Coco Trivia
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This Coco trivia quiz has 137 free questions with answers and covers Pixar's 2017 Day of the Dead film from Santa Cecilia to the sunrise concert. There are plot questions (why Imelda banned music, what happens when Miguel strums the guitar, what Héctor wants, how Ernesto really got his songs, and what Mamá Coco kept in her drawer) and character ones (Dante, Pepita, Abuelita Elena, the Frida Kahlo cameo, John Ratzenberger's one word). The making-of round covers the trademark row that changed the title, the boy whose voice broke, the two Mexican states the Riveras were based on, the potter said to be the real Mamá Coco, the songwriters behind 'Remember Me', the Oscars, the Morelia premiere, the record run in Mexico and China, and Coco 2. There is a little Day of the Dead and alebrije background too. Suitable for families who know the film by heart and for anyone who cried at the ending. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01How old is Miguel, the hero of Coco?
12
Miguel Rivera is 12 years old, a boy who dreams of becoming a musician like his idol Ernesto de la Cruz despite his family's generations-old ban on music.
Q 02Which co-director of Coco shared its writing credit with Matthew Aldrich and wrote the lyrics to 'Un Poco Loco'?
Adrian Molina
Adrian Molina co-directed Coco with Lee Unkrich, shares the screenplay credit with Matthew Aldrich, and wrote the lyrics of 'Un Poco Loco' to Germaine Franco's music.
Q 03What is the name of the Mexican town where the Rivera family lives?
Santa Cecilia
The Riveras live in Santa Cecilia, a fictional town named for Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians, a quiet joke for a family that bans music.
Q 04What trade does Mamá Imelda take up after banning music from the family?
Making shoes
Imelda took up making shoes to support her daughter after banishing music, and the Riveras have remained a family of shoemakers for generations.
Q 05How does Miguel teach himself to play guitar despite the family ban?
Watching a VHS documentary of his idol
Miguel taught himself guitar in a secret attic hideout by watching a VHS documentary of his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz, over and over, copying his playing frame by frame.
Q 06What happens to Miguel the moment he strums the stolen guitar?
He becomes invisible to the living
Strumming the stolen guitar, Miguel becomes invisible to the living, who walk straight through him, though he can now see and touch the dead visiting the cemetery for the holiday.
Q 07Why can Mamá Imelda not cross over to visit the living on the Day of the Dead?
Miguel removed her photo from the ofrenda
Imelda cannot cross because Miguel removed her photo from the ofrenda, breaking the frame and taking the picture; only the dead whose photos are displayed may visit the living.
Q 08In Coco, by when must Miguel receive a family blessing to return to the living world?
Sunrise
Miguel must receive a family blessing before sunrise or remain in the Land of the Dead forever, so he and Héctor race through the night to reach Ernesto.
Q 09What does Héctor ask of Miguel in exchange for taking him to Ernesto?
To put his photo on an ofrenda
Héctor agrees to lead Miguel to Ernesto in exchange for a promise to put his photo on an ofrenda back home, so he can finally cross over to see the living.
Q 10How did Ernesto de la Cruz really get his partner's songs?
He poisoned him and stole them
The truth is that he poisoned him and stole them: Ernesto laced a farewell toast with poison and took Héctor's songbook, passing off 'Remember Me' as his own.
Q 11Where does Ernesto have Miguel and Héctor thrown after seizing Héctor's photo?
A cenote pit
Ernesto's guards throw Miguel and Héctor into a cenote pit, a deep water-filled sinkhole, where they are stranded until Imelda arrives on Pepita to pull them out.
Q 12How is Ernesto de la Cruz finally undone at his concert in the Land of the Dead?
Crushed by a falling bell
After his confession is broadcast on the stadium screens, Pepita hurls Ernesto into the bell tower and he is crushed by a falling bell.
Q 13What had Mamá Coco kept all those years that finally proves the truth?
