70 free Disney Songs trivia questions with answers — music quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
62 free Disney songs trivia questions with answers. Disney songs trivia for family game night, a Disney-themed party or anyone who can still sing every word of Aladdin. This quiz covers nine decades of music, from "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "Heigh-Ho" through the Sherman Brothers, the Menken and Ashman renaissance, Elton John and Phil Collins, and the streaming-era hits of Frozen, Moana and Encanto. You will be asked who really sang the songs (the singing voices behind Jasmine, Mulan, Shang and Esmeralda), which numbers won or lost the Oscar, which pop stars recorded the end-credits versions, and the stories behind the songs: the ballad nearly cut from The Little Mermaid, the tune Walt Disney asked to hear on Friday afternoons, and the villain song a stand-in had to finish. Pixar gets its turn too, from Randy Newman's long-awaited Oscar to Coco and Turning Red. Questions run from easy to expert and each is labelled by difficulty. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and the primary sources it cites, and no lyrics are quoted, so it is safe to play anywhere.
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Q 01Which 1940 film introduced "When You Wish Upon a Star," the first Disney song to win an Academy Award?
Pinocchio
Cliff Edwards sang it as Jiminy Cricket, and the melody later became the Walt Disney Company's signature theme, played over the castle logo.
Q 02Who provided the singing voice for Queen Elsa on "Let It Go" in Frozen (2013)?
Idina Menzel
The song reshaped the film: Elsa was originally written as a villain, and the directors rewrote her as a protagonist after hearing it.
Q 03Which pop star recorded the end-credits version of "Let It Go" for Frozen?
Demi Lovato
The pop cut is a simplified arrangement of the show-tune version and plays over the start of the closing credits.
Q 04"A Whole New World" from Aladdin is the only Disney track ever to take home which honor?
Grammy Song of the Year
The pop duet version also hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in March 1993.
Q 05Who sang Jasmine's part in the film version of "A Whole New World" in Aladdin (1992)?
Lea Salonga
Salonga later sang for a second Disney heroine, providing the vocals for Mulan in 1998, while Brad Kane sang Aladdin's half of the duet.
Q 06Which musician composed "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" and "Hakuna Matata" for The Lion King?
Elton John
Tim Rice wrote the lyrics, and John's own version of the love theme won him a Grammy for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance in 1995.
Q 07The famous opening chant of "Circle of Life" is sung in which language?
Zulu
South African composer Lebo M performed the chant, with Carmen Twillie taking the deep female lead vocal that follows.
Q 08What does the Swahili phrase "Hakuna Matata" mean?
No worries
The song lost the 1995 Oscar to another Lion King number, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight," which took the prize instead.
Q 09Which Caribbean musical style shaped "Under the Sea" in The Little Mermaid?
Calypso
Samuel E. Wright performed it as Sebastian, and its 1989 Oscar was the first for a Disney song in a quarter of a century.
Q 10Which Disney executive ordered "Part of Your World" cut from The Little Mermaid after a test screening?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Lyricist Howard Ashman reportedly said the song could only be removed over his dead body, and the filmmakers won the argument.
Q 11Which actress, voicing Mrs. Potts, sang the title ballad in Beauty and the Beast (1991)?
Angela Lansbury
She doubted the song suited her aging voice, then finished it in a single take; the pop duet with Celine Dion was the soundtrack's only single.
Q 12Who sang "Colors of the Wind" as the singing voice of Pocahontas in the 1995 film?
Judy Kuhn
Vanessa Williams's end-credits version reached the Billboard top ten, and the song swept the Oscar, Golden Globe and Grammy.
Q 13Which singer, then 17, launched her career with the pop version of "Reflection" from Mulan?
Christina Aguilera
Q 21How many letters are in the word "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" from Mary Poppins?
34
It has 14 syllables, and the Oxford English Dictionary traces an earlier spelling of the word to a 1931 newspaper column.
Q 22Which Mary Poppins song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 37th Academy Awards?
Chim Chim Cher-ee
The Sherman Brothers' chimney-sweep waltz beat out the film's more famous tunes for the 1965 Oscar.
Q 23Which Mary Poppins song about tuppence-a-bag breadcrumbs was said to be Walt Disney's favorite?
Feed the Birds
Richard Sherman recalled Walt wandering to his office window on Friday afternoons and simply saying "Play it."
Hitting one difficult note in her audition earned her the recording and a deal with RCA Records; she later called it the note that changed her life.
Q 14Which Genesis frontman wrote and sang "You'll Be in My Heart" for Tarzan (1999)?
Phil Collins
It won the Oscar and the Golden Globe, and a version featuring Glenn Close, who voiced Kala, appears on the soundtrack.
Q 15"Remember Me," the Oscar-winning song from Coco (2017), was written by which songwriting team?
Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez
The married duo behind Frozen's songs won their second Best Original Song Oscar with it; Miguel and Natalia Lafourcade sing the pop version.
Q 16Before 'We Don't Talk About Bruno' in 2022, which duo had the last Disney animated Hot 100 number one, in 1993?
Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle
The Encanto ensemble number was never even submitted for the Oscar; Disney had put forward "Dos Oruguitas" before Bruno unexpectedly exploded.
Q 17Which Colombian singer performed 'Dos Oruguitas', Encanto's Oscar-nominated all-Spanish Lin-Manuel Miranda song?
Sebastián Yatra
It lost the 94th Academy Award to Billie Eilish's "No Time to Die."
Q 18Which Encanto character sings "Surface Pressure," a song about the strain of superhuman strength?
Luisa
Jessica Darrow's number reached number eight on the Hot 100, making Encanto the first Disney film with two top-10 songs on that chart.
Q 19Who performed "How Far I'll Go" in Moana (2016) as the title character?
Auliʻi Cravalho
Alessia Cara cut the pop version, and the song lost the Oscar to "City of Stars" from La La Land.
Q 20Which wrestler-turned-actor sings "You're Welcome" as the demigod Maui in Moana?
Dwayne Johnson
Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jordan Fisher duet on a second version that plays over the end credits.
Q 24Who wrote "The Bare Necessities," the only song kept from an earlier draft of The Jungle Book (1967)?
Terry Gilkyson
Phil Harris sang it as Baloo, and it lost the Oscar to "Talk to the Animals" from Doctor Dolittle.
Q 25Which jazz bandleader voiced King Louie and sang "I Wan'na Be Like You" in The Jungle Book?
Louis Prima
The Shermans wanted a Dixieland sound and built the character around the idea of an ape who is literally the king of the swingers.
Q 26Which character sings "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" in Cinderella (1950)?
The Fairy Godmother
Verna Felton voiced the spell-caster; the song lost the 1951 Oscar to "Mona Lisa."
Q 27"Once Upon a Dream" from Sleeping Beauty borrows its melody from a waltz by which composer?
Tchaikovsky
The 1890 ballet's Garland Waltz supplied the tune; Lana Del Rey recorded a darker cover for Maleficent in 2014.
Q 28How many of the Seven Dwarfs actually sing "Heigh-Ho" in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
Six
Dopey is completely mute, so he marches along without singing a note.
Q 29Which Snow White song became a jazz standard and lent its title to a 1961 Miles Davis album?
Someday My Prince Will Come
Adriana Caselotti sang it in the 1937 film; the American Film Institute ranked it 19th among the greatest movie songs.
Q 30"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah," the second Disney tune to win an Oscar, comes from which 1946 film?
Song of the South
James Baskett sang it as Uncle Remus; since 2020 Disney has removed the song from its US theme parks over the film's racial controversy.