50 free Corpse Bride trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
44 free Corpse Bride trivia questions with answers. Corpse Bride is 77 minutes of stop-motion Gothic romance, made frame by frame in a London studio while Johnny Depp was playing Willy Wonka by day. This quiz covers the film from the fish-merchant Van Dorts and the broke Everglots to the Land of the Dead: Emily's murder, Scraps the dog, Elder Gutknecht, Bonejangles, the Wine of Ages and the butterflies at the end. It also digs into how it was made: the Jewish folktale that inspired it, the digital still cameras, Laika, the Oscar nomination and the Danny Elfman songs, plus a few questions on The Nightmare Before Christmas and Frankenweenie for context. Easy questions ask who voices Victor and how he ends up married to a corpse. The hard ones want the studio it was animated in, the film that beat it at the box office and the Annie Award it won. It suits a Halloween movie night or any Burton fan. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its makers, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Who voices Victor Van Dort in Corpse Bride?
Johnny Depp
He was recording Victor by night while playing Willy Wonka by day for Burton's other film.
Q 02Who voices Emily, the Corpse Bride?
Helena Bonham Carter
Burton immediately brought regular collaborators Depp, Bonham Carter and Danny Elfman aboard.
Q 03Who voices Victoria Everglot, Victor's living fiancee?
Emily Watson
None of the cast recorded together, apart from Albert Finney and Joanna Lumley in a few scenes.
Q 04Which two directors are credited on Corpse Bride?
Tim Burton and Mike Johnson
Johnson worked with the crew day to day while Burton set the emotional tone.
Q 05What business are Victor's nouveau riche parents in?
Fish merchants
The Van Dorts want the marriage to raise their social class; the Everglots need the money.
Q 06How does Victor accidentally marry Emily?
He places his ring on what he thinks is a tree root
He is practising his vows in the forest after ruining the rehearsal.
Q 07What does Victor set on fire during the wedding rehearsal?
Lady Everglot's dress
He also forgets his vows and drops the ring.
Q 08What is the name of Victor's dead dog, whom he meets again in the Land of the Dead?
Scraps
Sparky is the dog in Burton's Frankenweenie and Zero is Jack Skellington's ghost dog.
Q 09Who rules the Land of the Dead?
Elder Gutknecht
He is voiced by Michael Gough, Burton's Alfred from the Batman films.
Q 10Who turns out to be Emily's murderer?
Lord Barkis Bittern
He killed her on the night of their elopement and stole her family's jewels and gold.
Q 11Which actor voices Barkis Bittern?
Richard E. Grant
Barkis dies after mockingly toasting Emily with the poisoned Wine of Ages.
Q 12What is the name of the poison Victor intends to drink so he can marry Emily in death?
The Wine of Ages
Barkis unwittingly drinks it instead.
Q 13What does Emily turn into at the end of the film?
A swarm of butterflies
She releases Victor from his vow and returns his ring so he can marry Victoria.
Q 21To whom is Corpse Bride dedicated?
Joe Ranft
The executive producer died a month before the film's release.
Q 22Which live-action Burton film was made at the same time as Corpse Bride?
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Work on Corpse Bride began in November 2003 as Big Fish was wrapping up.
Q 23What kind of camera was Corpse Bride shot with, unlike The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Canon digital SLR still cameras
It is often cited as the first stop-motion feature shot with digital SLRs.
Q 14Which horror legend voices the bad-tempered Pastor Galswells?
Christopher Lee
Lee also worked with Burton on Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Q 15Which of the film's musicians voices Bonejangles, the one-eyed singing skeleton?
Danny Elfman
He also provided Jack Skellington's singing voice in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Q 16Who voices Lady Maudeline Everglot?
Joanna Lumley
Albert Finney voices her husband Lord Finis Everglot.
Q 17Which comedian voices both Victor's mother Nell Van Dort and the maid Hildegarde?
Tracey Ullman
Paul Whitehouse likewise doubles as William Van Dort and Mayhew the coachman.
Q 18Deep Roy, who played all the Oompa-Loompas for Burton, voices which Corpse Bride character?
General Bonesapart
He is a diminutive skeleton in military uniform.
Q 19Which actress voices both the Black Widow Spider and Mrs. Plum?
Jane Horrocks
Enn Reitel voices the Maggot and the Town Crier.
Q 20Corpse Bride was inspired by a 17th-century tale from which tradition?
Jewish folklore
Joe Ranft introduced it to Burton while they were finishing The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Q 24At which London studio was Corpse Bride animated?
3 Mills Studios
Burton later shot Frankenweenie at the same studio.
Q 25Which animation company co-produced Corpse Bride with Tim Burton Productions?
Laika
Laika went on to make Coraline and Kubo and the Two Strings.
Q 26Which studio distributed Corpse Bride?
Warner Bros.
It was released in the US on September 23, 2005.
Q 27At which film festival did Corpse Bride have its world premiere?
Venice
It premiered on September 7, 2005, at the 62nd edition.
Q 28Which film kept Corpse Bride from number one on its US opening weekend?
Flightplan
Corpse Bride opened to $19.1 million.
Q 29Roughly how much did Corpse Bride gross worldwide?
$118 million
France, the UK and Japan were the biggest overseas markets.
Q 30Corpse Bride was nominated for which Academy Award?
Best Animated Feature
It lost to Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.