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50 free Treasure Planet trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Treasure Planet took one of the best-known adventure stories ever written and launched it into space. Disney's 2002 film kept the tall ships, the map and the mutiny, then added aliens, robots and a teenage hero with a chip on his shoulder. It lost a fortune at the box office and has been winning fans ever since. This quiz covers the whole film: the plot from the inn to the final escape, the characters and the figures from the novel they replace, the actors behind the voices, and the long fight to get the picture made. There are questions on the songs and the score, the technology behind its sweeping camera moves, the awards race and the sequel that never happened. It is written for anyone who loves the film, with plenty for fans of Jim, Silver and Captain Amelia. The early questions suit people who have seen it once; the later ones are for viewers who know the commentary track by heart.
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Q 01To test John Silver's computer-made arm, Treasure Planet's animators first grafted it onto which Disney villain?
Captain Hook
Captain Hook, in a clip from Peter Pan (1953), had his arm swapped for the mechanical one. The test showed whether the computer-made limb would blend with the rest of a classic character.
Q 02Long John Silver has one leg in Treasure Island; what kind of being is he in Treasure Planet?
A cyborg
A cyborg is exactly what Billy Bones warns Jim to beware when he hands over the map. In the novel, Bones instead tells the boy to keep a lookout for a one-legged man.
Q 03Which Scottish author wrote the 1883 pirate novel that Treasure Planet moves into outer space?
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson first published Treasure Island as a magazine serial under the pen name Captain George North. He began it to amuse his young stepson while bad weather kept the family indoors in Scotland.
Q 04Which Oscar-winning English actress voices Captain Amelia in Treasure Planet, a role developed with her in mind?
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson was pregnant during several of the recording sessions. One of the directors said Amelia was the first action-adventure character she had ever played.
Q 05Which film beat Treasure Planet, Lilo & Stitch and Ice Age to the Oscar for Best Animated Feature?
Spirited Away
Spirited Away, released in Japan a year before its rivals, beat all four American nominees. The fourth was Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
Q 06John Rzeznik, who wrote and sang both songs in Treasure Planet, fronts which band known for the hit Iris?
Goo Goo Dolls
Goo Goo Dolls' ballad Iris was the placeholder the directors had laid over a scene before Rzeznik was hired. He said he had felt a lot like Jim at that age.
Q 07Morph, John Silver's shape-shifting pet in Treasure Planet, replaces which animal from Treasure Island?
A parrot
A parrot is Silver's companion in the novel, and it is named Captain Flint after the dead pirate whose hoard everyone is chasing.
Q 08What powers the spaceships in Treasure Planet?
Solar sails
Solar sails let the filmmakers keep wooden decks and rigging. They also filled outer space with breathable atmosphere so that nobody needed a helmet or a space suit.
Q 09Which actor, a teenage star of the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, voices Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet?
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt found it hard to play Jim's scenes with Silver alone in a booth. He asked to record alongside Brian Murray, the voice of the old pirate.
Q 10What does the planet named in Treasure Planet turn out to be when Jim reaches Captain Flint's hoard?
A giant machine
A giant machine is what Jim realises he is standing on. Its portal can open onto any place in the universe, which is how Flint raided ships and vanished.
Q 11Which member of the expedition does Captain Amelia marry at the end of Treasure Planet, starting a family?
Dr. Doppler
Dr. Doppler, the astrophysicist who commissions the ship, merges two of Jim's mentors from the novel, Dr. Livesey and Squire Trelawney.
Q 12Which actor, then playing a psychiatrist on a hit sitcom, voices the astrophysicist in Treasure Planet?
David Hyde Pierce
David Hyde Pierce, Niles Crane on Frasier, was sent the script in 1997 while recording A Bug's Life for Pixar. Jeff Goldblum and Hugh Grant were also considered for the part.
Q 13Which Canadian comedian, a veteran of SCTV and Saturday Night Live, voices the robot B.E.N. in Treasure Planet?
Martin Short
Q 21Which directing duo made Treasure Planet after Aladdin and Hercules, having first pitched it in the 1980s?
Ron Clements and John Musker
Ron Clements and John Musker had their contract rewritten in 1995 so that they could begin the space adventure as soon as Hercules was finished.
