This Pocahontas trivia quiz has 50 free questions with answers and covers both the Disney film and the woman behind it. From the movie: Irene Bedard and Judy Kuhn sharing the lead role, Mel Gibson's John Smith, Governor Ratcliffe, Meeko, Flit and Percy, Grandmother Willow, the two Oscars for Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz, the record-setting Central Park premiere and the love song that was cut. From history: her real names Amonute and Matoaka, her father Wahunsenacawh, her 1613 capture, her baptism as Rebecca, her marriage to tobacco planter John Rolfe, the trip to London and her death at Gravesend. Early questions suit anyone who grew up on the VHS; later ones reward people who know which supermodels inspired the animation and what the 1616 engraving of her says. Every answer was checked against encyclopaedia entries before publishing.
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Q 01Who provides the speaking voice of Pocahontas in the 1995 Disney film?
Irene Bedard
Bedard later played Pocahontas's mother in Terrence Malick's The New World.
Q 02Which Broadway performer provides Pocahontas's singing voice?
Judy Kuhn
She was hired before Irene Bedard was even cast for the speaking role.
Q 03Which movie star voices John Smith?
Mel Gibson
He also sang his own parts, including 'Mine, Mine, Mine'.
Q 04What is the name of Pocahontas's pet raccoon?
Meeko
Story artist Joe Grant created him along with the hummingbird Flit and a scrapped turkey named Redfeather.
Q 05What kind of animal is Flit?
A hummingbird
He prefers Kocoum to John Smith at first; Frank Welker voices him.
Q 06What breed of dog is Governor Ratcliffe's pet Percy?
A pug
He eventually abandons his owner to befriend Meeko.
Q 07Who voices Grandmother Willow, the talking tree?
Linda Hunt
Hunt had won an Oscar for playing a man in The Year of Living Dangerously.
Q 08Which future Batman voices the young settler who was washed overboard in the opening storm?
Christian Bale
He returned to the story a decade later as John Rolfe in The New World.
Q 09Which activist and actor voices Chief Powhatan?
Russell Means
Means was a leader of the American Indian Movement.
Q 10David Ogden Stiers voices Governor Ratcliffe and which other character?
Wiggins
Wiggins is Ratcliffe's fussy manservant.
Q 11What is Governor Ratcliffe secretly planning to do with the gold he expects to find?
Use it to dethrone King James
There is no gold, and he ends up shipped home in chains.
Q 12What is the name of the ship that carries the settlers from London in the film?
Susan Constant
All three ships of the real 1607 voyage existed; the film keeps just the flagship.
Q 13What is the name of the warrior Pocahontas fears she will be made to marry?
Kocoum
He is shot dead by Thomas, which triggers John Smith's death sentence.
Q 21Roughly how much did Pocahontas gross worldwide?
$346 million
That made it the fifth-highest-grossing film of 1995.
Q 22What was the name of the 1998 direct-to-video sequel?
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
It follows her to England and introduces John Rolfe.
Q 23Which two directors made Pocahontas?
Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
Goldberg grew so frustrated with executive interference that he worked at Chuck Jones Productions under a pseudonym during production.
Q 14What image from Pocahontas's dream turns out to match John Smith's compass?
A spinning arrow
Grandmother Willow helps her read the sign as her destiny.
Q 15How does Pocahontas save John Smith at the film's climax?
She throws herself over him before her father strikes
Ratcliffe then fires at Powhatan and John takes the bullet, sending him back to England for treatment.
Q 16Which two Academy Awards did Pocahontas win?
Best Musical or Comedy Score and Best Original Song
Both went to Alan Menken and lyricist Stephen Schwartz; the song was 'Colors of the Wind'.
Q 17Which song from Pocahontas won the Oscar for Best Original Song?
Colors of the Wind
Vanessa Williams sang the pop version and performed at the premiere.
Q 18Which love song was cut from the film after test audiences of children lost interest?
If I Never Knew You
Menken himself suggested pulling it; it was restored in a later extended cut.
Q 19Where did Pocahontas hold what was then the largest film premiere in history?
New York's Central Park
It set an opening-weekend record for films on fewer than 50 screens that still stands.
Q 20Which Disney film was in production alongside Pocahontas and got fewer of the studio's top animators?
The Lion King
Pocahontas was seen as the prestige project; the other film ended up the far bigger hit.
Q 24Which studio chairman wanted the film to be a romantic epic like Beauty and the Beast?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
It got mixed reviews and no Best Picture nod; Rotten Tomatoes sits at 59%.
Q 25Which supermodel was among the real-life inspirations for Pocahontas's design?
Naomi Campbell
Kate Moss and Christy Turlington were also cited; Dyna Taylor sat for videotaped modelling sessions for nearly three years.
Q 26Why did the filmmakers focus on John Smith rather than the man Pocahontas actually married?
They felt the real story was too complicated and violent
Glen Keane said they chose 'socially responsible' over 'historically accurate' and aged her up.
Q 27What was the real Pocahontas's birth name?
Amonute
Matoaka was a secret name revealed only after her baptism; 'Pocahontas' itself was a childhood nickname.
Q 28According to colonist William Strachey, what did the nickname 'Pocahontas' mean?
Little wanton
Powhatan children got familiar nicknames as their personalities emerged.
Q 29What was the name of Pocahontas's father, leader of the Powhatan Confederacy?
Wahunsenacawh
He was the Mamanatowick of some thirty Algonquian-speaking groups in Tidewater Virginia.
Q 30In which year was the real Pocahontas captured and held for ransom by the English?
1613
Captain Samuel Argall lured her aboard his ship Treasurer with the help of a local weroance.