Meet the Robinsons
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50 free Meet the Robinsons trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Meet the Robinsons (2007) is the Disney time-travel comedy that nearly got thrown out: when John Lasseter arrived after the Pixar acquisition, he found the villain too soft, and almost 60 percent of the film was redone in ten months. The result gave us the Bowler Hat Guy, Doris the robotic hat, a singing frog band, Tiny the T-Rex and the motto "Keep Moving Forward" — borrowed from Walt Disney himself. This quiz covers the plot from the Sixth Street Orphanage to the Robinson house, the voice cast (Tom Selleck, Angela Bassett, Adam West, Laurie Metcalf, director Stephen Anderson doing five parts), the William Joyce picture book it was adapted from, and the production — SIGGRAPH 2001's Project Gemini, the Jim Carrey offer, the Danny Elfman score and Rob Thomas's "Little Wonders". Easy questions cover characters and gadgets; hard ones get into release-week shorts, box-office rivals and the cancelled sequel. Fifty questions, every answer checked.
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Q 01In Meet the Robinsons, what does Wilbur first claim to be when he approaches Lewis at the science fair?
A time cop
A time cop is his cover story until Lewis snatches the 'badge' and finds it is a coupon for a tanning salon; Wilbur admits the lie but insists he really has come from the future.
Q 02In Meet the Robinsons, what does Lewis do when he finally gets to see his birth mother?
Lets her go without a word
Lets her go without a word: he reaches out as she leaves the baby at the orphanage door, then pulls back, content now that he knows the family waiting in his future.
Q 03What invention does Lewis bring to his school science fair in Meet the Robinsons?
A Memory Scanner
A Memory Scanner, built to pull the face of the birth mother who left him as a baby out of his own memory; a sabotaging robot hat makes it explode at the fair.
Q 04What is the name of the Bowler Hat Guy's sentient hat in Meet the Robinsons?
Doris
Doris is short for DOR-15, a Helping Hat that its inventor shelved as a failure; the hat escaped, teamed up with a bitter stranger and set out for revenge.
Q 05Which company does the Bowler Hat Guy pitch Lewis's stolen machine to in Meet the Robinsons?
InventCo. Labs
InventCo. Labs throws him out: he stole the device without learning how to work it, which is why he next sets out to kidnap the boy who built it.
Q 06What is the Robinson family motto in Meet the Robinsons?
Keep Moving Forward
Keep Moving Forward is how Wilbur explains the family's time machine: prototype after prototype ended in failure before one finally worked, so the Robinsons treat mistakes as steps, not defeats.
Q 07What do the Robinsons name the dinosaur they adopt in Meet the Robinsons?
Tiny
Tiny, a Tyrannosaurus, is sent to kidnap Lewis but cannot reach him in a tight corner, grumbling that he has 'a big head and little arms'; the Robinsons fight him off, then keep him as a pet.
Q 08Who is the Bowler Hat Guy revealed to be in Meet the Robinsons?
Lewis's roommate Goob, grown up
Lewis's roommate Goob, grown up and bitter: kept awake by Lewis's late-night inventing, he dozed off in the outfield, missed the catch that lost a Little League title and nursed the grudge for decades.
Q 09By what name is the grown-up Lewis known in Meet the Robinsons?
Cornelius
Cornelius is Wilbur's father, the inventor behind the future's gadgets, and the name is a nickname: Bud Robinson gives it to Lewis at the very end, on the day he adopts him.
Q 10How does Lewis finally defeat the villainous robot hat in Meet the Robinsons?
Vows never to invent her
Vows never to invent her: because his future self built the hat, the promise wipes her out of existence, and the dark, hat-ruled future turns back into the bright one, with Wilbur restored.
Q 11Who voices the adult version of Lewis in Meet the Robinsons?
Tom Selleck
Tom Selleck is an in-joke made real: asked what his father looks like, Wilbur blurts out the actor's name, and when the grown-up inventor finally appears, he speaks with the star's voice.
Q 12Who voices the Bowler Hat Guy in Meet the Robinsons?
Director Stephen Anderson
Director Stephen Anderson voiced his own villain, as well as Grandpa Bud and Cousin Tallulah, in a film he felt close to because, like Lewis, he had been adopted.
Q 13Which SpongeBob SquarePants voice actor plays Lewis's science teacher in Meet the Robinsons?
Tom Kenny
Q 21What is Aunt Billie's hobby in Meet the Robinsons?
Trains
Trains, and not small ones: when Billie announces that her 'toy train' is ready for a race, a full-scale one rolls in, and a stunned Lewis can only ask, 'That's a toy train?'
