FernGully: The Last Rainforest
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40 free FernGully: the Last Rainforest trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
FernGully: The Last Rainforest arrived in 1992 as an independent animated musical with a point to make, and a generation of children never forgot its oily villain or its fast-talking bat. It mixed hand-drawn fairies with early computer animation, a soundtrack of pop stars and a cast of famous voices who believed in what the film was saying. This quiz covers the whole film: the story of a curious fairy and a young logger, the characters and the actors behind them, the songs and who wrote them, and what happened behind the scenes while a far bigger studio watched closely. A few questions follow the film's afterlife, from its sequel to the later hits it has been compared with. It is written for anyone who wore out the VHS tape, for parents showing the film to a new audience, and for quiz hosts who need a nostalgic animation round. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which comedian made his animated film debut as the voice of the bat Batty Koda in FernGully?
Robin Williams
Robin Williams had the bat written specially for him and recorded about fourteen hours of improvised lines for the part.
Q 02Which 2009 sci-fi blockbuster did some reviewers accuse of borrowing plot elements from FernGully?
Avatar
Avatar drew the charge from some reviewers, while others called FernGully just one of many films that James Cameron's hit resembles.
Q 03Batty Koda's voice actor refused Disney's demand to quit FernGully after agreeing to which other animated film?
Aladdin
Aladdin and its Genie came later in 1992, but the actor had already promised to play Batty and would not withdraw when Disney pushed him.
Q 04The fairy rainforest of FernGully lies near Mount Warning in which country?
Australia
Australia is the setting, and Mount Warning is a real peak in New South Wales, the remnant of an ancient shield volcano.
Q 05What does Crysta carry when she lets Hexxus swallow her during the final battle of FernGully?
A seed
A seed sprouts inside Hexxus, and the fairies' magic grows it into a tree that holds him fast at the edge of the forest.
Q 06Which star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show voices Hexxus, the villain of FernGully?
Tim Curry
Tim Curry also sings the villain's showpiece, Toxic Love, and later voiced Nigel Thornberry in The Wild Thornberrys.
Q 07What does Crysta accidentally do to the logger Zak while saving him from a falling tree in FernGully?
Shrinks him to her size
She shrinks him to her size by mistake and cannot undo the spell, so the pair set off together to ask the fairies' leader for help.
Q 08What had humans done to the bat Batty Koda before Crysta meets him in FernGully?
Experimented on him
They experimented on him, leaving an electrical device stuck in his head and the manic, scrambled personality behind the film's comedy.
Q 09Which British singer, later The Lion King's songwriter, co-wrote and performed Some Other World for FernGully?
Elton John
Elton John wrote the song with Bruce Roberts, two years before his songs for Disney's The Lion King reached cinemas.
Q 10Which comedy duo reunited after six years apart to voice brothers Stump and Root in FernGully?
Cheech & Chong
Cheech & Chong recorded their lines in two or three hours; Cheech Marin said it felt like old times before they had a pizza and left.
Q 11What sets Hexxus free from his long imprisonment near the start of FernGully?
His tree is cut down
His tree is cut down and fed through a mobile sawmill by Tony and Ralph, the two supervisors Zak works under.
Q 12How does the fairy leader Magi Lune help her tribe on the night before Hexxus reaches FernGully?
Sacrifices herself
She sacrifices herself to pass her powers to the other fairies, and they later use that magic to trap Hexxus inside a new tree.
Q 13Hexxus spends years sealed inside which kind of tree before the loggers arrive in FernGully?
A boab
Q 21Which raspy-voiced Wild Thing hitmaker voices the predator that sings about eating Zak in FernGully?
Tone Loc
Tone Loc brought the gravelly voice of Wild Thing and Funky Cold Medina to the role and performs the character's song himself.
Q 22Which actress, Sarah Palmer in Twin Peaks, voices the fairy leader Magi Lune in FernGully?
Grace Zabriskie
Grace Zabriskie played Sarah Palmer again in the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, released the same year as her turn as Magi Lune.
Q 23Which animator, Oscar-nominated for the short film Technological Threat, directed FernGully: The Last Rainforest?
Bill Kroyer
Bill Kroyer and Susan Kroyer founded Kroyer Films in 1986 to combine computer animation with hand-drawn work, the mix FernGully is built on.
A boab is a baobab species with a swollen, bottle-shaped trunk, a fitting prison for the spirit Magi Lune locked away.
Q 14Which hungry reptile tries to eat Zak before Crysta comes to his rescue in FernGully?
A goanna
A goanna is a monitor lizard of the genus Varanus, and the film's one gets a whole song about its dinner plans.
Q 15What does Hexxus consume to regain his powers after escaping in FernGully?
The machine's pollution
The machine's pollution feeds him until Zak reaches the cab and shuts the engine down, starving Hexxus of the emissions he draws on.
Q 16At the start of FernGully, what do the fairies believe has happened to the human race?
They became extinct
They became extinct, the fairies assume, after Hexxus drove humans away long ago, which is why Crysta is so curious when Zak appears.
Q 17What is Crysta's relationship to Magi Lune, leader of the fairies, at the start of FernGully?
Her apprentice
Her apprentice Crysta is still learning her magic, and by the end of the film she succeeds Magi Lune as head of the fairy clan.
Q 18Which actress, a lead in the 1990 teen drama Pump Up the Volume, voices the fairy Crysta in FernGully?
Samantha Mathis
Samantha Mathis went on to play Princess Daisy in the 1993 Super Mario Bros. film, a year after voicing Crysta.
Q 19Which star of the high-school satire Heathers voices the fairy Pips in FernGully?
Christian Slater
Christian Slater kept up a long voice career after Pips, including a character who shares his surname in the animated series Archer.
Q 20FernGully producer Peter Faiman had earlier directed which 1986 blockbuster comedy starring Paul Hogan?
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee came after years in television, where Faiman had directed and produced The Paul Hogan Show.
Q 24Before FernGully, its director was a main animator of the computer-generated sequences in which film?
Tron
Tron convinced him to stay with computer animation rather than return to traditional drawing, and he later worked at Digital Productions.
Q 25Which major Hollywood studio distributed FernGully to cinemas and released it on VHS four months later?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox handled the release, and one of the film's marketers said a Walt Disney presents banner alone would have at least doubled its takings.
Q 26Which composer of the Back to the Future scores also wrote the orchestral score for FernGully?
Alan Silvestri
Alan Silvestri also co-wrote the ballad A Dream Worth Keeping for the film, two years before he scored Forrest Gump.
Q 27How did FernGully's director respond to the hours of improvised lines recorded for Batty Koda?
Tripled the bat's screen time
He tripled the bat's screen time, expanding a part that had first been conceived as an eight-minute role.
Q 28FernGully's voice cast agreed with the film's environmental message and accepted what kind of pay?
Scale wages
Scale wages were all the famous voices took, and most of the film's $24 million budget went on the animation and the soundtrack.
Q 29Where was FernGully given a special screening on Earth Day, twelve days after it opened in cinemas?
The UN General Assembly
The UN General Assembly watched it on April 22, 1992, a fitting stage for a film whose producer called it openly environmental.
Q 30Where did FernGully's producers set up their studio after, by their account, Disney twice outbid them for rented space?
A former brewery
A former brewery in the San Fernando Valley became the studio, and the producer says Disney then tried to buy that building too.