Everything Everywhere All at Once Trivia
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47 free Everything Everywhere All at Once trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Everything Everywhere All at Once began as a script written for Jackie Chan, was shot in 38 days in a Simi Valley laundromat, had its visual effects done by a team of eight in After Effects, and ended up winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Along the way it gave us hot dog fingers, googly eyes, an everything bagel that could end the multiverse and a raccoon chef voiced by Randy Newman. This quiz covers the whole film: Evelyn, Waymond, Joy and Gong Gong and the actors who play them, the rules of verse-jumping, the universes Evelyn visits, the Daniels' inspirations from Wong Kar-wai to a children's book about a donkey and a pebble, the casting stories behind Ke Huy Quan's comeback and Jamie Lee Curtis's IRS agent, the Son Lux score, the box office run that made it A24's biggest hit, and the record-setting awards season. Difficulty runs from easy plot recall to trivia only repeat viewers will get. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the film, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01The Daniels broke through by directing the music video for which viral hit?
Turn Down for What
Turn Down for What: Daniel Kwan stars in the 2014 video himself, dancing opposite Sunita Mani, and the clip earned the duo a Grammy nomination.
Q 02Who plays Evelyn Quan Wang?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn Quan Wang, a part that brought her the Academy Award for Best Actress in March 2023; the Daniels rewrote the lead for her after first conceiving it as a man.
Q 03What type of business do Evelyn and Waymond run?
A laundromat
A laundromat: in another universe Waymond is a polished, successful businessman, yet he tells Evelyn he would have liked just doing laundry and taxes with her.
Q 04Which purchase does the auditor Deirdre question as one of Evelyn's business expenses?
A karaoke machine
A karaoke machine: asked how it could be a business expense, Evelyn insists she is a singer, and Deirdre notes she has also filed as a novelist, a chef and a teacher.
Q 05What does Waymond stick onto objects around the family business to make them look happier?
Googly eyes
Googly eyes: Evelyn peels them off at first, but in the final fight she sticks one to her own forehead like a third eye and tells Waymond she is learning to fight like him.
Q 06Who plays Joy Wang and her multiverse alter ego Jobu Tupaki?
Stephanie Hsu
Stephanie Hsu plays both Joy and Jobu Tupaki, joining after the original Joy dropped out in early 2020; previously known for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Broadway's Be More Chill, she earned an Oscar nomination.
Q 07Who plays the auditor Deirdre?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis plays Deirdre; the directors say she copied the hair and outfit from a photo of an office worker they had found online. The part brought her the first Oscar win of her career.
Q 08Who plays Gong Gong, Evelyn's demanding father?
James Hong
James Hong plays Gong Gong; in 2022, aged 93, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, after fellow actor Daniel Dae Kim crowdfunded the cost.
Q 09What does 'Gong Gong' mean in Cantonese?
Grandfather
Grandfather, specifically the mother's father, is what Gong Gong (公公) means in Cantonese; Joy uses it for Evelyn's father, who has just flown in from China and does not yet know his granddaughter has a girlfriend.
Q 10In one universe of Everything Everywhere All at Once, what have humans evolved to have in place of fingers?
Hot dogs
Hot dogs: in that universe Evelyn and the auditor Deirdre are a couple, and with such floppy hands people have learned to do everything, even play the piano, with their feet.
Q 11How do characters trigger a verse-jump?
By performing statistically unlikely actions
By performing statistically unlikely actions, such as swallowing lip balm, giving oneself paper cuts or declaring love to an enemy, a jumper's mind links to a version of themselves in another universe.
Q 12Jobu Tupaki's doomsday creation, a swirling black void, takes the form of which food?
A bagel
A bagel: Jobu piled everything in existence onto an everything bagel until it collapsed into a void. Daniel Kwan says the film's central symbol started as a throwaway joke.
Q 13Alpha-Waymond says this Evelyn can beat Jobu because, of all the Evelyns, she is the greatest what?
Q 21Which actress was originally cast as Joy in 2018 before dropping out?
Awkwafina
Awkwafina was announced in August 2018 in what was billed as a Crazy Rich Asians reunion with the film's star, but she had left by the time shooting began in January 2020, and Joy was recast.
