The Rescuers
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49 free The Rescuers trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The Rescuers is Disney's 1977 animated adventure about Bernard and Miss Bianca, two mice from the Rescue Aid Society who fly to Devil's Bayou on the back of an albatross to save an orphan called Penny from the pawn-shop villainess Madame Medusa. Bob Newhart and Eva Gabor voice the mice, Geraldine Page plays Medusa, and the film was based on Margery Sharp's novels. This quiz covers the long road to the screen: the 1962 treatment about a poet imprisoned in a Black Castle that Walt shelved, the Antarctic penguin version, the Louis Prima polar bear who was recorded and then cut, the plan to bring back Cruella de Vil, and the Madame Medusa that Milt Kahl modelled on his own wife. It also covers Evinrude and Orville, Jim Jordan coming out of retirement at 80, the Rocky songwriters who wrote Tomorrow Is Another Day, the trainees Glen Keane and Ron Clements, the record-breaking run in France and Germany, the 1999 videotape recall and the sequel that made Disney history. 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 01Who voices Bernard in The Rescuers?
Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart built his stand-up fame on a hesitant, stammering delivery, and timid Bernard stutters in that same voice all through the rescue.
Q 02Which Hungarian-born actress voices Miss Bianca?
Eva Gabor
Eva Gabor's Budapest accent settled the mouse's nationality: the writers made Miss Bianca the delegate from Hungary to match the voice that had already played Duchess in The Aristocats.
Q 03Which author wrote the novels The Rescuers is based on?
Margery Sharp
Margery Sharp's mouse novels caught Walt Disney's own eye: he optioned them in 1962, fifteen years before the film finally reached cinemas.
Q 04What is the name of the mouse organisation Bernard and Bianca belong to?
The Rescue Aid Society
The Rescue Aid Society was renamed for the film: in the novels it is the Prisoners' Aid Society, whose mice traditionally cheer captives up instead of freeing them.
Q 05What is Bernard's job when The Rescuers begins?
Janitor
Janitor Bernard protests that sweeping up is all he does, yet Miss Bianca passes over every delegate in the hall and picks him as her co-agent.
Q 06What is the timid Bernard superstitious about?
The number 13
The number 13 unnerves the superstitious Bernard, and flying frightens him just as much, which turns the trip south on an albatross into an ordeal.
Q 07Who voices the villainous Madame Medusa?
Geraldine Page
Geraldine Page inherited the part from comedian Phyllis Diller, who had been cast while an earlier draft of the story still had a different villainess.
Q 08What is the name of the giant diamond Medusa wants Penny to retrieve?
The Devil's Eye
The Devil's Eye sits in a flooding cave reached only through a hole too tight for an adult, which is why Medusa needs a small child to fetch it.
Q 09What is the name of the swamp where Medusa holds Penny captive?
Devil's Bayou
Devil's Bayou gave the story a Southern swamp only after earlier drafts had sent the mice to a Cuban prison and then to the South Pole.
Q 10What kind of business does Madame Medusa run?
A pawn shop
A pawn shop is Medusa's New York front, and the mice search it for clues after learning she once tried to lure Penny into her car.
Q 11How does the kidnapped Penny send out her plea for help?
A message in a bottle
A message in a bottle, dropped into the river by Penny, drifts out to sea and washes up in New York, where the mice fish it out and read it.
Q 12Where does Medusa hide the diamond after snatching it for herself?
Inside Penny's teddy bear
Inside Penny's teddy bear: Medusa stuffs the gem into the toy to cheat her partner, then loses both when the mice trip her and Penny grabs the bear and runs.
Q 13What are the names of Medusa's two reptilian pets?
Brutus and Nero
Q 21Why did Walt Disney shelve the first 1960s version of The Rescuers?
He disliked its political overtones
He disliked its political overtones: the plot had turned into an escape from a Cuban prison, and Walt, uneasy with the intrigue, put the mice on the shelf.
Q 22What frightens Bernard off the mice's shortcut through the zoo in The Rescuers?
A lion's roar
A lion's roar is all that remains of a dropped subplot: the zoo was once home to a bear who had befriended Penny and would have given the mice their first clue.
Q 23Inside what do Penny and the mice find the giant diamond in the flooding cave?
A pirate's skull
Brutus and Nero stand in for the novels' bloodhounds Tyrant and Torment, and in the last scene the irritated pair turn on Medusa herself.
Q 14What is the name of the albatross who flies Bernard and Bianca to the swamp?
Orville
Orville is named for aviation pioneer Orville Wright, though the albatross's own take-offs and landings are anything but graceful.
Q 15Which museum is given the giant diamond at the end of The Rescuers?
The Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution gets the gem for nothing: back in New York, Penny donates the world's largest diamond instead of keeping it.
Q 16What kind of creature is Evinrude?
A dragonfly
A dragonfly with no lines at all, Evinrude speaks only in buzzes, supplied by sound-effects veteran Jimmy MacDonald, who came out of retirement for the job.
Q 17What is Evinrude named after?
A brand of outboard motors
A brand of outboard motors lent Evinrude his name because the little insect does an engine's job, buzzing away to push the mice's boat across the water.
Q 18Which elderly cat comforts Penny at Morningside Orphanage?
Rufus
Rufus is a self-portrait of sorts: veteran animator Ollie Johnston drew the kindly old cat as a caricature of himself in his last full film for Disney.
Q 19What does Luke the muskrat give the worn-out Evinrude to get him flying again?
A drop of his moonshine
A drop of his moonshine does it: Luke's homebrew had already revived Bernard, and it sends the flagging Evinrude buzzing off to call the swamp folk to the attack.
Q 20Beneath which New York landmark do the mice of The Rescuers hold their meetings?
The United Nations building
The United Nations building suits them: in its basement the mice run a miniature assembly of their own, with a delegate for every country, Miss Bianca speaking for Hungary.
A pirate's skull grips the gem so tightly that Penny has to prise its jaws apart with a sword while the mice shove from inside and the tide pours in.
Q 24Which jazz singer recorded dialogue and songs as Louie the Bear before The Rescuers cut the role?
Louis Prima
Louis Prima had been King Louie in The Jungle Book, so the bear was named Louie for him; his recorded songs and dialogue were shelved when the part was written out.
Q 25Which earlier Disney villainess was sketched as the villain of The Rescuers before Medusa was created?
Cruella de Vil
Cruella de Vil was sketched for the part in alligator-skin outfits, but colleagues felt it wrong to bring her back, so a brand-new villainess was drawn instead.
Q 26Milt Kahl modelled Madame Medusa's look on which person in his own life?
His then-wife
His then-wife, Phyllis Bounds, was the model, and Kahl cared so much about his farewell character that he animated nearly all of Medusa himself; the couple divorced in 1978.
Q 27In the final chase of The Rescuers, Medusa uses her two pet reptiles as what?
Water-skis
Water-skis: Medusa rides the two reptiles behind the fleeing boat until she crashes, and her irritated pets then turn on her.
Q 28Why did the writers decide against making Bernard and Bianca married detectives?
Novices in a new romance were more compelling
Novices in a new romance were more compelling than a seasoned married team: beginners have to struggle, so the audience roots for timid Bernard to prove himself.
Q 29Which singer was cast as a bullfrog that was cut from The Rescuers?
Phil Harris
Phil Harris was cast as a singing bullfrog who led the swamp creatures, but the frog was cut when the marching home guard became a band of helpful locals.
Q 30What bird was first proposed as the mice's transport before the albatross?
A catapulted pigeon
A catapulted pigeon was the first idea, until one of the veteran animators recalled a nature film of albatrosses making clumsy take-offs and landings.