The Boss Baby
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49 free The Boss Baby trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Boss Baby started as a 2010 picture book by Caldecott honoree Marla Frazee about a newborn who runs the household like a CEO. DreamWorks turned it into a 1970s-set spy comedy in which Alec Baldwin's suited infant and his seven-and-a-half-year-old brother Tim take on Puppy Co and a Forever Puppy that would corner the world's love. It earned $528 million, an Academy Award nomination, a sequel, two Netflix series and, improbably, an academic conference. These 49 questions cover the Templeton family, Baby Corp's secret formula, the pacifier that reveals headquarters, Francis E. Francis and his brother Eugene, the Las Vegas rocket, the Beatles song woven through the plot, Hans Zimmer's score, the 1960s design that Tom McGrath modeled on Lady and the Tramp, the child voice actor whose voice broke mid-production, and the Kevin Spacey role that went to Steve Buscemi. The sequel questions cover Family Business, Dr. Armstrong, Tabitha and Tina and the Peacock release; the series questions cover Back in Business and Back in the Crib. Easy questions stick to the voice cast and the premise; the hard tier asks about release-date shuffles, Rotten Tomatoes scores, Miami premieres and who spoke at the Boss Baby symposium. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick up something even when you miss.
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Q 01Who voices the Boss Baby?
Alec Baldwin
Alec Baldwin brings an in-joke with him: the baby barks that 'cookies are for closers', a riff on the ruthless sales speech he delivers in Glengarry Glen Ross.
Q 02The Boss Baby's director had earlier made which animated film series?
Madagascar
Madagascar, all three films. Tom McGrath says The Boss Baby was the personal one: he grew up with a brother two years older and was, in his words, 'the boss baby of the family'.
Q 03Which studio produced The Boss Baby?
DreamWorks Animation
DreamWorks Animation made the film and 20th Century Fox released it. By the time the sequel was ready, Universal's parent company had bought the studio, so Universal released that one itself.
Q 04The Boss Baby's plot centers on a war for adults' love between babies and what?
Puppies
Puppies are winning a growing share of the world's love, which is why the baby is sent in undercover. He picks the Templetons because both parents work for the company behind the dogs, Puppy Co.
Q 05How does the Boss Baby first arrive at the Templeton house?
By taxi
By taxi: a suit-wearing infant with a briefcase struts up the path with a funk swagger. His new parents see only an adorable newborn, and Tim is the one person who finds any of it strange.
Q 06What does Tim make to prove the baby can talk?
A tape
A tape: seven-year-old Tim records a secret meeting the baby holds with the neighborhood infants, disguised as a play date. They chase him down, the tape is destroyed, and it is Tim who ends up grounded.
Q 07Director Tom McGrath gives himself a cameo in The Boss Baby as the voice of which TV chef?
Julia Child
Julia Child, or the film's cartoon of her, is on a television in the Templeton house giving a lesson: the secret to deep-fried butter, she announces, is 'a healthy dab of margarine'.
Q 08What do Tim and Baby use to see Baby Corp headquarters?
A special pacifier
A special pacifier: when the two suck on one together they tour the company as invisible visitors, unseen and unheard by the staff. The same trick brings them back in the sequel.
Q 09How does Baby Corp decide which babies go to management rather than families?
They do not respond to tickling
They do not respond to tickling. The Boss himself was one of them: the sorting machine got no giggle out of him, so he was sent to a desk instead of a family.
Q 10What does the Boss drink to keep his adult mind?
A secret formula
A secret formula, a special baby milk, keeps his adult mind and stops him ageing. When the villain steals his supply, the Boss starts lapsing into fits of ordinary gurgling babyhood.
Q 11What promotion is the Boss promised if his mission succeeds?
Chief executive
Chief executive is the prize, complete with a corner office and a private potty. He wins the job, finds that he misses Tim, and gives it all up to come back as an ordinary baby brother.
Q 12Who voices the villain Francis E. Francis?
Steve Buscemi
Steve Buscemi plays a villain with a grudge. Francis was once the boss every baby at the company looked up to, and he set up his rival business to get even after it threw him out.
Q 13Francis E. Francis was fired from Baby Corp for aging due to what?
Lactose intolerance
Q 21Young Tim's voice actor is the grandson of which animation director?
Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi, the maverick behind Fritz the Cat, is Miles Bakshi's grandfather. Miles grew up around the studio and was only asked to record a temporary voice track; three years passed before he heard the part was his.
Q 22What made playing young Tim harder as production went on?
His voice broke
His voice broke: he was 10 when recording began and 14 by the time the film came out. To go on sounding like a seven-year-old, he said, he had to make his voice 'very soft'.
Q 23What is the Boss Baby's real name once he becomes a regular baby?
Theodore Lindsey Templeton
Lactose intolerance: his body could no longer take what keeps the company's bosses young, so he began to grow up and was thrown out. He had been the Boss Baby's idol, Super Colossal Big Fat Boss Baby.
Q 14On which occasion do Tim and the Boss Baby get inside the villain's company headquarters?
Take Your Kids to Work Day
Take Your Kids to Work Day gets them through the door. To earn the trip, the two rivals first have to pretend they adore each other until their parents lift Tim's grounding.
Q 15Where does Francis plan to launch his rocket?
Las Vegas
Las Vegas is where Francis has lured Tim's parents under cover of a conference. The boys catch up with him by slipping aboard a plane full of Elvis impersonators.
Q 16Francis's older brother Eugene poses as what to watch the boys?
A female nanny
A female nanny is the silent Eugene's disguise. He speaks properly only once, at the very end, when he carries off his brother, now a baby again, and promises to raise him right this time.
Q 17What do Tim and the Boss Baby use to get away from the villain's henchman Eugene?
Fake vomit
Fake vomit: Tim's plan is to make Eugene think the baby is sick. In the confusion the boys bolt for the airport on Tim's bike while the neighborhood babies run interference.
Q 18Who voices Tim's father, Ted Templeton Sr.?
Jimmy Kimmel
Jimmy Kimmel, the late-night host, voices the dad. A year later he was on stage hosting the Academy Awards on the night his own film was among the nominees.
Q 19Who voices Tim's mother, Janice Templeton?
Lisa Kudrow
Lisa Kudrow voices Janice, who cheerfully fails to notice that her newborn wears a suit and carries a briefcase. She came back for the sequel, by which time Janice is a grandmother.
Q 20Who narrates The Boss Baby as the adult Tim?
Tobey Maguire
Tobey Maguire was a late change of plan. Four months before his casting was revealed, the studio had announced that comedian Patton Oswalt would narrate the film as the grown-up Tim.
Theodore Lindsey Templeton, Ted for short like his father, starts over as an ordinary baby. It does not last: by the sequel the grown-up Ted is a wealthy businessman who is always away.
Q 24What is the name of Tim's Gandalf-esque alarm clock?
Wizzie
Wizzie, a talking wizard clock, is voiced by James McGrath. He outlasts Tim's boyhood: the clock turns up again in the sequel, by which time Tim is a father of two.
Q 25At the end of The Boss Baby, what does Tim send to win his brother back?
A letter
A letter: if there is not enough love for the two of them, Tim writes, his brother can have all of his. The Boss reads it, leaves his new office behind and comes home to be an ordinary baby.
Q 26Which Beatles song is woven into the plot of The Boss Baby?
Blackbird
Blackbird is the Templetons' family lullaby. At the climax Tim sings it to the baby, who has lapsed into ordinary infancy aboard the rocket, and the song coaxes him to jump clear in time.
Q 27Who scored The Boss Baby alongside Steve Mazzaro?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer, by then on his 12th score for the studio, shared this one with Steve Mazzaro. The partnership stuck: the two came back together to score the sequel.
Q 28The Boss Baby's director showed every new hire the opening of which Disney classic to set the film's look?
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp opens on a snowy town and a window lit by a Christmas tree, the one bright colour on screen. McGrath wanted that restraint, feeling that modern animation had grown too cluttered and realistic.
Q 29Which actor was originally announced for the villain role in 2014 before being replaced?
Kevin Spacey
The recasting was announced in June 2016.
Q 30Which animated film took over The Boss Baby's original March 2016 release date?
Kung Fu Panda 3
Kung Fu Panda 3 was moved out of late 2015 so it would not open against Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and it took the baby's slot. The Boss Baby was bumped a full year, to March 2017.