Round 1: easy movie trivia for kids - sidekicks and best friends
Start here whatever the age of the room. Every answer is a character rather than a date, a director or a plot point, and the questions are about who belongs to whom.
If you are quizzing very young children, this round alone is a complete game. Read the note after each answer - a one-line fact turns a list of questions into something the room talks about.
Q1.Who is Ariel's fish best friend in The Little Mermaid?Tap to reveal
Answer: Flounder
Flounder is not a flounder. He is drawn as a round yellow-and-blue tropical fish, which is why nobody watching ever mistakes him for the flat grey fish he is named after.
Q2.Which little monkey is Aladdin's partner in crime during his days as a street thief?Tap to reveal
Answer: Abu
Abu never speaks a word of English, yet he moves the plot: it is Abu grabbing a forbidden jewel that brings the Cave of Wonders down around them.
Q3.Name Belle's teacup friend in Beauty and the Beast.Tap to reveal
Answer: Chip
Chip is the son of Mrs Potts, the teapot, and was turned into a chipped cup by the same spell that made the prince a beast. Angela Lansbury voiced his mother and sang the title song.
Q4.Which parrot starts out as Jafar's sidekick in the first Aladdin film?Tap to reveal
Answer: Iago
Iago is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried, and he changes sides in the sequel The Return of Jafar - one of the few Disney henchmen who is given a chance to become a good guy.
Q5.Name the raccoon who is one of Pocahontas's little friends.Tap to reveal
Answer: Meeko
Meeko's partner in mischief is Flit the hummingbird. Neither animal talks, so the pair have to carry their jokes entirely through mime.
Q6.What is the name of Cinderella's chubby mouse friend?Tap to reveal
Answer: Gus
His full name is Octavius. Jaq shortens it to Gus, then to Gus-Gus, and it is Gus and the other mice, with the birds, who remake Cinderella's mother's old dress into a gown for the ball.
Q7.Which of the Seven Dwarfs never speaks in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?Tap to reveal
Answer: Dopey
The animators could not settle on a voice they liked, so silence became the character. Asked in the film whether Dopey can talk, the other dwarfs answer that he has simply never tried.
Q8.In The Lion King, what is the name of Simba's warthog pal?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pumbaa
Pumbaa travels with Timon the meerkat. Ernie Sabella and Nathan Lane came in to audition as hyenas, were asked to read the meerkat and warthog scenes together for fun, and were cast as the double act instead.
Q9.Name Peter Pan's fairy friend.Tap to reveal
Answer: Tinker Bell
Tinker Bell does not say a single word in the 1953 film - she communicates with bells, light and temper alone - and she later became the star of her own run of Disney Fairies films.
Q10.In Lady and the Tramp, what is the name of Lady's bloodhound neighbour?Tap to reveal
Answer: Trusty
Trusty and Jock the Scottish terrier are the neighbours who look after Lady. Trusty boasts endlessly about his tracking nose, even though he lost his sense of smell years ago.
Round 2: name the Disney movie from its characters
This is the round that separates the child who has seen a film once from the child who has worn out the disc. You read three or four names, the room shouts the title.
It also works in reverse for younger players: say the film first and ask them to name one more character from it. Same list, half the difficulty.
Q1.Which Disney movie has characters named Drizella, Anastasia and Lucifer?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cinderella
Drizella and Anastasia are the stepsisters and Lucifer is the household cat. Cinderella (1950) was the hit that pulled Disney out of the money trouble the studio had been in since the war.
Q2.Kala, Jane Porter and Clayton are characters from which Disney feature?Tap to reveal
Answer: Tarzan
Kala is the gorilla who raises Tarzan and is voiced by Glenn Close; Clayton is the hunter. The story comes from Edgar Rice Burroughs, who first published Tarzan in 1912.
Q3.Dr Jumba Jookiba and Pleakley are characters in which Disney film?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lilo & Stitch
Jumba is the scientist who built Stitch, officially Experiment 626, and Pleakley is the one-eyed alien sent along to find him. The 2002 film is set on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Q4.Tiger Lily, the Lost Boys and the Darling children all appear in which Disney movie?Tap to reveal
Answer: Peter Pan
Disney's Peter Pan (1953) comes from J.M. Barrie's play and novel. The 2004 film Finding Neverland is about Barrie himself and how he came to write it.
Q5.Which Disney movie has characters named Pongo, Perdita and Lucky?Tap to reveal
Answer: 101 Dalmatians
Pongo and Perdita are the parents and Lucky is the puppy with a horseshoe of spots on his back. The film is based on Dodie Smith's 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians.
Q6.Stromboli, Gideon and Figaro are characters in which Disney movie?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pinocchio
Stromboli is the puppet master, Gideon the cat and Figaro the kitten who lives with Geppetto. Gideon was written to talk and Mel Blanc recorded the lines, but the studio decided he should be mute and cut all of them except a hiccup.
Q7.Bagheera, Shere Khan and Baloo are from what Disney movie?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Jungle Book
The characters come from Rudyard Kipling's 1894 book. The 1967 film was the last one Walt Disney worked on himself - he died in December 1966, ten months before it reached cinemas.
Q8.The gods Hera, Zeus and Hades share the screen with a mortal named Meg in which Disney animated movie?Tap to reveal
Answer: Hercules
Disney made Hades the villain, which the Greek myths never did. In the original stories the god who torments Hercules is Hera, his stepmother.
Q9.The sisters in this Disney movie are named Adella, Alana, Andrina, Aquata, Arista and Attina. Which film is it?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Little Mermaid
Ariel is the youngest of King Triton's seven daughters and every sister's name begins with an A. The film is based on a Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale that ends far less happily.
