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60 free Monsters Inc trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
54 free Monsters Inc trivia questions with answers. Monsters, Inc. turned a childhood fear into one of Pixar's warmest films, and it has grown into a whole world since: a college prequel, a Disney+ workplace comedy, a five-minute short about a very bad car and rides on three continents. This quiz covers all of it, with the 2001 original at its heart. The opening questions are the ones any family can answer together: who voices Sulley, what Boo calls him, where the Yeti got banished. Then it climbs into voice-cast and story territory before finishing on the production trivia that separates casual fans from people who have watched the bonus features: how many hairs are on Sulley, what Sulley was called in early drafts, which Disney legend suggested the title, and which lawsuits followed the film into court. Every answer has been checked against the published record and carries a linked source, so you can settle any argument on the spot. Good for a family movie night, a Pixar-themed pub quiz round, or a rainy afternoon on the laugh floor.
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Q 01Who provides the voice of James P. "Sulley" Sullivan?
John Goodman
Goodman went on to voice Sulley again in the prequel and the streaming series, making it one of the longest-running Pixar voice roles.
Q 02Which comedian voices the one-eyed Mike Wazowski?
Billy Crystal
Mike is the film's motormouth, and his voice actor was already a veteran Oscars host when the film came out.
Q 03In which year was Monsters, Inc. released in US cinemas?
2001
It arrived the same autumn as Shrek's home-video release and Harry Potter's first film, an unusually crowded season for family movies.
Q 04Boo thinks Sulley is a large version of which animal?
A cat
Her nickname for him becomes the emotional core of the film, right down to the last word she says before the door closes.
Q 05What is the name of the monster city powered by children's screams?
Monstropolis
The city runs on scream energy collected in canisters, which is why the company's slogan is all about caring.
Q 06By the end of the film, the factory has been retooled to harvest what from children instead of screams?
Laughter
The discovery is made by accident when Boo giggles and blows out every light on the scare floor.
Q 07To which mountain range was the Abominable Snowman banished?
The Himalayas
He greets his unexpected visitors with snow cones and insists the yellow ones are lemon.
Q 08What special ability lets Randall Boggs sneak up on Sulley and Mike?
He can change his skin colour to blend in
He has eight legs to go with the camouflage, which is why he can scuttle across a ceiling while doing it.
Q 09What is Henry J. Waternoose's position at Monsters, Inc.?
CEO
He runs the place as a family business, and his fear of the energy crisis is what drives him into Randall's scheme.
Q 10Grumpy scare-floor administrator Roz turns out to be what?
An undercover CDA agent
She has been keeping an eye on the company the whole time, which recasts her endless paperwork nagging as surveillance.
Q 11Mike's girlfriend Celia Mae, the front-desk receptionist, has what instead of hair?
Snakes
Her hair has a personality of its own and hisses at Mike when their birthday date goes wrong.
Q 12In which year did the prequel Monsters University reach cinemas?
2013
It came a full twelve years after the original, long enough that many of its target audience had not been born for the first film.
Q 13In Monsters University, Mike joins which fraternity of misfits to compete in the Scare Games?
Oozma Kappa
Their house is a member's mother's home, and their motto is "We're OK!", which is exactly as intimidating as it sounds.
Q 21Who performs the end-credits song "If I Didn't Have You" on the soundtrack?
John Goodman and Billy Crystal
The duet lets the two leads sing as their characters, and Sulley's actor later helped perform it live at the Oscars.
Q 22"If I Didn't Have You" won Randy Newman his first-ever Oscar in which category?
Best Original Song
In his acceptance speech he joked to the applauding crowd, "I don't want your pity," after more than a dozen previous nominations.
Q 23Monsters, Inc. lost the first-ever Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?
Shrek
Q 14Expelled from Monsters University, where do Mike and Sulley start at Monsters, Inc.?
The mailroom
A closing montage shows them climbing from there to the scare floor, tying the prequel back to the first film's opening.
Q 15Which Oscar-winning actress voices Dean Hardscrabble in Monsters University?
Helen Mirren
The dean is a red dragon-like monster with centipede legs and bat wings, and her disapproval hangs over both leads for the whole film.
Q 16On which service did the series Monsters at Work premiere in July 2021?
Disney+
It was developed by Bobs Gannaway and picks up the day after Waternoose's arrest, as the factory switches over to laugh power.
Q 17Who is the new main character of Monsters at Work, a scare graduate reassigned to the maintenance crew?
Tylor Tuskmon
He arrives with a job offer to be a scarer just as scaring is abolished, so he ends up fixing pipes with MIFT instead.
Q 18Which actor, better known for Fargo and Boardwalk Empire, voices Randall Boggs?
Steve Buscemi
Randall was designed as an eight-legged reptile so his camouflage could carry him silently across ceilings and walls.
Q 19Who directed Monsters, Inc., his first time in the director's chair?
Pete Docter
He later went on to make Up, Inside Out and Soul, and has been Pixar's chief creative officer since 2018.
Q 20Which veteran star of The Magnificent Seven voices Henry J. Waternoose?
James Coburn
Waternoose inherited the company from his father and is a spider-like monster with five eyes and six crab-like legs.
The category was brand new at the 74th Academy Awards, so the film became one of its very first nominees.
Q 24Its record-breaking opening weekend surpassed the previous animated-film record held by which movie?
Toy Story 2
Pixar broke its own record: the previous holder was the studio's third feature, released just two years earlier.
Q 25Which Oscar-winning Pixar short about a squabbling flock on a wire played before Monsters, Inc.?
For the Birds
Written and directed by Ralph Eggleston, it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short in 2001.
Q 26Which 2002 short was Pixar's first to use dialogue and to reuse characters from a previous film?
Mike's New Car
It runs about five minutes, and the DVD commentary is by "Docter and Gould", who turn out to be the directors' young sons.
Q 27Which Pixar good-luck charm voices the Abominable Snowman?
John Ratzenberger
He had a part in every Pixar feature from Toy Story onward, and here he gets to insist that a yeti is only "abominable" in the eyes of others.
Q 28In Monsters University, Mike and Sulley are expelled from the scaring program after breaking what?
Dean Hardscrabble's prized scream canister
The canister holds the record-setting scream from her own career, which is why she takes the accident so personally.
Q 29In Monsters University, Sulley initially gets into which elite fraternity that rejects Mike?
Roar Omega Roar
Its members wear matching jackets and win the Scare Games year after year, right up to the final where they face the misfits.
Q 30How does Mike discover that his winning Scare Games performance was not entirely his own doing?
Sulley had rigged the simulator's settings
The discovery sends Mike through an experimental door into a summer-camp cabin full of children who are not remotely scared of him.