Everything Everywhere All at Once Trivia
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50 free Everything Everywhere All at Once trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Everything Everywhere All at Once began as a script written for Jackie Chan, was shot in 38 days in a Simi Valley laundromat, had its visual effects done by a team of eight in After Effects, and ended up winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture. Along the way it gave us hot dog fingers, googly eyes, an everything bagel that could end the multiverse and a raccoon chef voiced by Randy Newman. This quiz covers the whole film: Evelyn, Waymond, Joy and Gong Gong and the actors who play them, the rules of verse-jumping, the universes Evelyn visits, the Daniels' inspirations from Wong Kar-wai to a children's book about a donkey and a pebble, the casting stories behind Ke Huy Quan's comeback and Jamie Lee Curtis's IRS agent, the Son Lux score, the box office run that made it A24's biggest hit, and the record-setting awards season. Difficulty runs from easy plot recall to trivia only repeat viewers will get. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's article on the film, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Who directed Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, billed together as Daniels, wrote and directed it; the pair first drew notice with the 2013 music video for DJ Snake and Lil Jon's 'Turn Down for What'.
Q 02Who plays Evelyn Quan Wang?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh plays Evelyn Quan Wang, a part that brought her the Academy Award for Best Actress in March 2023; the Daniels rewrote the lead for her after first conceiving it as a man.
Q 03What kind of business do Evelyn and Waymond run?
A laundromat
They eloped to the United States two decades earlier and settled in Simi Valley, California.
Q 04Which government agency is auditing Evelyn when the multiverse breaks loose?
The IRS
The IRS audit drives the plot: the family bring boxes of receipts to the agency's office, where the multiverse erupts, and return there at the end to refile their taxes.
Q 05Who plays Waymond Wang, Evelyn's meek husband?
Ke Huy Quan
Ke Huy Quan, the child star of Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and The Goonies, returned after about two decades away from acting to play Waymond and won an Academy Award for it.
Q 06Who plays Joy Wang and her multiverse alter ego Jobu Tupaki?
Stephanie Hsu
Stephanie Hsu plays both Joy and Jobu Tupaki, joining after the original Joy dropped out in early 2020; previously known for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Broadway's Be More Chill, she earned an Oscar nomination.
Q 07Who plays IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre?
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis plays the auditor Deirdre, with a frumpy look she based on a photo of a real tax agent; the part brought her the first Oscar win of her career.
Q 08Who plays Gong Gong, Evelyn's demanding father?
James Hong
James Hong plays Gong Gong; his sinister Alpha-Gong Gong recalls his villain Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China, and in 2022, at 93, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Q 09What does 'Gong Gong' mean in Cantonese?
Grandfather
Grandfather, specifically the mother's father, is what Gong Gong (公公) means in Cantonese; Joy uses it for Evelyn's elderly father, who disowned Evelyn when she eloped and has recently come to stay with the family.
Q 10What is the name of the universe that Alpha-Waymond comes from?
The Alphaverse
The Alphaverse is the universe where Alpha-Evelyn first developed verse-jumping, the technology that lets a mind tap into its other lives; Alpha-Waymond crosses from it to recruit Evelyn in the tax office.
Q 11How do characters trigger a verse-jump?
By performing statistically unlikely actions
By performing statistically unlikely actions, such as swallowing lip balm, giving oneself paper cuts or declaring love to an enemy, a jumper's mind links to a version of themselves in another universe.
Q 12What is the name of the doomsday object Jobu Tupaki has created?
The Everything Bagel
The Everything Bagel is Jobu's creation, a black void that forms when she puts literally everything onto a bagel; it becomes the film's emblem of nihilism, set against Waymond's googly eye.
Q 13Why does Alpha-Waymond believe Evelyn in particular can defeat Jobu?
Q 21Which actress was originally cast as Joy in 2018 before dropping out?
Awkwafina
Awkwafina was attached as Joy from the project's 2018 casting announcement but left in January 2020 over scheduling conflicts, shortly before filming, and the part was recast.
