172 Fun Facts About Frozen

Frozen is loosely inspired by which 1844 Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale?

The Snow Queen: in Andersen's tale a girl treks north to rescue a boy the icy queen has carried off, where Disney's film sends a princess after her own sister.

Which Disney couple can be glimpsed arriving at the castle for Elsa's coronation in Frozen?

Rapunzel and Flynn Rider slip through the castle gates in the crowd, on screen for only a moment, just as Anna runs out singing.

Early in Frozen, what does little Anna say is awake, so she has to be too?

The sky: Anna pesters Elsa out of bed and down to the ballroom to play, and the game ends in the accident that drives the sisters apart.

In Frozen, what is the name of Kristoff's loyal companion?

Sven is Kristoff's reindeer and best friend; Kristoff supplies Sven's side of their conversations himself, in a goofy put-on voice.

At the end of Frozen, what does Elsa turn into an ice rink for the townspeople?

The castle courtyard: this time Elsa freezes it on purpose, then conjures skates onto Anna's boots and promises never to shut the gates again.

In Frozen, what do Kristoff's adoptive family try to do within minutes of meeting Anna?

Marry the pair off: the song 'Fixer Upper' is their matchmaking pitch, and a priest is partway through the vows when Anna collapses, freezing from within.

In Frozen, what does Anna collide with just before meeting Hans?

His horse: Anna falls back into a small boat on the dock, and when the horse copies Hans's bow the boat tips and throws the pair together.

In Frozen, what is the name of the massive snow monster Elsa creates to guard her ice palace?

Marshmallow survives his fall into the gorge: after the credits he limps back into the ice palace, finds the tiara Elsa threw away and crowns himself with it.

In Frozen, what does Olaf long to experience in his big solo song?

Olaf dreams of summer; his solo song 'In Summer' has him picturing sunbathing and tanning, blissfully unaware of what heat does to snow.

In Frozen, what mark does Anna's childhood accident leave?

A white hair streak: Anna tells Hans she was born with it, because her memory of the accident was erased, and it vanishes when she thaws at the end.

Who is the deceptive royal suitor who proposes to Anna on the day they meet?

Hans, a younger prince of the Southern Isles with no prospect of inheriting, sees marrying into Arendelle as his only route to a crown and proposes the night he meets Anna.

In Frozen, what 'act of true love' finally thaws Anna?

Shielding Elsa: with Kristoff racing across the ice to kiss her, Anna turns away and steps in front of her sister instead, giving up her own cure.

In 'Frozen II', what mythical water spirit does Elsa encounter and eventually tame?

The Nokk, a water spirit in the form of a horse, guards the Dark Sea; Elsa tames it and later rides it back to Arendelle to freeze the flood wave.

In Frozen, which mantra does Elsa's father teach her to keep her powers in check?

'Conceal, don't feel' backfires: the harder Elsa bottles up her fear, the wilder her powers grow, until she throws the advice away on the mountain.

In 'Love Is an Open Door', which food does Anna blurt out to finish Hans's line?

Sandwiches: Hans sings that they finish each other's, plainly expecting 'sentences', and when Anna says it he claims that is just what he was going to say.

Which song does a crew of workmen sing in the opening scene of Frozen?

Frozen Heart is the ice harvesters' work chant as they saw blocks from a frozen lake, while a small boy and his reindeer calf tag along trying to copy them.

In 'Frozen II', what small, adorable fire spirit does Elsa befriend?

Bruni is a tiny salamander who sets the forest ablaze in a panic, then settles the moment Elsa lets him cool down on a handful of snow.

In Frozen, Elsa's eternal winter falls on Arendelle in the middle of which month?

July: an onlooker gasps that it is snowing in July, and the trading post's owner is left pushing half-price swimsuits in a blizzard.

Which Frozen short sends the snowman out hunting for holiday traditions for Anna and Elsa?

Olaf's Frozen Adventure was made as a television special for ABC, then promoted to cinemas, where its 21 minutes played ahead of a Pixar feature.

In Frozen, what does Olaf do for the freezing Anna after Hans locks her in the library?

Lights a fire: Olaf starts to melt beside it but will not leave her, telling Anna that some people are worth melting for.

In Frozen, what kind of creatures are Grand Pabbie and his family?

Trolls: Grand Pabbie's clan can curl up into mossy boulders, and one of them adopted Kristoff as a boy the night he wandered into their valley.

In Frozen, what is the name of the trading post owner Anna buys her winter gear from?

Oaken rises to his full towering height when Kristoff calls him a crook, carries him out under one arm and dumps him in the snow.

