Toy Story 3
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49 free Toy Story 3 trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Toy Story 3 was the sequel Pixar almost never made. Disney first planned it without Pixar at a studio called Circle Seven, with a script that shipped Buzz to a factory in Taiwan. Only after Disney bought Pixar in 2006 did Lee Unkrich and writer Michael Arndt start again from scratch, and the result became the first animated film to gross a billion dollars. This quiz digs into all of it: the Sunnyside toys and the actors behind them, Lotso's backstory with Daisy, the Spanish-mode Buzz and his paso doble, the Altamont dump trips that shaped the incinerator, the Totoro cameo, and the Oscars and records that followed. Expect a mix of plot, voice cast, production and box-office questions. Every answer is sourced from the film's Wikipedia coverage, so you can check anything that surprises you. Play through in sets of 10 and see how well you really know Andy's last day with his toys.
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Q 01John Lasseter directed the first two Toy Story films; who took over as director of Toy Story 3?
Lee Unkrich
Lee Unkrich had edited the first film and co-directed the second. Lasseter, tied up directing another sequel, handed this one over, and it won Unkrich the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Q 02Who wrote the screenplay for Toy Story 3?
Michael Arndt
Michael Arndt won an Oscar for his first screenplay, Little Miss Sunshine, and was nominated again for this, his second. Because a sequel is built on existing characters, it competed as an adapted script.
Q 03Toy Story 3 was the top-grossing film of 2010; which other Disney release finished second worldwide?
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland had the bigger opening weekend earlier that year, but Toy Story 3 overtook it in the long run and finished about $40 million ahead worldwide.
Q 04In Toy Story 3, what does Mr. Potato Head first use as a stand-in body during the escape?
A tortilla
A tortilla does the job until a pecking pigeon wrecks it; he then plugs his parts into a cucumber from the daycare garden and catches up with his friends as a tall green vegetable.
Q 05Who voices Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear in Toy Story 3?
Ned Beatty
Ned Beatty gives Lotso a grandfatherly Southern drawl that makes the welcome feel safe, right up until the bear is revealed to be running the daycare like a prison.
Q 06In Toy Story 3, what does Lotso the teddy bear smell of?
Strawberries
Strawberries: Pixar promoted the pink bear with a fake toy commercial, degraded with tracking noise and flicker so that it looked like a home recording from around 1983.
Q 07Which actor voices Ken in Toy Story 3?
Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton plays Ken as a clothes-obsessed smoothie in Lotso's gang; he gives up its secrets only when Barbie threatens to rip up his prized Nehru jacket.
Q 08To which child does Andy give his toys at the end of Toy Story 3?
Bonnie
Bonnie gets them because a note left on the box meant for the attic suggests her; Andy takes it for his mother's handwriting and drives the toys over himself.
Q 09In Toy Story 3, what did Lotso find back at Daisy's house?
A new bear
A new bear: Daisy's parents had bought an identical replacement. Lotso told the two toys lost with him that they had all been replaced, which was a lie, and led them away to take over a daycare.
Q 10In Toy Story 3, Lotso's gang turns Buzz into their prison guard by switching him to which setting?
Demo mode
Demo mode wipes his memory and brings back the deluded space ranger of the first film, who takes Lotso for his commander and locks up his own friends.
Q 11Where does Andy's mother mistakenly take the bag of toys meant for the attic?
To the curb for garbage pickup
To the curb for garbage pickup: Andy had left the bag in the hallway, and his mother took it for rubbish. The toys wriggle free and, sure that he meant to dump them, climb into a box of donations.
Q 12In Toy Story 3, what falls on Buzz in the garbage truck and restores his normal personality?
A television
A television: the knock undoes both resets at once, and Buzz comes round with no memory of guarding his friends as prisoners or of wooing Jessie in Spanish.
Q 13Which actress voices Barbie in Toy Story 3?
Jodi Benson
Q 21In Toy Story 3, Andy's toys are sent to which daycare room, where toddlers treat them roughly?
The Caterpillar Room
The Caterpillar Room is where Lotso dumps new arrivals to be chewed, thrown and drooled on, while he and his gang keep the Butterfly Room and its gentler older children for themselves.
Q 22In Toy Story 3, which veteran daycare toy tells Andy's toys how to break out?
