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50 free Pixar trivia questions with answers. From a desk lamp bouncing on a rubber ball to the most emotionally devastating opening sequence in cinema history, Pixar has redefined what animated films can be. How well do you know the studio that makes us laugh, cry, and feel everything in between?
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Q 01What is the name of the cowboy doll in Toy Story?
Woody
Woody, voiced by Tom Hanks, is the cowboy doll and main protagonist of the Toy Story franchise. He is Andy's favorite toy and the leader of the toy group.
Q 02In Monsters, Inc., what do the monsters collect from children to power their city?
Screams
Screams power the monsters' city: the entire economy of Monsters, Inc. (2001) revolves around scaring children, until Sulley and Mike discover laughter is ten times more powerful.
Q 03What type of animal is Remy in Ratatouille?
Rat
Remy is a rat, voiced by Patton Oswalt. The bonus short Your Friend the Rat has Remy and his brother Emile lobbying humans to give rats a fairer hearing.
Q 04In Up's wordless opening montage, what job does Carl Fredricksen hold at the city zoo?
Balloon salesman
Carl is a balloon salesman at the zoo where Ellie works as a zookeeper. The four-minute 'Married Life' montage shows their whole marriage together without a line of dialogue.
Q 05In Inside Out, what are the five main emotions inside Riley's head?
Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, Disgust
Riley's five emotions are Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. Pete Docter consulted psychologists Paul Ekman and Dacher Keltner and trimmed a longer list that had included Surprise and Pride.
Q 06What does WALL-E stand for?
Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-class
WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter: Earth-class. Sound designer Ben Burtt, who created R2-D2's beeps, supplied his voice; the starliner's giant WALL-A units are his trash-compacting cousins.
Q 07Which Pixar movie is set in the Land of the Dead during Dia de los Muertos?
Coco
Coco (2017) sends Miguel to the Land of the Dead after he strums the guitar in Ernesto de la Cruz's mausoleum. Disney withdrew a 2013 bid to trademark 'Día de los Muertos' after a backlash.
Q 08What is Lightning McQueen's catchphrase in Cars?
Ka-chow!
Lightning McQueen's catchphrase is 'Ka-chow!', delivered as he flashes his lightning-bolt stickers. His racing number 95 nods to 1995, the year Toy Story was released.
Q 09Who voices Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story films?
Tim Allen
Tim Allen has voiced Buzz Lightyear in the Toy Story films since the 1995 original; Allen, then starring in Home Improvement, was cast after Billy Crystal turned the role down.
Q 10What was the first feature-length film produced by Pixar?
Toy Story
Toy Story (1995) was Pixar's first feature film and the first entirely computer-animated feature film ever made. It was a groundbreaking achievement in cinema history.
Q 11In Finding Nemo, what is Dory's most notable trait?
Short-term memory loss
Dory suffers short-term memory loss, the running gag of Finding Nemo. The regal blue tang, voiced by Ellen DeGeneres, can nevertheless read human writing and speak whale.
Q 12What is the name of the purple toy octopus in Toy Story 3?
Stretch
Stretch, the purple rubber octopus, is voiced by Whoopi Goldberg. One of Lotso's daycare enforcers, she hesitates at the dumpster and abandons him once his lies are exposed.
Q 13Which actor voices the character of Sulley in Monsters, Inc.?
John Goodman
John Goodman voices Sulley, with Billy Crystal as Mike Wazowski and Steve Buscemi as rival Randall. Sulley's fur, some 2.3 million individually rendered hairs, was the film's great technical headache.
Q 21What are the names of the two main element characters in Elemental?
Ember and Wade
Ember and Wade are voiced by Leah Lewis and Mamoudou Athie. Director Peter Sohn drew on his Korean immigrant parents' Bronx grocery for the Lumen family's shop in Element City.
Q 22In Soul, what is Joe Gardner's dream profession?
