The Fox and the Hound
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49 free The Fox and the Hound trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Fox and the Hound is the 1981 Disney animated feature about Tod, an orphaned red fox raised by Widow Tweed, and Copper, the hound pup next door who grows up to hunt him. It was the last film touched by Disney's Nine Old Men and the first for a new generation that included Tim Burton, Brad Bird, John Lasseter and Glen Keane, and it was made through a power struggle so bitter that Don Bluth and sixteen other animators walked out in the middle of it. This quiz covers the film from every angle: the voice cast and the actors who turned the roles down, the Daniel P. Mannix novel it softened almost beyond recognition, the fight over whether Chief should die, the cut Charo musical number, the $12 million budget, the box office, the awards, the home video history and the 2006 direct-to-DVD midquel with its band of singing strays. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01Which Disney film came out before The Fox and the Hound?
The Aristocats
The Aristocats came out in 1970. The Fox and the Hound was due at Christmas 1980, but an animators' walkout pushed it back to July 1981.
Q 02Who voiced the adult Tod?
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Rooney's grown-up Tod risks his life to save Copper in the climax, and Copper repays him by standing between the fox and the hunter's gun.
Q 03Which actor, cast while filming a TV movie about Elvis, voiced the adult Copper?
Kurt Russell
Kurt Russell arrived with the army haircut from his Elvis shoot, got through more than half the film in one afternoon and needed only one more session.
Q 04The Fox and the Hound's author, Daniel P. Mannix, also wrote a 1958 book on Roman games that inspired which film?
Gladiator
Gladiator's screenwriter David Franzoni was introduced to Mannix's Those About to Die on a round-the-world motorcycle trip, and its picture of the arenas as a sports franchise gave him his angle.
Q 05What kind of bird is Big Mama, the character who arranges Tod's adoption?
An owl
An owl, Big Mama finds the orphaned cub a home and later warns him, in the song 'Lack of Education', that his best friend is being raised to hunt foxes.
Q 06Who adopts the orphaned fox kit and names him Tod?
Widow Tweed
Widow Tweed raises Tod on her farm until her hunter neighbor vows revenge on him; realizing she can't protect the fox forever, she drives him away and sets him free.
Q 07What is the name of the hunter who raises Copper?
Amos Slade
Amos Slade ends the film caught in one of his own traps and saved by the fox he came to kill; back home, his neighbor has to bandage his leg.
Q 08What do Dinky the sparrow and his woodpecker friend keep trying to catch in The Fox and the Hound?
A caterpillar
A caterpillar called Squeaks gives the two birds the slip all film long, then ends the chase for good by turning into a butterfly and flying off.
Q 09Who shows Tod how to survive in the wild and becomes his mate?
Vixey
Vixey is introduced to Tod by Big Mama after his disastrous first night alone, and by the final scene the two foxes are watching over the farms from a hilltop.
Q 10Dinky the sparrow is always accompanied by a woodpecker with what name?
Boomer
Boomer and Dinky give up their running hunt when winter comes: their quarry slips into a warm farmhouse, and the two shivering birds fly south until spring.
Q 11Which animal do Copper and his master provoke in the climax of The Fox and the Hound?
A grizzly bear
A grizzly bear turns on the hunter and Copper until Tod leaps onto its back, and the fight ends with fox and bear plunging over a waterfall together.
Q 12What strikes Chief as he chases Tod, leaving the old dog with a broken leg?
A train
A train knocks Chief off a railroad bridge into the river below. In the novel the same accident kills him, and the film's younger staff argued in vain that it still should.
Q 13Which future Little Mermaid co-director argued that 'Chief has to die'?
Ron Clements
Ron Clements argued that Copper had no reason to hate the fox if the old dog only broke a leg. The directors and studio bosses refused to kill off a lovable character.
Q 21Which song does Big Mama sing as young Tod and Copper play together?
Best of Friends
Best of Friends plays while the cubs romp, but Big Mama is already worried: by the next season she is warning Tod that Copper will come back his enemy.