Chatter Telephone
Chatter Telephone, the old pull-along phone, boasts that Lotso's gang will never break him. They do, and he apologises for giving up the plan.
Q 23Which band performs the Spanish version of 'You've Got a Friend in Me' heard in Toy Story 3?
Gipsy Kings
Jodi Benson, the voice of Ariel in The Little Mermaid, first played Barbie in Toy Story 2. Mattel had refused to lend the doll to the original film, then asked for her to be included once it was a hit.
Q 14Toy Story 3 was the first film released theatrically with which sound format?
Dolby Surround 7.1
Dolby Surround 7.1 adds two extra rear channels to the usual 5.1 layout. Dolby pitched it as sound with enough depth to match the 3D pictures then filling cinemas, and launched it with this film.
Q 15Which film ended Toy Story 3's reign as the highest-grossing animated film?
Frozen
Frozen opened in late 2013 and was still in cinemas four months later, when a strong run in its last overseas market carried it past Toy Story 3's total.
Q 16Which film beat Toy Story 3 to Best Picture?
The King's Speech
The King's Speech took Best Picture. Disney had campaigned for the top prize with posters likening Toy Story 3 to past winners, but its two Oscars came for animated feature and original song.
Q 17'You've Got a Friend in Me' missed out on an Oscar, but which Randy Newman song from Toy Story 3 won one?
We Belong Together
We Belong Together won at the 2011 ceremony, where Newman mocked the advice that reading out a list of names makes for dull viewing, then said he had to thank his people anyway.
Q 18Toy Story 3 held its world premiere at a film festival in which country?
Italy
Italy saw it first: the film opened the Taormina Film Fest in Sicily, an event usually held in the town's ancient open-air theatre, a day before its American premiere in Los Angeles.
Q 19Disney originally planned to make Toy Story 3 without Pixar at which studio unit?
Circle Seven Animation
Circle Seven Animation was set up in 2004, when Disney and Pixar looked set to part and Disney held the sequel rights. After Disney bought Pixar in 2006 the unit was shut and its script shelved.
Q 20An abandoned Toy Story 3 script sent a malfunctioning Buzz to a factory in which place?
Taiwan
Taiwan: when the toys read online that Buzz Lightyears are being recalled around the world, they fear he will be destroyed and set out to rescue him.
Gipsy Kings, who sing in Spanish but come from the south of France, recorded it flamenco-style as 'Hay un Amigo en Mí'; it plays at the very end while Buzz and Jessie dance.
Q 24What did Pixar show Tom Hanks instead of a Toy Story 3 script?
A story reel
A story reel: the whole film played in a cinema as moving storyboards with pre-recorded voices, sound effects and music. When the lights came up, the actors signed on.
Q 25Which Studio Ghibli character appears as a plush toy in Toy Story 3?
Totoro
Totoro is a thank-you to Hayao Miyazaki, an old friend of Pixar's John Lasseter, who called the cameo a way of letting Studio Ghibli know how much its films meant to them.
Q 26Which Pixar short played before Toy Story 3 in theaters?
Day & Night
Day & Night has two hand-drawn figures, one showing daytime scenes inside his outline and the other night-time ones, who start with a punch-up and end as friends; as the sun moves, each turns into the other.
Q 27How does Lotso end up at the close of Toy Story 3?
Strapped to a garbage truck's grille
Strapped to a garbage truck's grille: a driver who had owned the same bear as a boy spots him at the dump and ties him to the front of his lorry, so the toy who ran a prison ends up a captive himself.
Q 28Slinky Dog got a new voice in Toy Story 3 after which actor died?
Jim Varney
Jim Varney, best known as the hapless Ernest, died in 2000. Pixar handed Slinky to Blake Clark, a comedian who had been a close friend of his for years.
Q 29Which former James Bond actor voices Mr. Pricklepants in Toy Story 3?
Timothy Dalton
Timothy Dalton, who acted with the Royal Shakespeare Company before he was 007, voices a hedgehog in lederhosen who treats playtime as serious theatre and hushes the other toys so he can stay in character.
Q 30Who voices Trixie the triceratops in Toy Story 3?
Kristen Schaal
Kristen Schaal, then known for Flight of the Conchords, plays the chatty blue dinosaur who works out the route home on a computer; Trixie later got the lead in the TV special Toy Story That Time Forgot.