Inside Out Trivia: 40+ Questions About Your Emotions

Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust. Each emotion has a distinct color: Joy is yellow, Sadness is blue, Anger is red, Fear is purple, and Disgust is green.

Joy, voiced by Amy Poehler. Joy is the self-appointed leader who tries to keep Riley happy at all times.

Sadness, voiced by Phyllis Smith. Sadness is often misunderstood but ultimately proves essential to Riley's emotional well-being.

Anger, voiced by Lewis Black. Anger has a fiery temper and his head literally bursts into flames when he gets really angry.

Fear, voiced by Bill Hader. Fear's job is to keep Riley safe by anticipating worst-case scenarios.

Disgust, voiced by Mindy Kaling. Disgust protects Riley from things that are literally and socially poisonous.

To keep Riley happy and prevent Sadness from touching any of Riley's memories. Joy believes Riley must always be joyful.

That Sadness is necessary and vital. Sadness helps Riley process difficult emotions and connect with others when she needs support most.

Anger suggests Riley run away back to Minnesota. He plants the idea that she can be happy again by returning to her old home.

Disgust provokes Anger until his head flames up, allowing her to use the fire to cut through the glass window. This lets Joy return to Headquarters.

Fear questions whether the upgraded console has a "panic button." He remains anxious even as things change.

Joy lets Sadness take control of the console and restore Riley's core memories, turning them from pure gold to blue-and-gold. This shows that joy and sadness can coexist.

The remaining emotions — Anger, Fear, and Disgust — try to operate the console together, but Anger increasingly dominates the decision-making.

The memory orbs glow in the color of the emotion that created them. Joy's memories are golden yellow, Sadness's are blue, and so on.

Joy realizes that one of Riley's happiest core memories (hockey with her family) was preceded by a sad moment. This teaches her that sadness creates the space for joy and connection.

Riley is an 11-year-old girl from Minnesota whose family moves to San Francisco. The film takes place largely inside her mind as she processes this big change.

Hockey. Riley played on a team in Minnesota and dreamed of making the Fog Horns, her new San Francisco team.

Bing Bong is Riley's imaginary friend from early childhood. He is a pink, elephant-cat-dolphin hybrid made of cotton candy who cries candy tears.

"Take her to the moon for me." He says this to Joy as he sacrifices himself in the Memory Dump so she can escape.

Goofball Island, Hockey Island, Friendship Island, Honesty Island, and Family Island. They are powered by core memories and represent key aspects of Riley's identity.

They begin to collapse one by one as Joy and Sadness are lost and Riley loses her emotional connections. Family Island is the last one to fall.

A deep chasm where faded memories are thrown away and forgotten forever. It is located at the bottom of Riley's mind.

The control center inside Riley's mind where the emotions live and operate a console. It is where all of Riley's reactions and decisions are managed.

Special glowing memory orbs that power the Personality Islands. They represent formative moments in Riley's life and are stored in a dedicated orb holder in Headquarters.

They are accidentally sucked out of Headquarters through a memory tube. They must journey through the labyrinth of Riley's mind to get back.

A literal train that runs on tracks throughout Riley's mind, representing her stream of consciousness. Joy and Sadness try to use it to get back to Headquarters.

Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong get caught in Abstract Thought, where they are deconstructed into simplified shapes — first Picasso-style, then flat 2D, then simple geometric forms.

A character from Riley's dreams who makes a brief appearance in Dream Productions. She became a popular meme among fans.

Riley's emotions work together at an upgraded console as she enters a new phase of life. New islands form, including a multicolored one representing mixed emotions.

Yes — brief glimpses inside Mom's and Dad's minds show their own teams of emotions. Mom's emotions sit around like a committee, and Dad's are watching a sports game.

Pete Docter, with co-direction by Ronnie del Carmen. Docter was inspired by observing his daughter's changing emotions as she grew older.

2015. It premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and was released in theaters on June 19, 2015.

Yes — it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. It was also nominated for Best Original Screenplay, a rare honor for an animated film.

It won the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature, the BAFTA for Best Animated Film, and numerous critics' awards. It was widely considered one of the best films of 2015.

Michael Giacchino. He also composed scores for Up, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Coco.

He was inspired by watching his own daughter Elle's personality change as she grew from a joyful child into a more reserved pre-teen. He wanted to understand what was going on inside her head.

Over $858 million worldwide. It was a massive commercial and critical success for Pixar.

Pixar Animation Studios. It was Pixar's 15th feature film and is widely regarded as one of their best works.

They consulted psychologists and neuroscientists, including Dr. Paul Ekman, a pioneer in the study of emotions. The filmmakers wanted to ground the story in real emotional science.

The multicolored core memories represent the idea that emotions are complex and mixed. It symbolizes Riley's emotional maturity — she can feel joy and sadness simultaneously.

June 2024. It became one of Pixar's highest-grossing films, earning over $1.6 billion worldwide.

Anxiety, voiced by Maya Hawke. Anxiety arrives with a team of planners trying to prepare Riley for every possible future scenario.

Envy (voiced by Ayo Edebiri), Embarrassment (voiced by Paul Walter Hauser), and Ennui (voiced by Adèle Exarchopoulos). They join the original five emotions.

13 years old. She has entered puberty and is dealing with the social pressures of being a teenager and attending hockey camp.

Anxiety tries to completely rewire Riley's sense of self by planting anxious thoughts and creating an overwhelming number of future scenarios. She eventually learns that the original emotions are still needed.