Pinocchio Trivia
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56 free Pinocchio trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
54 free Pinocchio trivia questions with answers. Pinocchio has been lying and growing his nose since 1881, when Carlo Collodi began serialising The Story of a Puppet in an Italian children's paper, and this quiz follows the wooden boy from that book to Disney's 1940 film, and on to the 2022 versions by Robert Zemeckis and Guillermo del Toro. The Disney questions cover Geppetto, Figaro and Cleo, Honest John and Gideon, Stromboli, Pleasure Island, Lampwick, Monstro and Jiminy Cricket's gold badge. The book questions cover the far darker original: the cricket Pinocchio kills with a hammer, the Fox and the Cat, the Field of Miracles, the Terrible Dogfish and the gorilla judge. Easy questions any family can answer sit alongside harder ones on the animators, the voice cast, the box office flop, the Oscars, and how del Toro moved the story to Fascist Italy. Kids can play the first half comfortably; the rest is for the grown-ups. Every answer has been checked against the Wikipedia articles on the novel, the films and the characters, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01Which Italian author wrote The Adventures of Pinocchio?
Carlo Collodi
Collodi was a pen name; Carlo Lorenzini took it from the Tuscan town where his mother was born.
Q 02In the novel, what nickname do the neighbourhood children give Geppetto because of his yellow wig?
Polendina
It refers to polenta, the cornmeal mush his wig resembles, and it annoys him greatly.
Q 03What happens to Pinocchio's nose when he lies?
It grows longer
Pinocchio's nose grows longer with every lie; Disney made it his signature gag, and in Collodi's novel it first sprouts in Chapter 17 when he lies to the Fairy about his gold coins.
Q 04Along with his blue top hat, what does Disney's Jiminy Cricket characteristically carry?
An umbrella
Jiminy Cricket carries an umbrella, which doubles as a cane and a parachute; he is drawn as a dapper 19th-century gentleman with top hat, spats and white gloves.
Q 05What job does the Blue Fairy give Jiminy Cricket?
Pinocchio's conscience
At the end of the film she rewards him with a solid gold badge certifying him as an official conscience.
Q 06What three qualities must Disney's Pinocchio prove to become a real boy?
Brave, truthful and unselfish
The Blue Fairy tells Pinocchio to prove himself brave, truthful and unselfish; he does so by braving the whale to rescue Geppetto, dying in the attempt before she revives him.
Q 07In Disney's Pinocchio, what are the names of Geppetto's pet cat and goldfish?
Figaro and Cleo
Figaro and Cleo were invented by Disney's team, and neither exists in the novel; Figaro went on to become Minnie Mouse's cat.
Q 08In Disney's Pinocchio, what is the name of the con-artist fox who leads Pinocchio astray?
Honest John
Honest John's full name is J. Worthington Foulfellow, and his silent partner Gideon the Cat was meant to be voiced by Mel Blanc.
Q 09Which puppeteer locks Pinocchio in a birdcage after making him the star of his show?
Stromboli
Stromboli cages Pinocchio after his stage debut, planning to chop him into firewood once he stops drawing crowds; Charles Judels voiced both Stromboli and the Coachman.
Q 10What is the name of the place where naughty boys are turned into donkeys in the Disney film?
Pleasure Island
Pleasure Island is where the Coachman's boys turn into donkeys; in Collodi's original it is the Land of Toys, where Pinocchio spends five months before sprouting ears.
Q 11What is the name of the delinquent boy Pinocchio befriends on the way to the island?
Lampwick
Lampwick is the cocky boy who turns fully into a donkey while shooting pool on the island; Collodi's original calls him Lucignolo, usually rendered Candlewick in English.
Q 12What is the name of the whale that swallows Geppetto?
Monstro
Monstro is the sperm whale that swallows Geppetto in the Disney film; his roars came from Thurl Ravenscroft, who later became the voice of Tony the Tiger.
Q 13In Disney's Pinocchio, how does Pinocchio get himself and Geppetto out of the whale Monstro?
He makes it sneeze
He makes it sneeze, but Monstro then smashes their raft and chases them to a cove, where Pinocchio seemingly drowns saving his father.