What happens to Elsa and Anna's parents early in the first Frozen film?

They die in a shipwreck, and the sequel finds the wreck itself, along with a map showing where the couple were really heading.

What does Anna give Kristoff at the end of the first Frozen film?

A new sled replaces the one Kristoff lost in the wolf chase, when it plunged into a gorge and burst into flames just after he had paid it off.

What is Elsa discovered to be in 'Frozen II', connecting her to the spirits of the Enchanted Forest?

The Fifth Spirit: Elsa also learns that the voice calling her north was an echo of a call her own mother made decades earlier.

Which instrument does Kristoff play as he sings to his reindeer in Frozen?

A lute: it also serves as a weapon in the wolf chase, when Anna grabs it and swings it past Kristoff's head to knock a wolf off the sled.

In Frozen, what does Elsa hold alongside a sceptre at her coronation?

An orb and a sceptre: frost starts creeping across both as Elsa holds them, so she puts them down the instant the bishop finishes his proclamation.

In Frozen, what does young Elsa wear to keep her powers hidden after the accident?

Elsa's father gives her gloves to hold her magic in; Anna yanks one off at the coronation party, and Elsa flings the other away during 'Let It Go'.

In 'Frozen II', what large, rock-like creatures are part of the elemental spirits?

The Earth Giants sleep by day beside the river, looking like rocky hills; Anna later wakes them on purpose so that they will chase her, hurling boulders.

In Frozen, on which mountain does Elsa build her ice palace?

The North Mountain is where Anna orders Kristoff to take her that same night: he says they leave at dawn, and she tells him they leave right now.

In Frozen II, which claim does Olaf keep repeating that turns out to matter to the plot?

Water has memory: Olaf's odd fact explains why the ice figures Elsa conjures in the forest replay moments from her father's past.

Who is the voice actor for Kristoff in 'Frozen'?

Jonathan Groff, a Broadway star, got only about fifty seconds of singing in the first film; the sequel made amends with a full power ballad.

Which song does Anna sing on Coronation Day in Frozen, giddy about the castle gates opening?

'For the First Time in Forever' returns as a reprise at the ice palace, where Anna's pleading tips Elsa into the panic that sends ice into her sister's heart.

In Frozen, which coronation guest calls Elsa a monster and sends two guards after her?

The Duke of Weselton ends the film humiliated: Arendelle cuts off all trade with his duchy, which the court keeps calling 'Weaseltown' however often he corrects them.

In Frozen, what does Elsa create for Olaf so that he can survive the thaw?

A snow cloud hovers over him wherever he goes; the sequel later gives him permafrost instead.

What is the name of the wind spirit in 'Frozen II'?

Gale had no name until Olaf picked one on the spot, moments after the spirit's whirlwind had flung the whole party about.

Which director co-directed both 'Frozen' and 'Frozen II'?

Chris Buck named the sequel's reindeer herder Ryder after his eldest son, who died a month before the first film opened.

In Frozen, which treat do Anna and Elsa name in unison at the coronation party?

Chocolate: the sisters catch the smell at the same moment and say it together, then laugh, their first easy exchange after years of closed doors.

In the Frozen films, what is the name of Elsa and Anna's mother?

Queen Iduna opens Frozen II in a flashback, singing her young daughters a lullaby about a river that holds every answer about the past.

In Frozen, which treat does Kristoff fail to bring back for his reindeer from the trading post?

Carrots: Kristoff is thrown out before he can pay, so Anna buys them with the rest of his supplies and tosses the lot at him as the price of a guide.

In Frozen II, what ancestral river is said to hold all the answers of the past?

Ahtohallan turns out to be a glacier, a river of ice, and deep inside it frozen figures replay the past for Elsa.

Which Frozen II song does Elsa sing as she reaches the voice's source?

'Show Yourself' builds to Elsa meeting a vision of her mother, who joins in the song at its climax.

In Frozen, what does Elsa accidentally strike young Anna with, leading to her memory being altered?

A blast of magic catches Anna on the head; Grand Pabbie heals her but removes every memory of her sister's powers, so she grows up baffled at being shut out.

In which Frozen short does Elsa accidentally create a horde of tiny snowmen?

Frozen Fever (2015) has Elsa, nursing a cold on Anna's birthday, sneezing out tiny 'Snowgies' while insisting she does not get colds.

In Frozen II, what does Olaf act out at top speed for the people trapped in the forest?

The plot of the first film: Olaf plays every part himself, and after the credits he gives the sequel the same treatment for an audience of snowmen.

In Frozen, which historical heroine's portrait does lonely Anna tell to 'hang in there'?

