90s Disney Trivia
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70 free 90s Disney trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
61 free 90s Disney trivia questions with answers. The 1990s were Disney's second golden age. This quiz covers the whole decade: the Renaissance films from The Rescuers Down Under through Aladdin, the Simba saga, Hunchback and Tarzan; the Pixar partnership that gave us Toy Story and A Bug's Life; the Disney Afternoon and One Saturday Morning cartoons (TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, Recess, Pepper Ann); TGIF's Boy Meets World and the Mickey Mouse Club cast that produced Britney, Justin and Ryan Gosling; and the live-action hits, from Hocus Pocus and Cool Runnings to The Mighty Ducks and The Santa Clause. It also goes behind the curtain: the Eisner-Katzenberg-Wells regime, the DreamWorks split, the $19 billion ABC deal, Euro Disney's rocky launch, and the parks and shows that opened during the decade. Questions start easy (who voiced Mushu?) and climb to genuinely hard studio history. Every answer has been verified against the Wikipedia article for the film, show or company involved, and each question shows its source, so you can settle any argument the quiz starts.
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Q 01Which film was the first animated feature nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast earned the 1991 Best Picture nomination, the only one for an animated film until Up in 2009, after the category expanded to ten slots; it also won the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy.
Q 02Which Disney film held the title of highest-grossing animated film until Finding Nemo overtook it in 2003?
The Lion King
The Lion King's initial $763 million run made it the highest-grossing film of 1994, second all-time behind Jurassic Park, and the top animated film until Finding Nemo passed it in 2003.
Q 03Early story treatments for the 1994 film about Simba were submitted under which working title?
King of the Jungle
Linda Woolverton, who was also writing the Belle musical, drafted it as King of the Beasts before it became King of the Jungle. Lions do not actually live in jungles, hence the eventual change.
Q 04Which composer scored the 1994 Simba film after A World Apart and The Power of One?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer took the job, he said, so his young daughter could finally see one of his films; the score won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score, with Lebo M arranging the African vocals.
Q 05Which Simpsons voice actor replaced Robin Williams as the Genie in The Return of Jafar (1994)?
Dan Castellaneta
Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, took over the Genie for The Return of Jafar and the Aladdin TV series; Williams returned for Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) after Disney apologized.
Q 06What million-dollar gift did Disney send Robin Williams to patch up the Aladdin marketing dispute?
A Picasso painting
A Picasso painting was Disney's peace offering after the studio broke its promise not to use Williams's Genie voice to sell merchandise; unappeased, he skipped The Return of Jafar and the Aladdin TV series.
Q 07Which song was the first from a Disney film to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year?
A Whole New World
A Whole New World, sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, won Song of the Year at the 1994 Grammy Awards after topping the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1993.
Q 08Animators aged up Aladdin mid-production, borrowing features from Calvin Klein models and which actor?
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise became the model after Glen Keane's first Aladdin, based on Michael J. Fox, was judged too boyish; the character was aged to about eighteen and given a more heroic build.
Q 09Which film was the first feature made mainly at Disney's Florida animation studio?
Mulan
Mulan was produced mainly at the Florida animation studio, which had opened in 1989 at Disney-MGM Studios to make shorts like Roller Coaster Rabbit; Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear followed as Florida-made features.
Q 10Whose pop recording of 'Reflection' landed her a contract with RCA Records?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera recorded the pop version of 'Reflection' that won her the RCA deal; her self-titled 1999 debut album included the song, while Lea Salonga sang it for the character inside the film.
Q 11BD Wong spoke Captain Li Shang's lines in the 1998 film, but which singer performed his singing voice?
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond provided Shang's singing voice on 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' while BD Wong spoke the lines; Jackie Chan voiced Shang for the film's Chinese-language dubs.
Q 12Who voiced Mushu, the small dragon guardian, in the 1998 film about the Fa family's daughter?
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy voiced Mushu, the demoted guardian dragon trying to regain his place among the Fa family ancestors; the part came three years before his Donkey in Shrek (2001).
Q 13Which musician wrote and recorded the songs for Tarzan (1999), winning the Oscar for Best Original Song?
Phil Collins
Q 21What did Pixar call its disastrous November 1993 screening of Toy Story story reels for Disney executives?
The Black Friday Incident
The Black Friday Incident, Pixar's name for the November 19, 1993 screening, led Disney's Peter Schneider to halt production; Woody had become, in Thomas Schumacher's words, a sarcastic jerk, so the script was rewritten.
Q 22Toy Story was the first animated film to be nominated in which Academy Award category?
