Spirited Away Trivia
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60 free Spirited Away trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
58 free Spirited Away trivia questions with answers. Spirited Away is the film that made the rest of the world sit up and notice Studio Ghibli, and it still rewards a rewatch two decades on. This quiz walks through the whole thing: Chihiro's parents and the plate of food that dooms them, the name Yubaba steals from her, Haku's forgotten river, No-Face's rampage, the stink spirit, the train across the sea to Zeniba's cottage, and the hairband she is still wearing at the end. It also goes behind the drawings, so it works for anime fans, film students and anyone planning a Ghibli movie night. You will find questions on the real Japanese bathhouses and museums Miyazaki used for reference, the Disney-produced English dub and its cast, Joe Hisaishi's score and the closing song that was written for a film that never got made, the Golden Bear, the Academy Award and the Japanese box office record it held for 19 years. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles on the film, its soundtrack, its cast and its makers, and each question shows the sentence that supports it once you answer. Fifty questions, free, no signup.
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Q 01What do Chihiro's parents take the deserted town to be?
Theme park
An abandoned theme park is her father's guess, one of many that went bust when the economy turned, but at nightfall the empty stalls fill with spirits.
Q 02Haku, the boy who helps Chihiro, can change into which creature?
A dragon
A dragon: Chihiro recognises Haku in that shape when a swarm of paper spirits chases him, badly hurt, into the bathhouse, and he later flies her back there himself.
Q 03Chihiro's parents are transformed into which animals after eating the spirit world's food?
Pigs
Pigs, after gorging on food laid out for the spirits; Yubaba's last test has Chihiro pick her parents from a pen of them, and she rightly says neither is there.
Q 04What does Haku warn Chihiro she must never forget if she wants to leave the spirit world?
Her real name
Her real name: Yubaba rules her workers by taking their names from them, and Haku, who has forgotten his own, can no longer leave her service.
Q 05What is the name of Yubaba's twin sister?
Zeniba
Zeniba looks exactly like Yubaba but proves far gentler: she welcomes Chihiro, who has come to apologise for Haku's theft, and gives No-Face a home.
Q 06Yubaba's young apprentice, who befriends Chihiro, is revealed to be the spirit of what?
The Kohaku River
The Kohaku River once carried a small Chihiro safely ashore, and when she remembers and says its name aloud, Haku recovers the identity he had forgotten.
Q 07Who composed and conducted the score for Spirited Away?
Joe Hisaishi
Joe Hisaishi, Miyazaki's regular composer, conducted the New Japan Philharmonic for the recording and played the score's piano solos himself.
Q 08Which company released Spirited Away in North American cinemas in 2002?
Walt Disney
Walt Disney had covered about a tenth of the production cost in return for distribution rights, and it also produced the English-language dub.
Q 09The Golden Bear that Spirited Away won in 2002 is the top prize of which film festival?
Berlin
Berlin names its top prize after the bear on the city's coat of arms, and Spirited Away took it there in February 2002.
Q 10Which discarded object do the bathhouse staff haul out of the 'stink spirit' during its bath?
A bicycle
A bicycle comes out along with car tyres and heaps of rubbish, and the 'stink spirit' proves to be a river god choked by what people have dumped in him.
Q 11Which 2002 hit lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to Spirited Away?
Ice Age
Ice Age lost along with three other American nominees, and with Miyazaki staying away, the Academy accepted the statuette without a speech.
Q 12Which later Studio Ghibli film repeated Spirited Away's win of the Best Animated Feature Oscar?
The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron won in 2024, when Miyazaki was 83; in the two decades between, Howl's Moving Castle, The Wind Rises and Princess Kaguya were all nominated and all lost.
Q 13What reason did Miyazaki later give for skipping the 2003 Oscars, where Spirited Away won?
A protest at the Iraq War
Q 21Which Pixar figure championed Spirited Away in America and served as executive producer of its English version?
John Lasseter
John Lasseter was a longtime friend of Miyazaki, and the hopping lamp that guides Chihiro late in the film is often read as a nod to his Pixar short Luxo Jr.
