Oliver & Company
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50 free Oliver & Company trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Oliver & Company is Disney's 1988 take on Oliver Twist, with the orphan recast as a kitten, Fagin's gang as a barge full of dogs and Victorian London swapped for late-1980s New York. Billy Joel voiced Dodger, Cheech Marin stole scenes as Tito, Bette Midler belted 'Perfect Isn't Easy', and it became the first animated film to pass $100 million worldwide on its first release. This quiz covers the characters and the making of the film: the breeds and the voices behind them, the Gong Show pitch meeting, the panda subplot that was cut, the telephone audition, the eleven minutes of early CGI, the first product placement in a Disney cartoon, the same-weekend fight with The Land Before Time, the eight-year wait for a VHS release and the band Dodger fronts in House of Mouse. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01Oliver & Company opened on Mickey Mouse's 60th birthday, the anniversary of which cartoon's premiere?
Steamboat Willie
Steamboat Willie premiered on November 18, 1928, the date Disney counts as Mickey's birthday. Sixty years later the studio marked the day by opening its new feature under a commemorative logo.
Q 02In Oliver Twist, the Dickens novel behind Oliver & Company, Fagin trains his gang of boys as what?
Pickpockets
Pickpockets: Oliver runs off in horror the first time he sees the boys lift a gentleman's handkerchief. Disney kept the gang of thieves and turned them into dogs.
Q 03Where do Fagin and his gang of dogs make their home in Oliver & Company?
On a barge
On a barge by the docks, where the dogs look after their penniless owner as much as he looks after them: one scene has them tuck him into bed with a dog biscuit.
Q 04What kind of animal is Oliver, the hero of Oliver & Company?
An orange tabby kitten
An orange tabby kitten: the makers tried Oliver as a dog too, switching back and forth before deciding that the odd one out among dogs would seem most alone.
Q 05Which singer provides the voice of Dodger in Oliver & Company?
Billy Joel
Billy Joel auditioned over the telephone, and said he took his first cartoon role so that his young daughter would have something of his she could watch.
Q 06What do Dodger and Oliver steal together from a street vendor early in Oliver & Company?
Hot dogs
Hot dogs: Dodger uses his new acquaintance as a decoy, then runs off with the whole string, and Oliver chases him across the city to demand a share.
Q 07Which comedian voices Tito the Chihuahua in Oliver & Company?
Cheech Marin
Cheech Marin was about the fifth actor to read for the part. Once he had it, the animators reworked the little dog around his performance.
Q 08Which catchphrase does Tito the Chihuahua keep shouting in Oliver & Company?
Check it out
Check it out, pipes the smallest and loudest of the gang, who also falls for a pampered show dog several times his size.
Q 09What breed is Einstein, the biggest dog in Fagin's gang in Oliver & Company?
Great Dane
Great Dane Einstein is named as a joke: he is the gang's slowest thinker, and stops a limousine by running into it head first.
Q 10Francis, the bulldog in Oliver & Company, is devoted to the plays of which writer?
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare: Francis watches Macbeth on the gang's battered television, and he puts his acting to use by playing a wounded dog in the street.
Q 11A member of which sister act sings Rita's song, Streets of Gold, in Oliver & Company?
The Pointer Sisters
The Pointer Sisters' Ruth Pointer sings it, although a different performer speaks Rita's lines: the character has two voices.
Q 12Who provides the speaking voice of Rita in Oliver & Company?
Sheryl Lee Ralph
Sheryl Lee Ralph came to the role from more than a thousand Broadway performances of Dreamgirls, yet the film hands her character's big song to another singer.
Q 13Who voices Fagin, the down-at-heel thief, in Oliver & Company?
Dom DeLuise
Dom DeLuise's Fagin can't go through with his ransom scheme: finding that the rich owner he meant to squeeze is a little girl with a piggy bank, he hands Oliver back for nothing.
