Q 01/05

Who voices Bernard in The Rescuers?

A) Dick Van Dyke

B) Don Knotts

C) Bob Newhart

D) Tim Conway

Answer · why

C) Bob Newhart

Bob Newhart built his stand-up fame on a hesitant, stammering delivery, and timid Bernard stutters in that same voice all through the rescue.

Q 02/05

Which Hungarian-born actress voices Miss Bianca?

A) Zsa Zsa Gabor

B) Magda Gabor

C) Ilona Massey

D) Eva Gabor

Answer · why

D) Eva Gabor

Eva Gabor's Budapest accent settled the mouse's nationality: the writers made Miss Bianca the delegate from Hungary to match the voice that had alread...

Q 03/05

Which author wrote the novels The Rescuers is based on?

A) Beverly Cleary

B) Mary Norton

C) E. B. White

D) Margery Sharp

Answer · why

D) Margery Sharp

Margery Sharp's mouse novels caught Walt Disney's own eye: he optioned them in 1962, fifteen years before the film finally reached cinemas.

Q 04/05

What is the name of the mouse organisation Bernard and Bianca belong to?

A) The Rescue Rangers

B) The Mouse Rescue Society

C) International Rodent Rescue

D) The Rescue Aid Society

Answer · why

D) The Rescue Aid Society

The Rescue Aid Society was renamed for the film: in the novels it is the Prisoners' Aid Society, whose mice traditionally cheer captives up instead of...

Q 05/05

What is Bernard's job when The Rescuers begins?

A) Chairman

B) Treasurer

C) Pilot

D) Janitor

Answer · why

D) Janitor

Janitor Bernard protests that sweeping up is all he does, yet Miss Bianca passes over every delegate in the hall and picks him as her co-agent.