Q 22Daveigh Chase, Chihiro's English voice, also voiced which animated girl?
Lilo
Lilo in Lilo & Stitch reached cinemas in 2002, the year the dub came out, and the same year Chase played Samara, the villain of the horror remake The Ring.
Q 23What creature had Yubaba planted inside Haku to keep him under her control?
A slug
A slug: Haku coughs it up and Chihiro squashes it without a second thought, and only later does Yubaba's twin explain that it was what kept him obedient.
A protest at the Iraq War: he told the Los Angeles Times in 2009 that he had not wanted to visit a country that was bombing Iraq, and that his producer had kept him quiet at the time.
Q 14Which film ended Spirited Away's 19-year run as the highest-grossing film ever in Japan?
Demon Slayer
Demon Slayer: Mugen Train opened in October 2020, in the middle of the pandemic, and had taken the record before the year was out.
Q 15Which Hollywood blockbuster did Spirited Away overtake to become Japan's highest-grossing film?
Titanic
Titanic had taken that record from Miyazaki's own Princess Mononoke, so with Spirited Away he won the title back.
Q 16Which country, where Spirited Away did not reach cinemas until 2019, then added about $70 million to its gross?
China
China first screened it in June 2019, eighteen years late, and the run there was worth about $70 million, several times what the film has ever earned in North America.
Q 17What must Chihiro get from Yubaba to stay safe in the spirit world?
A job
A job is her only protection, because Haku warns that anyone without work there is turned into an animal; Yubaba tries to scare her off but gives way when she keeps asking.
Q 18How does Chihiro's father plan to pay at the unattended food stall?
Credit cards and cash
Credit cards and cash, he tells her, sure that paying later will smooth things over; moments later he is no longer human and his money is no use at all.
Q 19How does No-Face first get inside the bathhouse?
Chihiro lets him in
Chihiro lets him in, taking the silent figure waiting outside for a customer, and the kindness backfires when he begins swallowing the staff.
Q 20Which co-director of 1991's Beauty and the Beast directed the English-language version of Spirited Away?
Kirk Wise
Kirk Wise directed the English recording, which adds lines the Japanese film does not have, including the very last thing Chihiro says.
Q 24David Ogden Stiers, the voice of Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, plays which character in the English dub of Spirited Away?
Kamaji
Kamaji is the boiler-man who commands the soot sprites, and the part reunited Stiers with the dub's director, for whom he had voiced Cogsworth a decade earlier.
Q 25Which voice actress, already Bubbles in The Powerpuff Girls, plays Yubaba's giant baby Boh in the English dub?
Tara Strong
Tara Strong, also Raven in Teen Titans, was an adult playing an infant, whereas the Japanese Boh was voiced by a child actor, Ryunosuke Kamiki.
Q 26Which Cheers actor and Pixar regular voices a bathhouse manager in the English dub of Spirited Away?
John Ratzenberger
John Ratzenberger was Cliff the postman in Cheers and Hamm the piggy bank in Toy Story, and the dub he joined had a Pixar executive producer.
Q 27What does Lin scatter across the boiler-room floor to feed the soot sprites?
Star-shaped candy
Star-shaped candy called konpeitō is their reward: Lin throws it down by the handful, the way a farmer feeds chickens, and they swarm over it.
Q 28The huge spirit who squeezes into a lift beside Chihiro is a spirit of which vegetable?
A radish
A radish: the English credits call him the Radish Spirit, while his Japanese name, Oshira-sama, is borrowed from a household deity of Japanese folklore.
Q 29The soot sprites that the boiler-man commands, first seen in My Neighbor Totoro, are known by what Japanese name?
Susuwatari
Susuwatari scuttle through the old house in My Neighbor Totoro, and here they sprout thin arms and legs to haul coal to the furnace.
Q 30What is the English title of 'Itsumo Nando Demo', the song that closes Spirited Away?
Always With Me
Always With Me is sung over the credits by Youmi Kimura to her own lyre, and Miyazaki later said the song may have helped shape the film while he was making it.