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50 free Animated Movies trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Animated movies are where most of us first fell in love with cinema. A drawing, a lump of clay or a few million pixels can make an audience laugh, cry and hum the same tune for years, and the craft behind them has kept changing, from hand-painted cels to computers and stop-motion sets built by hand. This quiz covers the whole field: early Disney classics, the musical hits of the 1990s, Pixar and DreamWorks favourites, Japanese anime, stop-motion films and the newest releases families are watching now. Expect questions on characters, plots, voice casts, songs, studios, awards and the firsts that changed the art form. It is written for family film nights, classroom and party quizzes, and anyone raised on cartoons. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you can play straight through or print the questions for a group.
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Q 01Which princess starred in the 1937 film that Hollywood insiders mocked as "Disney's Folly"?
Snow White
Snow White carried the first cel-animated feature film, a project Walt Disney's own wife and brother tried to talk him out of making.
Q 02Which Shakespeare play about a prince whose uncle kills the king inspired Disney's The Lion King?
Hamlet
Hamlet was the model: studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg told the filmmakers to "put in as much Hamlet as you can".
Q 03In Pixar's Finding Nemo, what kind of fish are Marlin and his son Nemo, who live in a sea anemone?
Clownfish
Clownfish got the part because director Andrew Stanton saw a photograph of two of them peeking out of an anemone.
Q 04Which film, voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, was the first entirely computer-animated feature?
Toy Story
Toy Story was also the first feature Pixar ever produced, and it earned director John Lasseter a Special Achievement Academy Award in 1996.
Q 05Which 2001 film beat Monsters, Inc. to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?
Shrek
Shrek won the inaugural award, and the American Film Institute named it one of the top ten films of 2001, the first animated film it had ever listed.
Q 06Which tech entrepreneur funded the 1986 spin-off of Lucasfilm's graphics group that became Pixar?
Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, the Apple co-founder, became majority shareholder of the new company, which until then had been known simply as the Graphics Group.
Q 07What does costume designer Edna Mode refuse to add to any superhero suit in Pixar's The Incredibles?
Capes
Capes are out because they have a history of getting superheroes killed, a belief confirmed by the fate of the film's villain, Syndrome.
Q 08Which voice of Darth Vader also played Mufasa in both The Lion King and its 2019 remake?
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones was the only member of the original cast to reprise a role when the remake arrived 25 years later.
Q 09Which comedian was allowed to improvise many of his lines as the Genie in Disney's Aladdin?
Robin Williams
Robin Williams was handed topics and dialogue suggestions and set loose, and he is estimated to have improvised 52 characters.
Q 10Which Broadway star, the original Elphaba in Wicked, sings "Let It Go" as Elsa in Disney's Frozen?
Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel took "Let It Go" to number five on the Billboard Hot 100, and the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.
Q 11Which Oscar-winning Studio Ghibli film follows a girl whose parents are turned into pigs by a witch?
Spirited Away
Spirited Away became the first hand-drawn, non-English-language animated film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Q 12Which creator of the Broadway musical Hamilton wrote songs for both Moana and Encanto at Disney?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda landed his first Billboard Hot 100 number one with a song from Encanto, "We Don't Talk About Bruno".
Q 13Which Disney film set animation to classical music, with Mickey Mouse as a sorcerer's apprentice?
Fantasia
Q 21Which new orange emotion, voiced by Maya Hawke, pushes Joy aside in Pixar's Inside Out 2?
Anxiety
Anxiety decides Riley must change to fit in with the older players, so she has the old emotions bottled up and thrown into a vault.
Q 22Which action star voices Maui, the shape-shifting demigod of the wind and sea, in Disney's Moana?
Dwayne Johnson
Dwayne Johnson starred opposite Auliʻi Cravalho, who was making her feature film debut in the title role.
Q 23Which pop star voices Gazelle and sings "Try Everything" in Disney's Zootopia?
Shakira
Shakira also voices Gazelle in the Spanish dubs for Spain and Latin America, and her song for the film was written by Sia and Stargate.
Fantasia grew out of a single Mickey Mouse cartoon that Walt Disney had planned in order to revive the character's declining popularity.
Q 14Which Disney film gave the company its signature song, "When You Wish Upon a Star"?
Pinocchio
Pinocchio's big number won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song and now plays over the production logos that open many Disney films.
Q 15Which Disney villain curses the infant Princess Aurora and was later played by Angelina Jolie?
Maleficent
Maleficent, the self-proclaimed "Mistress of All Evil", casts her curse in revenge for not being invited to the royal christening.
Q 16Which crab sings "Under the Sea" to keep Ariel in the ocean in Disney's The Little Mermaid?
Sebastian
Sebastian started out in early drafts as an English-butler lobster named Clarence, until songwriter Howard Ashman proposed a Jamaican crab instead.
Q 17Which comedian voiced Mushu, the small dragon guardian of the heroine in Disney's Mulan?
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy recorded his lines from his home studio, and the animators kept Mushu small so he would not overwhelm Mulan on screen.
Q 18Which Disney musical was the first animated film nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast remained the only animated nominee until the Best Picture field was widened to ten films.
Q 19Which Pixar film is famous for its opening montage of Carl and Ellie Fredricksen's married life?
Up
Up won two Academy Awards, Best Animated Feature and Best Original Score, and lost its Best Picture nomination to The Hurt Locker.
Q 20Which Mexican holiday is the setting for Pixar's Coco, in which Miguel's family bans all music?
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead is when Miguel bumps the family ofrenda and finds he can interact with his skeletal relatives, who are visiting for the holiday.
Q 24Which supervillain is the boss of the Minions and adopts three orphan girls in Despicable Me?
Gru
Gru goes from malevolent schemer to reformed parent once Margo, Edith and Agnes move in with him.
Q 25Which Kung Fu Panda star sang the ballad "Peaches" as Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie?
Jack Black
Jack Black sang it as a sentimental ballad, though a co-director had first planned a heavier metal track in the vein of Tenacious D.
Q 26Which New York teenager becomes the new Spider-Man in Sony's Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse?
Miles Morales
Miles Morales, voiced by Shameik Moore, is drawn with hand-drawn comic techniques inspired by the work of his co-creator, artist Sara Pichelli.
Q 27What name does Hiccup give the Night Fury he befriends in DreamWorks' How to Train Your Dragon?
Toothless
Toothless is named for his retractable teeth, and Hiccup builds him a harness and a prosthetic fin so the pair can fly together.
Q 28Which creature, offered an umbrella by a girl in the rain, became Studio Ghibli's mascot and logo?
Totoro
Totoro has only a leaf on his head to keep off the rain, which prompts young Satsuki to offer him her father's umbrella.
Q 29Which Studio Ghibli co-founder directed Princess Mononoke and The Boy and the Heron?
Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki retired from feature films in 2013, then came back to make The Boy and the Heron, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Q 30Which song from Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters became the first K-pop song to win an Academy Award?
Golden
Golden is performed by the fictional girl group Huntrix, and off screen it was also the first K-pop song to win a Grammy Award.