Disney Characters
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98 free Disney Characters trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Disney characters are the most recognizable cast in the world, but the stories behind them are less familiar: Mickey was nearly called Mortimer, Pete is older than Mickey, Pluto started out as a bloodhound, and Scar was modelled on both Hamlet's Claudius and his own voice actor. This quiz gathers fifty of those facts across a century of animation. The first half covers the classic gang — Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto, Scrooge, the nephews and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit — with their debuts, voices and oddities. The second half moves through the features: Snow White and the Evil Queen, Cinderella and Aurora, Maleficent and Cruella, Ariel and Ursula, Jasmine, the Genie, Scar and Mufasa, Timon and Pumbaa, Mulan, Pocahontas, Tiana, Rapunzel and Flynn, Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven, Moana, Mirabel and Stitch. Easy questions ask who voiced whom; harder ones ask what Pumbaa means in Swahili, which sportscaster was traded for a rabbit, and what Kristoff's design was based on. Fifty questions, every answer checked.
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Q 01Who co-created Mickey Mouse with Walt Disney in 1928?
Ub Iwerks
Ub Iwerks animated the first Mickey cartoon, Plane Crazy, in a matter of weeks, turning out about 700 drawings a day.
Q 02According to Disney legend, what did Walt first want to name Mickey Mouse?
Mortimer
Mortimer is the name in the studio legend, and it came back in 1936 on a rival who competes for Minnie's affections in the short Mickey's Rival.
Q 03According to Disney legend, who talked Walt out of his first name for Mickey Mouse?
Walt's wife, Lillian
Walt's wife, Lillian, is said to have rejected his first choice on the 1928 train ride home from New York and suggested Mickey instead.
Q 04Mickey Mouse was created as a replacement for which earlier Walt Disney character?
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit belonged to Universal, so when Walt lost him in 1928 he set out to create a character whose rights he could keep.
Q 05In 2006 Disney won back an early Walt Disney cartoon character by releasing which sportscaster to NBC?
Al Michaels
Al Michaels wanted out of his ABC and ESPN contract to rejoin John Madden on NBC's Sunday night NFL games, so NBC Universal handed over the character's rights as part of the price.
Q 06What are the names of Minnie Mouse's twin nieces?
Millie and Melody
Millie and Melody appeared in a 1962 comic book story, then made their animated debut almost 50 years later in the preschool series Minnie's Bow-Toons.
Q 07Pluto debuted in 1930's The Chain Gang tracking escaped prisoner Mickey Mouse as what breed of dog?
A bloodhound
A bloodhound with no name in The Chain Gang, he came back later in 1930 as Minnie's dog Rover and only became Mickey's pet Pluto the following year.
Q 08Which Pluto short won an Academy Award in 1942?
Lend a Paw
Lend a Paw has Pluto rescue a kitten, then grow so jealous of it that his shoulder angel and devil fight over whether he should get it into trouble.
Q 09What distinguishes Pluto from the rest of the "Sensational Six"?
He is not dressed as a human
He is not dressed as a human because Pluto was created as an actual pet dog with no speaking voice, while Goofy, also a dog, was created as a human character who walks upright and talks.
Q 10What was Goofy first called in the early 1930s, before he became Goofy?
Dippy Dawg
Dippy Dawg, as he was soon named, first turned up in the audience of Mickey's Revue, laughing loudly at the show in a voice supplied by former circus clown Pinto Colvig.
Q 11What is the name of Goofy's teenage son in the 1995 film A Goofy Movie?
Max
Max is dragged on a father-son fishing trip when he would rather be with his girlfriend Roxanne, and the lie he tells her about why he is leaving causes all sorts of complications.
Q 12What is Donald Duck's middle name, shown on screen in a 1942 wartime cartoon?
Fauntleroy
Fauntleroy appears in Donald Gets Drafted, where the Army's induction order gives Donald's full name, and he soon regrets reporting once his drill sergeant gets hold of him.
Q 13In which 1934 short did Donald Duck first appear?
The Wise Little Hen
The Wise Little Hen has Donald and his friend Peter Pig refuse to help the hen plant and harvest her corn, so when the feast is ready they get none of it.
