Question 1

What brings Dean to the house where Marcel lives?

Accepted Answer

He rents it as an Airbnb after his marriage falls apart.

Question 2

What does Dean do for a living?

Accepted Answer

Documentary filmmaker

Question 3

About how tall is Marcel?

Accepted Answer

One inch

Question 4

Who is the only other shell living in the house when Dean arrives?

Accepted Answer

His grandmother, Nana Connie

Question 5

What is Alan?

Accepted Answer

A piece of lint that Marcel keeps on a string and treats like a pet

Question 6

How does Marcel get around the house quickly?

Accepted Answer

Rolling around inside a hollowed-out tennis ball

Question 7

How does Marcel harvest fruit from the tree in the yard?

Accepted Answer

He rigs a household appliance to the tree so its shaking knocks the fruit l

Question 8

What television show is sacred to Marcel and Connie?

Accepted Answer

60 Minutes

Question 9

Which correspondent from that show do Marcel and Connie idolize?

Accepted Answer

Lesley Stahl

Question 10

Back when the whole shell community lived in the house, when did they gather to watch the show together?

Accepted Answer

Sunday nights

Question 11

What are the names of the human couple who lived in the house before Dean?

Accepted Answer

Mark and Larissa

Question 12

Where did the shells hide whenever Mark and Larissa started fighting?

Accepted Answer

Inside a sock drawer

Question 13

How did Marcel's community end up disappearing?

Accepted Answer

Mark packed up his things as he moved out and unknowingly took them with him.

Question 14

What does Marcel keep around the house to remember his missing relatives?

Accepted Answer

Small handmade figures of each of them

Question 15

Which relatives does Marcel name among the lost community?

Accepted Answer

His parents, his brother, and his aunt

Question 16

Who tends the garden, and with what help?

Accepted Answer

Connie, with insects she has befriended

Question 17

What is increasingly wrong with Connie as the film goes on?

Accepted Answer

She is growing forgetful and physically fragile.

Question 18

Where does Dean post his first video of Marcel?

Accepted Answer

YouTube

Question 19

What happens to that video?

Accepted Answer

It goes massively viral and gets picked up by television hosts.

Question 20

How does Marcel sum up the crowd that finds him online?

Accepted Answer

"It's an audience. It's not a community."

Question 21

What does Marcel do to enlist his new followers in the search for his family?

Accepted Answer

He starts a livestream appeal and gives out his location.

Question 22

What do most of the people who turn up at the house actually want?

Accepted Answer

Selfies and content

Question 23

What are Dean and Marcel hunting for when they drive around town?

Accepted Answer

Mark's car

Question 24

How does Marcel handle the drive around town?

Accepted Answer

He gets carsick and is overwhelmed by how enormous the world is.

Question 25

What has happened to Connie by the time Marcel gets home?

Accepted Answer

She has fallen from the washing machine and cracked her shell.

Question 26

Why does Marcel initially turn down the 60 Minutes interview?

Accepted Answer

He is worried about Connie's health and will not do it until she recovers.

Question 27

How does Connie get Marcel to say yes to the interview?

Accepted Answer

She acts as though she is feeling better and pushes him to take the chance.

Question 28

When does Connie die?

Accepted Answer

Around the 60 Minutes shoot, discovered once the filming is done

Question 29

Where does Marcel lay Connie to rest?

Accepted Answer

In her garden

Question 30

How is Marcel's family finally recovered?

Accepted Answer

The broadcast leads the crew to Larissa in Guatemala, who takes them to Mark's house, where the shells are found in his sock drawer.

The Ultimate Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Trivia Quiz

2) What does Dean do for a living?

3) About how tall is Marcel?

4) Who is the only other shell living in the house when Dean arrives?

5) What is Alan?

6) How does Marcel get around the house quickly?

7) How does Marcel harvest fruit from the tree in the yard?

8) What television show is sacred to Marcel and Connie?

9) Which correspondent from that show do Marcel and Connie idolize?

10) Back when the whole shell community lived in the house, when did they gather to watch the show together?

11) What are the names of the human couple who lived in the house before Dean?

12) Where did the shells hide whenever Mark and Larissa started fighting?

13) How did Marcel's community end up disappearing?

14) What does Marcel keep around the house to remember his missing relatives?

15) Which relatives does Marcel name among the lost community?

16) Who tends the garden, and with what help?

17) What is increasingly wrong with Connie as the film goes on?

18) Where does Dean post his first video of Marcel?

19) What happens to that video?

20) How does Marcel sum up the crowd that finds him online?

21) What does Marcel do to enlist his new followers in the search for his family?

22) What do most of the people who turn up at the house actually want?

23) What are Dean and Marcel hunting for when they drive around town?

24) How does Marcel handle the drive around town?

25) What has happened to Connie by the time Marcel gets home?

26) Why does Marcel initially turn down the 60 Minutes interview?

27) How does Connie get Marcel to say yes to the interview?

28) When does Connie die?

29) Where does Marcel lay Connie to rest?

30) How is Marcel's family finally recovered?