Inside Out 2 Trivia
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49 free Inside Out 2 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
Inside Out 2 sent Riley into puberty and Pixar to the top of the box office, and this quiz covers the whole of it: the puberty alarm going off in Headquarters, the console upgrade, four new emotions marching in with their luggage, the bottled-up originals thrown into the vault, the mountain of bad memories at the back of the mind, and the panic attack in the penalty box. The early questions suit kids who have watched it on repeat: who the new emotions are, what Riley's team is called, what Ennui does with her phone. Later ones are for grown-ups: which emotions were cut in development, why Fear and Disgust were recast, how a real teenage focus group changed the film, which composer made Pixar history, which film's record it broke and which one took its crown nine months later. Every answer has been checked against the film's production record and each question links to its source. Our Inside Out trivia covers both films together; this page is for the sequel only.
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Q 01In Inside Out 2, which city is Riley's home?
San Francisco
San Francisco has been home for two years, long enough for Riley to make two best friends, which is exactly what starting high school is about to threaten.
Q 02As Inside Out 2 ends, what does Riley open a message to find out?
Whether she made the team
Whether she made the team is the one thing the film keeps to itself: Riley reads the message and smiles, and the story ends without the list ever being shown.
Q 03Who voices Anxiety in Inside Out 2?
Maya Hawke
Maya Hawke auditioned over Zoom while the director was on a family holiday at Walt Disney World, watching from a back office at Epcot, and her reading moved him to tears.
Q 04In Inside Out 2, what do Riley's glowing strands of belief weave together to form?
Her Sense of Self
Her Sense of Self is tended by Joy, who lets only happy memories sprout beliefs, so Riley's picture of herself is lovely, one-sided and unready for what is coming.
Q 05What sport does Riley play at the three-day camp?
Ice hockey
Ice hockey replaced a talent show, the plot of the first story screening; the director switched within a couple of screenings because the sport already belonged to Riley.
Q 06What is the name of the high-school team Riley wants to join?
The Fire Hawks
The Fire Hawks are the older girls' team, led by a captain Riley idolises, and a place on the roster is the prize that lets Anxiety take charge of the weekend.
Q 07What are the names of Riley's two best friends?
Bree and Grace
Bree and Grace have been keeping a secret: they are headed to a different high school, and that news is what gives Anxiety her opening.
Q 08What triggers the chaos in Headquarters the night before camp?
The puberty alarm goes off
The puberty alarm goes off, and a construction crew swings a wrecking ball through Headquarters to upgrade the console, after which the lightest touch makes Riley overreact.
Q 09What does Anxiety do with the original emotions?
Bottles them up and locks them in a vault
Bottles them up and locks them in a vault is a figure of speech made literal: Joy's crew become 'suppressed emotions' in a jar, shipped to where Riley keeps her secrets.
Q 10In Inside Out 2, which original emotion does Embarrassment secretly help?
Sadness
Sadness sneaks back into Headquarters, and when Embarrassment finds her he has second thoughts about Anxiety's plan, says nothing and helps her stay hidden.
Q 11What does Riley discover when she sneaks into Coach Roberts' office?
A notebook saying she is 'not ready yet'
A notebook saying she is 'not ready yet' holds the coach's private verdict: Anxiety gets Riley out of bed at night to sneak in and read it.
Q 12What belief does Anxiety's replacement self end up generating?
'I'm not good enough'
'I'm not good enough' is all Anxiety's carefully planted beliefs add up to, the opposite of the confident self she meant to build; the director says the whole film grew from that thought.
Q 13What happens to Riley after she is sidelined at the final tryout in Inside Out 2?
Q 21Who directed Inside Out 2?
Kelsey Mann
Kelsey Mann was story supervisor on Monsters University and Onward; he started the sequel in January 2020 and had chosen Anxiety as its main newcomer before the pandemic began.
Q 22In Inside Out 2, which new Imagination Land landmark shows Riley's crushes?
