Monsters University Trivia
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50 free Monsters University trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Monsters University is Pixar's 2013 prequel to Monsters, Inc., the film that sends Mike Wazowski and James P. Sullivan back to college to explain how a one-eyed ball of ambition and a lazy blue-furred legacy kid became best friends. Directed by Dan Scanlon, it follows Mike's failed first semester in the scaring program, the misfit fraternity Oozma Kappa, and the Scare Games that pit them against the campus elite of Roar Omega Roar. This quiz covers the whole story of the film: the Circle 7 sequel Disney nearly made without Pixar, the line from the original film the prequel had to contradict, the new lighting technology that debuted here, the Blue Devils drum line on the score, the London premiere, the Rose Bowl commercial, the box office records in Latin America and Hong Kong, and the awards-season first nobody at Pixar wanted. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a family quiz night.
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Q 01Monsters University was Pixar's first film of which kind?
A prequel
A prequel was not what was first announced: a Monsters, Inc. sequel was confirmed in 2010, and only the following year was it revealed that the story would go back to college instead.
Q 02Who directed Monsters, Inc. but not Monsters University?
Pete Docter
Pete Docter stayed on as an executive producer, and when an old line of dialogue clashed with the new story he told its director, Dan Scanlon, to do what was right for the film.
Q 03Who composed the score for Monsters University, returning from the first film?
Randy Newman
Randy Newman had won his first Oscar for a song in Monsters, Inc., on his sixteenth nomination, and opened his speech with 'I don't want your pity!'
Q 04Who voices Mike Wazowski in Monsters University?
Billy Crystal
Billy Crystal first took the part because he regretted turning down Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story, and he came back to it twelve years later for the college film.
Q 05Which actor from Monsters, Inc. returns in Monsters University as a different character?
Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Hunt trained new scarers as Ms. Flint in the first film; in Monsters University she is Karen Graves, the schoolteacher who takes little Mike on a class trip.
Q 06Which actress voices Dean Abigail Hardscrabble in Monsters University?
Helen Mirren
Helen Mirren's dean, a legendary scarer who insists she is not easily impressed, ends the film admitting that Mike and Sulley are the first students to surprise her.
Q 07Who voices James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Monsters University?
John Goodman
John Goodman's Sulley was redrawn to look college-aged, with shorter horns, a slimmer build and an unruly tuft of teenage hair.
Q 08In Monsters University, as in Monsters, Inc., what do monsters believe about human children?
That they are toxic
That they are toxic is why scaring counts as dangerous work, and the first Scare Games event has teams dodge stinging urchins that stand in for a child's toys.
Q 09Which Pixar short film played in cinemas before Monsters University?
The Blue Umbrella
The Blue Umbrella began when its director, a Pixar technician, came across an abandoned umbrella on a rainy San Francisco street and imagined its story.
Q 10Which film knocked Monsters University off number one?
Despicable Me 2
Despicable Me 2 took the top of the US box office over the Independence Day holiday with a weekend almost identical to the Pixar film's own debut, and Monsters University's takings fell 57%.
Q 11What happens when Monsters University's top fraternity invites Mike's team to its party?
They are pranked and humiliated
They are pranked and humiliated, doused in paint, flowers and soft toys, and by morning photographs of it are plastered all over the campus.
Q 12In Monsters University, which scarer does young Mike follow into the human world on a school trip?
Frank McCay
Frank McCay scolds Mike for the stunt, then admits he never noticed him in the room and hands over his own MU cap, which Mike still treasures when he enrols.
Q 13Who is assigned as Mike's roommate when he enrols at Monsters University?
Randall Boggs
Q 21How did Sulley secretly guarantee Mike's winning score in the Scare Games final?
He rigged the simulator settings
He rigged the simulator settings, turning Mike's machine down to its easiest level, and Mike finds out only when the dummy screams at a snap of his fingers.
Q 22In Monsters University, where does Mike end up when he sneaks through the experimental door?
A summer camp cabin
A summer camp cabin full of girls is the worst possible test: they think Mike is funny and cute and want to touch him, and nobody screams.
Q 23In Monsters University, whom do Mike and Sulley scare to generate the energy to get home?
Randall Boggs, the scheming rival of Monsters, Inc., turns up here as shy, nerdy 'Randy', who longs to be popular and cannot yet control his vanishing trick.
Q 14In Monsters University, which top fraternity welcomes Sulley but turns Mike away?
Roar Omega Roar
Roar Omega Roar drops Sulley the moment he fails his scare exam, and when it later wants him back he turns the invitation down.
Q 15In Monsters University, what prized possession of the dean's do Mike and Sulley break on exam day?
A scream canister
A scream canister goes flying in the middle of their quarrel; the dean calmly calls it an accident, then takes over their exams herself and fails them both.
Q 16By the end of Monsters University, what is Mike's job at Monsters, Inc.?
Sulley's scare assistant
Sulley's scare assistant: the pair work their way up from the bottom of the company until Sulley makes the scare team, with Mike coaching at his side.
Q 17Which small fraternity of misfits does Mike join for the Scare Games?
Oozma Kappa
Oozma Kappa turns out to meet in one member's family home, where his mother wanders through the candlelit initiation on her way to do the laundry.
Q 18Why does Mike's side survive the Scare Games' first round despite finishing last?
A rival team is disqualified
A rival team is disqualified for cheating: the jocks of Jaws Theta Chi are caught wearing a banned protective gel, so the last-placed misfits stay in.
Q 19On a secret night outing in Monsters University, Mike lifts his team's spirits by showing them what?
Professional scarers at work
Professional scarers at work on the factory floor turn out to come in every shape, size and age, which convinces the misfits that their own oddities could be strengths.
Q 20What do Mike's teammates leave behind in disgust once they learn how the Scare Games final was won?
The winners' trophy
The winners' trophy is abandoned on the spot, leaving Sulley to carry it across campus alone before he owns up to the dean.
A group of park rangers
A group of park rangers get the fright of their lives in the dark, and their screams send such a surge through the door that it explodes behind the escaping pair.
Q 24In which department do Mike and Sulley start their careers at Monsters, Inc.?
The mailroom
The mailroom is only the first rung: a closing montage shows the pair as janitors, kitchen hands and can wranglers before they finally reach the scare floor.
Q 25In Monsters University, why does Mike reluctantly let Sulley onto his Scare Games team?
The team is one member short
The team is one member short of the entry rules, and Sulley, who sees the games as his own ticket back into the scare program, is the only one willing.
Q 26The cancelled sequel Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise had Mike and Sulley visit Boo's room, only to find what?
Her family had moved
Her family had moved, so the pair set out across the human world to find her and ended up stranded there; the project was scrapped when Disney bought Pixar in 2006.
Q 27Which Disney chief's feud with Steve Jobs led Disney to plan a Monsters, Inc. sequel without Pixar?
Michael Eisner
Michael Eisner set up a studio called Circle 7 to make sequels to Pixar's films without Pixar; his successor bought Pixar outright in 2006 and closed Circle 7.
Q 28Which of Mike's fraternity brothers in Monsters University is a middle-aged former salesman who has gone back to college?
Don Carlton
Don Carlton founded the fraternity, and he ends the film engaged to another member's mother, to her son's obvious discomfort.
Q 29In Monsters University, what does Mike agree to do if his team loses the Scare Games?
Leave the university
Leave the university: that is the price the dean names when Mike bets her that a win should put his whole team back in the scare program.
Q 30Monsters University's first release date, November 16, 2012, went instead to which film?
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 opened that day; Pixar's film waited until June 2013 because, as a Disney executive put it, summer had been so good to the studio.