Q 21In Collodi's original novel, what does Pinocchio do to the Talking Cricket?
Kills it with a hammer
Pinocchio kills the Talking Cricket with a wooden hammer in Chapter 4 of Collodi's novel; the cricket returns as a ghost to keep nagging him, a long way from Disney's top-hatted sidekick.
Q 22In the novel, what does Pinocchio sell to buy a ticket to the marionette theatre?
His school book
Geppetto had sold his only coat to buy that spelling book, which is the point.
Q 23In the book, the Fox and the Cat convince Pinocchio to bury his gold coins where?
The Field of Miracles
Q 14In what year was Disney's animated Pinocchio released?
1940
Disney's Pinocchio premiered in New York on February 7, 1940, and went into general release on February 23, 1940, as the studio's second animated feature after Snow White (1937).
Q 15Which Oscar-winning song from the film became the Walt Disney Company's signature tune?
When You Wish Upon a Star
"When You Wish Upon a Star", sung by Jiminy Cricket over the opening credits, won the 1940 Academy Award for Best Original Song; Disney Cruise Line ships sound its first seven notes as their horn.
Q 16How many competitive Academy Awards did Pinocchio win, the first for any animated feature?
2
Best Original Score and Best Original Song; Snow White had only received an honorary award.
Q 17Why was Pinocchio a box-office disappointment on its first release?
World War II cut off European and Asian markets
It cost $2.6 million, twice as much as Snow White, and only turned a profit after the 1945 reissue.
Q 18Which singer, known as "Ukulele Ike", voiced Jiminy Cricket?
Cliff Edwards
Pinocchio was the first animated film to use celebrity voice actors, and Edwards kept voicing Jiminy into the 1960s.
Q 19How old was Dickie Jones, the boy Walt Disney cast to voice Pinocchio?
12
Dickie Jones was 12 when he recorded Pinocchio; Walt Disney wanted a real child's voice rather than an adult's, and Jones also played a Senate page in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939).
Q 20Which animator designed Jiminy Cricket after nearly quitting Disney when his Snow White scenes were cut?
Ward Kimball
Ward Kimball designed Jiminy Cricket after his Snow White sequences were cut and he nearly quit the studio; he described the result as a little man with an egg head and no ears.
The Fox and the Cat send Pinocchio to the Field of Miracles near the town of Catchfools, where buried coins supposedly grow into a money tree; they dig the coins up themselves while he waits.
Q 24What colour is the Fairy's hair in Collodi's novel?
Turquoise
Collodi's Fairy has turquoise hair, la Fata dai capelli turchini; Disney made her the Blue Fairy, and in the novel she also appears as a little goat with the same coloured coat.
Q 25What kind of sea creature swallows Geppetto in the original book?
A giant dogfish
Collodi's monster is a giant dogfish, il Terribile Pescecane; pescecane literally means dogfish but is the everyday Italian word for shark, and a dolphin describes it as over a kilometre long.
Q 26How was the story originally published between 1881 and 1883?
As a serial in a children's newspaper
It ran as a serial in the Giornale per i bambini, a children's newspaper, under the title The Story of a Puppet from 1881, before the 1883 book edition.
Q 27How did Collodi originally end the serial at Chapter 15, before readers demanded more?
Pinocchio is hanged from a tree
The Fox and the Cat leave him hanging from the Great Oak; the editor's request brought him back with the Fairy's rescue.
Q 28The name Pinocchio is thought to come from a Tuscan word for what?
Pine nut
Pinocchio is a Tuscan word for pine nut; an alternative reading builds it from pino (pine) and occhio (eye), and del Toro's film has the Wood Sprite name him for his pine wood.
Q 29In the novel, what does Master Antonio intend to make from the talking log?
A table leg
Master Antonio, nicknamed Cherry for his red nose, planned to turn the log into a table leg; when it cries "Don't hit me so hard!" he is terrified and gladly hands it to Geppetto.
Q 30In the book, what happens to Pinocchio's feet when he falls asleep by the stove?
They burn off
Pinocchio falls asleep with his feet on the brazier and they burn off; Geppetto, just released from prison, carves him a new pair and gives up his own breakfast of three pears.