Inside Out Trivia
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97 free Inside Out trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
51 free Inside Out trivia questions with answers. Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger, and then Anxiety, Envy, Ennui and Embarrassment: this Inside Out trivia quiz covers both Pixar films. You'll find questions on the emotions and their voice actors, Riley's move from Minnesota, Bing Bong and the Train of Thought, the Sense of Self, Bloofy and Lance Slashblade, plus the making-of stories and the box-office records Inside Out 2 smashed in 2024. Around a third of the questions are easy enough for kids who have watched the films a few times, which makes it a good pick for family movie night or a classroom break. The rest get harder, reaching into casting changes, cut emotions and the psychologists Pixar consulted. Every answer has been checked against the films' Wikipedia pages and official Pixar and Disney material, and each explanation adds one detail you can pass on.
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Q 01Which studio made Inside Out?
Pixar
Pixar made Inside Out, its 15th feature film, released by Walt Disney Pictures in June 2015.
Q 02What happens to Anger's head when he loses his temper in Inside Out?
It bursts into flames
It bursts into flames, and in the climax Disgust goads Anger on purpose so the fire can melt a window and let Joy and Sadness back into Headquarters.
Q 03What does Abstract Thought do to Joy in Inside Out?
Flattens her
Flattens her: Abstract Thought breaks Joy, Sadness and Bing Bong into Picasso-like fragments, squashes them into two dimensions, then reduces them to simple shapes before they escape.
Q 04Which comedian voices Joy in both Inside Out films?
Amy Poehler
Amy Poehler did more than voice Joy: she pitched jokes and ideas from early on and has a screen credit for additional dialogue.
Q 05Which actress from The Office voices Sadness?
Phyllis Smith
Phyllis Smith, who played Phyllis Vance on The Office, voices Sadness; producer Jonas Rivera cast her after seeing her in Bad Teacher.
Q 06Which colour is Sadness?
Blue
Blue is the colour of Sadness; Joy spends the film keeping her away from the console, yet it is Sadness who finally gets Riley to tell her parents how she feels.
Q 07Which colour is Fear?
Purple
Purple is Fear's colour; to make him properly bug-eyed, the designers took their cues from Don Knotts and Mr. Bean.
Q 08Which stand-up comedian voices Anger in both Inside Out films?
Lewis Black
Lewis Black voices Anger in both films; with Joy missing in the first, it is Anger who plugs in the idea that Riley should run away from home.
Q 09Which emotion is green?
Disgust
Disgust is green and was first voiced by Mindy Kaling, who on hearing the pitch praised the film for telling children it is OK to feel sad about growing up.
Q 10Riley moves from which state to San Francisco at the start of the first Inside Out?
Minnesota
Riley moves from Minnesota to San Francisco for her father's new job; the Andersens' cross-country move sets the whole story in motion.
Q 11What form do Riley's most important memories take in her personality?
Floating islands
Each core memory powers a floating island of personality; five islands, including Family and Goofball, stand at the start of the film.
Q 12What kind of creature is Bing Bong, Riley's imaginary friend?
Cat, elephant, cotton candy
Cat, elephant, cotton candy and a dash of dolphin: Riley invented Bing Bong as a toddler, and he now roams long-term memory dreading the day she forgets him.
Q 13How do Joy and Sadness try to get back to the control room from long-term memory?
The Train of Thought
Q 21Which emotion on psychologist Paul Ekman's list was left out of Inside Out for being too similar to Fear?
Surprise
Surprise was struck off while the director was doodling the cast and saw it would look much like Fear; he liked Ekman's short list because it was a manageable number of characters to write.
Q 22At which film festival did the first Inside Out have its world premiere?
Cannes
Cannes hosted the premiere a month before the US release, and the audience is said to have given the film an eight-minute standing ovation.
Q 23Which film kept Inside Out from opening at number one in the US?
Jurassic World
Jurassic World, in its second weekend, held Inside Out to second place, ending the studio's unbroken run of number-one openings.
The Train of Thought is one of the few ways into Headquarters, but it runs only while Riley is awake, so when she falls asleep mid-journey the trio must find a way to wake her.
Q 14What powers Bing Bong's rocket wagon?
Singing
Singing powers the rocket wagon, but it cannot lift two passengers, so Bing Bong jumps out mid-flight to let Joy escape and then fades away.
Q 15Where does everything Riley forgets go to fade away for good?
The Memory Dump
The Memory Dump is the pit at the bottom of Riley's mind where faded memories crumble to nothing; Bing Bong is forgotten there after helping Joy climb out.
Q 16Which of Riley's worst fears is freed from the Subconscious to scare her awake?
Jangles the Clown
Jangles the Clown is a giant version of the party entertainer who spooked Riley at an early birthday; Joy and Sadness wake him so he will crash her dream and jolt her awake.
Q 17Which part of Riley's personality collapses when she steals her mother's credit card?
Honesty Island
Honesty Island crumbles when Riley takes her mother's credit card to run away, leaving only Family Island standing.
Q 18What warning light do the emotions notice on the new console at the end of the first Inside Out?
Puberty
A red Puberty alarm on the upgraded console is waved off as unimportant, a gag that set up Inside Out 2 nine years later.
Q 19Who directed the first Inside Out?
Pete Docter
Pete Docter directed Inside Out; the idea came from watching his own daughter Elie's personality change as she grew up.
Q 20Which emotion originally went on the journey with Joy in early drafts, before being swapped for Sadness?
Fear
Fear was Joy's travelling partner for almost three years of development, until the director decided the story was not working and rebuilt the journey around Sadness.
Q 24Which short film played before Inside Out in cinemas?
Lava
Lava, a musical short about a lonely volcano, played before Inside Out; its director fell for Hawaii on his honeymoon and later wrote the song on a ukulele he bought there.
Q 25Which Academy Award did Inside Out win?
Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Feature went to Inside Out at the 2016 Oscars; accepting it, the director told teenagers they can't choose when they feel sad or angry, but they can 'make stuff'.
Q 26Who composed the score for the first Inside Out?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino began by writing an eight-minute suite, tied to no scene at all, based purely on how an early screening of Inside Out made him feel.
Q 27Baby Riley's voice reuses old recordings of which toddler from an earlier film by the same studio?
Boo
Boo from Monsters, Inc. was voiced by Mary Gibbs, a toddler so restless that staff trailed her round the studio with a microphone; those old recordings supplied baby Riley's voice.
Q 28Which Red Hot Chili Peppers member voices Mind Worker Cop Jake?
Flea
Flea's Cop Jake starts after Joy when she races through Cloud Town, but his partner stops him with 'Forget it, Jake. It's Cloud Town', a nod to the last line of Chinatown.
Q 29Which 2015 animated film was the only one to out-gross Inside Out worldwide?
Minions
Minions took about $1.16 billion to Inside Out's $859 million, yet it was shut out of the Oscar race that Inside Out went on to win.
Q 30Which film did Inside Out's director make immediately before it?
Up
Up reached cinemas in 2009, and within months its director, watching his daughter grow quieter, began sketching the idea that became Inside Out.