Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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50 free Wallace & Gromit: the Curse of the Were-Rabbit trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit took a cheese-loving inventor and his silent dog from half-hour shorts to the big screen. Nick Park's first feature with the pair is a loving send-up of old monster movies, set in a town obsessed with growing enormous vegetables. This quiz covers the story and its characters, from Lady Tottington and the hunter Victor Quartermaine to the rabbits that start it all, along with the voice cast, the years of stop-motion work behind every scene, the awards, and what came next for the series. It is pitched for anyone who has watched the film, with a few tougher questions for fans who know their Aardman history.
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Q 01Which pungent real-life cheese does Gromit use to revive Wallace at the end of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Stinking Bishop
Stinking Bishop saw demand rise by 500 percent after the film, far more than its small Gloucestershire maker could supply; he vowed not to sell the business.
Q 02What sight in the night sky turns Wallace into the giant Were-Rabbit in the Wallace & Gromit feature film?
A full moon
A full moon triggers the change, a werewolf-film rule borrowed for a monster that only menaces vegetable patches.
Q 03In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, the bullets Victor Quartermaine obtains to slay the beast are made of which metal?
Gold
Gold replaces the silver bullets of werewolf legend, one of many jokes in a film built as a parody of classic monster movies.
Q 04Sales of which cheese, Wallace's favourite, rose by 23 per cent when The Curse of the Were-Rabbit reached cinemas?
Wensleydale
Wensleydale had come close to vanishing in the 1990s, when sales fell so low that production in the dale itself was nearly suspended.
Q 05Which Academy Award did The Curse of the Were-Rabbit win in 2006, the first stop-motion film to take it?
Best Animated Feature
Best Animated Feature had only ever gone to computer-animated or hand-drawn films; Nick Park's three earlier Oscars were all for shorts.
Q 06Which actor voices Victor Quartermaine, the trophy-hunting villain of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Ralph Fiennes
Ralph Fiennes was hailed by The Times as inspired casting in his first fully comedic role, playing a gun-toting hunter.
Q 07Which actress voices Lady Tottington, the vegetable-loving aristocrat of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Helena Bonham Carter
Helena Bonham Carter earned an Annie Award nomination for the part, and The Times wrote that she steals the film.
Q 08Which Last of the Summer Wine actor voices both Wallace and a rabbit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Peter Sallis
Peter Sallis had his voice digitally sped up to play the rabbit, and won an Annie Award for his performance as Wallace.
Q 09What is the name of the humane pest-control business Wallace and Gromit run in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Anti-Pesto
Anti-Pesto protects the town's prize vegetables ahead of the annual competition, and the firm carried on in a monthly comic after the film.
Q 10What disaster hit Aardman's Bristol warehouse days after The Curse of the Were-Rabbit opened in American cinemas?
A fire
A fire blamed on an electrical fault destroyed more than 30 years of props, models and sets, though the finished films were stored elsewhere.
Q 11In The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, what name is given to the rabbit that starts behaving like Wallace?
Hutch
Hutch is the first suspect for the monster, and nearly everything he says is a line Wallace has already spoken.
Q 12Which giant vegetable does Gromit grow to enter in the Tottington Hall competition in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
A marrow
A marrow is Gromit's pride and joy, yet he gives it up as bait to lure the monster away from danger, and it ends up squashed.
Q 13What is the name of Victor Quartermaine's vicious but cowardly hunting dog in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Philip
Philip resembles a bull terrier and is too scared to face the monster, so he goes after Gromit instead.
Q 21Which BAFTA did The Curse of the Were-Rabbit win in 2006, ahead of four live-action nominees?
Best British Film
Best British Film went to the animated comedy over The Constant Gardener and Pride & Prejudice, both of them nominated that night.
Q 22Which composer, who scored every earlier Wallace & Gromit short, wrote the music for The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Julian Nott
Julian Nott won an Annie Award for the score, and is also the composer behind Peppa Pig.
Q 23Which Hollywood film composer served as producer of the score for The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer produced the score, with additional music from four colleagues including Lorne Balfe and Rupert Gregson-Williams.
Q 14What does the villain Victor Quartermaine wear to cover his bald head in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
A toupee
A toupee tops off Victor, a cruel upper-class bounder whose surname recalls the big-game hunter Allan Quatermain.
Q 15Why is Victor Quartermaine really courting Lady Tottington in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
For her fortune
For her fortune: once exposed, Victor drops the act and admits he never cared for her and wanted Wallace out of the way.
Q 16Which villager is the first to see the monster in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, and later arms the hunter?
The vicar
The vicar, Reverend Clement Hedges, keeps a whole cupboard of weapons for slaying supernatural beasts; his name is never spoken in the film.
Q 17Which Phoenix Nights comedian voices PC Mackintosh, the village policeman, in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Peter Kay
Peter Kay returned to the part almost twenty years later, by which time Mackintosh had risen to chief inspector.
Q 18Who co-directed The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with Wallace & Gromit creator Nick Park?
Steve Box
Steve Box had animated on two earlier Wallace & Gromit shorts, and directed the Spice Girls' Viva Forever video in 1998.
Q 19Which Hollywood studio co-produced The Curse of the Were-Rabbit with Aardman, then split from it in 2007?
DreamWorks
DreamWorks sent Nick Park notes he found stressful, including one asking for a cooler, more modern car for Wallace; he refused, saying the old-fashioned look was the point.
Q 20Which Tim Burton stop-motion film lost to The Curse of the Were-Rabbit at the 78th Academy Awards?
Corpse Bride
Corpse Bride and Howl's Moving Castle were the only other nominees, so two of the three films in the running were stop-motion.
Q 24A co-writer of The Curse of the Were-Rabbit co-created the robot dog K9 for which long-running television series?
Doctor Who
Doctor Who gained K9 in The Invisible Enemy; the robot dog was meant for a single story, but the BBC made him a recurring character.
Q 25What was the Wallace & Gromit feature's subtitle before market research prompted The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
The Great Vegetable Plot
The Great Vegetable Plot was first announced with a November 2004 release date, before both the title and the schedule changed.
Q 26In which city, far from its northern English setting, did The Curse of the Were-Rabbit have its world premiere?
Sydney
Sydney hosted the premiere on 4 September 2005, a month before the film reached cinemas in the United States and Britain.
Q 27Penguins from which animated franchise starred in the short film shown with The Curse of the Were-Rabbit in cinemas?
Madagascar
Madagascar's penguins got a 12-minute Christmas spin-off in which the youngest, Private, slips out of the zoo to find a gift for a lonely polar bear.
Q 28Which prison-break comedy was Aardman's first feature film, released five years before The Curse of the Were-Rabbit?
Chicken Run
Chicken Run was co-directed by Nick Park and Peter Lord, who drew their inspiration from prison escape films such as The Great Escape.
Q 29Wallace's battered van in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is an A35 model from which classic British carmaker?
Austin
Austin's A35 was chosen, Nick Park said, because it is such an unlikely heroic car: the film's ironic take on the Batmobile.
Q 30Lady Tottington's first name in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, Campanula, is the scientific name of which flower?
Bellflower
Bellflower is the common name: campanula is Latin for little bell, after the shape of the blooms.