Ice Age Trivia
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58 free Ice Age trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
55 free Ice Age trivia questions with answers. Ice Age started as a hand-drawn Fox project about a mammoth, a sloth and a sabre-tooth returning a human baby, and became a five-film, $3 billion franchise carried by a squirrel who never gets his acorn. This quiz covers all of it: the 2002 original and its Oscar nomination, The Meltdown's flood and Ellie the 'possum', Buck and the dinosaur world, Captain Gutt's pirates in Continental Drift, the asteroid of Collision Course, the Disney+ Buck Wild spin-off and Scrat's farewell. You will find the voice cast (Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah, Simon Pegg, Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage), the box-office numbers, the Rotten Tomatoes scores, how Scrat got his name and the real fossil scientists compared him to. Roughly a third of the questions are easy enough for kids who know the films by heart; the rest are for parents who have sat through them all a dozen times. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the sources it cites, and each explanation adds one more thing worth knowing.
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Q 01Which company made the first five Ice Age films?
Blue Sky Studios
Blue Sky Studios spent its early years making commercials and effects shots for other people's films before Ice Age, its first feature; its owner closed it in April 2021, blaming the economic toll of the pandemic.
Q 02Manny the mammoth's nickname is short for which name?
Manfred
Manfred is how he introduces himself in the first film; Sid says 'Yuck' and rechristens him Manny the Moody Mammoth on the spot, and only the short version sticks.
Q 03Who voices Manny the mammoth in the Ice Age films?
Ray Romano
Ray Romano ad-libbed many of Manny's best lines at the final dubbing sessions: because the mammoth's trunk hides his mouth, he was free to keep trying out new jokes right to the end.
Q 04What does Sid's family do to him at the start of the first Ice Age?
Migrate without him
Migrate without him: Sid wakes to find they slipped away while he slept, as he says they do every year, and they turn up again in Continental Drift only to dump his grandmother on him and vanish once more.
Q 05Who voices Sid the sloth in the Ice Age films?
John Leguizamo
John Leguizamo tried dozens of voices on the film's makers before one stuck, then broke the news by phoning in character to announce that Sid was on the line.
Q 06What inspired the actor's lisping voice for Sid?
Learning that sloths store food in their cheek pouches
Learning that sloths store food in their cheek pouches gave the actor the idea: after dozens of rejected voices he paced his apartment with his mouth full of food until Sid's slushy lisp came out.
Q 07In the Ice Age films, what kind of animal is Diego?
A Smilodon
A Smilodon is the sabre-toothed cat of the Americas, often called a sabre-toothed tiger even though it was no close relative of tigers or of any other cat alive today.
Q 08Who voices Diego in the Ice Age films?
Denis Leary
Denis Leary said a generation of children knew him as the ladybug from A Bug's Life, so he thought it would be cool to play a fierce predator, which he called more like the real him.
Q 09Which comedian voices Zeke, one of Soto's sabre-toothed pack?
Jack Black
Jack Black voices Zeke, the pack's jittery hothead, so eager to sink his claws into a mammoth that Soto has to order him to keep them off until the pack's real target is caught.
Q 10Who is Roshan in the first Ice Age film?
The human baby
The human baby is Roshan, though nobody ever says the name on screen: Manny just calls him Pinky, and his gurgles were recorded by voice actor Tara Strong.
Q 11What is the herd's goal in the first Ice Age film?
To return the baby to its tribe
To return the baby to its tribe, Manny and Sid take on Diego as their tracker, unaware that he has promised his pack both the child and a mammoth for dinner.
Q 12What does Manny remember in his cave-painting flashback?
His family being killed by human hunters
His family being killed by human hunters is the memory the paintings stir; moments later the human child in his care reaches up to touch the painted calf, and Manny, who lost his own, gathers the boy up in his trunk.
Q 13What finally makes Diego switch sides completely?
Q 21Ice Age co-writer Michael Wilson says the name Scrat was coined by whom?
His three-year-old daughter
His three-year-old daughter, Flora, blended two animal names into 'Scrat' while helping with his pitch, Wilson has written, though others at the studio have told the naming story differently.
