Tarzan Trivia
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59 free Tarzan trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Sep 2026.
52 free Tarzan trivia questions with answers. Tarzan has swung through pulp magazines, silent films, MGM talkies, a Disney animated musical, a Broadway show and a 2016 blockbuster, and this quiz covers the lot. Fifty-two questions range across Edgar Rice Burroughs's 1912 original and its ape language, Johnny Weissmuller's twelve films and the famous yell, Elmo Lincoln, Ron Ely and Christopher Lambert, Disney's 1999 film with Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close and Rosie O'Donnell, the Phil Collins songs and their Oscar, Alexander Skarsgård's The Legend of Tarzan, the Broadway musical, and the Los Angeles neighborhood named after the character. The easy questions ask who created Tarzan and who voiced Jane; the hard ones want the name of the sound recordist behind the yell, the swimmer a producer wanted for the 2016 film, and the actor who was Tarzan for five weeks before Elmo Lincoln. It suits Disney kids who grew up with the songs as much as pulp collectors. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the character, the books, the films and the people involved, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Which future James Bond actor played one of the villains in the 1959 film Tarzan's Greatest Adventure?
Sean Connery
Sean Connery was wanted back for the next Tarzan film even though his character dies, but he was already committed to a spy picture, Dr. No.
Q 02In the language of the great apes, what does the name 'Tarzan' mean?
White skin
White skin is what the apes named him, but the villagers he raided after one of their hunters killed his ape mother believed he was an evil spirit.
Q 03Which Tarzan actor was married to the Hollywood star Lana Turner in the 1950s?
Lex Barker
Lex Barker's career stalled after Tarzan, then revived in Europe, where he became a star playing the hero Old Shatterhand in westerns.
Q 04What is the name of Tarzan's chimpanzee sidekick in the classic Hollywood films?
Cheeta
Cheeta was also the name of a Palm Springs chimp long billed as the films' star, though the author asked to write his biography found reasons to doubt he was in them.
Q 05Who voices Tarzan in Disney's 1999 animated film?
Tony Goldwyn
Tony Goldwyn won the part by grasping that Tarzan sees himself as an animal, his directors said, while Brendan Fraser tested twice and made George of the Jungle instead.
Q 06Which actress voices Jane in Disney's Tarzan?
Minnie Driver
Minnie Driver made Jane 'a lot more British' the moment she came on, one director said, and some of the film's funniest dialogue is her improvising.
Q 07Who voices Tarzan's adoptive mother in Disney's animated Tarzan?
Glenn Close
Glenn Close also sings in the film: her character soothes the baby Tarzan with a lullaby, and her recording of it is on the soundtrack album.
Q 08Rosie O'Donnell voices which character in Disney's Tarzan?
Terk
Terk's voice, Rosie O'Donnell, also sings with the cast on the jungle jam 'Trashin' the Camp', which the soundtrack album offers in a second version with 'N Sync.
Q 09Who wrote and performed the songs for Disney's Tarzan?
Phil Collins
Phil Collins sang them almost as a narrator, because the filmmakers never wanted a loinclothed Tarzan to break into song himself.
Q 10Which song from Disney's Tarzan won the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
You'll Be in My Heart
You'll Be in My Heart began as a lullaby its songwriter wrote for his young daughter, before it became the song Tarzan's ape mother sings to him.
Q 11Burroughs's Tarzan is raised by the fictional Mangani apes, but which animals raise him in Disney's film?
Gorillas
Gorillas were watched in the wild first: the filmmakers' research trip took them to Uganda's Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, home of mountain gorillas.
Q 12Who plays Tarzan in the 2016 film The Legend of Tarzan?
Alexander Skarsgård
Alexander Skarsgård was director David Yates's choice, partly because a Swede who made his career in America seemed not quite to belong to either world.
Q 13Who plays Jane in The Legend of Tarzan (2016)?
Margot Robbie
Margot Robbie won the part, though 2013 reports said director David Yates had wanted Jessica Chastain to play Jane.
