Ratatouille
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This Ratatouille trivia quiz has 99 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 job does Remy's father give him in the rat colony?
Poison checker
Poison checker is the job: Remy's nose can tell which scraps are laced with rat poison, a talent his father prizes far more than his son's dream of cooking.
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 cookbook; the critic who scorned the idea ends the film writing that he finally understands what the chef meant.
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 shows Gusteau fathered him, making him the rightful owner, so Skinner hides the proof until Remy snatches it.
Q 07In Ratatouille, head chef Skinner cashes in on Gusteau's name and face by selling what on the side?
Microwave meals
Microwave meals are Skinner's side business: he has an ad man dress up Gusteau's image to sell frozen food, cashing in on the name the chef built.
Q 08The ratatouille variation Remy serves Anton Ego is called what?
Confit byaldi
Confit byaldi swaps the chunky stew for paper-thin rounds, the answer the film's food adviser gave when asked how he would serve it to the world's top critic.
Q 09What nickname has the feared food critic Anton Ego earned in Ratatouille?
The Grim Eater
The Grim Eater plays on the Grim Reaper, and the name fits: Gusteau died soon after one of Ego's scathing reviews of his restaurant.
Q 10Which American chef let Ratatouille's producer intern in his kitchen and devised the film's climactic dish?
Thomas Keller
Thomas Keller also taught the filmmakers how a French kitchen runs, and they gave him a cameo: he voices one of the diners in the restaurant.
Q 11What becomes of Gusteau's restaurant at the end of Ratatouille?
It is shut down
It is shut down once the health inspector reports the rats; Ego loses his job and reputation for having praised it, then backs the small bistro the friends open next.
Q 12What name do Remy, Linguini and Colette give the bistro they open together?
La Ratatouille
La Ratatouille is the name over the door; Ego, no longer a critic, invests in the place and eats there happily, while the rat colony moves in upstairs.
Q 13Brad Bird won his first Best Animated Feature Oscar for which Pixar film, three years before Ratatouille?
The Incredibles
Q 21The film's French-language theme song, 'Le Festin', is performed by which singer?
Camille
Camille was found online: the film's composer searched for a 'female French vocalist', heard the songs on her website and loved her voice.
Q 22Ratatouille won the Animated Feature Oscar over Surf's Up and which black-and-white French film?
Persepolis
Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi's memoir of growing up in Iran, lost on Oscar night; months earlier Iran had sent France a letter of protest over its screening at Cannes.
Q 23Which film beat Ratatouille's script to the Oscar?
Juno
Juno won it for Diablo Cody, who had written the comedy over coffee in the café of a Target store in suburban Minnesota.
The Incredibles made Bird an Oscar winner, and he did more than write and direct it: he also voiced its tiny fashion designer, Edna Mode.
Q 14Which Pixar filmmaker, an Oscar winner for the short Geri's Game, originally conceived Ratatouille?
Jan Pinkava
Jan Pinkava was replaced on the film in 2005 and left Pixar, yet his story credit still made him an Oscar nominee when the screenplay was nominated.
Q 15Which comedian provides the voice of Remy?
Patton Oswalt
Patton Oswalt won the part after the film's director heard his stand-up routine about Black Angus steakhouse ads and liked its mix of passion and humour.
Q 16The waspish food critic Anton Ego is voiced by which actor?
Peter O'Toole
Peter O'Toole, eight times an Oscar nominee without a win, at first asked the Academy to hold his honorary award until he was 80 in case he won one outright.
Q 17Which Lord of the Rings actor voices Skinner, the hot-tempered head chef in Ratatouille?
Ian Holm
Ian Holm, Bilbo in The Lord of the Rings, voices a chef named as a sly joke after B. F. Skinner, the psychologist famous for his experiments on rats.
Q 18Colette is voiced by which comedian and actress?
Janeane Garofalo
Janeane Garofalo voices Colette, who walks out with the rest of the staff when Linguini reveals his rat, then is the only one to come back and cook.
Q 19In Ratatouille, what does Remy's father show him to prove that humans are dangerous?
An exterminator's shop window
An exterminator's shop window, hung with rows of dead rats, is his father's warning, yet Remy refuses to accept it and walks back to the restaurant.
Q 20Who wrote the score for Ratatouille and earned his first Oscar nomination for it?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino lost that first Oscar race to the score of Atonement, then won the award two years later for another Pixar film, Up.
Q 24Which 2007 animated film alone outgrossed Ratatouille worldwide?
Shrek the Third
Shrek the Third took about $800 million to Ratatouille's $620 million, but the ogre's sequel was not even nominated for the animation Oscar the rat went on to win.
Q 25Which celebrity chef voices the health inspector in the UK release of Ratatouille?
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver's cameo was one of several the filmmakers gave to real chefs as a salute to the profession; in the French dub, chef Guy Savoy plays a diner.
Q 26To research Ratatouille, what did Pixar keep in a studio hallway for more than a year?
A vivarium of pet rats
A vivarium of pet rats sat in the hallway so animators could watch how noses, ears, paws and tails moved as the animals ran.
Q 27Which Pixar short about a trainee alien botching an abduction played before Ratatouille in cinemas?
Lifted
Lifted ends in a wreck: allowed to fly the ship home, the trainee drops it on the house, leaving the sleeper's bed perched on a pillar of earth in a crater.
Q 28The title of Ratatouille works as a pun on the French dish and on what?
The species of its hero
The species of its hero: the word hides 'rat', and Disney so feared audiences couldn't say it that the posters spelled out the pronunciation.
Q 29Where is Remy's colony living at the start of Ratatouille, before it has to flee?
An old woman's attic
An old woman's attic in the countryside is home until she discovers the rats, and in the scramble to escape Remy is cut off from his family.
Q 30The real dish ratatouille comes from which region of France?
Provence
Provence is its home, and Nice claims it as a signature dish; it began as peasant cooking, a thrifty way to use up a glut of summer vegetables.