Joan of Arc: with Elsa shut in her room, Anna has only the castle's paintings to talk to, and she greets this one mid-verse in 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?'

In Frozen, how does young Elsa answer when Anna first sings through her bedroom door?

'Go away, Anna' is the last answer she gets: in the later verses, as the girls grow up, Anna keeps knocking and the door stays silent.

In Frozen, Olaf introduces himself by saying he likes what?

'Hi, I'm Olaf and I like warm hugs' is the snowman's first line to Anna and Kristoff, the same words young Elsa voiced for him when the girls first built him.

In Frozen, what does Hans try to do to Elsa out on the frozen fjord?

Kill her: Hans first tells Elsa that her magic has already killed Anna, then draws his sword as she sinks to her knees in grief.

In Frozen II, which animals does Olaf cheerfully report can breathe through their bottoms?

Turtles: it is Olaf's idea of a bright side when he and Anna are stuck in a cave, and it is true, since some turtles absorb oxygen through the cloaca while wintering underwater.

In which season does the main story of Frozen II begin?

Autumn: the filmmakers picked a season of change to mirror the sisters growing up.

In Frozen II, what did King Runeard build in the Enchanted Forest as a supposed gift to its people?

A dam, really a ruse to weaken the Northuldra by choking their land; destroying it is what finally frees the forest and ends the curse.

Which parlour game does the royal family play at the castle early in Frozen II?

The family plays charades at the castle in Frozen II; Elsa, distracted by the voice only she can hear, flubs her turn and heads to bed early.

What has sealed off the Enchanted Forest for decades in Frozen II?

A wall of mist, impenetrable for decades, has sealed the Enchanted Forest; it parts to let Elsa's group in, then closes behind them.

What does Kristoff keep failing to do throughout Frozen II?

Kristoff spends Frozen II trying to propose to Anna, botching every attempt until he finally asks at the end and she says yes.

In Frozen II, where does Elsa and Anna's mother turn out to have come from?

The forest tribe: as a Northuldra girl she rescued the young prince Agnarr in the battle, left the forest with him and kept her origins secret.

In Frozen II, what happens to Olaf when Elsa freezes solid deep in the glacier?

He fades away because Elsa's magic is what holds him together; she rebuilds him once the forest is free.

In Frozen II, how does Elsa send Anna and Olaf away before crossing the Dark Sea alone?

In a boat of ice: Elsa conjures it beneath them and sends it racing down into a river, leaving a furious Anna drifting towards a dark cave.

Which This Is Us star voices Lieutenant Mattias in Frozen II?

Sterling K. Brown's Mattias has been cut off from home for decades, and one of his first questions to Anna is whether Halima, the woman he left behind, ever married.

Which Westworld star voices Elsa and Anna's mother in Frozen II?

Evan Rachel Wood sings the queen's lullaby 'All Is Found'; in the first film the queen's few lines had been spoken by one of the film's own directors.

Which Frozen II song is Kristoff's 1980s-style power ballad, sung with a chorus of reindeer?

Lost in the Woods is staged like a 1980s rock video, a showpiece written for a character who got barely fifty seconds of singing in the first film.

Roughly how much did Frozen II gross worldwide?

That made it the second-highest-grossing animated film ever at the time.

To which three countries did the Frozen II production team travel for research?

Norway, Finland and Iceland: the directors said Anna seemed at home in Norway's fairy-tale scenery and Elsa in stark, mythic Iceland, which shaped the sequel's two-sided story.

In Frozen II, which name does lost Olaf shout, knowing nobody called that?

Samantha: after shouting for his real friends, Olaf tries the name, then cackles that he does not even know a Samantha.

In Frozen, what does Anna remark when the ice palace doors swing open at her knock?

'That's a first' is Anna's dry verdict: she spent her childhood knocking at a sister's door that never opened.

Which two Academy Awards did Frozen win?

Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song, for 'Let It Go', both went to Frozen; the song award made one of its two writers the twelfth person to complete an EGOT.

Roughly how much did the first Frozen film gross worldwide?

Frozen grossed about $1.28 billion worldwide, then the most ever for an animated film, a record it held for more than five years.

Frozen had its world premiere on November 19, 2013 at which Los Angeles venue?

The premiere was at the El Capitan Theatre, Disney's own Hollywood Boulevard cinema; general release followed on November 27, the day before Thanksgiving 2013.

Frozen was the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to win which Golden Globe?

Frozen took the Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature at the 71st ceremony in January 2014, the first Disney Animation win in a category that began in 2006; 'Let It Go' lost Best Original Song.

Who composed the orchestral score for Frozen?

