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50 free Puss in Boots trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Puss in Boots stole Shrek 2 in 2004 and took seven years to get his own film. DreamWorks first planned a direct-to-video Story of an Ogre Killer, then upgraded it to a theatrical origin tale directed by Chris Miller, with Guillermo del Toro redesigning Humpty Dumpty as a Leonardo-style inventor and rewriting the ending. It premiered aboard a cruise ship, broke the Halloween-weekend box office record and earned an Oscar nomination. These 50 questions cover the San Ricardo story, the voice cast from Antonio Banderas and Salma Hayek to Zach Galifianakis and Amy Sedaris, Henry Jackman's Latin score, the Bangalore animation outsourcing, the UAE retitling to Cat in Boots, the Netflix series and the long road to The Last Wish. Easy ones stick to the characters; the hard end asks about IMAX counts, release-date shuffles and who designed Puss for Shrek 2. Each answer is cited to a page we checked and comes with a short explanation. Play it solo or print it for a family movie night.
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Q 01Which studio produced the 2011 Puss in Boots film?
DreamWorks Animation
It was the first DreamWorks Animation film partly made in India.
Q 02Who voices Puss in Boots?
Antonio Banderas
Banderas also voices Puss in the Spanish and Italian dubs of the Shrek films.
Q 03Puss made his big-screen debut in which 2004 film?
Shrek 2
Development of his own spin-off began as soon as that 2004 film came out.
Q 04Who directed the 2011 Puss in Boots?
Chris Miller
Miller had been head of story on Shrek 2 and directed Shrek the Third.
Q 05Who voices Kitty Softpaws?
Salma Hayek
Kitty is described as a street-savvy tuxedo cat and Puss's counterpart.
Q 06Who voices Humpty Alexander Dumpty?
Zach Galifianakis
It was his first voice role, so the filmmakers let him improvise.
Q 07Which two actors voice the outlaws Jack and Jill?
Billy Bob Thornton and Amy Sedaris
Sedaris improvised most of her lines, recording almost fifty versions of some.
Q 08Which filmmaker voices the Comandante and served as executive producer?
Guillermo del Toro
He joined after leaving The Hobbit and asked to be involved after an early screening.
Q 09What is the name of the town where Puss and Humpty grew up?
San Ricardo
Del Toro designed its architecture as a blend of Spain and Mexico.
Q 10What is the name of Puss's adoptive human mother?
Imelda
Constance Marie voices her.
Q 11What does the trio hope to find by planting the magic beans?
Golden goose eggs
The eggs turn out to be too heavy, so they steal the goose instead.
Q 12What is the "Great Terror" that guards the castle in the clouds?
The Golden Goose's mother
Humpty planned to lure the enormous bird down to destroy San Ricardo.
Q 13What happened to the giant in the 2011 film?
He died long ago, offscreen
The filmmakers killed him off to subvert fairy-tale expectations after struggling to make him unpredictable.
Q 21What was the film's production budget?
$130 million
It earned back more than four times that figure.
Q 22Which film beat Puss in Boots to the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Rango
Gore Verbinski's chameleon western also starred a Paramount release.
Q 23Who composed the film's score?
Henry Jackman
He drew on Spanish composer Manuel de Falla and blended guitars with Debussy-style orchestration.
Q 24Which Mexican guitar duo contributed to the soundtrack?
Q 14Who does Puss meet in prison who reveals Humpty stole the beans?
Andy "Jack" Beanstalk
Director Mike Mitchell, who made Shrek Forever After, voices him.
Q 15What does Puss discover under Humpty's shell after his fall?
A large golden egg
The Great Terror carries the golden egg back to her home in the clouds.
Q 16What does Kitty playfully steal from Puss as they flee together?
His boots
Earlier she had interrupted his attempt to steal the beans from Jack and Jill.
Q 17What was the film's working title when it was planned as a direct-to-video release?
Puss in Boots: The Story of an Ogre Killer
It was re-slated as a theatrical film in October 2006.
Q 18Where did Puss in Boots hold its world premiere in October 2011?
Aboard a cruise ship
Royal Caribbean's Allure of the Seas was docked in Fort Lauderdale for the event.
Q 19Which studio distributed Puss in Boots in US cinemas?
Paramount Pictures
Universal took over DreamWorks distribution after NBCUniversal bought the studio in 2016.
Q 20Roughly how much did Puss in Boots gross worldwide?
$555 million
That made it the third-highest-grossing animated film of 2011.
Rodrigo y Gabriela
Their songs "Diablo Rojo" and "Hanuman" were included.
Q 25Which Lady Gaga song is featured in the film?
Americano
The track comes from her 2011 album Born This Way.
Q 26Under what title was the film released in the United Arab Emirates?
Cat in Boots
The same print was sent to cinemas across the Middle East; merchandise kept the original name.
Q 27The film was the studio's first to be partly animated in which country?
India
A Technicolor studio in Bangalore spent six months animating three scenes.
Q 28Which film's release date did Puss in Boots take over in November 2011?
Rise of the Guardians
It was then pushed a week earlier to October 28 to beat the November family films.
Q 29Whose Halloween-weekend opening record did Puss in Boots break?
Saw III
Five Nights at Freddy's took the record back for the horror genre in 2023.
Q 30By how much did the film's gross decline in its second weekend?
Only 3%
It was the smallest drop for any non-holiday film, beating Twister.