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59 free Elemental trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
55 free Elemental trivia questions with answers. Elemental was written off after one of Pixar's weakest opening weekends, then quietly climbed to nearly half a billion dollars and an Oscar nomination. This quiz covers the whole story: Ember Lumen and Wade Ripple, the family convenience store and the flame that represents its traditions, the leak in the canals, the flowers at Garden Central Station, the tearful game the couple plays, and Wade's very wet extended family. It also digs into how the film was made: the director's parents and their shop in the Bronx, the canal cities studied on YouTube during lockdown, the invented Firish language, the score, the Lauv single, the short film that played in front of it, and the director's earlier work voicing Pixar characters and making a short about a lonely cloud. Easy questions cover the leads and the setting; the harder ones want production trivia and box office numbers. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, its director and the awards, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who directed Pixar's Elemental (2023)?
Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn directed Elemental and shares its story credit with screenwriters John Hoberg, Kat Likkel and Brenda Hsueh.
Q 02Who voices Ember Lumen, the fire element at the heart of Elemental?
Leah Lewis
Leah Lewis, previously George Fan on The CW's Nancy Drew, voices Ember Lumen, the fiery shopkeeper's daughter.
Q 03Who voices Wade Ripple, the water element who falls for Ember?
Mamoudou Athie
Mamoudou Athie voices Wade Ripple; he earlier starred in Netflix's Archive 81 and the film Uncorked.
Q 04What is the name of the metropolis where Elemental takes place?
Element City
Elemental is set in Element City, a metropolis built by and for water elements first, where fire residents like the Lumens are latecomers.
Q 05What is the name of the convenience store run by Ember's family?
The Fireplace
Ember's family runs The Fireplace, the Firetown shop Bernie built and hopes to hand to Ember once she proves she can run it.
Q 06Where did Ember's parents emigrate from before settling in the city?
Fire Land
Bernie and Cinder emigrated from Fire Land and met open prejudice from the other elements, mirroring Peter Sohn's parents' immigrant experience.
Q 07What is Wade Ripple's job when he first meets Ember?
City inspector
Wade is a city inspector who gets flushed into the shop's basement by the pipe burst and dutifully writes up its plumbing violations.
Q 08Who voices Ember's father, Bernie Lumen?
Ronnie del Carmen
Del Carmen is a longtime Pixar story artist who co-directed Inside Out.
Q 09Who voices Ember's mother, Cinder Lumen?
Shila Ommi
Iranian-American actress Shila Ommi voices Cinder Lumen, Ember's matchmaking mother who reads customers' love by smell.
Q 10What is the name of Wade's boss, an air element with a big personality?
Gale Cumulus
Wade's boss is Gale Cumulus, a booming cloud who runs his City Hall department and alone can cancel the shop's citations.
Q 11Which actress voices Wade's air-element boss?
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Wendi McLendon-Covey, best known as Beverly Goldberg on The Goldbergs, voices Gale, Wade's blustery cloud of a boss.
Q 12Which actress voices Brook Ripple, Wade's mother?
Catherine O'Hara
Catherine O'Hara, of Schitt's Creek and Home Alone, voices Brook Ripple, the architect mother of the weepy Ripple clan.
Q 13During which sale does Ember lose her temper while running the shop alone?
Red Dot Sale
Ember is left to run the Red Dot Sale herself; an impatient customer sets off her temper, and the blast in the basement bursts the pipes.
Q 21Wade's family member Lake Ripple is notable as Pixar's first what?
Non-binary character
Lake Ripple, Wade's younger sibling voiced by Kai Ava Hauser, is Pixar's first non-binary character; Lake's partner Ghibli also appears.
Q 22Who voices Fern Grouchwood, the overgrown bureaucrat at City Hall?
Joe Pera
Joe Pera, the deadpan comedian behind Joe Pera Talks with You, voices Fern Grouchwood, the plant-covered clerk buried in City Hall paperwork.
Q 23What relation are Marco and Polo Ripple to Wade?
His nephews
They are among the family members credited only as additional voices.
Q 14What object in the family shop represents the Lumens' traditions from the old country?
The Blue Flame
The Blue Flame, carried from the old country, embodies the Lumens' heritage; Ember's dash to save it from the flood traps her and Wade in a sealed room.
Q 15What are Ember and Wade playing when Wade admits he has feelings for her?
The Crying Game
Ember later uses the same game to get a condensed Wade to drip back into his normal form.
Q 16What do Ember and Wade first use to plug the hole they find in the dam?
Sandbags
Ember and Wade first stack sandbags over the hole in the dam, but the water pressure soon bursts through them.
Q 17What material does Ember create to seal the dam when the first fix fails?
Glass
Ember heats the sandbags until their sand fuses into glass, sealing the dam; that glass-shaping skill is what later impresses Wade's mother Brook.
Q 18What sport is played at Cyclone Stadium, where Wade takes Ember to plead with his boss?
Airball
Cyclone Stadium hosts airball, the city's wind-blown ball game; Gale, a fanatical Windbreakers fan, is in the stands when Wade brings Ember.
Q 19What ultimately happens to Wade when he and Ember are trapped in a hot, enclosed room?
He evaporates
Trapped in the sealed, overheated shop, Wade evaporates; Ember later spots him condensed on the ceiling and brings him back by making him cry.
Q 20How does Elemental end for Ember and Wade?
They leave town so she can start an internship
Ember's father retires and leaves the shop in the hands of his friends.
Q 24The director has said Elemental was inspired by growing up as the son of immigrants where?
New York
Peter Sohn grew up in the Bronx, New York; the film's city draws on New York's patchwork of immigrant neighborhoods.
Q 25From which country did the director's parents emigrate?
Korea
Peter Sohn's parents emigrated from Korea to New York; their hard-won family business inspired the Lumens' shop.
Q 26What kind of business did the director's parents build after immigrating?
A grocery store
Peter Sohn's parents built a grocery store in the Bronx; both died during the film's production, which he has called a thank-you to them.
Q 27Fire Town, the neighborhood where Ember grows up, is built from which materials?
Ceramic, metal, and brick
Each immigrant neighborhood in the city was made of organic materials suited to its element.
Q 28Unable to travel during the pandemic, the set designers studied YouTube tours of which two canal cities?
Venice and Amsterdam
The result is a city crisscrossed by water canals and elevated water channels, deliberately hostile to a fire character.
Q 29Roughly how many computing cores were used to render Elemental?
Over 151,000
For comparison, Toy Story in 1995 was made with 294 cores.
Q 30Who produced Elemental?
Denise Ream
Denise Ream, who also produced Cars 2, produced Elemental, reuniting with Peter Sohn after producing his first feature.