Q 01/05

Oliver & Company opened on Mickey Mouse's 60th birthday, the anniversary of which cartoon's premiere?

A) Plane Crazy

B) Steamboat Willie

C) The Band Concert

D) Fantasia

Answer · why

B) Steamboat Willie

Steamboat Willie premiered on November 18, 1928, the date Disney counts as Mickey's birthday. Sixty years later the studio marked the day by opening i...

Q 02/05

In Oliver Twist, the Dickens novel behind Oliver & Company, Fagin trains his gang of boys as what?

A) Chimney sweeps

B) Rat-catchers

C) Pickpockets

D) Shoeblacks

Answer · why

C) Pickpockets

Pickpockets: Oliver runs off in horror the first time he sees the boys lift a gentleman's handkerchief. Disney kept the gang of thieves and turned the...

Q 03/05

Where do Fagin and his gang of dogs make their home in Oliver & Company?

A) On a barge

B) In a junkyard

C) In a subway car

D) Under a bridge

Answer · why

A) On a barge

On a barge by the docks, where the dogs look after their penniless owner as much as he looks after them: one scene has them tuck him into bed with a d...

Q 04/05

What kind of animal is Oliver, the hero of Oliver & Company?

A) A lost duckling

B) A stray beagle puppy

C) A grey city mouse

D) An orange tabby kitten

Answer · why

D) An orange tabby kitten

An orange tabby kitten: the makers tried Oliver as a dog too, switching back and forth before deciding that the odd one out among dogs would seem most...

Q 05/05

Which singer provides the voice of Dodger in Oliver & Company?

A) Paul Simon

B) Phil Collins

C) Bruce Springsteen

D) Billy Joel

Answer · why

D) Billy Joel

Billy Joel auditioned over the telephone, and said he took his first cartoon role so that his young daughter would have something of his she could wat...