Buzz Lightyear Trivia
0Loading crowd target
0Loading crowd target
8correct to beat the crowd
49 free Buzz Lightyear trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Buzz Lightyear started life as a one-man band toy called Tinny, passed through names like Lunar Larry and Morph, and ended up as a lime-green-and-purple space ranger because John Lasseter owed his wife an apology for working late. Named after Apollo 11's Buzz Aldrin and voiced by Tim Allen, he is the toy who does not know he is a toy, and his rivalry-turned-friendship with Woody has carried four Toy Story films, a TV series, a 2022 origin movie and a real trip to the International Space Station. This quiz covers the whole arc: the actors who turned the role down, the screen test that used audio from When Harry Met Sally, the design holes and rivets, the stun-to-kill laser, Utility Belt Buzz, demo mode and Spanish mode, Bunny and Ducky, Sox the robot cat, the Christmas 1996 toy shortage, and the action figure NASA named the longest-serving astronaut in space. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a family quiz night.
30 of 49 questions with answers and explanations. Play the quiz
Q 01Who voices Buzz in the Toy Story films?
Tim Allen
Tim Allen has voiced Buzz in all the Toy Story films, and even turned up as a Buzz Lightyear car in Pixar's Cars. He was the star of the sitcom Home Improvement when he was cast.
Q 02Buzz is named after which real astronaut?
Aldrin
Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the Moon: Pixar's producers thought he had the coolest astronaut name. He took it well, once pulling a Buzz Lightyear toy out in the middle of a speech at NASA.
Q 03At Hannah's tea party in Toy Story, a crushed Buzz answers to what name?
Mrs. Nesbitt
Mrs. Nesbitt is the name Sid's little sister Hannah gives him after she finds him broken at the foot of the stairs. Buzz has just lost an arm and his illusions, and is too low to object.
Q 04Where are Woody and Buzz left behind after their fight spills out of the family car?
A gas station
A gas station: Buzz had clung to the outside of the car and dropped in through the sunroof to confront Woody. The two hitch a ride onward in a Pizza Planet delivery truck.
Q 05Buzz's earliest ancestor was the one-man-band star of which 1988 Pixar short?
Tin Toy
Tin Toy won Pixar its first Oscar, and its hero Tinny was to star in the feature. Lasseter decided a one-man band was too old-fashioned, so Tinny became an action figure and then a spaceman.
Q 06Which of these was an early name for the character before he became Buzz?
Lunar Larry
Lunar Larry was his first name as a space hero, long before Buzz. Going to outer space reshaped his rival too: Woody, until then a ventriloquist's dummy, was made a cowboy to sharpen the contrast between the pair.
Q 07Which action figure, Lasseter's favorite as a boy, was an early model for Buzz?
G.I. Joe
G.I. Joe was the toy the young Lasseter loved best, so the film's new hero began as a soldier. He turned spaceman when the team looked to a 1960s astronaut toy, Major Matt Mason.
Q 08Why did John Lasseter make Buzz's space suit lime green and purple?
His and his wife's favorite colors
His and his wife's favorite colors: lime green is Lasseter's and purple is Nancy's. The story goes that the color scheme was his apology for staying too late at the office the night he first sketched the suit.
Q 09At Pizza Planet, Buzz climbs into a claw machine because he mistakes it for what?
A spaceship
A spaceship: still sure he is a real space ranger, he thinks it will carry him on with his mission. Instead Sid works the claw and wins both him and Woody as prizes.
Q 10Which actor turned down Buzz and later called it the biggest regret of his career?
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal calls himself the schmuck who turned down Toy Story. When Pixar called again six years later he said yes at once, and became the one-eyed Mike Wazowski in Monsters, Inc.
Q 11Toy Story 2 opens with Zurg destroying Buzz in what turns out to be what?
A video game
A video game: the film opens like a space epic, until Zurg blasts Buzz apart. Then the camera finds one of Andy's toys at the controller, crushed to have lost.
Q 12Who took over as Buzz's voice for his 2000 TV cartoon series?
Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton, the voice of Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove, played Buzz for all 62 episodes. The films' own Buzz voiced only the direct-to-video film that launched the series.
Q 13Who voiced Buzz in the 2022 film Lightyear?
Chris Evans
Chris Evans admits that on his first try at the famous catchphrase he just did a shameless impression of the original voice. It was not his first cartoon hero: he voiced Casey Jones in 2007's TMNT.
