The Jungle Book Trivia Questions

Answer: He runs away.

Mowgli doesn't want to go to the man village. After all, he has lived his whole life in the jungle, knowing nothing about men. He cannot understand that his friend wants to protect him so, in anger and great distress, he declares that he can take care of himself and runs away from the panther. Bagheera follows, trying alternately to persuade and to order Mowgli. The disagreement ends with the panther falling in the river. Upon scrambling out, he grumpily washes his paws of the troublesome man cub.

Answer: A Snake

Kaa is the snake who makes seveeral appearences throught the movie. He can hypnotize people by looking into their eyes.

Answer: how to make fire

King Louie ruled his tribe of apes in the middle of a city of ancient ruins. Bored with being an ape, he dreamed of becoming a human. He kidnapped Mowgli and thought the man-cub would show him the secret to fire.

King Louie entertained Mowgli with his swing style music, until Baloo interrupted disguised as a monkey. When King Louie discovered he had been tricked, Baloo and Mowgli ran. King Louie abandoned his plan to capture Mowgli due to the collapse of his ancient ruins.

King Louie was voiced by Louis Prima. There was no ape king in Rudyard Kipling's "Jungle Book" novel and Walt Disney wanted a character that included the monkeys. Disney created the character based on the jazz trumpeter's personality and love for music. Louis Prima had fun expanding the part with his talent and jazz skills.

Answer: Sounds of a fight, as if Mowgli were being attacked

Bagheera dashes to the rescue, only to find that Baloo the bear, voiced by Phil Harris, is not attacking Mowgli, but trying to teach him to fight. Since he doesn't think Baloo is too bright, Bagheera decides to stay with the bear and the man cub. They play happily in the river...until Mowgli is kidnapped!

Answer: Rules and Work

Mowgli doesn't like it at his village because he has to work all the time and obey many rules. He also doesn't like the way some people, especially Shanti treat him.

Answer: buzzards

The buzzards observed Mowgli walking alone and offered him their friendship.

Although they were hungry, they decided to do the right thing and comforted Mowgli with their quartet version of "We Are Friends". They offered Mowgli a place in their flock and convinced Mowgli to sing along.

"The Jungle Book" was released in 1967. During the creation of the film, the Beatles music group was very popular. Disney created the buzzards to look like the group, with mop haircuts. They hoped that the band would sing music for the buzzard portion of the film, but John Lennon did not want to participate. The buzzards' singing voices were vocalized by Pat O'Malley, Digby Wolfe, Lord Tim Hudson, and Chad Stuart.

Answer: So Mowgli can teach him how to make fire.

King Louie the orangutan, voiced by Louis Prima, is king of the apes and monkeys. But he wants more. He longs to be a man. He kidnaps Mowgli so the man cub can teach him how to make fire because, he thinks, controlling fire will make him just the same as a man. Mowgli doesn't know how to make fire, though. Things are looking bad for him until Bagheera and Baloo come to the rescue.

Answer: Shere Khan

Shere Khan falls off the statue and lands on an island surrounded by lava. The statue breaks and falls on top of him. We can later see Shere Khan trying to escape from his prison whilst been taunted by Lucky

Answer: Fire

Fire. Shere Khan is afraid of fire and when fire starts in the ending, Shere Khan runs for his life and gets burnt in the process, allowing Mowgli, Baloo and the vultures live another day.

Answer: Mowgli tied a branch with fire to Shere Khan's tail.

Shere Khan was extremely afraid of fire. While Shere Khan was fighting with Mowgli and Baloo, lightning hit a nearby tree and set it on fire. A buzzard grabbed a branch and handed it to Mowgli. Mowgli tied the fiery branch to Shere Khan's tail.

Shere Khan was spooked by the fire and could not put the flames out. He could not get his tail free and ran into the jungle. Humiliated, he did not return to face Mowgli or his friends.

Answer: a jug

Mowgli, Ranjan and Shanti leave the village to visit Baloo and Bageera.

Answer: Bagheera

Bagheera says this fantastic quote when Baloo sacrafices himself for Mowgli. When Shere Khan attacks him and leaves, Baloo lays still and is believed to be dead. This quote tries to comfort Mowgli by saying Baloo died because he likes Mowgli. It is a good thing that Baloo survived this attack and lives to argue with Bagheera another day.

