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
Known as the Daniels, they had previously made Swiss Army Man; the Russo brothers were producers on this one.
Q 02Who plays Evelyn Quan Wang?
Michelle Yeoh
The lead character was initially named Michelle after her, until Yeoh objected that Evelyn 'deserves her own story'.
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 family return to the same building at the end of the film to refile their taxes.
Q 05Who plays Waymond Wang, Evelyn's meek husband?
Ke Huy Quan
He had retired from acting in 2002 for lack of roles; the Daniels tracked him down after seeing a Short Round meme.
Q 06Who plays Joy Wang and her multiverse alter ego Jobu Tupaki?
Stephanie Hsu
Awkwafina had been cast in 2018 but left in January 2020 over scheduling conflicts.
Q 07Who plays IRS agent Deirdre Beaubeirdre?
Jamie Lee Curtis
She based the look on a photo of a real IRS agent and used her real belly rather than a prosthetic.
Q 08Who plays Gong Gong, Evelyn's demanding father?
James Hong
Critics noted his sinister Alpha version echoed his Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China.
Q 09What does 'Gong Gong' mean in Cantonese?
Grandfather
His Alphaverse counterpart wants Evelyn to sacrifice Joy to stop Jobu.
Q 10What is the name of the universe that Alpha-Waymond comes from?
The Alphaverse
It is where the late Alpha-Evelyn developed verse-jumping technology.
Q 11How do characters trigger a verse-jump?
By performing statistically unlikely actions
The bizarre acts range from eating lip balm to declaring love to an enemy.
Q 12What is the name of the doomsday object Jobu Tupaki has created?
The Everything Bagel
Kwan said it 'started as just a throwaway joke' about the American bagel loaded with every topping.
Q 13Why does Alpha-Waymond believe Evelyn in particular can defeat Jobu?
She is the greatest 'failure' of all the Evelyns
Q 21Which actress was originally cast as Joy in 2018 before dropping out?
Awkwafina
She left in January 2020 over scheduling conflicts and Stephanie Hsu took over.
Q 22A meme comparing which politician to Short Round prompted the Daniels to seek out Ke Huy Quan?
Andrew Yang
They realised Quan was the right age for Waymond; he had just come out of retirement inspired by Crazy Rich Asians.
Q 23Which former Goonies co-star acted as Ke Huy Quan's lawyer for his contract?
Jeff Cohen
Cohen, who played Chunk, became an entertainment attorney after acting.
Her unfulfilled potential is exactly what makes her able to reach every other version of herself.
Q 14What is Jobu Tupaki actually looking for, she eventually reveals?
An Evelyn who can see that nothing matters
She wants to use the bagel so she and Evelyn can truly die; 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
The scene was inspired by the children's book Sylvester and the Magic Pebble and the video game Everything.
Q 16Which children's book helped inspire the rock universe?
Sylvester and the Magic Pebble
A 2017 video game called Everything was the other influence on the scene.
Q 17Which Hong Kong director's films inspired the universe where Evelyn is a martial-arts movie star?
Wong Kar-wai
Vulture said those scenes conjured 'a mood of exquisite romantic yearning' recognisable from his work.
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
Harry Shum Jr. plays Chad, the teppanyaki chef controlled by the raccoon.
Q 20Which actor was the script originally written for, before the lead became a woman?
Jackie Chan
The Daniels felt a female lead made the husband-wife dynamic more relatable.
Q 24Which Marvel series were the Daniels invited to discuss developing around the time filming began?
Loki
They declined, being about to shoot their own multiverse film.
Q 25How many days did the shoot take?
38
The fanny-pack fight was shot in a day and a half; filming wrapped in early March 2020 as the pandemic hit.
Q 26Roughly how long was the first cut of the film?
170 minutes
The finished film runs just under two and a half hours.
Q 27How many artists made up the in-house visual effects team?
Eight
Led by Zak Stoltz, they worked in Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro after a bad experience outsourcing on Swiss Army Man.
Q 28What was the Daniels' previous feature film, released in 2016?
Swiss Army Man
It starred Daniel Radcliffe as a flatulent corpse; the negative post-production experience led them to do effects in-house this time.
Q 29Which band composed the score?
Son Lux
The trio spent two to three years on it and produced more than a hundred cues.
Q 30Which two musicians feature on the single 'This Is a Life'?
Mitski and David Byrne
André 3000 also appears on the soundtrack, playing flute.