Disney Potpourri Trivia Quiz

Answer: November 18, 1928

Contrary to popular belief, this was not the first cartoon to feature Mickey Mouse. This was the third, the first with sound.

Answer: Mortimer

Walt's wife Lily was the reason Mickey's name is in fact Mickey. She liked that name more than Mortimer. Legend has it, she liked the name because she liked Mickey Rooney.

Answer: December 5, 1901

Walt Disney was afraid of mice. Funny how his most well-known character is a mouse.

Answer: Fauntleroy

Donald Duck's screen debut came in 1934, in the "Wise Little Hen" short.

Answer: Morty & Ferdy

First print appearance was in "Mickey's Nephews" comic strip, and their first film appearance was in "Mickey's Steam-Roller".

Answer: Huey Lewis

Although Billy Joel was the voice of Dodger and did sing in the movie, the opening song was left to the great Huey Lewis.

Answer: The Black Cauldron

Released in 1980s, "The Black Cauldron" was deemed far to scary for most children's eyes.

Answer: Treasure Island

Both Disney and distributor RKO had a sizeable amount of British pounds tied up in the UK after World War II. Government restrictions prevented Disney from taking the money out of the country, so he decided to use it to make a movie.

Answer: Flowers and Trees

Although Walt won a honorary award in 1937 for "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", he won his first Oscar for the Silly Symphony short "Flowers and Trees". The catagory was Best Short Subject: Cartoon.

Answer: Feed The Birds

It is said that every Friday, as the work week finished, Walt would call Richard and Robert Sherman into his office and ask them to play "his" song. The Friday after Walt's death the two men went into his office and played him his song just as they had done every Friday before.

Answer: The Jungle Book

When writers were trying to come up with a storyline for "Jungle Book", Walt Disney told them specificly NOT to read the book. He wanted the story to be his version, not Rudyard Kipling's original story.

Answer: Country Bear Jamboree

The Country Bear Jamboree run shows every 15 minutes due to its popularity.

Answer: Dopey

Mickey Mouse was the sorceror's apprentice, but personally I would have loved to have seen what Dopey would have done with the role. I think he would have been perfect.

Answer: Yensid

"Yensid" is actually Disney backwards. Also when buying up land to create WDW in Florida he used the name "Retlaw", this is his first name, Walter, spelt backwards. I think I'm sensing a pattern here.

Answer: Dumbo

Dumbo appears in the scene where Stitch is investigating Lilo's room and rips her painting. He can also be seen later when Stitch leaves the house through Lilo's bedroom window.

Answer: 10/6

"Alice in Wonderland" took five years to complete and cost $3 million.

Answer: Pinocchio

Released in 1940, "Pinocchio" won an Academy Award for best score and best song, "When You Wish Upon A Star."

Answer: Sleepy

Kind of makes sense, huh? If he's always sleepng, how can he shave?

Answer: Liberty Belle

There is no real reason for the boat being named this.

Answer: Her Boot

Although they do also steal her parasol, it is the boot she loses first.

Answer: 5

"When I was a lad I ate 4 dozen eggs, every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown I eat 5 dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a BARGE!"

Answer: Yellow

The movie contains the studio's first surrealistic sequence, "Pink Elephants On Parade."

Answer: 3

The first was in the beginning when she is bringing her stepmother and stepsisters breakfast. The second was of course at the ball. And the third time was at the end of the movie after the wedding. The king helped her back put it back on.

Answer: 0

Dopey keeps trying and Snow White just keeps turning his head down to kiss the top of his head.

Answer: The Haunted Mansion

The ride is in New Orleans' Square in Disneyland, Liberty Square in Walt Disney World, Frontierland in Disneyland Paris, and Fantasyland in Tokyo Disneyland.