60 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
In the book the Fairy summons a flock of woodpeckers to peck it back down to size.
Q 04Along with his blue top hat, what does Disney's Jiminy Cricket characteristically carry?
An umbrella
He is dressed like a 19th-century gentleman, right down to spats and Mickey Mouse-style 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
He earns it by diving into the sea to rescue Geppetto from the whale.
Q 07What are the names of Geppetto's pet cat and goldfish in the Disney film?
Figaro and Cleo
Neither pet exists in the novel; Disney's team invented both, and Figaro went on to become Minnie Mouse's cat.
Q 08What is the name of the con-artist fox who leads Pinocchio astray in the Disney film?
Honest John
His 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
He plans to use Pinocchio as firewood once he gets too old to perform; his voice actor Charles Judels also voiced the Coachman.
Q 10What is the name of the place where naughty boys are turned into donkeys in the Disney film?
Pleasure Island
In Collodi's original it is the Land of Toys, and the boys spend five months there before sprouting ears.
Q 11What is the name of the delinquent boy Pinocchio befriends on the way to the island?
Lampwick
Pinocchio watches him turn fully into a donkey while shooting pool; the book calls him Candlewick, or Lucignolo.
Q 12What is the name of the whale that swallows Geppetto?
Monstro
He is a sperm whale voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft, later the voice of Tony the Tiger; the book's monster is a giant dogfish.
Q 13How does Pinocchio get himself and Geppetto out of the whale?
He makes it sneeze
The whale then smashes their raft and chases them to a cove, where Pinocchio seemingly drowns saving his father.
Q 21Which animator designed Jiminy Cricket after nearly quitting Disney when his Snow White scenes were cut?
Ward Kimball
He described his creation as a little man with an egg head and no ears.
Q 22In Collodi's original novel, what does Pinocchio do to the Talking Cricket?
Kills it with a hammer
The cricket returns as a ghost to keep nagging him, which is a long way from Disney's top-hatted sidekick.
Q 23In 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 14In what year was Disney's animated Pinocchio released?
1940
It premiered at New York's Center Theatre on February 7 and went wide on February 23, three years after Snow White.
Q 15Which Oscar-winning song from the film became the Walt Disney Company's signature tune?
When You Wish Upon a Star
Disney Cruise Line ships sound its first seven notes as their horn signal.
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
Disney insisted on a real child rather than an adult, and Jones had just appeared in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
Q 20Which Looney Tunes voice legend recorded Gideon the Cat, only for the character to be made mute?
Mel Blanc
All that survived of sixteen days of recording was a single hiccup, heard three times.
Q 24In the book, the Fox and the Cat convince Pinocchio to bury his gold coins where?
The Field of Miracles
They dig the coins up while he waits, and a gorilla judge then jails him for four months for the crime of foolishness.
Q 25What colour is the Fairy's hair in Collodi's novel?
Turquoise
Disney turned la Fata dai capelli turchini into the Blue Fairy, and the Fairy also appears in the book as a little goat with the same hair.
Q 26What kind of sea creature swallows Geppetto in the original book?
A giant dogfish
Pescecane literally means dogfish but is the everyday Italian word for shark; it is described as a mile long and five storeys high.
Q 27How was the story originally published between 1881 and 1883?
As a serial in a children's newspaper
It ran in the Giornale per i bambini as The Story of a Puppet before the 1883 book edition.
Q 28How 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 29Roughly how many languages has The Adventures of Pinocchio been translated into?
About 260
It is often called the most translated Italian book and, after the Bible, the most widely read.
Q 30The man who wrote Pinocchio under the pen name Collodi had what real surname?
Lorenzini
He was born in Florence in 1826 and took his pen name from his mother's home town of Collodi.