Pocahontas Trivia
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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
Irene Bedard, an Alaska-born actress, was the speaking voice of Pocahontas (1995) and later played Pocahontas's mother in Terrence Malick's The New World (2005).
Q 02Which Broadway performer provides Pocahontas's singing voice?
Judy Kuhn
Judy Kuhn, a Tony-nominated Broadway performer from Les Misérables and Chess, provided Pocahontas's singing voice and was hired before the speaking role was cast.
Q 03Which movie star voices John Smith?
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson voices John Smith in Pocahontas (1995) and sang his own parts, including 'Mine, Mine, Mine' alongside David Ogden Stiers's Ratcliffe.
Q 04What is the name of Pocahontas's pet raccoon?
Meeko
Meeko, the greedy raccoon, was created by veteran Disney story artist Joe Grant, who had worked at the studio since the 1930s; John Kassir provides his chattering.
Q 05What kind of animal is Flit?
A hummingbird
A hummingbird named Flit, voiced by Frank Welker, is Pocahontas's prickly companion; he distrusts John Smith at first and fusses over Pocahontas.
Q 06What breed of dog is Governor Ratcliffe's pet Percy?
A pug
A pug named Percy is Governor Ratcliffe's pampered pet, bathed and fed cherries aboard ship; he ends the film having abandoned his owner for Pocahontas's side.
Q 07Who voices Grandmother Willow, the talking tree?
Linda Hunt
Linda Hunt voices Grandmother Willow; she had won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing a man, Billy Kwan, in The Year of Living Dangerously (1982).
Q 08Which future Batman voices the young settler who was washed overboard in the opening storm?
Christian Bale
Christian Bale voices the young settler who falls overboard and is rescued by John Smith; Bale later played Pocahontas's eventual husband in Terrence Malick's The New World (2005).
Q 09Which activist and actor voices Chief Powhatan?
Russell Means
Russell Means, a leader of the American Indian Movement who took part in the 1973 Wounded Knee occupation, voices Chief Powhatan; he also played Chingachgook in The Last of the Mohicans.
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
The Susan Constant, flagship of the real 1607 voyage, is the only one of its three ships (with Godspeed and Discovery) that the film shows carrying the settlers.
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
Pocahontas grossed about $346 million worldwide on a budget of roughly $55 million, placing it among the top five films of 1995.
Q 22What was the name of the 1998 direct-to-video sequel?
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998) sends her to England as an envoy to King James, with Ratcliffe scheming against her at court.
Q 23Which two directors made Pocahontas?
Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg
Q 14What image from Pocahontas's dream turns out to match John Smith's compass?
A spinning arrow
A spinning arrow is the image from Pocahontas's recurring dream; when John Smith's compass needle spins, Grandmother Willow helps her read it as pointing to her path.
Q 15How does Pocahontas save John Smith at the film's climax?
She throws herself over him before her father strikes
She throws herself over him before her father strikes, saying he will have to kill her too; Ratcliffe then fires at Powhatan, and John Smith takes the bullet and is shipped home for treatment.
Q 16Which two Academy Awards did Pocahontas win?
Best Musical or Comedy Score and Best Original Song
Best Musical or Comedy Score and Best Original Song both went to Pocahontas at the 1996 Academy Awards, with composer Alan Menken sharing the song award with his lyricist.
Q 17Which song from Pocahontas won the Oscar for Best Original Song?
Colors of the Wind
'Colors of the Wind' won Best Original Song at the 1996 Oscars; Vanessa Williams sang the pop version over the end credits 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
'If I Never Knew You', the love duet for Pocahontas and John Smith, was cut after test screenings with children; it was restored for the 2005 tenth-anniversary DVD.
Q 19Where did Pocahontas hold what was then the largest film premiere in history?
New York's Central Park
New York's Central Park hosted the premiere on the Great Lawn on 10 June 1995, a free screening on giant outdoor screens that drew a record crowd.
Q 20Which Disney film was in production alongside Pocahontas and got fewer of the studio's top animators?
The Lion King
The Lion King was in production at the same time, and most of Disney's top animators chose Pocahontas as the prestige project; The Lion King went on to be the far bigger hit.
Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg directed Pocahontas; Gabriel had co-directed The Rescuers Down Under and Goldberg had been the supervising animator of the Genie in Aladdin.
Q 24Which studio chairman wanted the film to be a romantic epic like Beauty and the Beast?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg, then Disney's studio chairman, pushed for a romantic epic in the mould of Beauty and the Beast and hoped for a Best Picture nomination; the film received mixed reviews and none.
Q 25Which supermodel was among the real-life inspirations for Pocahontas's design?
Naomi Campbell
Naomi Campbell was among the real women, along with Christy Turlington and model Dyna Taylor, whose features the animators blended for Pocahontas's design.
Q 26What is the name of Pocahontas's best friend in the film?
Nakoma
Nakoma, Pocahontas's loyal best friend, is voiced by Michelle St. John; worried for her friend, she sends a warrior after Pocahontas, which leads to the tragedy at the glade.
Q 27What was the real Pocahontas's birth name?
Amonute
Amonute was the formal name given at birth; she also had a private name, Matoaka, revealed only after her baptism, while 'Pocahontas' was a childhood nickname.
Q 28According to colonist William Strachey, what did the nickname 'Pocahontas' mean?
Little wanton
'Little wanton', meaning a playful or mischievous child, is William Strachey's gloss of the nickname Pocahontas; her people gave children such familiar names as their personalities emerged.
Q 29What was the name of Pocahontas's father, leader of the Powhatan Confederacy?
Wahunsenacawh
Wahunsenacawh, known to the English simply as Powhatan, was mamanatowick or paramount chief 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
In 1613 Captain Samuel Argall lured Pocahontas aboard his ship Treasurer with the help of Japazaws, a Patawomeck weroance, and held her to bargain with her father.