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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 01In The Croods, which two-word catchphrase does Gran keep announcing to the family?
Still alive!
Still alive! Gran sings it out when the family calls for her one morning, and her son-in-law Grug answers flatly that it's still early.
Q 02Who voices Grug, the overprotective father in The Croods?
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage. His Grug keeps the family safe by the rules painted inside their cave, which boil down to his ungrammatical credo: 'Never not be afraid.'
Q 03Who voices Eep, the rebellious teenage daughter in The Croods?
Emma Stone
Emma Stone. Her Eep slips out of the family cave one night to follow a strange light, which is how she meets Guy and sees fire for the first time.
Q 04Who voices Guy, the inventive modern human the Croods meet?
Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds. His Guy turns up carrying fire and a warning he calls 'The End': the ground is about to break open and swallow everything.
Q 05In The Croods, what is the name of Guy's pet sloth?
Belt
Belt. He spends the film wrapped around Guy's waist holding his trousers up, and one of the film's two directors supplies the sloth's voice himself.
Q 06Who voices Ugga, Grug's wife, in The Croods?
Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener. One of her directors called Ugga more open-minded about change than Grug, and she is the one who goes back for him when he gets lost.
Q 07Who voices Gran, the ferocious grandmother in The Croods?
Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman. Her Gran recalls falling for a hunter when she was a gatherer, 'quite a scandal', until her father smashed him with a rock.
Q 08Who voices Thunk, the dim but good-hearted middle child in The Croods?
Clark Duke
Clark Duke. When Grug invents the 'snapshot' by whacking a flat rock into Thunk's painted face, his son asks to do it again because he thinks he blinked.
Q 09In The Croods, what does Thunk name his pet 'Crocopup'?
Douglas
Douglas. Thunk treats the crocodile-jawed creature like a puppy from the start, playing fetch with it and telling it to roll over.
Q 10In The Croods, baby Sandy only growls and bites; which crew member supplied her voice?
The sound designer
The sound designer. Randy Thom, an Oscar winner for his film sound work, built Sandy's voice out of compiled creature noises.
Q 11The Croods is set in a fictional prehistoric era called what?
The Croodaceous
The Croodaceous. The film-makers made up a 'lost' prehistoric era and stocked it with hybrid animals such as land-dwelling whales and dogs with crocodile jaws.
Q 12In The Croods, what does Gran name the Macawnivore that hunts the family?
Chunky
Chunky. Gran's full name for the parrot-coloured sabre-tooth is 'Chunky the Death Cat', yet it turns out to be scared of the dark and ends up as Grug's pet.
Q 13In The Croods, Eep's list of former neighbours ends with the Throgs, wiped out by what?
The common cold
The common cold. Eep reels off the neighbours' fates in her opening narration, then gives the reason the Croods outlasted them all: her father was strong and followed the rules.
Q 21What was the working title of The Croods when it was announced in 2005?
Crood Awakening
Crood Awakening. The idea began as a tale of two cavemen on the run, one a wacky inventor and the other afraid of anything new; the family came later.
Q 22Which stop-motion studio was originally going to make The Croods?
Aardman
Aardman. The Wallace & Gromit studio developed it under a five-film deal with DreamWorks, and after the two parted it made a Stone Age comedy of its own, Early Man.
Q 23Which Monty Python member co-wrote the first drafts of The Croods?
John Cleese
John Cleese. DreamWorks liked an unmade Roald Dahl script, The Twits, that he had written with Kirk DeMicco, and offered the pair its caveman idea; Cleese kept a story credit.
Q 14In The Croods, Guy leaves Eep what object to summon him if she needs help?
A shell horn
A shell horn. Her family smashes it in fright as soon as she shows it to them, so Eep has to make a second one to call Guy back.
Q 15In The Croods, what does Grug do with Guy after seeing that he can make fire?
Imprisons him in a log
Imprisons him in a log. Gran points out that the family needs his fire, so Grug stuffs Guy into a hollow trunk and carries him along.
Q 16In The Croods, what does Guy call the faraway land of light he is trying to reach?
Tomorrow
Tomorrow. Guy took the name from the last thing his parents told him: 'Follow the sun; you'll make it to tomorrow.'
Q 17In The Croods, what 'invention' does Grug share with Eep before throwing her across the chasm?
A hug
A hug. Grug tells Eep he chose the name 'because it rhymes with Grug', and she gives one back when he finally rejoins the family.
Q 18In The Croods, Guy reveals that he lost his own family to what?
A tar flow
A tar flow. Guy tells the story while he and Grug are stuck in tar themselves, and they get out by luring the big cat with a puppet.
Q 19In The Croods, how does Grug finally cross the chasm to rejoin his family?
In a makeshift airship
In a makeshift airship. Asking himself what Guy would do, Grug lures a flock of piranhakeets onto a giant ribcage and rides it across with the big cat aboard.
Q 20Before co-directing The Croods, Chris Sanders co-directed which Disney film?
Lilo & Stitch
Lilo & Stitch. Sanders created Stitch and voices the alien himself, and in The Croods he took another animal part, as the sloth.
Q 24The partnership that first developed The Croods ended after which costly computer-animated flop?
Flushed Away
Flushed Away. It cost well over $100 million, disappointed in cinemas and forced DreamWorks into a write-down; within three months the five-film deal was over.
Q 25The Croods was put on hold in 2008 when director Chris Sanders took over which DreamWorks film?
How to Train Your Dragon
How to Train Your Dragon. He replaced its director and, with Dean DeBlois, overhauled it from top to bottom against the clock, which pushed The Croods back a year.
Q 26The Croods had its world premiere at which film festival?
Berlin
Berlin. Nearly eight years after it was unveiled at Cannes as a stop-motion project, the finished computer-animated film premiered in Berlin, out of competition, in February 2013.
Q 27Which studio distributed The Croods in the US in 2013?
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox. DreamWorks Animation's deal with Paramount had run out, and The Croods was the first film released under a new five-year pact with Fox.
Q 28In The Croods, which battle cry sends baby Sandy into the family hunt?
Release the baby!
Release the baby! Grug shouts it in the scramble for a giant egg, and the family's growling youngest is let loose on the prey to do her part.
Q 29As of 2025, The Croods was DreamWorks Animation's second-highest-grossing original film, behind which one?
Kung Fu Panda
Kung Fu Panda. The 2008 film took about $632 million worldwide to The Croods' $587 million, and a caveman sequel was in development within a month of release.
Q 30Which country was The Croods' biggest single market outside North America?
China
China. It proved so popular there that its run was extended by a month, until regulators ordered cinemas to stop showing it two weeks early.