Q 22Which company released The Fox and the Hound to cinemas in 1981?
Buena Vista Distribution
Buena Vista Distribution was Disney's own arm, founded in 1953 so the studio could release its films itself, starting with the nature documentary The Living Desert.
Q 23Which animal offers Tod shelter on his first night alone in the forest?
A porcupine
Q 14The Fox and the Hound was the last film to involve which famed group of Disney animators?
The Nine Old Men
The Nine Old Men bowed out here: Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston finished their scenes, then moved upstairs to write their classic book on animation, The Illusion of Life.
Q 15Which animator led a mass resignation from Disney during production of The Fox and the Hound?
Don Bluth
Don Bluth quit with Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy to set up a rival studio, and a large part of the animation staff followed within days. The release slipped by more than six months.
Q 16The 1979 Disney walkout's leader later directed which film?
The Secret of NIMH
The Secret of NIMH was the first feature from the studio he founded after resigning from Disney on his 42nd birthday; An American Tail and The Land Before Time followed.
Q 17Which future live-action director worked on The Fox and the Hound as a young Disney artist?
Tim Burton
Tim Burton was a Disney apprentice whose concept art never reached the screen; colleagues remember him at his light board turning out very un-Disney character sketches.
Q 18Which future star of The Goonies voiced the young Copper?
Corey Feldman
Corey Feldman had the puppy's lines on tape early in production, but the grown-up Copper proved so hard to cast that it was the last voice role filled.
Q 19Which singer and Broadway star voiced Big Mama?
Pearl Bailey
Pearl Bailey sings three of the film's songs in the role, and a writer on the film recalled her keeping the crew laughing with showbiz stories between takes.
Q 20What do young Tod and Copper promise each other in The Fox and the Hound?
To be friends forever
To be friends forever, they vow as cubs. When Copper comes home a trained hunting dog, he tells Tod those days are over and their friendship has to end.
A porcupine offers the homeless fox a bed, the one kindness in a disastrous first night that also brings him a scolding from a grumpy badger.
Q 24Which star of 1971's Willy Wonka voiced The Fox and the Hound's hunter?
Jack Albertson
Jack Albertson, Wonka's Grandpa Joe, even sings in the part, a number called 'A Huntin' Man'. It was his last cinema role: he died that November, four months after it opened.
Q 25After the hunter shoots at Tod, what does the fox's owner blast with the man's own gun?
His car radiator
His car radiator takes the blast after she snatches the gun out of his hands, a rare show of fury from the gentle farmer who dotes on Tod.
Q 26Which song plays as Tod's owner tearfully drives him away from the farm?
Goodbye May Seem Forever
Goodbye May Seem Forever is performed by Jeanette Nolan, the voice of Tod's owner. The parting leaves the hand-reared fox to a disastrous first night alone in the wild.
Q 27The Fox and the Hound's growler, Jimmy MacDonald, also voiced which character?
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Mouse got MacDonald's voice in the late 1940s, when Walt Disney no longer had time to record the dialogue himself. The studio's sound-effects chief kept the part for about three decades.
Q 28Tod's adult voice actor had just played a lighthouse keeper in which 1977 Disney film?
Pete's Dragon
Pete's Dragon cast him as Lampie; at the Tod sessions, a writer on the film recalled, he was all business at the microphone, then talked non-stop about old Hollywood over lunch.
Q 29Which Jungle Book director began as The Fox and the Hound's director before ceding control to younger staff?
Wolfgang Reitherman
Wolfgang Reitherman lost a power struggle with his junior co-director, saw his idea for a comic musical number thrown out, and sighed, 'maybe this is a young man's medium.'
Q 30Phil Harris and which entertainer voiced two cranes in a musical number cut from The Fox and the Hound?
Charo
Charo recorded the song and was filmed dancing in a pink leotard as reference for the animators, before the co-director had the number shelved as totally out of place.