Q 01/05

Which film was the first animated feature nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?

A) Aladdin

B) The Little Mermaid

C) Beauty and the Beast

D) The Rescuers Down Under

Answer · why

C) Beauty and the Beast

Beauty and the Beast earned the 1991 Best Picture nomination, the only one for an animated film until Up in 2009, after the category expanded to ten s...

Q 02/05

Which Disney film held the title of highest-grossing animated film until Finding Nemo overtook it in 2003?

A) The Lion King

B) Aladdin

C) Toy Story

D) The Rescuers Down Under

Answer · why

A) The Lion King

The Lion King's initial $763 million run made it the highest-grossing film of 1994, second all-time behind Jurassic Park, and the top animated film un...

Q 03/05

Early story treatments for the 1994 film about Simba were submitted under which working title?

A) Lord of the Savanna

B) Pride Rock

C) The Lion Prince

D) King of the Jungle

Answer · why

D) King of the Jungle

Linda Woolverton, who was also writing the Belle musical, drafted it as King of the Beasts before it became King of the Jungle. Lions do not actually ...

Q 04/05

Which composer scored the 1994 Simba film after A World Apart and The Power of One?

A) James Horner

B) Alan Menken

C) Jerry Goldsmith

D) Hans Zimmer

Answer · why

D) Hans Zimmer

Hans Zimmer took the job, he said, so his young daughter could finally see one of his films; the score won him the Academy Award for Best Original Sco...

Q 05/05

Which Simpsons voice actor replaced Robin Williams as the Genie in The Return of Jafar (1994)?

A) Dan Castellaneta

B) Hank Azaria

C) Harry Shearer

D) Nancy Cartwright

Answer · why

A) Dan Castellaneta

Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, took over the Genie for The Return of Jafar and the Aladdin TV series; Williams returned for Aladdin and...