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  Disney   top quiz  
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
In the early days of motion pictures, Walt Disney created a style of movie animation which has remained in use. Oh, and he also created an empire! Let's take a look at the work of this man who liked to doodle.
Average, 10 Qns, CmdrK, Aug 28 15
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  Disney 101    
Multiple Choice
 20 Qns
To all of you who think you know all about everything Disney have fun and take my quiz!
Very Difficult, 20 Qns, squeaks957, Jun 20 22
Very Difficult
squeaks957
Jun 20 22
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  Walt Quizney    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
A quiz about Walt Disney, one of the most influential animators the world ever knew.
Average, 10 Qns, UniWaltBros_13, Jul 10 18
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Jul 10 18
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  The Great Walt Disney    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
The Life of the Great Walt Disney: how much do you think you know about Walt Disney, the creator of the great Mouse himself. Well, it's time to find out... Oh, and have fun!
Tough, 10 Qns, Frodo_Baggins, Feb 03 07
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  The Man Behind Mickey Mouse    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You've answered all the questions on Mickey Mouse, Disney movies, and the theme parks. How well do you know the man who started it all?
Tough, 10 Qns, waltsway, Nov 20 22
Tough
waltsway
Nov 20 22
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  Walt Disney    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about Walt Disney enjoy.
Average, 10 Qns, *SnOoKiE*, Apr 10 07
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trivia question Quick Question
What was the name of Walt Disney's wife?

From Quiz "Walt Disney"




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Walt Disney Trivia Questions
1. Walt Disney was born in 1901. What month was it?

From Quiz Walt Quizney

Answer: December

Walt Disney was born December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were Elias and Flora Call Disney.

2. Walt's birthday was December 5th in what year?

From Quiz The Man Behind Mickey Mouse

Answer: 1901

Walt was the youngest of four boys and had one younger sister named Ruth. He was born in Chicago, but raised on a farm in Marceline, Missouri.

3. What was Walt Disney's full name?

From Quiz The Great Walt Disney

Answer: Walter Elias Disney

Elias was Walt's father's first name.

4. When was Walt Disney born?

From Quiz Walt Disney

Answer: December 5, 1901

He was born on December 5, 1901.

5. On what date was Walter E. Disney born?

From Quiz Disney 101

Answer: December 5, 1901

Walt Disney was born to Flora and Elias Disney on on December 5th, 1901 in Chicago, IL.

6. Walt Disney, with his brother Roy, founded The Walt Disney Company on October 16, 1923. Where was their first office space?

From Quiz Walt Quizney

Answer: In a barn

When Roy and Walt set up their company, they didn't have a lot of money. For a short time, a barn was the company's headquarters.

7. After his animation studio in Missouri went bankrupt, Walt Disney moved to California. Where did he set up his new cartoon studio?

From Quiz Disney

Answer: in a garage

Yes, Walt Disney had one of those rags-to-riches stories of people who started their careers in a garage. Considering the southern California climate, people can work in a garage for most (or all) of the year without needing heat or air conditioning, and thus saving money which might have gone to pay expensive rents. Originally, having an interest in cartoon drawing, Disney started an animation studio in Kansas City, Missouri called Laugh-O-Gram Studios. Though popular and with plenty of work coming in, Disney could not cover the cost of employees' salaries and went bankrupt within a few years. After moving to California, Disney started in his uncle Robert Disney's garage in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles. He called it the "Disney Brothers Studio" after himself and his brother Roy. Animation then was done by hand, one frame at a time. Artists (animators) would use India ink on a celluloid template to outline a scene; other artists (called "inkers" or "colorists") would then fill in the outlines and then each frame would be individually photographed to make a movie reel. To say it was labor-intensive would be a large understatement!

8. What were Walt's three brothers and sister called?

From Quiz The Great Walt Disney

Answer: Herbert, Raymond, Roy and Ruth

Walt was the youngest of the four brothers, but Ruth was the youngest overall.

9. What are Walt Disney's Mom's and Dad's names?

From Quiz Walt Disney

Answer: Flora and Elias

Their fourth child was Walt Disney.

10. Whom was Walt Disney named after?

From Quiz Disney 101

Answer: Reverend Walter Parr

Walt's parents decided to name him after the Rev. Walter Parr, whom they liked very much. Originally, however, Walt's name was going to be Elias after his father.

11. What item did Walt Disney ban from all of his theme parks?

From Quiz Walt Quizney

Answer: Bubble gum

The reason why Disney banned bubble gum was because he didn't want guests to worry about gum sticking to their shoes. Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955.

12. Inspired by the success of "Mickey Mouse" cartoons, Walt Disney wanted to attempt a full-length animated movie. Which 1937 movie did critics call "Disney's Folly"?

From Quiz Disney

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Beginning in 1934, Disney started drawing the frames for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", based on a fairy tale by the Grimm brothers. It was the story of a vain, wicked queen who was jealous of her stepdaughter, princess Snow White. The tale works through betrayal, poison apples, talking mirrors and - of course - a handsome prince coming to the rescue. Work on it continued until mid-1937 when Disney's studio ran out of money. To be loaned further money, bank officers made Disney show a rough cut of the movie to a theater audience in December, 1937. The audience gave it a standing ovation and Disney got his money. Released to general audiences in 1938, the movie earned over $8 million in its first release, the equivalent of $134 million today. To give you an idea of the work involved in a full-length animated movie, approximately 750 animators and colorists worked on more than two million cels drawn for "Snow White".

