Q 01/05

What color are the shorts Mickey usually wears?

A) Red

B) Green

C) Yellow

D) Blue

Answer · why

A) Red

Before his color films they were sometimes drawn a dull blue-green, but once Technicolor arrived they were always red.

Q 02/05

What is the name of Mickey's pet dog?

A) Goofy

B) Pluto

C) Rover

D) Butch

Answer · why

B) Pluto

He first appeared as a nameless bloodhound chasing prisoner Mickey in The Chain Gang in 1930.

Q 03/05

Who is Mickey's longtime nemesis, a big cat who is captain of the boat in his first cartoon?

A) The Phantom Blot

B) Mortimer

C) Pete

D) Big Bad Wolf

Answer · why

C) Pete

He was already a villain in Disney's Alice and Oswald cartoons before Mickey existed, making him older than the mouse himself.

Q 04/05

Which two men co-created Mickey in 1928?

A) Walt Disney and Fred Moore

B) Walt and Roy Disney

C) Ub Iwerks and Les Clark

D) Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Answer · why

D) Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks

Iwerks built Mickey's body out of circles, ears included, so he would be easy to animate.

Q 05/05

Mickey was created to replace which earlier Disney character, lost to a distributor?

A) Oswald the Rabbit

B) Felix the Cat

C) Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid

D) Julius the Cat

Answer · why

A) Oswald the Rabbit

Producer Charles Mintz secretly hired away most of Disney's staff and kept the rabbit, which Universal owned.