Up Movie Trivia
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63 free Up Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
64 free Up Movie trivia questions with answers. Pixar's Up begins with the most talked-about ten minutes in animation, a wordless montage of a marriage, and then straps ten thousand balloons to a house and flies it to South America. It opened the Cannes Film Festival, won two Oscars, and became only the second animated film ever nominated for Best Picture. This quiz has 63 questions across the whole story: the plot (the Ellie Badge, Shady Oaks, the leaf blower), the voice cast and how an eight-year-old who would not stop talking got the part of Russell, the production trip to Venezuela and the maths behind the balloons, Michael Giacchino's score, the box office and awards, and the afterlife of the characters in Dug Days and Carl's Date. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know which Cannes prize Dug won. Every answer has been checked against reference sources and is explained once you answer, so it works for a family movie night or a Pixar round at pub trivia.
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Q 01Who voices Carl Fredricksen, the grumpy widower at the centre of Up?
Ed Asner
Ed Asner was nearly 80 when he voiced Carl; the writers tailored the lines to his delivery, favouring short sentences with plenty of consonants.
Q 02What breed of dog is Dug?
Golden Retriever
Dug is a Golden Retriever, the friendly outcast of Muntz's pack; the collar Muntz built translates his thoughts into speech, which is why he keeps announcing squirrels mid-sentence.
Q 03Which merit badge is Russell trying to earn when he stows away on Carl's porch?
Assisting the Elderly
Assisting the Elderly is the last badge Russell needs to become a Senior Wilderness Explorer, which is why he knocks on Carl's door offering to help him cross the street.
Q 04What does young Ellie make Carl do to seal his promise to take her to Paradise Falls?
Cross his heart
Cross his heart: Ellie makes Carl swear he will take her there in a blimp, and decades later Russell gets the same gesture out of him, as a promise not to abandon Kevin.
Q 05Where did Carl and Ellie both work as adults?
The city zoo
The city zoo employed them both, Carl selling balloons from a cart and Ellie as a zookeeper; the money they saved for their big trip kept going on more pressing needs.
Q 06What is the name of Charles Muntz's airship?
Spirit of Adventure
Spirit of Adventure is the dirigible's name, perhaps a nod to Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis; in the follow-up series Dug Days, Carl sells it to buy a house in the suburbs.
Q 07Which veteran actor voices the villain Charles Muntz?
Christopher Plummer
Christopher Plummer voices Muntz, a fallen hero Pete Docter modelled partly on Howard Hughes and on real explorers such as Percy Fawcett, who vanished in the Amazon while hunting a lost city.
Q 08At the end of Up, what does Carl pin on Russell as the 'Ellie Badge'?
A bottle cap
A bottle cap Ellie gave Carl when they first met as children, so it has been on his lapel for the whole film.
Q 09What does Carl find Ellie has filled the blank pages of her adventure book with?
Photos of their life together
Photos of their life together fill the pages Carl thought were empty, ending with Ellie's note: 'Thanks for the adventure – now go have a new one!'
Q 10What is odd about the voice that comes out of Alpha's collar?
It is squeaky and high-pitched
It is squeaky and high-pitched because his collar has been bumped, as Beta and Gamma point out before laughing at their fearsome pack leader.
Q 11What breed is Alpha, the leader of Charles Muntz's dog pack?
Doberman
Doberman Alpha outranks a Rottweiler named Beta and a bulldog named Gamma, and the three keep the misfit Dug busy with a 'special mission' of his own.
Q 12In Up, what is Dug made to wear as punishment for losing the bird?
The Cone of Shame
The Cone of Shame is a plastic cone around Dug's neck; in the finale he jams one over Alpha's head instead, and the whole pack laughs at its leader.
Q 13Dug made an early cameo as a shadow barking on a wall in which earlier Pixar film?
Ratatouille
Dug's shadow appears barking at Remy on a wall in Ratatouille (2007), two years before Up, an early nod to a character Pixar was already developing.
Q 21How did Pete Docter get real laughs from Russell's young voice actor?
Tickling
Tickling did it: Docter remembers picking the boy up upside down, tickling his tummy and telling him to say the line.
Q 22Up's Carl was designed to resemble which Hollywood star as he looked in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?
Spencer Tracy
Spencer Tracy's last screen role gave Carl his look, and the head was drawn square to show a man closed off and set in his ways.
Q 23Which TV newsman was the signature role of the actor who voices Carl in Up?
Lou Grant
Lou Grant began as the gruff boss on a sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and was then spun off into a one-hour newspaper drama of his own.
Q 14Which gift from his dad does Russell toss out of Carl's window?
GPS unit
A GPS unit: Russell boasts that with it they will never be lost, then tosses it out of the window with one careless wave of his arm.
Q 15How many balloons did a technical director calculate it would really take to lift Carl's house?
23 million
23 million was the estimate, yet the film shows only about 10,000 to 20,000 balloons, drawn larger so they read on screen.
Q 16In which city did Disney tie balloons to a real holdout's house?
Seattle
Seattle's Edith Macefield had refused a reported $1 million for her little house, so a retail complex rose around it; Up was already in the works before her stand.
Q 17Which country did Docter and a team of Pixar artists visit to research Up's tabletop mountains?
Venezuela
Venezuela's tabletop mountains set the scene: the team took three days to reach Mount Roraima by plane, jeep and helicopter, then sketched among ants and scorpions.
Q 18Which real bird did the animators study at the Sacramento Zoo to design Kevin?
Himalayan monal
Kevin was based on the Himalayan monal, a pheasant with iridescent plumage the animators studied at the Sacramento Zoo; new software had to be written just to render those feathers.
Q 19Russell's look was modelled on which Pixar artist?
Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn was the model: Docter called him such an entertaining guy that basing a character on a colleague like him gave the team a head start.
Q 20How did Jordan Nagai end up being cast as Russell?
He came along to his brother's audition
He came along to his brother's audition: older brother Hunter was the one trying out, until the casting director asked Jordan to read as well.
Q 24Who voices young Ellie in Up's opening prologue?
The director's daughter
The director's daughter voices a girl who does nearly all the talking, as she tells the silent young Carl herself: 'You know, you don't talk very much. I like you.'
Q 25What treat does Russell use to make friends with Kevin, the giant bird?
Chocolate
Chocolate from Russell's bar wins the bird over, and Muntz's dogs later pick up its smell on the trail alongside the bird's own scent.
Q 26Pixar good-luck charm John Ratzenberger voices which character in Up?
Construction foreman Tom
Construction foreman Tom is the hard-hat who tells Carl his boss will double his last offer for the house; Ratzenberger had voiced a part in every Pixar feature up to then.
Q 27In the newsreel that opens Up, scientists accuse the explorer Charles Muntz of faking what?
A giant bird skeleton
A giant bird skeleton from South America is branded a fake, so Muntz is stripped of his membership and vows not to come home until he catches the creature alive.
Q 28What is the name of the retirement home a court orders Carl to move into?
Shady Oaks
Shady Oaks is the home whose nurses George and A.J. arrive to collect Carl; the pair got their own 2009 short, George and A.J., about the fallout after they watched the house float away.
Q 29In Up, a construction worker damages what, provoking Carl into hitting him with his cane?
His mailbox
His mailbox, the one Carl and Ellie painted together, which is why a small dent sets him off and lands him in court.
Q 30Russell chases after the airship using a bunch of balloons and what household item?
A leaf blower
Russell ties himself to a bunch of balloons and steers with a leaf blower; Carl then throws all his furniture out of the house so it is light enough to fly after him.