Q 01/05

In The Good Dinosaur, Arlo is which long-necked species, lumped together with Brontosaurus for over a century?

A) Brachiosaurus

B) Diplodocus

C) Argentinosaurus

D) Apatosaurus

Answer · why

D) Apatosaurus

Apatosaurus is Arlo's kind. Pixar's notes size him at 18 feet tall and about 6 tons, huge by our standards yet small for the film: they put Poppa at 4...

Q 02/05

In The Good Dinosaur, what does Poppa show Arlo in a field at night to coax him past his fears?

A) Shooting stars

B) Fireflies

C) The northern lights

D) A full moon

Answer · why

B) Fireflies

Fireflies, which rise glowing out of the dark grass. Later Arlo chases them again with Spot, a bittersweet echo of those nights with the father he has...

Q 03/05

Peter Sohn, who directed The Good Dinosaur, later drew on his immigrant parents' lives for which Pixar love story?

A) Luca

B) Turning Red

C) Elemental

D) Coco

Answer · why

C) Elemental

Elemental grew out of Sohn's New York childhood as the son of Korean immigrants. He had been handed The Good Dinosaur in 2014, after its original dire...

Q 04/05

In The Good Dinosaur, what does Arlo do when the critter trap he is guarding catches a wild boy?

A) Sets him free

B) Hides him away

C) Runs to fetch Poppa

D) Shares his food

Answer · why

A) Sets him free

Sets him free: told to finish off the thief, Arlo cannot bring himself to do it. A furious Poppa marches him out to hunt the boy down, the trip that c...

Q 05/05

What alternate-history twist sets up The Good Dinosaur's world?

A) The Ice Age never comes

B) The extinction asteroid misses Earth

C) The continents never drift apart

D) Volcanoes never darken the skies

Answer · why

B) The extinction asteroid misses Earth

The extinction asteroid misses Earth in the opening scene, so the dinosaurs never die out. Millions of years on, the plant-eaters have turned farmer a...