a boy in Despicable Me 2 who turns out to be the son of the villain El Macho, then drops her for another girl at his father's party.
Q 12In the first Despicable Me, Gru's Moon heist clashes with which event for the girls?
Ballet recital
Ballet recital: Gru tells Dr. Nefario the clash means nothing to him, yet after stealing the Moon he races back to Earth to catch the girls' show and arrives too late.
Q 13Which Arrested Development actor voices Mr. Perkins, president of the Bank of Evil?
Will Arnett
Q 21How did Pierre Coffin originally end up voicing the Minions?
He recorded a temporary placeholder track
He recorded a temporary placeholder track of improvised gibberish until a celebrity could be cast, but test audiences loved it, so Coffin has voiced the Minions ever since.
Q 22In Despicable Me 2, El Macho was presumed dead after riding which animal into an active volcano?
A shark
A shark, with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest, carried El Macho into the volcano; Gru doubts the tale because no body was found, and he is right: the villain faked his death.
Q 23Minionese mixes gibberish with English, French, Spanish, Italian and which Southeast Asian language?
Indonesian
Will Arnett, Gob Bluth in Arrested Development, voices Mr. Perkins, who refuses Gru a loan for his Moon heist and turns out to be Vector's father.
Q 14Which Pineapple Express actor voices Fred McDade, Gru's cheerful neighbor in the first Despicable Me?
Danny McBride
Danny McBride voices Fred McDade, who gets a telling-off for his cheery good morning: Gru complains that Fred's dog has been 'leaving little bombs' all over his yard.
Q 15Before co-directing Despicable Me, Chris Renaud drew storyboards for which company?
Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios is where Renaud co-directed the Oscar-nominated Scrat short No Time for Nuts; producer Chris Meledandri then paired him with Pierre Coffin, a co-director he had never met.
Q 16In the first Despicable Me, a sign says the villains' bank was 'formerly' which real firm?
Lehman Brothers
Lehman Brothers had gone bankrupt in September 2008, less than two years before the film opened; its name hangs on a bank that lends to supervillains and turns Gru down.
Q 17Despicable Me out-grossed which pricier 2010 cartoon?
Megamind
Megamind cost $130 million and took $322 million. Despicable Me took over $540 million on $69 million, a budget its producer held down with few management layers and short development schedules.
Q 18Which festival hosted the world premiere of Despicable Me 3 in June 2017?
Annecy
Annecy's animation festival in the French Alps also launched the first film in 2010 and The Rise of Gru in 2022, a home debut for a series animated in Paris.
Q 19The Minions were inspired by the Oompa-Loompas and by which Star Wars characters?
Jawas
Jawas, the brown-robed scavengers of Star Wars, and the Oompa-Loompas showed directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud that short stature was a big part of a henchman's appeal.
Q 20Which Flight of the Conchords star voiced Jerry the Minion in the first Despicable Me?
Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Clement voiced Jerry as a rare outside hire: the film's directors, Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud, performed the other Minions themselves instead of casting actors.
Indonesian words such as 'terima kasih' (thank you) reach Minionese through Pierre Coffin, the Minions' voice and the son of Indonesian novelist Nh. Dini; he says the language sounds like music.
Q 24What is the real first name of Gru's rival Vector?
Victor
Vector was born Victor Perkins; he renamed himself after the mathematical term because, he says, he commits crimes with both direction and magnitude.
Q 25Illumination founder Chris Meledandri left which studio in early 2007?
20th Century Fox Animation
20th Century Fox Animation was where Meledandri oversaw Ice Age and Horton Hears a Who!, whose writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio followed him to script Despicable Me.
Q 26Illumination is headquartered in which California city, while outsourcing its animation to Paris?
Santa Monica
Santa Monica holds Illumination's offices but none of its animators: almost all of its films are made in Paris, a cost-saving split that helped hold the first Despicable Me to about $69 million.
Q 27In 2017 Despicable Me overtook which series to become the highest-grossing animated franchise ever?
Shrek
Shrek's five films, Puss in Boots among them, had earned $3.51 billion; Despicable Me 3 carried its series past that in August 2017 with only four releases.
Q 28In the 'Gru's Plan' meme scene, Gru's heist presentation is interrupted by a drawing of him doing what?
Sitting on the toilet
Sitting on the toilet is how a drawing signed by Edith shows him; in the four-panel meme, the plan's third step backfires and Gru does a double take at his own board.
Q 29In Despicable Me 2, the stolen PX-41 serum turns kidnapped Minions which colour?
Purple
Purple, mindless and indestructible, the mutated Minions are El Macho's planned army; Gru's jelly, laced with Dr. Nefario's antidote, turns them yellow again.
Q 30In Despicable Me 2, what kind of shop do Gru and Lucy use as their cover at the mall?
A cupcake store
A cupcake store called Bake My Day is their front at the Paradise Mall, where the AVL has traced the stolen serum and suspects one of the shop owners.