Beck was hired in February 2013 after scoring the Disney short Paperman.

Which official title does Kristoff receive from the queen at the end of Frozen?

Ice Master and Deliverer is announced by Anna on the queen's orders, with a medal for his reindeer to show off; Kristoff's first response is 'That's not a thing.'

Which actor, heard in every Disney Animation feature from Wreck-It Ralph to Moana 2, voices Frozen's Duke of Weselton?

Alan Tudyk plays the Duke, whose title keeps being mangled into 'Weaseltown'; three years later Tudyk voiced a weasel crook in Zootopia called Duke Weaselton.

Which Irish actor, Mance Rayder in Game of Thrones, voices Grand Pabbie in Frozen?

Ciarán Hinds voices Grand Pabbie, whose warning that fear will be Elsa's enemy backfires: her parents respond by shutting the castle gates and keeping her away from people.

Which stage actor, Greg in TV's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, voices Prince Hans in Frozen?

Santino Fontana recorded Hans while playing a far nicer royal on Broadway, earning a Tony nomination as the prince in Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella.

Caltech physicist Kenneth Libbrecht, a consultant on Frozen, is a leading expert on the science of what?

Snowflakes are what Libbrecht grows in his laboratory; he showed the effects team how humidity shapes each crystal's branches, and they built a generator that produced 2,000 different ones.

How many unique snowflake shapes did the Frozen effects team's generator create?

The generator produced 2,000 unique snowflake shapes that catch light differently; the team also built a snow-simulation tool called Matterhorn for the film's drifts.

Which singer's version of 'Let It Go' plays over Frozen's closing credits?

Demi Lovato's pop version was sent out first by Disney's music division, which saw the film version as a non-traditional pop song for radio; it was the film version that went on to reach the US top five.

Which Epcot boat ride closed in 2014 to make way for a Frozen attraction?

Maelstrom took its last riders in October 2014; the Frozen ride that replaced it kept the old boats and track, including a stretch where they travel backwards.

Disney sued after a Canadian cartoon, The Legend of Sarila, was retitled what for its US release?

Frozen Land arrived with a logo that mimicked Disney's; within a month its distributor settled, agreeing to pay $100,000 and go back to the film's original title.

In the 2015 Frozen birthday short, what is the disgraced Hans seen doing back in his own kingdom?

Shovelling manure in the stables is the punishment the short shows for the prince who schemed for a crown, and a parting shot from Arendelle then knocks him into it.

Which fairy-tale TV drama brought Elsa and Anna to life for a story arc in 2014?

Once Upon a Time spent the first half of its fourth season on Arendelle and invented a villain the film never had: Ingrid, a long-lost aunt of the two sisters.

Which live-action Disney film did Frozen Fever premiere alongside on March 13, 2015?

Cinderella opened with Frozen Fever in front of it; making the short left Frozen's directors missing the characters, and Disney announced Frozen II the day before the short reached cinemas.

Which song runs through Frozen Fever as Anna is led around her birthday surprises?

'Making Today a Perfect Day' runs for most of the short as Elsa leads Anna along a string wound through the castle, with a present waiting at every stop.

Which Pixar film opened in 2017 with a 21-minute Olaf holiday featurette playing before it?

Coco carried the featurette, which had been made for television and then moved to cinemas; Mexican theatres dropped it within days after audiences complained about the wait.

Which 2020 Disney+ short tells Olaf's story from his creation to meeting Anna?

Once Upon a Snowman replays the first film from Olaf's side: at the trading post Anna flattens him behind the front door on her way out and never notices him.

Which 2020 series of tiny Olaf shorts was made by Disney animators during the pandemic lockdown?

At Home With Olaf began with a single animator working alone; a team and the snowman's voice actor then joined in from their own houses, and the shorts went straight to YouTube.

World of Frozen, the first Frozen-themed land, opened at which park in November 2023?

Hong Kong Disneyland opened the land with a story of its own: it is set after the film's happy ending, on a 'Summer Snow Day' that Queen Elsa has declared for the whole kingdom.

What does an indignant Anna throw at the ice palace's giant guard, turning a simple eviction into a chase?

A snowball does him no harm at all, but the insult enrages him: spikes of ice burst from his joints and he chases Anna and Kristoff down the mountain.

Frozen's designers modelled Anna's winter outfit on which traditional folk costume?

The bunad, the embroidered folk dress of Norway, was the starting point for the film's costumes; the art director said his team mixed its authenticity with a kind of Hollywood glamour.

Which actor, Doctor Octopus in Spider-Man 2, voices King Agnarr in Frozen II?

