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64 free Up Movie trivia questions with answers. Pixar's Up begins with the most talked-about ten minutes in animation, a wordless montage of a marriage, and then straps ten thousand balloons to a house and flies it to South America. It opened the Cannes Film Festival, won two Oscars, and became only the second animated film ever nominated for Best Picture. This quiz has 70 questions across the whole story: the plot (the Ellie Badge, Shady Oaks, the leaf blower), the voice cast and how an eight-year-old who would not stop talking got the part of Russell, the production trip to Venezuela and the maths behind the balloons, Michael Giacchino's score, the box office and awards, and the afterlife of the characters in Dug Days and Carl's Date. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know which Cannes prize Dug won. Every answer has been checked against reference sources and is explained once you answer, so it works for a family movie night or a Pixar round at pub trivia.
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Q 01Who voices Carl Fredricksen, the grumpy widower at the centre of Up?
Ed Asner
When shown a model of the character, Asner joked, "I don't look anything like that." The writers tailored Carl's lines to his voice, favouring short sentences with lots of consonants.
Q 02What breed of dog is Dug?
Golden Retriever
Dug's collar translates his thoughts into speech, which is why he keeps announcing squirrels mid-sentence.
Q 03Which merit badge is Russell trying to earn when he stows away on Carl's porch?
Assisting the Elderly
It is the last badge Russell needs, and Carl finally presents it to him at the ceremony near the end of the film.
Q 04Where does Carl want to fly his house to keep a promise to his late wife?
Paradise Falls
Carl never realises it, but the tepui his house lands on turns out to overlook the very falls he was aiming for.
Q 05Where did Carl and Ellie both work as adults?
The city zoo
Carl sold balloons and Ellie was a zookeeper, which is why their savings jar kept getting raided for car repairs and roof leaks.
Q 06What is the name of Charles Muntz's airship?
Spirit of Adventure
The name may nod to Charles Lindbergh's plane, and Lindbergh himself was one of the real adventurers the filmmakers looked to for Muntz.
Q 07Which veteran actor voices the villain Charles Muntz?
Christopher Plummer
The same year, Plummer also voiced the elder leader in the animated film 9 and played the title role in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.
Q 08What does Carl give Russell at the end as the "Ellie Badge"?
A bottle cap
It is the same bottle cap Ellie pinned on Carl when they first met as children, so it has been on his lapel for the whole film.
Q 09What message has Ellie written on the last page of her scrapbook?
Thanks for the adventure – now go have a new one!
Carl thought the "Stuff I'm Going to Do" pages were blank; Ellie had filled them with photos of their ordinary life together.
Q 10What is odd about the voice that comes out of Alpha's collar?
It is squeaky and high-pitched
The joke came from imagining a broken record player stuck playing at the wrong speed, and it undercuts the pack leader's menace every time he opens his mouth.
Q 11Which actor voices Beta, one of Muntz's pack dogs?
Delroy Lindo
Ranft voices Gamma, Cooley voices Omega and Kaye is the newsreel announcer, so all four are in the film somewhere.
Q 12Bob Peterson based Dug's line "I have just met you, and I love you" on something said to him by whom?
A child at a camp where he was a counselor
Peterson says that as soon as he wrote the line he knew he would be the one voicing Dug.
Q 13Dug made an early cameo as a shadow barking on a wall in which earlier Pixar film?
Ratatouille
Q 21Roughly how many boys auditioned in the nationwide casting call for Russell?
400
Nagai was eight when cast, and Docter tickled him and held him upside down to get the right squeals for the scene where Russell meets Kevin.
Q 22Carl's appearance was designed to resemble which classic Hollywood actor as he looked in his final film?
Spencer Tracy
That final film was Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Walter Matthau and the animators' own grandfathers were also in the mix.
Q 23Which Asner TV role did writers say helped balance Carl's likable and unlikable sides?
Lou Grant
Asner won five of his seven Emmys playing Grant on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and its spin-off.
Dug was originally created for a different, unmade project, so he was lying around waiting for a film to belong to.
Q 14What was Up's working title when Pete Docter first conceived it in 2004?
Heliums
The idea grew out of Docter's own fantasy of floating away from irritating social situations.
Q 15How many balloons did a technical director calculate it would really take to lift Carl's house?
23 million
At that number the balloons would have looked like tiny dots, so the animators cheated and made each balloon about twice Carl's size.
Q 16How many balloons were rendered for the lift-off sequence?
20,622
Ordinary flying shots used a mere 10,297; simulating realistic cloth on the caricatured humans turned out harder than the balloons.
Q 17Which country did Docter and eleven Pixar artists visit for on-location research?
Venezuela
They reached Monte Roraima by plane, jeep and helicopter, then sketched for three nights among ants, scorpions and snakes.
Q 18Which real bird did the animators study at the Sacramento Zoo to design Kevin?
Himalayan monal
New software had to be written just to render Kevin's iridescent feathers.
Q 19Russell's look was modelled on a sketch of which Pixar artist?
Peter Sohn
Pixar staff habitually sketch each other in meetings, and one such drawing of Sohn became the model. Sohn later directed The Good Dinosaur.
Q 20How did Jordan Nagai end up being cast as Russell?
He came along to his brother's audition
About 400 boys tried out; Nagai stood out because he simply would not stop talking, which is exactly Russell.
Q 24Who voices young Ellie in the film's opening prologue?
The director's daughter
Elie Docter later became the inspiration for Riley in her father's next film, Inside Out.
Q 25Who provides the uncredited squawks of Kevin the bird?
Pete Docter, the director
Docter also has a credited role as camp master Strauch, the scout leader at the badge ceremony.
Q 26Pixar good-luck charm John Ratzenberger voices which character in Up?
Construction foreman Tom
Ratzenberger had voiced a part in every Pixar feature up to that point; here he is the man trying to buy Carl's house.
Q 27Why is Charles Muntz disgraced in the newsreel that opens the film?
His giant bird skeleton is declared a fake
He vows not to return until he brings back a live specimen, and by the time Carl finds him decades later the obsession has consumed him.
Q 28What is the name of the retirement home a court orders Carl to move into?
Shady Oaks
Its two nurses, George and A.J., got their own short film about what happened after they watched the house float away.
Q 29What does a construction worker damage that provokes Carl into hitting him with his cane?
His mailbox
The mailbox is the one Carl and Ellie painted together, which is why the small dent sets him off.
Q 30Russell chases after the airship using a bunch of balloons and what household tool?
A leaf blower
Carl then empties his entire house of furniture so it becomes light enough to fly after him.