Losing the Plot Trivia Quiz

Answer: A villain and his sidekick try to steal the moon by using a shrink-ray.

This animated film featured the voice of Steve Carrell as the villain, Gru, with Russell Brand voicing his sidekick scientist, Dr Nefario. The film plot saw arch villain Vector steal the Great Pyramid of Giza. Gru wanted to be more despicable (hence the title), so planned to steal the moon by using a shrink-ray, but his guilty conscience stirred when Vector kidnapped three orphan girls and held them for ransom.

It was the first film made at the Illumination Entertainment studios who since went on to make the successful 2013 sequel, "Despicable Me 2".

Answer: An old man turned his house into a flying airship using hundreds of helium filled balloons.

This Walt Disney film produced by Pixar featured an old widower called Mr Fredrickson, voiced by Ed Asner. This colourful production had a cute storyline and included several comedic characters including a boy called Russell, a squawking bird called Kevin, and a talking dog called Dug. Mr Fredrickson, Carl, was recently widowed, and following on from a promise he made to his dead wife, he went on a journey to the beautiful Paradise Falls. To do this, he attached hundreds of colourful helium filled balloons to his house then flew towards his destination, encountering many mishaps along the way.

Answer: Scientist Flint Lockwood's machine turned falling rain into cheeseburgers.

The idea for the film "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" (2009) was based on the book written by Judi and Ron Barrett. Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader), who lived with his monkey, Steve (Neil Patrick Harris), devised a machine which turned water into food. Cheeseburgers rained from the sky! A giant meatball in the sky was building ominously overhead, and Flint was able to divert disaster with the help of trainee weather forecaster, Sam (Anna Faris).

Answer: A young Scottish princess ran away into a forest when she refused to marry a suitor.

Featuring Kelly Macdonald (Merida), Emma Thompson (Queen Elinor) and a host of ghost lights called will-o'-the wisps, the brave but very proud young Scottish Princess caused mayhem when she refused to marry a suitor. Instead she ran away to the forest. Because of her pride, a spell was cast over her mother, and it was up to young Merida to stop Queen Elinor from permanently turning into a bear.

This Pixar/Walt Disney collaboration also featured the voices of Billy Connolly and Julie Walters as the King and the witch.

Answer: Rapunzel

This Walt Disney film was loosely based on the fairy-tale written by the Grimm brothers and featured a stellar cast including Mandy Moore as Rapunzel, Zachary Levi as Flynn Rider and Donna Murphy as Gothel. Gothel had kidnapped the young Rapunzel and locked her in a tower because her long golden hair had healing properties which could give the wicked enchantress immortality. Along came Flynn the thief who stumbled across the tower by accident.

Answer: Two families feuding on different sides of a garden fence.

This British film was distributed worldwide by Walt Disney Studios. The main characters were loosely based on the William Shakespeare play, "Romeo and Juliet", but as gnomes and not humans. Gnomeo and Juliet, voiced by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt, lived on opposite sides of the fence along with their feuding family.

Their love flourished under the watchful eyes of Featherstone the flamingo (Jim Cummings). Patrick Stewart voiced the statue of William Shakespeare.

Answer: A human boy infiltrated a hotel and fell in love with a vampire's daughter.

Many monsters appeared in the Sony Pictures film "Hotel Transylvania". Monsters from around the world went on holiday to a newly opened hotel built by Count Dracula. Count Dracula (Adam Sandler) built the hotel after the death of his wife, and was very protective over his young 118 year old daughter.

More so when a young human boy infiltrated the hotel grounds and the two fell in love. Kevin James voiced Frankenstein with Jon Lovitz as Quasimodo.

Answer: A family of cavemen became homeless after their cave was destroyed in a earthquake.

Eep, voiced by Emma Stone, was made homeless along with her father Grug (Nicolas Cage), mother, brother, sister and gran. During their hunt for a new home, they encountered a cave boy called Guy (Ryan Reynolds) with his pet sloth, Belt (Chris Sanders). Chased by Chunky the sabre-tooth cat, the family split up and Grug, aided by Chunky, managed to escape across a ravine where the family were reunited.

Answer: A princess accidently used her magical abilities to make her kingdom live in an eternal winter.

Princess Elsa (Idina Menzel) had the ability to create ice and snow and this caused a split between her and her younger sister, Princess Anna (Kristin Bell). An eternal winter gripped the kingdom and Elsa ran away to live in an ice palace. Anna, along with her snowman, Olaf (Josh Gad), tried to find her sister with the help of a mountain man and his reindeer, Sven. Also assisting was a group of trolls led by Grand Pabbie the Troll King (Ciaran Hinds).

Answer: A blue macaw was captured by an evil cockatoo.

"Rio" featured a plethora of loud and colourful birds and animals. Along with a chirpy soundtrack, the star of the film was Blu, a blue macaw voiced by Jesse Eisenberg. After being smuggled into North America, Blu was found by a young girl called Linda Gunderson (Leslie Mann) and the two developed a loving bond into adulthood.

When he was old enough, she took Blu back to Brazil where he was to be mated with another macaw because he was the last of his species. Because of this, he had a high price tag and was kidnapped by a group of marmosets on behalf of an evil cockatoo. Blu's new friends Pedro and Nico, voiced by will.i.am and Jamie Foxx, came to his rescue.