Jazz musician
Joe Gardner dreams of being a jazz musician, a pianist stuck teaching middle-school band. Jamie Foxx voices him, Jon Batiste wrote the piano parts, and Angela Bassett plays saxophonist Dorothea Williams, whose quartet gives him his break.
Q 23What is the name of Pixar's rendering software that revolutionized CGI?
RenderMan
Q 14Which song does Miguel play on Héctor's guitar to rouse his fading great-grandmother?
Remember Me
'Remember Me', written by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Ernesto de la Cruz had passed it off as his own after stealing it from Héctor.
Q 15In Ratatouille, which restaurant does Remy secretly cook in?
Gusteau's
The late Auguste Gusteau's motto was 'Anyone can cook'. Once the health inspector exposes the rats it is shut down, and the trio open a bistro called La Ratatouille instead.
Q 16What year was Pixar Animation Studios founded?
1986
Pixar was incorporated in February 1986, spun out of the Graphics Group that had built the Genesis Effect for Star Trek II; Ed Catmull and Alvy Ray Smith led the new company.
Q 17Which Pixar short film features an old man playing chess against himself?
Geri's Game
Geri's Game (1997) is a Pixar short film about an elderly man named Geri who plays a fierce game of chess against himself in the park. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Q 18What is the significance of the code 'A113' in Pixar films?
A CalArts animation classroom
A113 is the CalArts animation classroom where John Lasseter, Brad Bird, Pete Docter and Tim Burton studied. It appears as Andy's mom's licence plate in Toy Story and the courtroom number in Up.
Q 19Which Pixar film was the first to win the Academy Award for Best Original Score?
Up
Up won Best Original Score at the March 2010 Academy Awards, the first Pixar film to take that award. Soul became the second in 2021.
Q 20Which tech mogul bankrolled Pixar's spin-off and was its CEO until Disney bought it in 2006?
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs paid $5 million for the technology rights and invested another $5 million as capital, then poured in some $50 million more before Toy Story made the company profitable; Disney's 2006 buyout made him its largest individual shareholder.
RenderMan, which grew out of the REYES architecture ('renders everything you ever saw') developed before the studio's spin-off, has rendered every Pixar feature and earned a Scientific and Technical Academy Award in 1993.
Q 24Which Pixar short film, featuring a desk lamp and rubber ball, became the studio's mascot?
Luxo Jr.
Luxo Jr. features a large desk lamp (Luxo Sr.) and a smaller one (Luxo Jr.) playing with a rubber ball; the little lamp became Pixar's mascot and hops into the studio's logo animation.
Q 25What recurring vehicle appears as an Easter egg in almost every Pixar film?
A Pizza Planet truck
The Pizza Planet truck, a battered Toyota pickup with a rocket on its roof, debuted in Toy Story and hides in nearly every Pixar feature since; its tailgate lettering is worn down to 'YO'.
Q 26In Brave, what does Merida's mother Queen Elinor get turned into?
A bear
Queen Elinor is transformed into a bear after Merida gets a spell from a witch to 'change her mother.' Merida must find a way to reverse the spell before the change becomes permanent at the second sunrise.
Q 27Which Pixar film was the first animated movie to gross $1 billion worldwide?
Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 crossed $1 billion worldwide in August 2010, the first animated film to do so, and finished as the top-grossing film of 2010.
Q 28What is the name of the food critic who writes a review at the end of Ratatouille?
Anton Ego
Anton Ego, voiced by Peter O'Toole, is the feared critic. Remy's confit byaldi sends him back to his mother's kitchen, and his glowing review praises the chef without revealing that the chef is a rat.
Q 29Who directed both Toy Story and Toy Story 2?
John Lasseter
John Lasseter directed both films and received a Special Achievement Oscar in 1996 for the first. He later ran animation for both Pixar and Disney until leaving in 2018.
Q 30How much did Disney pay to acquire Pixar in 2006?
$7.4 billion
The Walt Disney Company acquired Pixar Animation Studios on May 5, 2006, for approximately $7.4 billion in an all-stock deal. This made Steve Jobs the largest individual shareholder in Disney at the time.