The Incredibles Trivia
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This Incredibles trivia quiz has 99 free questions with answers and covers both Pixar films: The Incredibles (2004) and Incredibles 2 (2018). Expect questions on the Parr family and their powers, Syndrome and the Screenslaver, Edna Mode's rules about capes, Frozone's cover story, the voice cast, Michael Giacchino's score and the two short films that travelled with the movies, Jack-Jack Attack and Bao. It starts easy enough for kids who know the films by heart and works up to expert questions about casting near-misses, Oscar wins, box office records and the fourteen-year wait between the two movies. Play it solo, with the family, or as a round at movie night. Every answer was checked against primary and encyclopaedic sources rather than fan lists, so the facts hold up even for the hardest questions.
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Q 01Who wrote and directed both The Incredibles and Incredibles 2?
Brad Bird
Brad Bird. Hired from outside Pixar, he asked the studio for its 'black sheep', frustrated artists with ideas nobody was listening to, and built the film with them.
Q 02In Incredibles 2, Jack-Jack first shows his powers to his dad by fighting which backyard animal?
A raccoon
A raccoon. Jack-Jack sees a masked robber on TV, spots the bandit-faced animal raiding the bins and attacks; the fight was first drawn for the 2004 film, which had no room for it.
Q 03What is Helen Parr's superhero name?
Elastigirl
Elastigirl. The director matched each Parr's power to a family role, and a modern mum, he said, 'has to stretch in hundreds of different ways each day.'
Q 04What are Violet Parr's superpowers?
Invisibility and force fields
Invisibility and force fields. The director chose them because teenage girls, as he put it, are insecure and defensive, so Violet can vanish and throw up shields.
Q 05In The Incredibles, who refuses to tell Frozone where his super suit is?
His wife
His wife, who is heard but never seen. She has hidden the suit to protect a dinner planned for two months, and when he pleads the greater good she says she is the greatest good he will ever get.
Q 06What is Frozone's real name?
Lucius Best
Lucius Best. He was best man at Bob and Helen's wedding, and his power has a catch: he can only freeze the moisture around him, so dry air or dehydration leaves him without ice.
Q 07Which actor voices Frozone in The Incredibles?
Samuel L. Jackson
Samuel L. Jackson. The filmmakers wanted a voice cool enough for a hero who puts his enemies on ice, and the director's verdict was simple: 'Nobody sounds cooler than Sam Jackson.'
Q 08Who provides the voice of Bob Parr, better known as Mr. Incredible?
Craig T. Nelson
Craig T. Nelson. The Coach star had never voiced a cartoon before, and called matching the exact delivery the director had in mind one of the more difficult things he had ever done.
Q 09Which Oscar-winning actress voices Helen Parr?
Holly Hunter
Holly Hunter. She had never done animation, and the director chose her to play a mother who is sensitive yet has, in his words, 'a very sturdy center' that would never crack.
Q 10What is Syndrome's real name?
Buddy Pine
Buddy Pine. As a boy he begged to be Mr. Incredible's sidekick, IncrediBoy, and was told the hero works alone, a rejection that turned his biggest fan into his nemesis.
Q 11Which actor voices Syndrome in The Incredibles?
Jason Lee
Jason Lee. Jack Black was offered the villain first but said no, calling the part one-dimensional and asking for rewrites; he has since called it the biggest regret of his acting career.
Q 12Who composed the jazzy, brassy scores for both Incredibles films?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino. Veteran composer John Barry was tried first but did not want to go back to his old style, so the job went to a newcomer then best known for the TV series Alias.
Q 13Sarah Vowell was cast as Violet after the director heard her on which public radio show?
This American Life
Q 21Which Pixar short about a dancing sheep played before The Incredibles in theaters?
Boundin'
Boundin'. A passing jackalope teaches the shorn, mocked lamb to bounce back, and veteran animator Bud Luckey wrote, narrated and sang the whole short himself.
Q 22Which short film played before Incredibles 2 in theaters?
