The Grinch (2018 Film)
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40 free The Grinch (2018 Film) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 2018 animated version of The Grinch gave Dr. Seuss's Christmas-hating grouch a fresh coat of green fur, a new backstory and a soundtrack that mixes carols with hip-hop. It also turned into one of the biggest holiday releases ever made, which is why so many people go looking for trivia about it every December. This quiz covers the whole film: what happens in Whoville, who voices the Grinch and the Whos, who wrote the music, how the movie was animated and marketed, and how it performed in cinemas. A few questions look back at the book and the earlier screen versions that the film builds on. The questions range from easy to tricky, so the quiz works for a festive movie night with children as well as for fans who rewatch the film every year. Every answer comes with a short explanation.
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Q 01Which British actor, famous as Marvel's Doctor Strange, voices the title character in The Grinch (2018)?
Benedict Cumberbatch
Benedict Cumberbatch took on two famous storybook creatures in 2018: the Grinch and, through performance capture, the tiger Shere Khan in Mowgli.
Q 02Which comedy, the record holder since 1990, did The Grinch (2018) overtake as the highest-grossing Christmas film?
Home Alone
Home Alone had been the top-earning Christmas film for 28 years before the Grinch stole its crown with more than $500 million worldwide.
Q 03Which singer of the Despicable Me 2 hit Happy serves as the narrator of The Grinch (2018)?
Pharrell Williams
Pharrell Williams had already written music for the Despicable Me films, and Happy earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song.
Q 04In The Grinch (2018), flashbacks reveal that the Grinch spent his unhappy childhood in what kind of place?
An orphanage
An orphanage where Christmas never came is the backstory this version gives him, which is why Whoville's festive joy stings so much.
Q 05What is the name of the Grinch's loyal dog, who ends up pulling the sleigh in The Grinch (2018)?
Max
Max was singled out by the New York Times review as the most charming character in this version of the story.
Q 06Which rapper recorded a new version of the classic Grinch theme song for the 2018 film The Grinch?
Tyler, the Creator
Tyler, the Creator suggested adding a children's choir to the remake, and also wrote and performed an original song for the film.
Q 07Which animation studio, the home of Despicable Me and Sing, produced The Grinch (2018)?
Illumination
Illumination first announced the project in 2013 under the book's full title, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, before shortening it.
Q 08Which accent does the Grinch speak with in The Grinch (2018), a choice its British lead actor argued for?
American
American was his own pick, because the rest of the cast is American; the studio had wanted his natural English voice.
Q 09Which comedian played the Grinch in the live-action film released 18 years before the animated The Grinch (2018)?
Jim Carrey
Jim Carrey's 2000 film opened to $55 million, a debut the animated version topped with $67.6 million.
Q 10Which characters star in Yellow Is the New Black, the short film released in theaters with The Grinch (2018)?
The Minions
The Minions also turn up on the home release, which adds a second short of theirs called Santa's Little Helpers.
Q 11Which Saturday Night Live veteran voices the Grinch's relentlessly cheerful neighbor in The Grinch (2018)?
Kenan Thompson
Kenan Thompson is the longest-tenured cast member in Saturday Night Live history, having joined the show back in 2003.
Q 12Which screen legend, the voice of Mrs. Potts in Beauty and the Beast, plays Whoville's mayor in The Grinch (2018)?
Angela Lansbury
Angela Lansbury was in her nineties when she voiced Mayor McGerkle, the same year she sang in Mary Poppins Returns as the Balloon Lady.
Q 13Which Parks and Recreation star voices Donna Who, the single parent of Cindy Lou, in The Grinch (2018)?
Rashida Jones
Q 21In which European capital was The Grinch (2018) animated, at a studio that then carried the Mac Guff name?
Paris
Paris is home to the studio that animates nearly all of its parent company's films, helped by French subsidies for the work.
Q 22Which other Dr. Seuss book had the makers of The Grinch (2018) already adapted as a 2012 animated film?
The Lorax
The Lorax was directed by Chris Renaud, who came back as an executive producer on the Grinch film six years later.
Q 23Audrey Geisel, an executive producer who died five weeks after The Grinch (2018) opened, was related to Dr. Seuss how?
She was his widow
Rashida Jones played nurse Ann Perkins on Parks and Recreation, and before that Karen Filippelli on The Office.
Q 14Which song do the Whos sing together after waking to find their presents stolen in The Grinch (2018)?
Welcome Christmas
Welcome Christmas comes from the 1966 TV special, and hearing it is what makes the Grinch's shrunken heart triple in size.
Q 15Which composer of The Nightmare Before Christmas songs wrote the orchestral score for The Grinch (2018)?
Danny Elfman
Danny Elfman called the job a full-circle moment: he grew up on Dr. Seuss stories and once met the author about a musical that never got made.
Q 16On which mountain overlooking Whoville does the Grinch live in a cave in The Grinch (2018)?
Mount Crumpit
Mount Crumpit is also where the Grinch hauls the stolen gifts to dump them, before the loaded sleigh nearly slides off the edge.
Q 17What is the name of the jolly neighbor whose sleigh the Grinch steals in The Grinch (2018)?
Bricklebaum
Bricklebaum is a merry Who who is somehow convinced that the Grinch is his best friend.
Q 18What name does the Grinch give the overweight reindeer he recruits to pull his sleigh in The Grinch (2018)?
Fred
Fred never makes the big night: the Grinch lets him go before Christmas Eve, so the dog has to haul the sleigh instead.
Q 19Which Whoville celebration does the Grinch try and fail to sabotage early in The Grinch (2018)?
The tree-lighting ceremony
The tree-lighting ceremony is overseen by Mayor McGerkle, and the failed stunt stirs up the memories that push him toward a grander scheme.
Q 20What does Cindy Lou Who hope to ask Santa Claus for face to face in The Grinch (2018)?
Help for her mother
Help for her mother is the whole wish: Cindy Lou sees how hard her single mom works looking after her and her twin baby brothers.
She was his widow and ran his literary estate for decades; this was the last Seuss adaptation released in her lifetime.
Q 24Which New York City event promoted The Grinch (2018) a full year before the film opened?
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade flew a giant Grinch balloon in November 2017, the month the film was meant to open before a one-year delay.
Q 25Which bass singer, the voice of Tony the Tiger, first sang the Grinch theme song that The Grinch (2018) reworks?
Thurl Ravenscroft
Thurl Ravenscroft went uncredited in the 1966 special, so the song was long wrongly attributed to its narrator, Boris Karloff.
Q 26Yarrow Cheney, co-director of The Grinch (2018), had previously co-directed which 2016 animated hit?
The Secret Life of Pets
The Secret Life of Pets, which he made with Chris Renaud, was the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2016.
Q 27Scott Mosier made his feature directing debut on The Grinch (2018) after years producing films for which indie director?
Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith met him at Vancouver Film School, and the two went on to co-host the podcast SModcast.
Q 28Which franchise's 2018 entry was the only Universal release to out-gross The Grinch (2018) that year?
Jurassic World
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was the studio's only higher earner; the Grinch still turned an estimated net profit of $184.6 million.
Q 29Which hip-hop group's holiday classic Christmas in Hollis, also heard in Die Hard, plays in The Grinch (2018)?
Run-DMC
Run-DMC named the song after Hollis, the Queens neighborhood in New York City where the group's members grew up.
Q 30Which a cappella group's recording is used for the carolers who stalk the Grinch in The Grinch (2018)?
Pentatonix
Pentatonix supply the carol God Rest You Merry Gentlemen; the group formed in 2011 and won NBC's contest The Sing-Off that year.