Alfred Molina took over King Agnarr from Maurice LaMarche, who spoke the part in the first film; it is Agnarr's bedtime story about an enchanted forest that opens the sequel.

Which Goonies and Raising Hope actress voices Yelena, the forest people's leader, in Frozen II?

Martha Plimpton voices Yelena, who has kept up a wary stand-off with the stranded Arendelle soldiers for decades when the sisters walk in on it and broker a truce.

Which Norwegian singer performs 'the voice' that calls to Elsa in Frozen II?

Aurora sings the four-note call that draws Elsa north; it is delivered in the style of kulning, the high-pitched cry Scandinavian herders use to call their animals home.

Which Frozen II song received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song?

'Into the Unknown' could not repeat its predecessor's win: 'Let It Go' had taken the Oscar six years earlier, but this time the award went to Elton John's song from Rocketman.

Which country star sang the lullaby 'All Is Found' over the end credits of Frozen II?

Kacey Musgraves recorded her version in Nashville; the lullaby was the first song written for the sequel, with 'Rock-a-bye Baby' as a model, and its characters ask why lullabies always carry a warning.

Which Frozen II song does Anna sing alone in the dark, at her lowest point in the film?

'The Next Right Thing' exists because its singer, who has spoken openly about her own anxiety and depression, asked for a song about what Anna does when she has no idea what to do.

Which musical did Robert Lopez co-create with the South Park creators?

The Book of Mormon began at a performance of Lopez's Avenue Q: Trey Parker and Matt Stone came to see it, took him for a drink and found all three wanted to write about Joseph Smith.

Frozen's songwriters cracked 'Let It Go' on a walk through which park near their Brooklyn home?

Prospect Park is where the couple stopped treating Elsa as a villain and asked each other what it would feel like to finally let out a secret she had kept all her life.

'Let It Go' was the first Disney animated song in the Hot 100 top ten since which hit?

'Colors of the Wind' reached number four in 1995 as a pop single recorded by Vanessa Williams for the end credits; 'Let It Go' got back into the top ten in the version sung in the film itself.

In which category did 'Let It Go' win a Grammy in 2015?

Song Written for Visual Media is a writers' award, so the Grammy for 'Let It Go' went to the couple who wrote it rather than to its singer; the soundtrack album won a Grammy of its own that night.

The Frozen soundtrack's 13 weeks at number one was the longest run for a soundtrack since which film's album?

Titanic's album spent 16 weeks at number one in 1998; Frozen's run, driven by 'Let It Go', also made it the first soundtrack since then to finish as Billboard's top album of the year.

Which Broadway musical role earned Idina Menzel a Tony Award in 2004?

Elphaba in Wicked won Idina Menzel the 2004 Tony for Best Actress in a Musical over her own co-star: Kristin Chenoweth was nominated in the same category for playing Glinda.

Which earlier Disney film had Idina Menzel auditioned for before Frozen?

Tangled: Menzel read for the lead and lost the part, but the casting director had kept a recording of the audition on her phone and used it to bring her in for Frozen.

Kristen Bell had her breakout playing the title role in which TV series?

Veronica Mars made Kristen Bell's name as a teenage detective; years after its cancellation she and its creator raised over $5 million from fans on Kickstarter to bring the character back in a film.

What does Olaf cheerfully announce when he backs into an icicle that runs straight through him?

'I've been impaled' is all the fuss he makes; a little further on, while Anna struggles up a cliff face, it is Olaf who finds the staircase that leads straight to Elsa's palace.

Kristoff's costume design draws on the traditional clothing of which people?

The Sámi, the reindeer-herding people of northern Scandinavia, inspired Kristoff's look; for the sequel Disney went further and signed an agreement with Sámi parliaments on how their culture would be shown.

Frozen's end credits carry a joke disclaimer disowning Kristoff's claim that all men do what?

Eat their own boogers: Kristoff says it while warning Anna how little she knows about her new fiancé, and the credits gravely insist the view is his alone.

Where does Hans stand in the line of succession to his own kingdom's throne?

Thirteenth: Hans tells Anna he has twelve older brothers, three of whom pretended he was invisible for two years, which is why he goes looking for a throne somewhere else.

Fleeing her coronation party, what does Elsa back into and freeze in front of the crowd?

A fountain: its water freezes the instant she grabs the rim, and the gasps from the townspeople tell her the secret she has kept for years is out.

Which Nordic lifestyle word is the title of the sauna number that opens Act Two of the Frozen stage musical?

'Hygge' is sung at the trading post, where the owner and a crowd of sauna-goers welcome a half-frozen Anna and Kristoff in from the storm.