Best Original Screenplay
The Best Original Screenplay nomination went to the script by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow, one of three competitive nods alongside score and song; John Lasseter received a Special Achievement Award.
Q 23Which 1998 DreamWorks film beat A Bug's Life to theaters and sparked a Steve Jobs–DreamWorks feud?
Phil Collins wrote and sang the songs, and 'You'll Be in My Heart' won the Academy Award for Best Original Song; Mark Mancina composed the score around them.
Q 14What was the 3D painting-and-rendering system built for Tarzan's jungle backgrounds called?
Deep Canvas
Deep Canvas let painted jungle backgrounds exist as 3D environments so the camera could swoop with Tarzan as he surfed the trees; its developers received an Academy Technical Achievement Award in 2003.
Q 15In which unlikely venue did The Hunchback of Notre Dame hold its June 1996 premiere?
Louisiana Superdome
The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans hosted the premiere on June 19, 1996, with a parade through the French Quarter, two days before the wide release; the film grossed over $325 million worldwide.
Q 16Who voiced Judge Claude Frollo, the puritanical villain of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Tony Jay
Tony Jay gave Frollo his bass menace and sang 'Hellfire'; Kevin Kline voiced Captain Phoebus, Tom Hulce voiced Quasimodo, and David Ogden Stiers voiced the Archdeacon.
Q 17Alongside Victor and Hugo, what is Quasimodo's third gargoyle friend called?
Laverne
Laverne, the eldest gargoyle, was voiced by Mary Wickes, who died in October 1995 before the film's release; Jane Withers recorded her remaining lines.
Q 18Which 1990 film was the first feature-length sequel ever produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation?
The Rescuers Down Under
The Rescuers Down Under was also the first Disney feature made entirely with the CAPS digital ink-and-paint system; Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor returned as Bernard and Bianca, Gabor in her final film role.
Q 19Which Christmas hit opened on November 16, 1990, the same day as Disney's underperforming animated release?
Home Alone
Home Alone opened that day and topped the US box office for twelve straight weekends on its way to about $476 million worldwide, while Disney's film managed just $47.4 million.
Q 20Before he became Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story's space toy went by which working name?
Lunar Larry
Lunar Larry was an early name for the space toy, who began as Tinny from the short Tin Toy; he was briefly Tempus from Morph before becoming Buzz Lightyear, after astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Antz
Antz opened on October 2, 1998, nearly two months ahead of A Bug's Life; both films center on an oddball male ant who saves his colony and wins a princess, and Pixar believed DreamWorks had lifted the premise.
Q 24Which Disney executive quit in 1994 after Eisner denied him the presidency, then co-founded DreamWorks?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had run Disney's film studio since 1984, left after Eisner refused him the presidency; he sued for bonuses he was owed and settled out of court in 1999 for an estimated $250 million.
Q 25Disney president Frank Wells died in April 1994 in what kind of accident?
Helicopter crash
Helicopter crash: on April 3, 1994, the helicopter carrying Wells's heli-skiing party went down in Nevada's Ruby Mountains; his death set off the succession fight that split the studio.
Q 26Which Hollywood super-agent became Disney's president in August 1995, only to be fired in 1996?
Michael Ovitz
Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency and a longtime friend of Eisner, lasted about 14 months; his roughly $140 million severance became the subject of a long-running shareholder lawsuit.
Q 27In 1995 Disney announced a $19 billion takeover, then the second-largest in US history, of which company?
Capital Cities/ABC
Capital Cities/ABC, owner of the ABC network, agreed to the $19 billion deal in the summer of 1995; it brought Disney an 80 percent stake in ESPN and ESPN2 and half of Lifetime.
Q 28Which network had Eisner planned to buy before General Electric insisted on keeping a majority stake?
NBC
NBC was Eisner's earlier target, but owner General Electric would part with only a minority stake; Eisner wanted a broadcast network to guarantee distribution for Disney's programming.
Q 29Which indie film distributor did Disney buy for about $60 million in 1993 to reach adults?
Miramax
Miramax, the Weinstein brothers' company that went on to release Pulp Fiction, joined Disney in 1993 for about $60 million, giving the studio a pipeline of adult-oriented films.
Q 30Euro Disney, which opened in 1992, sits about 32 km east of Paris in which new town?
Marne-la-Vallée
Marne-la-Vallée, a planned new town in Seine-et-Marne, hosts the resort, which opened on April 12, 1992, as the second Disney park outside the US after Tokyo; it became Disneyland Paris in October 1994.