The Emperor's New Groove Trivia
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50 free The Emperor's New Groove trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free The Emperor's New Groove trivia questions with answers. The Emperor's New Groove flopped in 2000 and became one of Disney's most quoted films anyway. This quiz covers the whole story of it: Kuzco the 18-year-old emperor turned llama, Pacha and his hill, Yzma and her potions, Kronk and his diner, the collapsing bridge, the jaguars and the cat, and the summer cabin at the end. The making-of round is the good part. Roger Allers's serious musical Kingdom of the Sun, the Prince and the Pauper plot, Sting's songs and the ending he refused to accept, the six-month shutdown that turned it into a Chuck Jones-style buddy comedy, why Manco became Kuzco, The Sweatbox documentary, the Oscar nomination and the box office numbers. Then Kronk's New Groove and The Emperor's New School, where Kuzco had to graduate to get his throne back. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its spin-offs, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which DreamWorks film, released earlier in 2000, drew comparisons with The Emperor's New Groove?
The Road to El Dorado
The Road to El Dorado, a buddy comedy about a legendary city of gold, opened that March; DreamWorks chief Jeffrey Katzenberg had still been at Disney when that studio began its own film.
Q 02Who directed The Emperor's New Groove?
Mark Dindal
Mark Dindal was brought in to add comedy to Roger Allers's serious epic; when Allers stepped down, Dindal rebuilt the film as a fast slapstick chase.
Q 03Who voices Emperor Kuzco?
David Spade
David Spade's sarcastic delivery was one of two things the story team felt worked in the failed first version, so the new film was built around it.
Q 04Kuzcotopia is Kuzco's gift to himself for which occasion?
His 18th birthday
His 18th birthday: Kuzco tells Pacha the village will be flattened at the next day's party and suggests he pick up some change-of-address forms.
Q 05Who voices Pacha, the village leader who helps Emperor Kuzco?
John Goodman
John Goodman joined after the overhaul, when Pacha was rewritten from a teenage llama herder into an older family man, the emperor's opposite.
Q 06Which singer and actress voices Yzma, Emperor Kuzco's scheming adviser?
Eartha Kitt
Eartha Kitt also recorded a villain song for Yzma, 'Snuff Out the Light'; it was cut along with the original story and released on the soundtrack album instead.
Q 07Who voices Kronk, Yzma's muscular sidekick?
Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton was the writer's instant pick: David Reynolds knew him as Puddy on Seinfeld, and Kronk was a new character invented for the rewrite.
Q 08Wendie Malick voices Chicha, who is what?
Pacha's pregnant wife
Pacha's pregnant wife and her children stall Yzma and Kronk at the house, buying her husband and Kuzco a head start to the palace.
Q 09Kuzco turns into a llama instead of dying because Kronk does what?
Takes the wrong vial
Takes the wrong vial: sent for poison, Kronk serves extract of llama, then tells Yzma her potions all look alike and need relabelling.
Q 10Kuzco boasts that Kuzcotopia, his summer getaway, comes 'complete with' which attraction?
A water slide
A water slide: Kuzco unveils the resort by dropping a model of it onto a model of Pacha's hilltop house, crushing it.
Q 11What does Yzma order Kronk to do with unconscious Kuzco?
Take him out of the city and kill him
Take him out of the city and kill him: that is the order, but Kronk's conscience wins, he pulls the sack back from a waterfall and it ends up on Pacha's cart.
Q 12Pacha rescues llama Kuzco from which animals in the jungle?
Jaguars
Jaguars chase him through the jungle until Pacha comes to the rescue, and it ends with the pair tied to a branch and going over a huge waterfall.
Q 13Kuzco and Pacha are first forced to work together after a fight where?
On a collapsing rope bridge
Q 21In the first version of The Emperor's New Groove, who voiced Huaca, an ancient talking rock?
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein lost the part when Huaca was cut in the rewrite, though the rock survives as a cameo: its likeness holds the candles in the dinner scene.
Q 22Kuzco was first named Manco, a name changed, by one account, because it resembled rude slang in which language?