Answer: He joins a human village

He join a human village when Baloo and Bagheera take him to the man-village. Mowgli has to make a choice, his friends or life in the human world. he chooses the human world.

Answer: a girl smiling at him

Shanti was a little girl who saw Mowgli while she was singing. Mowgli was instantly smitten. He was hesitant to leave Bagheera and Baloo, but Bagheera encouraged him to go on.

Shanti noticed Mowgli's hesitation and encouraged him by dropping her water jug. Mowgli picked it up and carried it back into the man-village with her. His friends encouraged him.

Disney originally couldn't decide how to end the film after spending the whole film with Mowgli and his friends avoiding the man village. Walt Disney saw that in Rudyard Kipling's novel, Mowgli eventually did fall in love. The creative crew used that idea to come up with the idea of luring Mowgli into the man-village with a friend.

Darleen Carr played Shanti. In her film career she had other roles with "The Sound of Music", "Monkeys, Go Home!", and "The Impossible Years".

Answer: Four vultures

A storm is gathering in the wasteland where the vultures, Buzzie, (voiced by J. Pat O'Malley), Flaps (voiced by Chad Stuart), Ziggy (voiced by Digby Wolfe) and Dizzy (voiced by Lord Tim Hudson), are bored and idly bickering. Then Mowgli comes along, something new and interesting. They quickly realize that he is worse off than they are. At least they have each other, while Mowgli is all alone. He is so despondent that they befriend and sing to him. Unfortunately, all the noise they make leads Shere Khan to them.

The vultures look like the Beatles, with Ziggy resembling John Lennon, Flaps resembling Paul McCartney, Dizzy resembling George Harrison and Buzzie resembling Ringo Starr. Indeed, Walt wanted the Fab Four to voice the characters but, according to Wikipedia, John turned down the offer, which is too bad. It would have been great fun for audiences to recognize them. Besides, whatever type of music Walt wanted them to sing, an appearance in a Disney movie would have been good publicity. Still, they didn't take the roles, and the actors who performed them did a fine job.

An owl appears as one of Winnie the Pooh's friends in "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" (1977). Three geese, or more properly two geese and their uncle, a gander, appear in "The Aristocats" (1970), while one hundred and one Dalmatians of course appear in the 1961 film of that name.

Answer: Mowgli frightens him with fire.

The storm grows stronger during the fight, and lightning strikes the vultures' tree. Remembering that fire is the one thing Shere Khan fears, one of the vultures calls to the man cub to defend himself with that deadliest of weapons, that only he can wield. He does so, tying burning branches to Shere Khan's tail. The once haughty tiger runs off into the jungle, frightened and in pain. But the victory is bittersweet. Baloo has been killed in the fight...or has he?

Answer: He returns to the man village willingly.

Bagheera has almost given up hope of returning Mowgli to the man village, when by chance Mowgli hears an unfamiliar sound. Following it, he and his friends see a sight such as the man cub has never seen before. When he asks in awe what it is, the worldly wise Baloo replies, "Forget about those, they ain't nothin' but trouble!" He tries valiantly to forestall the inevitable, but Mowgli wants a closer look.

All the time the girl, sung by Darleen Carr, is filling her water jar. In his eagerness to get a closer look, Mowgli falls out of the tree he had climbed, splashing into the water and making the girl laugh. He swims to shore but, as Baloo says, he's hooked. She starts up the path and, in a lovely piece of business, drops the jar. Mowgli leaps to retrieve it and, with a last look back at his grieving friends, he follows her into her house.

Richard and Robert Sherman, who wrote the music for several Disney films including "Mary Poppins" as well as other movies including "Chitty Chitty Bang! Bang!" felt that songs should grow organically from the story and, where possible, forward the action. Their score for "The Jungle Book" (which incorporates Terry Gilkyson's "Bare Necessities) does this. But in a sense it does more. The song that the unnamed young girl sings at the end merely puts words to the theme that runs through the entire film, what one comes unconsciously to think of as "Mowgli's Theme". So, when he hears her sing, it seems totally right that he is drawn to her and, in the end, follows her.

Baloo is heartbroken to lose his man cub. Though Bagheera is sad too, he knows it is for the best and things are now back as they should be. The film fades with the friends walking into the jungle sunset, singing "Bare Necessities".