Q 22A meme comparing which politician to Short Round prompted the Daniels to seek out Ke Huy Quan?
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang, then running for president, was captioned online as Short Round 'all grown up'; the joke sent the Daniels looking for the actor, who had just decided to return to work after seeing Crazy Rich Asians.
Q 23Which former Goonies co-star acted as Ke Huy Quan's lawyer for his contract?
Jeff Cohen
Failure
Failure: this Evelyn never finished a goal or followed a dream, and Alpha-Waymond argues that each path she abandoned became a skilled self in another universe that she can now borrow from.
Q 14What is Jobu Tupaki actually looking for, she eventually reveals?
An Evelyn who can see that nothing matters
An Evelyn who can see that nothing matters is what Jobu has searched every universe for; having found one, she hopes they can step into the void together, until Waymond's plea to stop fighting changes Evelyn's mind.
Q 15What are Evelyn and Joy in the universe where they communicate through on-screen captions?
Rocks
Rocks: two boulders on a cliff in a universe where life never began, talking only in captions. The Daniels wanted one moment of quiet in a film about noise and chaos.
Q 16What does Waymond bring to the audit, hoping it will make Evelyn talk about their marriage?
Divorce papers
Divorce papers: Waymond hopes that serving them will finally start a conversation about the marriage, but Evelyn finds them in the middle of the chaos and assumes the worst.
Q 17Which Hong Kong director's films inspired the universe where Evelyn is a martial-arts movie star?
Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai, whose mood of romantic yearning the rain-soaked street scenes borrow; the actor playing the suave Waymond knew it first-hand, having been Wong's assistant director on 2046.
Q 18Which Pixar composer voices Raccacoonie, the raccoon chef?
Randy Newman
Randy Newman, the Toy Story composer: the first draft already said the raccoon was voiced by Randy Newman, a wish the Daniels say they never expected him to grant.
Q 19Which Glee alumnus plays Chad, the chef with a raccoon hidden under his hat?
Harry Shum Jr.
Harry Shum Jr. plays Chad. Evelyn garbles the title Ratatouille as 'Raccacoonie' and insists it stars a raccoon, then lands in a universe where her mistake is real.
Q 20The Daniels first wrote the lead role of Everything Everywhere All at Once for which action star?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan was the star the first drafts were written for, until the Daniels rebuilt the story around a woman; the actress who took the lead says she later teased him: your loss, my bro.
Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies, became an entertainment attorney after leaving acting and negotiated his old co-star's contract for the film.
Q 24Which Marvel series were the Daniels invited to discuss developing around the time filming began?
Loki
Loki, the Disney+ series built around alternate timelines, was the Marvel project the Daniels were approached about; they declined, being about to shoot their own multiverse film.
Q 25What does Waymond beg everyone to be?
Kind
Kind: 'Please, be kind, especially when we don't know what's going on,' Waymond says, and Evelyn takes him at his word, ending the battle by giving each attacker something that makes them happy.
Q 26Daniel Kwan calls Everything Everywhere All at Once a response to which earlier film?
The Matrix
The Matrix: the Daniels wanted their own version of its ordinary person who learns that reality can be bent, and a new Matrix sequel even reached cinemas before their homage did.
Q 27Which street-corner job gives one Evelyn the skills to fight off a squad of armed men?
Sign spinner
Sign spinner: one Evelyn twirls advertising boards for a living, so this one can whirl a shield the same way. The Daniels chose skills that are impressive but overlooked or underpaid.
Q 28What was the Daniels' previous feature film, released in 2016?
Swiss Army Man
Swiss Army Man cast Daniel Radcliffe as a flatulent corpse, and some of its first audience at Sundance walked out; the Daniels still left the festival with its directing award.
Q 29Which band composed the score?
Son Lux
Son Lux, the trio of Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang, wrote a 49-track score and soundtrack and drew in star guests: OutKast's André 3000 turns up on it playing the flute.
Q 30Which two musicians feature on the single 'This Is a Life'?
Mitski and David Byrne
Mitski and David Byrne duet on 'This Is a Life' over the end credits, but at the Oscars it was the actress who plays Joy who sang it with Byrne, in Mitski's place.