Q 21Chip 'n' Dale first appeared, still unnamed, storing nuts on an Army base in which 1943 short?
Private Pluto
Private Pluto puts Pluto on Army guard duty at a pillbox that two pesky chipmunks, not yet called Chip and Dale, are using to store their nuts.
Q 22Horace Horsecollar first appeared as a farm horse in which 1929 Mickey Mouse cartoon?
The Plowboy
The Plowboy ends with Horace stung by a bee and bolting until the plow breaks, so Mickey Mouse presses a pig into service as the new plow.
Q 23Who voiced Snow White in Disney's 1937 animated film?
Adriana Caselotti
Adriana Caselotti was 18 when a Disney casting director phoned her father, a singing teacher, in search of voices; listening in on the call, she put herself forward and won the part.
Q 14Daisy Duck first appeared under the name Daisy in which 1940 short?
Mr. Duck Steps Out
Mr. Duck Steps Out follows Donald as he tries to court Daisy on a date while his three nephews keep turning up to cut in.
Q 15In the 1937 short Don Donald, what is the name of the sweetheart Donald Duck tries to win over?
Donna Duck
Donna Duck is the tempestuous sweetheart Donald tries to please in this south-of-the-border short by trading his burro for a car.
Q 16In which fictional U.S. state is the Disney comics city of Duckburg?
Calisota
Calisota is usually read as a blend of California and Minnesota, two states its creator Carl Barks had lived in, and he named it only in a 1952 story.
Q 17Which character did Carl Barks introduce in 1947?
Scrooge McDuck
Scrooge McDuck debuted in Christmas on Bear Mountain, took his name and miserly streak from Dickens's Ebenezer Scrooge, and went on to star in his own comic book series.
Q 18Which of Donald Duck's nephews usually wears green?
Louie
Louie's green was settled only in the 1980s; before that the triplets' colours were swapped freely. Disney's archivist offered a memory aid: that leaves Louie, and leaves are green.
Q 19What scouting organization do Donald Duck's nephews belong to?
Junior Woodchucks
Junior Woodchucks always carry their Guidebook, a small manual that somehow holds the answer to any question, and the nephews lean on it whenever they are stuck.
Q 20Which Disney villain first appeared in 1925, three years before Mickey Mouse?
Pete
Pete, who had a peg leg in his earliest cartoons, harassed the live-action heroine of the silent Alice Comedies before becoming Mickey Mouse's and later Donald Duck's chief nemesis.
Q 24The Evil Queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is sometimes given what name outside the film?
Grimhilde
Grimhilde is never heard in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, which calls the stepmother only the Queen; the name was attached to her outside the film.
Q 25Who voiced Cinderella in Disney's 1950 animated film?
Ilene Woods
Ilene Woods only recorded demos of the film's songs as a favour to two songwriter friends; Walt Disney heard them and offered her the title role.
Q 26What nearly cost singer Mary Costa the voice role of Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty?
Her southern accent
Her southern accent worried the filmmakers until the Tennessee-born singer held a British one: if Vivien Leigh could play a southern belle, they reasoned, a southern girl could play an English princess.
Q 27Maleficent's voice actress Eleanor Audley had earlier voiced which Disney villain?
Lady Tremaine
Lady Tremaine has Eleanor Audley's face as well as her voice: Audley acted out scenes as the animators' live-action model, and Maleficent's features were later drawn from hers too.
Q 28Who steals the puppies for Cruella de Vil?
Jasper and Horace
Jasper and Horace take the 15 puppies to Hell Hall, where Cruella has gathered 84 more for her fur coats, which is how Pongo and Perdita end up with a family of 101.
Q 29What is the name of Ariel's underwater kingdom?
Atlantica
Atlantica falls silent in the 2008 prequel Ariel's Beginning, when a heartbroken King Triton bans music from the kingdom after losing his wife, Queen Athena.
Q 30The Little Mermaid's directors wrote Ursula with which Golden Girls star in mind?
Bea Arthur
Bea Arthur probably never saw the script: her agent read its call for a Bea Arthur-type basso voice as calling her client a witch and turned the directors down.