Q 22In the original storyboards for Ice Age, how did Scrat's opening scene end?
He was trampled to death
He was trampled to death by a mammoth in the first version, a dark joke about life in the ice age; then Fox made the scene its teaser trailer, audiences adored him, and Scrat was spared and written into the rest of the film.
Q 23In the Ice Age films, which fear must Diego overcome to save his friends?
Manny saves his life
Manny saves his life at the lava flow, and Diego confesses the ambush; he then takes a mortal-looking blow from Soto, only to turn up alive at the end.
Q 14The first Ice Age lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?
Spirited Away
Spirited Away won with its maker absent: Hayao Miyazaki skipped the 2003 ceremony and explained years later that he hadn't wanted to visit a country that was bombing Iraq.
Q 15Which birds fight the herd for a melon in the first Ice Age?
Dodos
Dodos guard three melons as their entire stockpile for the coming ice age, then lose all three, and a good part of the flock, in a burst of Tae Kwon Dodo.
Q 16Which deep-voiced actor was first considered for Manny in Ice Age?
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones was an early idea for the mammoth, but the film-makers found such big voices 'too obvious' for the part and went looking for a comedian instead.
Q 17The first Ice Age was originally planned as a hand-drawn film at the Fox studio behind which 1997 musical?
Anastasia
Anastasia came from Fox's hand-drawn studio in Phoenix, which was first considered for Ice Age; Fox gave the mammoth film to its newly bought computer-animation house instead, and shut the Phoenix studio in 2000.
Q 18Which composer scored the first Ice Age film?
David Newman
David Newman scored the first Ice Age for 20th Century Fox, whose fanfare was written by his father, Alfred; in 1997 David re-recorded it himself. John Powell took over the music with The Meltdown.
Q 19What kind of creature is Scrat?
A saber-toothed squirrel
A saber-toothed squirrel seemed pure invention until 2011, when scientists described an unrelated fossil with long fangs and a narrow snout; one of them marvelled that you can imagine a bizarre critter and later find something just like it.
Q 20Scrat's voice, Chris Wedge, had which job on the first Ice Age?
Director
Director of the first film and a founder of its studio, Wedge supplied Scrat's noises himself and carried on doing so through four sequels that other people directed.
Water
Water terrifies Diego, a secret Sid teases out of him along the way; when Sid, Crash and Eddie are about to drown, he finally forces himself to plunge in after them.
Q 24What can Scratte do that her rival Scrat can't?
Glide through the air
Glide through the air is her trick: Scratte spreads flaps of skin between her limbs and floats off with the nut, while Scrat, flapping his bare arms in imitation, simply drops.
Q 25What happens to Scrat in the studio's 2022 farewell short?
He eats his acorn at last
He eats his acorn at last in a half-minute clip that the studio's artists animated in its final days and posted online in April 2022, a year after it closed.
Q 26After two Ice Age sequels, Carlos Saldanha directed which hit?
Rio
Rio let the Brazilian film-maker show off his home city: the idea began with a penguin washing up on its beaches, before he made his hero a rare blue macaw instead.
Q 27In The Meltdown, Ellie is a mammoth who believes she is what?
A possum
A possum is what she takes herself for: orphaned as a calf, she was adopted by a possum mother and grew up beside brothers Crash and Eddie, even sleeping hung by her tail from a branch.
Q 28Who voices Ellie the mammoth in the Ice Age films?
Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah joined as Ellie in the second film, where Manny takes his time admitting he has fallen for her; by the third the two are a couple expecting their first calf.
Q 29Which pair of actors voice the opossum brothers Crash and Eddie?
Seann William Scott and Josh Peck
Seann William Scott and Josh Peck voice Crash and Eddie in four sequels, yet when the brothers finally took centre stage in a 2022 spin-off, both parts were recast.
Q 30What danger does the herd flee in the second Ice Age film?
An ice dam about to flood the valley
An ice dam about to flood the valley is the threat: a vulture tells the animals they have three days to reach a boat at the far end, while cheerfully hoping that some of them don't make it.