DreamWorks Trivia
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49 free DreamWorks trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free DreamWorks trivia questions with answers. DreamWorks Animation gave the world Shrek, Po, Toothless, Alex the lion and Poppy, and this quiz covers the studio and its films from Antz to The Wild Robot. Forty questions run through the founders behind the SKG initials, the boy fishing on the moon, the first Best Animated Feature Oscar, the Aardman years, the flop that ended hand-drawn animation, the Comcast takeover, and the franchises that keep the lights on. It starts with questions any family movie night can handle and works up to studio history only animation buffs know. Difficulty ratings are shown so you can pick your battles. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the studio and its films, and each question carries its source.
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Q 01Which three men founded DreamWorks in October 1994?
Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen
Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen founded DreamWorks, whose SKG suffix takes their initials; Katzenberg had just been pushed out of Disney, and Geffen came from the music business.
Q 02What is the boy in the DreamWorks logo doing on the crescent moon?
Fishing
Fishing: the boy dangles a line from the crescent moon; illustrator Robert Hunt painted the image and used his own son as the model.
Q 03What was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film, released in October 1998?
Antz
Antz, released October 2, 1998, beat Pixar's A Bug's Life to cinemas by about seven weeks, in one of the pettiest rivalries in animation history.
Q 04Which song from The Prince of Egypt won the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
When You Believe
When You Believe, written by Stephen Schwartz, won Best Original Song at the 1999 ceremony; Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey sang the pop version over the end credits.
Q 05Which British studio co-produced Chicken Run with DreamWorks in 2000?
Aardman Animations
Aardman Animations, the Bristol studio behind Wallace & Gromit, made Chicken Run with DreamWorks; the partnership ended after Flushed Away in 2006, three films into a five-film deal.
Q 06Chicken Run began as a spoof of which 1963 war film?
The Great Escape
Mel Gibson voiced the American rooster Rocky, and the film became the highest-grossing stop-motion feature ever made.
Q 07Which comedian originally recorded almost all of Shrek's dialogue before his death?
Chris Farley
Chris Farley had recorded most of Shrek's lines before he died in December 1997; Mike Myers took over and later re-recorded everything in a Scottish accent like his mother's bedtime-story voice.
Q 08Shrek won the very first Academy Award in which category?
Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Feature was introduced at the 2002 ceremony, and Shrek beat Monsters, Inc. and Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius to take the first one.
Q 09Shrek is loosely based on a 1990 picture book by which author?
William Steig
William Steig, the New Yorker cartoonist, published Shrek! in 1990; its ogre is far nastier than the film's, which joined the National Film Registry in 2020.
Q 10Which DreamWorks film was the highest-grossing animated film in the world when it was released in 2004?
Shrek 2
Shrek 2 took about $920 million in its 2004 run, passing Finding Nemo to become the highest-grossing animated film of its time; Shark Tale followed the same year.
Q 11Which 2003 flop pushed DreamWorks to abandon hand-drawn animation?
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas took only $80.8 million on a $60 million budget in 2003, and DreamWorks released no more hand-drawn features after it.
Q 12Which stop-motion film won DreamWorks its second Best Animated Feature Oscar?
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Aardman's 2005 Wallace & Gromit feature, won Best Animated Feature at the March 2006 ceremony, DreamWorks' second win after Shrek.
Q 13Which company did DreamWorks acquire a 90 percent stake in and rename PDI/DreamWorks?
Pacific Data Images
Q 21Which actor voices Hiccup in the animated How to Train Your Dragon films?
Jay Baruchel
Jay Baruchel voices Hiccup across the animated trilogy, opposite Gerard Butler as his father Stoick and America Ferrera as Astrid.
Q 22Toothless belongs to which rare breed of dragon?
Night Fury
Night Fury: Toothless is the last known member of the breed, a sleek black dragon no Viking on Berk had ever seen up close; the trilogy earned over $1.6 billion.
