50 free The Croods trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
The Croods began life in 2005 as a stop-motion Aardman project called Crood Awakening, written by John Cleese, before the rights bounced back to DreamWorks and Chris Sanders rebuilt it into the 2013 film about a cave family fleeing the end of their world. Nicolas Cage's overprotective Grug, Emma Stone's restless Eep and Ryan Reynolds' inventor Guy carried it to $587 million and an Oscar nomination, and a sequel survived cancellation, a studio sale and a pandemic to arrive in 2020. These 50 questions cover both films and the two TV series: the Croodaceous era and its portmanteau creatures, Belt the sloth and Chunky the Macawnivore, the 'hug' Grug invents, the Bettermans and their Punch Monkeys, the directors who came and went, the composers, the HAIM single, the Netflix prequel and the Peacock sequel series. Easy questions stick to the voice cast and the pets; the hard tier asks about release dates, 4DX, China grosses and which prime minister compared lockdown to leaving the cave. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you pick up a fact even when you miss. Good for family game night or anyone who still says 'rhymes with Grug'.
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Q 01Which studio produced The Croods (2013)?
DreamWorks
20th Century Fox distributed it, the first DreamWorks film after the Paramount deal ended.
Q 02Who voices Grug, the overprotective patriarch?
Nicolas Cage
Cage reprised the role in the 2020 sequel.
Q 03Who voices Eep, Grug's rebellious teenage daughter?
Emma Stone
Eep is the eldest child and the one most willing to try anything new.
Q 04Who voices Guy, the inventive modern human the Croods meet?
Ryan Reynolds
Guy arrives with a torch, a pet sloth and a warning about the end of the world.
Q 05What is the name of Guy's pet sloth?
Belt
Co-director Chris Sanders provides the sloth's voice himself.
Q 06Who voices Ugga, Grug's wife?
Catherine Keener
The planned sequel was originally meant to focus on Ugga and motherhood.
Q 07Who voices Gran, the ferocious grandmother?
Cloris Leachman
Gran is Ugga's mother and Grug's long-suffering mother-in-law.
Q 08Who voices Thunk, the dim but good-hearted middle child?
Clark Duke
Thunk adopts a 'Crocopup' named Douglas.
Q 09What is the name of Thunk's pet 'Crocopup'?
Douglas
He returns in the sequel alongside Belt and Chunky.
Q 10Who provided the growls and bites of baby Sandy in the first film?
Randy Thom
The sound designer built her voice from creature noises; Kailey Crawford took over in the sequel.
Q 11The film is set in a fictional prehistoric era called what?
The Croodaceous
It is loosely placed in the Pliocene and roamed by hybrid animals.
Q 12What does Gran name the Macawnivore that chases the family?
Chunky
The saber-toothed cat turns out to be scared of the dark and ends up Grug's companion.
Q 13The 'piranhakeets' in the film are a portmanteau of piranha and what?
Parakeet
They devour a ground whale in seconds, and Grug later uses them to power his airship.
Q 14Guy leaves Eep what object to summon him if she needs help?
Q 21What was the film's working title when announced in 2005?
Crood Awakening
The final title was revealed in May 2009.
Q 22Which stop-motion studio was originally going to make The Croods?
Aardman
After the deal ended, Aardman kept tinkering with a Stone Age idea that became Early Man.
Q 23Which Monty Python member co-wrote early drafts of the script with DeMicco?
John Cleese
The pair had been developing a Roald Dahl adaptation, The Twits, that never got made.
Q 24Which stop-motion film's underperformance ended the original studio deal in 2007?
A shell horn
Grug and the others smash it out of fear of anything 'new'.
Q 15What does Grug do with Guy after learning he can make fire?
Imprisons him in a log
Guy is eventually trusted enough to be let out during the journey.
Q 16What is Guy's name for the land of light where curiosity is not feared?
Tomorrow
It is the destination the family eventually reaches after crossing the chasm.
Q 17What 'invention' does Grug share with Eep before throwing her across the chasm?
A hug
Eep returns it when he finally flies across to rejoin the family.
Q 18Guy reveals he lost his own family to what?
A tar flow
He tells Grug while the two are stuck in tar themselves.
Q 19How does Grug finally cross the chasm to rejoin his family?
In a makeshift airship
He builds it from tar, fire, a whale ribcage and piranhakeets.
Q 20Who directed The Croods?
Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco
Sanders had made Lilo & Stitch for Disney and paused Crood Awakening to direct How to Train Your Dragon.
Flushed Away
The rights to the project reverted to DreamWorks in January 2007.
Q 25Sanders put the Croods project on hold in 2008 to take over which film?
How to Train Your Dragon
That pushed the planned release back a year, to March 2012 at first.
Q 26The Croods had its world premiere at which film festival?
Berlin
It screened out of competition at the 63rd edition in February 2013.
Q 27Which studio distributed The Croods in the US in 2013?
20th Century Fox
It was the first DreamWorks Animation film released under the Fox deal.
Q 28The Croods was the first feature shown in which immersive theater format?
4DX
The Budapest screening featured moving seats, wind, fog and scent effects.
Q 29Roughly how much did The Croods gross worldwide?
$587 million
That made it the second-highest-grossing original DreamWorks film, behind Kung Fu Panda.
Q 30Which country was The Croods' biggest single market outside North America?
China
Its $63.3 million there made it the highest-grossing original animated film in China at the time.