Q 01/05

Fantasia's mushrooms dance to which ballet score?

A) Swan Lake

B) Sleeping Beauty

C) The Nutcracker

D) Don Quixote

Answer · why

C) The Nutcracker

The Nutcracker. Today it means Christmas, but when Fantasia opened in 1940 the full ballet had never been staged in America; that had to wait for San ...

Q 02/05

Whose Toccata and Fugue in D minor opens Fantasia as a play of abstract shapes?

A) George Frideric Handel

B) Johann Sebastian Bach

C) Antonio Vivaldi

D) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Answer · why

B) Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach. It is the film's one abstract segment, and when Fantasia was trimmed for general release in 1942 it was the number cut out enti...

Q 03/05

Deems Taylor appears throughout Fantasia in what role?

A) The conductor

B) The on-screen host

C) The solo pianist

D) The sorcerer's model

Answer · why

B) The on-screen host

The on-screen host. Walt and his conductor both knew Taylor's voice from his intermission talks on New York Philharmonic radio broadcasts, so they gav...

Q 04/05

In The Sorcerer's Apprentice, what does Mickey bring to life to carry his water buckets?

A) A mop

B) A coat rack

C) A suit of armour

D) A broom

Answer · why

D) A broom

A broom. It works too well: Mickey dozes off and wakes to find the cellar flooding, with no idea of the spell that would make it stop.

Q 05/05

Who composed the music for The Sorcerer's Apprentice?

A) Camille Saint-Saëns

B) Maurice Ravel

C) Paul Dukas

D) Claude Debussy

Answer · why

C) Paul Dukas

Paul Dukas. Walt had secured the rights to the music before he had anyone to conduct it; a chance meeting in a Hollywood restaurant then produced a fa...