What brought the Broadway run of the Frozen musical to an early end?

The COVID-19 pandemic suspended every Broadway show in March 2020; two months later Disney made Frozen's closure permanent, ending its run after 825 performances.

Who directed the Broadway musical Frozen after being chosen in September 2016?

Michael Grandage, the British director and former Donmar Warehouse chief, directed the Broadway Frozen, with Rob Ashford as choreographer.

Which crossover video game of 2019 sends its heroes to an Arendelle world based on Frozen?

Kingdom Hearts III has Sora, Donald and Goofy watch Elsa raise her ice palace from the mountainside, then escape an avalanche by riding Goofy's shield downhill as a sled.

Which Disney Junior series had Olaf drop in for a 2016 episode?

Sofia the First's magic amulet normally summons a Disney princess to advise her; in this episode it delivers Olaf instead, whose only advice is not to get too close to fire.

Which Disney CEO announced in February 2023 that Frozen III was in the works?

Bob Iger had returned as chief executive only three months earlier; the films' writer-director first said she would not make a third, then gave up running the studio in 2024 to do exactly that.

Which US city hosted the start of the Disney on Ice Frozen tour in September 2014?

Disney On Ice presents Frozen opened at Orlando's Amway Center in September 2014; Feld Entertainment produced it with input from the film's directors and producer.

Which Mickey Mouse short played in cinemas before Frozen?

Get a Horse! begins as a scratchy black-and-white cartoon, with Walt Disney's own archive recordings as Mickey's voice, until the characters burst through the screen into colour.

In an early development stage, which Will & Grace actress was set to play Elsa?

Megan Mullally, Karen on Will & Grace, was attached as Elsa when the project was still planned as a hand-drawn film, years before the story was rebuilt around two sisters and recast.

With no Frozen songs written yet, which Bette Midler hit did the two lead actresses sing together at an early table read?

'Wind Beneath My Wings' was one actress's idea, hatched while the pair rehearsed at the other's home; neither had been cast yet, and the duet left the studio's creative chief 'in heaven'.

Frozen's animators travelled to which Wyoming destination to practise walking and falling in deep snow?

Jackson Hole gave the artists deep snow to wade and tumble in; men and women alike did it in long skirts, to learn how snow drags on clothing.

Which Little Mermaid lyricist did Frozen's songwriters invoke when stuck, asking what he would do?

Howard Ashman, who died in 1991 before his last Disney film was finished, was their model for telling a story through songs; 'What would Ashman do?' became the couple's battle cry.

Art director Michael Giaimo began his Scandinavian research for Frozen by visiting which California town?

Solvang, a Danish-style town in Santa Barbara County, was his first stop; then he noticed that about 80 percent of the images he liked were Norwegian, and the film followed them.

In the 2017 holiday featurette, what is the one tradition Olaf saves when his loaded sleigh goes up in flames?

A fruitcake is all that survives the blaze; Olaf sets off home through the woods carrying it and is promptly chased by wolves.

Whose surprise self-titled album did Frozen's soundtrack replace at the top of the Billboard 200?

Beyoncé's album had spent three weeks at number one after its unannounced release; Frozen then became only the fourth animated film soundtrack ever to top the chart.

Which country, Frozen's top market after North America, kept it at number one for sixteen weekends?

Japan embraced Frozen so fully that it led the box office there for sixteen weekends in a row, until another Disney release, Maleficent, finally displaced it.

Which Frozen song, tracking Anna at three ages, was nearly dropped for being too sad?

Disney staff saved 'Do You Want to Build a Snowman?', responding so warmly that it was restored after being judged too sad and too heavy with exposition.

Which 2016 Disney film names a bootleg-selling crook in a nod to one of Frozen's dignitaries?

Zootopia's small-time crook takes his name from a pompous Frozen guest and shares his voice actor, and one of the bootleg DVDs on his stall spoofs a Frozen sequel.

Which Pixar film did Frozen overtake to become the highest-grossing animated film up to that time?

Toy Story 3 lost the record to Frozen in 2014 but remained Pixar's own biggest earner until Incredibles 2 arrived in 2018.

In Frozen's Broadway musical, who wears the full reindeer costume, balancing on hand-held stilts?

A ballet dancer plays Kristoff's reindeer on tiptoe with stilts in his hands, a role so strenuous that a second dancer was hired to share the performances.

Frozen's lighting team studied how light behaves on snow and ice at an ice hotel where in Canada?

Quebec City's Ice Hotel gave the lighting and art teams a real building where they could watch how light reflects and refracts through frozen walls.

Which Alpine peak gave its name to the snow-simulation software Disney's engineers built for Frozen?

