Sleeping Beauty Trivia
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48 free Sleeping Beauty trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
43 free Sleeping Beauty trivia questions with answers. Sleeping Beauty is really several stories stacked on top of each other: Basile's grim Sun, Moon and Talia, Perrault's tale with the ogress mother-in-law, the Grimms' Little Briar Rose, Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet, Walt Disney's 1959 widescreen epic and the Angelina Jolie Maleficent films. This Sleeping Beauty trivia quiz covers all of them, with the biggest share going to the Disney classic: Aurora and Briar Rose, Prince Phillip, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, Maleficent's dragon, Eyvind Earle's tapestry backgrounds and why the film nearly sank the animation studio. The 48 questions run from easy ones any Disney fan will get to hard ones about voice casting, the ballet's premiere and the fairy tale's oldest versions. Every answer is checked against the original texts and documented production history, not fan sites.
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Q 01In Disney's Sleeping Beauty, what name do the three good fairies give Aurora while hiding her?
Briar Rose
Briar Rose grows up not knowing she is a princess: the fairies tell her only on the day she must go home, moments after she has fallen for a stranger in the forest.
Q 02What is the name of Prince Phillip's father in Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
King Hubert
Prince Phillip's father is King Hubert, the jovial neighbouring monarch who plans the children's wedding with Aurora's father and tipsily toasts it in the 'Skumps' drinking song.
Q 03Maleficent's curse was to strike before what on Aurora's sixteenth birthday?
Sunset
Sunset: the fairies hide her until that very day, then bring her home with the sun still up, just in time for Maleficent to lure her to a spindle.
Q 04Which gifts do Flora and Fauna bestow on baby Aurora before the curse interrupts?
Beauty and song
Beauty and song: Flora and Fauna give theirs, but the third fairy has not yet spoken, so she spends her gift softening Maleficent's curse from death into sleep.
Q 05Which good fairy duels Flora with magic wands over the colour of Aurora's birthday dress?
Merryweather
Merryweather wants Aurora's dress blue while Flora wants pink, and their wand duel sends colours up the chimney, which draws Maleficent's raven to the cottage.
Q 06What is the name of Maleficent's pet raven in Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty?
Diablo
Diablo spies for Maleficent until one of the good fairies turns him to stone. The 2014 film renames him Diaval, a raven she can change into a man.
Q 07What is the name of Prince Phillip's horse in Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
Samson
Samson takes the bribe of an extra bucket of oats and a few carrots to chase the singing, but a branch sweeps Phillip into the water and he snaps, 'No carrots!'
Q 08What is the name of Maleficent's domain in Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty?
The Forbidden Mountain
Maleficent rules from the Forbidden Mountain, a craggy fortress manned by her goons; there she plans to keep Phillip locked up until he is an old man before releasing him to an Aurora who has not aged a day.
Q 09Which weapon do the good fairies give Prince Phillip along with the Shield of Virtue?
The Sword of Truth
The Sword of Truth ends the battle: the fairies enchant it so that Phillip's throw flies straight into the transformed Maleficent's heart.
Q 10Into what creature does Maleficent transform for the climax of Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty?
A fire-breathing dragon
A fire-breathing dragon: animator Eric Cleworth modelled the beast on a rattlesnake, with powerful muscles hauling a bulky body over the rocks.
Q 11Who voiced Princess Aurora in Disney's 1959 film?
Mary Costa
Mary Costa, a Tennessee-born soprano who later sang at the Metropolitan Opera, was cast in 1952 after a chance meeting at a party; her Southern accent nearly cost her the part until she proved she could lose it.
Q 12Eleanor Audley, the voice of Maleficent, had earlier voiced which villain in Disney's Cinderella?
Lady Tremaine
Lady Tremaine, the stepmother, came nine years earlier. Audley at first turned Maleficent down because she was battling tuberculosis, and took the part only once she felt stronger.
Q 13Why did many Disney animators object to Eyvind Earle's backgrounds for Sleeping Beauty?
They upstaged the characters
Q 21What does Maleficent conjure around the sleeping castle to keep Prince Phillip out?
A forest of thorns
A forest of thorns, borrowed with a twist: in Perrault's tale the good fairy grows the thicket to shield the sleeping princess, while Disney hands it to the villain as a weapon.
