Aladdin Trivia
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100 free Aladdin trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
44 free Aladdin trivia questions with answers. Aladdin was the first animated film to make half a billion dollars, and it nearly did not get made: Howard Ashman pitched it in 1988, Jeffrey Katzenberg threw out the whole story on 'Black Friday', and Robin Williams was persuaded to voice the Genie by a test reel animated to his own stand-up. This quiz runs 100 questions on the 1992 film (the voices, the songs, the Oscars, the 52 improvised characters, the Picasso that failed to make peace with Williams), the 2019 Guy Ritchie remake with Will Smith, the long-running Broadway musical, the sequels and TV series, and the original story that Antoine Galland heard from a Syrian storyteller and set, oddly, in China. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know who Babkak, Omar and Kassim are. Every answer has been checked against reference sources, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a family movie night or a Disney round at pub trivia.
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Q 01Who voices the Genie in Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
Robin Williams
Robin Williams voices the Genie; the directors wrote the part for him and won him over with a test reel Eric Goldberg animated to his stand-up routines.
Q 02The Genie's actor also improvised which other character in Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
The street peddler
The street peddler. Shown a pile of props, he improvised the opening sales pitch, and the directors later confirmed the peddler was meant to be the Genie in disguise.
Q 03The Genie's actor took union scale pay of $75,000 on what condition?
No use of his name in marketing
No use of his name in marketing, and no use of his voice to sell merchandise. When the Genie turned up in tie-in adverts he accused Disney of breaking the deal and sat out the first sequel.
Q 04Who replaced the original Genie in the 1994 sequel The Return of Jafar?
Dan Castellaneta
Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, voiced the Genie in The Return of Jafar and the TV series; the original actor came back for the third film in 1996 after Disney's studio chief apologised to him.
Q 05Aladdin's directors, John Musker and Ron Clements, had just made which Disney animated hit?
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid. Offered three projects next, they picked Aladdin over Swan Lake and King of the Jungle, the film that became The Lion King.
Q 06Which lyricist first pitched an animated Aladdin to Disney in 1988 and died before it was finished?
Howard Ashman
Howard Ashman pitched Aladdin in 1988 as a campy 1930s-style musical; he died in March 1991 and Tim Rice finished the lyrics.
Q 07What is the name of the city where Disney's Aladdin is set?
Agrabah
Agrabah is the fictional city; the filmmakers renamed it from Baghdad because the Gulf War broke out during production.
Q 08Whose caricatures inspired the swooping character designs of Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
Al Hirschfeld
Al Hirschfeld's flowing caricatures set the style; Jafar was the exception, because animator Andreas Deja wanted the villain to contrast with the others.
Q 09Aladdin's look was redesigned from a boyish Michael J. Fox type to resemble which actor?
Tom Cruise
Glen Keane redrew Aladdin with Tom Cruise in mind, also drawing on Calvin Klein models, to make the hero older and more athletic.
Q 10Which Full House actor provided Aladdin's speaking voice in Disney's 1992 film?
Scott Weinger
Scott Weinger, who played D.J.'s boyfriend Steve, won the part with a home-made audition tape on which his mother read the Genie's lines; Brad Kane sang Aladdin's songs.
Q 11Who provides Jasmine's singing voice in Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga, then the star of Miss Saigon, sang for Jasmine while Linda Larkin spoke the part; she and Brad Kane performed the film's love duet live at the 1993 Oscars.
Q 12Which comedian voices Iago the parrot in Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried. Iago was first written as the calm, deadpan one and Jafar as the hothead; once the filmmakers swapped them round, they went looking for a loudmouthed comic.
Q 13Which veteran voice actor plays Abu, Rajah and the Cave of Wonders in Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
Frank Welker
Q 21Which film kept Disney's Aladdin off the top of the US box office on its first wide weekend?
Home Alone 2
Home Alone 2. Aladdin opened wide in second place over Thanksgiving 1992, then outlasted it to finish as the year's top earner and the first animated film to pass half a billion dollars worldwide.