Q 22Treasure Planet was first pitched at the same 1980s Gong Show meeting as which later Disney hit?
The Little Mermaid
The Little Mermaid reached cinemas in 1989. The space idea was rejected by Michael Eisner, who knew Paramount was developing a Star Trek sequel with a similar angle.
Q 23Instead of Treasure Planet, studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg wanted its directors to adapt which sci-fi novel?
Martin Short was left with his natural voice as the robot. The sound team experimented with processing it, but everything they tried spoiled his comedy.
Q 14What has the robot B.E.N. lost when Jim meets him in Treasure Planet, a part later found on a skeleton?
His memory circuit
His memory circuit turns up in the hand of Captain Flint's skeleton. Once Jim plugs it back in, B.E.N. recalls what his old master did to guard the hoard.
Q 15Which spider-like crewman of Treasure Planet secretly cuts a lifeline and later fights Jim aboard the ship?
Scroop
Scroop is voiced by Michael Wincott. The lifeline he cuts belongs to the first mate, Mr. Arrow, and he then pins the death on Jim.
Q 16What swallows first mate Mr. Arrow in Treasure Planet after a crewman secretly cuts his lifeline?
A black hole
A black hole forms when a star near the ship goes supernova. Jim had secured every lifeline, yet he is the one blamed for the death.
Q 17In Treasure Planet, the map that Billy Bones hands to Jim takes what form, hiding a holographic star chart?
A sphere
A sphere is what Bones gives Jim after crashing near the inn. Morph later takes its shape, so Jim flees the mutiny holding a fake.
Q 18Under which job does John Silver join the voyage in Treasure Planet, the same cover he uses in the novel?
Ship's cook
Ship's cook puts Silver in the galley, where Jim is sent to work under him. The two form a wary father-and-son bond there before the mutiny.
Q 19Captain Amelia, who commands the voyage in Treasure Planet, is an alien resembling which animal?
A cat
A cat is the model for Amelia, who takes the place of Captain Smollett, the strictly professional master of the Hispaniola in the novel.
Q 20Which ship does Captain Amelia command in Treasure Planet, taking the place of the novel's Hispaniola?
RLS Legacy
RLS Legacy is hired by an astrophysicist friend of Jim's family. Amelia is her captain and the stone-skinned Mr. Arrow her first mate.
A Princess of Mars
A Princess of Mars was a book the company was already trying to adapt. The angry directors went over his head to Roy E. Disney, who backed their space adventure.
Q 24With a budget of $140 million, Treasure Planet is the most expensive film ever made in which style?
Traditional animation
Traditional animation carried the characters, who were drawn by hand on top of 3D computer sets. The film took in only about $110 million worldwide.
Q 25Treasure Planet was the first major studio feature to open in regular cinemas and which large-screen format at once?
IMAX
IMAX had already paid off for Disney with its runs of Beauty and the Beast and Fantasia 2000. The studio hoped the big screens would help in a crowded holiday season.
Q 26Which John Rzeznik song, subtitled Jim's Theme, plays in Treasure Planet and was released as a single?
I'm Still Here
I'm Still Here draws on Rzeznik's own youth in Buffalo, New York. As a solo single it climbed to number 10 on Billboard's Adult Top 40.
Q 27Which composer scored Treasure Planet, his third Disney animated film after Dinosaur and Atlantis: The Lost Empire?
James Newton Howard
James Newton Howard took over after Alan Silvestri dropped out to score Lilo & Stitch. He described his music as very much in the tradition of Korngold, Tiomkin and Steiner.
Q 28Treasure Planet's 360-degree Virtual Sets grew out of Deep Canvas, a technology first developed for which Disney film?
Tarzan
Tarzan pioneered the software in 1999. On the later film it let the crew build entire sets before staging a scene, then move the camera through them as on a live-action shoot.
Q 29Which screen idol did animator John Ripa study for the posture and attitude of Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet?
James Dean
James Dean had, Ripa said, a whole attitude and posture in which you felt the pain and the youthful innocence. Ripa also studied the close-ups in Braveheart for acting with the eyes alone.
Q 30Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, who share story credit on Treasure Planet, later wrote which Disney film series?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates of the Caribbean began a year after the animated film. Rossio later argued that its crucial mistake was turning the novel's young boy into a teenager.