Minions & Despicable Me Trivia
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This Minion trivia quiz has 47 free questions with answers and covers the whole Despicable Me universe: Gru's plan to steal the Moon, the three girls he adopts, the Anti-Villain League, Lucy Wilde and El Macho, twin brother Dru and Balthazar Bratt, Maxime Le Mal and the Mega Minions, plus the two Minions prequels with Kevin, Stuart and Bob, Scarlet Overkill, the Vicious 6 and Wild Knuckles. The early questions are ones any fan who has seen the films can answer (who voices Gru, what colour the mutated Minions turn, what Agnes loves). Later ones dig into the making of the films: which studio in Paris animated them, why the Minions were not in the original script, who really speaks Minionese, and how much money the yellow henchmen have earned at the box office. It works for a family movie night, a kids' party or a classroom brain break, and every answer has been checked against a documented source that appears under the explanation.
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Q 01Which actor voices Gru in the Despicable Me films?
Steve Carell
Steve Carell found Gru's accent by trial and error; the result has been described as halfway between Ricardo Montalbán and Bela Lugosi.
Q 02In Despicable Me, what does Gru set out to steal to prove he is the world's top villain?
The Moon
The Moon: Gru shrinks it with a stolen shrink ray and pockets it, but the effect wears off, and it swells back to full size and returns to orbit.
Q 03Which famous landmark does Gru's young rival Vector steal at the start of Despicable Me?
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza vanishes, an inflatable copy left in its place; the stunt wounds Gru's pride and pushes him to plan something even bigger.
Q 04In Despicable Me, where does Gru go to ask for a loan to fund his heist?
The Bank of Evil
Gru seeks his loan at the Bank of Evil, whose sign reads 'formerly Lehman Brothers'; its president, Mr. Perkins, turns out to be Vector's father.
Q 05In Despicable Me, Gru adopts the three girls by pretending to be what?
A dentist
A dentist is the cover Gru invents for the orphanage; he only wants the girls because they can walk straight into his rival Vector's fortress.
Q 06Which of Gru's adopted daughters is the youngest and has a strong love for unicorns?
Agnes
Agnes loves unicorns so much that in Despicable Me 3 she adopts a one-horned goat, names him Lucky, and keeps loving him after learning the truth.
Q 07What is the name of Gru's sharp-toothed, dog-like pet in the Despicable Me films?
Kyle
Kyle snarls at the three girls when they first arrive, then ends up their doting pet; he even got his own short film, The Secret Life of Kyle.
Q 08Which legendary actress voices Gru's mother, Marlena, in Despicable Me?
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews, the warm heart of Mary Poppins, plays against type as Marlena, a mother so hard to impress that Gru spends the first film chasing her approval.
Q 09In Despicable Me, Kristen Wiig voiced which orphanage owner before returning as Gru's wife?
Miss Hattie
Miss Hattie is all smiles for visitors but threatens her orphans with a weekend in the 'Box of Shame'; Wiig came back in the sequels as secret agent Lucy Wilde.
Q 10Who provides the voices of the Minions themselves?
Pierre Coffin
Pierre Coffin, who co-directed the first films, builds the Minions' babble from scraps of real languages, choosing words for their sound and rhythm more than their meaning.
Q 11Which small film characters did the Minions' creators name as a model for their look?
The Oompa-Loompas
The Oompa-Loompas and Star Wars' Jawas were the models the directors named: small, loyal helpers whose shortness, they realised, was a big part of the appeal.
Q 12Which co-director of the first Despicable Me returned to direct Despicable Me 4?
Chris Renaud
Chris Renaud was recruited for his animation experience at Blue Sky Studios, the home of Ice Age, and ended up voicing a few of the Minions himself.
Q 13The first Despicable Me was animated by the studio Mac Guff in which European capital?
Paris
Paris-based Mac Guff was hired to keep costs down; after the film's success its animation arm was bought out and became Illumination's own studio.
Q 21Which star recorded El Macho's part but quit Despicable Me 2 weeks before its premiere?