Q 22What does Lewis's classmate Lizzy present at the science fair in Meet the Robinsons?
Fire ants
Fire ants: the gloomy Lizzy brings a whole farm of them despite her teacher's warning that they bite, and when Lewis's machine goes haywire the farm ends up on top of the gym coach.
Q 23What is Uncle Gaston's occupation in Meet the Robinsons?
Stunt performer
Stunt performer: Gaston is so devoted to his cannon that he brings one to the dinner table, and in the original picture book he is a human cannonball.
Tom Kenny, the voice of SpongeBob himself, plays Mr. Willerstein, the eager teacher who proudly welcomes a visiting scientist as judge just before Lewis's machine throws his science fair into chaos.
Q 14Who voices Mildred, the head of Lewis's orphanage, in Meet the Robinsons?
Angela Bassett
Angela Bassett's Mildred is the one who picks Lewis up after his 124th failed adoption interview, insisting that the fault is not his and that they simply have not found the right couple yet.
Q 15Which Batman actor voices Uncle Art, the pizza delivery man, in Meet the Robinsons?
Adam West
Adam West plays Art as a caped crusader of pizza: he makes his deliveries by spaceship and boasts that one of his pizzas once staved off civil war on a distant moon.
Q 16What is the name of the Robinsons' neurotic robot in Meet the Robinsons?
Carl
Carl, the golden robot who minds Wilbur, is one more thing Lewis has yet to build: before the boy goes home, Carl hands him some design suggestions and pleads, 'Don't forget to invent me.'
Q 17What does Franny Robinson train to sing in a band in Meet the Robinsons?
Frogs
Frogs: her big band of them performs for the family, and at the science fair Lewis meets Franny as a girl who is already convinced she can teach frogs to sing.
Q 18What is Lefty, the Robinson family's butler, in Meet the Robinsons?
A one-eyed octopus
A one-eyed octopus, carried over from the picture book's octopus butler: when Grandpa Bud asks him for directions around the house, Lefty's reply, which only Bud can follow, is to go and ask Franny.
Q 19Why does the Robinsons' dog Buster wear glasses in Meet the Robinsons?
His insurance won't cover contacts
His insurance won't cover contacts, or so Grandpa Bud deadpans when Lewis asks; the dog never says a word himself, so the old man's joke is the only explanation the film gives.
Q 20Where do Uncles Spike and Dimitri sit in Meet the Robinsons?
In potted plants by the front door
In potted plants by the front door, the twins each beg visitors to ring his own doorbell, and when Lewis admits he cannot work out whose relatives they are, Wilbur replies that the family cannot either.
Q 24In the future of Meet the Robinsons, what is Canada now called?
North Montana
North Montana is cousin Tallulah's correction when Lewis, asked at dinner where he is from, awkwardly tries Canada: it has not been called that in years, she tells him.
Q 25In the picture book behind Meet the Robinsons, what is the household searching for?
Grandfather's false teeth
Grandfather's false teeth are the book's one mystery, and the film keeps the joke: Grandpa Bud first appears asking Lewis whether he has seen any teeth, having dug holes all day looking for them.
Q 26Which author wrote the picture book that inspired Meet the Robinsons?
William Joyce
William Joyce, the creator of Rolie Polie Olie, stayed on as an executive producer: the director wanted the film faithful to his book, and worked with him on designs down to the boys' hairstyles.
Q 27In Meet the Robinsons, what mistake by Wilbur lets the Bowler Hat Guy steal a time machine?
Leaving the garage unlocked
Leaving the garage unlocked is the slip the family robot keeps reminding him of; later Lewis punches Wilbur's shoulder for it, the moment that shows he has finally grasped who he will grow up to be.
Q 28In Meet the Robinsons, why do the Robinsons take back their offer to adopt Lewis?
He is from the past
He is from the past: the moment his disguise slips and his spiky hair gives him away, Franny tells him, kindly but firmly, that he has to go back to his own time.
Q 29In Meet the Robinsons, what is Aunt Petunia, the cranky wife of Uncle Fritz?
A hand puppet
A hand puppet on her own husband's arm, yet the family treats her as a person: Fritz hushes the children because their mother is napping, and when Lewis mimes the obvious question, Wilbur just says she is cranky.
Q 30In Meet the Robinsons, what does Uncle Gaston fire at Franny across the dinner table?
Meatballs
Meatballs fly in a duel staged like a badly dubbed kung-fu film, lips out of sync and all, and Franny wins it by deflecting her brother's last resort, a spicy Italian sausage.