50 free Over the Hedge trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Over the Hedge is the DreamWorks film about a con-artist raccoon, a cautious turtle and a squirrel who runs on energy drinks, and it grew out of a newspaper comic strip that more than 110 papers picked up the day Calvin and Hobbes ended. This Over the Hedge trivia quiz covers the 2006 movie in detail: RJ's debt to Vincent the bear, the family waking from hibernation to find a hedge and suburbia, Gladys Sharp and the Verminator, the Depelter Turbo, Stella and Tiger, the porcupine triplets and Hammy's nuts. It also covers the people who made it (Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick, Bruce Willis replacing Jim Carrey, Bill Murray and Harold Ramis as early choices, Avril Lavigne's first film role, Ben Folds's songs), the box office battle with The Da Vinci Code, why there was never a sequel, the Activision video game, and Michael Fry and T. Lewis's strip, from The Secret Life of Pigs to Verne 'breaking the internet'. Questions run from easy for kids who love the film to expert trivia for adults who grew up with it. Every answer was checked against film references and encyclopaedic sources before publishing, and each question carries a citation.
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Q 01What kind of animal is RJ, the film's scheming lead character?
Raccoon
He accidentally destroys a bear's food stockpile and has one week to replace it or die.
Q 02Who voices RJ?
Bruce Willis
The original choice dropped out in October 2004, though some of his recorded lines remained.
Q 03What is the name of the bear whose food RJ destroys?
Vincent
Nick Nolte voices him.
Q 04How long does the bear give RJ to replace his food?
One week
He threatens to kill RJ if he fails or runs away, which is what drives RJ to con the woodland family.
Q 05What kind of animal is Verne, the leader of the woodland foragers?
Turtle
Garry Shandling voices him. In the comic strip he is a lactose-abhorrent ornate box turtle whose tail tingles when something is wrong.
Q 06What do the animals discover when they wake from hibernation on the first day of spring?
Most of their forest is now a housing development behind a hedge
RJ shows up and convinces them that human food is easier to steal than forage.
Q 07Which actor voices Hammy the squirrel?
Steve Carell
Empire compared Hammy to Ice Age's Scrat 'in the pantheon of lunatic movie rodents'.
Q 08Who voices Stella the skunk?
Wanda Sykes
Stella steals Tiger the cat's collar to get the animals into Gladys's house, and Tiger falls for her.
Q 09William Shatner voices Ozzie the opossum. Who voices his embarrassed teenage daughter Heather?
Avril Lavigne
It was the singer's first major film role. In the Japanese and Korean dubs, BoA voices Heather and sings the theme songs.
Q 10Which longtime SCTV comedy partners voice the porcupine parents Lou and Penny?
Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara
The pair later reunited as Johnny and Moira Rose on Schitt's Creek. Their triplets here are Spike, Bucky and Quillo.
Q 11Who is Gladys Sharp?
President of the homeowners' association
Allison Janney voices her. She hires an exterminator and ends up arrested for possessing an illegal trap.
Q 12What is the name of the exterminator Gladys hires, known as the Verminator?
Dwayne LaFontant
Thomas Haden Church voices him. In the video game he controls captured animals as mind-controlled henchmen.
Q 13What is the Depelter Turbo?
An illegal animal trap
Dwayne rigs the contraband device in Gladys's yard; Hammy disables it, then reactivates it to catch the bear, Gladys and Dwayne.
Q 21Which actor was announced as RJ in 2002 before dropping out in 2004?
Jim Carrey
Some of his lines survived in the finished film.
Q 22Which studio produced Over the Hedge?
DreamWorks
It was the first DreamWorks Animation film distributed under the studio's new deal with Paramount, after Viacom bought DreamWorks SKG.
Q 23Who directed the film?
Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick
Kirkpatrick also co-wrote it. Johnson had co-directed Antz.
Q 14What is Nugent?
An excitable Rottweiler
His chase destroys the animals' first food pile. At the end he foils Dwayne's escape.
Q 15What is the name of Gladys's Persian cat, who ends up smitten with Stella?
Tiger
Omid Djalili voices him. Tiger joins the woodland family at the end.
Q 16Which snack does RJ go back for at Gladys's house because the bear specifically wanted it?
Spuddies potato chips
That detour lets Dwayne capture Verne and the others while RJ flees with the wagon.
Q 17What fuels Hammy's super-speed at the climax, letting him reactivate the trap?
An energy drink
Time appears to slow to a crawl around him. Afterwards he remembers where he stored his nuts from last winter.
Q 18Where does animal control send the bear at the end of the film?
The Rocky Mountains
Gladys is arrested for possessing the Depelter Turbo and resisting arrest.
Q 19In the closing scene, RJ raids a vending machine and then realises what?
The animals have blocked the door from opening
It is the same machine from the film's opening, where RJ's night of scheming began.
Q 20Which two comedy legends were initially considered to voice RJ and Verne?
Bill Murray and Harold Ramis
Gene Wilder was also offered a part, as an owl named Norbert, but declined and the character was cut.
Q 24Which singer-songwriter added three originals and a rewrite of 'Rockin' the Suburbs' to the soundtrack?
Ben Folds
He also covered a Clash song. Rupert Gregson-Williams wrote the score and Hans Zimmer was executive music producer.
Q 25Which Clash song did Ben Folds cover for the film?
Lost in the Supermarket
The song's consumerist theme fits a movie that TV Guide called 'a sly satire of American enough-is-never-enough consumerism'.
Q 26Which film beat Over the Hedge to first place on its opening weekend in May 2006?
The Da Vinci Code
It opened with $38.5 million. Its second weekend, over Memorial Day, dropped only 8 percent across four days.
Q 27Roughly how much did Over the Hedge gross worldwide on an $80M budget?
About $336M
Katzenberg still said it fell just short of earning a sequel: 'It was close. An almost.'
Q 28What grade did CinemaScore audiences give the film?
A
Rotten Tomatoes settled at 75 percent and Roger Ebert gave it three stars out of four.
Q 29Per co-creator Michael Fry, why did the actors work for a fraction of their usual fees?
They hoped to cash in on a sequel
He estimated paying them properly would add $20 million to a sequel budget, making Madagascar 3 the obvious choice instead.
Q 30Which atmospheric phenomenon was named after the hedge in the film?
STEVE
Aurora watchers who spotted the purple ribbon of light gave it the film's joke name before scientists made it a backronym.