Strange World Trivia
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50 free Strange World trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Strange World arrived on November 23, 2022, from Walt Disney Animation Studios, directed by Don Hall and written by Qui Nguyen. Three generations of the Clade family, explorer Jaeger, farmer Searcher and teenager Ethan, travel into a sinkhole beneath the land of Avalonia to find out why the miracle plant Pando is dying, and discover that their whole world is riding on the back of a giant creature. Jake Gyllenhaal, Dennis Quaid, Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union and Lucy Liu lead the voice cast. This quiz covers the story and its twist, the characters from Legend the three-legged dog to the blue blob Splat, the pulp-magazine and Jules Verne inspirations, the easter eggs that nod to Firefly and Star Trek, Henry Jackman's score, the Disney 100 logo that debuted on the film, and the box-office run that made it one of the biggest flops on record before it topped Disney+. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it for family movie night.
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Q 01Strange World's director Don Hall had already won an Oscar for which Disney film?
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6. Its producer Roy Conli and composer Henry Jackman both rejoined Hall for Strange World, which he first pitched to Conli in an office papered with adventure artwork.
Q 02Who voices Searcher Clade in Strange World?
Jake Gyllenhaal
Jake Gyllenhaal. As a teenager his Searcher found the plant that powers Avalonia, yet the grown man is a cautious homebody, nothing like his explorer father.
Q 03Who voices Jaeger Clade, the larger-than-life explorer in Strange World?
Dennis Quaid
Dennis Quaid. His Jaeger walks out on his own expedition, and his teenage son, to push on alone, and is not seen again for a generation.
Q 04Strange World's Jaeger and Searcher Clade are voiced by actors who had played father and son before in which film?
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow. In the 2004 disaster film the father is a climate scientist who sets out on foot through a frozen America to reach his son, trapped in New York.
Q 05Who voices Meridian Clade, the pilot in Strange World?
Gabrielle Union
Gabrielle Union. Her Meridian, once an aerobatic stunt flyer, chases the expedition down in her own plane and soon ends up at the controls of its airship.
Q 06Who voices Callisto Mal, the President of Avalonia, in Strange World?
Lucy Liu
Lucy Liu. Her Callisto once explored alongside Jaeger Clade and launches the new expedition herself; the film's writer called her his opposite, out for her people, not her own glory.
Q 07What is the name of the miracle plant that powers Avalonia in Strange World?
Pando
Pando. Director Don Hall took the name from a real aspen forest in Utah that is all one connected organism, among the largest living things known.
Q 08What did Strange World's designers deliberately leave off every creature of the underground world?
Faces
Faces. Co-director Qui Nguyen said the rule was no eyes, noses or mouths, so the animators had to make each creature act with its body alone.
Q 09In Strange World, what surrounds the land of Avalonia on every side?
An endless wall of mountains
An endless wall of mountains. Nobody in Avalonia has ever ventured beyond them, and the wish to be first is what costs Jaeger Clade his family.
Q 10In Strange World, which over-the-top weapon does Jaeger Clade carry through the underground?
A flamethrower
A flamethrower. The effects team said they 'cranked it up to an 11', letting its fire spread and wrap around whatever Jaeger turns it on.
Q 11What is the name of President Callisto Mal's airship in Strange World?
The Venture
The Venture. When flying creatures snatch its pilot on the way underground, Meridian Clade takes the controls and keeps them.
Q 12What is the name of the Clades' three-legged dog in Strange World?
Legend
Legend. Disney veteran Burny Mattinson insisted in a story meeting that the Clades needed a dog, and director Don Hall named it after his nickname for Mattinson.
Q 13When Strange World's first concept art appeared, /Film said it looked a lot like which James Cameron film?
Avatar
Avatar. The site also thought of Pandora, the Avatar land at Disney's Animal Kingdom, and pointed out that Cameron's sequel would open only weeks after Strange World.
