Zootopia Trivia
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62 free Zootopia trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
56 free Zootopia trivia questions with answers. Zootopia is Disney's billion-dollar buddy-cop film about a rabbit officer and a fox con artist, and this quiz covers the whole franchise: the 2016 original, the Zootopia+ shorts, the theme-park rides and the 2025 sequel with Gary De'Snake. Easy questions ask who voices Nick and Judy, what the Night Howlers really are and what Judy swapped into the dart gun; harder ones dig into the spy movie the film started life as, the fur software Disney's engineers built, why the movie is called Zootropolis in Britain, and which real news anchors and wrestlers hide in the cast. It works for a family movie night, since most of the plot questions can be answered by anyone who has seen the film, and it has enough production and box-office stumpers to challenge grown-up Disney fans. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the films, the characters and the franchise, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01What kind of animal is Judy Hopps?
A rabbit
Judy Hopps is a rabbit, full name Judith Laverne Hopps, and the first rabbit to join the Zootopia Police Department.
Q 02Nick Wilde is what species of animal?
Red fox
His partner in crime Finnick is the fennec fox; Nick is a red fox who ends up as the city's first fox police officer.
Q 03Who provides the voice of Nick Wilde?
Jason Bateman
Jason Bateman voices Nick Wilde; the directors told him not to put on a character voice at all, just to talk in his own dry register.
Q 04Which actress voices Judy Hopps?
Ginnifer Goodwin
Ginnifer Goodwin voices Judy Hopps; Kristen Bell is also in the film, but only in a cameo as Priscilla, one of the sloths.
Q 05In which year was the original Zootopia released in US cinemas?
2016
Zootopia opened in US cinemas on March 4, 2016, and won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the following February.
Q 06What is the name of the rural town Judy comes from?
Bunnyburrow
Judy comes from Bunnyburrow, a farming town whose welcome sign shows a rabbit population ticking past 81 million.
Q 07What kind of animal is Chief Bogo?
Cape buffalo
Chief Bogo is a Cape buffalo; his name comes from 'mbogo', the Swahili word for buffalo.
Q 08Which British actor voices Chief Bogo?
Idris Elba
Idris Elba returned for the 2025 sequel despite a schedule packed with live-action films such as Masters of the Universe.
Q 09In Zootopia, Chief Bogo gives Judy Hopps how long to solve the Otterton case before she must hand in her badge?
48 hours
48 hours, and Bogo only agrees because Assistant Mayor Bellwether is standing right there when Judy volunteers.
Q 10Who is the true mastermind behind the predators going savage in the first film?
Dawn Bellwether
Dawn Bellwether, the meek assistant mayor, runs the plot: night howler serum is shot at predators to turn prey against them so she can seize power.
Q 11What are the 'Night Howlers' that everyone in the film keeps mentioning?
Flowers
Night Howlers are flowers: the toxic blooms Judy's family grows, whose serum makes mammals go savage, not the wolves she first suspects.
Q 12What did Judy and Nick swap into the dart gun in place of the savage serum?
Blueberries
They swap in blueberries from the Hopps farm, so the dart only stains Nick, who fakes going savage while Judy's carrot pen records Bellwether's confession.
Q 13Mr. Big, the crime boss served by polar bears, is what tiny animal?
An arctic shrew
Mr. Big is an arctic shrew, a tiny Brando-style Vito Corleone homage who gets his own Zootopia+ short, 'The Godfather of the Bride'.
Q 21Which country was Zootopia's biggest market outside North America?
China
Known locally as Crazy Animal City, it became the highest-grossing animated film ever released there at the time.
Q 22Which film won the 2017 BAFTA for animated film, a category that snubbed Zootopia?
Kubo and the Two Strings
Kubo and the Two Strings won the BAFTA over Finding Dory and Moana; Zootopia was not nominated, though it took the Oscar, Golden Globe and Annie that season.
Q 23Byron Howard's original pitch that evolved into Zootopia was a spy story about an arctic hare named what?
Jack Savage
The spy was Jack Savage, hero of Howard's 'Savage Seas' pitch, a 1960s-flavoured Bond riff whose animal-city opening act is all that survived into the final film.
Q 14In Zootopia, Flash the sloth works at which agonisingly slow government office?
Department of Mammal Vehicles
The Department of Mammal Vehicles, run entirely by sloths and based on the DMV, was the centrepiece of the second teaser trailer in November 2015.
Q 15Which pop star voices Gazelle and sings the film's song 'Try Everything'?
Shakira
Shakira voices Gazelle, Zootopia's pop-star idol, and performs 'Try Everything', which plays over the film's closing concert.
Q 16Who wrote 'Try Everything'?
Sia and Stargate
'Try Everything' was written by Sia and Stargate, the Norwegian production duo of Tor Hermansen and Mikkel Eriksen, and performed by Shakira as Gazelle.
Q 17Which composer wrote the score for Zootopia?
Michael Giacchino
Michael Giacchino, already a Pixar regular (The Incredibles, Up), scored Zootopia, his first feature for Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Q 18Under what title was Zootopia released in the United Kingdom?
Zootropolis
Disney could not trademark the original name in several territories, partly because a Danish zoo had registered 'Zootopia' in 2010.
Q 19In Germany the film went out under which title?
Zoomania
In Germany the film was released as Zoomania, subtitled 'Ganz schön ausgefuchst!', a third title alongside Zootopia and the UK's Zootropolis.
Q 20Roughly how much did Zootopia gross worldwide?
$1.03 billion
Zootopia grossed about $1.03 billion worldwide, the fourth-highest total of 2016 and only the fourth animated film ever to pass a billion dollars.
Q 24In early versions of the story, which character was the lead, with Judy as the sidekick?
Nick
Nick Wilde was the original lead; in November 2014 the filmmakers made Judy the protagonist, deciding an optimist discovering the city's flaws beat a cynic who already knew them.
Q 25Which classic Disney film did Byron Howard want Zootopia to resemble, with animals in human roles?
Robin Hood
Byron Howard cited 1973's Robin Hood, with foxes and bears in medieval human roles, as the model; he also pitched an all-animal Three Musketeers and a 'bounty hunter pug in space'.
Q 26What was the name of the fur-grooming software Disney's engineers built for the film?
iGroom
The tool was iGroom, built to shape and shade fur strand by strand; Judy and Nick each carry roughly 2.5 million hairs, and a background giraffe about nine million.
Q 27Where did the filmmakers go to study real animals' walk cycles and fur?
Disney's Animal Kingdom, Kenya and San Diego
The research took the crew to Disney's Animal Kingdom, Kenya and San Diego: the Florida park, a safari, and the San Diego Zoo Safari Park; they also put fur under a microscope at Los Angeles's natural history museum.
Q 28Zootopia was the second Disney film rendered with Hyperion. Which was the first?
Big Hero 6
A new fur system was bolted onto the renderer so the animals' dense coats would look right.
Q 29Who voices Zootopia's pompous Mayor Leodore Lionheart?
J. K. Simmons
J. K. Simmons voices Lionheart, the lion mayor who secretly locks up the savage predators to protect both the public and his own career.
Q 30Duke Weaselton's name is a nod to a character from which earlier Disney film?
Frozen
Alan Tudyk voiced the Duke of Weselton in Frozen; in Zootopia he voices Duke Weaselton, who corrects Judy's 'Weselton' in a reversal of the old gag.