Pixar Movies Quiz: Toy Story, Nemo, Up, Coco and More

This Pixar movies quiz looks at the studio behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, Up, Inside Out, WALL-E, Coco and Monsters, Inc. Ten questions on characters, plots and behind-the-scenes history, 90 seconds, every answer explained.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 90 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 90s

History
What was Pixar's first feature film, released in 1995?
Characters
In Finding Nemo, what kind of fish is Nemo?
Characters
What is the name of the rat who dreams of being a chef in Ratatouille?
Plots
In Up, what lifts Carl Fredricksen's house into the sky?
Plots
Which Pixar film follows emotions like Joy and Sadness inside a girl's mind?
Robots
What job was the robot WALL-E built to do on Earth?
Culture
Coco (2017) is built around which Mexican holiday?
Plots
In Monsters, Inc., what powers the city of Monstropolis?
History
Which tech entrepreneur bought the company that became Pixar and served as its CEO?
Easter Eggs
What is the name of the space-themed pizza restaurant in Toy Story?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What was Pixar's first feature film, released in 1995?
Answer: Toy Story
Toy Story was the first feature-length film made entirely with computer animation. Its success led to Toy Story 2, 3 and 4, plus the 2022 spin-off Lightyear.
Q2: In Finding Nemo, what kind of fish is Nemo?
Answer: Clownfish
Nemo is a clownfish with one small fin, and his father Marlin crosses the ocean to find him. His friend Dory, a forgetful blue tang, got her own film in 2016.
Q3: What is the name of the rat who dreams of being a chef in Ratatouille?
Answer: Remy
Remy secretly cooks at Gusteau's restaurant in Paris by steering Alfredo Linguini through his hair. Emile is Remy's brother, who mostly cares about eating.
Q4: In Up, what lifts Carl Fredricksen's house into the sky?
Answer: Balloons
Carl ties thousands of helium balloons to his house to fly to Paradise Falls in South America. The film's opening montage of Carl and Ellie's life is famous for making audiences cry.
Q5: Which Pixar film follows emotions like Joy and Sadness inside a girl's mind?
Answer: Inside Out
Inside Out (2015) takes place inside the mind of 11-year-old Riley. Inside Out 2 (2024) added new emotions such as Anxiety and became one of the highest-grossing animated films ever.
Q6: What job was the robot WALL-E built to do on Earth?
Answer: Compact trash
WALL-E stands for Waste Allocation Load Lifter – Earth-Class, and he has spent centuries compacting garbage left by humans. The film has very little dialogue in its first 40 minutes.
Q7: Coco (2017) is built around which Mexican holiday?
Answer: Day of the Dead
In Coco, young Miguel crosses into the Land of the Dead during Día de Muertos. Pixar's team made several research trips to Mexico while developing the film.
Q8: In Monsters, Inc., what powers the city of Monstropolis?
Answer: Children's screams
Monsters like Sulley and Mike collect children's screams as energy. By the end, they discover that laughter is far more powerful.
Q9: Which tech entrepreneur bought the company that became Pixar and served as its CEO?
Answer: Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs bought Lucasfilm's computer graphics division in 1986 and helped build Pixar. When Disney bought Pixar in 2006, Jobs became Disney's largest individual shareholder.
Q10: What is the name of the space-themed pizza restaurant in Toy Story?
Answer: Pizza Planet
Woody and Buzz end up at Pizza Planet, where the alien toys worship the claw. The Pizza Planet delivery truck appears as a hidden Easter egg in almost every Pixar film.

Pixar Movies Quiz – The Studio That Made Toys Talk

Pixar began as a small computer graphics team inside Lucasfilm. Steve Jobs bought it in 1986, and for years it made short films and TV commercials while it developed the technology for something bigger. In 1995 it released Toy Story, the first feature film animated entirely by computer, and changed animation forever.

What made Pixar stand out was not only the technology but the storytelling. Films like Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALL-E and Up dealt with grief, ambition, loneliness and family in ways that adults found as moving as children did. The studio's story team became known for rewriting films again and again until the emotions felt right.

Pixar films are also packed with hidden details for fans to spot. The Pizza Planet truck, the number A113 and a red, yellow and blue ball appear across many films. Some fans even believe all Pixar movies share one connected universe.

This quiz moves from Toy Story to Inside Out and Coco, mixing questions about characters and plots with a little studio history.

Pixar's influence reaches well beyond its own films. Its RenderMan software has been used on many visual-effects-heavy movies from other studios, and its way of building stories, with directors and story artists constantly reviewing each other's work, has been copied across the animation industry. Many of today's leading animation directors started their careers at the studio in Emeryville, California.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz works well for families, animation fans and anyone who has cried at the start of Up.

How Pixar's first film changed animation
Key characters from Finding Nemo, Ratatouille and Monsters, Inc.
What WALL-E's name stands for
Which Mexican holiday inspired Coco
How Steve Jobs helped build Pixar
Which Easter eggs appear across Pixar films

Quick Facts About Pixar

A113 is the number of a classroom at CalArts, where many Pixar animators studied.
Disney bought Pixar in 2006 for about 7.4 billion dollars.
Tom Hanks voices Woody, and his brother Jim Hanks often voices Woody for toys and games.
John Ratzenberger, the voice of Hamm in Toy Story, has had a voice role in more than 20 Pixar films.
Pixar's lamp mascot, Luxo Jr., first appeared in a 1986 short film.
Toy Story 3 was the first animated film to earn more than 1 billion dollars.