Beauty and the Beast (2017)
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50 free Beauty and the Beast (2017) trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast brought the animated classic into live action, with Emma Watson as Belle, a towering computer-built Beast and a castle full of talking furniture. It kept the songs people already loved, added new ones, and became one of the biggest hits of its year. This quiz covers the whole film: who plays whom, what the remake changed about Belle, Maurice and Gaston, the new music, where and how it was shot, and how it fared with critics, censors and audiences. It suits Disney fans, family film nights and anyone who has watched the remake and wants to see how much stuck. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so you pick up the behind-the-scenes stories as you play.
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Q 01Emma Watson, Belle in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, found fame as which Harry Potter character?
Hermione Granger
Hermione Granger made Emma Watson a star across eight films for Warner Bros., a studio once run by Alan Horn. As Disney's chairman, Horn made her his only choice for Belle.
Q 02What did the Beast's actor walk on for much of the 2017 Beauty and the Beast shoot, even when waltzing?
Steel stilts
Steel stilts raised the Beast's actor inside a forty-pound grey suit, so he and Emma Watson rehearsed for three months to keep her feet from being crushed.
Q 03In the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, what killed Belle's mother, a secret Maurice kept for years?
The plague
The plague took Belle's mother, and a doctor's mask left in the family's old home is the clue that finally tells Belle the truth.
Q 04Which singer of the 1991 Beauty and the Beast pop duet returned to record an end-credits song for the 2017 film?
Celine Dion
Celine Dion hesitated to say yes because her husband René Angélil, who had helped her land the 1991 duet, had recently died.
Q 05Which Beauty and the Beast (2017) character briefly waltzes with another man, a scene Malaysia's censors wanted cut?
LeFou
LeFou's dance lasts about three seconds, yet Disney was ready to pull the film from Malaysia rather than trim it. An appeal board then passed it uncut.
Q 06In the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, what does Maurice take from the castle garden that gets him imprisoned?
A rose
A rose for Belle is Maurice's crime, echoing the original French fairy tale, in which a father is caught plucking one for his daughter Beauty.
Q 07How does Gaston die at the end of Disney's 2017 Beauty and the Beast, moments after wounding the Beast?
A bridge collapses
A bridge collapses beneath Gaston after he fires on the Beast from it. An earlier version of the ending had the Enchantress curse him instead.
Q 08Which condition did Emma Watson argue Belle does not show in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm syndrome did not fit, Watson argued, because Belle keeps disagreeing with the Beast and holds on to her independence.
Q 09Which pair recorded the new pop duet of the title song for the 2017 Beauty and the Beast soundtrack?
Ariana Grande and John Legend
Ariana Grande and John Legend kept close to the Grammy-winning 1991 duet, and their video premiered on the Freeform TV network.
Q 10The Beast's actor in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast became famous as Matthew Crawley in which period drama?
Downton Abbey
Downton Abbey made him a star from 2010, and when he chose to leave after three series, Matthew Crawley was killed off in a car crash.
Q 11Which English actor plays the Beast opposite Emma Watson in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens recorded the Beast's face in separate sessions, because the eyes were treated as the character's last human feature.
Q 12Which Welsh actor, Bard the Bowman in The Hobbit films, plays the vain hunter Gaston in Beauty and the Beast (2017)?
Luke Evans
Luke Evans won the part over Idris Elba, who also auditioned, and his Gaston is a war veteran as well as a hunter.
Q 13Which actor, the voice of the snowman Olaf, plays Gaston's sidekick in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
Josh Gad
Josh Gad's sidekick often disagrees with Gaston in this version, and he was later lined up to co-write a Disney+ prequel series about the pair.
Q 21In the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, to which city does magic carry Belle and the Beast to see her childhood home?
Paris
Paris is where Belle was born, and the song she sings there is subtitled Montmartre on the soundtrack, after the district.
Q 22What gift from the Enchantress lets the Beast and Belle travel anywhere in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
A magic book
A magic book carries its readers wherever they wish, and its first trip uncovers the truth about Belle's mother.
Q 23Belle's village in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast takes which name, honouring the fairy tale's original author?
Villeneuve
Villeneuve honours Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, who published the tale in 1740, and the village set was modelled on a real town in southern France.
Q 14Which two-time Oscar winner plays the teapot Mrs Potts and sings the title song in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson holds one Oscar for acting in Howards End and another for writing the screenplay of Sense and Sensibility.
Q 15Which Scottish actor plays Lumière, the candelabra who leads Be Our Guest, in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
Ewan McGregor
Ewan McGregor had already sung on screen in Moulin Rouge!, and here his maître d' is in love with the castle maid Plumette.
Q 16Which Lord of the Rings star plays Cogsworth, the butler turned mantel clock, in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
Ian McKellen
Ian McKellen's Cogsworth has a wife in the 2017 film: Clothilde, a fishmonger played by Haydn Gwynne.
Q 17Which Oscar winner for A Fish Called Wanda plays Belle's father Maurice in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast?
Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline sings in the film too, performing the first version of a new ballad that Belle later reprises.
Q 18Which director of Dreamgirls and two Twilight films made the 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast?
Bill Condon
Bill Condon first backed out when Disney wanted only half the songs, and returned once the studio agreed to a full musical.
Q 19Which composer of the 1991 Beauty and the Beast songs returned to score the 2017 film and write new numbers?
Alan Menken
Alan Menken slipped in a melody from the Broadway show too: an instrumental of the stage song Home plays as Belle first enters her castle room.
Q 20The castle maid loved by Lumière in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast has been turned into what object?
A feather duster
A feather duster is Plumette's cursed form, voiced by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, who joins the castle staff in singing Be Our Guest.
Q 24Stanley Tucci's Maestro Cadenza in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast has been turned into which musical instrument?
A harpsichord
A harpsichord is Cadenza's cursed form, and the neurotic maestro is married to the castle's opera-singing wardrobe.
Q 25Frou-Frou, the pet dog of the castle's opera singer in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, becomes what under the curse?
A footstool
A footstool is the cursed form of Frou-Frou, a Yorkshire Terrier played on screen by a dog named Gizmo.
Q 26Which village outcast in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast rescues Maurice and is later revealed as the Enchantress?
Agathe
Agathe lives beside the villagers as a hermit, and the film's opening narration is spoken by the same actress, Hattie Morahan.
Q 27In the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, what does the Enchantress's curse take from the loved ones of the castle's servants?
Their memories
Their memories of the castle and its people vanish, and the spell lifts only at the end, when the villagers remember again.
Q 28In the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, what does a village headmaster disapprove of Belle teaching a young girl?
How to read
How to read is the lesson that upsets him, though the local chaplain, Père Robert, happily lends Belle volumes from his small chapel library.
Q 29In the 2017 Beauty and the Beast, Gaston abandons Maurice in the forest to be killed by what?
Wolves
Wolves never get the chance: the town hermit rescues Maurice, so Gaston has him sent to an asylum instead.
Q 30Which new song does the Beast sing alone in the 2017 Beauty and the Beast after he lets Belle leave the castle?
Evermore
Evermore replaced If I Can't Love Her, the Beast's solo from the Broadway show, which its composer had first wanted to reuse.