Detective Pikachu
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50 free Detective Pikachu trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Pokémon Detective Pikachu did something the franchise had never tried: it put photo-real Pokémon into a live-action mystery and gave its fuzzy hero a full speaking voice. The gamble paid off with audiences around the world, and the film still stands out among video game adaptations. This quiz covers the whole case. There are questions on the plot and its twists, the human cast and the Pokémon they share scenes with, the way the film was shot and scored, how it fared with critics and at the box office, and the Nintendo games that started it all. It is pitched for fans of every level. The opening rounds stick to moments most viewers remember, while later questions reward anyone who knows the games or followed the making of the film. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up something new even when you guess.
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Q 01Which actor did 40,000 Detective Pikachu fans petition to voice the gruff hero of the game in English?
Danny DeVito
Danny DeVito declined to audition, saying he had never even heard of Pokémon. The campaign began after the game's 2016 release in Japan.
Q 02Which Canadian actor supplied both the voice and the motion capture for Detective Pikachu in the 2019 film?
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds wore a head-mounted camera while running through dozens of facial expressions, and animators used that library to shape Pikachu's face.
Q 03Which headache-plagued Pokémon is the partner of junior reporter Lucy Stevens in Detective Pikachu?
Psyduck
Psyduck made the film because two of its screenwriters called it their favourite Pokémon. One said that, as a neurotic writer, he related to its habit of growing more stressed until it explodes.
Q 04Which Pokémon from the franchise's first animated film appears to cause the car crash in Detective Pikachu?
Mewtwo
Mewtwo only seems guilty: it was shielding the missing detective from attackers, and its DNA had been used to make the gas that drives Pokémon wild.
Q 05Which Pokémon is interrogated in a Detective Pikachu scene modelled on the thriller Seven?
Mr. Mime
Mr. Mime stayed in only after the director pitched the scene to The Pokémon Company's president, who laughed and agreed. A real mime helped the cast rehearse it.
Q 06Which fire-breathing Pokémon must Detective Pikachu fight in the secret battle arena run by Sebastian?
Charizard
Charizard is the partner of arena boss Sebastian, and extra audio for the bout was recorded at the 2018 Pokémon World Championships.
Q 07Angels with Filthy Souls, the fake gangster film seen in Detective Pikachu, was created for which comedy?
Home Alone
Home Alone invented the film, whose title parodies the 1938 crime drama Angels with Dirty Faces. The Pokémon film reuses its footage of the gangsters Johnny and Snakes.
Q 08A fake leak of the full Detective Pikachu film, posted on YouTube in May 2019, mostly showed Pikachu doing what?
Aerobics
Aerobics filled almost all of the video, which ran for nearly 1 hour 45 minutes to a 1980s-style synth tune. The studio posted the prank itself, and the film's star played along online.
Q 09Which blockbuster kept Detective Pikachu off the top of the US box office on its opening weekend in May 2019?
Avengers: Endgame
Avengers: Endgame held first place, though the Pokémon film still won the Friday and set a then-record opening for a video game adaptation.
Q 10The gruff, tough-talking hero of the Detective Pikachu games is known for his love of which drink?
Coffee
Coffee is his signature vice: he is written as a gruff Pokémon who talks tough and loves it strong, a far cry from the squeaky mascot of the anime.
Q 11What is the name of the metropolis, founded by Howard Clifford, where Detective Pikachu takes place?
Ryme City
Ryme City is a place where humans and Pokémon live side by side, and where battles, Trainers and even Poké Balls are against the law.
Q 12Which actor from Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom plays Tim Goodman, the human lead of Detective Pikachu?
Justice Smith
Justice Smith was cast in November 2017, a month before the voice of his furry partner was chosen, and played many of their scenes opposite a puppet.
Q 13Which Big Little Lies actress plays Lucy Stevens, the reporter who teams up with Tim in Detective Pikachu?
Kathryn Newton
Q 21Which mobile game promoted the Detective Pikachu film by adding a limited-edition Pikachu in a detective's hat?
Pokémon Go
Pokémon Go also featured other Pokémon seen in the film for the occasion, and a tie-in set of trading cards carried images from the movie.
