Original Disney Plots Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Tempest

Ariel is Prospero's servant. Prospero basically has his birthright stolen from him by his brother, Alonso, and is banished to an island. Prospero finds this fairy "imprisoned in a cloven pine," and frees him/her promising freedom on the condition that Ariel work for him (he's a sorcerer) for several years.

Answer: 12 and 37

Yes, it's true, and they were actually just close friends. I'll check, but I believe the dramatic scene where she saves him from being killed is also a fictional, although popular, myth.
*This is an approximation. I'm sure some accounts vary, which is why I didn't make the pairs too close.

Answer: Hamlet

I was quite shocked when our English teacher told us this. See, there's the two brothers (Mufasa/Old Hamlet & Scar/Claudius), one becomes king, the other is jealous and assassinates him, then tries to kill the son(Simba/Hamlet), who must flee but returns to fight. And then there's the oxymoronic role of the "wise fool" (Rafiki/Polonius), the two friends (Timon & Pumba/Rosencranz & Guildenstern), the girl (Nala/Ophelia), although in her case the role was only marginally like the original, and of course the ending is totally different.

Answer: Yes

It's called "La Belle et la Bete" and there are several different traditional versions of it. My favorite movie was based on the tale by Madame LePrince de Beaumont and is in black-and-white, with French subtitles, and was directed by Jean Cocteau in 1946. I highly recommend it.

Answer: Cats

T.S. Eliot was approached by Disney, but refused to grant them the rights to his "Old Possom's Book of Practical Cats." His widow, however, did permit Andrew Lloyd Webber to make the musical on the condition that they not be turned into "pussy cats."

Answer: Tchaikowsky

It's from the ballet he wrote, "The Sleeping Beauty," comissioned in 1890 for the Kirov Ballet by Czar Nicolas II. The Rose Waltz is in Act I, during a celebration for Princess Aurora's 16th birthday.

Answer: 3

There are three balls, one each night, one after the other. A gruesome tidbit about the original? The two sisters cut off their heels and toes to make the "glass" (fur, actually) slipper fit their feet, but the messenger was like, "Euuu--you cut off part of your foot--I can, like, see the blood oozing out...no, that doesn't count."

Answer: No

His father was Zeus but his mother Alcmene was a mortal ... this makes Heracles a demi-god. Such was the case for many ancient heroes; their father was Zeus and their mother was the mortal-female-of-the-week.

Answer: Badir al-Badur

Jasmine is the name in the Disney cartoon movie. Sheherezade is the name of the girl who tells all the stories in "The 1001 Arabian Nights," in order to delay her death. The princess is the Lady Badir al-Badur.

Answer: 5

Tootles, Curly, Slighty, and the twins. If you've ever seen "Hook," I thought it was funny and later ironic when Peter arrives at the camp and says, "What is this, 'Lord of the Flies' nursery school?" because there is also a pair of twins in that, named Sam and Eric. Later on in the book they become the literally inseperable "Samneric."