Matterhorn was written with help from UCLA mathematics researchers and used a technique called the material point method to make drifts behave like the real thing.

Frozen II's first trailer held the animated-film viewing record until which Pixar teaser beat it?

Inside Out 2 took the record in late 2023; until then nothing animated had matched the 116.4 million views Frozen II's trailer drew in its first 24 hours.

Kristoff's reindeer in Frozen was originally going to be named after which Norse god?

Thor was the first choice, but the filmmakers dropped the idea because the name was already in such heavy use around the company.

Finding a real reindeer too still to copy, Frozen's animators based Kristoff's on which animal?

A dog was the model: the real reindeer mostly stood in one place, though the team did borrow the way it scratched behind its ears with a back leg.

In a 2015 Frozen short, a runaway snowball knocks Prince Hans into manure in which kingdom?

The Southern Isles is where Hans was shipped home in disgrace; the snowball, sneezed out of a birthday horn by Elsa, catches him cleaning the stables as punishment.

In Frozen's post-credits scene, what does the giant snow guard find and place on his own head?

Elsa's crown turns up again after the snow giant, last seen falling down the mountain, makes his way back to the ice palace.

What name is given to the tiny snowmen created by Elsa's sneezes in a 2015 Frozen short?

Snowgies appear every time the ailing Elsa sneezes, and the mischievous crowd ends up being left in the care of her giant snow guard at the ice palace.

In Frozen II, the fire spirit that Elsa calms and befriends turns out to be which small animal?

A salamander, agitated and magical, is what Elsa finds at the heart of the flames; once she cools it down the two become friends.

How does Anna settle the score with the treacherous Prince Hans near the end of Frozen?

She punches him overboard, right off the side of a ship, and he is then locked up on board for the voyage home to face punishment from his family.

Lieutenant Mattias, freed from the Enchanted Forest in Frozen II, ends the film with which rank?

General Mattias had started out as King Runeard's lieutenant and the official guard of the young Prince Agnarr before he was trapped in the forest.

Which Frozen filmmaker's daughter, Agatha, sings as Anna aged nine in the film?

Jennifer Lee, who wrote and co-directed the film, has said Frozen let her celebrate wild and wonderful girls like her childhood self and her daughter.

Which member of Grand Pabbie's clan adopts the young Kristoff and his reindeer in Frozen?

Bulda adopted the pair after meeting them when they were little; the film's writer has confirmed that Kristoff was already an orphan when the story begins.

Early concept art for Frozen imagined Elsa with a blue bouffant, modelled on which British singer?

Amy Winehouse inspired artist Claire Keane's early Elsa, who was pictured with a deep, soulful voice and dramatic mood swings before the softer final design.

Elsa's six-sided ice palace in Frozen is designed to grow out of a giant version of what?

A snowflake forms the palace's foundation, an idea from executive producer John Lasseter, and even the cape of Elsa's ice gown is one large flake.

Which magazine ranked Frozen's Elsa the most influential fictional character of 2014?

Time put Elsa at the top of its list in the same year that her ice gown became the best-selling Disney costume there had ever been.

In which 2018 film does Elsa join other Disney princesses and conjure an ice slide to save the hero?

Ralph Breaks the Internet puts Elsa and Anna in a room with the Disney Princesses, although neither sister is an official member of that line-up.

As the first Frozen film ends, what does Queen Elsa promise her sister she will never do again?

She vows never to lock the castle gates again; they had been closed since her childhood to isolate her and opened to the public only on coronation day.

Which Australian actress played a live-action Queen Elsa in an ABC fantasy drama in 2014?

Georgina Haig's Elsa is released from an urn at the end of the show's third season, then walks into a small Maine town searching for her sister.

Which Les Misérables film star plays Elsa in the stage version of Frozen filmed for Disney+?

Samantha Barks, the film's Éponine, led the West End cast as Elsa from 2021 to 2024, and that London production was the one captured for streaming.

Which Bollywood star voiced Elsa in the Hindi version of Frozen II, with her cousin as Anna?

Priyanka Chopra spoke Elsa's lines opposite her cousin Parineeti Chopra, casting that echoed the bond between the two royal sisters.

Elsa's 420,000 computer-generated hairs dwarf the 27,000 given to which earlier Disney heroine?

Rapunzel got by with 27,000 strands despite her famously long locks, while Elsa's braid needed a new styling program called Tonic and Anna had about 140,000.

At the climax of Frozen II, what does Elsa race home to stop just before it destroys Arendelle?

A flood surges down the fjord once the forest's old barrier is smashed, and Elsa, riding the water spirit, freezes it and saves the kingdom.

