This Megamind trivia quiz has 60 free questions with answers about the 2010 DreamWorks film that flopped its way into cult status and eventually earned a sequel. The easy questions cover what any fan remembers: who voices the blue supervillain, his goldfish best friend and his reporter love interest, what happens to Metro Man in the observatory, and how a hapless cameraman ends up calling himself Tighten. The middle of the quiz digs into how the film was made and what it is parodying: the working titles it went through, the two actors who nearly voiced the lead, the metal that supposedly weakens Metro Man, the Superman references baked into the character designs, the rock star whose showmanship Megamind's costume evokes, and the filmmaker who suggested the opening scene and talked the studio into cutting seven minutes. There are questions on the box office, the tie-in games and the Button of Doom short too. The last stretch covers the 2024 revival on Peacock: Megamind vs. the Doom Syndicate and the series Megamind Rules!, with their new voice cast, the villains Lady Doppler, Pierre Pressure, Behemoth and Lord Nighty-Knight, and the reason Minion had to change his name. Every answer was checked against the films' Wikipedia articles, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Who voices Megamind in the 2010 film?
Will Ferrell
He also voices the character's hologram disguises, which are left uncredited on screen.
Q 02Which comedian voices reporter Roxanne Ritchi?
Tina Fey
The character is a parody of Lois Lane, and the film became the biggest hit of her career.
Q 03Which A-list actor voices Megamind's nemesis Metro Man?
Brad Pitt
He leaves the hero business to chase a music career, and shows up in disguise at the museum reopening.
Q 04Who voices Hal Stewart, the cameraman Megamind accidentally turns into a superpowered menace?
Jonah Hill
His character has an unrequited crush on Roxanne, which is what makes the new powers go so wrong.
Q 05Who voices Minion, the talking fish who has been Megamind's sidekick since childhood?
David Cross
The Arrested Development actor returned for the 2011 short but not for the 2024 revival, where Josh Brener took over.
Q 06Which actor, first suggested for the title role, ended up voicing the museum curator Bernard?
Ben Stiller
He also served as an executive producer on the film.
Q 07Who was attached to voice the title character before dropping out over 'scheduling conflicts'?
Robert Downey Jr.
He was busy being Iron Man; the film went to a Saturday Night Live alum instead.
Q 08Who voices the Warden who keeps locking Megamind up?
J. K. Simmons
He is a familiar comic-book-movie voice, having played J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man films.
Q 09Who directed the film?
Tom McGrath
He is better known for the Madagascar films and voices the penguin Skipper; he also voices Lord Scott and a prison guard here.
Q 10In what year was the film released?
2010
It opened in the US on 5 November and topped the box office for two weekends.
Q 11Megamind and Metro Man were sent to Earth as infants when what destroyed their home planets?
A black hole
They arrived in Metro City at the same moment: one landed in a mansion, the other in a prison yard.
Q 12Where was baby Megamind raised after his pod landed on Earth?
A prison
Metro Man, by contrast, was raised in a rich mansion, and the two attended the same school.
Q 13Metro Man claims his powers are weakened by which metal lining the observatory roof?
Copper
It turns out he faked the weakness because he was tired of being a hero.
Q 21Megamind's costume and showmanship were deliberately evocative of which rock star, per the commentary?
Alice Cooper
The two rivals are styled as opposite kinds of showman, one glam-rock villain and one Vegas headliner.
Q 22Metro Man's costume and showmanship were designed to evoke which performer?
Elvis Presley
He is a parody of Superman with a Vegas-era swagger.
Q 23Megamind's character is a parody of which pair of Superman villains?
Lex Luthor and Brainiac
The big-brained blue alien is a mash-up of Superman's chief scientist foes.
Q 14Megamind apparently kills Metro Man with a death ray powered by what?
The sun
He lures the hero to an abandoned observatory by kidnapping Roxanne.
Q 15After faking his death, Metro Man reinvents himself under what name?
Music Man
He hides out in the old schoolhouse the rivals attended and refuses to come back even to fight Hal.
Q 16What does Megamind's dehydration gun turn a person into?
A small cube
He uses it on Bernard, and later on himself to survive being thrown into the stratosphere, rehydrating in a fountain.
Q 17Megamind creates a new hero to fight using DNA taken from whom?
Metro Man
He meant to inject a worthy candidate but hit Roxanne's cameraman by accident during a scuffle in his lair.
Q 18Megamind trains Hal while disguised by hologram as which persona?
Space Dad
The look spoofs Marlon Brando's Jor-El from Superman, and the voice spoofs Brando's Vito Corleone.
Q 19Whose identity does Megamind borrow to go on dates with Roxanne?
Bernard the curator
His hologram watch fails mid-date and she rejects him.
Q 20How does Hal finally give away that the 'Metro Man' confronting him is really Megamind in disguise?
His speech patterns
Megamind's trademark mispronunciations betray him, and he is hurled into the stratosphere.
Q 24Hal Stewart's name references two characters from which comic-book franchise?
Green Lantern
Hal Jordan and John Stewart are both bearers of the power ring.
Q 25Before it was Megamind, the film went through which two working titles?
Master Mind and Oobermind
Writers Alan J. Schoolcraft and Brent Simons returned as executive producers on the 2024 series.
Q 26Which filmmaker, brought onto Megamind late as a consultant, suggested the opening fall-to-his-death scene?
Guillermo del Toro
He came aboard very late in the process and went on to a much bigger role in later DreamWorks films.
Q 27How many minutes of finished animation did the consultant persuade the filmmakers to cut?
7
Cutting finished animation is unusually expensive, which shows how much weight his opinion carried.
Q 28Who composed the score?
Hans Zimmer and Lorne Balfe
The soundtrack came out on Lakeshore Records three days before the film opened.
Q 29Which Guns N' Roses song plays over the final battle?
Welcome to the Jungle
The film's needle drops lean heavily on classic rock, from AC/DC to Michael Jackson.
Q 30In which country did the film have its world premiere, a week before the US release?
Russia
The US release followed a week later, on 5 November 2010.