50 free Bolt trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Bolt opened in November 2008 with John Travolta as a White Shepherd who has spent his whole life on a TV set believing his superpowers are real, and Miley Cyrus as Penny, the girl he crosses the country to find. Chris Williams and Byron Howard directed after Chris Sanders left the project, then called American Dog, and the film is often credited with starting the run of hits that led to Tangled and Frozen. This quiz covers the road trip from New York to Hollywood (the pigeons, Mittens the declawed cat, Rhino and his plastic ball, the superbark in the air vent), the voice cast from Malcolm McDowell to Randy Savage, the long development story of American Dog and the radioactive rabbit that was cut, the Edward Hopper-inspired look, the Golden Globe-nominated duet 'I Thought I Lost You', the Super Rhino short, the video games and the numbers at the box office. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it for family movie night.
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Q 01Who voices Bolt?
John Travolta
Travolta also sings the end-credits duet with his co-star Miley Cyrus.
Q 02Who voices Penny, Bolt's owner?
Miley Cyrus
Chloë Grace Moretz voices the younger Penny who first adopts the puppy.
Q 03What breed is Bolt?
White Shepherd
Designers started from the American White Shepherd and caricatured its long ears.
Q 04Who directed the film?
Chris Williams and Byron Howard
Williams handled story reels and layout while Howard led character design and animation.
Q 05Who co-wrote the screenplay with Chris Williams?
Dan Fogelman
Fogelman also voices Billy, one of the Hollywood pigeons.
Q 06What was the film's original title?
American Dog
The dog was then named Henry and was stranded in the Nevada desert.
Q 07Which two companions did the dog have in the original version of the story?
A one-eyed cat and a radioactive rabbit
Both were removed in the overhaul; the rabbit was replaced by Rhino the hamster.
Q 08Which director was removed from the project in December 2006?
Chris Sanders
He joined DreamWorks within months and went on to co-direct How to Train Your Dragon.
Q 09Who ordered the desert Southwest setting dropped because Cars had similar terrain?
John Lasseter
Lasseter had become chief creative officer after Disney bought Pixar.
Q 10How long did the animation team have to finish the film after the story overhaul?
18 months
A computer-animated feature normally takes about four years.
Q 11Where does Bolt's shipping box end up after he escapes the studio?
New York City
He knocks himself out and lands in a box of packing peanuts.
Q 12What kind of animal is Mittens?
A feral cat
Bolt thinks she is an agent of Dr. Calico and forces her to guide him home.
Q 13Who voices Mittens?
Susie Essman
The Curb Your Enthusiasm actress plays the grumpy stray tuxedo cat.
Q 14What kind of animal is Rhino?
Q 21Who voices the young Penny?
Chloë Grace Moretz
She was 11 when the film came out, two years before Kick-Ass.
Q 22How do Bolt and Mittens travel from New York to Ohio?
Stowing away in a U-Haul truck
They meet Rhino at an RV park once they arrive.
Q 23In which state do Bolt and Mittens first meet Rhino?
Ohio
He joins them at an RV park and recognises Bolt from television.
Q 24What noise of Bolt's draws animal control, getting him and Mittens captured?
A hamster
His ball-rolling design was inspired by John Lasseter's pet chinchilla.
Q 15Who voices Rhino?
Mark Walton
Walton was a Disney story artist rather than a star, and stayed on for the Super Rhino short.
Q 16Whose pet inspired Rhino's design in his plastic ball?
John Lasseter's chinchilla
The chinchilla was brought along to an animators' retreat during production.
Q 17Who voices the villain Dr. Calico?
Malcolm McDowell
Bolt calls him 'The Green-Eyed Man'.
Q 18What nickname does Bolt give Dr. Calico?
The Green-Eyed Man
Calico's pet cats are played by cat actors, including Diedrich Bader's Veteran Cat.
Q 19Which Inside the Actors Studio host voices the show's director?
James Lipton
The director rigs the effects so Bolt never learns the show is fake.
Q 20Which wrestling legend voices Thug, one of Calico's underlings?
Randy Savage
The Super Rhino short was his final acting role before his death in 2011.
His superbark
The same superbark later saves him and Penny in the burning studio.
Q 25Where does Mittens want the trio to settle down instead of finishing the trip?
Las Vegas
Bolt refuses and goes on to Hollywood alone, until Rhino talks Mittens into following.
Q 26Why does Mittens believe no human truly loves a pet?
She was declawed and abandoned
Bolt disagrees vehemently and leaves for Hollywood on his own.
Q 27What sets the studio stage on fire in the climax?
Knocked-over tiki torches
Bolt's panicked look-alike knocks them over during a fight scene.
Q 28How does Bolt alert firefighters to where he and Penny are trapped?
Superbarking into an air vent
Penny is suffocating from smoke when the rescuers reach them.
Q 29What storyline does the TV show switch to after Bolt and Penny leave?
Alien abduction
Penny and her mother quit after her agent wants to exploit the fire for publicity.
Q 30Which painter's work inspired the look of the film?
Edward Hopper
The cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond was the other key reference.