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40 free Cars 2 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Cars 2 swapped the dusty back roads of the first film for a round-the-world spy caper. Mater, the rusty tow truck from Radiator Springs, is mistaken for a secret agent just as Lightning McQueen lines up against the fastest cars in the world at the World Grand Prix. It is one of Pixar's most argued-over films, which makes it rich quiz material. This quiz covers the whole film: the plot and its twists, the secret agents and villains, the racers from around the world, the actors behind the voices, the songs and score, and the story of how the sequel was made and received. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up something new even when you guess wrong. The opening questions are friendly enough for kids who have watched the film a few times, and the later ones dig into details that will test grown-up Pixar fans. Play it solo, or read the questions aloud on a family movie night.
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Q 01Which green food does Mater mistake for pistachio ice cream at a party in Cars 2?
Wasabi
Wasabi makes Mater cause a scene on stage at a World Grand Prix event, embarrassing Lightning McQueen.
Q 02Which open-wheeled race car taunts Lightning McQueen into entering the World Grand Prix in Cars 2?
Francesco Bernoulli
Francesco Bernoulli is painted in the colours of the Italian flag, and his surname comes from a principle of fluid dynamics.
Q 03Which Cars character is absent from Cars 2 after the death of his voice actor, Paul Newman?
Doc Hudson
Doc Hudson was not recast; the film implies he has died, and Lightning McQueen's latest Piston Cup win honours his late mentor.
Q 04Lightning McQueen and his team travel to which city for the first World Grand Prix race in Cars 2?
Tokyo
Tokyo hosts the first of three races, and Lightning finishes second there after a miscommunication with Mater.
Q 05What does Mater receive at the end of Cars 2 for unmasking the villain?
A knighthood
A knighthood from the Queen is Mater's reward for exposing the mastermind, who gives himself away by switching off a bomb.
Q 06Which British Formula One champion voices a car version of himself in Cars 2?
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton's car is a black and yellow racer based on a McLaren, and its emblem pairs the Union Jack with the flag of Grenada, where his father's family comes from.
Q 07The World Grand Prix in Cars 2 is staged to promote which new alternative fuel?
Allinol
Allinol turns out to be ordinary gasoline, engineered to ignite when it is hit by an electromagnetic pulse.
Q 08In Cars 2, what threatens to crush Mater, Finn McMissile and Holley Shiftwell while they are tied up in London?
Giant clock gears
Giant clock gears inside Big Bentley, the film's version of Big Ben, threaten the tied-up trio, and it is there that Mater admits he is not really a spy.
Q 09Which stand-up comedian voices Mater, the tow truck mistaken for a spy in Cars 2?
Larry the Cable Guy
Larry the Cable Guy won the part after the director watched the Blue Collar Comedy Tour and found his performance hilarious.
Q 10Which car creates the World Grand Prix in Cars 2 and is later unmasked as the villain behind it?
Sir Miles Axlerod
Sir Miles Axlerod wants the world to turn against alternative fuel so that he can profit from the vast oil reserves he owns.
Q 11Which actor returns as the voice of Lightning McQueen, the red race car, in Cars 2?
Owen Wilson
Owen Wilson was first cast after Pixar's director and his children enjoyed Shanghai Noon, his film with Jackie Chan.
Q 12Which British film star voices Finn McMissile, the secret agent in Cars 2?
Michael Caine
Michael Caine voiced the spy only in the film; a different actor took over the part in all other media.
Q 13Which 2013 animated film brought back Brent Mustangburger, the sportscaster car from Cars 2?
Planes
Planes was produced by Disneytoon Studios rather than Pixar, and its hero is a crop duster named Dusty Crophopper.
Q 21Which Italian town hosts the second race of the World Grand Prix in Cars 2?
Porto Corsa
Porto Corsa is fictional: the director loved so many real Italian towns that Pixar invented a new one people would want to visit.
Q 22In Cars 2, the lemons hide a time bomb on which part of Mater?
His air filter
His air filter holds the bomb, which the lemons had first claimed was planted in Lightning McQueen's pit.
Q 23Finn McMissile, the British spy in Cars 2, is partly modelled on which classic sports car?
Aston Martin DB5
Aston Martin DB5 styling suits a character inspired by James Bond, while his small tail fins came from a 1958 British car, the Peerless.
Q 14Cars 2's director reviewed work on his commute using a custom app on which Apple device?
The iPad
The iPad app let him record voice memos for every department, and he said one hour on it equalled three in the studio.
Q 15Cars 2 opens with Finn McMissile sneaking onto what kind of structure in the Pacific Ocean?
An oil rig
An oil rig run by the lemons is where Finn finds that fellow agent Leland Turbo is dead, then fakes his own death to escape.
Q 16Which Toy Story director came up with Cars 2's story while promoting the first Cars film abroad?
John Lasseter
John Lasseter pictured Mater driving on the wrong side of the road in Britain and dodging motor scooters in Italy.
Q 17Which Radiator Springs resident secretly swaps Lightning McQueen's fuel before Cars 2's final race?
Sarge
Sarge switched it for Fillmore's organic biofuel, which is why the lemons' weapon could not ignite Lightning's engine.
Q 18In Cars 2, the lemons disguise their electromagnetic pulse weapon as which piece of equipment?
A TV camera
A TV camera hides the emitter that makes the racers' new fuel ignite, wrecking engines in each of the first two races.
Q 19Lightning McQueen gains which working feature in Cars 2, having had only stickers in the first film?
Headlights
Headlights were just stickers on the original Lightning; for the sequel Pixar also added flames so he would stand out.
Q 20Cars 2 was the first Pixar feature film to receive no nominations at which annual ceremony?
The Academy Awards
The Academy Awards had nominated every earlier Pixar feature for something, and Cars 2 was also the first to miss the Best Animated Feature list.
Q 24Carla Veloso, a Le Mans prototype racer in the World Grand Prix in Cars 2, represents which country?
Brazil
Brazil's flag colours, green and blue, cover her bodywork, and the country's own release gives her lines voiced by singer Claudia Leitte.
Q 25Which actress voices Holley Shiftwell, the British spy-in-training who recruits Mater in Cars 2?
Emily Mortimer
Emily Mortimer's character is a Pixar in-house design, though her look borrows from a TVR sports car, the Tuscan Mark II.
Q 26Which short film starring Woody and Buzz Lightyear played in cinemas before Cars 2?
Hawaiian Vacation
Hawaiian Vacation sees Bonnie's toys recreate Hawaii for Ken and Barbie, who stowed away in a backpack that never left the bedroom.
Q 27What is the name of the British spy jet that flies Finn McMissile and Mater to safety in Cars 2?
Siddeley
Siddeley is a twin-engine spy jet whose name nods to the British aerospace group Hawker Siddeley.
Q 28Which composer of the music for Up and The Incredibles wrote the score for Cars 2?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino built the score around surf music to suit a 1960s-style British spy, taking over from Randy Newman.
Q 29Which stage and screen star voices both the Queen and Mama Topolino in Cars 2?
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave keeps the royal role in the Italian dub too, where a local star takes over as Mama Topolino.
Q 30Which rock band covered You Might Think, a hit for the band The Cars, on the Cars 2 soundtrack?
Weezer
Weezer had history with the song's writer, Ric Ocasek, who produced three of the band's albums.