This Ratatouille trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers Pixar's 2007 film from every angle: Remy the rat and his gift for smell, Linguini the garbage boy who cannot cook, Colette and her kitchen rules, Skinner and his frozen-food scheme, Anton Ego and the review that closes the film, and Gusteau's motto that anyone can cook. It also gets into how the film was made, from Jan Pinkava's original idea and Brad Bird's takeover to the animators' cooking classes, Thomas Keller's confit byaldi, Michael Giacchino's score and 'Le Festin', and its Oscar win. A few questions cover the real Provençal dish, the crowdsourced TikTok musical and the trackless ride at Epcot and Disneyland Paris. It suits family movie nights, Disney fans and anyone who has ever tried to make the spiral of vegetables at home. Easy questions cover the characters and story; hard ones cover budgets, awards and the chef who invented the dish on Ego's plate. Every answer has been checked against a reliable source and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01In Ratatouille, what is the name of the rat who dreams of becoming a chef?
Remy
He is voiced by comedian Patton Oswalt, and his heightened senses of taste and smell set him apart from the rest of his colony.
Q 02What job does Alfredo Linguini have at Gusteau's when Remy first meets him?
Garbage boy
Remy first intervenes to fix a leek soup Linguini has ruined, and the accidental hit gets Linguini a place in the kitchen.
Q 03How does Remy control Linguini's movements while hidden under his toque?
Pulling his hair
The pair discover the trick after Remy bites Linguini and, in the scramble, yanks a tuft that jerks his arm.
Q 04What is the three-word motto of the late chef Auguste Gusteau?
Anyone can cook
Anton Ego's final review admits he has come to understand it: not everyone can be a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere.
Q 05Colette Tatou is notable in Gusteau's kitchen for being what?
The only woman
She is assigned to train Linguini, persuades Skinner to keep him, and the two eventually fall for each other.
Q 06What secret about Linguini's parentage makes him the rightful owner of the restaurant?
The late chef was his father
That makes Linguini the rightful owner of the restaurant, so Skinner hides the evidence until Remy steals it back.
Q 07What was Skinner using Gusteau's name and image to sell on the side?
Microwave meals
The corn dogs and burritos were exactly the sort of thing that would have horrified the real Gusteau.
Q 08The ratatouille variation Remy serves Anton Ego is called what?
Confit byaldi
Chef Thomas Keller suggested it and chose to fan the vegetable rounds accordion-style so it would look elegant on screen.
Q 09The layered dish on Ego's plate was originally created in 1976 by which French chef?
Michel Guérard
His version left out frying and peppers and added mushrooms; the name is a pun on the Turkish stuffed-eggplant dish imam bayildi.
Q 10Which real-life American chef consulted on the film and let producer Brad Lewis intern in his kitchen?
Thomas Keller
His French Laundry version of the dish had appeared in his 1999 cookbook with a piperade base and a balsamic vinaigrette.
Q 11After Skinner and the health inspector expose the rats, what happens to Gusteau's restaurant?
It is shut down
Ego loses his job and reputation for having praised it, then quietly invests in the small bistro the friends open next.
Q 12What is the name of the bistro Remy, Linguini and Colette open at the end of the film?
La Ratatouille
The Paris ride exit is called Bistrot Chez Rémy, which is where a lot of people get the two confused.
Q 13Who directed Ratatouille after taking over the project in 2005?
Brad Bird
He rewrote the story that Jan Pinkava had begun in 2000, and it earned him his second Oscar after The Incredibles.
Q 21The film's French-language theme song, 'Le Festin', is performed by which singer?
Camille
It was the very first cue Giacchino wrote for the movie and stays in French in nearly every dubbed version.
Q 22Ratatouille won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at which ceremony?
The 80th
It received five nominations in total, including original screenplay, score, sound editing and sound mixing.
Q 23How many Academy Award nominations did Ratatouille receive in total?
Five
At the time it was a record for an animated film, later matched by WALL-E.
Roughly how much did Ratatouille gross worldwide?
Q 14Which Pixar filmmaker came up with the concept of Ratatouille in 2000?
Jan Pinkava
He had won an Oscar for the short Geri's Game and left the project in 2005 over story concerns.
Q 15Which comedian provides the voice of Remy?
Patton Oswalt
Bird reportedly cast him after hearing a stand-up routine about Black Angus steakhouse ads.
Q 16The waspish critic Anton Ego is voiced by which Oscar-nominated Irish-born actor?
Peter O'Toole
The character's look was inspired by French actor Louis Jouvet, and he was designed to resemble a vulture.
Q 17Which actor, best known as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, voices the scheming head chef Skinner?
Ian Holm
Skinner is a tiny man with a very large temper, and Holm plays him at full volume.
Q 18Colette is voiced by which comedian and actress?
Janeane Garofalo
Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett voices Gusteau, and Will Arnett voices the sous chef Horst.
Q 19Remy's father Django is voiced by which actor?
Brian Dennehy
Remy's brother Emile is voiced by Pixar animator Peter Sohn, who later directed The Good Dinosaur and Elemental.
Q 20Who wrote the score for Ratatouille and earned his first Oscar nomination for it?
Michael Giacchino
He won the Grammy for best score soundtrack album, and the score leans on accordion, gypsy jazz and Parisian café sounds.
$624 million
It opened at number one in North America with $47.2 million against a $150 million budget.
Q 25What was Ratatouille's production budget?
$150 million
First-week DVD sales alone moved nearly five million units in November 2007.
Q 26To research the film, what did Pixar keep in a hallway at the studio for more than a year?
A vivarium of pet rats
The animators also attended cooking classes at San Francisco-area culinary schools to get the knife work right.
Q 27Which Pixar short was screened before Ratatouille in cinemas?
Lifted
The DVD added a new short, Your Friend the Rat, starring Remy and Emile.
Q 28The film's title works as a pun on the French dish and on what?
The species of its hero
The marketing leaned into it by printing a pronunciation guide, rat-a-too-ee, on the poster.
Q 29The film is set mostly in which city?
Paris
Remy arrives there through the sewers after being separated from his colony during a hasty escape from a farmhouse attic.
Q 30The real dish ratatouille comes from which region of France?
Provence
It is especially associated with Nice, and began as a rustic way to use up a glut of summer vegetables.