Aladdin (2019)
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50 free Aladdin (2019) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Disney's 2019 Aladdin took one of the studio's best-loved animated films and rebuilt it in live action, with a new Genie, new songs and a princess who wants more than a husband. It drew sceptical headlines before release and long queues after it, which makes it rich ground for a quiz. These questions cover the whole production: who played whom, which voices came back from 1992, what the remake changed in the story, where it was filmed, how the music was reworked and how the film fared with audiences and awards juries. It suits fans who have watched the remake more than once, families planning a quiz after a rewatch, and anyone who wants to know how the new version differs from the original.
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Q 01Which star, a rapper before he was an actor, plays the Genie in Disney's 2019 live-action Aladdin?
Will Smith
Will Smith was the first actor cast, signing on in July 2017, and the film went on to become the biggest worldwide hit of his career.
Q 02Which new solo, sung in two parts across the film, did Disney's 2019 Aladdin write for Jasmine?
Speechless
Speechless was shortlisted for the Best Original Song Oscar but missed the final nominations. Jasmine sings it timidly early on, then in full when Jafar seizes power.
Q 03Which British director of Snatch and Sherlock Holmes took charge of Disney's 2019 live-action Aladdin?
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie also co-wrote the script, and the film gave him the best opening weekend and the biggest worldwide gross of his career.
Q 04Which new character in Disney's 2019 Aladdin, Jasmine's handmaiden, ends up marrying the Genie?
Dalia
Dalia was created for the remake, and she and the freed Genie finish the film raising two children while exploring the world.
Q 05Which former One Direction member sang the end-credits A Whole New World for 2019's Aladdin with Zhavia Ward?
Zayn Malik
Zayn Malik's duet came out as a single about two weeks before the film reached US cinemas, and it won Choice Song From a Movie at the 2019 Teen Choice Awards.
Q 06How did Disney's 2019 Aladdin put its star on screen as the giant blue Genie that emerges from the lamp?
Motion-capture CGI
Motion-capture CGI created the blue Genie, while the actor appears in the flesh whenever the Genie disguises himself as a human.
Q 07Made for $183 million, Disney's 2019 Aladdin went on to gross roughly how much at cinemas worldwide?
$1 billion
$1 billion was passed on July 26, 2019, two months after release, making Aladdin the 41st film ever to reach that mark.
Q 08Whose 1992 voice performance as the Genie did the star of Disney's 2019 Aladdin say he was honouring?
Robin Williams
Robin Williams cast such a long shadow that the new Genie admitted he was terrified of the role before finding his own take on it.
Q 09Which title does Jasmine inherit from her father at the end of 2019's Aladdin, ending her need to marry a royal suitor?
Sultan
Sultan is the job Jasmine wants from the opening scenes of the remake, and her father finally crowns her in the closing ones.
Q 10In Disney's 2019 Aladdin, which object does Aladdin destroy to break Jafar's spell over Jasmine's father?
A cobra staff
A cobra staff gives Jafar his hold over the palace, and once it is smashed his plot is exposed and he is thrown in a cell.
Q 11Which relative newcomer won the title role in Disney's 2019 Aladdin after a four-month worldwide casting call?
Mena Massoud
Mena Massoud emerged from a search that saw over 2,000 actors try out for the two leads, and filming slipped a month while the studio hunted for its Aladdin.
Q 12The title-role actor in Disney's 2019 Aladdin was born in which country before his family moved to Canada?
Egypt
Egypt was home only until he was three, when his Coptic Christian family left Cairo for Canada in search of a better life.
Q 13Which British actress, a star of 2017's Power Rangers, plays Princess Jasmine in Disney's 2019 Aladdin?
Naomi Scott
Naomi Scott could not be confirmed until she had done a chemistry test with the actor chosen as Aladdin, because she and one rival were the final two for the part.
Q 21Lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who wrote new songs for 2019's Aladdin, won an Oscar for which film musical?
La La Land
La La Land earned the pair the Best Original Song Oscar for City of Stars, two years before they supplied the words for Jasmine's new solo.
