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Hard Disney Trivia Questions
The hard questions from our disney set, 14 of them, each with the answer and an explanation below the game.
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The hard band is studio history: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the Nine Old Men, the Sherman Brothers, the troubled release of The Black Cauldron, and which composer scored which film. These reward reading about the company rather than only watching the films.
14 hard disney trivia questions with answers
Which Pixar film is set largely inside the mind of a girl named Riley?
Answer: Inside Out Inside Out was released in 2015.
Which Disney park in Florida opened in 1982 with a large geodesic sphere as its icon?
Answer: Epcot The sphere houses the Spaceship Earth attraction.
Which character did Walt Disney create for Universal before losing the rights and inventing Mickey Mouse?
Answer: Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Disney regained the Oswald rights in 2006.
Which Disney feature of 1985 was notable for being far darker in tone and a commercial disappointment?
Answer: The Black Cauldron It was the studio's first animated feature rated PG in the United States.
Which Disney animator group was known collectively as the Nine Old Men?
Answer: Walt Disney's core team of supervising animators Walt Disney borrowed the nickname from a phrase used about the US Supreme Court.
Which two brothers wrote the songs for Mary Poppins and The Jungle Book?
Answer: Richard and Robert Sherman The Sherman Brothers were staff songwriters at the studio through the 1960s.
Which Disney feature combined live action and animation and won Oscars for its 1988 release?
Answer: Who Framed Roger Rabbit It was a co-production with Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.
Which composer wrote the score for The Lion King, winning an Academy Award for it?
Answer: Hans Zimmer Elton John and Tim Rice wrote the film's songs separately.
Which name did Walt Disney give to the designers and engineers who create his theme park attractions?
Answer: Imagineers The word blends imagination with engineering.
Which Disney animated feature of 1937 to 1942 was based on a Felix Salten novel?
Answer: Bambi Salten's novel was published in Austria in 1923.
In which year did Disney's streaming service Disney+ launch in the United States?
Answer: 2019 It launched in November 2019.
Which Disney animated film features the villain Judge Claude Frollo?
Answer: The Hunchback of Notre Dame The 1996 film adapts Victor Hugo's novel.
Which Disney park was the first built outside the United States?
Answer: Tokyo Disneyland It opened in 1983 and is operated under licence by the Oriental Land Company.
Which Pixar feature centres on a rat with ambitions as a chef in Paris?
Answer: Ratatouille Ratatouille was released in 2007 and directed by Brad Bird.
Answer key
- Inside Out
- Epcot
- Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
- The Black Cauldron
- Walt Disney's core team of supervising animators
- Richard and Robert Sherman
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Hans Zimmer
- Imagineers
- Bambi
- 2019
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Tokyo Disneyland
- Ratatouille
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