Q 01/05

In Bambi, what is the first word the newborn fawn learns to say?

A) Flower

B) Butterfly

C) Mother

D) Bird

Answer · why

D) Bird

Bird. Thumper coaches him until he shouts it, and the proud fawn promptly calls a passing butterfly a bird as well.

Q 02/05

Bambi held its world premiere in August 1942 not in America but in which city?

A) Toronto

B) London

C) Sydney

D) Mexico City

Answer · why

B) London

London. Bambi opened there days before its American release, and with a war on its first run earned far less than Disney had hoped.

Q 03/05

MGM's Sidney Franklin bought the Bambi rights in 1933 hoping to make what, before urging Disney to animate it?

A) A radio serial

B) A Broadway musical

C) A live-action film

D) A puppet film

Answer · why

C) A live-action film

A live-action film. He soon judged an all-animal cast too hard to shoot, passed the idea to Walt Disney and stayed on as an adviser; the finished pict...

Q 04/05

Disney first planned Bambi as its second animated feature, but which film took that slot instead?

A) Dumbo

B) Fantasia

C) Cinderella

D) Pinocchio

Answer · why

D) Pinocchio

Pinocchio. Animators struggled to draw believable deer and to lighten the novel's grim story, so Bambi was postponed and finally arrived as the studio...

Q 05/05

Salten's Bambi was a European roe deer, so which American species did Disney make him instead?

A) Mule deer

B) White-tailed deer

C) Black-tailed deer

D) Rocky Mountain elk

Answer · why

B) White-tailed deer

White-tailed deer. Roe deer are a European species, so Disney moved the story to American woods and sent artist Maurice 'Jake' Day to photograph the f...