Q 22Which awards body gave the Genie's voice actor a Special Achievement Award for Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
The Golden Globes
The Golden Globes honoured the vocal performance with a special award, while Disney's campaign for a Best Actor Oscar nomination, which the Academy's rules allowed, came to nothing.
Q 23What is the Genie wearing in his final scene in Disney's 1992 Aladdin?
Frank Welker. A specialist in animal voices, he was the one member of the original cast Disney brought back for the 2019 remake, again as the monkey and the talking cave.
Q 14What did studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg demand after watching the story reels for Disney's Aladdin?
A complete rewrite
A complete rewrite. 'I think we've got to start over,' he told the directors, and in the scramble that followed Aladdin's mother was cut and the hero made 'a little rougher, like a young Harrison Ford'.
Q 15Which 1940 film gave Disney's Aladdin its villain's name, Jaffar, and the name Abu?
The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad. Its vizier Jaffar and its boy thief Abu, played by Sabu, were carried into an early script; the directors then turned Abu into a thieving monkey.
Q 16How does Aladdin finally defeat Jafar in Disney's 1992 film?
He tricks him into wishing to be a genie
"He tricks him into wishing to be a genie": genies are bound to their lamps, so the all-powerful Jafar is sucked into a black lamp, dragging Iago with him.
Q 17What does Aladdin use his third wish for?
To free the Genie
Aladdin uses his last wish "To free the Genie", keeping his promise rather than wishing to stay a prince; the Sultan then changes the law so Jasmine can marry whom she chooses.
Q 18Which 'Arabian Nights' lyric was changed after complaints from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee?
'Where they cut off your ear'
'Where they cut off your ear' gave way on the 1993 video release to an alternate couplet the lyricist had written himself, about the flat, hot desert; the 'barbaric' line after it stayed.
Q 19Which song became the first from a Disney film to win the Grammy for Song of the Year?
A Whole New World
A Whole New World. Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle's end-credits version also ended the 14-week run of Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Q 20At the 1993 Oscars, Aladdin won Best Song and Best what?
Score
Score. Alan Menken's music brought Aladdin both its Oscars; a second nominated number, Friend Like Me, lost Best Song to another song from the same film.
A Goofy hat and Hawaiian shirt
A Goofy hat and Hawaiian shirt, with a bag of golf clubs: dressed as a tourist, he pulls everyone into a group hug and kisses Abu, then complains of a hairball.
Q 24In the original One Thousand and One Nights tale, where does Aladdin live?
China
China. The tale opens in 'one of the cities of China', yet its ruler is a sultan and its people are Muslims, and the sorcerer who recruits Aladdin comes from the Maghreb in North Africa.
Q 25Aladdin is missing from the old Arabic manuscripts of the Arabian Nights; in which language did it first appear in print?
French
French. Antoine Galland heard the tale in Paris in 1709 from Hanna Diyab, a Syrian storyteller from Aleppo, and added it to his Mille et une nuits; no Arabic text older than his has been found.
Q 26In the original Aladdin tale, what trick does the sorcerer use to steal the lamp?
He offers 'new lamps for old'
"He offers 'new lamps for old'": disguised as a pedlar, the sorcerer cries his offer in the street, and Aladdin's wife, unaware of the lamp's power, trades it away.
Q 27Who directed the 2019 live-action Aladdin?
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie. He made his name with crime capers such as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch, yet this family musical went on to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
Q 28Who plays the Genie in Disney's 2019 live-action Aladdin?
Will Smith
Will Smith. He admitted he was 'terrified' of following the original, and found his own lane by bringing a hip-hop flavour to the part.
Q 29Who play Aladdin and Jasmine in the 2019 remake?
Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott
Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott won the parts after a worldwide search lasting months: the studio looked at Dev Patel and Riz Ahmed, then chose a newcomer who could both act and sing.
Q 30The desert scenes of Disney's 2019 Aladdin were shot at Wadi Rum in which country?
Jordan
Jordan. Wadi Rum supplied the real desert, but most of the remake was shot on studio lots in England, where the main shoot was based at Longcross Studios in Surrey.