Josh Hutcherson Trivia
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50 free Josh Hutcherson trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Josh Hutcherson went from a Kroger commercial in Kentucky to Peeta Mellark in the biggest young-adult franchise of its decade, then weathered a career stall before Five Nights at Freddy's and a viral Flo Rida fan edit brought him back. These Josh Hutcherson trivia questions cover the child-actor years, The Hunger Games, the indie stretch, Future Man and the resurgence. Every answer is sourced, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss.
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Q 01In which state was Josh Hutcherson born?
Kentucky
Kentucky. He told his parents in Union at four that he wanted to act, and when they wouldn't help he called an agency himself from the Yellow Pages.
Q 02Which role did Hutcherson play in The Hunger Games films?
Peeta Mellark
Peeta Mellark. Author Suzanne Collins sat in on his first reading and said that three lines in she knew he'd be fantastic.
Q 03What was Hutcherson's 2007 breakthrough film as a child actor?
Bridge to Terabithia
He admitted he had not read the novel before being cast as Jesse Aarons.
Q 04In which country was Hutcherson's 2007 breakthrough film shot?
New Zealand
New Zealand. The shoot was in Auckland, and he said he and AnnaSophia Robb were the only American pupils in the class scenes; the rest were New Zealanders.
Q 05In 2005's Kicking & Screaming, Hutcherson was the young half-brother of a soccer coach played by which comedian?
Will Ferrell
Will Ferrell. Hutcherson was Bucky, the star player of the rival team coached by their father, Robert Duvall, so the two sides of the family meet in the final.
Q 06Which actress played Kailani opposite Hutcherson in Journey 2: The Mysterious Island?
Vanessa Hudgens
Vanessa Hudgens. Her character is the daughter of the helicopter pilot hired to fly Sean's party to the island, where a cyclone brings them all down.
Q 07What is the name of Hutcherson's younger brother, who has a bit part in Little Manhattan?
Connor
Connor. His part in his brother's film is not a glamorous one: the credits list him as 'Boy Who Throws Up'.
Q 08Which endurance event did Hutcherson train for and compete in while filming RV?
A triathlon
A triathlon. He said he came third in his first one and had already started training for another.
Q 09In American Splendor, his first feature film, Hutcherson played a trick-or-treating boy dressed as whom?
Robin
Robin. In the opening scene, set on Halloween 1950, the costumed kids stand beside young Harvey Pekar, who refuses to dress up as a superhero at all.
Q 10Hutcherson shared the motion-capture work for which Polar Express character with Tom Hanks?
Young Hero Boy
Young Hero Boy. Hanks performed the lead, while Hutcherson was rigged in harnesses for stunts such as falling off the train and swinging back aboard.
Q 11Which character did Hutcherson voice in the English dub of Howl's Moving Castle?
Markl
Markl. He said he had one day in Los Angeles to record the whole film, got through it in about eight hours and could barely talk afterwards.
Q 12Which director made 2005's Zathura: A Space Adventure, with Hutcherson as older brother Walter?
Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau. He chose real spaceships, a real robot and Stan Winston-built aliens over computer effects because they gave his young actors more to work off.
Q 13Whose son did Hutcherson play in the 2006 comedy RV?
Robin Williams'
Robin Williams' son. Hutcherson said he didn't know how the cast got any work done, because they were constantly laughing at the star between takes.
Q 21Which actor plays the villain opposite Hutcherson in 2023's Five Nights at Freddy's?
Matthew Lillard
Matthew Lillard. He plays the serial killer whose young victims now possess the pizzeria's animatronic mascots, a twist the film holds back until late on.
Q 22Hutcherson hosted Saturday Night Live in November 2013, the night after which of his films opened?
Catching Fire
Catching Fire. His monologue became a cast Hunger Games, with Kate McKinnon as Effie Trinket drawing names and Cecily Strong yelling 'I volunteer as tribute!'
Q 23Which Hunger Games book was filmed in two parts, released in 2014 and 2015?
Mockingjay
Q 14Which actor played Hutcherson's uncle in 2008's Journey to the Center of the Earth?
Brendan Fraser
Brendan Fraser. He played the volcanologist uncle who takes Sean to Iceland, but when the sequel came in 2012 only Hutcherson returned.
Q 15In which 2010 film did Hutcherson play the son of a couple portrayed by Annette Bening and Julianne Moore?
The Kids Are All Right
The Kids Are All Right. His character, 15-year-old Laser, is too young to ask the sperm bank who his father is, so he gets his older sister to make the call.
Q 16Which superhero role did Hutcherson lose out on shortly before landing The Hunger Games?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man. He was rumored to be the leading choice for the reboot until Sony surprised everyone by picking Andrew Garfield.
Q 17For The Hunger Games, Hutcherson had to gain 15 pounds and change his hair to which color?
Blond
Blond. Stylists first tried it without bleach, and he said his hair turned orange and then a weird green before they gave in and bleached it.
Q 18What injury did Hutcherson suffer while play-fighting with Jennifer Lawrence on set?
A concussion
A concussion. They were shadow-boxing for fun when her kick caught him on the temple and knocked him to the ground, and he played it down to keep filming.
Q 19Before Francis Lawrence took over the Hunger Games series, who directed the first film in 2012?
Gary Ross
Gary Ross. He said that after Hutcherson's first reading he and author Suzanne Collins looked at each other and didn't have to say anything: both thought 'Wow, that's it.'
Q 20Which character did Hutcherson voice in the 2013 animated film Epic?
Nod
Nod. He is the rebellious young Leafman who quits the forest's tiny army, to the anger of the commander who promised his late father to look out for him.
Mockingjay. Splitting the last book let Lionsgate make the series an annual event, with a film every November from 2013 to 2015.
Q 24Which drug lord's name is in the title of the thriller Hutcherson starred in and executive-produced?
Pablo Escobar
Pablo Escobar. Benicio del Toro played him in Escobar: Paradise Lost, where Hutcherson worked with the first-time director on casting and blocking and insisted it 'wasn't just a vanity credit'.
Q 25What was the title of Hutcherson's 2017 directorial debut, a short film?
Ape
Ape. He also starred in it as Travis Wilker, a young man who has to conquer the hallucinations that have plagued him since childhood.
Q 26Which actor directed Hutcherson in both In Dubious Battle and The Disaster Artist?
James Franco
James Franco. Hutcherson made three films for him in quick succession, but the third, The Long Home, was shot in 2015 and was still unreleased a decade later.
Q 27Which science fiction comedy series did Hutcherson star in from 2017 to 2020?
Future Man
Future Man. He plays a janitor who finally beats a supposedly unbeatable video game, only for its heroes to turn up and recruit him to save humanity through time travel.
Q 28Which streaming service made the Seth Rogen-produced comedy that Hutcherson led from 2017 to 2020?
Hulu
Hulu. When it renewed the show in 2019 it announced the end too: a third and final season, cut from thirteen episodes to eight, to wrap up the story.
Q 29Which Netflix anime featured Hutcherson as the English voice of Shinjiro Hayata?
Ultraman
Ultraman. Shinjiro is the teenage son of the original hero, and once his father reveals that secret he takes up the fight against a new wave of aliens himself.
Q 30Hutcherson's 2022 film Across the River and Into the Trees adapts a novel by which author?
Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway. The adaptation was first announced with Pierce Brosnan in the lead, but Liev Schreiber ended up playing the colonel, with Hutcherson as Jackson.