Early Man (2018 Film)
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40 free Early Man (2018 Film) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Early Man is Aardman's 2018 caveman comedy, a plasticine underdog story in which a Stone Age tribe has to win a football match against a far better equipped Bronze Age city to get its home back. It is packed with the studio's usual sight gags, puns and scene-stealing animals. This quiz is built around the characters: Dug and his tribe, the Bronze Age side they face, and the famous British voices behind them. It also covers the plot from the prehistoric prologue to the final whistle, plus the music, the release and a few stories from the production. It suits families who have just watched the film, Aardman fans and anyone setting a film round for a quiz night. Every question comes with an explanation, so you pick up something new even when you miss.
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Q 01Which Wallace & Gromit creator directed Early Man, his first feature film since 2005?
Nick Park
Nick Park also performs in the film, supplying the grunts and snorts of the hero's pet boar.
Q 02In Early Man's prehistoric opening, the dinosaur-killing asteroid strikes Earth near which English city?
Manchester
Manchester is the film's joke birthplace of football: survivors of the impact start kicking a chunk of the space rock around.
Q 03Which oversized creature bursts the cavemen's only ball in Early Man, then later carries them to the match?
A giant duck
A giant duck chases the tribe and destroys their ball; once tamed, it delivers the whole team to the stadium just as Dug is about to forfeit.
Q 04Which small animals does Dug's tribe hunt every day in Early Man, never daring to chase bigger prey?
Rabbits
Rabbits are all the clumsy tribe can manage, and Chief Bobnar brushes off Dug's plea to hunt something bigger because they are too uncoordinated.
Q 05Which actor gives the villainous Bronze Age governor in Early Man an outrageous French accent?
Tom Hiddleston
Tom Hiddleston, best known as Marvel's Loki, plays the greedy governor with a comedy French accent that one critic compared to Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Q 06Who goes in goal and saves a penalty in Early Man after Chief Bobnar is knocked out?
Hognob
Hognob is Dug's loyal sidekick, a scene-stealer one critic called as close to Gromit as it is possible to get; his save sets up the winning goal.
Q 07With which acrobatic move does Dug score the winning goal in Early Man's deciding match?
A bicycle kick
A bicycle kick from Dug wins the valley back, moments after the villain had seized the whistle and started giving biased decisions.
Q 08Which DreamWorks hit began as an Aardman project announced in 2005, years before Early Man?
The Croods
The Croods began in 2005 as an Aardman project called Crood Awakening; DreamWorks kept the story when the two studios parted ways.
Q 09Early Man's weak American opening was blamed on arriving the same weekend as which Marvel blockbuster?
Black Panther
Black Panther swallowed the February 2018 box office, leaving the caveman comedy seventh in the US chart with an opening of about $3 million.
Q 10Critics read Early Man's Stone Age tribe facing slick continental rivals as an allegory for which political event?
Brexit
Brexit was fresh news when the film arrived in 2018, and reviewers could not resist reading the plucky locals versus Euro-style invaders that way.
Q 11Which Fantastic Beasts actor voices Dug, the young caveman hero of Early Man?
Eddie Redmayne
Eddie Redmayne, an Oscar winner for playing Stephen Hawking, pitched Dug so young that one critic said he sounded like a small child.
Q 12Which Game of Thrones star voices the football-mad Bronze Age trader who coaches the cavemen in Early Man?
Maisie Williams
Maisie Williams, television's Arya Stark, called herself a huge Aardman fan and said working on the film was a dream come true.
Q 13Which Bronze Age trader secretly practises in the empty stadium and agrees to coach Dug's team in Early Man?
Goona
Goona catches Dug sneaking in to steal footballs, then helps him take them and turns his bumbling tribe into a team.
Q 21Early Man's two battling dinosaurs are named in the credits after which special-effects pioneer?
Ray Harryhausen
Ray Harryhausen animated the dinosaurs of One Million Years B.C., so the film's Ceratosaurus and Triceratops are credited as Ray and Harry.
Q 22In Early Man, what does the villain show Dug underground to prove his ancestors never won a match?
Cave paintings
Cave paintings reveal that Dug's ancestors invented football and taught it to other tribes, then lost every game and gave up.
Q 23In Early Man's closing scene, the tribe's usual prey scares off the hunters by pretending to be which huge beast?
A woolly mammoth
Q 14Which actor, Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter films, voices Chief Bobnar in Early Man?
Timothy Spall
Timothy Spall was an Aardman veteran, having voiced Nick the rat in Chicken Run; here he plays the tribe's cautious leader and Dug's father figure.
Q 15Which greedy Bronze Age governor drives Dug's tribe out of their valley in Early Man?
Nooth
Nooth accepts Dug's challenge only because he sees a chance to profit from the match, and later cheats by taking over as referee.
Q 16Which actress, a BAFTA winner for The Age of Innocence, voices Queen Oofeefa in Early Man?
Miriam Margolyes
Miriam Margolyes plays the demanding ruler of the Bronze Age world, who piles pressure on her governor to win the match.
Q 17Which Gavin & Stacey star voices both match commentators and a talking message bird in Early Man?
Rob Brydon
Rob Brydon is all over the film: he voices commentators Brian and Bryan, the pigeon that repeats royal messages aloud, and one of the rival players.
Q 18Which IT Crowd actor voices Treebor, the large and cowardly caveman of Early Man?
Richard Ayoade
Richard Ayoade plays a gentle giant who is forever being embarrassed by his mother, a fellow member of the tribe.
Q 19Which dim member of Dug's tribe in Early Man has a best friend who is an actual rock?
Barry
Barry calls his stone companion Mr. Rock and treats him as one of the tribe.
Q 20Which member of Dug's tribe in Early Man is the overbearing parent who constantly embarrasses Treebor?
Magma
Magma, voiced by Selina Griffiths, is the mother of the tribe's biggest and most cowardly member.
A woolly mammoth is what Dug always dreamed of hunting, so the disguise sends his tribe and their new Bronze Age friends running.
Q 24Where is Dug's tribe forced to live in Early Man after being driven out of their lush valley?
The badlands
The badlands around the valley are a volcanic wasteland, which is why the tribe risks everything on one match to get home.
Q 25How does Dug accidentally end up inside the Bronze Age city for the first time in Early Man?
He falls into a cart
He falls into a cart while trying to fight the invaders and is carried off unnoticed; once inside, he is mistaken for a player.
Q 26In Early Man, where does Dug promise his tribe will work forever if they lose the match?
In the mines
In the mines is the forfeit Dug stakes against the valley; on match day he even offers to go there alone if his tribe is spared.
Q 27Crowd noise for Early Man was recorded with volunteers at the Memorial Stadium, home of which football club?
Bristol Rovers
Bristol Rovers share a home city with Aardman, so the public was invited to the ground to become the film's roaring crowd.
Q 28Which long-running BBC children's programme ran a competition to design a prehistoric character for Early Man?
Blue Peter
Blue Peter offered the winner the chance to see their creation brought to life by Aardman, plus an invitation to the premiere.
Q 29Which British pop trio recorded the single Good Day and a cover of Tiger Feet for Early Man?
New Hope Club
New Hope Club earned a Hollywood Music in Media Awards nomination for Good Day, and their second track revived a 1974 chart-topper by Mud.
Q 30Which composer of Chicken Run and the Shrek films co-wrote Early Man's score with Tom Howe?
Harry Gregson-Williams
Harry Gregson-Williams was busy with another film, so he wrote the main themes and his protégé developed them into the full score.