Michael Cera
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50 free Michael Cera trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Michael Cera has spent most of his life on screen. The Canadian actor was a child performer in commercials and cartoons before a cult sitcom, Arrested Development, turned his nervous, soft-spoken delivery into a trademark. For many people he is simply the Michael of Juno: Paulie Bleeker, the gentle teenager in running shorts. In the same year he led Superbad, and he went on to play Scott Pilgrim, turn up in Barbie and earn praise on Broadway. This quiz covers the whole career: the famous films and the people he made them with, the voice roles, the stage work, the music and a few stories from his childhood. It suits casual fans and completists alike.
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Q 01Which Bill Murray comedy did Michael Cera watch on repeat at age three while sick with chicken pox?
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters hooked a three-year-old Michael Cera so thoroughly that he memorized all of its dialogue. Those repeat viewings are what first made him want to act.
Q 02In Superbad, the fake ID that renames a friend of Michael Cera's character McLovin is from which state?
Hawaii
Hawaii saw a small controversy when the special-edition DVD included a replica of the McLovin ID, because it looked so much like the state's real driver's license.
Q 03In Barbie, Michael Cera plays which doll who helps Gloria and Weird Barbie deprogram the other Barbies?
Allan
Allan was first offered to Jonathan Groff, who turned the part down before Michael Cera made the awkward outsider one of the film's unlikely saviours.
Q 04Michael Cera reunited with Arrested Development co-star Will Arnett to voice which character in The Lego Batman Movie?
Robin
Robin is adopted by Will Arnett's Batman in the film, a neat in-joke: on Arrested Development the two actors had played uncle and nephew.
Q 05Which actor was Oscar-nominated for the title role in Juno, opposite Michael Cera as the baby's teenage father?
Elliot Page
Elliot Page earned one of Juno's four Academy Award nominations, alongside Best Picture and Best Director. The film's only win went to its screenplay.
Q 06Which actor starred opposite Michael Cera in Superbad, in a role one of its writers was first slated to play?
Jonah Hill
Jonah Hill and Michael Cera physically recalled classic comic duos such as Laurel and Hardy, the Los Angeles Times review said, while still playing recognisably modern kids.
Q 07Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, starring Michael Cera, is set in which Canadian city, local pizza chain included?
Toronto
Toronto plays itself, landmarks such as Casa Loma included, and one producer called it the biggest movie ever identifiably set in the city.
Q 08On Arrested Development, Michael Cera's George Michael holds the title Mister Manager at which Bluth family business?
A frozen banana stand
A frozen banana stand is where the Bluth fortune began, and the family's adopted son later claims his grandfather dreamed up the idea before the Bluths stole it.
Q 09In the Twin Peaks revival, Michael Cera plays Wally, a deputy's son who shares a birthday with which screen legend?
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando is the whole joke of the character, who is nicknamed after the actor. Michael Cera, a huge David Lynch fan, played him in a single episode.
Q 10Which advertising mascot shared the screen with a young Michael Cera in his first commercial role with spoken lines?
Pillsbury Doughboy
The Pillsbury Doughboy got a poke from the young Michael Cera in the ad, his first part with dialogue after an unpaid debut in an earlier commercial.
Q 11Which actor played the father of Michael Cera's character on Arrested Development, then appeared with him in Juno?
Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman's Michael Bluth is the sitcom's straight man, while in Juno he plays Mark, the husband hoping to adopt the baby.
Q 12Which director cast Michael Cera in Barbie, having co-written the script with her husband, Noah Baumbach?
Greta Gerwig
Greta Gerwig's beach-fight scene was first meant to feature a Ben Affleck cameo, but a scheduling clash saw the moment rewritten for Michael Cera.
Q 13Michael Cera plays a technician inside a simulated reality in Joan Is Awful, an episode of which anthology series?
Black Mirror
Q 21Which streaming service revived Arrested Development for a fourth season, with Michael Cera joining the writers' room?
Netflix
Netflix brought the Bluths back more than six years after Fox cancelled the sitcom, and Michael Cera served as a consulting producer on the new season.
