Bambi Trivia
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50 free Bambi trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Bambi trivia questions with answers. Bambi is the Disney film everyone remembers for one scene, but its history is stranger than the mother's death: an Austrian novel banned by the Nazis and translated into English by a future Soviet spy, a studio zoo with two fawns, a Chinese-born artist whose paintings shaped every frame and who was credited only as a background painter, a hunting magazine that objected on regulatory grounds, and a sequel that arrived 64 years later. This quiz covers all of it, plus the characters (Thumper, Flower, Faline, Friend Owl, Ronno), the voices, the songs and the Oscar nominations. Early questions suit anyone who saw it as a child (which animal Flower is, what 'twitterpated' means). Later ones are for Disney historians: the fawns' names, the first re-release year, and what percentage of the studio's budget the film cost. Good for a family movie night or a Disney fan quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film, the novel, the characters and Bambi II, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01In Bambi, what is the first word the newborn fawn learns to say?
Bird
Bird. Thumper coaches him until he shouts it, and the proud fawn promptly calls a passing butterfly a bird as well.
Q 02Bambi held its world premiere in August 1942 not in America but in which city?
London
London. Bambi opened there days before its American release, and with a war on its first run earned far less than Disney had hoped.
Q 03MGM's Sidney Franklin bought the Bambi rights in 1933 hoping to make what, before urging Disney to animate it?
A live-action film
A live-action film. He soon judged an all-animal cast too hard to shoot, passed the idea to Walt Disney and stayed on as an adviser; the finished picture is dedicated to him.
Q 04Disney first planned Bambi as its second animated feature, but which film took that slot instead?
Pinocchio
Pinocchio. Animators struggled to draw believable deer and to lighten the novel's grim story, so Bambi was postponed and finally arrived as the studio's fifth feature.
Q 05Salten's Bambi was a European roe deer, so which American species did Disney make him instead?
White-tailed deer
White-tailed deer. Roe deer are a European species, so Disney moved the story to American woods and sent artist Maurice 'Jake' Day to photograph the forests of Maine for reference.
Q 06What were the two live fawns kept at the Disney studio as models for Bambi's animators called?
Bambi and Faline
Bambi and Faline. The donated pair were studied alongside zoo trips and lectures from animal experts, because Walt wanted deer that moved like real animals.
Q 07Which artist shaped Bambi's forest look but was credited only as a background artist?
Tyrus Wong
Tyrus Wong. He spent only three years at Disney, yet his paintings set the colour schemes and the appearance of the forest for the whole film; the studio named him a Disney Legend in 2001.
Q 08Which character, a striped skunk, is one of Bambi's two best friends?
Flower
Flower. Bambi, still learning to talk, calls the skunk a 'pretty flower', and the bashful skunk says he can call him that if he wants to.
Q 09In Bambi, how does Thumper describe the frozen pond before coaxing the fawn onto the ice?
The water's stiff
The water's stiff. Thumper skates out to prove it, then coaches the sprawling fawn to 'watch both ends at the same time'.
Q 10Who first taught Thumper the rule his mother makes him recite, 'If you can't say something nice, don't say nothing at all'?
His father
His father. When Thumper says the newborn prince 'doesn't walk very good', his mother asks what his father told him that morning, and he sheepishly recites it.
Q 11Disney's Thumper was adapted from which character in Salten's novel?
Friend Hare
Friend Hare. In the book he is a gentle, anxious adult whose wife is killed in the hunt; Disney recast him as a cheeky child and expanded the part.
Q 12Donnie Dunagan, the voice of young Bambi, kept the role secret for decades while serving where?
The Marine Corps
The Marine Corps. He fought in Vietnam and retired as a major, and told nobody about the film because he didn't want his recruits calling him 'Major Bambi'.
Q 13What word does Friend Owl use to warn the young animals about falling in love in springtime?
Twitterpated
Twitterpated. Bambi and his two friends swear it will never happen to them, and within minutes each has fallen for the first female he meets.
Q 21Which film topped the AFI's 2008 list of the greatest animated films, on which Bambi came third?
