DreamWorks Trivia
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48 free DreamWorks trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
40 free DreamWorks trivia questions with answers. DreamWorks Animation gave the world Shrek, Po, Toothless, Alex the lion and Poppy, and this quiz covers the studio and its films from Antz to The Wild Robot. Forty questions run through the founders behind the SKG initials, the boy fishing on the moon, the first Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Aardman years, the flop that ended hand-drawn animation, the Comcast takeover, and the franchises that keep the lights on. It starts with questions any family movie night can handle and works up to studio history only animation buffs know. Difficulty ratings are shown so you can pick your battles. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the studio and its films, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Which three men founded DreamWorks in October 1994?
Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen
Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen founded DreamWorks, whose SKG suffix takes their initials; Katzenberg had just been pushed out of Disney, and Geffen came from the music business.
Q 02What is the boy in the DreamWorks logo doing on the crescent moon?
Fishing
Fishing: the boy dangles a line from the crescent moon; illustrator Robert Hunt painted the image and used his own son as the model.
Q 03What was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film, released in October 1998?
Antz
Antz reached cinemas on October 2, 1998, almost eight weeks ahead of Pixar's rival insect film A Bug's Life, after a public feud between the two studios' bosses.
Q 04Which song from The Prince of Egypt won the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
When You Believe
When You Believe won Stephen Schwartz the Oscar at the 1999 ceremony, where Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey performed their duet version live.
Q 05Which British studio co-produced Chicken Run with DreamWorks in 2000?
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations, the Bristol studio behind Wallace & Gromit, made Chicken Run with DreamWorks; the partnership ended after Flushed Away in 2006, three films into a five-film deal.
Q 06Chicken Run began as a spoof of which 1963 war film?
The Great Escape
The Great Escape was the starting joke, co-director Nick Park said, and the film nods to other escape movies too, among them The Flight of the Phoenix.
Q 07Which comedian originally recorded almost all of Shrek's dialogue before his death?
Chris Farley
Chris Farley had recorded most of Shrek's lines before he died in December 1997; Mike Myers took over and later re-recorded everything in a Scottish accent like his mother's bedtime-story voice.
Q 08Shrek won the very first Academy Award in which category?
Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Feature was introduced at the 2002 ceremony, and Shrek beat Monsters, Inc. and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius to take the first one.
Q 09Shrek is loosely based on a 1990 picture book by which author?
William Steig
William Steig, a New Yorker cartoonist, published Shrek! in 1990; his ogre breathes fire, marries a princess as ugly as he is, and lives 'horribly ever after'.
Q 10Which DreamWorks film was the highest-grossing animated film in the world when it was released in 2004?
Shrek 2
Shrek 2 took more than $900 million, passing Finding Nemo as the top-grossing animated film, a title Pixar only won back with Toy Story 3 in 2010.
Q 11Which 2003 flop pushed DreamWorks to abandon hand-drawn animation?
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas took about $80 million against a $60 million budget, a loss that led DreamWorks to drop hand-drawn features for computer animation.
Q 12Which stop-motion film won DreamWorks an Academy Award in 2006?
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit won its Oscar in March 2006, months after a warehouse fire destroyed thirty years of its makers' sets, props and models.
Q 13Which actor has voiced Puss in Boots since the swashbuckling cat first joined the Shrek films?
Antonio Banderas
Q 21Which actor voices Hiccup in the animated How to Train Your Dragon films?
Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel voices a Hiccup who was nearly much younger: the first version of the film stuck close to the children's book, until new directors took over and turned its boy hero into a teenager.
Q 22Toothless belongs to which rare breed of dragon?
Night Fury
Night Fury: Hiccup brings Toothless down with a bolas launcher during a raid, then cannot bring himself to kill the rare dragon and befriends it instead.
Q 23In Madagascar, Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private are a commando squad of which animals?
Penguins
Penguins: the four plot a breakout to Antarctica in the first film and went on to star in a spin-off film of their own in 2014.
Antonio Banderas voices Puss, a send-up of his own Zorro, and he dubs the cat himself in the Spanish and Italian versions too.
Q 14After DreamWorks Animation was spun off in 2004, which studio bought the live-action DreamWorks?
Paramount
Paramount did not keep it long: in 2008 the live-action studio walked away to become independent again, bankrolled by India's Reliance group.
Q 15Which zoo do Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria escape from in Madagascar?
The Central Park Zoo
The Central Park Zoo is their home until Marty the zebra slips out on his tenth birthday to see the wild, and the friends who chase him are caught with him.
Q 16Which comedian voices King Julien the lemur in the Madagascar films?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen voices King Julien, reportedly a two-line part until his audition, when he improvised eight minutes of dialogue in an Indian accent.
Q 17Which actor voices Po in the Kung Fu Panda films?
Jack Black
Jack Black voices Po in a film first planned as a spoof of martial-arts movies, until its director chose to make a full-blooded kung fu action comedy instead.
Q 18Which martial-arts star voices Monkey, one of Kung Fu Panda's Furious Five?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan voices Monkey, and the Furious Five are modelled on five real kung fu styles, each named for an animal: tiger, crane, snake, praying mantis and monkey.
Q 19Who is the villain of the first Kung Fu Panda?
Tai Lung
Tai Lung, the snow leopard Shifu raised as a son, breaks out of Chorh-Gom prison to seize the Dragon Scroll; Gary Oldman, J.K. Simmons and Viola Davis voiced the sequels' villains.
Q 20How to Train Your Dragon is based on books by which British author?
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell wrote the How to Train Your Dragon books, beginning in 2003; the films depart heavily from them, where Toothless is a tiny, toothless garden dragon.
Q 24Which streaming service signed a 2013 deal with DreamWorks for 300 hours of original content?
Netflix
Netflix signed the June 2013 deal for 300 hours of DreamWorks originals, which produced series such as Dragons: Race to the Edge and All Hail King Julien.
Q 25Which company agreed to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion in April 2016?
Comcast
Comcast, parent of NBCUniversal, announced the $3.8 billion deal in April 2016 and closed it that August, after earlier talks with SoftBank and Hasbro had come to nothing.
Q 26Which 2019 film was the first DreamWorks Animation release distributed by Universal?
The Hidden World
The Hidden World, the third How to Train Your Dragon film, reached US cinemas in February 2019; the studio had changed hands in 2016, but an earlier distribution deal had to run out first.
Q 27In which California city is DreamWorks Animation's campus?
Glendale
Glendale: the campus sits in this Los Angeles suburb, and a live horse was once brought to the studio there so animators could study it for Spirit.
Q 28Which actress voices Goldilocks, leader of the Three Bears crime family, in The Last Wish?
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh voices Goldilocks, who sets out to wish for a human family and ends by deciding the bears who raised her are her true one.
Q 29The painterly look of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was inspired by which other studio's film?
Into the Spider-Verse
Into the Spider-Verse set the example: the team gave The Last Wish a painterly look so it would resemble a fairy-tale storybook, breaking with the earlier Shrek films.
Q 30The Wild Robot is based on a 2016 novel by which author-illustrator?
Peter Brown
Peter Brown says the book grew from a sketch of a robot in a tree and one question: what would an intelligent robot do in the wilderness?