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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 animation studio made the first five Ice Age films?
Blue Sky Studios
The 2002 original was the studio's debut feature; Disney closed it in 2021.
Q 02What kind of animal is Manny?
A woolly mammoth
He spends the first film convinced he is the last of his kind.
Q 03Who voices Manny?
Ray Romano
The Everybody Loves Raymond star has voiced him in every film.
Q 04What kind of animal is Sid?
A ground sloth
He is a Megalonyx-style ground sloth, though he moves like anything but.
Q 05Who voices Sid?
John Leguizamo
He found the voice after learning sloths store food in their cheek pouches, and recorded with a mouthful of food.
Q 06What inspired the lisping voice the actor gave Sid?
Learning that sloths store food in their cheek pouches
He auditioned some thirty voices before settling on that one.
Q 07Diego is what species?
A Smilodon
Smilodon is the sabre-toothed cat; his pack leader Soto and packmate Zeke are Smilodons too.
Q 08Who voices Diego?
Denis Leary
Leary's growl fits a character who spends most of film one planning to betray his friends.
Q 09Which comedian voices Zeke, one of Soto's sabre-toothed pack?
Jack Black
It was a small early voice role, years before Kung Fu Panda.
Q 10What is the name of the human baby the herd carries in the first film?
Roshan
Voice actress Tara Strong supplied his gurgles.
Q 11What is the herd's goal in the first film?
To return the baby to its tribe
Sid, Manny and Diego form a very reluctant family on the way.
Q 12What does Manny remember in his cave-painting flashback?
His family being killed by human hunters
It explains why he is so cold toward the baby at first.
Q 13What finally makes Diego switch sides completely?
Manny saves his life
He then takes a mortal-looking blow from Soto, only to turn up alive at the end.
Q 21How did Scrat get his name?
A writer's 3-year-old daughter combined 'squirrel' and 'rat'
Michael J. Wilson's daughter Flora coined it.
Q 22What is Scrat forever trying to bury?
An acorn
His pursuit sets off avalanches, floods and, eventually, continental drift.
Q 23A real fossil mammal with long fangs, discovered in 2011, was compared to Scrat. What was it called?
Cronopio dentiacutus
Palaeontologist Guillermo Rougier said the resemblance was only superficial, but the nickname stuck.
Q 14The first Ice Age lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?
Spirited Away
It was only the second year the category existed.
Q 15On what date was the first Ice Age released in the United States?
March 15, 2002
It opened in early spring, and every sequel kept a spring or summer slot.
Q 16Roughly how much did the first Ice Age gross worldwide?
$383 million
That made it a hit on a budget of about $60 million.
Q 17The first Ice Age was originally conceived by Fox Animation Studios as what?
A traditionally animated film
When Fox's 2D studio closed, the project moved to Blue Sky and became CGI.
Q 18What approval rating did Ice Age hold on Rotten Tomatoes as of 2025?
76%
Critics liked the trio's chemistry and Scrat far more than the sequels that followed.
Q 19What kind of creature is Scrat?
A saber-toothed squirrel
He is a long-snouted, rat-like squirrel with fangs and no dialogue.
Q 20Who provides Scrat's vocal effects?
Chris Wedge
Wedge co-founded Blue Sky and directed the first film, then squeaked and screamed as Scrat in every one.
Q 24What is the name of Scrat's female counterpart introduced in the third film?
Scratte
She is a flying squirrel and both his love interest and his rival for the acorn.
Q 25What happens to Scrat in the 2022 farewell short released after Blue Sky closed?
He eats his acorn at last
After two decades of failure, the animators let him win in peace.
Q 26Who directed Ice Age: The Meltdown?
Carlos Saldanha
He also directed Dawn of the Dinosaurs and later Rio.
Q 27In The Meltdown, Ellie is a mammoth who believes she is what?
A possum
She was raised by opossums Crash and Eddie, and hangs from trees by her tail to prove it.
Q 28Who voices Ellie?
Queen Latifah
She joined in the second film and stayed for the rest of the series.
Q 29Which pair of actors voice the opossum brothers Crash and Eddie?
Seann William Scott and Josh Peck
Peck was still on Drake & Josh at the time.
Q 30What is the danger the herd flees in The Meltdown?
An ice dam about to flood the valley
The only hope is a boat waiting at the far end of the valley.