80 free Despicable Me trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
76 free Despicable Me trivia questions with answers. Despicable Me started as a pitch about a hero with villainous habits, was animated in Paris by about 100 artists on a $69 million budget, and grew into the highest-grossing animated franchise ever made, overtaking Shrek in 2017 and passing $6 billion at the box office. This quiz runs 80 questions across the whole series: the 2010 original and its moon heist, Despicable Me 2 and the Al Pacino walkout, the twin-brother sequel, Despicable Me 4 and the Mega Minions, plus the Minions prequels, The Rise of Gru and its Gentleminions craze, and the 2026 film Minions & Monsters. Expect voice-cast questions, villain lore, studio history, memes and theme-park facts, starting easy and finishing with the kind of detail only franchise obsessives know. Every answer has been checked against reference sources and is shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a family movie night or an animation round at pub quiz.
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Q 01Which actor has voiced Gru in every Despicable Me film?
Steve Carell
Carell also voices Gru's blond twin Dru in the third film, and reprised the role for the young Gru cameo at the end of Minions.
Q 02What does Gru set out to steal in the first Despicable Me?
The Moon
The shrink ray's effect turns out to be temporary, and the bigger the object the faster it reverts, which is how the heist unravels.
Q 03Which landmark is stolen at the start of the first film, wounding Gru's pride?
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The thief turns out to be the young upstart Vector, who replaces the pyramid with an inflatable copy.
Q 04Gru speaks with what kind of accent?
Eastern European
The accent spawned the 'Gorl' meme, based on the way Gru pronounces the word girl.
Q 05What is Gru's rarely used first name?
Felonious
His infant son in Despicable Me 4 is Felonious Gru Jr., voiced by Tara Strong.
Q 06Who voices Vector, Gru's rival in the first film?
Jason Segel
Vector ends the film stranded on the Moon; the 2023 short Mooned shows his escape attempt landing him on Mars instead.
Q 07Which British comedian voiced Dr. Nefario from 2010 to 2022?
Russell Brand
Nefario is hearing-impaired and hints at a soft spot for Gru's mother Marlena.
Q 08Which comedian took over voicing Gru's elderly inventor in Despicable Me 4?
Romesh Ranganathan
The character sits out most of the film, only surfacing at the end to reverse Gru Jr.'s cockroach transformation.
Q 09Which Oscar-winning actress voices Gru's mother Marlena?
Julie Andrews
Marlena's neglect of Gru's childhood ambitions is presented as a main reason he became a supervillain.
Q 10Kristen Wiig voices Lucy Wilde in the sequels, but which character did she voice in the first film?
Miss Hattie
Miss Hattie makes the orphan girls sleep in cardboard boxes if they miss their cookie-selling quota.
Q 11Who voices Margo, the eldest of Gru's adopted daughters?
Miranda Cosgrove
Cosgrove is one of the few voices to appear in every main film, along with Dana Gaier as Edith.
Q 12Which actress voiced Agnes in the first two films before the role was recast twice?
Elsie Fisher
Nev Scharrel took over for Despicable Me 3 and Madison Polan for Despicable Me 4.
Q 13Which Arrested Development actor voices Mr. Perkins, president of the Bank of Evil?
Will Arnett
Perkins turns out to be Vector's father, and both end up in the AVL prison in Despicable Me 4.
Q 21Which Flight of the Conchords star voiced Jerry the Minion in the first film?
Jemaine Clement
Chris Renaud voiced Dave; Pierre Coffin took sole voice duty for the Minions from the 2015 spin-off onward.
Q 22How did Pierre Coffin originally end up voicing the Minions?
He recorded a temporary placeholder track
Test audiences liked his scratch vocals so much that he kept the job through Minions & Monsters.
Q 23Coffin has said he lent his voice to how many individual Minions in Despicable Me 2?
899
The count sits just short of the 900 mark; he also records different dubs of Minionese for different countries.
Q 14Which comedian voices Gru's neighbor Fred McDade in the first film?
Danny McBride
Fred sat out the third film and had to be rebuilt from scratch for Despicable Me 4 because his old character model was too dated.
Q 15Which Spanish animator pitched the original idea for Despicable Me to Illumination's founder?
Sergio Pablos
The pitch was about a hero with villainous attributes; Pablos later made the hand-drawn feature Klaus.
Q 16Before co-directing Despicable Me, Chris Renaud worked in animation at which studio?
Blue Sky Studios
Coffin was hired for his commercials work with Mac Guff, Renaud for his Blue Sky experience on films like Ice Age.
Q 17Roughly how many artists at Mac Guff animated the first Despicable Me?
100
The sequel used over 400 artists; the tiny first-film crew was a cost-saving choice.
Q 18What was the production budget of the first Despicable Me?
$69 million
The film grossed $544.2 million, and Illumination has kept most of its budgets in the $60-80 million range since.
Q 19At which festival did Despicable Me first screen, in June 2010?
Annecy
Despicable Me 3, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Minions & Monsters all also premiered at the same French animation festival.
Q 20The Minions were inspired by the Oompa-Loompas and by which Star Wars characters?
Jawas
Their look was also shaped by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, since they have to act largely without words.
Q 24Minionese mixes gibberish with English, French, Spanish, Italian and which Southeast Asian language?
Indonesian
Coffin's mother, Nh. Dini, was an Indonesian novelist; the language is dubbed slightly differently in each country.
Q 25Before the film gave Minions a prehistoric origin, how did writers think they were made?
Cloned in Gru's lab from mutated DNA
Writer Cinco Paul later described the Minions movies as Gru's bedtime stories or implanted memories to square the two origins.
Q 26Illumination's founder left which studio in early 2007 before starting the company?
20th Century Fox Animation
At Fox he oversaw Ice Age and Horton Hears a Who!, whose writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio followed him to Despicable Me.
Q 27Illumination is headquartered in which California city, while outsourcing its animation to Paris?
Santa Monica
Almost every Illumination film has been animated by Illumination Studios Paris, formerly Mac Guff.
Q 28In 2017 Despicable Me overtook which series to become the highest-grossing animated franchise ever?
Shrek
The franchise has now taken more than $6 billion worldwide across seven films.
Q 29In the 'Gru's Plan' meme scene, his moon-heist presentation is interrupted by a drawing of him doing what?
Sitting on the toilet
The same film also spawned the 'Gorl' meme, from the way Gru pronounces the word girl.
Q 30What is the name of the mutagen stolen at the start of Despicable Me 2?
PX-41
The serum turns Minions into purple, indestructible monsters, an idea used instead of a scrapped superpowered-Minions plot.