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Finding Nemo Quiz: Go Looking for the Details

The big scenes are easy to remember. How many of the little details stayed with you?

Published 2026-10-24 Updated 2026-10-24 15 questions

Finding Nemo: The Ocean Is Big. Dad Is Worried.

A cautious father is forced far beyond his comfort zone when his child goes missing. His search pairs him with a cheerful stranger who is much better at making friends than following a tidy plan. Every new stretch of water brings another strange encounter. Meanwhile, the youngster has challenges of his own and may be more capable than his dad ever allowed him to prove.

Take a deep breath. Some of these memories are swimming just below the surface.

1. What kind of fish is Nemo?
- A clownfish
- An angelfish
- A goldfish
- A swordfish
Nemo and his father are clownfish living in a sea anemone, whose stings they are immune to, which is why the opening scenes are set in one. Nemo's small right fin, his lucky fin, dates from the barracuda attack that damaged his egg before he hatched.
2. What is Nemo's father called?
- Merlin
- Marlowe
- Martin
- Marlin
Marlin loses his wife Coral and every other egg to a barracuda in the opening minutes, and raises the one survivor as if the whole ocean were out to get him. The joke in the name is that a marlin is a large game fish and he is a very small one.
3. Who voices Marlin?
- Richard Dreyfuss
- Albert Brooks
- Eugene Levy
- Billy Crystal
Brooks, the writer and director of Lost in America, had made a career of anxious men, and he was not the first choice: William H. Macy had recorded the entire part before the filmmakers replaced him. Eugene Levy voiced a fish parent of his own in the sequel.
4. What is the name of Marlin's forgetful traveling companion?
- Daisy
- Deb
- Dory
- Darla
Dory announces her short-term memory loss to everyone she meets and then forgets she has said it, yet she is the one who remembers the address. Deb is the tank fish convinced her reflection is her sister Flo, and Daisy belongs to nobody in the film.
5. Who voices Dory?
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Allison Janney
- Bonnie Hunt
Andrew Stanton wrote the part after hearing DeGeneres change the subject several times in a single sentence on her sitcom, and the role arrived when her career was at a low point. She lobbied for a sequel for years and got Finding Dory in 2016.
6. What kind of fish is Dory?
- A blue marlin
- A blue gourami
- A bluefin tuna
- A blue tang
The regal blue tang is a reef fish from the Indian and Pacific oceans, and the film's success sent demand for them as pets soaring, awkwardly, since they are hard to breed in captivity. A blue marlin is a billfish the size of a small boat.
7. Which Australian city does the search lead to?
- Sydney
- Melbourne
- Perth
- Brisbane
Dory reads the address off the diver's mask and clings to it all the way across the ocean: P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. There is no Wallaby Way in the real city, but the harbor and the Opera House are visible from the office window.
8. What is the profession of the man who keeps Nemo in a fish tank?
- Barber
- Veterinarian
- Dentist
- Optician
Philip Sherman, a diver as well as a dentist, scooped Nemo off the reef as a present for his niece. The tank gang includes Gill, Bloat the puffer, Peach the starfish who narrates the root canals, and Jacques, a cleaner shrimp with a French accent.
9. What is the dentist's niece called?
- Daphne
- Dory
- Debbie
- Darla
Darla, with her braces and headgear, shook her last fish to death, and the tank gang treats her arrival like a horror film, complete with screeching Psycho strings. Nemo plays dead in hope of being flushed, and Gill flips him into the spit sink.
10. What is the great white shark's name?
- Boris
- Bruno
- Bruce
- Barry
Bruce is named after the mechanical shark in Jaws, which Spielberg's crew had nicknamed after his lawyer. He runs a support group with Anchor and Chum under the motto 'Fish are friends, not food', and keeps to it until Dory's nosebleed hits the water.
11. What is the laid-back sea turtle called?
- Crush
- Drift
- Crash
- Flash
Crush is a hundred and fifty years old and voiced by the film's director, Andrew Stanton, who also did the seagulls. Watching Crush let his son tumble out of the current and find his own way back is what starts Marlin loosening his grip.
12. What is Crush's son called?
- Skip
- Sprout
- Splash
- Squirt
Squirt is voiced by Nicholas Bird, the son of the Pixar director Brad Bird, and turns up at the end as an exchange student in Nemo's class with Mr Ray. His father's unbothered reaction to losing him in the current is the lesson Marlin needs.
13. Which current do the turtles ride?
- The California Current
- The East Australian Current
- The Gulf Stream
- The Humboldt Current
The East Australian Current is real, a warm flow down the east coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, and the film turns it into a turtle highway. The Gulf Stream is its Atlantic counterpart, and the other two run off the Americas.
14. Who voices Gill, the scarred leader of the tank fish?
- John Malkovich
- Christopher Walken
- Steve Buscemi
- Willem Dafoe
Gill is a Moorish idol with a torn fin and a scarred face from his many escape attempts, and his plan is to jam the filter so the tank gets dirty enough to be cleaned by hand. Dafoe had played the Green Goblin in Spider-Man the year before.
15. What word do the seagulls repeatedly shout?
- Fish!
- Mine!
- Here!
- Food!
The gulls mob anything edible while shouting it, and spend their scene chasing Nigel the pelican, voiced by Geoffrey Rush, who carries Marlin and Dory to the dentist's office in his beak. The gag was popular enough to come back in Finding Dory.