Q 22Which European capital was the main filming base for Detective Pikachu in early 2018?
London
London was the base, with studio work at nearby Shepperton and Leavesden, while other scenes were shot in Scotland.
Q 23Which pop singer plays scientist Dr. Ann Laurent in Detective Pikachu and also sings on its single Carry On?
Rita Ora
Rita Ora recorded Carry On with the Norwegian producer Kygo for the end credits. On screen she is the researcher running the experiments at the heart of the mystery.
Kathryn Newton won the part over Natalia Dyer, Haley Lu Richardson and Katherine Langford after an intense round of readings opposite the film's lead.
Q 14In Detective Pikachu, Howard Clifford's bodyguard Ms. Norman turns out to be which Pokémon in human disguise?
Ditto
Ditto, genetically modified to copy people, also poses as Howard Clifford's son for much of the film. The real son turns up tied and gagged.
Q 15Detective Pikachu wears which style of hat in both the games and the 2019 film?
Deerstalker
Deerstalker: the hat is borrowed from popular depictions of Sherlock Holmes, and it helps set this talking sleuth apart from every other Pikachu.
Q 16At the start of Detective Pikachu, the hero is suffering from which condition after a mysterious accident?
Amnesia
Amnesia has wiped out everything he knew about the case he was working on, which is why he needs Tim's help to retrace his own investigation.
Q 17At the end of Detective Pikachu, whose consciousness is revealed to have been sharing Pikachu's body all along?
Tim's father
Tim's father Harry was badly hurt in the crash, so his mind was placed inside his partner's body while his own was healed.
Q 18Which monkey Pokémon turn violent and attack Tim after he releases a purple gas in Detective Pikachu?
Aipom
Aipom are also the first troublemakers in the original game, where a gang of them steals a necklace that Tim and Pikachu have to recover.
Q 19When Pikachu is badly hurt in Detective Pikachu, which Grass-type starter Pokémon leads Tim to help?
Bulbasaur
Bulbasaur guides the pair through the woods to a Pokémon able to heal Pikachu's injuries, a sequence the film's score calls The Forest of Healing.
Q 20Which skull-wearing Pokémon does Tim's friend Jack urge him to catch early in Detective Pikachu?
Cubone
Cubone is the target chosen by Jack, played by Karan Soni, and the attempt gets its own cue on the film's score, Catching a Cubone.
Q 24The original Detective Pikachu game, released worldwide in March 2018, was made for which Nintendo system?
3DS
The 3DS received the full game two years after Japan got a shorter download-only version. The 2023 sequel moved the series to the Switch.
Q 25In the climax of Detective Pikachu, what does Howard Clifford use to release the purple gas over the streets?
Parade balloons
Parade balloons carry the gas over the streets, and the villain then begins fusing people with their Pokémon, the reporter Lucy among them.
Q 26Which film took Detective Pikachu's record for the biggest North American opening weekend by a video game movie?
Sonic the Hedgehog
Sonic the Hedgehog opened to $58 million in North America, edging past the $54.4 million the Pokémon film had taken the previous May.
Q 27Having given up his dream of training Pokémon, Tim Goodman works in which job at the start of Detective Pikachu?
Insurance agent
Insurance agent Tim abandoned that dream after his mother died and he grew estranged from his father, a detective who had moved away.
Q 28Which Love Actually star plays Howard Clifford, the founder of the metropolis in Detective Pikachu?
Bill Nighy
Bill Nighy plays the disabled visionary who presents himself as an ally before the film unmasks him as the mastermind behind the gas.
Q 29Which star of The Last Samurai plays police lieutenant Hideo Yoshida in Detective Pikachu?
Ken Watanabe
Ken Watanabe also recorded his own lines for the Japanese-language release, in which other actors dubbed the film's young leads.
Q 30Which Fairy-type Pokémon is the partner of police lieutenant Hideo Yoshida in Detective Pikachu?
Snubbull
Snubbull looks fierce, with quivering jowls and an underbite, yet the bulldog-like species is known for being playful and kind.