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79 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 79 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
Gru shrinks and steals the Moon with a stolen shrink ray, but the ray's effect is 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 Despicable Me film, wounding supervillain Gru's pride?
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Great Pyramid of Giza is taken by young upstart Vector, who replaces it with an inflatable copy.
Q 04Gru speaks with what kind of accent?
Eastern European
Eastern European is the accent, and it 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
Jason Segel voices Vector, the nerdy rival who steals the Moon from Gru and ends the film stranded there; the 2023 short Mooned revisits his attempts to escape.
Q 07Which British comedian voiced Dr. Nefario from 2010 to 2022?
Russell Brand
Russell Brand voiced the hard-of-hearing inventor in the first three films and Minions: The Rise of Gru; his mishearing 'dart gun' as 'fart gun' is a running gag from the first film.
Q 08In Despicable Me 4, the relocated family hides in Mayflower under which surname?
The Cunninghams
The Anti-Villain League moves the family to Mayflower as the Cunninghams, with Gru posing as solar-panel salesman Chet Cunningham and Lucy as hairdresser Blanche.
Q 09Which Oscar-winning actress voices Gru's mother Marlena?
Julie Andrews
Julie Andrews, Oscar winner for Mary Poppins, voices Marlena, first heard in the 2010 film; her dismissive reaction to young Gru's rocket models is shown as one reason he turned to villainy.
Q 10Kristen Wiig voices Lucy Wilde in the sequels, but which character did she voice in the first film?
Miss Hattie
Miss Hattie runs the orphanage and confines girls to the cardboard 'Box of Shame' when they fall short of their cookie-selling quota; Wiig returned as agent Lucy Wilde from the second film.
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
Elsie Fisher, later the star of Eighth Grade, voiced Agnes in the first two films; 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
Will Arnett, Gob Bluth in Arrested Development, voices Mr. Perkins, who refuses Gru a loan for his Moon heist and turns out to be Vector's father.
Q 21How did Pierre Coffin originally end up voicing the Minions?
He recorded a temporary placeholder track
Coffin recorded a temporary placeholder track so the animators had something to time to; the filmmakers liked his scratch vocals so much that he kept the job for the whole franchise.
Q 22Coffin has said he lent his voice to how many individual Minions in Despicable Me 2?
899
Coffin put his tally at 899 individual Minions for Despicable Me 2, varying pitch and delivery from his single voice to tell them apart.
Q 23Minionese mixes gibberish with English, French, Spanish, Italian and which Southeast Asian language?
Indonesian
Q 14Which comedian voices Gru's neighbor Fred McDade in the first film?
Danny McBride
Danny McBride voices Fred McDade, the neighbour who complains that Gru's dog Kyle has been 'leaving little bombs' all over his yard in the 2010 film.
Q 15Before 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 16Illumination bought Mac Guff's animation arm in 2011 and renamed it what?
Illumination Mac Guff
Illumination bought the animation division of Paris house Mac Guff in 2011, after the first film, and renamed it Illumination Mac Guff; the studio was later renamed Illumination Studios Paris.
Q 17What was the production budget of the first Despicable Me?
$69 million
The first film cost about $69 million and grossed over $540 million worldwide, a return that set Illumination's low-budget model for its later features.
Q 18Which festival hosted the world premiere of Despicable Me 3 in June 2017?
Annecy
Despicable Me 3 premiered at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival in France on 14 June 2017; Minions: The Rise of Gru also opened there in 2022.
Q 19The Minions were inspired by the Oompa-Loompas and by which Star Wars characters?
Jawas
Eric Guillon's design drew on the Oompa-Loompas and the hooded Jawas of Star Wars; their look was also shaped by Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin, since they act largely without words.
Q 20Which Flight of the Conchords star voiced Jerry the Minion in the first film?
Jemaine Clement
Jemaine Clement voiced Jerry and co-director Chris Renaud voiced Dave in the 2010 film; from Despicable Me 2 onward Pierre Coffin has voiced the Minions alone.
Coffin's mother, Nh. Dini, was an Indonesian novelist; the language is dubbed slightly differently in each country.
Q 24What is the real first name of Gru's rival Vector?
Victor
Vector was born Victor Perkins; he renamed himself after the mathematical term because, he says, he commits crimes with both direction and magnitude.
Q 25Illumination'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 26Illumination is headquartered in which California city, while outsourcing its animation to Paris?
Santa Monica
Illumination runs from offices in Santa Monica, while almost every one of its films has been animated by Illumination Studios Paris, the former Mac Guff.
Q 27In 2017 Despicable Me overtook which series to become the highest-grossing animated franchise ever?
Shrek
Despicable Me 3's 2017 run lifted the series past the Shrek franchise as the highest-grossing animated film series; with Despicable Me 4 it had taken more than $5 billion by 2024.
Q 28In the 'Gru's Plan' meme scene, his moon-heist presentation is interrupted by a drawing of him doing what?
Sitting on the toilet
The girls' drawing of Gru sitting on the toilet, slipped in among his heist slides, became the four-panel 'Gru's Plan' meme format.
Q 29What is the name of the mutagen stolen at the start of Despicable Me 2?
PX-41
PX-41 is the serum El Macho uses to turn Minions into purple, indestructible Evil Minions; Gru's jelly, laced with Dr. Nefario's antidote, turns them back.
Q 30In Despicable Me 2, what kind of shop do Gru and Lucy use as their cover at the mall?
A cupcake store
Gru and Lucy pose as owners of the cupcake store Bake My Day at the Paradise Mall; the wig shop belongs to suspect Floyd Eaglesan, voiced by Ken Jeong.