Q 21What does Buzz see at Sid's house that reveals he is a toy?
A TV commercial
A TV commercial for Buzz Lightyear toys proves what Woody has told him all along. He tries to fly out of a window anyway, drops down the stairwell and loses an arm.
Q 22What is the name of Sid's dog, which Buzz fights off to rescue Woody?
Scud
Scud is Sid's vicious bull terrier. Buzz leaps onto him so that Woody can reach the moving van, and Woody returns the favor by sending RC, the remote-control car, back for Buzz.
Q 23Which Toy Story villain steals Woody from the family's yard sale?
Al McWhiggin
Al McWhiggin, the owner of Al's Toy Barn, steals Woody after Andy's mother refuses to sell him. Woody completes a Woody's Roundup set that Al plans to sell to a toy museum in Japan.
Q 14Who voices the villain Zurg in the 2022 film Lightyear?
James Brolin
James Brolin voices Zurg, who turns out to be an older Buzz from another timeline. It flips the Toy Story 2 joke in which Zurg claims to be Buzz's father.
Q 15In Lightyear, why do Buzz's friends grow old while he barely ages?
Time slows on his test flights
Time slows on his test flights: every short hop toward light speed costs four years on the ground. He keeps flying anyway, and comes home to find his friends grown old and gone.
Q 16What does Sid tape to Buzz's back, planning to blow him sky-high?
A firework rocket
A firework rocket: Sid has to put the launch off until morning, which gives the toys time to scare him straight. In the end Woody lights it himself, and it carries the pair back to Andy.
Q 17What is Buzz's signature catchphrase?
To infinity and beyond
To infinity and beyond starts out as Buzz's cry alone. By the end of the first film Woody, who had scoffed at the idea that Buzz could fly, whoops it himself as the pair soar after the moving truck.
Q 18Buzz insists he must rendezvous with which organisation to report Zurg's secret weapon?
Star Command
Star Command is waiting, he tells Woody, for the one weakness of a weapon that can destroy a planet. Woody's answer is to scream that he is a toy, a child's plaything.
Q 19Buzz readies for danger by switching his laser from stun to what?
Kill
Kill, he announces, facing Sid's mutant toys. Woody is unimpressed and says that if anyone attacks they can blink them to death, since the laser is only a little light bulb.
Q 20Gliding toward the moving van, Buzz says he is not flying but doing what?
Falling with style
Falling with style was Woody's sneer when Buzz first seemed to fly round Andy's bedroom. At the end Buzz borrows the line himself as the two glide down through the sunroof of Andy's car.
Q 24The rival Buzz figure who 'arrests' Andy's Buzz in the toy store sports what accessory?
A utility belt
A utility belt, which the store display trumpets as new. Andy's Buzz reaches for it, gets overpowered and tied up in a box, and his friends drive off with the wrong Buzz.
Q 25Which toy accidentally knocks Zurg down the elevator shaft in Toy Story 2?
Rex
Rex cannot bear to watch the duel and turns away, and his big tail sweeps Zurg off the elevator by accident. The nervous dinosaur is thrilled to have beaten Zurg at last.
Q 26Zurg telling a Buzz figure that he is his father mimics a scene from which film series?
Star Wars
Star Wars: the line copies Darth Vader's reveal to Luke in The Empire Strikes Back almost word for word. Zurg survives his fall and is last seen playing catch with his new son.
Q 27On which toy does Buzz develop a crush in Toy Story 2?
Jessie
Jessie leaves him tongue-tied: he praises her beautiful yarn full of hair, corrects it to a hair full of yarn, and backs away. She calls him the sweetest space toy she has ever met.
Q 28Lotso's henchmen switch Buzz to which mode at Sunnyside?
Demo
Demo mode blocks his memories and brings back the deluded space ranger of the first film. Taking Lotso for his commander, he locks up his own friends and stands guard over them at night.
Q 29Trying to restore Buzz's memory, the toys accidentally reset him to which mode?
Spanish
Spanish: the botched reset leaves him a romantic, charismatic space ranger with no memories and no English. Once Woody tells him the toys are his amigos, he switches sides at once.
Q 30From the Caterpillar Room, Buzz asks Lotso for a transfer to which room?
Butterfly
The Butterfly Room is where the older children play gently, while the Caterpillar Room's toddlers batter their toys. Lotso offers the move to Buzz alone, and he refuses to go without his friends.