Q 22What are Aurora's parents called in Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
King Stefan and Queen Leah
King Stefan and Queen Leah, though the film never speaks the queen's name: on screen she is simply the Queen, and Disney's own archive confirms she was left unnamed.
Q 23Aurora was the last Disney princess created in Walt Disney's lifetime; which princess came next, thirty years later?
Ariel
They upstaged the characters: Earle's paintings were so detailed that animators struggled to make figures stand out, though Aurora's animator, Marc Davis, embraced the style.
Q 14Whose ballet supplied the score and songs for Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovsky's ballet runs through the whole score: even the love duet 'Once Upon a Dream' is its Garland Waltz with words added.
Q 15Which singer recorded a dark cover of 'Once Upon a Dream' for the 2014 film Maleficent?
Lana Del Rey
Lana Del Rey slowed the 1959 love duet, itself a waltz lifted from the ballet, into a haunting lullaby that played over the film's trailer.
Q 16Sleeping Beauty was Disney's second widescreen animated feature, after which film?
Lady and the Tramp
Lady and the Tramp came first, in CinemaScope, which already meant extra work filling the wider screen. Sleeping Beauty moved up to 70mm prints, in Super Technirama 70.
Q 17Sleeping Beauty was the last Disney animated feature made with which technique before Xerox copying replaced it?
Hand-inked cels
Hand-inked cels, traced from every drawing, gave way on Disney's next animated feature to Xerox copying, which put the animators' own pencil lines straight onto the cel.
Q 18How did Sleeping Beauty perform at the box office on its original 1959 release?
It lost money
It lost money: the distributor ended about $900,000 down, Disney posted its first annual loss in a decade and the animation department saw mass layoffs. Later re-releases turned it into a hit.
Q 19Which villain was animator Marc Davis's last, two years after Aurora and Maleficent?
Cruella de Vil
Cruella de Vil was Davis's farewell to animation: after One Hundred and One Dalmatians he moved to designing Disneyland attractions, among them Pirates of the Caribbean and the Haunted Mansion.
Q 20Why did Walt Disney first film Sleeping Beauty with costumed actors?
As reference for the animators
As reference for the animators: Walt wanted the characters as lifelike as possible, so Helene Stanley, who had already modelled Cinderella, acted out Aurora's scenes in costume.
Ariel arrived in 1989 with The Little Mermaid, Disney's first animated fairy tale since Sleeping Beauty and the hit that launched the studio's renaissance.
Q 24In Giambattista Basile's version, what pricks the princess's finger instead of a spindle?
A splinter of flax
A splinter of flax lodges under Talia's fingernail and she falls down as if dead; Perrault and the Grimms switched it to a spindle, which is why kings keep burning spinning wheels.
Q 25Perrault's 1697 collection containing Sleeping Beauty is known in English by what title?
Tales of Mother Goose
Tales of Mother Goose renders the book's nickname, Contes de ma mère l'Oye, which soon eclipsed Perrault's formal title, Stories or Tales from Past Times, with Morals.
Q 26In Perrault's tale, why was the old fairy, shut in her tower for fifty years, left uninvited?
She was believed dead
She was believed dead, or else enchanted. The king found her a place at the table, but she muttered threats, so a young fairy hid behind the hangings to speak last and soften the blow.
Q 27For how long does the princess sleep in Perrault's tale?
A hundred years
The young fairy's amendment turns the death into a sleep of a hundred years, after which a king's son will wake her; she also puts the whole palace to sleep so the princess will not wake alone.
Q 28In Perrault's tale, what is the prince's mother, who tries to have Sleeping Beauty and her children cooked?
An ogress
An ogress: her cook hides the family and serves lamb, kid and venison in their place, and when her son rides home she leaps into the tub of vipers she had prepared for them.
Q 29In Perrault's tale, Sleeping Beauty names her daughter Morning (L'Aurore) and her son what?
Day (Le Jour)
Day (Le Jour), so called in the tale because he was even more beautiful than his sister. The ballet, and then Disney, gave her name, Aurora, to the sleeping princess herself.
Q 30In the Grimms' Sleeping Beauty, one wise woman goes uninvited because the king owns only twelve of what?
Golden plates
Golden plates: the kingdom has thirteen wise women, so the one left at home storms into the feast and pronounces the curse herself.