70 free DCOM Trivia: Disney Channel Original Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
68 free DCOM Trivia: Disney Channel Original Movies questions with answers. Disney Channel Original Movies have been a rite of passage since Under Wraps kicked off the brand in October 1997. This quiz runs the whole timeline: the late-90s classics like Halloweentown, Zenon, Smart House and Brink!, the mid-2000s boom of Cadet Kelly, The Cheetah Girls and Twitches, the High School Musical ratings explosion, and the modern franchises of Descendants and Zombies right through the 2021 Under Wraps remake and Spin. It is built for people who grew up scheduling their Friday nights around a premiere. Easy questions cover the stars and premises everyone remembers; harder ones dig into filming locations, ratings records, casting near-misses and the 100th-DCOM milestone. A couple touch on Camp Rock, but that franchise gets its own quiz on BrainPickle. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia article for the film in question, so the viewer counts, premiere dates and behind-the-scenes details are as documented, not as half-remembered from a sleepover.
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Q 01Which 1997 mummy comedy is considered the very first Disney Channel Original Movie?
Under Wraps
Bill Fagerbakke played both the mummy and the mom's boyfriend, and the film got a full remake in 2021.
Q 02Before the DCOM brand was introduced in October 1997, what were the network's TV movies branded as?
Premiere Films
The name flipped again briefly to plain 'Disney Original Movie' from March 2023 to August 2024 before reverting.
Q 03Which 2016 remake was celebrated as the 100th Disney Channel Original Movie?
Adventures in Babysitting
Disney marked the milestone with a marathon of the 51 most popular DCOMs over Memorial Day weekend leading up to the premiere.
Q 04The 100th DCOM paired Sofia Carson with which Girl Meets World star as rival babysitters?
Sabrina Carpenter
The pair were cast on the same day in January 2015, and the trailer debuted during an episode of Girl Meets World.
Q 05Which DCOM premiere set an all-time basic cable record with 17.2 million viewers in August 2007?
High School Musical 2
The premiere weekend's three airings added up to more than 33 million viewers, and the record still stands for the network.
Q 06In 2007 a DCOM sequel took the most-watched basic-cable record from Monday Night Football on which network?
ESPN
The football game in question, Giants versus Cowboys in October 2006, had drawn 16 million viewers.
Q 07Troy Bolton's East High is set in Albuquerque, but the 2006 film was primarily shot in which state?
Utah
The story is set at East High in Albuquerque, but the real East High School used for filming is in Salt Lake City.
Q 08How many million viewers watched the January 2006 premiere of High School Musical?
7.7
The film was made for about $4.2 million and its soundtrack went on to top the Billboard 200 twice.
Q 09What is the name of the Evans family's country club where Troy and the Wildcats work in the 2007 sequel?
Lava Springs
The club scenes were shot at Entrada at Snow Canyon Country Club in Utah, while East High returned as a location.
Q 10Which director-choreographer helmed the Wildcats trilogy and the first three Descendants films?
Kenny Ortega
He also choreographed Dirty Dancing and Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and directed The Cheetah Girls 2.
Q 11Which 2009 DCOM ranks second all-time in premiere viewers with 11.4 million?
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
It went on to win the 2010 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.
Q 12In the 2009 DCOM spun off from Selena Gomez's sitcom, the Russos hunt what magical object in the Caribbean?
Stone of Dreams
Alex needs it to reverse a wish that her parents never met, which has erased her family.
Q 13Which 2009 film was the first DCOM ever shot in Puerto Rico?
Princess Protection Program
Q 21Which future star of a self-titled Disney Channel sitcom played Zenon's best friend Nebula Wade?
Raven-Symoné
The film was originally conceived as a pilot for a TV series and became the first DCOM to spawn a sequel.
Q 22Which Disney Channel series premiered immediately after Zenon: The Zequel in January 2001?
Lizzie McGuire
Kirsten Storms would return for a third and final Zenon film in 2004.
Q 23In Smart House, what does the name of the house's virtual assistant PAT stand for?
Personal Applied Technology
Katey Sagal voiced PAT, and the film was directed by Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton.
Selena Gomez then went straight back to the island to shoot the Wizards movie, the second DCOM filmed there.
Q 14Demi Lovato's Rosalinda, hidden in Louisiana in a 2009 DCOM, is princess of which fictional country?
Costa Luna
Hidden in Louisiana as 'Rosie Gonzalez', she claims to be a cousin from Iowa.
Q 15Halloweentown (1998) was shot in which small Oregon town?
St. Helens
St. Helens has hosted anniversary screenings of the film; a bed and breakfast called Nob Hill Riverview stood in for the exterior of Aggie Cromwell's house.
Q 16Which Hollywood legend played the witch grandmother Aggie Cromwell in the Halloweentown films?
Debbie Reynolds
The skeleton cabbie Benny had his voice added in post-production, so the cast acted opposite a silent animatronic.
Q 17What is the name of the Halloweentown mayor who turns out to be the first film's villain?
Kalabar
He is also revealed to be an ex-boyfriend of Marnie's mother Gwen.
Q 18Who replaced Kimberly J. Brown as Marnie in Return to Halloweentown (2006)?
Sara Paxton
The finale sends Marnie to Witch University and pulled 7.5 million viewers at its premiere.
Q 19In what year is Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century set?
2049
The book it adapts was set in 2037; the film pushed the space-station story a dozen years later.
Q 20What is the name of the pop idol Zenon Kar is desperate to see in concert on the space station?
Proto Zoa
His band is called Microbe, and he returns as a washed-up recluse in Zenon: The Zequel.
Q 24Which Star Trek actor and Reading Rainbow host directed Smart House (1999)?
LeVar Burton
Entertainment Weekly has twice ranked Smart House the number one DCOM of all time.
Q 25In Johnny Tsunami, a Hawaiian surfer has to adapt when his family moves to which state?
Vermont
The film was nominated for a Humanitas Prize and got a sequel, Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board, in 2007.
Q 26Brink! (1998) updates which 19th-century novel about a skater?
The Silver Skates
Erik von Detten's 'soul-skater' takes a paid spot on Team X-Bladz to help his family, updating Mary Mapes Dodge's Hans Brinker.
Q 27In The Thirteenth Year, swimmer Cody Griffin discovers on his 13th birthday that he is turning into what?
A merman
His symptoms include electric-shock kisses, sticky hands and scales that appear when he gets wet.
Q 28Motocrossed (2001), where Andrea races disguised as her twin brother, loosely adapts which Shakespeare play?
Twelfth Night
The film was packed with product placement from real motocross brands like Suzuki, Vans, No Fear and Fox Racing.
Q 29In The Luck of the Irish, basketball star Kyle Johnson learns his mother is secretly what?
A leprechaun
The film was conceived as a St. Patrick's Day special and premiered on March 9, 2001.
Q 30How many viewers, in millions, watched the 2002 premiere of Cadet Kelly, then a DCOM record?
7.8
Hilary Duff shot the military-school comedy in Ontario, with the finale filmed at Fort York Armoury in Toronto.