Snow White
Snow White. The top three places all went to films Walt Disney made before 1943, so Bambi, a box-office letdown in its day, outranked every animated film made since.
Q 22Nazi Germany banned Salten's Bambi after reading the deer's story as an allegory of what?
The persecution of Jews
The persecution of Jews. Salten, a Jewish writer in Vienna, saw his books burned, and after Germany annexed Austria in 1938 he moved to Switzerland, where he spent his last years.
Q 23Who produced the first English translation of Bambi in 1928, later becoming notorious for other reasons?
Whittaker Chambers
Q 14What do the forest animals call the unseen killer of Bambi's mother?
Man
Man. He is known only by his gunshots, yet the American Film Institute ranked him 20th among the greatest screen villains.
Q 15How does the film present the death of Bambi's mother?
Off screen
Off screen. Shots ring out as the pair run, and only when the fawn reaches the thicket alone does the Great Prince tell him his mother can't be with him any more.
Q 16What starts the forest fire at the climax of Bambi?
A campfire
A campfire. It gets out of control at the camp, and the Great Prince has to urge his son to his feet so the two can outrun the flames.
Q 17'Little April Shower' is better remembered, but which Bambi ballad earned the film's Oscar nomination for Best Song?
Love Is a Song
Love Is a Song. It lost the Oscar to 'White Christmas', and with its score and sound nominations also beaten, Bambi left the ceremony empty-handed.
Q 18Which Disney live-action comedy was also loosely based on a Felix Salten novel?
The Shaggy Dog
The Shaggy Dog. Its boy-turns-into-a-sheepdog plot came from Salten's The Hound of Florence, after Bambi led Walt Disney to buy up more of the author's books.
Q 19Outdoor Life's editor wired Disney that shooting a doe in spring was illegal, urging what addition to Bambi?
A foreword calling it fantasy
A foreword calling it fantasy. The hunting magazine's editor had just seen a preview; when Disney declined, his editorial branded Bambi 'the worst insult ever offered' to American sportsmen.
Q 20Which musician has credited the death of Bambi's mother for his initial interest in animal rights?
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney. He told a schools newspaper in 2005 that the shooting made him 'grow up thinking hunting isn't cool', and he went on to campaign against hunting and fur.
Whittaker Chambers. He was soon spying for the Soviets, yet his version remained the only English Bambi available for almost a century.
Q 24Some critics call Salten's Bambi one of the first novels of what kind?
Environmental
Environmental. Salten, himself a keen hunter, wrote the forest from the animals' side, where humans appear only as 'He', a danger they cannot understand.
Q 25Where does the story of Bambi II (2006) fall in relation to the original film?
Midway through it
Midway through it. The follow-up fills the gap after the fawn is orphaned: the Great Prince first plans to hand him to a foster doe, then warms to raising his son himself.
Q 26Who voices the Great Prince of the Forest in Bambi II?
Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart. The Great Prince, a remote figure in 1942, gets far more to do in the follow-up, and Variety praised Stewart's mix of gravitas and melancholy.
Q 27In Marv Newland's 1969 cult cartoon short, a grazing Bambi is flattened by which movie monster?
Godzilla
Godzilla. The student film is a single joke: long opening credits roll over a peaceful fawn, then one giant foot comes down and the closing credits begin.
Q 28Which company distributed Bambi to theatres in 1942?
RKO Radio Pictures
RKO Radio Pictures. RKO had released Disney's features since 1937, until Walt founded his own distributor, Buena Vista, in 1953 and took the business in-house.
Q 29Bambi and Thumper are the names of two acrobatic bodyguards who fight which screen hero in a 1971 film?
James Bond
James Bond. In Diamonds Are Forever the two acrobats give Sean Connery's 007 a thorough beating at a desert hideaway before he defeats them and frees their captive.
Q 30Bambi's rival for the doe's affections, seen in both films, is a young buck named what?
Ronno
Ronno. The name comes from Salten's novel, where he is an older stag who limps from a bullet wound and loves to tell how he got away on three legs.