50 free Sleeping Beauty trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 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 50 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 is the Brothers Grimm's name for the princess, so Disney folded both traditions into one heroine.
Q 02What are the names of the three good fairies in Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
Flora, Fauna and Merryweather
Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston fought Walt's wish to make them identical, insisting each have a distinct personality.
Q 03On which birthday does Maleficent's curse say Aurora will prick her finger and die?
Her 16th
Merryweather softens the curse to a deep sleep broken by true love's kiss.
Q 04Which gifts do Flora and Fauna bestow on baby Aurora before the curse interrupts?
Beauty and song
Merryweather saves her own gift and uses it to soften the curse.
Q 05Which blue-clad good fairy duels Flora with magic wands over the colour of Aurora's birthday dress?
Merryweather
Flora is red and Fauna green; the colour-changing dress fight is what draws Maleficent's raven to the cottage.
Q 06What is the name of Maleficent's pet raven in the 1959 film?
Diablo
He ends the film turned to stone by Merryweather; the 2014 film renamed the character Diaval and made him a shapeshifting man.
Q 07What is the name of Prince Phillip's horse in Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
Samson
Milt Kahl animated the horse and modelled him partly on the drawings of Ronald Searle.
Q 08What is the name of Maleficent's domain in the 1959 film?
The Forbidden Mountain
There she plans to keep Phillip locked up until he's an old man before releasing him to a still-young Aurora.
Q 09Which two magical items do the fairies give Prince Phillip to fight Maleficent?
The Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue
The fairies enchant the sword so it flies into the dragon's heart.
Q 10Into what creature does Maleficent transform for the climax of the 1959 film?
A fire-breathing dragon
Animator Eric Cleworth modelled the beast on a rattlesnake's heavy, muscular movement.
Q 11Who voiced Princess Aurora in Disney's 1959 film?
Mary Costa
Walt searched three years for the voice; Costa's Tennessee accent nearly cost her the part until she proved she could lose it.
Q 12Eleanor Audley, the voice of Maleficent, had earlier voiced which Disney villain?
Lady Tremaine
Walt personally suggested her; she initially declined because she was recovering from tuberculosis.
Q 13Which artist devised the film's flat, tapestry-like art style inspired by pre-Renaissance European art?
Eyvind Earle
Animators found his backgrounds so detailed the characters struggled to stand out, and he refused to compromise.
Q 21In which century is Disney's Sleeping Beauty set?
The 14th
Aurora is betrothed at her christening to Phillip, son of King Hubert, to unite the two kingdoms.
Q 22What are the names of Aurora's parents in the Disney film?
King Stefan and Queen Leah
Live-action reference for Stefan came from Hans Conried, better known as the voice of Captain Hook.
Q 23Which Italian author wrote 'Sun, Moon, and Talia', the first fully developed literary Sleeping Beauty?
Giambattista Basile
It appeared in his Pentamerone in the 1630s; in it the sleeping Talia is assaulted and gives birth to twins before waking.
Q 14Whose 1889 ballet supplied the score and songs for Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
Tchaikovsky
George Bruns adapted it; only 'Once Upon a Dream' survived from the original Broadway-style song score.
Q 15'Once Upon a Dream' borrows its melody from which piece in the 1890 ballet?
The Garland Waltz
Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain wrote the lyrics; Lana Del Rey covered it for the 2014 Maleficent.
Q 16Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film released in which widescreen process?
Super Technirama 70
It was only the second animated feature shot in anamorphic widescreen, after Lady and the Tramp.
Q 17Roughly how much did Sleeping Beauty cost to make, a record for a Disney animated feature at the time?
$6 million
It took nearly a decade and initially lost money, leading to layoffs at the animation studio.
Q 18How did Sleeping Beauty perform at the box office on its original 1959 release?
It lost money
It grossed $5.3 million and lost about $900,000; re-releases later made it a classic.
Q 19Which Disney legend was the supervising animator of both Aurora and Maleficent?
Marc Davis
He took Maleficent's look from a painting in a Czechoslovak art book and added the horns and bat-wing collar.
Q 20Which actress, who had also modelled Cinderella, provided live-action reference for Aurora?
Helene Stanley
Walt insisted on live-action reference; animators like Milt Kahl found it constraining.
Q 24In Basile's version, what pricks the princess's finger instead of a spindle?
A splinter of flax
Perrault and the Grimms switched it to a spindle, which is why kings keep burning spinning wheels.
Q 25Which French author published the Sleeping Beauty version Disney credits, in 1697?
Charles Perrault
Perrault's tale is titled La Belle au bois dormant, and its prince wakes her with a look, not a kiss.
Q 26How many good fairies are invited to the christening in Perrault's version?
Seven
An eighth, forgotten fairy who hadn't left her tower in fifty years delivers the curse.
Q 27For how long does the princess sleep in Perrault's tale?
A hundred years
A good fairy puts the whole palace to sleep with her so she won't wake up alone.
Q 28In Perrault's tale, what is the prince's mother, who tries to have Sleeping Beauty and her children cooked?
An ogress
The cook hides the children and serves lamb instead; the ogress ends up in the death she planned for them.
Q 29What are the names of Sleeping Beauty's two children in Perrault's version?
Morning and Day
Disney borrowed the daughter's name, Aurore, for the princess herself.
Q 30What did the Brothers Grimm title their version of Sleeping Beauty?
Little Briar Rose
They nearly rejected it as too French, but the sleeping Brynhild of Norse saga persuaded them it was authentically Germanic.