Q 22A meme comparing which politician to Short Round prompted the Daniels to seek out Ke Huy Quan?
Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang, the 2020 presidential hopeful, was likened to Short Round in a meme that sent the Daniels looking for the actor who played him; he had just decided to return to acting after seeing Crazy Rich Asians.
Q 23Which former Goonies co-star acted as Ke Huy Quan's lawyer for his contract?
Jeff Cohen
She is the greatest 'failure' of all the Evelyns
She is the greatest 'failure' of all the Evelyns, Alpha-Waymond says, and her countless abandoned paths give her the widest range of other selves to draw on.
Q 14What is Jobu Tupaki actually looking for, she eventually reveals?
An Evelyn who can see that nothing matters
An Evelyn who can see that nothing matters is what Jobu has searched every universe for; having found one, she hopes they can step into the void together, until Waymond's plea for kindness changes Evelyn's mind.
Q 15What are Evelyn and Joy in the universe where they communicate through on-screen captions?
Rocks
Rocks is what they are: two boulders on a cliff in a universe where life never evolved, talking through captions, until Joy's rock hops off the edge and Evelyn's follows.
Q 16Which children's book helped inspire the rock universe?
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble, William Steig's 1969 picture book about a donkey who turns himself into a rock, helped inspire the rock scene, alongside David OReilly's 2017 video game Everything.
Q 17Which Hong Kong director's films inspired the universe where Evelyn is a martial-arts movie star?
Wong Kar-wai
Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love is the model: the alley scenes between a glamorous Evelyn and a suave Waymond copy its smoky lighting, slow motion and air of unspoken longing.
Q 18Which Pixar composer voices Raccacoonie, the raccoon chef?
Randy Newman
The character is a riff on Ratatouille; three puppeteers operated him.
Q 19Which Pixar film is Raccacoonie a reference to?
Ratatouille
Ratatouille, Pixar's 2007 film about a rat guiding a chef from under his hat, is the joke: Harry Shum Jr.'s teppanyaki chef Chad is secretly steered by the raccoon Raccacoonie, the name Evelyn misremembers.
Q 20Which actor was the script originally written for, before the lead became a woman?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan was the intended star of the early drafts, with the wife in the supporting role; the Daniels flipped the leads after deciding that a mother at the centre made the family story stronger.
Jeff Cohen, who played Chunk in The Goonies, became an entertainment attorney after leaving acting and negotiated his old co-star's contract for the film.
Q 24Which Marvel series were the Daniels invited to discuss developing around the time filming began?
Loki
Loki, the Disney+ series built around alternate timelines, was the Marvel project the Daniels were approached about; they declined, being about to shoot their own multiverse film.
Q 25How many days did the shoot take?
38
38 shooting days took the production from January to early March 2020, wrapping days before the pandemic shut Hollywood down, with the big fight scenes staged by the Martial Club team.
Q 26What is the running time of Everything Everywhere All at Once?
139 minutes
139 minutes, about two hours nineteen, is the final running time; A24 released it in US cinemas in late March 2022 before expanding it nationwide in April.
Q 27Who edited Everything Everywhere All at Once?
Paul Rogers
Paul Rogers edited the film in Adobe Premiere Pro and won the Academy Award for Best Film Editing, beating the editors of Top Gun: Maverick, Tár, Elvis and The Banshees of Inisherin.
Q 28What was the Daniels' previous feature film, released in 2016?
Swiss Army Man
Swiss Army Man, released in 2016, starred Paul Dano as a castaway and Daniel Radcliffe as a flatulent corpse; it premiered at Sundance, where the Daniels won the Directing Award.
Q 29Which band composed the score?
Son Lux
Son Lux, the trio of Ryan Lott, Rafiq Bhatia and Ian Chang, composed the score, which earned the band an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score.
Q 30Which two musicians feature on the single 'This Is a Life'?
Mitski and David Byrne
Mitski and David Byrne sing 'This Is a Life' over the end credits; written with the score's composers, it was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song.