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148 free Disney Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
50 free Disney Movies trivia questions with answers. Kids know their movies better than most adults, and this quiz is built for them. It runs 148 questions on the films children actually watch on repeat: Frozen, Moana, Encanto, Toy Story, The Lion King, Finding Nemo, Coco, Zootopia and the Disney classics their parents grew up on. Most questions are pitched so an 8- to 12-year-old can answer them without help: character names, sidekicks, songs, magic objects and which film a scene comes from. A handful near the end are harder, about the studio's history and the people behind the films, so grown-ups playing along still have something to chew on. Every answer has been checked against a reference source, shown under each question once you answer, so it is safe for a classroom movie day, a birthday party or a family quiz night.
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Q 01What was the first full-length animated feature film produced by Walt Disney?
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was mocked around Hollywood as 'Disney's Folly' while it was being made, then became the most successful film released in 1938.
Q 02Which Disney character was nearly named 'Mortimer' until Walt's wife objected?
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse was to be Mortimer, the story goes, until Lillian Disney talked Walt into Mickey instead; a 1936 cartoon later handed the name Mortimer to his rival for Minnie's affections.
Q 03In 'The Lion King' (1994), what is the name of Simba's mother?
Sarabi
Sarabi stands up to Scar when the Pride Lands are starving, telling him he is not half the king Mufasa was; he strikes her down just as the grown Simba steps out of the shadows.
Q 04Which Pixar short film, shown before 'The Incredibles,' features a sheep that gets sheared?
Boundin'
Boundin' (2003) is a Pixar short about a dancing sheep who loses confidence after being sheared, but is taught by a jackalope to keep bouncing back. It was shown before The Incredibles in theaters.
Q 05What is the name of the villain in Disney's 'The Little Mermaid'?
Ursula
Ursula is the sea witch villain in The Little Mermaid (1989). She was voiced by Pat Carroll and was inspired by the drag queen Divine.
Q 06Which Disney Renaissance film features the song 'A Whole New World'?
Aladdin
Aladdin, posing as Prince Ali, sings it on a magic-carpet ride; by the end of the flight the princess has worked out that he is the boy she met in the marketplace.
Q 07Who voiced Woody in the 'Toy Story' franchise?
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks has voiced Woody since the original Toy Story (1995). His brother Jim Hanks voices the character in many video games and merchandise.
Q 08Which California city is home to Disneyland?
Anaheim
Anaheim won out because the plot Walt first wanted, a strip of land beside his Burbank studio, was too small for his ideas; a research institute's survey pointed him to the city's orange groves instead.
Q 09In 'Frozen,' what is the name of the kingdom where Elsa and Anna live?
Arendelle
Arendelle's setting comes from Nærøyfjord, a branch of Norway's longest fjord: the film's art director took a team to Norway and came home with its sheer rock walls and stave-church rooflines.
Q 10Which Disney film was the first animated feature up for the Best Picture Academy Award?
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast was first shown unfinished at the New York Film Festival, two months before its release, and got a standing ovation; at the Oscars it lost Best Picture to The Silence of the Lambs.
Q 11What is the name of the clownfish father who crosses the ocean to find his son, Nemo?
Marlin
Marlin was first recorded by William H. Macy; with most of the dialogue done, the director decided the fretful father needed a lighter touch and recast the part with Albert Brooks.
Q 12Which actress voiced Elsa in Disney's 'Frozen'?
Idina Menzel
Idina Menzel had auditioned for a lead in Tangled and lost out, but the casting director kept a recording of her singing and played it to the Frozen team, who brought her in for Elsa.
Q 13Disney paid about $7.4 billion in stock for Pixar Animation Studios in which year?
2006
The all-stock deal, agreed on January 24, 2006, valued Pixar at about $7.4 billion and made Steve Jobs Disney's largest individual shareholder.
Q 21Who composed the orchestral score for 'The Lion King' (1994)?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer did not want to score a cartoon and took the job so his young daughter could see his work; having lost his own father as a boy, he poured that grief into the music for Mufasa's death.
