Q 01/05

Which princess starred in the 1937 film that Hollywood insiders mocked as "Disney's Folly"?

A) Cinderella

B) Snow White

C) Aurora

D) Ariel

Answer · why

B) Snow White

Snow White carried the first cel-animated feature film, a project Walt Disney's own wife and brother tried to talk him out of making.

Q 02/05

Which Shakespeare play about a prince whose uncle kills the king inspired Disney's The Lion King?

A) Macbeth

B) King Lear

C) Hamlet

D) Othello

Answer · why

C) Hamlet

Hamlet was the model: studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg told the filmmakers to "put in as much Hamlet as you can".

Q 03/05

In Pixar's Finding Nemo, what kind of fish are Marlin and his son Nemo, who live in a sea anemone?

A) Clownfish

B) Blue tang

C) Pufferfish

D) Angelfish

Answer · why

A) Clownfish

Clownfish got the part because director Andrew Stanton saw a photograph of two of them peeking out of an anemone.

Q 04/05

Which film, voiced by Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, was the first entirely computer-animated feature?

A) Shark Tale

B) A Bug's Life

C) Monsters, Inc.

D) Toy Story

Answer · why

D) Toy Story

Toy Story was also the first feature Pixar ever produced, and it earned director John Lasseter a Special Achievement Academy Award in 1996.

Q 05/05

Which 2001 film beat Monsters, Inc. to win the first Academy Award for Best Animated Feature?

A) Ice Age

B) Dinosaur

C) Shrek

D) Antz

Answer · why

C) Shrek

Shrek won the inaugural award, and the American Film Institute named it one of the top ten films of 2001, the first animated film it had ever listed.