2020s Movies
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50 free 2020s Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 2020s have been a strange and brilliant decade for film. Cinemas went dark, streaming premieres became normal, and then audiences came roaring back for pink dream houses, atomic history, flying aces and a multiverse or two. Animation had a run of its own, from Pixar coming-of-age stories to video game adaptations that filled theaters with kids. This quiz covers the films people have been talking about since 2020: the plots, the characters, the actors and voice casts, the directors, the songs that escaped onto the charts and the awards-night surprises. Roughly two questions in five are about family and animated films, so it works for a mixed table of children and adults. The questions start easy and get tougher, and every answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave with a few stories about how these films were made.
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Q 01Which animated musical gave the world We Don't Talk About Bruno, a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100?
Encanto
Encanto sent the song to number one, something no tune from a Disney animated film had managed since A Whole New World from Aladdin in 1993.
Q 02Which director made Barbie, the first film by a solo female director to gross over a billion dollars?
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig wrote the script with Noah Baumbach, and the comedy about a doll went on to take about $1.4 billion worldwide.
Q 03In Inside Out 2, which new emotion voiced by Maya Hawke takes control of Riley's mind at hockey camp?
Anxiety
Anxiety bottles up Joy and the other original emotions and has them thrown into a vault, convinced that Riley must change to fit in with the older players.
Q 04Which game became a 2025 film starring Jack Black as Steve and Jason Momoa as a former gaming champion?
Minecraft
Minecraft reached cinemas as A Minecraft Movie, in which four misfits from Idaho are pulled through a portal into a world made of cubes.
Q 05What did groups of teenagers wear to screenings of Minions: The Rise of Gru in a viral TikTok trend?
Suits
Suits were the uniform of the Gentleminions, who copied Gru's formal look. Some British cinemas banned groups in formal dress after rowdy screenings.
Q 06Which actor earned an Oscar nomination as Ken in Barbie and led I'm Just Ken live at the 2024 ceremony?
Ryan Gosling
Ryan Gosling turned the comic power ballad into an awards-season hit: it was nominated for the Best Original Song Oscar and won Best Song at the Critics' Choice Awards.
Q 07In Pixar's Luca, the two boys exploring a town on the Italian Riviera are secretly what?
Sea monsters
Sea monsters like Luca and Alberto take human form whenever they are on dry land. Director Enrico Casarosa drew the story from his own childhood in Genoa.
Q 08In Spider-Man: No Way Home, whose botched memory spell pulls in villains from other universes?
Doctor Strange
Doctor Strange loses control of the spell because Peter Parker keeps asking for changes mid-cast, so that his loved ones can keep their memories.
Q 09Which British actor plays Lofty, the Oompa-Loompa who keeps stealing Willy's chocolate in the 2023 film Wonka?
Hugh Grant
Hugh Grant played the tiny thief through motion capture. Lofty is out for payback because the young chocolatier once took cocoa beans from Loompaland on his watch.
Q 10Which actor voiced both the plumber hero of The Super Mario Bros. Movie and the cat in The Garfield Movie?
Chris Pratt
Chris Pratt plays Mario as a struggling plumber from Brooklyn who is swept into a war between the Mushroom Kingdom and Bowser's Dark Lands.
Q 11Which Canadian city is the setting of Pixar's Turning Red, where director Domee Shi grew up?
Toronto
Toronto in 2002 is home to 13-year-old Mei Lee, who turns into a giant red panda whenever her feelings run high.
Q 12In Pixar's Soul, New York music teacher Joe Gardner dreams of a career playing which style of music?
Jazz
Jazz scenes in the film were animated from real recording sessions by musician Jon Batiste, who also composed its original jazz pieces.
Q 13In Pixar's Elemental, what is the name of the tearful water-element city inspector who falls for Ember?
Wade
Wade first meets Ember when her temper bursts a pipe and floods the basement of her father's shop, and he writes the place up for code violations.
