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This Isn’t Just Some Mickey Mouse Quiz

See how much you remember about Disney movies and characters

Thom Geier,

AARP

Published May 23, 2023

10 Questions

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Disney, and the company’s latest production to hit the big screen is the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. It stars Halle Bailey as Ariel and will be released in theaters on May 26. Take our quiz to see if your trivia skills are supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

This Isn’t Just Some Mickey Mouse Quiz

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 "question" : "True or false: “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” was Disney’s first full-length animated movie.\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "True",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "False",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Back in 1937, Walt Disney defied the naysayers — including his wife, Lillian — who said audiences wouldn’t sit through a feature-length cartoon. But after borrowing almost all of the $1.5 million production budget, Disney scored big time when the film quickly emerged as an $8 million box office hit.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "How many fingers does Mickey Mouse have on each hand?\n",
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 "answer" : "3",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "4",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "5",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "6",
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 "explanation" : "Like many animated characters — including Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson — Mickey Mouse is almost always depicted as having four fingers. As Walt himself reportedly said, “Using five fingers would have made Mickey’s hands look like a bunch of bananas.”\n",
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 "question" : "In what 1940 movie does Jiminy Cricket appear?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "“Dumbo”",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "“Bambi”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "“Pinocchio” ",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : " “Cinderella”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
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 "explanation" : "The character’s name came from a popular expression of surprise — one that the Seven Dwarfs actually say (all together!) at one point in “Snow White.” Jiminy was voiced by the singer Cliff “Ukelele Ike” Edwards, who also had a No. 1 hit in 1929 with a version of “Singin’ in the Rain.”\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Which of these is NOT a character found in the Beast’s castle in “Beauty and the Beast”?\n",
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 "answer" : "Lumiere",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Cogsworth",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Mrs. Potts",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Beddington",
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 "explanation" : "Jerry Orbach of “Law &amp; Order” fame voiced the candelabra Lumiere in the 1991 film, while “M*A*S*H” alum David Ogden Stiers played the clock Cogsworth. Of course, Angela Lansbury lent her voice to the teapot Mrs. Potts, adopting her distinctive accent since she said the character reminded her of little Cockney women she knew growing up in London.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "True or false: Dumbo originally believes that clutching a peanut in his trunk gives him the ability to fly.\n",
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 "answer" : "True",
 "correctAnswer" : false
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 "answer" : "False",
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 "explanation" : "Dumbo’s “magic” item is a feather. His mouse friend, Timothy, initially tells Dumbo that he flew because he held the feather in his trunk, but Timothy later assures his pachyderm pal that Dumbo had the power to fly all along.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Who is the villain in “Sleeping Beauty”?\n",
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 "answer" : "Ursula",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Cruella de Vil",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Maleficent",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Madame Medusa",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Angelina Jolie starred in two live-action films fleshing out the backstory of Maleficent, a powerful fairy who feels so betrayed by her childhood love, the tyrannical King Stefan, that she puts a curse on his newborn daughter (only to develop maternal feelings for young Aurora).\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "Julie Andrews made her feature film debut in what Disney film?\n",
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 "answer" : "“Mary Poppins”",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "“The Sound of Music”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "“Bedknobs and Broomsticks”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”",
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 "explanation" : "Andrews won the Best Actress Oscar for her role in the 1964 film. She accepted the role after Warner Bros. decided to cast non-singing movie star Audrey Hepburn as the lead in the film version of “My Fair Lady,” even though Andrews had originated Eliza Doolittle on both the London and Broadway stages.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What Grammy-winning musician composed the songs for the 1999 movie “Tarzan”?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Elton John",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Sting",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Phil Collins",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Lin-Manuel Miranda",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 } ],
 "multiSelect" : false,
 "explanation" : "Collins won an Oscar for the ballad “You’ll Be in My Heart” from the film. The multilingual singer-drummer also recorded the soundtrack in four other languages: French, German, Italian and Spanish.\n",
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}, {
 "question" : "What legendary actor voiced Mufasa in the 2019 movie version of “The Lion King”?\n",
 "answers" : [ {
 "answer" : "Laurence Olivier",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "James Earl Jones",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 }, {
 "answer" : "Sidney Poitier",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "Anthony Hopkins",
 "correctAnswer" : false
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 "explanation" : "Jones, who also famously voiced Star Wars character Darth Vader, returned to voice Simba’s lionly father in the 2019 “live-action” computer-generated remake of “The Lion King,” which also featured the voices of Donald Glover and Beyoncé.\n",
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 "question" : "Which of these Disney heroines has a mother we actually see on screen?\n",
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 "answer" : "“Snow White”",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "“Cinderella”",
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 }, {
 "answer" : "“Belle”",
 "correctAnswer" : false
 }, {
 "answer" : "“Moana”",
 "correctAnswer" : true
 } ],
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 "explanation" : "Former Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger says she leapt at the chance to play Moana’s mother, Sina, because she too is of Hawaiian descent. Moana is also an exception among Disney heroines because her mother is still alive and on screen — unlike orphaned or motherless Disney protagonists including Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel (from “The Little Mermaid”), Belle (from “Beauty and the Beast”) and even the sisters Elsa and Anna from “Frozen.”\n",
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Thom Geier is an award-winning writer and editor with a passion for American pop culture. He served as executive editor of the digital news site TheWrap.com and as a senior editor at Entertainment Weekly, where he oversaw coverage of movies, theater and books. His essays and reviews appear regularly on CultureSauce.net.

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