Ratatouille
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This Ratatouille trivia quiz has 49 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
Remy is the rat who dreams of becoming a chef; his heightened senses of taste and smell set him apart from a colony content to eat garbage.
Q 02In Pixar's Ratatouille, what job does Alfredo Linguini hold at Gusteau's when Remy first catches him ruining a leek soup?
Garbage boy
Garbage boy Linguini is rescued by a rat: Remy secretly fixes the leek soup he ruined, and the accidental hit earns him a place in Gusteau's kitchen.
Q 03How does Remy control Linguini's movements while hidden under his toque?
Pulling his hair
Pulling his hair: Remy discovers that tugging a tuft of Linguini's hair jerks his arm like a marionette string, and the pair turn that into a way to cook together.
Q 04What is the three-word motto of the late chef Auguste Gusteau?
Anyone can cook
Anyone can cook is Gusteau's motto and the title of his book; Anton Ego's final review admits that 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
The only woman in Gusteau's kitchen, Colette is assigned to train Linguini, persuades Skinner to keep him, and the two eventually fall for each other.
Q 06What secret about Linguini does Skinner try to keep hidden from him?
The late chef was his father
The late chef was his father: a letter from Linguini's mother Renata reveals Auguste Gusteau fathered him, making Linguini the rightful owner, so Skinner hides the evidence until Remy steals it back.
Q 07In Ratatouille, head chef Skinner cashes in on Gusteau's name and face by selling what on the side?
Microwave meals
Microwave meals sold under Gusteau's name are Skinner's side business, corn dogs and burritos that would have horrified the real chef.
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 American chef consulted on Ratatouille, let producer Brad Lewis intern in his kitchen and suggested the confit byaldi dish?
Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller's 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
Gusteau's is shut down once the health inspector reports the rats; 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
La Ratatouille is the bistro Remy, Linguini and Colette open in the final scene, a small place with Ego as its quiet investor and a rat-sized dining loft upstairs.
Q 13Who directed Ratatouille after taking over the project in 2005?
Brad Bird
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
The 80th Academy Awards, held in February 2008, gave Ratatouille Best Animated Feature over Persepolis and Surf's Up.
Q 23How many Academy Award nominations did Ratatouille receive in total?
Five
Five: Best Animated Feature, which it won, plus Original Screenplay, Original Score, Sound Editing and Sound Mixing.
Brad Bird took over Ratatouille in 2005 and rewrote its story, and the film earned him his second Best Animated Feature Oscar after The Incredibles.
Q 14Which Pixar filmmaker came up with the concept of Ratatouille in 2000?
Jan Pinkava
Jan Pinkava, who won an Oscar for the short Geri's Game, conceived Ratatouille in 2000 and left the project in 2005 over story concerns.
Q 15Which comedian provides the voice of Remy?
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt got the part after Brad Bird reportedly heard his stand-up routine about Black Angus steakhouse ads.
Q 16The waspish food critic Anton Ego is voiced by which actor?
Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole, the eight-time Oscar nominee of Lawrence of Arabia, voices Anton Ego; the character's gaunt look was inspired by French actor Louis Jouvet.
Q 17Which actor, best known as Bilbo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, voices the scheming head chef Skinner?
Ian Holm
Ian Holm voices Skinner, the tiny, hot-tempered head chef; Holm was Oscar-nominated for Chariots of Fire and played Bilbo in Peter Jackson's trilogy.
Q 18Colette is voiced by which comedian and actress?
Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo voices Colette with a French accent; Brad Garrett voices Gusteau and Will Arnett the sous chef Horst.
Q 19Remy's father Django is voiced by which actor?
Brian Dennehy
Brian Dennehy voices Remy's father Django, the colony's leader; 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
Michael Giacchino's Ratatouille score, built on accordion, gypsy jazz and Parisian café sounds, brought him his first Oscar nomination and a Grammy for best score soundtrack album.
Q 24Roughly how much did Ratatouille gross worldwide?
$624 million
$624 million: Ratatouille took about $624 million worldwide after opening at number one in North America in June 2007, roughly $206 million of it from domestic theaters.
Q 25What was Ratatouille's production budget?
$150 million
$150 million was Ratatouille's reported production budget; the film more than quadrupled it at the worldwide box office.
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
A vivarium of pet rats sat in a Pixar hallway for more than a year so animators could study how they move; the crew also took cooking classes to get the knife work right.
Q 27Which Pixar short was screened before Ratatouille in cinemas?
Lifted
Lifted, Gary Rydstrom's short about a teenage alien bungling an abduction, ran before Ratatouille in cinemas.
Q 28The film's title works as a pun on the French dish and on what?
The species of its hero
The species of its hero: the title hides the word 'rat', the animal Remy is, inside the name of the Provençal vegetable stew.
Q 29The film is set mostly in which city?
Paris
Paris: Remy surfaces from the sewers beneath Gusteau's restaurant after being swept away 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.