Q 21Which director's stop-motion Pinocchio, set in Fascist Italy, won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro co-directed with stop-motion veteran Mark Gustafson, and in their version the puppet sings a song mocking Mussolini to his face.
Q 22Which rock frontman voices Clay Calloway, the reclusive lion rock star in the animated sequel Sing 2?
Bono
Bono's lion has hidden away since his wife Ruby died 15 years earlier, and the plot turns on the troupe's attempt to enlist him for their new show.
Q 23Which Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse villain is an Alchemax scientist with a body covered in portals?
The Spot
Q 14In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, the wolf hunting the hero turns out to be which figure?
Death
Death comes for Puss in person, insulted that the cat never valued his earlier lives. He only spares him once Puss learns to treasure the one he has left.
Q 15Which comedy star plays the villainous Doctor Robotnik in the 2020 film Sonic the Hedgehog?
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey's film nearly looked very different: after fans mocked the first trailer, the studio delayed it by three months to redesign Sonic.
Q 16In The Wild Robot, the shipwrecked robot Roz becomes adoptive mother to an orphan of which bird?
Goose
Goose chick Brightbill imprints on Roz after she accidentally crushes his family's nest. She has to teach him to eat, swim and fly before the winter migration.
Q 17Which Disney sequel began as a streaming miniseries before it was reworked into a 2024 cinema release?
Moana 2
Moana 2 began life as a five-episode Disney+ show announced in 2020, and the studio only turned it into a feature film in early 2024.
Q 18Which pop star plays Glinda opposite Cynthia Erivo's Elphaba in the 2024 film Wicked?
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande's film covers only the first act of the stage show, because the adaptation was split into two parts to avoid cutting the plot.
Q 19Flow, the wordless animated film about a cat in a rising flood, gave which country its first Oscar win?
Latvia
Latvia's winner was made by director Gints Zilbalodis using Blender, a free and open-source animation program. It took Best Animated Feature in 2025.
Q 20Which Japanese animation director came out of retirement to make the Oscar-winning The Boy and the Heron?
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki had announced his retirement in 2013 after The Wind Rises, and Studio Ghibli reopened once he changed his mind.
The Spot blames the young Spider-Man for his condition, because the portals were fused into his body when the collider was destroyed in the first film.
Q 24Ne Zha 2, the first animated film to gross over two billion dollars, was made in which country?
China
China turned out in force for the film, which opened on the first day of Chinese New Year in 2025. Its story is adapted from the 16th-century novel Investiture of the Gods.
Q 25Which original Top Gun star returned for a last screen role as Admiral Iceman in Top Gun: Maverick?
Val Kilmer
Val Kilmer had campaigned on his Facebook page to come back, and in the sequel his old rival character has risen to command the US Pacific Fleet.
Q 26Which actress from the original Avatar returned in Avatar: The Way of Water as Kiri, the Sullys' adopted daughter?
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver played scientist Grace Augustine in the first film, and Kiri was born from Grace's dormant Na'vi body, so the actress came back as a child.
Q 27Which actor played both Paul Atreides in Dune and the young chocolatier in the 2023 film Wonka?
Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet plays Paul as the heir of a noble house that is thrust into a war for the desert planet Arrakis.
Q 28Which actress plays tennis prodigy Tashi Duncan in Challengers and MJ in Spider-Man: No Way Home?
Zendaya
Zendaya also produced Challengers, in which two best friends both fall for Tashi after watching her win a junior final.
Q 29Which masked serial killer, played by Paul Dano, targets Gotham City's elite in the 2022 film The Batman?
The Riddler
The Riddler in this version is a forensic accountant inspired by Batman himself, and he leaves messages for Robert Pattinson's hero at his crime scenes.
Q 30Which singer ended a six-year break from solo music with Lift Me Up for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever?
Rihanna
Rihanna's ballad is a tribute to Chadwick Boseman, the star of the first film, who died in 2020.