Q 21What is the name of Ethan's crush, later boyfriend?
Diazo
Jonathan Melo voices him; Kardez and Azimuth are Ethan's friends.
Q 22Alan Tudyk, Strange World's pilot Duffle, was the pilot Wash in which TV series?
Firefly
Firefly. Tudyk was its joking pilot, Wash, and Duffle is another joker at the controls, pulled from his cockpit by a flying creature and never seen again.
Q 23Lonnie Redshirt's surname references a trope from which franchise?
Star Trek
Red-shirted crew members famously die insignificantly in the original series.
Q 24Besides Jules Verne's novels, which classic monster movie did Don Hall name as a model for Strange World?
Q 14In Strange World, what does Ethan name the amorphous blue creature he befriends?
Splat
Splat. 'You just kind of give me Splat vibes,' Ethan tells it, and it goes on to guide the Clades through the underground and later helps to free them.
Q 15Strange World's wordless blue creature was animated with which earlier Disney character in mind?
The magic carpet from Aladdin
The magic carpet from Aladdin. Like the carpet, it has to show every mood in pantomime, through pose and timing alone, and one animator compared it to working a puppet.
Q 16In Strange World, what are the tentacled creatures that attack the expedition underground called?
Reapers
Reapers. One has Searcher Clade cornered until a stranger drives it off, and the rescuer turns out to be the father he has not seen since his teens.
Q 17In Strange World, what do Searcher and Ethan discover Avalonia sits on?
A giant turtle-like creature
A giant turtle-like creature. The underground is the inside of its body, the monsters are its immune system, and the miracle crop turns out to be an infection attacking its heart.
Q 18Don Hall and Qui Nguyen put Strange World on hold to take over which other Disney animated film?
Raya and the Last Dragon
Raya and the Last Dragon. Its creative team was swapped mid-production, so the pair stepped in as director and writer, and Hall said they came back to Strange World 'in fighting shape'.
Q 19In Strange World, what has stopped Jaeger Clade crossing the underground?
An acidic ocean
An acidic ocean. Jaeger has spent years underground trying to get past it, and now means to cross it aboard the expedition's airship.
Q 20In Strange World, what kind of aircraft does Meridian Clade fly for a living?
A crop duster
A crop duster. A daredevil in her younger days, she uses it to chase down the expedition, and before long she is flying its far bigger ship instead.
King Kong
King Kong. Hall called it a good example of the story he loves best, in which explorers stumble on a hidden world that nobody knew was there.
Q 25Don Hall began developing Strange World in 2017, straight after co-directing which Disney film?
Moana
Moana. His usual directing partner, Chris Williams, worked on the first version with him, and some of that early artwork survives in the film's art book.
Q 26Chris Williams left Strange World, and Disney, to direct which animated film for Netflix?
The Sea Beast
The Sea Beast. Williams had been developing Strange World with Don Hall, his usual directing partner, and his own monster adventure came out in the same year.
Q 27Don Hall pitched Strange World to its writer as 'Indiana Jones' meets which comedy?
National Lampoon's Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation. Writer Qui Nguyen said the pairing told him at once where the comedy would come from, so he knew exactly what he was signing on for.
Q 28Alan Tudyk's voices in Strange World continued a run of Walt Disney Animation roles that began with which film?
Wreck-It Ralph
Wreck-It Ralph. He won an Annie Award as its villain King Candy, and every Walt Disney Animation feature from then to Strange World found him a part; this one gave him three.
Q 29Which Jules Verne novel did Strange World's director name as an inspiration?
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Journey to the Center of the Earth. Like Verne's travellers, the Clades find their unknown world by going down, not across, and Variety called the film an adventure in that novel's style.
Q 30What kind of publications did Don Hall say inspired Strange World's look?
Pulp magazines
Pulp magazines. Hall grew up reading their tales of explorers who stumble on hidden worlds, so the film's artists went back to issues from the 1930s and 1940s.