Over the Hedge Trivia
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49 free Over the Hedge trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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 scheming lead of Over the Hedge?
Raccoon
Raccoon RJ opens the film losing a fight with a vending machine over a bag of snacks, which is what sends him up the hill to rob a sleeping bear instead.
Q 02Who voices RJ in Over the Hedge?
Bruce Willis
Bruce Willis came in late, taking over the lead in October 2004, more than two years after the part was first cast and some 19 months before the film opened.
Q 03In Over the Hedge, what is the name of the bear whose food RJ destroys?
Vincent
Vincent is asleep when RJ loads up his hoard; woken early from hibernation, he can only watch as the whole lot rolls downhill into the road and under a truck.
Q 04In Over the Hedge, how long does the bear give RJ to replace his food?
One week
One week is all he gets, and RJ protests that the job is impossible for one animal, which is why he recruits Verne's family without telling them who the food is for.
Q 05What kind of animal is Verne, the cautious leader of the woodland family in Over the Hedge?
Turtle
Turtle Verne trusts a tingling in his tail that tells him when something is wrong, and it starts up the moment RJ begins his sales pitch.
Q 06What has replaced most of the animals' forest when they wake from hibernation in Over the Hedge?
A housing development
A housing development has swallowed all but a speck of the woods; RJ's pitch is that the hedge around it is no wall but 'the gateway to the good life'.
Q 07Which actor voices Hammy the squirrel in Over the Hedge?
Steve Carell
Steve Carell's squirrel spends the film unable to remember where he buried his nuts, then turns up in the final scene having found the lot.
Q 08Who voices Stella the skunk in Over the Hedge?
Wanda Sykes
Wanda Sykes's skunk is made over as a cat so that she can charm the house cat out of his collar, which works as the key to the pet door.
Q 09Which pop star voices Heather, the opossum embarrassed by her father's playing dead, in Over the Hedge?
Avril Lavigne
Avril Lavigne's Heather calls playing dead 'weak', then fools Gladys with a death scene of her own and tells her proud father she learned from the best.
Q 10Which former SCTV castmates voice the porcupine parents Lou and Penny in Over the Hedge?
Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara
Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara had already played husband and wife in Best in Show, and did so again years later as Johnny and Moira Rose in Schitt's Creek.
Q 11Who is Gladys Sharp in Over the Hedge?
President of the homeowners' association
President of the homeowners' association is the rank she pulls on the police at the end, insisting she can't be arrested, moments before she takes a swing at an officer.
Q 12Who voices Dwayne, the exterminator who styles himself the Verminator, in Over the Hedge?
Thomas Haden Church
Thomas Haden Church's exterminator sells himself as the consummate professional, yet when the police arrive he tries to sneak away over a fence and is brought down by a dog.
Q 13In Over the Hedge, what is the Depelter Turbo?
Q 21Which actor was announced as RJ in Over the Hedge in 2002, before dropping out in 2004?
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey walked away more than two years after signing on; his first animated feature came in 2008 instead, as the elephant in Horton Hears a Who!
Q 22Which studio produced Over the Hedge?
DreamWorks
DreamWorks did well out of it after the cinemas: the DVD shipped more than 12 million copies and was named a main driver of the studio's revenue for two quarters running.
Q 23Which Star Trek actor voices Ozzie, the opossum who plays dead with theatrical flair, in Over the Hedge?
William Shatner
William Shatner sends up his own grand manner in Ozzie's drawn-out death scenes, and also turns up on the soundtrack, adding guest vocals to one of its songs.
An illegal animal trap
An illegal animal trap, banned, its installer admits, in every state except Texas; in the end it catches the film's three villains instead of the animals.
Q 14In Over the Hedge, what is Nugent?
An excitable Rottweiler
An excitable Rottweiler who only wants to play, Nugent chases Verne across the estate and wrecks the animals' first haul of food, for which Verne gets the blame.
Q 15In Over the Hedge, what is the name of Gladys's Persian cat, who ends up smitten with Stella?
Tiger
Tiger is short for a far grander Persian name, and he can fall for a skunk because, as he explains, his flat face was bred for beauty and he cannot smell a thing.
Q 16Which snack does RJ go back for at Gladys's house because the bear specifically wanted it?
Spuddies potato chips
Spuddies potato chips, sold on the slogan that enough just isn't enough, cost the family dearly: the detour for one last can gets everyone but RJ caught.
Q 17What fuels Hammy's burst of super-speed at the climax of Over the Hedge?
An energy drink
An energy drink is the one thing RJ had kept from the hyperactive squirrel all film, warning that caffeine was the last thing he needed; one can makes the world stand still.
Q 18Where does animal control send the bear at the end of Over the Hedge?
The Rocky Mountains
The Rocky Mountains: 'off to the Rockies for you, Smokey', an officer tells him, after RJ and Verne lure the bear over the hedge to be caught.
Q 19After the credits of Over the Hedge, RJ empties a vending machine, only to find what?
The door is jammed shut
The door is jammed shut by the avalanche of snacks: it is the very machine that beat RJ in the opening scene, and this time his trick works too well.
Q 20In Over the Hedge, which snack does RJ hand round to win the animals over to human food?
Nacho cheese chips
Nacho cheese chips: RJ lists the ingredients like a salesman, dehydrated cheese solids and MSG included, and one taste turns the family against Verne's diet of tree bark.
Q 24Which piano-playing singer-songwriter wrote three new songs for the Over the Hedge soundtrack?
Ben Folds
Ben Folds also reworked his own hit Rockin' the Suburbs for the film, with one of its voice stars on guest vocals, and covered a song by the Clash.
Q 25Which Clash song is covered on the Over the Hedge soundtrack?
Lost in the Supermarket
Lost in the Supermarket suits a film TV Guide called a sly satire of American 'enough is never enough' consumerism: its heroes plan to live off suburbia's leftovers.
Q 26Which film beat Over the Hedge to first place on its opening weekend in May 2006?
The Da Vinci Code
The Da Vinci Code opened to $77 million, double the cartoon's $38.5 million; a week later X-Men: The Last Stand arrived and pushed Over the Hedge down to third.
Q 27In Over the Hedge, who drives the exterminator's van home after the driver is knocked out?
The porcupine triplets
The porcupine triplets take the wheel because, as one of them announces, it is just like the video game Auto-Homicide 3.
Q 28In Over the Hedge, how does Gladys tell the exterminator to dispose of the captured animals?
As inhumanely as possible
As inhumanely as possible, she snaps, correcting his promise to do it 'quickly and humanely'; Roger Ebert quoted the line in his review and added, 'She's all heart.'
Q 29Why, says its co-creator, did Over the Hedge's stars work for a fraction of their usual fees?
Hopes of a sequel payday
Hopes of a sequel payday, Michael Fry wrote in 2010: paying the cast in full next time would add about $20 million, one reason the studio chose Madagascar 3 instead.
Q 30Which atmospheric phenomenon was named after the hedge in Over the Hedge?
STEVE
STEVE was a placeholder borrowed from the film, where the animals name the baffling hedge Steve to make it less frightening; scientists later fitted an acronym to the letters.