The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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49 free The Hunchback of Notre Dame trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is Disney's 1996 animated musical, loosely adapted from Victor Hugo's 1831 novel and directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, the team behind Beauty and the Beast. Tom Hulce voices Quasimodo, the bell-ringer hidden in the cathedral by Judge Claude Frollo, with Demi Moore as Esmeralda, Kevin Kline as Phoebus and Tony Jay as the villain. Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz wrote the songs, including Out There, God Help the Outcasts and Hellfire. This quiz digs into how the film got made: the Classics Illustrated comic that inspired it, the ten-day Paris research trip, the gargoyles who were nearly named after Lon Chaney and Charles Laughton, the Mandy Patinkin audition that became a legend, the Crowd software built for the Festival of Fools, and the hair-sniffing scene that earned a PG before Disney resubmitted for a G. It also covers the New Orleans Superdome premiere, the box office, the Berlin stage musical and the stalled live-action remake. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a Disney movie night.
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Q 01What is the name of Esmeralda's pet goat?
Djali
Djali comes straight from Victor Hugo's novel, where a hapless poet grows so fond of the goat that, in the end, he rescues it rather than Esmeralda.
Q 02Which earlier film had the same directors as Disney's Hunchback?
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast was behind them and Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise were months into another project when studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg rang: 'Drop everything. I got your next picture.'
Q 03Who voices Quasimodo in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Tom Hulce
Tom Hulce, Oscar-nominated as Mozart in Amadeus, found the first sessions so hard he nearly gave up; early on, his Quasimodo even had a faintly British accent.
Q 04Which actress voices Esmeralda's speaking part in Disney's Hunchback?
Demi Moore
Demi Moore tried some of the songs, then told the songwriters, 'You'd better get someone else'; she recorded enough for them to find a singer with the same husky sound.
Q 05At the Festival of Fools, the crowd turns on Quasimodo and pelts him with what?
Fruit and vegetables
Fruit and vegetables fly once Frollo's guards start the mockery; in Hugo's novel the scene is harsher still, with Quasimodo flogged on the pillory.
Q 06Which actor voices Judge Claude Frollo?
Tony Jay
Tony Jay called the part his 'bid for immortality'; the directors knew his voice from their previous film, where he had a small role as an asylum keeper.
Q 07Which actor voices the captain of Frollo's guard?
Kevin Kline
Kevin Kline was one of only two cast members offered a part without an audition; the directors had modelled the dashing captain on Errol Flynn and John Wayne.
Q 08Which character narrates Disney's Hunchback to a group of children?
Clopin
Clopin, the Roma puppeteer, opens the film with the bell-ringer's story; Paul Kandel, cast from Broadway's The Who's Tommy, had to audition again when the studio wanted a bigger name.
Q 09What are the names of Quasimodo's three gargoyle friends?
Hugo, Victor and Laverne
Hugo, Victor and Laverne were the directors' own invention: two of them split the novelist's name, and all three give the lonely bell-ringer someone to talk to.
Q 10Which title does the festival crowd give Quasimodo in Disney's Hunchback?
King of Fools
King of Fools is the crown Disney's crowd gives him; in Hugo's novel he is elected Pope of Fools instead, at a feast that parodied the rituals of the church.
Q 11Which pop singer recorded a gargoyle's lines for Disney's Hunchback before being replaced?
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper recorded the part, but the first gargoyle voices did not work for the studio, and two of the three were recast.
Q 12Whose death in 1995 left Jane Withers to record a gargoyle's six remaining lines in Disney's Hunchback?
Mary Wickes
Mary Wickes, the crabby nun of Sister Act, was cast because the directors wanted an older, wiser gargoyle to give Quasimodo better advice than the other two; she died at 85.
Q 13Which Seinfeld star voices one of the gargoyles in Disney's Hunchback?
Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander voices one of the three, yet said he would not be taking his own four-year-old: 'I wouldn't expose him to it, not for another year.'
Q 21Which Hunchback song did its lyricist draft while sitting in Notre-Dame's own bell tower?
