Q 01/05

Which whispered line opens Kubo and the Two Strings?

A) Memories are powerful things

B) If you must blink, do it now

C) Your story will never end

D) All stories have an end

Answer · why

B) If you must blink, do it now

If you must blink, do it now. Kubo whispers the warning over a black screen before the first image, then shouts it again in the village square as he b...

Q 02/05

Travis Knight followed Kubo, his directing debut, with which live-action Transformers film?

A) Age of Extinction

B) The Last Knight

C) Bumblebee

D) Dark of the Moon

Answer · why

C) Bumblebee

Bumblebee. For his first live-action film, Kubo's director set the story in 1987 and stripped the robots back to the look of the original 1980s toys a...

Q 03/05

Which animation technique is Kubo and the Two Strings mainly made with?

A) Motion capture

B) Rotoscoping

C) Cel animation

D) Stop-motion

Answer · why

D) Stop-motion

Stop-motion. Animators posed real puppets one frame at a time and swapped in 3D-printed faces for each expression, while computers filled in the backg...

Q 04/05

What magical instrument does Kubo play?

A) Koto

B) Biwa

C) Shamisen

D) Shakuhachi

Answer · why

C) Shamisen

Shamisen. The three-stringed Japanese lute is played with a large pick called a bachi, and Kubo snaps two of its strings in the blast that defeats one...

Q 05/05

Who took Kubo's left eye when he was a baby?

A) The giant skeleton

B) The Moon King

C) Hanzo

D) The Garden of Eyes

Answer · why

B) The Moon King

The Moon King. He is Kubo's own grandfather, and he wants the other eye too, so the boy will be blind to humanity and take a place beside him, immorta...

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