50 Fun Facts About Kung Fu Panda
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Take the 50-question quizWhat kind of animal is Po?
He is a bumbling, noodle-loving kung fu fanatic who is unexpectedly named the Dragon Warrior.
Who provides the voice of Po in the films?
He also sings a rewritten 'Kung Fu Fighting' with Cee-Lo Green over the first film's end credits.
What is the name of the place where Po lives and works in his father's noodle shop?
Po works there in his father's noodle shop until the day of the tournament.
Po's adoptive father Mr. Ping is what kind of animal?
He runs a noodle restaurant and hopes Po will take it over one day.
Master Shifu, voiced by Dustin Hoffman, is what kind of animal?
He raised the snow leopard Tai Lung as his own son before Tai Lung turned on the valley.
Which of these is NOT one of the Furious Five?
The five are Tigress, Monkey, Crane, Viper and Mantis.
Grand Master Oogway is what kind of creature?
He is described as an ancient Galápagos tortoise and is Shifu's mentor.
Tai Lung, the villain of the first film, is what kind of big cat?
He escaped prison to seize the Dragon Scroll he had once been denied.
Who voices Tai Lung?
The actor returned for Kung Fu Panda 4, where the Chameleon takes Tai Lung's form.
Which martial-arts movie star voices Master Monkey?
He also reprised the role for the film's Chinese-language dub.
Angelina Jolie voices which member of the Furious Five?
Lucy Liu voices Viper, David Cross voices Crane and Seth Rogen voices Mantis.
When Po finally opens the Dragon Scroll, what does he find?
He realises the message matches his father's secret: there is no secret ingredient.
What is the 'secret ingredient' in Mr. Ping's secret ingredient soup?
Ping tells Po that believing something is special is what makes it special.
What is the name of the finishing move Po uses to defeat Tai Lung?
He taught himself the move; in the third film he uses it on himself to reach the Spirit Realm.
Why does Tai Lung's paralysing nerve strike fail against Po?
The same technique had taken down all of the Furious Five moments earlier.
Shifu discovers Po can perform amazing physical feats when he is motivated by what?
Shifu builds an entire training style around dumplings and bowls of noodles.
The hand-drawn opening sequence of the first film was designed to resemble what Chinese art form?
It was directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson, who went on to direct the second and third films.
Where did the first Kung Fu Panda hold its world premiere in May 2008?
It reportedly received massive, sustained applause at the end of the screening.
Roughly how much did the first Kung Fu Panda gross worldwide?
That made it the highest-grossing animated film of 2008.
The first Kung Fu Panda swept the Annie Awards, winning how many out of sixteen nominations?
The haul was so lopsided that critics accused DreamWorks of buying voting memberships for its staff.
Which composer, later joined by John Powell, scored the first Kung Fu Panda and visited China to prepare?
He also used the China National Symphony Orchestra in the recording.
Which Stephen Chow martial-arts comedy is reported to have inspired the directors of the first film?
The look drew on artier films like Hero, House of Flying Daggers and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.
The rhinoceros warden of the prison holding Tai Lung, Commander Vachir, was voiced by which actor?
Dan Fogler voiced Zeng, the nervous messenger goose sent to warn the prison.
Kung Fu Panda 2's villain, Lord Shen, is what kind of bird?
He is voiced by Gary Oldman.
Lord Shen's family, rulers of Gongmen City, invented what?
Shen realised the gunpowder could be weaponised and built cannons to conquer China.
The Soothsayer prophesied that Shen would be defeated by 'a warrior of' what?
Shen took it to mean a panda and tried to wipe out every panda in China.
Mr. Ping found baby Po in a shipment of what?
Po's mother had hidden him in the crate while she led Shen's wolves away.
Which Oscar-winning actress voices the Soothsayer, a wise goat, in Kung Fu Panda 2?
Jean-Claude Van Damme joined the same film as Master Croc.
Kung Fu Panda 2 was the top-grossing film solely directed by a woman until Wonder Woman. Who directed it?
She had been head of story on the first film and directed its shadow-puppet opening.
Before it was simply titled Kung Fu Panda 2, the sequel had which working subtitles?
Both were dropped by the time of release in 2011.
How does Po defeat Shen's fleet in the climax of Kung Fu Panda 2?
He achieves inner peace first, having accepted the memories of his parents.
Who voices Po's biological father Li Shan in Kung Fu Panda 3 and 4?
Mr. Ping is jealous at first, then the two dads end up opening a restaurant together.
General Kai, the villain of Kung Fu Panda 3, is what kind of animal?
He steals the chi of dead kung fu masters and turns them into jade zombies.
Who voices General Kai in Kung Fu Panda 3?
Mikkelsen was originally cast, but the character was rewritten and recast in 2015.
Kate Hudson replaced which actress as Mei Mei in Kung Fu Panda 3?
The studio had to reanimate finished scenes to match Hudson's take on the character.
Kung Fu Panda 3 was a co-production with Oriental DreamWorks, a studio based in which city?
About a third of the film was made in China, a first for a major American animated feature.
Why does Po's signature finishing move fail when he first tries it on Kai?
Po then performs the hold on himself to drag them both into the Spirit Realm.
At the end of Kung Fu Panda 3, Oogway names Po his successor and gives him what?
Po uses it to return from the Spirit Realm to the Mortal Realm.
In Kung Fu Panda 4, Po is told he must give up being the Dragon Warrior to become what?
He must also find and train his own successor.
Zhen, Po's sidekick in Kung Fu Panda 4, is what kind of animal?
She is a wanted thief from Juniper City, voiced by Awkwafina.
Who voices the shape-shifting sorceress the Chameleon in Kung Fu Panda 4?
She summons villains from the Spirit Realm, including Tai Lung, Shen and Kai.
Which Oscar-winning actor voices Han, the pangolin leader of a den of thieves, in Kung Fu Panda 4?
Ronny Chieng voices Captain Fish, a fish who lives inside a pelican's mouth.
Which YouTuber has a cameo in Kung Fu Panda 4 as 'Panda Pig', a pig painted to look like a panda?
Panda Pig is one of five candidates for the next Dragon Warrior.
Tenacious D covers which Britney Spears hit over the end credits of Kung Fu Panda 4?
Po's voice actor fronts the band; the cover was released alongside the film in March 2024.
Which studio distributed Kung Fu Panda 4, after Paramount handled the first two films and Fox the third?
DreamWorks Animation had changed hands twice in the intervening years.
Legends of Awesomeness, the first Kung Fu Panda TV series, aired on which network?
It bridged the gap between the first two films and won 11 Emmy Awards.
In Netflix's The Dragon Knight, Po's partner Wandering Blade is what kind of animal?
Rita Ora voices her; it was the first series in which Jack Black returned as Po.
In the 2010 TV special Kung Fu Panda Holiday, Shifu asks Po to host what event?
Masters from China's twenty-nine kung fu schools attend, and Po is torn between duty and dinner with his dad.
In the short Secrets of the Furious Five, who voices young Monkey?
The son of a martial-arts megastar also voiced Crane in the Cantonese dub of the original film.
The Kung Fu Panda films are set in a fantasy version of ancient China in which genre?
The series is popular in China as a Western take on the wuxia martial-arts tradition.
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