Angry Birds Trivia
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59 free Angry Birds trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Angry Birds started as a sketch of scowling wingless birds by a designer at a Finnish studio that was close to going under. Fifty-one work-for-hire games later, Rovio bet what money it had left on a slingshot puzzle, released it in December 2009, and spent 275 days at number one on the App Store. This quiz follows the whole franchise: the original game and its episodes, the flock's powers, why the enemies became green pigs, Angry Birds Space and its NASA tie-in, the Star Wars crossover, Bad Piggies, Angry Birds 2, the two theatrical movies, and Sega buying the company in 2023. Easy questions ask which company makes the games and what the pigs stole. Medium ones cover Chuck's colour, the Mighty Eagle and Piggy Island. The hard end wants the Flash game that inspired the physics, the soft-launch title of Angry Birds 2, the name of the ice ball villain in the second movie and how many downloads it took the series to reach four billion. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the games, films and Rovio, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up. Good for kids who grew up on the games, adults who lost 2010 to them, and anyone hosting a family quiz night.
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Q 01What colour is Matilda, the bird that drops an explosive egg?
White
White: Matilda, the plump white bird, lays an explosive egg when tapped and then rockets upward; in the films she is voiced by Maya Rudolph.
Q 02What have the green pigs stolen from the birds in the original game?
Their eggs
Their eggs: the pigs steal the birds' eggs to eat, which is why the flock hurls itself at the pigs' forts of wood, glass and stone.
Q 03What device do players use to launch the birds?
A slingshot
A slingshot: each bird is pulled back in the slingshot and released, and its flight depends on how far and at what angle the band is stretched.
Q 04In which year was the original Angry Birds released for mobile devices?
2009
2009: Angry Birds reached the iOS App Store in December 2009, with the Android version following in October 2010.
Q 05Which Flash game inspired the physics-based gameplay of Angry Birds?
Crush the Castle
Crush the Castle, an Armor Games browser title with a trebuchet hurling stones at castles, was the gameplay model; the birds' look came first, from a sketch.
Q 06Which designer's sketch of stylised wingless birds gave the game its characters?
Jaakko Iisalo
Jaakko Iisalo, a Rovio senior designer, drew the wingless, angry-browed birds as a concept proposal, and the team built the game around them.
Q 07What real-world event is widely believed to have inspired making the enemies pigs?
The 2009 swine flu pandemic
The 2009 swine flu pandemic: the H1N1 outbreak was in the news as the team chose an enemy for the birds, and the green pigs are widely taken as a nod to it.
Q 08What was the name of the first episode in the original iOS release?
Poached Eggs
Poached Eggs: the launch episode had three chapters of 21 levels each; Mighty Hoax followed as the first free update in February 2010.
Q 09Which special bird from 'Ham 'Em High' can clear any uncompleted level once per hour?
Mighty Eagle
It became the game's first paid in-app purchase, and a Game of Thrones star later voiced the character in the movie.
Q 10What is the maximum star rating a player can earn on a level?
Three stars
Three stars: each level awards one to three stars based on score, with a bonus for every unused bird, so finishing with birds to spare is the route to a full rating.
Q 11Rovio said the game had been downloaded how many times by December 2010?
50 million
50 million: Rovio announced the figure across all platforms in December 2010, by which point the game was also on Android.
Q 12What was the 2022 remake of the original game called at launch?
Rovio Classics: Angry Birds
Rovio Classics: Angry Birds rebuilt the early version of the game in Unity with no microtransactions, and launched on iOS and Android in March 2022.
Q 13Under what hashtag did fans campaign for the relisting of the delisted original games?
#BringBack2012
#BringBack2012: fans used the hashtag to press Rovio to restore the classic games it had pulled from app stores in 2019, and Rovio answered with a remake in 2022.
Q 21Which Game of Thrones actor voices Bird Island's flying protector in the films?
Peter Dinklage
Peter Dinklage, Tyrion in Game of Thrones, voices the island's faded hero; Sean Penn is in the cast too, grunting as the huge bird Terence.
Q 22Which country singer voices Earl, a pig musician, in the first film?
Blake Shelton
Blake Shelton voices Earl and sings 'Friends' on the film's soundtrack; Charli XCX cameos as the turquoise bird Willow.
Q 23Which studio distributed The Angry Birds Movie in 2016?
Sony Pictures
Sony Pictures released the 2016 film through its Columbia Pictures label; Rovio financed the production itself, an unusual move for a game company.
Q 14What colour is Chuck, the fast bird?
Yellow
Yellow: Chuck is the speedy yellow bird who rockets forward when tapped; Josh Gad voices him in the films.
Q 15What does Bomb, the black bird, do?
Explodes
Explodes: Bomb detonates on impact or when tapped, levelling everything nearby; the film gives him intermittent explosive disorder.
Q 16Which small orange bird debuted in Angry Birds Seasons before joining the original game?
Bubbles
Bubbles, the orange bird who inflates to fill space, debuted in Angry Birds Seasons' Ham'o'ween episode in 2011 and joined the original game in the Birdday Party update.
Q 17Which green bird has boomerang-like abilities?
Hal
Hal, the green toucan-like bird, flies back like a boomerang when tapped; in the 2016 film he is voiced by Anthony Padilla of the YouTube duo Smosh.
Q 18Who voices Red in The Angry Birds Movie?
Jason Sudeikis
Sudeikis improvised lines to make Red more sympathetic than a simple hothead.
Q 19In the 2016 film, Red is sentenced to what after snapping at a customer?
Anger management class
Anger management class: the court sends Red to Matilda's class for hotheads, voiced by Maya Rudolph, where he meets the friends who later join his raid.
Q 20What is the name of the pig leader in the movies, known to his subjects as King Mudbeard?
Leonard
Leonard: Bill Hader voices the scheming pig king, whose subjects call him King Mudbeard; his clumsy assistant Ross is voiced by Tony Hale.
Q 24Roughly how much did The Angry Birds Movie gross worldwide?
$352 million
$352 million: the 2016 film's worldwide gross made it the highest-grossing Finnish film and, in 2016, the second-biggest video-game adaptation behind Warcraft.
Q 25Who voices Zeta, the villain of The Angry Birds Movie 2?
Leslie Jones
Leslie Jones voices Zeta, the sequel's purple villain, revealed as the jilted fiancée of Bird Island's flying protector; her assistant Debbie is their daughter.
Q 26Where does Zeta launch her lava-filled ice balls from in the sequel?
Eagle Island
Eagle Island: Zeta fires lava-filled ice balls from her frozen base there at both Bird Island and Piggy Island, forcing the two sides into their first truce.
Q 27Silver, Red's love interest in the sequel, is the sister of which bird?
Chuck
Chuck: Silver is his brainy younger sister, an engineering student voiced by Rachel Bloom who first deems Red incompatible at speed dating.
Q 28Which director of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack helmed The Angry Birds Movie 2?
Thurop Van Orman
Thurop Van Orman, creator of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, directed the 2019 sequel, whose 73% Rotten Tomatoes score was then a record for a video-game film.
Q 29Angry Birds Space, released in 2012, was promoted with help from which organisation?
NASA
NASA: astronaut Don Pettit demonstrated the game's physics in microgravity aboard the International Space Station as part of the 2012 launch promotion.
Q 30What new square-shaped character did Angry Birds Space introduce?
Ice Bird
Ice Bird: the square, light-blue bird freezes nearby blocks and pigs when detonated, which makes the game's planet gravity fields easier to exploit.