Which actor mangled the singer's name while introducing Frozen's 'Let It Go' at the 2014 Oscars?

John Travolta introduced her as 'Adele Dazeem', a slip of the tongue that brought him widespread mockery in the media.

Which Pharrell Williams hit lost the Best Original Song Oscar to Frozen's 'Let It Go'?

Happy, written for Despicable Me 2, lost on the night but had the last laugh on the charts, finishing as Billboard's number-one single of 2014.

The Oscar for Frozen's 'Let It Go' completed which four-award sweep for co-writer Robert Lopez?

The EGOT means an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony; Lopez was the twelfth person to complete the set and later the first to win all four at least twice.

Which Game of Thrones star sang Frozen's 'Let It Go' in an Audi advert at the 2020 Super Bowl?

Maisie Williams performed the song for Audi in a commercial broadcast during Super Bowl LIV, more than six years after the film came out.

Which TV series opened its final season with its lead character singing Frozen's 'Let It Go'?

Glee handed the song to Rachel Berry, Lea Michele's ambitious lead, in the first episode of the Fox show's sixth and last season.

A viral 2014 parody of Frozen's 'Let It Go' garbled the words by running them through which tool?

Google Translate turned the words to nonsense after Malinda Kathleen Reese passed them through several languages and back into English, then sang the result.

Which singer with a debut album titled Let Go was an inspiration for Frozen's 'Let It Go'?

Avril Lavigne sat on the songwriters' list of influences alongside Adele, Aimee Mann, Lady Gaga and Carole King, plus the Disney musicals of the Renaissance era.

The Piano Guys' cover of Frozen's 'Let It Go' weaves in a concerto by which Baroque composer?

Vivaldi's Winter, the fourth concerto of The Four Seasons, is in F minor, the very key in which the Disney ballad begins.

Frozen's 'Let It Go' lost the Golden Globe for best song to a track by which rock band?

U2 won with Ordinary Love, written for a film about Nelson Mandela, but the Oscar went the other way a few weeks later.

In Frozen II, what layer does Olaf now have that stops him from melting in warm weather?

Permafrost frees Olaf from worrying about the weather in the sequel, whose story instead has him fretting about what it means to grow up.

In Frozen's teaser trailer, what do Olaf and Kristoff's reindeer race across an icy lake to reach?

His carrot nose is the prize: the reindeer wins the scramble, tongue briefly stuck to the ice, then hands it back, and the two become friends.

A giant Olaf balloon, based on a Frozen director's sketch, debuted in 2017 at which annual event?

Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade welcomed the giant Olaf for its 91st edition, with a design taken from a drawing by one of the film's directors.

The shorts Olaf Presents grew out of a Frozen II scene in which Olaf does what in 90 seconds?

Olaf recaps the first film at breakneck speed in the sequel, and the spin-off has him give The Little Mermaid, Moana and Aladdin the same treatment.

On Broadway, how is Olaf brought to life in the Frozen musical alongside the human cast?

A puppet controlled by actor Greg Hildreth played Olaf when the show opened in March 2018, as one already had in a Disney cruise-ship version of the story.

Which comic Frozen II song did the songwriters give to Olaf?

When I Am Older has Olaf insisting that everything baffling will make sense one day; it was recorded six months into the sequel's development.

A critic said the final shot of Olaf's daydream song in Frozen quotes which Julie Andrews film?

The Sound of Music has a famous tracking shot of Julie Andrews singing its title song, and the reviewer saw the same sweep closing Olaf's soft-shoe number.

In a 2020 Frozen short, which food does the newborn Olaf wear as a nose before giving it to a wolf?

A sausage is what he settles on at a mountain shop, and he later hands it over to a whimpering wolf that seems to need it more.

Olaf's voice actor played which character in Disney's 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast?

LeFou, Gaston's adoring companion, went to the man behind Olaf in the Bill Condon film, which starred Emma Watson as Belle.

After soldiers storm her ice palace in Frozen, where is the captured Elsa held in chains?

A dungeon holds her, cuffed and chained, after Hans and a party of soldiers overpower her at the palace; in time she manages to free herself.

Olaf's voice actor set out early to play sidekicks like Timon, Pumbaa and which Aladdin character?

The Genie was one of the scene-stealers he admired as a child, though Olaf's own screen time was deliberately limited so he would not take over the story.

In Frozen II, what form does the wind spirit take when it first sweeps up Elsa, Anna and friends?

A tornado sweeps the whole party into its vortex until Elsa fights back with streams of snow, leaving ice sculptures that show scenes from her father's past.