Fantastic Mr Fox Trivia
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47 free Fantastic Mr Fox trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox was published in 1970 and is barely 80 pages long, yet it has spawned a play, a musical, an opera that won a Grammy, a Royal Mail stamp and a Wes Anderson film in which George Clooney recorded his lines in a forest and every single frame contains the color orange. These 47 questions split between the book and the 2009 movie: the three farmers and what each one eats, the shot-off tail, Badger and the cider cellar, Rat and Mabel, the closing line, the 2023 text revisions and the illustrators from Donald Chaffin to Quentin Blake; then Anderson and Noah Baumbach's script, Henry Selick's departure for Coraline, 3 Mills Studios, Meryl Streep replacing Cate Blanchett, Ash and Kristofferson, Kylie the opossum, Alexandre Desplat's score and the two Oscar nominations that lost to Up. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play in sets of ten or print the list.
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Q 01From which city did Wes Anderson oversee much of the production of Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Paris
Paris: rather than stand on set, Anderson micromanaged the animators from his apartment there, by phone and by hundreds of e-mails a day.
Q 02In Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, which animal does Mr. Fox admit he has a phobia of?
Wolves
Wolves: yet when a lone wolf appears near the end, Mr. Fox raises a fist in salute, and the wolf raises one back before running off.
Q 03In Roald Dahl's book, why does Mrs Fox stay behind when Mr Fox leads the Small Foxes off tunnelling?
Too weak to dig
Too weak to dig: after days without food she stays behind, and once the first raid works, Mr Fox sends a Small Fox back to her with stolen hens.
Q 04In Fantastic Mr Fox, what does Farmer Bunce stuff with mashed goose livers?
Doughnuts
Doughnuts: in Dahl's book, this disgusting diet gives Bunce a tummy-ache and a beastly temper.
Q 05When the farmers ambush Mr Fox outside his hole, what do they manage to shoot off?
His tail
His tail: in the film, Farmer Bean wears it as a necktie, and Mr Fox later tells him he won't leave without it.
Q 06After spades fail, what do the farmers use to dig up the Foxes' hill?
Excavators
Excavators: the Foxes still escape by burrowing deeper, and the huge crater draws villagers who come to mock the farmers.
Q 07Wes Anderson treated Dahl's short book as which part of his Fantastic Mr. Fox film?
The second act
The second act: to stretch the book into a feature, Anderson wrote a new opening and ending around it, adding a backstory and a final battle.
Q 08Which animal friend joins Mr Fox on his tunneling mission in Roald Dahl's book?
Badger
Badger: when he asks whether their stealing is wrong, Mr Fox points out that the farmers are trying to kill them, and Badger is won over.
Q 09In Fantastic Mr Fox, which birds does Farmer Bean raise?
Turkeys
Turkeys: Bean is also the cleverest of the three farmers, and the ambush at the Foxes' hole is his plan.
Q 10In Roald Dahl's book, what does Mr Fox propose to the animals at the celebratory banquet?
A secret underground neighbourhood
A secret underground neighbourhood: Mr Fox will hunt on everyone's behalf, so none of them need risk going outside to be caught or shot.
Q 11Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox ends with the narrator saying the farmers are, as far as he knows, still doing what?
Waiting
Waiting: Boggis, Bunce and Bean sit by the hole all day, sure the foxes must be starving, unaware that the animals below are feasting on their food.
Q 12In 2012, Roald Dahl's Mr Fox appeared on what?
A Royal Mail stamp
A Royal Mail stamp: Dahl wrote thousands of letters home, and his daughter Ophelia said he never dreamed one of his characters would grace a stamp.
Q 13In Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, what does Mr. Fox say when his wife asks why he lied?
Because I'm a wild animal
Q 21Who voices Mr. Fox in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
George Clooney
George Clooney: his Mr. Fox goes back to stealing, asking how a fox can ever be happy without a chicken in its teeth.
Q 22In Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, which martial art is Kristofferson skilled in?
Karate
Karate: the gifted nephew also proves a natural chicken thief, and Mr. Fox recruits him for his raids.
Q 23Who voices Ash, Mr. Fox's small and insecure son, in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Jason Schwartzman
Jason Schwartzman: in the end, little Ash is the one who frees his captured cousin from the farmers.
Because I'm a wild animal: in Dahl's book Mrs. Fox accepts his stealing, but here she had made him promise to give it up.
Q 14A 2019 Boston Modern Orchestra Project release of the Picker adaptation won what?
A Grammy Award
Boston Modern Orchestra Project and Odyssey Opera made the recording. Opera Holland Park had staged a new version outdoors in 2010.
Q 15Instead of a sound studio, where did Wes Anderson record much of the voice cast of Fantastic Mr. Fox?
On a farm
On a farm: the actors acted out their characters' running, digging and climbing, recording outdoor scenes in the fields and indoor ones in the farmhouse.
Q 16Which publisher drew a backlash in 2023 for rewriting passages of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox and other books?
Puffin
Puffin: after the outcry, it also brought back Dahl's unedited texts as The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, while still selling the revised ones.
Q 17Which novelist called the 2023 rewrites of Roald Dahl's books, including Fantastic Mr Fox, "absurd censorship"?
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie: while granting that Dahl "was no angel," he said the publisher and the Dahl estate should be ashamed.
Q 18Who voices Mrs. Fox in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Meryl Streep
Meryl Streep: Mrs. Fox tells Ash that they're all different, but that there's something kind of fantastic about that.
Q 19Who co-wrote the screenplay of Fantastic Mr. Fox with director Wes Anderson?
Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach: the project began at Revolution Studios, and when Revolution dropped out, their adaptation moved to 20th Century Fox.
Q 20What animation technique is Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox primarily made in?
Stop motion
Stop motion: Anderson called Le Roman de Renard, an old French stop-motion film about a fox, a great influence.
Q 24In Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, Kristofferson comes to stay with the Foxes because his father is being treated for what?
Double pneumonia
Double pneumonia: the gifted cousin's arrival leaves Ash feeling threatened and jealous.
Q 25Who voices Clive, Mr. Fox's lawyer, in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Bill Murray
Bill Murray: the lawyer warns that the Foxes' new home is within shooting distance of three farms, but Mr. Fox moves in anyway.
Q 26Which actor voices farmer Bean in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Michael Gambon
Michael Gambon: when Petey sings a song praising Mr. Fox, Bean snaps that he wrote a bad song and storms off.
Q 27Who voices Rat, Bean's violent security guard, in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Willem Dafoe
Willem Dafoe: Rat dies after a fight with Mr. Fox, who grants him some redemption but calls him just another dead rat.
Q 28Owen Wilson voices which character in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Coach Skip
Coach Skip: he coaches Ash and Kristofferson, and rattles off the convoluted rules of whack-bat.
Q 29In Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox, what kind of animal is Kylie, Mr. Fox's sidekick?
An opossum
An opossum: when Kylie zones out, his eyes turn into dazed bull's-eyes, and Mr. Fox can't tell whether he's getting anything.
Q 30Which Britpop singer voices Petey in Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox?
Jarvis Cocker
Jarvis Cocker: Anderson based Petey on the singer, so the character even looks like him.