Héctor's letters and the torn photo corner
Q 21Who voices Miguel?
Anthony Gonzalez
He first auditioned at nine; the original choice was replaced when his voice broke.
Q 22Why was the boy first cast as Miguel, Emilio Fuentes, replaced during production?
His voice deepened with puberty
Emilio Fuentes, first cast as Miguel, was replaced during Coco's multi-year production because his voice deepened with puberty, a standing risk with child voice actors.
Q 23Which Mexican actor voices Héctor?
Gael García Bernal
Animators studied his movements and expressions while he recorded.
Mamá Coco had kept Héctor's letters and the torn photo corner showing his face; the letters hold his handwritten lyrics, proving Héctor wrote the songs Ernesto claimed.
Q 14Which song does Miguel play to Mamá Coco to bring back her memories?
Remember Me
'Remember Me' was the lullaby Héctor wrote for his little daughter Coco; Miguel plays it softly to her, and she joins in and remembers her father.
Q 15'Remember Me' was written by which husband-and-wife team, also behind Frozen's 'Let It Go'?
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez
Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez wrote 'Remember Me' for Coco four years after their Frozen hit 'Let It Go'; both songs won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Q 16Which two Academy Awards did Coco win?
Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song
Coco won Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, for 'Remember Me', at the 90th Academy Awards in March 2018, Pixar's ninth win in the animated category.
Q 17Who composed Coco's score?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino composed Coco's score; he had already scored The Incredibles, Ratatouille, Up, which won him an Oscar, and Inside Out for Pixar.
Q 18Miguel's dog Dante is what breed?
Xoloitzcuintle
Dante is a Xoloitzcuintle, the ancient hairless dog of Mexico, which Aztec tradition held could guide souls through the underworld, fitting for Miguel's spirit guide.
Q 19The spirit-guide creatures Dante and Pepita become in the Land of the Dead are based on which folk art?
Alebrijes
Dante and Pepita take the form of alebrijes, the brightly painted fantastical creatures of Mexican folk art, reimagined in Coco as spirit guides for the dead.
Q 20Which papier-mâché artist first made the fantastical creatures that inspired Dante and Pepita, in 1930s Mexico City?
Pedro Linares
Pedro Linares, a Mexico City papier-mâché artisan, made the first alebrijes in 1936 after dreaming of the creatures during a fever; Mexico awarded him its National Prize for Arts and Sciences in 1990.
Q 24What job is Miguel doing in the plaza when a mariachi lends him his guitar?
Shining shoes
Miguel is shining shoes in the plaza when the mariachi hands him his guitar to strum, a moment Abuelita cuts short by chasing the musician off with her chancla.
Q 25Which Mexican artist makes a cameo in the Land of the Dead, voiced by Natalia Cordova-Buckley?
Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo appears in the Land of the Dead rehearsing a surreal opening act for Ernesto's concert; earlier, Héctor disguises himself as her to try to sneak across to the living world.
Q 26How large is John Ratzenberger's role in Coco, keeping his streak of appearing in every Pixar film alive?
One word
Ratzenberger's part is one word: he voices Juan Ortodoncia, a skeleton whose dentist put his photo on an ofrenda, so Pixar's good-luck charm kept his streak.
Q 27Coco was the first film with a nine-figure budget to feature what?
An all-Latino principal cast
The budget was around $175 to 225 million.
Q 28Coco premiered in October 2017 at a film festival in which Mexican city?
Morelia
Coco premiered on 20 October 2017 at the Morelia International Film Festival in Michoacán, a week before its general release across Mexico.
Q 29Roughly how much did Coco gross worldwide?
$823 million
That made it the 15th highest-grossing animated film at the time.
Q 30Which folk song does Imelda sing on stage at Ernesto's big concert?
La Llorona
Imelda, who has not sung in decades, performs the folk song 'La Llorona' while dodging Ernesto's guards at his stadium concert, Ernesto joining in to keep up appearances.