2010s Movie Trivia
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110 free 2010s Movie trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
49 free 2010s Movie trivia questions with answers. The 2010s were the decade Marvel took over the box office, Disney bought everything, and the Oscars gave Best Picture to a horror-adjacent thriller, a silent-mute fish romance and a Korean-language film. This quiz covers the blockbusters and the prestige pictures side by side: Inception and Interstellar, The Avengers and Endgame, Frozen and Toy Story 3, Skyfall, The Hunger Games, Fury Road, Get Out, Whiplash, La La Land, Moonlight, Black Panther, Joker and Parasite. The easy questions ask what The Social Network is about and which film features Elsa of Arendelle. The hard ones want the physicist behind Interstellar, the fairy tale that inspired Frozen, which Best Picture winner took only one other Oscar, and how many f-words are in The Wolf of Wall Street. Ideal for movie nights and pub quizzes with a millennial crowd. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on each film, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01In Inception, what does Cobb use as a totem to test whether he is dreaming?
A spinning top
A spinning top: if it keeps spinning Cobb is dreaming, if it topples he is awake. The final shot cuts away before the top falls.
Q 02Which French song is used in Inception to signal the 'kick' that wakes the dreamers?
Non, je ne regrette rien
Non, je ne regrette rien: Édith Piaf's 1960 recording is played to cue the kick, and Hans Zimmer slowed it down to build the film's booming brass motif.
Q 03Christopher Nolan first pitched Inception to Warner Bros. in what genre?
Horror, about dream stealers
Horror, about dream stealers: Nolan pitched it to Warner Bros. in 2001 and wrote an 80-page treatment, then shelved it until after the Batman films.
Q 04The Social Network is based on which book?
The Accidental Billionaires
The Accidental Billionaires, Ben Mezrich's 2009 book on which Eduardo Saverin consulted; Aaron Sorkin adapted it while Zuckerberg and Facebook declined to take part.
Q 05Who plays Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network?
Andrew Garfield
Andrew Garfield plays Eduardo Saverin; Jesse Eisenberg is Zuckerberg, Justin Timberlake is Sean Parker and Armie Hammer plays both Winklevoss twins.
Q 06Which band's members composed the award-winning score for The Social Network?
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails: Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scored the film and won the Oscar for Best Original Score in 2011, later reuniting with Fincher on Gone Girl.
Q 07Toy Story 3 was the first animated film to do what?
Gross $1 billion
It was also only the third animated film nominated for Best Picture.
Q 08Where are the toys accidentally donated in Toy Story 3?
Sunnyside Daycare
Sunnyside Daycare is run by the strawberry-scented bear Lotso, and once there the toys must decide where their loyalties lie.
Q 09The King's Speech centres on which monarch's struggle with a stammer?
George VI
George VI, played by Colin Firth, sees therapist Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush); Firth won Best Actor and the film took Best Picture from 12 nominations.
Q 10Why did the writer of The King's Speech delay the project for decades?
The monarch's widow asked him to wait
The monarch's widow asked him to wait: the Queen Mother told David Seidler 'not in my lifetime'; she died in 2002 and the film reached cinemas in 2010.
Q 11Bridesmaids was co-written by Annie Mumolo and which star of the film?
Kristen Wiig
Kristen Wiig and Mumolo were Oscar-nominated for Best Original Screenplay, and Melissa McCarthy for Best Supporting Actress.
Q 12In which city does Bridesmaids' Annie Walker live after her bakery fails?
Milwaukee
Milwaukee: after her bakery Cake Baby closes, Annie shares a Milwaukee flat with two odd British siblings, and her best friend Lillian's wedding drives the plot.
Q 13Who wrote and directed The Avengers (2012)?
Joss Whedon
Joss Whedon rewrote Zak Penn's original screenplay and directed the film, which opened in May 2012 and became the third-highest-grossing film ever at the time.
Q 21Disney's Frozen (2013) was loosely inspired by which 1844 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale?
The Snow Queen
The Snow Queen, Andersen's 1844 tale, was the loose basis; Frozen went on to gross $1.28 billion, then a record for animation.
Q 22Which songwriting team wrote the songs for Frozen, including Let It Go?
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote the songs, and Let It Go won the 2014 Oscar for Best Original Song.
Q 23Gravity's visual effects, covering more than 80 of its 91 minutes, were made by which British company?
Framestore
Q 14Which alien race does Loki lead against Earth in The Avengers?
The Chitauri
The Chitauri, an alien army lent to Loki by Thanos through his servant The Other; they pour through a wormhole above Manhattan in the final battle.
Q 15The Hunger Games was filmed primarily in which state?
North Carolina
North Carolina: District 12 was shot in the abandoned Henry River Mill Village near Hildebran, and the arena scenes in DuPont State Forest outside Asheville.
Q 16Which studio produced The Hunger Games films?
Lionsgate
Lionsgate signed the co-production deal with Color Force in March 2009, weeks after the rights were bought.
Q 17Which two Bond regulars returned in Skyfall after being absent for two films?
Moneypenny and Q
Moneypenny and Q, absent from Casino Royale and Quantum of Solace, returned played by Naomie Harris and Ben Whishaw; Javier Bardem was the villain Silva.
Q 18Skyfall's production was suspended in 2010 because of what?
MGM's bankruptcy
MGM's bankruptcy: the studio's financial collapse, ending in a Chapter 11 filing in November 2010, halted Bond 23 in April 2010; screenwriter Peter Morgan quit during the delay.
Q 19Argo dramatises the rescue of six US diplomats from which city?
Tehran
Tehran was where the 'Canadian Caper' played out during the 1979-81 Iran hostage crisis, with a science-fiction shoot as the cover story.
Q 20Argo won the top Oscar but Ben Affleck famously missed a nomination in which category?
Director
Bradley Cooper declared that Affleck 'got robbed'.
Framestore, the London studio, spent about three years building Gravity's almost entirely digital environments; the film won seven Oscars including Best Visual Effects and Best Director.
Q 2412 Years a Slave was based on whose 1853 memoir?
Solomon Northup
Solomon Northup, a free Black New Yorker kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery in Louisiana, published Twelve Years a Slave in 1853; Chiwetel Ejiofor played him.
Q 25The Wolf of Wall Street set a record for what?
Uses of a particular expletive
Uses of a particular expletive: the F-word is heard more than 500 times, a record for a non-documentary feature at the time; it was DiCaprio's fifth film with Scorsese.
Q 26Whiplash grew out of an 18-minute short film that premiered at which festival?
Sundance
Sundance: the short won the Short Film Jury Prize there in January 2013; the feature opened the 2014 festival and won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award.
Q 27Interstellar was developed from a treatment by producer Lynda Obst and which theoretical physicist?
Kip Thorne
Kip Thorne, the Caltech physicist who later shared the 2017 Nobel Prize for gravitational waves, was executive producer and wrote The Science of Interstellar.
Q 28Which Guardian of the Galaxy is voiced by Vin Diesel?
Groot
Bradley Cooper voices Rocket; the film was the third-biggest hit of 2014.
Q 29Birdman is presented as though it were filmed how?
In one continuous take
In one continuous take: Emmanuel Lubezki's long takes were stitched into a single apparent shot, winning him the cinematography Oscar; the film also won Best Picture and Director.
Q 30Mad Max: Fury Road stars Charlize Theron as which character?
Imperator Furiosa
Imperator Furiosa, the shaven-headed war-rig driver who smuggles Immortan Joe's wives to freedom; Anya Taylor-Joy played her younger self in the 2024 prequel Furiosa.