Q 22Which duet written for Aladdin and Jasmine was cut from Disney's 2019 Aladdin, then released that August?
Desert Moon
Desert Moon was revealed as a casualty of the edit by the film's leading man five days before the US release, and Disney put the song out three months later.
Q 23Which hitmaking producer joined the Genie's actor on the end-credits rap version of Friend Like Me in 2019's Aladdin?
DJ Khaled
Q 14Which Dutch actor, later seen in The Old Guard and Black Adam, plays the scheming Jafar in 2019's Aladdin?
Marwan Kenzari
Marwan Kenzari's Jafar is given a backstory in the remake, which a producer said helps the audience understand why the villain is so bad.
Q 15Which actor, also the droid K-2SO in Rogue One, voices the parrot Iago in Disney's 2019 Aladdin?
Alan Tudyk
Alan Tudyk voices an Iago portrayed as a more realistic parrot, and his casting was announced only two months before the film opened.
Q 16Which comedian, the voice of Iago since 1992, said he was never asked back for Disney's 2019 Aladdin?
Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried voiced Jafar's parrot in the 1992 film, its sequels and the TV series, but the remake recast the bird as a more realistic parrot with a new voice.
Q 17Which voice of Scooby-Doo's Fred Jones was the only 1992 cast member to return for Disney's 2019 Aladdin?
Frank Welker
Frank Welker again supplied the chatter of Aladdin's monkey and the roar of the Cave of Wonders, though only the cave earned him a screen credit.
Q 18Disney announced a Disney+ spin-off about which new suitor from Skånland introduced in its 2019 Aladdin?
Prince Anders
Prince Anders takes the place of the 1992 film's Prince Achmed, and his solo project was announced just seven months after the remake opened.
Q 19What is the name of Princess Jasmine's loyal pet Bengal tiger in Disney's 2019 live-action Aladdin?
Rajah
Rajah's growls come from the same veteran voice artist who performed the big cat in the 1992 animated film.
Q 20Which composer of the 1992 film's songs returned to score Disney's 2019 Aladdin and co-write its new music?
Alan Menken
Alan Menken said his new score is pulled almost entirely from the themes of the songs, but sounds far more live-action in its textures and tone.
DJ Khaled also produced the track, which gave the remake a second take on the song beside the one performed in the film itself.
Q 24Which musical number in 2019's Aladdin, an extravagant arrival in Agrabah, was staged with 1,000 dancers and extras?
Prince Ali
Prince Ali was also rewritten to suit the personality of the film's Genie, who was encouraged to bring his hip-hop background to the song.
Q 25Which lyricist of A Whole New World is credited with the words to One Jump Ahead on the 2019 Aladdin soundtrack?
Tim Rice
Tim Rice wrote the words to the love duet and Aladdin's chase song, while the Genie's big numbers are credited to his predecessor on the 1992 film, Howard Ashman.
Q 26Which desert valley, famous from Lawrence of Arabia, hosted location filming for Disney's 2019 Aladdin?
Wadi Rum
Wadi Rum's sandstone landscape also stood in for the surface of Mars in The Martian, and it is the largest wadi in its country.
Q 27Principal photography on Disney's 2019 Aladdin began at Longcross Studios, which are in which country?
England
England hosted the main shoot, in Surrey, from September 2017 to January 2018, with reshoots following that August.
Q 28Gemma Jackson, who created the sets of Agrabah for 2019's Aladdin, was production designer on which TV series?
Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones won her an Emmy, and her vision of Aladdin's city earned nominations from the Saturn Awards and the Art Directors Guild.
Q 29A first look at the blue Genie from Disney's 2019 Aladdin was mocked online after airing during which awards show?
The Grammys
The Grammys sneak peek in February 2019 set off a wave of memes, but a second trailer a month later was far better received.
Q 30Memes mocking the blue Genie of Disney's 2019 Aladdin compared him to Tobias Fünke, a character from which sitcom?
Arrested Development
Arrested Development has Tobias paint himself blue in a doomed bid to join the Blue Man Group, a look fans thought the trailer's Genie shared.