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55 free Ice Age trivia questions with answers. Ice Age started as a hand-drawn Fox project about a mammoth, a sloth and a sabre-tooth returning a human baby, and became a five-film, $3 billion franchise carried by a squirrel who never gets his acorn. This quiz covers all of it: the 2002 original and its Oscar nomination, The Meltdown's flood and Ellie the 'possum', Buck and the dinosaur world, Captain Gutt's pirates in Continental Drift, the asteroid of Collision Course, the Disney+ Buck Wild spin-off and Scrat's farewell. You will find the voice cast (Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg, Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage), the box-office numbers, the Rotten Tomatoes scores, how Scrat got his name and the real fossil scientists compared him to. Roughly a third of the questions are easy enough for kids who know the films by heart; the rest are for parents who have sat through them all a dozen times. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Which animation studio made the first five Ice Age films?
Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios made the first five films; the original Ice Age was the Fox-owned studio's debut feature, and Disney closed the studio in April 2021.
Q 02What kind of animal is Manny?
A woolly mammoth
A woolly mammoth, Manny spends the first film convinced he is the last of his kind, a belief that explains his gruffness toward the rest of the herd.
Q 03Who voices Manny?
Ray Romano
Ray Romano, star of Everybody Loves Raymond, voices Manny in all five theatrical Ice Age films; he did not return for the 2022 streaming spin-off Buck Wild.
Q 04What kind of animal is Sid?
A ground sloth
He is a Megalonyx-style ground sloth, though he moves like anything but.
Q 05Who voices Sid?
John Leguizamo
He found the voice after learning sloths store food in their cheek pouches, and recorded with a mouthful of food.
Q 06What inspired the lisping voice the actor gave Sid?
Learning that sloths store food in their cheek pouches
Learning that sloths store food in their cheek pouches gave the actor the idea for Sid's spitting lisp; he had tried some thirty other voices before settling on it.
Q 07Diego is what species?
A Smilodon
Smilodon is the sabre-toothed cat; his pack leader Soto and packmate Zeke are Smilodons too.
Q 08Who voices Diego?
Denis Leary
Denis Leary voices Diego; the comedian's growl suits a sabre-tooth who spends most of the first film plotting to hand the baby over to his pack.
Q 09Which comedian voices Zeke, one of Soto's sabre-toothed pack?
Jack Black
Jack Black voices Zeke, the twitchy member of Soto's pack; the small role came years before he headlined Kung Fu Panda in 2008.
Q 10What is the name of the human baby the herd carries in the first film?
Roshan
The baby is Roshan; Tara Strong, also the voice of Timmy Turner in The Fairly OddParents, supplied his gurgles.
Q 11What is the herd's goal in the first film?
To return the baby to its tribe
To return the baby to its tribe is the goal; Sid, Manny and Diego form a very reluctant family on the trek, with Diego supposedly guiding them toward the humans.
Q 12What does Manny remember in his cave-painting flashback?
His family being killed by human hunters
His family being killed by human hunters is what the cave paintings stir up; the memory explains why Manny is so cold toward the baby at first.
Q 13What finally makes Diego switch sides completely?
Q 21How did Scrat get his name?
A writer's 3-year-old daughter combined 'squirrel' and 'rat'
Michael J. Wilson's daughter Flora coined it.
Q 22What is Scrat forever trying to bury?
An acorn
An acorn, which he never manages to keep, is the prize; his pursuit of it sets off avalanches, floods and, eventually, continental drift.
Q 23Which long-fanged fossil mammal, described in 2011, was nicknamed after Scrat?
Cronopio dentiacutus
Cronopio dentiacutus, a Cretaceous mammal from Patagonia with long canines, was dubbed the Scrat fossil; describer Guillermo Rougier said the resemblance was only superficial.
Manny saves his life
Manny saves his life at the lava flow, and Diego confesses the ambush; he then takes a mortal-looking blow from Soto, only to turn up alive at the end.
Q 14The first Ice Age lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?
Spirited Away
Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki's film, won at the 75th Academy Awards, only the second year the category existed; Shrek had won the first.
Q 15On what date was the first Ice Age released in the United States?
March 15, 2002
March 15, 2002 was the US opening; it debuted at No. 1 with about $46 million, and every theatrical sequel kept a spring or summer slot.
Q 16Roughly how much did the first Ice Age gross worldwide?
$383 million
$383 million worldwide, against a budget of about $59 million, made the original a hit and launched the studio's biggest franchise.
Q 17The first Ice Age was originally conceived by Fox Animation Studios as what?
A traditionally animated film
A traditionally animated film was the plan at Fox's hand-drawn studio in Phoenix; when that studio closed in 2000, the project moved to Fox's CGI house and was remade in computer animation.
Q 18Which composer scored the first Ice Age film?
David Newman
David Newman scored the first Ice Age; John Powell took over the franchise's music from The Meltdown onward.
Q 19What kind of creature is Scrat?
A saber-toothed squirrel
A saber-toothed squirrel, Scrat is a long-snouted, rat-like rodent with fangs and no dialogue, designed by the franchise's character artist Peter de Sève.
Q 20Who provides Scrat's vocal effects?
Chris Wedge
Chris Wedge co-founded the studio and directed the first film, then squeaked and screamed as Scrat in every theatrical entry and the Scrat Tales shorts.
Q 24What is the name of Scrat's female counterpart introduced in the third film?
Scratte
Scratte is a flying squirrel, both his love interest and his rival for the nut; she debuted in Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
Q 25What happens to Scrat in the studio's 2022 farewell short?
He eats his acorn at last
He eats his acorn at last in 'The End', the studio's final short; after two decades of failure, the animators let him win in peace.
Q 26Who directed Ice Age: The Meltdown?
Carlos Saldanha
Carlos Saldanha directed The Meltdown after co-directing the first film; he also directed Dawn of the Dinosaurs and later Rio.
Q 27In The Meltdown, Ellie is a mammoth who believes she is what?
A possum
A possum is what she takes herself for: raised by the opossums Crash and Eddie, she hangs from trees by her tail to prove it.
Q 28Who voices Ellie?
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah voices Ellie; she joined in the second film and stayed for the rest of the theatrical series.
Q 29Which pair of actors voice the opossum brothers Crash and Eddie?
Seann William Scott and Josh Peck
Seann William Scott and Josh Peck voice Crash and Eddie; Scott was already known as Stifler from American Pie, and Peck was then a Nickelodeon sitcom star.
Q 30What is the danger the herd flees in The Meltdown?
An ice dam about to flood the valley
An ice dam about to flood the valley is the threat the Lone Gunslinger vulture announces; the herd's only hope is a boat waiting at the far end of the valley.