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50 free Puss in Boots: the Last Wish trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish gave a Shrek spin-off character the best reviews in the franchise's history, and this quiz covers why: the giant fought to a song in Del Mar, the church bell that costs Puss his eighth life, the whistling wolf at the pub, Mama Luna's cat house, the Dark Forest, the cave of lost souls and a final duel that Puss cannot win but refuses to lose. Early questions suit kids who know the film by heart: what Perrito really is, who leads the Three Bears crime family, what Goldi wants to wish for. Later ones are for the grown-ups: which Spaghetti Western shaped the plot, which animated film inspired the painterly look, who was going to direct before Joel Crawford, what the film's abandoned 2014 title was, why the wolf is a wolf, and how a slow $12 million opening turned into $484 million. Every answer has been checked against the film's production record and each question links to its source. For the whole ogre saga, see our Shrek trivia; this page is for the cat.
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Q 01Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is which numbered film in the Shrek series?
Sixth
Four Shrek films plus two Puss in Boots films; Puss himself first appeared in Shrek 2 in 2004.
Q 02How many of his nine lives has Puss used up when the film begins?
Eight
The town doctor tells him to retire; he refuses until a duel with a wolf leaves him wounded and terrified.
Q 03What kills Puss at the start of the film, right after he defeats a giant?
A falling church bell
He is crushed during a party in the town of Del Mar, moments after singing 'Fearless Hero'.
Q 04What is Perrito really, beneath his cat disguise?
A chihuahua
He wants to become a therapy dog, and ends the film adopted by Puss and Kitty.
Q 05Who voices Perrito?
Harvey Guillén
The What We Do in the Shadows actor plays the film's comic relief and its emotional heart.
Q 06What name does Mama Luna give Puss when he moves into her cat rescue?
Pickles
Da'Vine Joy Randolph voices the elderly cat lady who takes him in.
Q 07Who is the wolf bounty hunter revealed to be?
Death
He wants to take Puss's last life personally as punishment for wasting the other eight; he wields twin sickles that join into a glaive.
Q 08Which Narcos actor voices the Wolf?
Wagner Moura
The Brazilian actor's whistle became one of the most-discussed villain sounds of the year.
Q 09Why did the filmmakers choose a wolf to personify Death?
Wolves are 'the personification of fear' in Grimm tales
Producer Mark Swift drew on the Brothers Grimm's 'cautionary tales that took you somewhere dark to make you appreciate the light'.
Q 10What does Puss want to find in order to wish for a fresh set of nine lives?
The Wishing Star
A map to it is held by Big Jack Horner, and everybody wants it.
Q 11Who leads the Three Bears Crime Family?
Goldilocks
Florence Pugh voices Goldi, the adopted human member who secretly wants to wish for a human family.
Q 12Which Oscar-winning actress voices Mama Bear?
Olivia Colman
Ray Winstone is Papa Bear and Samson Kayo is Baby Bear.
Q 13What does Goldi secretly want to wish for?
A human family
She abandons the map to save Baby Bear and realises the Bears are her true family after all.
Q 14What is 'Big' Jack Horner's profession?
Q 21What does Kitty say she would have wished for?
Someone she could trust
By the end she declines the wish altogether, now able to trust him again.
Q 22How does Puss survive his final duel with the wolf?
He is spared for finally valuing his last life
He disarms Death briefly and declares he will never stop fighting for his last life; both agree they will meet again.
Q 23How is Jack Horner finally defeated?
The Wishing Star consumes him when the map is torn
Pastry chef
He collects magical artifacts to make up for being known as 'Little' Jack Horner as a child; his henchmen are 'the Baker's Dozen'.
Q 15Which comedian voices Big Jack Horner?
John Mulaney
The character is written as an unapologetically insane killer who regularly murders his own men.
Q 16Who is the Ethical Bug?
A Talking Cricket parody acting as Horner's conscience
Kevin McCann based the voice on Jimmy Stewart; the bug ends up calling Horner an 'irredeemable monster'.
Q 17What is the Dark Forest, where most of the quest takes place?
A pocket dimension that shows travellers' memories
Goldi and the Bears are distracted there by an illusion of their own woodland cottage.
Q 18What does Puss suffer during the clash in the Dark Forest that makes him flee?
A panic attack
The filmmakers felt having Puss talk about his fears would be insincere, so a panic attack forces the facade down; Crawford drew on his own experience.
Q 19Why is Kitty Softpaws resentful of Puss?
He abandoned her before their wedding
She reveals she never turned up either, believing he loved himself too much to love her.
Q 20What ridicules Puss inside the cave of lost souls?
Reflections of his past lives
They mock him for changing his outlook, just before the wolf reveals his true identity.
He had escaped the bag by eating a magic snack that turned him into a giant.
Q 24Where are Puss, Kitty and Perrito heading as the film ends?
Far Far Away
They steal a ship to get there, teeing up a return to Shrek's kingdom.
Q 25Which Spaghetti Western was cited as a particular influence on the plot?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Director Joel Crawford said Puss has one foot in the Shrek fairy-tale world and one in the Spaghetti Western world.
Q 26Which animated film inspired the painterly, storybook visual style?
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Production designer Nate Wragg suggested it, as he had for DreamWorks' The Bad Guys earlier in 2022.
Q 27Which Into the Spider-Verse co-director was originally set to direct The Last Wish?
Bob Persichetti
He had been head of story on the first Puss in Boots; Joel Crawford, fresh from The Croods: A New Age, replaced him in March 2021.
Q 28Who directed the finished film?
Joel Crawford
He wanted Puss's mortality and fear of death to be 'the engine that drives the movie'; Januel Mercado co-directed.
Q 29What was the sequel's announced title back in 2014, before it went into development hell?
Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves
Guillermo del Toro was executive producer of that version, which was to take Puss to 'a very exotic locale'.
Q 30Which Illumination boss became an executive producer of the revived project in 2018?
Chris Meledandri
He was also attached to Shrek 5 at the same time.