13. Walt's wife Lillian, had what maiden name?

From Quiz The Man Behind Mickey Mouse

Answer: Bounds

Lilly met Walt when a friend recommended her for a job at his studio in the 1920s. They were married in 1925. Lillian was actually older than Walt, born in February 1899. She was part of a big family and had many siblings.

14. What character did Walt create before Mickey Mouse? He was very similar in looks but the rights were stolen from Walt in 1928.

From Quiz The Great Walt Disney

Answer: Oswald the Rabbit

When the rights were taken away from Walt it was a huge professional blow. However, because of this, it was on a train journey that the most famous mouse of all was created.

15. What was Walt Disney's first job in life?

From Quiz Walt Disney

Answer: newspaper boy

16. Here's a toughie - What was Flora Disney's (Walt's mother's) maiden name?

From Quiz Disney 101

Answer: Call

17. In 1937, Walt Disney Studios released which movie that helped the company overcome its financial burdens?

From Quiz Walt Quizney

Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" was produced by Walt Disney and released by RKO Pictures. It was Walt Disney's very first full-length feature.

18. During World War II, Hollywood studios joined the Allied propaganda campaign. Which hard-to-understand Disney character was chosen to get in "Der Fuehrer's Face"?

From Quiz Disney

Answer: Donald Duck

In the cartoon "Der Fuehrer's Face", Donald Duck played a reluctant factory worker in Nazi Germany. The cartoon was named after a song of the same name written by Oliver Wallace. The cartoon won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1943. Because of the propaganda nature of the cartoon, Walt Disney kept it out of circulation after its release. It finally became available on home video in 2004.

19. When Walt came to Hollywood, what was his original goal?

From Quiz The Man Behind Mickey Mouse

Answer: To be a director of live-action movies

Walt went to several studios looking for work and submitting the cartoons he had made in his hometown. They all turned him down. He finally decided to open up his own studio with financial help from his brother.

20. In what year was "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" released?

From Quiz The Great Walt Disney

Answer: 1937

"Snow White" was Walt Disney's first feature length animated film.

21. What was the name of Walt Disney's wife?

From Quiz Walt Disney

Answer: Lillian

22. What was the last animated film that Walt helped to produce before his death?

From Quiz Disney 101

Answer: The Jungle Book

Production for 'The Jungle Book' began in 1966 and, although Walt did not survive until its completion (he died in late 1966), he did oversee a good portion of production.

23. From the cartoon "Steamboat Willie", what character would later become the mascot for the Walt Disney Company?

From Quiz Walt Quizney

Answer: Mickey Mouse

The prototype for Mickey Mouse was in "Steamboat Willie". Also, Walt Disney was the original voice for Mickey Mouse.

24. As Walt Disney Productions became larger and began to diversify, Walt Disney spent less time in the animation department. What name did he give to his long-time chief animators whom he entrusted to continue the Disney style?

From Quiz Disney

Answer: Nine Old Men

Disney called his nine trusted animators Nine Old Men, though they were mostly in their 30s and 40s. Some had worked on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" and oversaw the work on "The Rescuers", "Lady and the Tramp", "One Hundred and One Dalmatians" and on and on through Disney's most famous movies. The last of the group died in 2008.

25. When Walt was in his early teens he met another boy, and the two did an act together in which they would impersonate Charlie Chaplin. What was the name of the other boy Walt did the act with?

From Quiz The Man Behind Mickey Mouse

Answer: Walt

Walter Pfeiffer and Walt Disney combined their talents impersonating Chaplin, in an act they called "The Two Walts." Some of the Mickey Mouse cartoons feature Mickey portraying Chaplin, too. There are a lot of similarities between Walt and Mickey.

26. In what year did Disneyland California open?

From Quiz The Great Walt Disney

Answer: 1955

Disneyland California was the first park to be opened by the Walt Disney Company, however the only one to actually be opened by Walt himself.

27. What year does Pluto come in?

From Quiz Walt Disney

Answer: 1930

First was Mickey Mouse.

28. Where is the largest Disney Character Store located?

From Quiz Disney 101

Answer: Disney World

The largest Disney Character Store can be found in WDW's Disney Springs.

29. During the 1950s, Walt Disney attempted to buy the rights for a book to turn into a film. What was the book?

From Quiz Walt Quizney

Answer: Mary Poppins

P.L. Travers, the author of "Mary Poppins", fought vigorously for Disney to not adapt her book into a movie. The reason was because Disney typically made animated films, and Travers did not want that for her book.

30. In 1955, Walt Disney created a children's program that ran daily, offering entertainment and promoting responsibility for young people. What were the kids who starred in the show called?

From Quiz Disney

Answer: Mouseketeers

Put on your mouseke-ears kids and let's have our Mouseketeers roll call! The original version of the "Mickey Mouse Club" show ran from 1955 to 1960 on the ABC television network. Besides trying to teach good citizenship, the show had music and comedy segments and a daily appearance by Mickey himself (on film). The show continued on and off until 1996. A number of entertainers got their start on the show, including Annette Funicello, Johnny Crawford, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake.

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