Monsters Inc Trivia
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110 free Monsters Inc trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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
John Goodman's bear-like voice steered the animation: Sulley's lead animator took his cues from it and moved the giant like a footballer in training, quick despite his bulk.
Q 02Which comedian voices the one-eyed Mike Wazowski?
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal treated the recording booth like a stand-up stage, spinning single lines into ad-libbed routines, and Mike's lead animator sat in on the sessions to study his gestures.
Q 03What do the monsters of Monsters, Inc. wrongly believe children are?
Toxic
Toxic, the monsters think: a scarer who comes back with a child's sock stuck to him is shaved and showered, yet Boo's touch turns out to be harmless.
Q 04Boo thinks Sulley is a large version of which animal?
A cat
A cat: Boo calls the factory's most feared scarer "Kitty", and it is the word she greets him with when Mike's rebuilt door finally opens on her room.
Q 05What is the name of the monster city powered by children's screams?
Monstropolis
Monstropolis was designed as a city monsters would really need: brick, stone and steel to bear residents weighing tons, with doors and telephones that work at any size.
Q 06By the end of Monsters, Inc., the factory has been retooled to harvest what from children instead of screams?
Laughter
Laughter proves ten times more powerful than screams, so the scarers are retrained to be funny, and Mike swaps coaching scares for a microphone as the company's top comedian.
Q 07Waternoose banishes Sulley and Mike to which mountain range in the human world?
The Himalayas
The Himalayas, where the Abominable Snowman, an earlier exile from the factory, welcomes the pair with yellow snow cones and insists they are lemon.
Q 08What special ability lets Randall Boggs sneak up on Sulley and Mike?
Camouflage
Camouflage lets Randall match any background, though not his glasses: at Monsters University he gives them up because they stay in view, which is why he squints ever after.
Q 09What is Henry J. Waternoose's position at Monsters, Inc.?
CEO
CEO Waternoose runs a firm his family has owned for three generations, and it is his dread of losing it in the energy crisis that pushes him into Randall's kidnapping scheme.
Q 10Grumpy scare-floor administrator Roz turns out to be what?
An undercover CDA agent
An undercover CDA agent, and its Number One: Roz had spent two and a half years at that desk investigating the factory, so her paperwork nagging was surveillance all along.
Q 11Mike's girlfriend Celia Mae, the front-desk receptionist, has what instead of hair?
Snakes
Snakes: Celia's five have moods of their own, hissing and rattling when she is angry, and after the agents scrub her down each one turns up at work in its own little neck cone.
Q 12In Monsters, Inc., Mike says Sulley envied his looks since when?
Fourth grade
Fourth grade, he says, yet the prequel has the pair first meet at college: its director tried versions where they met as children, then set the line aside and joked it was just an old monster expression.
Q 13In Monsters University, Mike joins which fraternity of misfits to compete in the Scare Games?
Oozma Kappa
Q 21In Monsters, Inc., Mike claims his shouting at Sulley is part of what?
A company musical
A company musical, Mike blurts out, inventing the title Put That Thing Back Where It Came From or So Help Me on the spot; the end credits show the company really putting it on.
Q 22Randy Newman won his first Oscar for Monsters, Inc. in which category?
Best Original Song
Best Original Song went to "If I Didn't Have You" after years of losing nominations; Newman told the cheering room "I don't want your pity" and thanked the music branch for so many chances to be humiliated.
Q 23Monsters, Inc. lost the first-ever Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?
Shrek
Oozma Kappa takes in students who flunked the scare program and meets in one member's mother's house, yet under Mike's coaching the misfits climb from last place to the final.
Q 14Expelled from Monsters University, where do Mike and Sulley start at Monsters, Inc.?
The mailroom
The mailroom, where their supervisor is the future Abominable Snowman, who warns the new boys that tampering with the post is punishable by banishment.
Q 15Which Oscar-winning actress voices Dean Hardscrabble in Monsters University?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren's dean founded the Scare Games as a student and won them four years running, so when Mike bets his place on the Games he is wagering against their inventor.
Q 16Which slogan does the Monsters, Inc. factory use in its television commercial?
We scare because we care
We scare because we care, runs the advert, in which the company logo lands squarely over Mike's face; he is thrilled to have been on television all the same.
Q 17Who is the new main character of Monsters at Work, a scare graduate reassigned to the maintenance crew?
Tylor Tuskmon
Tylor Tuskmon graduates as a scarer just as Waternoose's arrest ends scaring for good, so the job he trained for no longer exists when he reports for work and he is made a mechanic instead.
Q 18Which actor voices Randall Boggs in Monsters, Inc.?
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi came back for the prequel, which explains the grudge: Randall starts out as Mike's timid roommate and vows never to lose to Sulley again after a humiliating Scare Games defeat.
Q 19What food does Harryhausen's, the restaurant where Mike takes Celia on her birthday, specialise in?
Sushi
Sushi: when Boo slips out of Sulley's bag at Harryhausen's the chef raises the alarm, and agents round up every diner in the place for decontamination.
Q 20Which veteran star of The Magnificent Seven voices Henry J. Waternoose?
James Coburn
James Coburn died in 2002, a year after the film opened, so Kelsey Grammer was announced as Waternoose for the prequel, only for the character to be cut from it altogether.
Shrek took the new award even though Monsters, Inc. was the bigger draw worldwide, out-earning the ogre's film in cinemas by tens of millions of dollars.
Q 24Monsters, Inc.'s opening weekend broke the animated-film record held by which movie?
Toy Story 2
Toy Story 2 was Pixar's own film, so the studio beat its own record: Monsters, Inc. took more than $62 million in three days against the $57 million its predecessor had opened with two years earlier.
Q 25Which Oscar-winning Pixar short was shown in cinemas before Monsters, Inc.?
For the Birds
For the Birds has a gang of small birds mocking a gawky big one on a power line, until the wire snaps back like a slingshot and leaves the bullies without a feather between them.
Q 26The 2002 short Mike's New Car was the first Pixar short to include what?
Spoken dialogue
Spoken dialogue was new for a Pixar short: Mike and Sulley bicker throughout as his new car gets the better of him, where every earlier short had managed without words.
Q 27Which actor voices the Abominable Snowman in Monsters, Inc.?
John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger, Pixar's "good-luck charm", had a voice in each of the studio's first 22 features, from Toy Story to Onward; his yeti grumbles that he should be called the Adorable Snowman.
Q 28In Monsters University, Mike and Sulley are expelled from the scaring program after breaking what?
Dean Hardscrabble's prized scream canister
Dean Hardscrabble's prized scream canister holds the record-breaking scream of her own scaring days, and the pair smash it by accident when their exam-day roar-off gets out of hand.
Q 29In Monsters University, Sulley initially gets into which elite fraternity that rejects Mike?
Roar Omega Roar
Roar Omega Roar, the top house on campus, drops Sulley the moment he is thrown off the scare program and hands his place to Randall.
Q 30What does Mike later learn about his winning scare in the Scare Games?
Sulley had rigged the simulator's settings
Sulley had rigged the simulator's settings so that Mike could not fail; stung, Mike slips through a door to prove himself and lands in a cabin of summer campers, not one of whom is scared.