Q 21How does the villain Sykes meet his end in Oliver & Company?
His car collides with a train
His car collides with a train: Sykes drives after the gang's scooter down into the subway and along the tracks, where a train ends the chase.
Q 22Oliver & Company was the first animated feature begun under which new pair of Disney bosses?
Eisner and Katzenberg
Eisner and Katzenberg had wanted to film the same Dickens story as a live-action musical while they were at Paramount. At Disney they made it as a cartoon instead.
Q 23What was the nickname of the Disney pitch meeting where Oliver & Company was first proposed?
The Gong Show
Q 14What is the villain Sykes's line of work in Oliver & Company?
Loan shark
Loan shark Sykes prowls the city in a menacing limousine with two guard dogs, and gives Fagin just three days to pay back what he owes.
Q 15What are the names of Sykes's two Dobermans in Oliver & Company?
Roscoe and DeSoto
Roscoe and DeSoto meet their end in the subway chase, thrown onto the electrified third rail while fighting Oliver and Dodger.
Q 16Who voices Georgette, the pampered show dog, in Oliver & Company?
Bette Midler
Bette Midler's Georgette is so jealous of the newcomer that she helps the gang carry him off, then finds herself dragged along on his rescue.
Q 17What is the name of the girl who adopts Oliver in Oliver & Company?
Jenny Foxworth
Jenny Foxworth gave the animators more trouble than any animal: audiences, the studio's chief said, judge a realistic human far more harshly than a cartoon dog.
Q 18Which future teen idol voiced Oliver in Oliver & Company?
Joey Lawrence
Joey Lawrence recorded the part over more than two years and was twelve by the premiere. As his voice dropped, Oliver's high lines became harder for him to reach.
Q 19In Oliver & Company, what is the name of the butler who looks after Oliver's young owner?
Winston
Winston was redrawn after William Glover recorded the part: the animators made him heavier, shrank his head and gave him daintier hands and feet to suit the voice.
Q 20Who voices the villain Sykes in Oliver & Company?
Robert Loggia
Robert Loggia's Sykes was the last character added to the story. The makers gave him two Dobermans so that his menace could play out at the dogs' level.
The Gong Show was a session at which staff pitched ideas for new features to the studio's bosses. Treasure Planet was pitched at the same meeting and waited more than 15 years to reach the screen.
Q 24Which later Disney hit was first pitched at the same meeting that produced Oliver & Company?
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid was turned down on the spot as too close to a planned sequel to Splash, then revived, and reached cinemas a year after Oliver.
Q 25Which film was Disney's previous animated feature before Oliver & Company?
The Great Mouse Detective
The Great Mouse Detective, of 1986, was already planned when the studio's new management arrived. Oliver & Company was the first feature they started themselves.
Q 26Which future Hollywood director co-wrote the screenplay of Oliver & Company in his early twenties?
James Mangold
James Mangold joined Disney on a writer-director deal at 21, then went back to film school. He later made Walk the Line and Logan.
Q 27An early draft of Oliver & Company had Fagin's gang kidnap what from the Central Park Zoo?
A rare panda
A rare panda stayed in the story for about nine months, until the makers saw that it split the audience's sympathy with Oliver and wrote in a little girl instead.
Q 28In Georgette's song Perfect Isn't Easy, what computer-drawn piece of scenery does she sweep down?
A spiral staircase
A spiral staircase: computers took on the film's rigid objects, from taxis to a cement mixer, so that the animators could spend their time on the characters.
Q 29What occasion do Fagin and his dogs celebrate with Oliver's new owner at the end of Oliver & Company?
Her birthday
Her birthday, the one she had dreaded spending without her parents. During the party the butler takes a call: they will be home the next day.
Q 30Which chart-topping singer co-wrote Georgette's song, Perfect Isn't Easy, for Oliver & Company?
Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow wrote it for an old colleague: in the early 1970s he had been the pianist and accompanist of the star who sings it in the film.