Mulan Trivia
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100 free Mulan trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free Mulan trivia questions with answers. Mulan began as a 1,500-year-old Chinese folk song about a woman who served twelve years in the army before her comrades realised she was a woman, and became a Disney film that launched Christina Aguilera, needed two voices for its heroine and gave McDonald's a sauce that Rick and Morty later revived. This quiz runs 100 questions on the 1998 film (Mushu, Cri-Kee, Shan Yu, the avalanche, the Florida studio, the songs, the awards, the China release), the 2020 Niki Caro remake with Liu Yifei (no Mushu, the Rourans, Premier Access, the credits controversy), Mulan II, and the original Ballad of Mulan and the debate over whether she ever existed. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know who Xu Wei was. Every answer has been checked against reference sources, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a Disney movie night, a classroom unit on Chinese legends or a film round at pub trivia.
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Q 01Who provides the speaking voice of Mulan in the 1998 Disney film?
Ming-Na Wen
Lea Salonga was cast to speak and sing, but the directors did not buy her attempt at a deeper 'Ping' voice, so Wen was brought in to speak while Salonga sang.
Q 02Who sings Mulan's songs, including 'Reflection', in the 1998 film?
Lea Salonga
She had already been Jasmine's singing voice in Aladdin, and returned to sing Mulan in Mulan II.
Q 03Who voices Mushu, the tiny disgraced family guardian dragon?
Eddie Murphy
Pesci and Dreyfuss were approached first; Michael Eisner suggested Murphy. A sixth song written for Mushu was dropped after Murphy came aboard.
Q 04BD Wong speaks Captain Li Shang, but who sings 'I'll Make a Man Out of You'?
Donny Osmond
Osmond had auditioned to be the speaking voice of Hercules; Jackie Chan voiced Shang in all three Chinese-language dubs.
Q 05Which action star voiced Li Shang in the Chinese-language versions of the 1998 film?
Jackie Chan
He also appeared in the Chinese promotional video for 'I'll Make a Man Out of You'.
Q 06What name does Mulan use when she poses as a male recruit?
Fa Ping
In the 2020 remake she is 'Hua Jun'; her father in the animated film is Fa Zhou.
Q 07Who are the three fellow recruits who become Mulan's friends?
Yao, Ling and Chien-Po
Harvey Fierstein voices Yao; James Hong is the pompous counsel Chi-Fu.
Q 08What is the name of the Hun leader in the 1998 film?
Shan Yu
Miguel Ferrer voices him; Mushu finally fires him into a fireworks tower with a giant skyrocket.
Q 09How does Mulan wipe out most of the Hun army in the mountain pass?
She fires a cannon to trigger an avalanche
She is wounded doing it, which is how Shang and the men discover she is a woman.
Q 10What is the name of the 'lucky' cricket that accompanies Mushu?
Cri-Kee
Veteran story artist Joe Grant created him and slipped sketches under the directors' door until they gave in; Little Brother is the family dog.
Q 11What gifts does the Emperor give Mulan at the end?
His crest and Shan Yu's sword
She turns down his offer to join the royal council and goes home to dinner with her family, and Shang.
Q 12Which pop star's first US single was 'Reflection' from the Mulan soundtrack?
Christina Aguilera
The soundtrack is credited with launching her career; her self-titled debut followed in 1999.
Q 13Who wrote the songs for Mulan after Stephen Schwartz left the project?
Matthew Wilder and David Zippel
Wilder was hired after a Disney executive heard his demo for a stage musical of Anne Rice's Cry to Heaven; Jerry Goldsmith wrote the score.
Q 21Why did China delay and restrict Mulan's release there in 1998?
Anger over the Disney-funded Dalai Lama biopic Kundun
It was let in only after Chinese New Year and did poorly, hurt by piracy.
Q 22Who voices the Emperor of China in the 1998 film?
Pat Morita
Soon-Tek Oh voices Mulan's father Fa Zhou and June Foray her grandmother, with Marni Nixon singing.
Q 23Which art style did the designers deliberately move toward for Mulan?
Chinese painting with watercolour and simple lines
Q 14Mulan was the first of three features produced mainly at which animation outpost?
Bay Lake, Florida
The Florida studio at Disney-MGM Studios had opened in 1989 to make shorts; Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear followed.
Q 15How much did the 1998 Mulan gross worldwide?
$304 million
It cost $90 million and was the year's seventh-highest-grossing film, though it opened second behind The X-Files.
Q 16Which of these did the 1998 film win?
The Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
It was only nominated for the Oscar and Golden Globe for its music.
Q 17What was the film's earliest concept, before it became the story we know?
A Tootsie-style romantic comedy about a tomboy betrothed to Shang
A separate straight-to-video project called China Doll, about a Chinese girl rescued by a British prince, was also in development.
Q 18What was the crowd-simulation software developed to animate 2,000 Hun soldiers called?
Attila
Faux Plane was a separate tool used for the Great Wall and Forbidden City shots.
Q 19Where did the creative team travel in June 1994 for research?
China
They visited Beijing, Datong, Luoyang, Xi'an, Jiayuguan, Dunhuang and Guilin; the flags on the Great Wall inspired producer Pam Coats.
Q 20Which McDonald's promotion for Mulan was revived in 2017 because of a Rick and Morty episode?
Szechuan sauce for Chicken McNuggets
Disney had spent only $30 million marketing the film, half of what Hercules got the year before.
It was a reaction against the dense detail of The Lion King and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Q 24Who plays Mulan in the 2020 live-action film?
Liu Yifei
She also dubbed her own role in Mandarin and sang a Mandarin version of 'Reflection' for the soundtrack.
Q 25Who directed the 2020 Mulan?
Niki Caro
The New Zealander shot it in New Zealand and Asia between August and November 2018.
Q 26Which beloved character was cut from the 2020 remake because of his poor reception in China?
Mushu
Shang was also split into two characters, Commander Tung and the recruit Chen Honghui.
Q 27How was the 2020 Mulan released in the US in September 2020?
On Disney+ behind a Premier Access paywall
The pandemic cancelled its US theatrical run; it made only $69.9 million in cinemas elsewhere against a $200 million budget.
Q 28Who plays the shape-shifting witch Xianniang in the 2020 film?
Gong Li
She turns into a hawk and takes an arrow meant for Mulan; Jet Li plays the Emperor.
Q 29Who are the invaders in the 2020 film, replacing the animated film's Huns?
The Rourans
Jason Scott Lee plays their leader Böri Khan; the Rourans were the real enemy in the original Ballad's Northern Wei setting.
Q 30Ming-Na Wen cameos in the 2020 remake in what role?
The guest who presents Mulan to the Emperor
Donnie Yen plays Commander Tung, one of the two characters based on Li Shang.