Kung Fu Panda
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This Kung Fu Panda trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers all four DreamWorks films plus Legends of Awesomeness, The Dragon Knight and the holiday special. It starts with questions any young fan can answer, like what animal Mr. Ping is and what Po finds inside the Dragon Scroll, then works up to the voice cast, the working titles the sequel almost had, why the Wuxi Finger Hold fails on Kai, and which YouTuber sneaks into the fourth film. About a third of the questions are easy enough for kids of eight and up, so it works for a family movie night or a classroom reward. The rest will keep parents and grown-up fans honest. Every question is multiple choice with a short explanation after you answer. Every answer has been checked against a primary source, and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01In the Kung Fu Panda films, where do Po and the Furious Five train under Master Shifu?
The Jade Palace
The Jade Palace is smashed to rubble by the villain of the third film, and has been rebuilt by the time the story ends.
Q 02Who provides the voice of Po in the Kung Fu Panda films?
Jack Black
Jack Black also sings on the first film's end credits, sharing a reworked 'Kung Fu Fighting' with CeeLo Green.
Q 03In the Kung Fu Panda films, what is the name of the valley Po calls home?
Valley of Peace
Valley of Peace is where Po grows up. In the first film its people are evacuated as Tai Lung approaches, leaving Shifu to face him alone.
Q 04Po's adoptive father Mr. Ping is what kind of animal?
Goose
Goose: Mr. Ping found Po as a cub in a crate outside his restaurant and raised him as his own when nobody came to claim him.
Q 05Master Shifu, voiced by Dustin Hoffman, is what kind of animal?
Red panda
Red panda Shifu takes Oogway's choice of Po for a mistake at first, and he and his students spend a day of training trying to drive the newcomer out.
Q 06Which comedy star voices Mantis, the smallest of the Furious Five?
Seth Rogen
Seth Rogen is the only one of the Five heard in the fourth film: the group appears without lines in the end credits, apart from Mantis's screams.
Q 07In the Kung Fu Panda films, Grand Master Oogway is what kind of creature?
A tortoise
A tortoise: Oogway is a Galápagos tortoise credited with creating kung fu, and it is he who points at Po as the Dragon Warrior.
Q 08Tai Lung, the villain of the first Kung Fu Panda film, is what kind of big cat?
Snow leopard
Snow leopard Tai Lung was raised by Shifu from infancy, then turned on the valley when Oogway refused to name him Dragon Warrior.
Q 09Which British actor voices the villain Tai Lung in the first Kung Fu Panda?
Ian McShane
Ian McShane came back to the role in Kung Fu Panda 4, where Tai Lung at last acknowledges Po as the Dragon Warrior.
Q 10Which martial-arts film star voices Master Monkey in the Kung Fu Panda films?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan also dubbed Monkey for the Chinese release, and his son voiced the young Monkey in a spin-off short.
Q 11Angelina Jolie voices which member of the Furious Five?
Tigress
Tigress leads the Five, and it is she who tells Po how Tai Lung, Shifu's adopted son, turned against his master.
Q 12In the first Kung Fu Panda, what does Po find when he finally opens the Dragon Scroll?
A blank golden mirror
A blank golden mirror is all it holds. Shifu writes the scroll off as useless, and Tai Lung is just as baffled when he finally gets his paws on it.
Q 13What is the secret ingredient in Mr. Ping's 'secret ingredient soup'?
There isn't one
There isn't one: Mr. Ping admits the soup is perfectly ordinary, and says a thing becomes special when people believe it is.
Q 21Which composer, later joined by John Powell, scored the first Kung Fu Panda and visited China to prepare?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer got to know China's national symphony orchestra while preparing, and he has gone on to score all four films.
Q 22Which action star of the 1980s and 90s voices Master Croc in Kung Fu Panda 2?
Jean-Claude Van Damme
Jean-Claude Van Damme's Master Croc is jailed by Lord Shen early on and at first refuses to fight, then turns up to help Po stop the fleet.
Q 23The rhinoceros warden of the prison holding Tai Lung, Commander Vachir, was voiced by which actor?
Michael Clarke Duncan
Q 14What is the name of the finishing move Po uses to defeat Tai Lung?
Wuxi Finger Hold
Wuxi Finger Hold is a move Po taught himself. In the third film he turns it on himself, to drag a villain along with him into the Spirit Realm.
Q 15Why does Tai Lung's paralysing nerve strike fail against Po?
Po's body fat
Po's body fat keeps the nerve strike from landing. The same attack had paralysed four of the Furious Five a little earlier.
Q 16In the first Kung Fu Panda, Shifu finds that Po can pull off amazing physical feats when motivated by what?
Food
Food works where lectures failed, so Shifu throws out the usual lessons and trains Po in a style of kung fu invented for him alone.
Q 17The opening dream sequence of the first Kung Fu Panda was made with which kind of animation?
Hand-drawn
Hand-drawn animation sets the dream apart from the computer-animated story that follows. One reviewer likened its look to Chinese shadow puppets, another to an animated woodblock print.
Q 18Where did the first Kung Fu Panda hold its world premiere in May 2008?
Cannes Film Festival
Cannes Film Festival audiences saw it three weeks before American cinemas did, and the sequel was screened there too in 2011.
Q 19Kung Fu Panda outgrossed every other animated film of 2008, including which Pixar release?
WALL-E
WALL-E finished roughly $100 million behind Kung Fu Panda's $632 million. Audiences outside North America made the difference, supplying two-thirds of the panda's total.
Q 20Which Mexican filmmaker served as an executive producer on Kung Fu Panda 3?
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro joined on the second film, and has said its makers were already discussing the third: it ends with Po's long-lost father sensing his son is alive, which gave the next film its story.
Michael Clarke Duncan plays Vachir as a boaster, and the boasting ends when Tai Lung picks his locks with a fallen feather and walks out of the prison.
Q 24Kung Fu Panda 2's villain, Lord Shen, is what kind of bird?
Peacock
Peacock Lord Shen was banished by his own parents after he led his wolf army against a village of pandas.
Q 25In Kung Fu Panda 2, Lord Shen's family, the rulers of Gongmen City, invented what?
Fireworks
Fireworks were meant to delight, but Shen saw that their gunpowder could be made into a weapon and built cannons to conquer China.
Q 26In Kung Fu Panda 2, the Soothsayer foretells that Shen will be defeated by 'a warrior of' what?
Black and white
Black and white could only mean a panda, Shen decided, so he set out to wipe the pandas out; the massacre got him banished instead.
Q 27In Kung Fu Panda 2, Mr. Ping reveals that he found baby Po in a crate of what?
Radishes
Radishes filled the crate where Po's mother hid him before drawing Shen's wolves away from her cub.
Q 28Which actress voices the Soothsayer in Kung Fu Panda 2?
Michelle Yeoh
Michelle Yeoh's Soothsayer also nurses Po back to health and helps him face the memory of how he lost his parents.
Q 29Which director, head of story on the first Kung Fu Panda, took sole charge of Kung Fu Panda 2?
Jennifer Yuh Nelson
Jennifer Yuh Nelson stepped up when the first film's two directors did not return, and she went on to co-direct the third film as well.
Q 30Which British actor voices Lord Shen, the villain of Kung Fu Panda 2?
Gary Oldman
Gary Oldman's Shen was designed as a schemer to follow the first film's brawler, so he builds cannons where Tai Lung relied on his fists.