Al Pacino
Al Pacino left over creative differences less than six weeks before the festival premiere, so Benjamin Bratt had to re-voice a villain whose animation was already finished.
Q 22Which disco classic do the Minions perform at the wedding that ends Despicable Me 2?
Y.M.C.A.
Y.M.C.A. closes the party, with the Minions also crooning the ballad 'I Swear' as 'Underwear'; the film reaches the big day after Gru and Lucy's 147 dates.
Q 23What was the Minion-shaped airship flown around the US to promote Despicable Me 2 called?
The Despicablimp
Q 14In Despicable Me, what do the three orphan girls sell door to door?
Cookies
Cookies get the girls through the front door of Vector's fortress, which is exactly why Gru adopts them, then swaps their order for cookie-shaped robots.
Q 15Which musician wrote and performed the original songs for the first Despicable Me?
Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams wrote and sang them, and it paid off: he was asked back for the sequel, where one of his new songs became a number one around the world.
Q 16Which Despicable Me 2 song had a 24-hour music video and a Best Original Song Oscar nomination?
Happy
'Happy' was first meant for CeeLo Green, but his label held it back; sung for the film instead, it became the best-selling song of 2014 in both the US and the UK.
Q 17In Despicable Me 2, what does the AVL stand for?
Anti-Villain League
AVL stands for Anti-Villain League; its director Silas Ramsbottom has agent Lucy Wilde abduct Gru from his own street to recruit him.
Q 18At the start of Despicable Me 2, what legitimate business is ex-villain Gru running from his lab?
A jelly and jam company
A jelly and jam company, staffed by the Minions in Gru's old lab; the jelly tastes awful, and Dr. Nefario soon leaves because he misses being evil.
Q 19The stolen mutagen in Despicable Me 2 turns Minions into mindless monsters of which colour?
Purple
Purple, furry and indestructible: the PX-41 serum turns kidnapped Minions into monsters until Dr. Nefario brews an antidote that turns them back.
Q 20In Despicable Me 2, how did the villain El Macho supposedly die?
Riding a shark into a volcano
Riding a shark into a volcano with 250 pounds of dynamite strapped to his chest, so the story goes; in fact he faked it and now runs a Mexican restaurant at the mall.
The Despicablimp was a real blimp painted as a giant Minion; launched in March 2013, it toured the country ahead of the film and took reporters up for rides.
Q 24In Minions (2015), why do Kevin, Stuart and Bob leave their tribe's cave?
To find a new evil boss
To find a new evil boss: having accidentally finished off every one they ever served, the Minions sink into gloom without one, so three of them set out in 1968.
Q 25In Minions (2015), the tribe goes into hiding after firing a cannon at which historical figure?
Napoleon
Napoleon is on campaign in Russia when a Minion cannon goes off in his direction, and the whole tribe has to flee into hiding in a remote cave.
Q 26In Minions (2015), which convention do Kevin, Stuart and Bob hitchhike to?
Villain-Con
Villain-Con is in Orlando, and the lift there comes from the Nelsons, a family of thieves voiced by Michael Keaton and Allison Janney.
Q 27Which Oscar-winning actress voices the supervillain Scarlet Overkill in Minions (2015)?
Sandra Bullock
Sandra Bullock's Scarlet Overkill hires the three Minions as her henchmen, then throws them in her dungeon once they accidentally upstage her.
Q 28In Minions (2015), what does Scarlet Overkill hire the Minions to steal for her?
The Imperial State Crown
The Imperial State Crown is the prize, to be lifted from the Tower of London; the heist derails when Bob pulls the sword from the stone and is declared King instead.
Q 29In Minions (2015), what is the name of Bob's beloved teddy bear?
Tim
Tim goes everywhere with Bob, and when the Queen hands out thank-you gifts at the end, even the bear gets one, alongside Kevin's knighthood and Stuart's electric guitar.
Q 30Which Oscar-winning Australian actor narrates Minions (2015)?
Geoffrey Rush
Geoffrey Rush, an Oscar winner for Shine, opens the film by tracing the Minions all the way back to single-celled sea creatures, then returns to round off the story.