All the answers

1. What kind of fish is Nemo?

A clownfish

Nemo and his father are clownfish living in a sea anemone, whose stings they are immune to, which is why the opening scenes are set in one. Nemo's small right fin, his lucky fin, dates from the barracuda attack that damaged his egg before he hatched.
2. What is Nemo's father called?

Marlin

Marlin loses his wife Coral and every other egg to a barracuda in the opening minutes, and raises the one survivor as if the whole ocean were out to get him. The joke in the name is that a marlin is a large game fish and he is a very small one.
3. Who voices Marlin?

Albert Brooks

Brooks, the writer and director of Lost in America, had made a career of anxious men, and he was not the first choice: William H. Macy had recorded the entire part before the filmmakers replaced him. Eugene Levy voiced a fish parent of his own in the sequel.
4. What is the name of Marlin's forgetful traveling companion?

Dory

Dory announces her short-term memory loss to everyone she meets and then forgets she has said it, yet she is the one who remembers the address. Deb is the tank fish convinced her reflection is her sister Flo, and Daisy belongs to nobody in the film.
5. Who voices Dory?

Ellen DeGeneres

Andrew Stanton wrote the part after hearing DeGeneres change the subject several times in a single sentence on her sitcom, and the role arrived when her career was at a low point. She lobbied for a sequel for years and got Finding Dory in 2016.
6. What kind of fish is Dory?

A blue tang

The regal blue tang is a reef fish from the Indian and Pacific oceans, and the film's success sent demand for them as pets soaring, awkwardly, since they are hard to breed in captivity. A blue marlin is a billfish the size of a small boat.
7. Which Australian city does the search lead to?

Sydney

Dory reads the address off the diver's mask and clings to it all the way across the ocean: P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney. There is no Wallaby Way in the real city, but the harbor and the Opera House are visible from the office window.
8. What is the profession of the man who keeps Nemo in a fish tank?

Dentist

Philip Sherman, a diver as well as a dentist, scooped Nemo off the reef as a present for his niece. The tank gang includes Gill, Bloat the puffer, Peach the starfish who narrates the root canals, and Jacques, a cleaner shrimp with a French accent.
9. What is the dentist's niece called?

Darla

Darla, with her braces and headgear, shook her last fish to death, and the tank gang treats her arrival like a horror film, complete with screeching Psycho strings. Nemo plays dead in hope of being flushed, and Gill flips him into the spit sink.
10. What is the great white shark's name?

Bruce

Bruce is named after the mechanical shark in Jaws, which Spielberg's crew had nicknamed after his lawyer. He runs a support group with Anchor and Chum under the motto 'Fish are friends, not food', and keeps to it until Dory's nosebleed hits the water.
11. What is the laid-back sea turtle called?

Crush

Crush is a hundred and fifty years old and voiced by the film's director, Andrew Stanton, who also did the seagulls. Watching Crush let his son tumble out of the current and find his own way back is what starts Marlin loosening his grip.
12. What is Crush's son called?

Squirt

Squirt is voiced by Nicholas Bird, the son of the Pixar director Brad Bird, and turns up at the end as an exchange student in Nemo's class with Mr Ray. His father's unbothered reaction to losing him in the current is the lesson Marlin needs.
13. Which current do the turtles ride?

The East Australian Current

The East Australian Current is real, a warm flow down the east coast of Australia from the Coral Sea, and the film turns it into a turtle highway. The Gulf Stream is its Atlantic counterpart, and the other two run off the Americas.
14. Who voices Gill, the scarred leader of the tank fish?

Willem Dafoe

Gill is a Moorish idol with a torn fin and a scarred face from his many escape attempts, and his plan is to jam the filter so the tank gets dirty enough to be cleaned by hand. Dafoe had played the Green Goblin in Spider-Man the year before.
15. What word do the seagulls repeatedly shout?

Mine!

The gulls mob anything edible while shouting it, and spend their scene chasing Nigel the pelican, voiced by Geoffrey Rush, who carries Marlin and Dory to the dentist's office in his beak. The gag was popular enough to come back in Finding Dory.