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This Incredibles trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers both Pixar films: The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018). Expect questions on the Parr family and their powers, Syndrome and the Screenslaver, Edna Mode's rules about capes, Frozone's cover story, the voice cast, Michael Giacchino's score and the two short films that travelled with the movies, Jack-Jack Attack and Bao. It starts easy enough for kids who know the films by heart and works up to expert questions about casting near-misses, Oscar wins, box office records and the fourteen-year wait between the two movies. Play it solo, with the family, or as a round at movie night. Every answer was checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources rather than fan lists, so the facts hold up even for the hardest questions.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed both The Incredibles and Incredibles 2?
Brad Bird
He came to Pixar as its first outside director after his 1999 film The Iron Giant flopped, and he also directed Ratatouille in between the two Incredibles movies.
Q 02Which character is voiced by the writer-director of the films himself?
Edna Mode
The voice began as a scratch track during storyboarding and stuck after several actresses failed to match it; the performance won an Annie Award for voice acting.
Q 03What is Helen Parr's superhero name?
Elastigirl
Her stretching power was meant to symbolise how mothers get pulled in a million directions at once.
Q 04What are Violet Parr's superpowers?
Invisibility and force fields
Her long hair that hides her face was so hard to animate that it was only finished near the end of production.
Q 05Which Parr child has superhuman speed?
Dash
He discovers during the island chase that he can run across water without sinking.
Q 06What is Frozone's real name?
Lucius Best
He was the best man at Bob and Helen's wedding, and his power depends on how much moisture is in the air around him.
Q 07Which actor voices Frozone?
Samuel L. Jackson
The director wanted a voice that sounded distinctively cool for the character, and cast him in both films.
Q 08Who provides the voice of Bob Parr, a.k.a. Mr. Incredible?
Craig T. Nelson
He had never done a voice role before and recorded his lines over two years while starring in the TV drama The District.
Q 09Which Oscar-winning actress voices Helen Parr?
Holly Hunter
It was her first ever animated role, and it remained her only voice credit until a 2019 guest spot on Bless the Harts.
Q 10What is Syndrome's real name?
Buddy Pine
As a boy he called himself IncrediBoy and used rocket boots to compensate for having no powers of his own.
Q 11Which actor voices Syndrome?
Jason Lee
The role was first offered to Jack Black, who turned it down thinking the character was one-dimensional and later regretted it.
Q 12Who composed the jazzy orchestral scores for both films?
Michael Giacchino
The Incredibles was his first big feature and his first Pixar film; James Bond composer John Barry was the original first choice.
Q 13Sarah Vowell was cast as Violet after the director heard her on which public radio show?
This American Life
The offer came out of the blue; the director called her immediately after hearing her voice on air.
Q 21Which Pixar short played before The Incredibles in theaters?
Boundin'
The short was made by Bud Luckey, the animator who also voices agent Rick Dicker in the film.
Q 22Which short film played before Incredibles 2 in theaters?
Bao
The eight-minute short about a mother and a steamed bun that comes to life went on to win the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film.
Q 23Bao, shown with Incredibles 2, was the first Pixar short directed by whom?
A woman
Domee Shi wrote and directed it, drawing on growing up as an only child in Toronto; she later directed Turning Red.
Q 14In the first film, the Parrs live in a quiet suburb of which city?
Metroville
The whole world is a retro-futuristic take on the 1960s, the future as imagined from that decade.
Q 15Syndrome's secret base is on which island?
Nomanisan
Say it out loud: no man is an island. The base has its own monorail system and a large staff of guards.
Q 16What is Bob's boring day job at the start of the first film?
Claims adjuster
He gets fired after throwing his supervisor through several walls when he is stopped from helping a mugging victim.
Q 17Which actor voices Gilbert Huph, Bob's tiny and demeaning boss?
Wallace Shawn
The same actor is also the voice of Rex the dinosaur in the Toy Story films.
Q 18Which item does Edna absolutely refuse to put on any super suit?
Capes
Her rant lists heroes who came to grief because of them, including one sucked into a jet turbine, and the same fate later befalls Syndrome.
Q 19Along with Animated Feature, in which other category did The Incredibles win an Oscar?
Sound Editing
It was nominated for Original Screenplay and Sound Mixing too, giving it four nominations, the most for any film that season.
Q 20Which of these was a first for Pixar with The Incredibles?
Every character was human
Animating realistic skin, hair and clothing on so many people required brand-new technology, and animators filmed themselves walking to study human motion.
Q 24In the short Jack-Jack Attack, what is the name of Jack-Jack's babysitter?
Kari McKeen
The short grew out of a scene cut from the feature and was made for the 2005 DVD release.
Q 25In Jack-Jack Attack, which composer's music does Kari play to give the baby 'neurological stimulation'?
Mozart
The piece is the Rondo alla turca from Piano Sonata No. 11, and it triggers Jack-Jack's powers instead of calming him.
Q 26When Kari asks what the 'S' on Syndrome's costume stands for, what does he tell her?
Sitter
He explains that if he called himself Babysitter his uniform would have to say BS, and no parent would take him seriously.
Q 27In Incredibles 2, who turns out to be the real Screenslaver?
Evelyn Deavor
She blames society's dependence on supers for her parents' deaths and wants heroes to stay outlawed forever.
Q 28Which comedy actor voices Winston Deavor, the superhero-loving telecom boss in Incredibles 2?
Bob Odenkirk
The Better Call Saul star was joined by another Breaking Bad alum, Jonathan Banks, who voices agent Rick Dicker.
Q 29Which actress voices Evelyn, DevTech's tech-genius designer, in Incredibles 2?
Catherine Keener
When the character wears the Screenslaver mask, the voice is actually provided by a different actor, Bill Wise.
Q 30Who replaced Spencer Fox as the voice of Dash in Incredibles 2?
Huck Milner
The original Dash had aged out of the part during the fourteen-year gap, so a younger newcomer took over.