Q 01/05

Which kind of insect is Manny, the English-accented circus magician in A Bug's Life?

A) A cockroach

B) A praying mantis

C) A dragonfly

D) A giant water bug

Answer · why

B) A praying mantis

A praying mantis. Real female mantises sometimes eat their mates during or after mating.

Q 02/05

Which Aesop fable inspired the plot?

A) The Lion and the Mouse

B) The Tortoise and the Hare

C) The Ant and the Grasshopper

D) The Fox and the Grapes

Answer · why

C) The Ant and the Grasshopper

Stanton and Ranft's twist was that the grasshopper would come back with a gang and simply take the food.

Q 03/05

Who voices Flik, the clumsy inventor ant in A Bug's Life?

A) David Spade

B) Dave Foley

C) Matthew Broderick

D) Jason Alexander

Answer · why

B) Dave Foley

Dave Foley. The circus bugs Flik recruits think he is a talent agent, while he mistakes them for warriors.

Q 04/05

Who voices Hopper, the grasshopper gang leader in A Bug's Life?

A) Kevin Spacey

B) Robert De Niro

C) Alec Baldwin

D) James Woods

Answer · why

A) Kevin Spacey

Kevin Spacey. Lasseter's first choice, Robert De Niro, repeatedly turned the part down before Spacey signed on.

Q 05/05

Who voices Princess Atta, the colony's nervous heir in A Bug's Life?

A) Edie McClurg

B) Sarah Jessica Parker

C) Andrea Martin

D) Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Answer · why

D) Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus. When Flik's 'warriors' turn out to be circus performers, Atta tells him and the troupe to leave.