Sleeping Beauty Trivia Questions

Answer: She filled their lives with sunshine

One of the first lines in the movie.

Answer: Fauna

Fauna wears the green, Flora the red and pink, and Merryweather is in blue.

Answer: Maleficent

The wicked fairy is not named in either the Grimms' version or in Charles Perrault's version of the Sleeping Beauty tale, but Walt Disney insisted upon a name. The word "maleficent" means "harmful or evil in intent or effect" or "baleful or malicious", being the opposite of "beneficent". True to her name, Maleficent curses Princess Aurora to prick her finger on a spindle and die.

Most of the characters for "Sleeping Beauty" had different visual models and voice actors. Maleficent, however, was voiced and modeled by Eleanor Audley (1905-1991), who also voiced Lady Tremaine in "Cinderella" (1950). Audley additionally gave voice to spirit medium Madame Leota in "The Haunted Mansion", when the attraction was built in Disneyland in 1969. (She also played Eunice Douglas, Oliver's disapproving mother in CBS's "Green Acres" (1965-69), although she was all of five months older than actor Eddie Albert!) Audley initially turned down the role of Maleficent as she was suffering from tuberculosis when first offered the part. Maleficent herself was originally drawn variously as an old hag and as a figure strongly resembling the Wicked Queen of Disney's "Snow White" (1937) before her final green-skinned and horned sinister glamor was settled upon.

Answer: They were searching for a baby.

Maleficent found it to be incredible that Aurora had evaded Maleficent for 16 years. It was as if she vanished into thin air. Her henchmen then revealed that they had searched every cradle over the years. It was at this point that Maleficent realized that the reason she hadn't found Aurora was because they were looking for a baby even after Aurora was no longer one. It was at this point Maleficent sent Diablo to find Aurora.

Answer: Flower

Flora, Fauna and Merryweather went to go see baby Aurora and it was there that Flora said she wanted to turn Aurora into a flower. Merryweather thought she meant turn Maleficent into a flower but Flora said she wanted Aurora to be a flower. Fauna's thinking was that, as a flower, Aurora would be unable to prick her finger on the spindle. Fauna commented that Aurora would make a wonderful flower.

Answer: A bird

Maleficent had a pet raven who she sent to find the princess when her goblin servants couldn't.

Answer: 100

Maleficent goes down to the dungeons to 'cheer him up,' but she only makes him more depressed as she shows him that he wouldn't get out for 100 years before he could go and save the princess and by then he would be very old.

Answer: black

Yes - they were black.

Answer: 14th century

'Father, you're living in the past! This is the fourteenth century!'

Answer: Skumps

When Princess Aurora (or Briar Rose as she called in hiding) turns 16, King Stefan and Queen Leah await the return of their daughter. Stefan and King Hubert, father of Prince Philip, get into a quarrel over the children and where they will live, as Stefan and Leah have not seen their daughter since she was a baby. Stefan mistakenly grabs a fish instead of a sword, and the two men end up laughing together. The minstrel who was supposed to entertain them, meanwhile, becomes falling-down drunk. This short scene and the rivalry between Flora and Merryweather over the color of Briar Rose's dress are among very sparse bits of comic relief in a very sombre picture.

Answer: Aurora's

Aurora's father was Stefan while her mother was named Leah. Stefan and Hubert, Phillip's father, had their children in an arranged marriage in order to unite their kingdoms. Both of them, along with the rest of the kingdom, were put asleep by the fairies, so no one would know anything was up regarding Aurora pricking her finger.

Answer: turns him to stone

This is the last straw for Maleficent. She then uses her magic to try and stop Prince Phillip getting to Aurora, but he kills her in her dragon form and gives Aurora her kiss of true love, waking her up from the evil spell.

Answer: the chimney lights from Merriweather and Flora

He followed the colored smoke.

Answer: Raven

The good fairy Merryweather had not given her gift to Aurora when Maleficent interrupts her with the curse of death. Merryweather cannot negate the curse, but she changes death to slumber (in more modern terms, suspended animation). Although the three good fairies raise Aurora in the forest to hide her from Maleficent, Aurora is discovered when Flora and Fauna carelessly use their magic in a quarrel over Aurora/Briar Rose's dress (whether to dye it blue or pink). The raven named Diablo, familiar to the evil fairy Maleficent, espies the evidence of their magic and reports it to his mistress. Aurora is subsequently made to prick her finger on a spindle to fulfill the curse.

Merryweather was voiced by radio actor Barbara Luddy (1908-1979), who also voiced Lady in "Lady and the Tramp" (1955), Rover in "101 Dalmations" (1961), both Mother Rabbit and the churchmouse Mother Sexton in "Robin Hood" (1973), and Kanga in the "Winnie-the-Pooh" films from 1966 to 1977.

Answer: Flora

To celebrate Aurora's 16th birthday, Fauna baked a cake for Aurora. Flora decided to create a dress. Flora suggested the dress be pink while Merryweather wanted it to be blue. They used their magic to switch between the two colors, which lasted until Aurora came back home to the cottage. The final color was blue. At the end of the movie, Flora noticed the dress was blue and changed back to pink. This caused the two fairies to once again keep changing the colors between pink and blue.

Answer: Sampson

While Aurora was out picking berries, Prince Phillip was riding on his horse, through the woods, and he heard her singing. He turned to his horse, Sampson, and told him to take him to her. Sampson did not want to do this but Prince Phillip promised him carrots should he take him to Aurora. Sampson reluctantly agreed and galloped in the direction of Aurora's voice.

Answer: Beauty

This is the first of the three gifts given to her.

Answer: The Woodcutter

Deep in the forest the old woodcutter's cottage.

Answer: thorns

When Aurora falls into her 100-year slumber (or coma) after pricking her finger on a spindle, the fairies likewise make the entire kingdom sleep. Thorns and briars grow around the kingdom to protect it from outsiders.

"Sleeping Beauty" (1959) was the Disney Studio's last feature cartoon to be inked and painted by hand, the subsequent films using Xerography, the photocopying technology of the Xerox Corporation. During the scene in which the briar forest erects itself, however, the animators did employ Xerography to save time and money. After "Sleeping Beauty", there were massive layoffs in the ink and paint department, which had been mostly occupied by women, who had generally been forbidden, both formally and informally, from being actual animators and sketchers, the more desirable and to Walt Disney's mind important job. (Kay Nielsen was one exception to this unwritten rule, which came from Walt himself.) Connoisseurs of animation have noted a striking visual contrast between the hand-painted and outlined animation cels of the movies through 1959 and the ones in "101 Dalmations" (1961), which mechanically outline the actual sketches and irrevocably alters the classic Disney animated look and feel.

It should be noted that the animators used photocopying for the growth of the thorns in "Sleeping Beauty" without telling Walt Disney himself, but he later stated that he had noticed that shortcuts were taken. Unhappy with the changes taking place, he grew increasingly alienated from the animation studio and most of his energy was focused on television and on the new Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California.

Answer: Crown

The three fairies decided to return Aurora to her castle after informing her that she was a princess and was to be wed to Prince Phillip. Aurora wasn't too happy since she would be away from her true love (unknown to her, Phillip, the same man to whom she was betrothed). After returning her to the castle, Aurora was given one last gift by all three fairies: a crown. As Flora mentioned, it was a crown to be worn in grace and beauty.