Bao
Bao. A lonely mother raises a steamed bun that springs to life as her little boy, and the short went on to win the Oscar for best animated short film.
Q 23In Jack-Jack Attack, what is the name of the teenager Rick Dicker questions?
Kari McKeen
Kari McKeen. In the short she tells a government agent how the baby floated, burst into flames and fired lasers on her watch, and he then wipes her memory of the whole night.
This American Life. The director was driving when he heard her on the show and thought 'That's Violet'; when he rang, she told him she had never done voices before.
Q 14In The Incredibles, the Parrs hide out in a quiet suburb of which city?
Metroville
Metroville. Syndrome later launches his Omnidroid at the city so that he can defeat it in public with a hidden remote and be hailed as a hero.
Q 15Syndrome's secret base is on which island?
Nomanisan
Nomanisan. Say it with 'Island' and you hear 'no man is an island', a sly name for the hideout of a villain who lures heroes there one at a time to die.
Q 16What is Bob Parr's dull day job at the start of The Incredibles?
Claims adjuster
Claims adjuster. He quietly tips customers off about loopholes so their claims get paid, and loses the job when he hurls his penny-pinching boss through several walls.
Q 17Which actor voices Gilbert Huph, Bob's tiny and demeaning boss?
Wallace Shawn
Wallace Shawn. His Huph orders Bob to stay put while a mugging happens outside the window, and is hurled through several office walls and into hospital for it.
Q 18Which item does Edna Mode absolutely refuse to put on any super suit?
Capes
Capes. 'No capes!' she snaps, listing heroes killed when theirs snagged on a missile, an elevator or a jet engine, and the film's villain later meets exactly that end.
Q 19The Incredibles won two Oscars: Best Animated Feature and one for which craft?
Sound Editing
Sound Editing. Winner Randy Thom was competing against himself: two of the three nominees were his, and his work on The Polar Express lost to his whooshes and blasts for the Parrs.
Q 20Which feature of an Incredibles character was so hard to animate that it was finished only near the end of production?
Violet's hair
Violet's hair. A short cut was ruled out, since hiding behind it is who she is, so it was cracked only late in production and Sarah Vowell recorded for a Violet who was still bald.
Q 24In Jack-Jack Attack, which composer's music is the baby played for 'neurological stimulation'?
Mozart
Mozart. His Rondo alla Turca is put on as brain food for the baby, and the plan backfires: the music is what sets off Jack-Jack's hidden powers.
Q 25In Jack-Jack Attack, what does Syndrome claim the 'S' on his suit stands for?
Sitter
Sitter. He is posing as the replacement sent to mind the baby, and explains that calling himself 'Babysitter' would have meant going around with BS on his chest.
Q 26In Incredibles 2, who turns out to be the real Screenslaver?
Evelyn Deavor
Evelyn Deavor. She blames her parents' deaths on blind faith in supers: her father was shot by burglars while he waited on the phone for heroes who never came.
Q 27Which comedy actor voices Winston Deavor, the superhero-loving telecom boss in Incredibles 2?
Bob Odenkirk
Bob Odenkirk. His Winston, a superhero fan like his father before him, picks Helen to front the supers' comeback because she causes the least property damage.
Q 28Which actress voices Evelyn, DevTech's tech-genius designer, in Incredibles 2?
Catherine Keener
Catherine Keener. Evelyn and her brother Winston recruit Helen for secret missions that are filmed and broadcast, hoping to win back the public's trust in supers.
Q 29In Incredibles 2, which school subject drives stay-at-home dad Bob to despair when he helps Dash with homework?
Math
Math. 'Why would they change math? Math is math!' he fumes, defeated by the new methods in his son's textbook.
Q 30Which Breaking Bad actor took over the voice of government agent Rick Dicker in Incredibles 2?
Jonathan Banks
Jonathan Banks. He took over from Bud Luckey, the Pixar veteran who helped design Woody and voiced the agent in 2004; Luckey died months before the sequel opened, and it is dedicated to him.