Maleficent Trivia
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49 free Maleficent trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Maleficent reached theaters on May 30, 2014, retelling Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty from the point of view of its horned villain. Angelina Jolie took the title role and an executive-producer credit, Robert Stromberg made his directing debut after winning production-design Oscars for Avatar and Alice in Wonderland, and Linda Woolverton's script went through at least fifteen drafts before the cameras rolled at Pinewood Studios. The result split critics but grossed more than $758 million, the fourth-biggest film of the year, and earned an Oscar nomination for its costumes. This quiz covers the story (the iron bracelet, the three pixies, the curse and the kiss that finally breaks it), the cast (Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Sam Riley and the Jolie children on set), the long development from a 2003 animated pitch through Tim Burton's involvement, the cut scenes with Miranda Richardson and Peter Capaldi, the Lana Del Rey cover of Once Upon a Dream, and the box-office and home-video numbers. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play in sets of ten or print it out for a Disney night.
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Q 01When Aurora finally meets Maleficent face to face, who does she happily decide the stranger must be?
Her fairy godmother
Her fairy godmother. Aurora has sensed someone watching over her all her life, and never guesses that her protector is the one who cursed her.
Q 02Maleficent's director won design Oscars for Alice in Wonderland and which James Cameron film?
Avatar
Avatar. After a director hunt, Disney bet that Robert Stromberg, the designer who had built Pandora and Wonderland, could build Maleficent's world from the director's chair too.
Q 03Maleficent's screenwriter, Linda Woolverton, also wrote which Disney animated classic?
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast. Linda Woolverton said the hard part of Maleficent was turning a villain into a hero while keeping her a villain, a line Angelina Jolie kept reminding her of.
Q 04Which director was attached to Maleficent for years before scheduling clashes pulled him off the project?
Tim Burton
Tim Burton. Producer Don Hahn pitched it to him with a Marc Davis drawing of the villain, which Burton took and pinned to his wall, but his other films kept getting in the way.
Q 05Maleficent was shot at which British film studio?
Pinewood Studios
Pinewood Studios. The home base of the James Bond films gave its backlot to a five-month shoot in 2012, and the crew built a fairy kingdom there with a river valley and a waterfall.
Q 06Where did the film premiere on May 28, 2014?
El Capitan Theatre
The Hollywood cinema is Disney-owned and two days later the film opened wide.
Q 07Maleficent earned its only Oscar nomination in which category?
Best Costume Design
Best Costume Design. Anna B. Sheppard was hired late and had about eight weeks to dress pixies, royal courts and two armies; the Oscar went to The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Q 08What is the name of the magical forest realm Maleficent protects?
The Moors
The Moors. The realm has no ruler until the betrayed Maleficent declares herself its queen, and she ends the film by naming Aurora queen in her place.
Q 09In Maleficent, which metal burns fairies at a touch, giving King Stefan a weapon against her?
Iron
Iron. Stefan sets his blacksmiths forging it into weapons and armour for years, turning his castle into a fortress built to kill one fairy.
Q 10Diaval, Maleficent's shape-shifting servant, is what kind of bird?
A raven
A raven. Maleficent saves him from a farmer by turning him into a man, and in return he becomes her loyal spy, sent ahead to watch the castle.
Q 11Who plays Diaval in Maleficent?
Sam Riley
Sam Riley. He prepared with movement coaches, and called it some of the most embarrassing hours he ever spent on a film: flapping his arms around a big room making cawing noises.
Q 12Who plays King Stefan in Maleficent?
Sharlto Copley
Sharlto Copley. The District 9 star called Stefan a cautionary tale for men: a man so set on being king of his castle that he gives up his true love to get there.
Q 13Who plays Princess Aurora in Maleficent?
Elle Fanning
Elle Fanning. Producer Don Hahn remembered watching Super 8 and asking who she was; she was 14 when she filmed her scenes opposite Angelina Jolie.
Q 21The idea for Maleficent's prosthetic cheekbones came from which pop star's music video?
Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga. Angelina Jolie pointed to the bony ridges the singer wore on her forehead in the Born This Way video, and the makeup designer moved them down to her cheeks for a more elegant line.
Q 22Who plays Prince Philip in the 2014 film Maleficent?
Brenton Thwaites
Brenton Thwaites. His later series Titans is why he missed the sequel: its schedule clashed with the shoot, so Harris Dickinson took over as the prince.
Q 23What does Maleficent raise around her realm to keep King Stefan's army out?
A wall of thorns
A wall of thorns. In the 1959 film she conjures thorns to keep the prince from the castle; here the same magic shields her own home from an army.
Q 14What scornful pet name does Maleficent give Aurora, starting when the princess is a baby?
Beastie
Beastie. Maleficent first says it to the smiling baby while insisting she hates her, and over the years the insult turns into a term of affection.
Q 15In Maleficent, the fairies Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are renamed as which trio of bumbling pixies?
Knotgrass, Flittle and Thistlewit
Knotgrass, Flittle and Thistlewit. The wise guardians of 1959 become comic relief: the producer said they have as much talent for raising a child as he has for piloting a rocket ship.
Q 16Which actress plays the eldest and bossiest of the three pixies in Maleficent?
Imelda Staunton
Imelda Staunton called her character the most important pixie, in her own mind; co-star Lesley Manville likened her to a schoolmistress whose job one of the others is after.
Q 17Maleficent's curse has Aurora prick her finger on what?
A spindle
A spindle. Stefan has every spinning wheel in the kingdom burned and the wreckage locked in his dungeon, which is exactly where the curse leads Aurora sixteen years later.
Q 18How does Maleficent finally wake Aurora?
A kiss
A kiss. After Prince Philip's fails, her regretful goodbye kiss on Aurora's forehead turns out to be the true love's kiss she had sworn did not exist.
Q 19In the first Maleficent film, what does Maleficent turn Diaval into for the final battle in Stefan's castle?
A dragon
A dragon. In the 1959 animated film it was Maleficent herself who turned into one, to stop the prince from reaching the castle.
Q 20How does King Stefan die in Maleficent?
A fall from the tower
A fall from the tower. Maleficent decides to spare him, but he attacks her from behind and takes them both over the edge, and only one of them survives the drop.
Q 24Which Broadway musical inspired Disney's first pitch for a Maleficent origin story?
Wicked
Wicked. Producer Don Hahn says villains with backstories were in fashion on stage and screen, so the pitch was to do 'a Wicked thing' with Disney's most glamorous one.
Q 25What does Stefan cut from the drugged Maleficent and carry home as proof that he has killed her?
Her wings
Her wings. Unable to kill her, he presents them to the old king as proof she is dead, and years later it is his own daughter who sets them free.
Q 26Who plays Queen Ingrith, Prince Philip's scheming mother, in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil?
Michelle Pfeiffer
Michelle Pfeiffer. Her queen secretly plots to wipe out the fairy folk, and pays for it after the battle, when Maleficent turns her into a goat.
Q 27Maleficent's director, Robert Stromberg, had just finished designing which fantasy film for the same producer?
Oz the Great and Powerful
Oz the Great and Powerful. Producer Joe Roth said the designer was itching to direct, so Disney had him build Oz first on the promise of a film of his own.
Q 28Mistress of Evil reveals that Maleficent is the last descendant of which mythical bird?
The Phoenix
The Phoenix. The sequel makes good on it: struck down in battle, Maleficent crumbles to ash, then rises again when Aurora's tears fall on what is left.
Q 29Which Doctor Who star shot scenes as Maleficent's royal uncle, only to be cut from the finished film?
Peter Capaldi
Peter Capaldi. He and Miranda Richardson played her uncle and aunt in a longer opening, which the director trimmed by about 15 minutes to reach the human story sooner.
Q 30In Maleficent, the future King Stefan first turns up in her forest as what?
A peasant boy
A peasant boy. The film swaps the born king of the 1959 story for an orphan who sleeps in a barn and is caught trying to steal a jewel.