Q 23Which company did DreamWorks buy for $155 million in 2012 to acquire Casper, Lassie and others?
Classic Media
Classic Media, bought for $155 million in July 2012, brought Casper and Lassie under the renamed DreamWorks Classics banner; the Trolls doll rights followed in April 2013.
Pacific Data Images, the Redwood City studio that animated Antz and Shrek, became PDI/DreamWorks after the 2000 buyout; it was shut down in the 2015 restructuring.
Q 14In which year was DreamWorks Animation spun off as a separate publicly traded company?
2004
Katzenberg ran it while Spielberg and Geffen stayed on as investors; the live-action studio was sold to Paramount a year later.
Q 15Which zoo do Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria escape from in Madagascar?
The Central Park Zoo
The Central Park Zoo is home to Alex, Marty, Melman and Gloria, voiced by Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith; the trilogy grossed over $1.8 billion.
Q 16Which comedian voices King Julien the lemur in the Madagascar films?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Sacha Baron Cohen voices King Julien in the films; Danny Jacobs took over for TV's All Hail King Julien, and the lemur's anthem is Reel 2 Real's I Like to Move It.
Q 17Which actor voices Po in the Kung Fu Panda films?
Jack Black
Jack Black voices Po, the noodle-shop panda who becomes the Dragon Warrior; the first four films together grossed more than $2 billion.
Q 18Which martial-arts star voices Monkey in the Furious Five?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan voices Monkey; Angelina Jolie is Tigress, Seth Rogen is Mantis, Lucy Liu is Viper and David Cross is Crane.
Q 19Who is the villain of the first Kung Fu Panda?
Tai Lung
Tai Lung, the snow leopard Shifu raised as a son, breaks out of Chorh-Gom prison to seize the Dragon Scroll; Gary Oldman, J.K. Simmons and Viola Davis voiced the sequels' villains.
Q 20How to Train Your Dragon is based on books by which British author?
Cressida Cowell
Cressida Cowell wrote the How to Train Your Dragon books, beginning in 2003; the films depart heavily from them, where Toothless is a tiny, toothless garden dragon.
Q 24Which streaming service signed a 2013 deal with DreamWorks for 300 hours of original content?
Netflix
Netflix signed the June 2013 deal for 300 hours of DreamWorks originals, which produced series such as Dragons: Race to the Edge and All Hail King Julien.
Q 25Which company's NBCUniversal division agreed to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion in April 2016?
Comcast
Comcast, NBCUniversal's parent, announced the $3.8 billion deal in April 2016 and closed it that August, when Katzenberg departed; Hasbro had been in talks earlier.
Q 26Which was the first DreamWorks Animation film distributed by Universal Pictures?
The Hidden World
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World, in February 2019, was the first DreamWorks Animation release through Universal; Paramount had distributed from 2006 to 2012 and 20th Century Fox from 2013 to 2017.
Q 27In which California city is DreamWorks Animation's campus?
Glendale
Glendale: DreamWorks Animation's campus sits at 1000 Flower Street; Disney is in Burbank, Pixar in Emeryville and Sony in Culver City.
Q 28In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, how many of his nine lives has Puss already lost?
Eight
Eight: a flashback montage shows Puss burning through eight of his nine lives, and Death, a wolf voiced by Wagner Moura, comes whistling for the last one.
Q 29Which actress voices Goldilocks, leader of the Three Bears crime family, in The Last Wish?
Florence Pugh
Florence Pugh voices Goldilocks; Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone and Samson Kayo voice the bears, and John Mulaney is Big Jack Horner.
Q 30The painterly look of Puss in Boots: The Last Wish was inspired by which other studio's film?
Into the Spider-Verse
Into the Spider-Verse: director Joel Crawford cited Sony's 2018 film as the model for the stylised, painterly look; The Last Wish grossed about $484 million and earned an Oscar nomination.