Q 22Which actress plays Maeby, the cousin Michael Cera's George Michael has a secret crush on in Arrested Development?
Alia Shawkat
Alia Shawkat's Maeby kissed George Michael as a prank, which is how his crush began. The original run ends by revealing that the pair share no blood ties after all.
Q 23Which Arrested Development actress, who played girlfriend Ann, later fought Michael Cera as an evil ex in Scott Pilgrim?
Mae Whitman
Black Mirror opened its sixth series with the episode, whose villainous streaming service, Streamberry, parodies the real platform that carries the show.
Q 14In Dream Scenario, Michael Cera co-stars with which actor, as a professor who starts appearing in strangers' dreams?
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage earned a Golden Globe nomination for the part and also helped produce the film, alongside Ari Aster.
Q 15Which director cast Michael Cera as Bjørn, a Norwegian entomologist, in the espionage caper The Phoenician Scheme?
Wes Anderson
Wes Anderson's film won Michael Cera critical acclaim as an insect expert who is unmasked as a spy, then switches sides for love.
Q 16Michael Cera played the young Chuck Barris in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, the directing debut of which actor?
George Clooney
George Clooney pushed for the then-unknown Sam Rockwell to play the adult Barris, the game-show host who claimed to have been a CIA assassin.
Q 17Which Scott Pilgrim vs. the World co-star later joined Michael Cera on stage in the play This Is Our Youth?
Kieran Culkin
Kieran Culkin, the film's sarcastic roommate Wallace, played Dennis to Michael Cera's Warren, and the pair took the production to Broadway in 2014.
Q 18Which actress made her film debut as party host Jules in Superbad, the teen comedy starring Michael Cera?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone was not the only newcomer: Christopher Mintz-Plasse, who plays the fake-ID-wielding Fogell, was also making his first film.
Q 19Michael Cera guest-starred on The Simpsons as Nick, a love interest for which member of the family?
Lisa
Lisa meets Nick in The Daughter Also Rises, a 2012 episode that added the sitcom to the long list of cartoons Michael Cera has voiced.
Q 20In Molly's Game, Michael Cera plays Player X, a movie star who is a ruthless regular at which game?
Poker
Poker is the game Molly Bloom ran for the rich and famous, and Player X was said to be a composite of real celebrity players, Tobey Maguire among them.
Mae Whitman played Ann Veal, a girlfriend the writers planned to recast every time until her performance proved perfectly forgettable, before turning up as evil ex Roxy Richter.
Q 24Which film director narrates Arrested Development, the Fox sitcom featuring Michael Cera as teenager George Michael?
Ron Howard
Ron Howard also had the original idea for the show's handheld, reality-TV style, and in later seasons he appears on screen as a version of himself.
Q 25Which director made Scott Pilgrim vs. the World with Michael Cera, then cast him again in The Running Man?
Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright chose Michael Cera after seeing Arrested Development, believing audiences would keep following him even when the character behaved badly.
Q 26In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Michael Cera's slacker must defeat seven evil exes to date which delivery girl?
Ramona Flowers
Ramona Flowers went to Mary Elizabeth Winstead, the actress the director had in mind for the part two years before filming began.
Q 27In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Michael Cera plays bass for which garage band named after a Mario enemy?
Sex Bob-omb
Sex Bob-omb's raw songs were written for the film by Beck, who took just two days over them so that they would sound like demos.
Q 28Which actress plays Norah opposite Michael Cera in Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, about the hunt for a secret gig?
Kat Dennings
Kat Dennings was the second actor cast after Michael Cera, and said she related to Norah more than to any character she had played before.
Q 29In Youth in Revolt, Michael Cera's shy Nick Twisp invents which suave, rule-breaking alter ego to win a girl?
François Dillinger
François Dillinger is dreamed up after Nick falls for Sheeni, a girl fascinated by French culture, leaving Michael Cera to play both the shy teen and his troublemaking double.
Q 30Which Groundhog Day director made the prehistoric comedy Year One, starring Michael Cera, as his last film?
Harold Ramis
Harold Ramis also appears on screen as Adam, and Year One proved to be the last film he was involved in before his death in 2014.