Q 22In 'Tangled', the magic flower Mother Gothel uses to stay young grew from what?
A drop of sunlight
In Tangled (2010) the golden flower grew from a drop of sunlight that fell to earth; the king's soldiers dig it up to heal the ailing pregnant queen, and its power passes into Rapunzel's hair.
Q 23Which Pixar film is set mostly in the mind of an 11-year-old girl named Riley?
Inside Out
Q 14What is the name of Moana's pet pig?
Pua
Pua is Moana's pet pig in Moana (2016); he stays home on Motunui while the dim-witted rooster Heihei stows away on her voyage.
Q 15Which Disney Princess is based on a real historical figure rather than a fairy tale or legend?
Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a real Powhatan girl of about ten or eleven when the English reached Jamestown in 1607; she later married the tobacco planter John Rolfe, not John Smith.
Q 16In 'Moana,' what is the name of the demigod voiced by Dwayne Johnson?
Maui
Maui was first drawn short and bald; the film's panel of Pacific Islander advisers objected, and he was reworked with the broad frame and thick, flowing hair he has on screen.
Q 17What was the first Pixar film to win the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?
Finding Nemo
Finding Nemo won at the 2004 ceremony; two years earlier Pixar's Monsters, Inc. had been up for the very first Best Animated Feature Oscar and lost it to Shrek.
Q 18Which Disney villain has a pet raven named Diablo?
Maleficent
Maleficent sends her raven to find the hidden princess after her goons fail; he spots the fairies' magic, overhears their secret and reports back, and is later turned to stone.
Q 19In Pixar's 'Coco', which holiday is the Rivera family celebrating when Miguel crosses over to meet his ancestors?
Day of the Dead
Day of the Dead got Disney into trouble before the film existed: in 2013 it applied to trademark the phrase 'Día de los Muertos', then withdrew after a backlash from Mexican-American critics.
Q 20Which Disney animated film features a character named 'Baymax'?
Big Hero 6
Big Hero 6 owes Baymax's huggable look to real soft robotics: the director wanted a robot nobody had seen before and found it in an inflatable vinyl arm built by Carnegie Mellon researchers.
Inside Out began at home: director Pete Docter watched his own daughter's personality change as she grew older and wondered what was going on in her head.
Q 24In 'Zootopia', what species is the rookie cop Judy?
Rabbit
Rabbit Judy was the sidekick for most of production: the con artist Nick Wilde had the lead until November 2014, when the filmmakers reversed the roles and rebuilt the story around her.
Q 25What is Prince Eric's sheepdog called in 'The Little Mermaid'?
Max
Max, Prince Eric's sheepdog, is the first to know that the mute girl on the beach is the one who saved his master, long before Eric himself works it out.
Q 26Robin Williams famously ad-libbed much of his dialogue as which Disney character?
Genie in 'Aladdin'
Genie in 'Aladdin' was written with Williams in mind: the animators won him over by setting one of his stand-up routines to Genie animation, then let him improvise an estimated 52 characters.
Q 27Which Disney princess keeps a pet tiger named Rajah?
Jasmine
Jasmine's tiger Rajah guards her in the palace and sees off unwanted suitors: the arrogant Prince Achmed storms out with a bite taken from the seat of his trousers.
Q 28'When You Wish Upon a Star', the Oscar-winning song that became the Disney company's anthem, originates in which animated film?
Pinocchio
Pinocchio gave the song to Jiminy Cricket, yet the film itself failed at the box office at first: the Second World War had cut off its European and Asian markets.
Q 29Which Disney heroine did Emma Watson play in a 2017 live-action remake?
Belle
Belle was the part Watson wanted: she had already turned down the lead in Disney's live-action Cinderella, saying that character did not resonate with her.
Q 30What is the name of the kingdom in 'Tangled'?
Corona
Corona means 'crown', and a crown sets the plot moving: the thief Flynn Rider is fleeing with the lost princess's tiara when he stumbles on Rapunzel's tower.