Q 21Who starred as the adult Tarzan in the first Tarzan film, 1918's Tarzan of the Apes?
Elmo Lincoln
Elmo Lincoln came back to Tarzan films decades later, not as the star but in bit parts in 1942 and 1949, beside two of his successors.
Q 22After his twelve Tarzan films, Johnny Weissmuller starred as which adventurer in a Columbia film series?
Jungle Jim
Jungle Jim came from a newspaper comic strip, and the series' last three films dropped the name, so Weissmuller played a character called Johnny Weissmuller.
Q 23Which actress played Jane opposite Weissmuller from 1932 to 1942?
Maureen O'Sullivan
Maureen O'Sullivan had been dropped by Fox after six films, but MGM made her Jane, a role she went on to play in six Tarzan films.
Q 14Which Rudyard Kipling character is often cited as an influence on Tarzan?
Mowgli
Mowgli's creator saw the link himself: Rudyard Kipling wrote that he read Tarzan of the Apes, whose author had 'jazzed' the motif of the Jungle Books.
Q 15In the novels, Jane Porter comes from which American city?
Baltimore
Baltimore is her home in the novels, but the 1932 film Tarzan the Ape Man renamed her Jane Parker and made her English instead of American.
Q 16Tarzan first appeared in October 1912 in which pulp magazine?
The All-Story
The All-Story had already serialized Burroughs's first story, a Mars adventure, and its success led him to take up writing full-time.
Q 17In Tarzan of the Apes, which ape king kills Tarzan's father?
Kerchak
Kerchak dies when he finally attacks the grown Tarzan, who kills him with his father's hunting knife and becomes king of the apes.
Q 18What is Tarzan's birth name in the novels?
John Clayton
John Clayton is itself a disguise: the narrator says he gave the principal characters fictitious names, so Tarzan's real name may be something else.
Q 19Tarzan and Jane's son takes which ape name?
Korak
Korak was the ape Akut's choice of name, because Akut could not say the boy's given name, Jack; in the apes' language it means Killer.
Q 20In Tarzan the Terrible, Tarzan rides which surviving dinosaur?
Triceratops
A triceratops, Tarzan says, having once seen its skeleton in a museum in London, though the living beast is not an exact match.
Q 24Which comedian often performed the Tarzan yell on request for the studio audience of her TV show?
Carol Burnett
Carol Burnett taught herself the yell at nine, and audiences asked for it so often at her show's opening Q&A that it became her trademark.
Q 25Which actor played Tarzan in the NBC television series that ran from 1966 to 1968?
Ron Ely
Ron Ely did almost all his own stunts, and by the time the series ended he had suffered broken shoulders among many other injuries.
Q 26Who played Tarzan in the 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes?
Christopher Lambert
Christopher Lambert got the part partly because he was barely known: director Hugh Hudson wanted unknowns as Tarzan and Jane so audiences would accept them as innocents.
Q 27In Disney's Tarzan, what is the name of the leopard that kills Tarzan's parents?
Sabor
Sabor is a lioness in Burroughs's books, but Disney made her a leopard, and the grown Tarzan kills her when she ambushes his ape family.
Q 28Who plays the Belgian villain Captain Léon Rom in The Legend of Tarzan (2016)?
Christoph Waltz
Christoph Waltz played a real officer: historian Adam Hochschild calls Rom one prototype for Conrad's Mr. Kurtz, though other scholars have rejected the link.
Q 29Which comic-book hero did his co-creator describe as 'in the vein of Tarzan'?
Superman
Superman had been a villain in Siegel and Shuster's 1933 story 'The Reign of the Superman', before Siegel recast him as a hero.
Q 30In Tarzan of the Apes, why does Tarzan hide his title?
He wants to spare Jane
He wants to spare Jane: she is to marry the cousin holding his title, so even after a cable says fingerprints prove his claim, Tarzan tells that cousin his mother was an ape.