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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 1991 film was the first animated feature ever nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Beauty and the Beast
It stayed the only animated Best Picture nominee for as long as the category had just five slots. It also became the first animated film to win 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
Its initial $763 million run made it the highest-grossing film of 1994 and second of all time behind Jurassic Park. It is still the top-grossing hand-drawn animated film ever.
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
He initially disliked the idea because he did not care for Broadway musicals, but took the job to have a film he could watch with his daughter. Lebo M arranged the African choir elements.
Q 05Which Simpsons voice actor replaced Robin Williams as the Genie in The Return of Jafar (1994)?
Dan Castellaneta
Williams later returned for the second sequel, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, after Disney apologized. Homer's voice also carried the Genie through the TV series.
Q 06What million-dollar gift did Disney send Robin Williams to patch up the Aladdin marketing dispute?
A Picasso painting
It did not work: the piece was a Picasso self-portrait as Vincent van Gogh, and reportedly clashed with the decor of the Williams home.
Q 07Which song was the first from a Disney film to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year?
A Whole New World
The Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle single also reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. As of today it remains the only Disney song to take that Grammy.
Q 08Animators aged up Aladdin mid-production, borrowing features from Calvin Klein models and which actor?
Tom Cruise
The original design, modeled on Michael J. Fox, was judged too boyish, so the character was aged up to seventeen or eighteen.
Q 09Which 1998 film was the first feature made mainly at Disney's Florida animation studio?
Mulan
The Florida unit had opened in 1989 at Disney-MGM Studios with 40 to 50 staff, originally to make shorts. Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear followed it as Florida-made features.
Q 10Whose recording of 'Reflection' from Mulan (1998) landed her a contract with RCA Records?
Christina Aguilera
It was her first US release; her self-titled debut album followed in 1999 and included the song. Lea Salonga sang the character's version 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
He had earlier auditioned to be the speaking voice of Hercules. 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
The filmmakers first approached Joe Pesci and Richard Dreyfuss before Michael Eisner suggested the eventual choice.
Q 13Which musician wrote and recorded the songs for Tarzan (1999), winning the Oscar for Best Original Song?
Phil Collins
Disney music executive Chris Montan recommended him in 1995. Mark Mancina composed the score around his songs.
Q 21What did Pixar call its disastrous November 1993 screening of Toy Story story reels for Disney executives?
The Black Friday Incident
Disney's Peter Schneider halted production; Woody had been written as, in Thomas Schumacher's words, a jerk. Pixar rewrote the script and production resumed.
Q 22Toy Story was the first animated film to be nominated in which Academy Award category?
Best Original Screenplay
It received three competitive nominations plus a non-competitive Special Achievement Award, and holds a 100 percent Rotten Tomatoes rating.
Q 23Which 1998 DreamWorks film, released a month before A Bug's Life, sparked a Steve Jobs–DreamWorks feud?
Q 14What was the 3D painting-and-rendering system built for Tarzan's jungle backgrounds called?
Deep Canvas
The term was coined by artist-engineer Eric Daniels. The technique let the camera swoop through painted environments as Tarzan surfed the trees.
Q 15The Hunchback of Notre Dame held its June 1996 premiere in an unlikely venue. Which?
Louisiana Superdome
The New Orleans event came two days before the wide release. The film went on to gross over $325 million worldwide.
Q 16Who voiced Judge Claude Frollo, the puritanical villain of The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Tony Jay
Kline voiced the captain Phoebus and Hulce voiced Quasimodo. Frollo's musical number is often cited as the darkest song in a Disney animated feature.
Q 17Two of Quasimodo's gargoyle friends are named after Victor Hugo. What is the third called?
Laverne
She was voiced by Mary Wickes, who died 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
It was also the first Disney film 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 19Disney's 1990 mouse-rescue sequel underperformed after opening the same November day as which Christmas hit?
Home Alone
The Disney film grossed just $47.4 million worldwide and played as a double feature with the Mickey Mouse short The Prince and the Pauper.
Q 20Before he became Buzz Lightyear, Toy Story's space toy went by which working name?
Lunar Larry
The character began as Tinny from the short Tin Toy, then a G.I. Joe-style soldier, and was finally named after astronaut Buzz Aldrin.
Antz
Both films centre on an oddball male ant trying to win a princess by saving his colony. Pixar learned of the rival project from the trade papers.
Q 24Which Disney executive quit in 1994 after Eisner denied him the presidency, then co-founded DreamWorks?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
He sued Disney for money he said 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
Since taking office with Eisner in 1984 he had helped grow Disney's market value from $2 billion to $22 billion. His death triggered 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
He was a friend of Eisner's, but their management styles clashed almost immediately. His severance package later became the subject of a shareholder lawsuit.
Q 27In 1995 Disney announced a $19 billion takeover, then the second-largest in US history, of which company?
Capital Cities/ABC
The deal brought Disney a broadcast network plus 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
Disney's revenue hit $10 billion in 1994, and Eisner wanted a network to guarantee distribution for its programming.
Q 29Which indie film distributor did Disney buy for about $60 million in 1993 to reach adults?
Miramax
The same year Disney bought 8,500 acres of Everglades headwaters with The Nature Conservancy to create the Disney Wilderness Preserve.
Q 30Euro Disney, which opened in 1992, sits about 32 km east of Paris in which new town?
Marne-la-Vallée
The resort was renamed Disneyland Paris in October 1994. It was only the second Disney park outside the US, after Tokyo.