A Bug's Life Trivia
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46 free A Bug's Life trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
A Bug's Life was Pixar's second feature, released on November 25, 1998, three years after Toy Story. John Lasseter directed, Andrew Stanton co-directed and wrote, and the story grew from Aesop's fable of the ant and the grasshopper: a misfit inventor ant named Flik goes looking for warriors to save his colony from Hopper's gang and comes back with a troupe of unemployed circus bugs instead. This quiz covers the film from every angle: the plot on Ant Island, the sitcom-heavy voice cast (Dave Foley, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Kevin Spacey, David Hyde Pierce), the technical firsts like subsurface scattering and crowd software for 800 ants, the public feud with Jeffrey Katzenberg over DreamWorks' Antz, Randy Newman's Grammy-winning score, the record Thanksgiving opening, the Star Wars trailer that people bought tickets just to see, and the first all-digital DVD transfer. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it out for a Pixar night.
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Q 01Which kind of insect is Manny, the English-accented circus magician in A Bug's Life?
A praying mantis
A praying mantis. Real female mantises sometimes eat their mates during or after mating.
Q 02Who voices Flik, the clumsy inventor ant in A Bug's Life?
Dave Foley
Dave Foley. The circus bugs Flik recruits think he is a talent agent, while he mistakes them for warriors.
Q 03Who voices Hopper, the grasshopper gang leader in A Bug's Life?
Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey. Lasseter's first choice, Robert De Niro, repeatedly turned the part down before Spacey signed on.
Q 04Who voices Princess Atta, the colony's nervous heir in A Bug's Life?
Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Julia Louis-Dreyfus. When Flik's 'warriors' turn out to be circus performers, Atta tells him and the troupe to leave.
Q 05Who voices Dot, Princess Atta's little sister in A Bug's Life?
Hayden Panettiere
Hayden Panettiere. Dot persuades Flik and the circus bugs to come back and save the colony from Hopper.
Q 06Who voices Molt, Hopper's bumbling younger brother in A Bug's Life?
Richard Kind
Richard Kind. When P.T. Flea's circus sets off on its new tour at the end, Molt goes along as the strongman.
Q 07Which kind of insect is Slim, the circus clown David Hyde Pierce voices in A Bug's Life?
A stick bug
A stick bug. Real stick insects hide from predators by looking like twigs, and some even sway like branches in the wind.
Q 08Who voices Heimlich, the German-accented caterpillar in A Bug's Life?
Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft. Pixar's story chief died in a 2005 car crash while making Cars, and that film was dedicated to him.
Q 09Which kind of bug is Francis, the hot-tempered circus clown Denis Leary voices in A Bug's Life?
A ladybug
A ladybug. Francis is male and keeps getting mistaken for a female, and real ladybugs are beetles rather than true bugs.
Q 10Which Lost in Space star voices Manny, the circus magician in A Bug's Life?
Jonathan Harris
Jonathan Harris. Dr. Smith was meant to be a short-lived villain, until Harris rewrote his own lines as comedy and Smith became central to the series.
Q 11Which kind of creature is Rosie, the circus performer Bonnie Hunt voices in A Bug's Life?
A black widow spider
A black widow spider. Despite their fearsome name, real widows are not aggressive and usually bite only when squeezed or threatened.
Q 12Which Pixar regular voices P.T. Flea, the circus ringmaster in A Bug's Life?
John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger. He lost the Cheers part he auditioned for to George Wendt, then pitched a bar know-it-all, and the producers created Cliff Clavin for him.
Q 13Which kind of insect is Dim, the big blue circus performer Brad Garrett voices in A Bug's Life?
A rhinoceros beetle
Q 21What emerges from Heimlich's cocoon at the end of A Bug's Life?
A caterpillar with tiny wings
A caterpillar with tiny wings. Heimlich gets only undersized butterfly wings, so Francis and Manny carry him off.
Q 22Which films grew from the same 1994 Pixar lunch as A Bug's Life?
Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and WALL-E
Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo and WALL-E. The robot film began with one question: what if mankind left Earth and somebody forgot to turn off the last robot?
Q 23A Bug's Life's 3D show at Disney's Animal Kingdom was housed inside which structure?
The Tree of Life
A rhinoceros beetle. Real males use their horns to fight rivals during the mating season and to dig.
Q 14Which Planet of the Apes star voiced Mr. Soil in A Bug's Life, his final film role?
Roddy McDowall
Roddy McDowall. A London child actor, he was taken to America by his mother during World War II and soon became a Hollywood child star.
Q 15What is the name of the ants' home in A Bug's Life?
Ant Island
Ant Island. Despite the name, it is really a small hill in the middle of a seasonally dry creekbed.
Q 16In A Bug's Life, what is 'the city' that Flik travels to?
A trash heap under a trailer
A trash heap under a trailer. Flik goes there looking for warrior bugs to drive off Hopper's gang.
Q 17How does Flik accidentally anger Hopper at the start of A Bug's Life?
He spills the food offering
He spills the food offering. His grain harvester knocks the ants' offering into the water, and Hopper demands twice as much.
Q 18In A Bug's Life, what do the ants build to scare off the grasshoppers?
A fake bird
A fake bird. The plan collapses when P.T. Flea, fooled by the bird, sets it on fire.
Q 19What kind of creatures are Tuck and Roll, the twin circus performers in A Bug's Life?
Pill bugs
Pill bugs. Despite the name, pill bugs are not insects but land crustaceans that can curl up into a ball.
Q 20How does Hopper meet his end in A Bug's Life?
A real bird feeds him to its chicks
A real bird feeds him to its chicks. Flik leads Hopper right to the bird's nest in the final showdown.
The Tree of Life. When the show closed in 2025, the theater inside the tree reopened that November with Zootopia: Better Zoogether!
Q 24John Lasseter envisioned A Bug's Life as an epic in the tradition of which film?
Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia. The Chicago Tribune's critic compared it instead to Seven Samurai, where villagers hire warriors to fight off bandits.
Q 25Pixar's 'Bugcam', built to see A Bug's Life's world from an insect's height, rolled on which toy's wheels?
Lego
Lego. Pushed through the grass on the end of a pole, it showed leaves and petals forming a glowing canopy, like a stained-glass ceiling.
Q 26Which French documentary did Pixar's crew study while making A Bug's Life?
Microcosmos
Microcosmos. Its makers used special macro camera rigs so they could film meadow insects up close, the way fiction films follow their actors.
Q 27A Bug's Life's score lost the 1999 Oscar for musical or comedy score to which film?
Shakespeare in Love
Shakespeare in Love. The same night, it also beat Saving Private Ryan to Best Picture.
Q 28Which Pixar short played before A Bug's Life in theaters?
Geri's Game
Geri's Game. In the Oscar-winning short, an old man playing chess against himself starts losing, then sneakily turns the tables.
Q 29Which stand-up legend voices the Queen, Atta and Dot's elderly mother, in A Bug's Life?
Phyllis Diller
Phyllis Diller. At the end, the Queen steps aside as Atta takes the crown and Dot becomes princess.
Q 30Which DreamWorks co-founder did Pixar accuse of stealing the idea for A Bug's Life?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg. Lasseter had described A Bug's Life to him in 1995, but Katzenberg said Antz grew from a 1991 pitch.