Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Trivia
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50 free Puss in Boots: the Last Wish trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish gave a Shrek spin-off character the best reviews in the franchise's history, and this quiz covers why: the giant fought to a song in Del Mar, the church bell that costs Puss his eighth life, the whistling wolf at the pub, Mama Luna's cat house, the Dark Forest, the cave of lost souls and a final duel that Puss cannot win but refuses to lose. Early questions suit kids who know the film by heart: what Perrito really is, who leads the Three Bears crime family, what Goldi wants to wish for. Later ones are for the grown-ups: which Spaghetti Western shaped the plot, which animated film inspired the painterly look, who was going to direct before Joel Crawford, what the film's abandoned 2014 title was, why the wolf is a wolf, and how a slow $12 million opening turned into $484 million. Every answer has been checked against the film's production record and each question links to its source. For the whole ogre saga, see our Shrek trivia; this page is for the cat.
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Q 01In which film did Puss in Boots first appear?
Shrek 2
Shrek 2 introduced Puss in 2004 as a killer hired by the king to get rid of the ogre. He joined his target instead, and two spin-offs later The Last Wish is the sixth film in the series.
Q 02What does the town doctor order Puss to do after adding up his lost lives?
Retire from adventuring
Retire from adventuring is the prescription once the doctor has counted eight lost lives. Puss scoffs, but that night a hooded wolf disarms him in a tavern and draws blood, and he heads for the cat rescue the doctor named.
Q 03What kills Puss at the start of The Last Wish, right after he defeats a giant?
A falling church bell
A falling church bell lands on Puss as he starts an encore for the crowd he has just saved. The giant had torn it from its tower to swing as a wrecking ball.
Q 04What does Perrito, the stray who tags along with Puss, hope to become one day?
A therapy dog
A therapy dog is Perrito's goal, and he offers a belly rub to anyone who feels bad. He stays sunny even when telling how his family put him in a sock with a rock and threw him in a river, which he took for hide-and-seek.
Q 05Which What We Do in the Shadows actor voices Perrito in The Last Wish?
Harvey Guillén
Harvey Guillén's dog never gets a proper name: 'perrito' is only Spanish for 'little dog'. When Puss and Kitty offer to pick him one at the end, he decides to keep it, because it is what his friends call him.
Q 06What name does Mama Luna give Puss when he moves into her cat rescue?
Pickles
Pickles is the name on the collar Mama Luna snaps around his neck. By then Puss has buried his hat and boots in her yard, and he grows a beard and takes to walking on all fours.
Q 07In The Last Wish, who does the wolf bounty hunter turn out to be?
Death
Death, 'and I don't mean it metaphorically', he tells Puss in the cave. He says he watched Puss throw away each earlier life without ever noticing him, so he has come to take the last one in person.
Q 08Which Narcos star voices the Wolf who hunts Puss in The Last Wish?
Wagner Moura
Wagner Moura, who played Pablo Escobar in Narcos, voices the white Wolf. In a tavern duel he knocks the sword from Puss's paw, cuts his brow and coolly tells him to pick it up; Puss runs instead.
Q 09Whose cautionary tales led the makers of The Last Wish to make Puss's hunter a wolf?
The Brothers Grimm
The Brothers Grimm made the wolf the face of fear, the director said, and Puss needed a hunter frightening enough to snap him out of his arrogance. Their tales, he added, go somewhere dark so you appreciate the light.
Q 10What does Puss set out to find in the Dark Forest to win back his lost lives?
The Wishing Star
The Wishing Star fell to earth long ago and the Dark Forest grew up around it, guarding a single wish. Puss learns it is real when he overhears a rival gang planning to steal the map that leads there.
Q 11Who leads the Three Bears Crime Family in The Last Wish?
Goldilocks
Goldilocks gives the orders. Mama Bear recalls the day 'a little orphan girl broke into our cabin and stole our hearts'; grown up, she rides on Mama's back at the head of a cockney crime family.
Q 12Which Oscar-winning actress voices Mama Bear in The Last Wish?
Olivia Colman
Olivia Colman won her Oscar for The Favourite. When Baby Bear proposes taking over the dead villain's business, her Mama Bear coos that a family business sounds exciting.
Q 13What does Goldi secretly want to wish for in The Last Wish?
A human family
A human family is the wish Goldi lets slip in a row with Baby Bear. The hurt bears help her anyway, and at the last moment she drops the map to save Baby, then tells Mama everything is already just right.
Q 21What does Kitty Softpaws say she would have wished for in The Last Wish?
