60 free Disney Villains trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
58 free Disney Villains trivia questions with answers. Every Disney fan has a favourite villain, and this quiz has room for all of them. Fifty questions cover the classics (the Evil Queen, Maleficent, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, Lady Tremaine), the Renaissance icons (Ursula, Jafar, Scar, Gaston, Frollo, Hades), the modern twists (Hans, Mother Gothel, King Candy, Bellwether) and Pixar's rogues from Sid and Syndrome to Lotso and Ernesto de la Cruz. The easy questions are family-safe and answerable by anyone who has watched the films: which villain keeps a parrot named Iago, who wants a Dalmatian coat, what animal Yzma turns into. The hard ones dig into voice actors, animators, cut songs and the real people the characters were modelled on. Ideal for a Disney movie night or a themed round at pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the characters, films and songs, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which villain owns a talking parrot named Iago?
Jafar
The parrot's original voice was Gilbert Gottfried; the character shares his name with the schemer in Shakespeare's Othello.
Q 02Cruella de Vil wants a fur coat made from puppies of which dog breed?
Dalmatian
Her name is a pun on 'cruel devil', and her car in the cartoon was modelled on the Rolls-Royce that author Dodie Smith owned herself.
Q 03Ursula gives Ariel how many days as a human to win Prince Eric's kiss?
Three
The sea witch was originally designed with eight tentacles like an octopus, but the count was cut to six to save money on animation.
Q 04In The Lion King, Scar is the brother of which lion?
Mufasa
The character is loosely based on King Claudius, the throne-stealing uncle in Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Q 05Which villain is terrified of a crocodile that swallowed a ticking clock?
Captain Hook
Walt Disney first offered the role to Cary Grant; Hans Conried ended up voicing both Hook and Mr. Darling, as in the stage play.
Q 06The wicked stepmother in Snow White asks which object who is the fairest of them all?
A magic mirror
She was Disney's very first feature-film villain, and her face was inspired by Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich.
Q 07The Huntsman fools the Queen with the heart of which animal instead of Snow White's?
A pig
Furious at the trick, she brews a potion to disguise herself as an old peddler and cooks up the poisoned apple.
Q 08What creature does Maleficent transform into at the end of Sleeping Beauty?
A dragon
Animator Eric Cleworth based the dragon's head movements on a rattlesnake.
Q 09What is the name of Maleficent's pet raven?
Diablo
He spots the fairies' wand duel over the colour of Aurora's dress, which gives away her hiding place.
Q 10In The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma turns Kuzco into which animal?
A llama
Yzma later gets a taste of her own potion and ends the film as a kitten in Kronk's scout troop.
Q 11Which villain hoards the magic of a golden flower to stay young in Tangled?
Mother Gothel
Her look was inspired partly by Cher, to make it obvious on sight that she and Rapunzel are not related.
Q 12Prince Hans of the Southern Isles is how far down the line to his own throne?
Thirteenth
Being unable to inherit at home is his motive for wooing Anna and plotting to seize Arendelle instead.
Q 13Which villain is the vain hunter who wants to marry Belle in Beauty and the Beast?
Gaston
He was the first handsome villain Disney had ever tried to animate, and supervising animator Andreas Deja struggled with the idea at first.
Q 21Which villain from Fantasia is a giant devil who summons spirits on Bald Mountain?
Chernabog
His name comes from Chernobog, a god of Slavic mythology, and he was animated by the Ukrainian-American Bill Tytla.
Q 22Which actress voiced both Lady Tremaine in Cinderella and Maleficent in Sleeping Beauty?
Eleanor Audley
She also performed live-action reference footage for both characters to guide the animators.
Q 23Ursula's look was famously inspired by which drag performer?
Divine
She borrowed Divine's eye make-up, jewellery and body type, and an early design even gave her a mohawk from Pink Flamingos.
Q 14Which Disney villain rules the Underworld and has flaming blue hair?
Hades
His voice actor ad-libbed most of the lines, and animator Nik Ranieri said one one-second scene took him two weeks because the character talks so fast.
Q 15In Hercules, what are the names of the Underworld god's two shape-shifting minions?
Pain and Panic
They fail to finish off baby Hercules with the mortality potion and decide not to tell their boss.
Q 16Judge Claude Frollo is the villain of which Disney film?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Voice actor Tony Jay compared him to Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
Q 17The 'Shadow Man' villain of The Princess and the Frog practises what kind of magic?
Voodoo
He turns Prince Naveen into a frog and plans to marry a disguised Lawrence to Charlotte for the La Bouff fortune.
Q 18Which cat belongs to Cinderella's stepmother and torments the mice Jaq and Gus?
Lucifer
Bruno the dog finally sends him out of a tower window.
Q 19The Queen of Hearts plays croquet using flamingos as mallets and which animals as balls?
Hedgehogs
Her soldiers double as the hoops, and keep leaving the field every time someone is dragged off to be beheaded.
Q 20Shere Khan, the tiger of The Jungle Book, was voiced in 1967 by which suave British actor?
George Sanders
Milt Kahl designed and animated him; Idris Elba took the role in the 2016 remake.
Q 24Who voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid?
Pat Carroll
Howard Ashman recorded Poor Unfortunate Souls himself, playing Ursula, to persuade her to take the role.
Q 25Which Broadway veteran was originally cast as Ursula, then fired over how the song should be performed?
Elaine Stritch
Directors Clements and Musker and lyricist Howard Ashman disagreed over the casting from the start.
Q 26Which actor voiced Scar in the 1994 Lion King?
Jeremy Irons
All three of the others were considered; animator Andreas Deja drew on Irons's performance as Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune.
Q 27Which voice actor, credited as Ed the hyena, secretly sang part of Be Prepared in Scar's place?
Jim Cummings
Cummings, a prolific voice actor who also plays Winnie the Pooh and Tigger, has said he stepped in to finish the number.
Q 28Cruella's animated design was drawn by which legendary Disney animator, who also drew Maleficent?
Marc Davis
Her personality came from actress Tallulah Bankhead and her lanky frame from Mary Wickes, who posed as the live-action model.
Q 29Who played Cruella in Disney's 1996 live-action remake?
Glenn Close
She returned for 102 Dalmatians in 2000, a quarter-century before Emma Stone's punk-era origin story.
Q 30The 2021 film Cruella is set in London during which musical movement?
Punk rock
Estella Miller is first seen as a child in 1964, already ostracised for her half-black, half-white hair.