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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 SKG in October 1994?
Spielberg, Katzenberg and Geffen
The SKG initials are theirs; 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
Illustrator Robert Hunt painted it and used his own son as the model.
Q 03What was DreamWorks Animation's first feature film, released in October 1998?
Antz
It beat Pixar's A Bug's Life to cinemas by 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
Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey sang the pop version; Val Kilmer voiced both Moses and, uncredited, God.
Q 05Which British studio co-produced Chicken Run with DreamWorks in 2000?
Aardman Animations
The partnership ended after Flushed Away in 2006, having delivered three of five planned films.
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
Mike Myers took over and then asked to re-record 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
It beat Monsters, Inc. and Jimmy Neutron in 2002; it was also the first animated film in Cannes competition since 1980.
Q 09Shrek is loosely based on a 1990 picture book by which author?
William Steig
The book's ogre is far nastier than the film's; the movie was added to 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
It made about $932 million, and with Shark Tale the same year DreamWorks became the first studio to release two CGI features in one year.
Q 11Which 2003 flop pushed DreamWorks to abandon hand-drawn animation?
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
It took only $80.8 million on a $60 million budget; every film after Shrek 2 was CGI, except Aardman's stop-motion Were-Rabbit.
Q 12Which stop-motion film won DreamWorks its second Oscar for an animated feature, in 2005?
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
It remained the studio's last win in the category for many years despite a string of nominations.
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
Gerard Butler plays his father Stoick and reprised the role in the 2025 live-action remake.
Q 22Toothless belongs to which rare breed of dragon?
Night Fury
The trilogy earned over $1.6 billion, and Universal's Epic Universe opened an Isle of Berk land in 2025.
Q 23In 2010 DreamWorks became the first studio to release three CGI features in one year. Which three?
How to Train Your Dragon, Shrek Forever After and Megamind
The Northern California studio animated Antz and Shrek; 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
Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer and Jada Pinkett Smith voice them; the trilogy grossed over $1.8 billion.
Q 16Which comedian voices King Julien the lemur in the Madagascar films?
Sacha Baron Cohen
Danny Jacobs took over for the TV series All Hail King Julien; the character'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
Dustin Hoffman voices his master Shifu, and the four films have grossed more than $2 billion.
Q 18Which martial-arts star voices Monkey in the Furious Five?
Jackie Chan
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
The snow leopard was Shifu's adopted son; Gary Oldman, J.K. Simmons and Viola Davis voiced the villains of the three sequels.
Q 20How to Train Your Dragon is based on books by which British author?
Cressida Cowell
The films depart heavily from the books, in which Toothless is a tiny, toothless garden dragon rather than a Night Fury.
The other lists mix in Disney, Pixar, Blue Sky and Paramount films that DreamWorks had nothing to do with.
Q 24Which company did DreamWorks buy for $155 million in 2012 to acquire Casper, Lassie and others?
Classic Media
The library was renamed DreamWorks Classics; the Trolls doll rights followed in April 2013.
Q 25Which streaming service signed a 2013 deal with DreamWorks for 300 hours of original content?
Netflix
The result was a wave of series including Dragons: Race to the Edge and All Hail King Julien.
Q 26Which company's NBCUniversal division agreed to buy DreamWorks Animation for $3.8 billion in April 2016?
Comcast
Hasbro had also been in talks earlier; the deal closed that August and Katzenberg departed.
Q 27Which was the first DreamWorks Animation film distributed by Universal Pictures?
The Hidden World
Paramount handled distribution from 2006 to 2012 and 20th Century Fox from 2013 to 2017.
Q 28In which California city is DreamWorks Animation's campus?
Glendale
The address is 1000 Flower Street; Disney is in Burbank, Pixar in Emeryville and Sony in Culver City.
Q 29In Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, how many of his nine lives has Puss already lost?
Eight
Death himself, a wolf voiced by Wagner Moura, comes whistling for the last one.
Q 30Which actress voices Goldilocks, leader of the Three Bears crime family, in The Last Wish?
Florence Pugh
Olivia Colman, Ray Winstone and Samson Kayo voice the bears; John Mulaney is Big Jack Horner.