Japanese
Japanese: producer Randy Fullmer is said to have been horrified to learn what the name sounds like there, and the emperor was renamed before the film reached cinemas.
Q 23The Emperor's New Groove was racing a summer 2000 deadline tied to a promotional deal with which fast-food chain?
McDonald's
On a collapsing rope bridge Kuzco first refuses to help the dangling Pacha, then falls through himself; only by climbing out of the gorge together do they survive.
Q 14Where do Kuzco and Pacha arrive at the same time as Yzma and Kronk, without noticing them?
A roadside diner
A roadside diner that bars llamas: Kuzco is smuggled in disguised as Pacha's bride on honeymoon, while Kronk ends up taking over the kitchen.
Q 15Yzma is turned into what during her final fight with Kuzco?
A cat
A cat: Yzma lunges at Kuzco, crushes one of her own potions and shrinks into a tiny kitten, yet she keeps fighting him for the last antidote.
Q 16Instead of Kuzcotopia, what does Kuzco build at the end?
A shack like Pacha's next door
A shack like Pacha's next door, on the empty neighbouring hill: the emperor who meant to flatten the village ends the film as the family's neighbour.
Q 17The setting of The Emperor's New Groove is inspired by which ancient civilisation?
The Incas
The Incas: Roger Allers chose them over the Aztecs and the Maya when Disney showed him pictures of three ancient cultures as a starting point for his next film.
Q 18What was The Emperor's New Groove called in its original, more serious form?
Kingdom of the Sun
Kingdom of the Sun was planned as a sweeping musical epic; after the story was rebuilt it briefly became Kingdom in the Sun before the final title arrived.
Q 19The first version of The Emperor's New Groove borrowed its plot from which Mark Twain novel?
The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper supplied the swap: a bored emperor traded places with a lookalike peasant, a thread dropped entirely when the story was rebuilt.
Q 20In the scrapped first version of The Emperor's New Groove, why did Yzma plan to blot out the sun?
To stay young forever
To stay young forever: she blamed sunlight for her wrinkles and reasoned that a world of darkness would stop her ageing.
McDonald's had a Happy Meal tie-in planned, yet Disney still shut the film down for six months to rebuild it, and the release slipped from summer to December 2000.
Q 24Writer David Reynolds pitched the rebuilt Emperor's New Groove as a chase in the style of which animator's cartoons?
Chuck Jones
Chuck Jones: Reynolds, a former late-night comedy writer, pitched 'a buddy road picture with two guys being chased', only faster paced, and Disney told him to give it a shot.
Q 25Which musician wrote songs for both the scrapped and finished versions of The Emperor's New Groove?
Sting
Sting learned by phone from producer Randy Fullmer that his songs for the first version were being dropped with its plot, then stayed on to write two new ones.
Q 26Which song from The Emperor's New Groove was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
'My Funny Friend and Me'
'My Funny Friend and Me', the end-credits ballad, was written only after the earlier songs were thrown out with the old plot; it lost the Oscar to Bob Dylan's 'Things Have Changed'.
Q 27Emperor Kuzco did what in a scrapped ending that made the songwriter threaten to quit?
Destroyed a rainforest
Destroyed a rainforest to build Kuzcotopia: the musician, a campaigner for indigenous peoples, wrote that he would resign, and the filmmakers agreed the emperor had learned nothing and rewrote it.
Q 28The Sweatbox, a documentary about the troubled making of The Emperor's New Groove, was made by whom?
Trudie Styler
Trudie Styler was allowed to film the production as a condition of her husband writing its songs; Disney owns the result and has never put it on sale.
Q 29In The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's shoulder devil performs which stunt as his 'reason number two'?
A handstand
A handstand, with a cry of 'Look what I can do': Kronk asks what that has to do with anything, and the shoulder angel cuts in that the devil has a point.
Q 30Which veteran singer voices the Theme Song Guy who performs Kuzco's entrance number?
Tom Jones
Tom Jones sings 'Perfect World' twice: at the start it hails the emperor as the centre of everything, and by the final reprise the closing word has changed from 'me' to 'us'.