Someone she could trust
Someone she could trust is all Kitty wanted, after a life of being double-crossed. When Puss finally hands her the map, she turns the wish down, saying she already has what she wished for, no magic required.
Q 22How does Puss survive his closing duel with the wolf?
He is spared for finally valuing his last life
He is spared for finally valuing his last life. Puss cuts the wolf's weapon in two and vows never to stop fighting for the life he has; the wolf growls that the arrogant legend he came for is gone, and walks away.
Q 23What does Kitty kick Jack Horner into during the final battle of The Last Wish?
Q 14What is 'Big' Jack Horner's trade in The Last Wish?
Pastry chef
Pastry chef: Jack inherited a thriving pie business and runs it from a gothic factory. He still seethes that he was 'only a nursery rhyme' with no magic of his own, which is why he hoards every enchanted relic he can steal.
Q 15Which comedian voices Big Jack Horner in The Last Wish?
John Mulaney
John Mulaney plays the villain as cheerfully beyond saving. As his doom finally closes in, Horner wails 'What did I do to deserve this?', then adds: 'I mean, what specifically?'
Q 16What does the Ethical Bug finally call Jack Horner in The Last Wish?
An irredeemable monster
An irredeemable monster is the Bug's verdict when Jack laughs off a dozen of his own men plunging into a canyon. Until then he had kept telling himself there is good in all people; Jack flicks him into the chasm.
Q 17What does the Dark Forest conjure to distract the Three Bears in The Last Wish?
Their woodland cottage
Their woodland cottage appears among the trees, with porridge cooling on the table and Papa's old armchair waiting. The homesick bears settle in, the map is left lying there, and Puss and Kitty take it back.
Q 18What does Puss suffer during the clash in the Dark Forest that makes him flee?
A panic attack
A panic attack: the team found that scripting Puss to talk about his fears felt insincere, so his body gives him away without a word. The director and the storyboard artist drew on their own experience of them.
Q 19Why is Kitty Softpaws resentful of Puss in The Last Wish?
He abandoned her before their wedding
He abandoned her before their wedding, turning and running on the day in Santa Coloma. When he owns up, Kitty admits she never showed up either: she knew she could not compete with his one true love, himself.
Q 20What ridicules Puss inside the Cave of Lost Souls in The Last Wish?
Reflections of his past lives
Reflections of his past lives appear in the cave's crystals, singing with him and then jeering at how much he has changed. The wolf walks in and smashes them one by one.
His own bottomless bag
His own bottomless bag swallows Jack when Kitty's spinning kick sends him tumbling in, and she shuts it with her foot. He had filled the nanny-style satchel with stolen relics, from poison apples to Excalibur.
Q 24Where are Puss, Kitty and Perrito heading as The Last Wish ends?
Far Far Away
Far Far Away is spelled out on the hills as their stolen galleon nears the shore, and Puss says they are off 'to see some old friends'. It is the kingdom where the Shrek films are set.
Q 25Which Spaghetti Western was the template for The Last Wish's treasure hunt?
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly gave the directors their plot: rival parties chasing one treasure. They cast Puss's trio as the good and Jack Horner as the bad, and called their version 'The Good, the Bad and the Goldi'.
Q 26Which animated film inspired the painterly, storybook look of The Last Wish?
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse had pushed computer animation toward a comic-book look. The Last Wish's production designer asked instead what Puss would look like if he lived inside a fairy-tale painting.
Q 27Which Spanish actor has voiced Puss in Boots in every feature film since the character's debut?
Antonio Banderas
Antonio Banderas has played the cat for more than twenty years, and he sings as well: he performs the opening number 'Fearless Hero' himself, the song Puss later sobs through at a funeral for his own boots.
Q 28Who took over as director of The Last Wish?
Joel Crawford
Joel Crawford said the idea that leapt out at him was a cat on his ninth life: it sounds like a fairy tale, but it is really about getting only one go. He had storyboarded Puss years before, on Shrek Forever After.
Q 29What subtitle did DreamWorks announce in 2014 for its planned Puss in Boots sequel?
Nine Lives & 40 Thieves
Nine Lives & 40 Thieves was dated for November 2018, then dropped from the schedule in 2015 when DreamWorks cut 500 jobs and went from three films a year to two. The cat's nine lives outlasted the thieves.
Q 30Which animation studio's founder was brought in to oversee the revival of Shrek and Puss in Boots in 2018?
Illumination
Illumination's Chris Meledandri, the producer behind Despicable Me, was handed both series after Universal's parent company bought DreamWorks. The one thing he said he would not replace was the original voice cast.