Out There
Out There took shape as he sat up in the tower with a pad of paper, imagining himself as Quasimodo looking down on the Paris of 1482.
Q 22In Hugo's novel, what is Frollo's position?
Archdeacon of Notre-Dame
Archdeacon of Notre-Dame in the novel, he became a judge on screen: Disney did not want to take on the church, and gave the cathedral a separate, kindly archdeacon instead.
Q 23Producer Don Hahn named the villain of which film as one inspiration for Frollo?
Schindler's List
Schindler's List gave the team a model in Ralph Fiennes's Nazi commandant: a man who murders Jews yet desires his Jewish maid, as the judge hunts the Roma while lusting after Esmeralda.
Q 14Which two stars did Jeffrey Katzenberg want for a rock-opera version of Disney's Hunchback?
Meat Loaf and Cher
Meat Loaf and Cher were to be Quasimodo and Esmeralda; Meat Loaf even rehearsed a song with the composer before talks between Disney and his record company fell apart.
Q 15Which Broadway star walked out of his Quasimodo audition saying he could not do it?
Mandy Patinkin
Mandy Patinkin, who wanted to play the role 'for real', gave up in the middle of a scene; he later played Quasimodo his own way in a 1997 television film.
Q 16Which Welsh actor was offered the voice of Frollo in Disney's Hunchback but turned it down?
Anthony Hopkins
Anthony Hopkins passed on the offer; the animators even ran a test of the character using one of his lines as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.
Q 17According to the opening song of Disney's Hunchback, what does the name Quasimodo mean?
Half-formed
Half-formed is one of two reasons Hugo's novel offers for the name; the other is the day the foundling was left at the cathedral, Quasimodo Sunday, the first Sunday after Easter.
Q 18What inspired a Disney executive to propose adapting Hugo's novel as an animated film?
A Classics Illustrated comic
A Classics Illustrated comic of the novel gave story executive David Stainton the idea in 1993, and he talked the studio into it.
Q 19Which Disney executive broke up the Hunchback story pitch by quipping 'A time of Euro Disney'?
Michael Eisner
Michael Eisner, the company's chief, cut in as the art director intoned 'a dark and dreary time, a time of hopelessness'; his new French theme park was off to a poor start.
Q 20Which song does Esmeralda sing alone inside the cathedral in Disney's Hunchback?
God Help the Outcasts
God Help the Outcasts has her ask help for her people while the well-off worshippers around her pray for things for themselves; Bette Midler recorded a pop version for the album.
Q 24Early drafts of Disney's Hunchback cast Quasimodo as what kind of figure?
A Cyrano de Bergerac go-between
A Cyrano de Bergerac go-between: at first he was the misshapen man with a poet's heart who fed lines to the handsome captain, before the story became a love triangle.
Q 25In Hugo's novel, what finally happens to Esmeralda?
She is hanged
She is hanged after Frollo hands her over; later two skeletons are found together, Quasimodo's wrapped around hers.
Q 26What did the Hunchback animators name the Glendale warehouse their production moved into?
Sanctuary
Sanctuary: the crew borrowed the right Quasimodo claims for Esmeralda when he carries her up into the cathedral.
Q 27In Disney's Hunchback, which song do the gargoyles sing to assure Quasimodo that Esmeralda loves him?
A Guy Like You
A Guy Like You sends his hopes soaring just before he learns she loves the captain instead; the number was dropped when the show reached the American stage.
Q 28Which technique filled the Festival of Fools in Disney's Hunchback with thousands of onlookers?
Computer animation
Computer animation: drawing a throng of thousands by hand would have been prohibitive and looked cheap, the co-director said, so computers animated the tiny figures in the crowd.
Q 29In Disney's Hunchback, which order from Frollo does the captain of the guard refuse to carry out?
Burning a family's home
Burning a family's home is too much for him: he douses the torch in water instead, and Frollo orders his execution on the spot.
Q 30To win its G rating, Disney's Hunchback lowered the volume of Frollo doing what?
Sniffing Esmeralda's hair
Sniffing Esmeralda's hair sounded 'too suggestive' to the ratings board, the co-director recalled; a quieter sniff was enough to secure the G.