Mount Crushmore
Mount Crushmore is what growing up has done to Imagination Land: old attractions were torn down for a cliff carved with the faces of Riley's four biggest crushes.
Q 23What is Riley's Deep Dark Secret, revealed after the credits of Inside Out 2?
She burned a hole in the rug
She has a panic attack
She has a panic attack: inside her head, Anxiety spins around the console so fast she becomes a blur, then freezes at the controls, unable to stop what she has started.
Q 14How does Riley's crisis at the tryout end?
A new self forms from good and bad memories alike
A new self forms from good and bad memories alike once Joy lets go of the old one, after Anxiety concedes that no emotion gets to choose who Riley is.
Q 15What do the emotions give Anxiety at the end?
A massage chair
A massage chair and tea wait for Anxiety in Headquarters: she is not thrown out, just sat down whenever her worrying gets ahead of anything Riley can control.
Q 16Which two original voice actors declined to return, reportedly over pay?
Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling
Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling, the first film's Fear and Disgust, were reportedly offered $100,000 each, a tiny fraction of the lead's deal, and walked away.
Q 17Which Arrested Development actor took over as the voice of Fear in Inside Out 2?
Tony Hale
Tony Hale stepped in after the first film's Fear reportedly turned down $100,000, said to be about 2 percent of the offer made to the actor voicing Joy.
Q 18Which French actress voices Ennui in Inside Out 2?
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Adèle Exarchopoulos plays the newcomer twice over: she recorded Ennui in English, French accent and all, and then again for the film's French-language release.
Q 19Which star of The Bear voices Envy?
Ayo Edebiri
Ayo Edebiri voices Envy, the smallest of the newcomers and one of four survivors: the first story screening tried more than twice as many new emotions, and nobody could keep track.
Q 20In Inside Out 2, which veteran actress voices Nostalgia?
June Squibb
June Squibb voices Nostalgia as a dainty old lady with a teacup, who keeps wandering in only to be sent away because a 13-year-old has nothing to be wistful about yet.
She burned a hole in the rug, which is all the hulking Deep Dark Secret has been hiding; Joy had braced for something far worse, and he shuffles back into his safe.
Q 24In Inside Out 2, Riley's secret old crush Lance Slashblade is what kind of character?
A video game hero
A video game hero, stiff old-console graphics and all: Riley's crush on him mortifies her so much that he is locked away with her other secrets.
Q 25What was 'Riley's Crew' on Inside Out 2?
Nine teenagers who gave feedback on the film
Nine teenagers who gave feedback on the film did so again and again: Pixar screened each new cut for them every few months, nearly ten times in all, and took their notes.
Q 26In Inside Out 2, what does Anxiety order Riley's imagination staff to draw all night?
Everything that could go wrong
Everything that could go wrong at camp the next day: Anxiety thinks she is preparing Riley, but she only keeps her awake, until Joy gets the artists drawing happier outcomes.
Q 27Which 2019 thriller inspired the look of Anxiety's most intense scenes in Inside Out 2?
Uncut Gems
Uncut Gems, the high-stress Adam Sandler thriller, lent Pixar its shaky handheld camerawork: whenever Anxiety is driving, the film's virtual camera goes handheld as well.
Q 28Inside Out 2 had the first woman to score a Pixar feature; whose themes did she carry over from the original?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino scored the first film, on which Andrea Datzman was score coordinator; for the sequel she kept some of his themes and wrote the rest herself.
Q 29In Inside Out 2, what sets Bloofy and Pouchy apart from every other character?
They are hand-drawn in 2D
They are hand-drawn in 2D because they come from a preschool cartoon Riley once adored, a taste she now keeps locked away among her secrets.
Q 30Which Pixar veteran returned as Fritz in Inside Out 2, his first Pixar voice role since Onward?
John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger was Pixar's good luck charm, heard in every feature from Toy Story to Onward; Fritz is the mind worker who upgraded Riley's console at the end of the first film.