Q10.Sarabi, Zazu and Rafiki are character names in which Disney movie?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Lion King
Sarabi is Simba's mother, Zazu the hornbill who reports to the king and Rafiki the mandrill. The names are Swahili words: simba means lion, rafiki means friend and sarabi means mirage.
Q11.Queen Grimhilde, a huntsman and a magic mirror belong to which Disney classic?Tap to reveal
Answer: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Snow White was the first feature-length cel-animated film and the first animated feature made in the United States - silhouette and cut-out features had appeared in Europe a decade earlier. While it was being made, people in the industry called the project Disney's Folly and expected it to ruin him.
Q12.Li Shang falls in love with the title character of which 1998 Disney movie?Tap to reveal
Answer: Mulan
Li Shang is the captain who trains the unit Mulan joins in her father's place. His speaking voice is BD Wong and his singing voice is Donny Osmond.
Round 3: Disney villain trivia for kids
Villains are the round children answer fastest, because a good villain is the part of a film they remember best. Every answer here is a name rather than a plot point, so it stays fair for younger players.
Read the notes in this round even if the room gets every answer. They are full of the sort of detail - the same actress voicing two villains, an octopus with the wrong number of legs - that makes a child want to watch the film again.
Q1.In The Lion King, what is the name of the villain who was Simba's uncle?Tap to reveal
Answer: Scar
Scar is voiced by Jeremy Irons. The cruellest thing he does is not killing his brother but convincing the cub that the death was his own fault, which is what drives Simba away.
Q2.Who is the main villainess in Disney's The Little Mermaid?Tap to reveal
Answer: Ursula
Ursula is drawn as half octopus but has six tentacles rather than eight. Two short of a real octopus, and nobody notices until it is pointed out - which is the fun of asking.
Q3.In Disney's Aladdin, what is the name of the evil sorcerer and Grand Vizier?Tap to reveal
Answer: Jafar
Jafar wants the lamp so he can rule Agrabah, and his last wish is what defeats him: he asks to become an all-powerful genie, forgetting that genies are bound to their lamps.
Q4.What is the name of the arrogant villain who is determined to marry Belle in Beauty and the Beast?Tap to reveal
Answer: Gaston
Gaston has no magic, no curse and no army. His weapon is the crowd he can whip up in a few minutes, which is what makes the mob scene the genuinely frightening part of the film.
Q5.What is the name of the primary villain in Disney's Pocahontas?Tap to reveal
Answer: Governor Ratcliffe
Ratcliffe is certain the new land is stuffed with gold and digs it up looking for it. A real John Ratcliffe was one of the leaders of the Jamestown colony, though the film's version of him is invented.
Q6.What is the name of the main villain in Disney's version of Robin Hood?Tap to reveal
Answer: Prince John
Disney's 1973 Robin Hood casts every part as an animal: Robin is a fox, Little John a bear, and Prince John a thumb-sucking lion who cries for his mother whenever he loses.
Q7.Who is the pirate villain in Peter Pan?Tap to reveal
Answer: Captain Hook
Hans Conried voiced both Captain Hook and Mr Darling, the children's father. That double casting is a tradition carried over from the stage, where the same actor has played both parts since Barrie's day.
Q8.What is the name of the evil dark fairy in Sleeping Beauty?Tap to reveal
Answer: Maleficent
She curses the baby Aurora out of spite at not being invited to the christening, and turns into a dragon for the final fight. The 2014 live-action film Maleficent retells the same story from her point of view.
Q9.Who is the villain in Disney's Cinderella?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lady Tremaine, the wicked stepmother
The film mostly just calls her the stepmother. Eleanor Audley voiced both Lady Tremaine and Maleficent, which is why the two of them sound so alike.
Q10.Pain and Panic are the bumbling henchmen of which Disney villain?Tap to reveal
Answer: Hades
Hades sends the pair to get rid of the baby Hercules. They botch the job, which is why he keeps his god-like strength. James Woods voiced Hades and improvised so freely that the animators drew to his recordings.
Round 4: magic, true love and happy endings
Fairy godmothers, genies, talking trees and the people the heroes end up with. This round is where the classic fairy-tale films live, so it plays well with children who know the princess stories better than the Pixar ones.
The second half is all names of sweethearts. If you want a shorter game, run the six magic questions as a round on their own and save the rest.
Q1.Name the magical character who lives in the lamp in Disney's Aladdin.Tap to reveal
Answer: The Genie
Robin Williams improvised so much material in the recording booth that the animators built the Genie's lightning-fast shape changes around whatever he happened to say.
Q2.What is the name of the mystical tree in the Disney movie Pocahontas?Tap to reveal
Answer: Grandmother Willow
Grandmother Willow is a talking willow voiced by Linda Hunt, and she is the one who tells Pocahontas to listen with her heart rather than her head.
Q3.Name the magical character who helps Cinderella get to the ball.Tap to reveal
Answer: The Fairy Godmother
She turns a pumpkin into a coach and the mice into horses, and sets the spell to break at midnight. That deadline is what gives the whole second half of the film its tension.
Q4.There were three good fairies in Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Name one of them.Tap to reveal
Answer: Flora, Fauna or Merryweather
Merryweather is the one who saves Aurora. She cannot undo another fairy's curse, so she changes it instead: death becomes a sleep that true love's kiss can end.
Q5.Name the wizard in the Disney film The Sword in the Stone.Tap to reveal
Answer: Merlin
The 1963 film turns the King Arthur legend into a story about school. Merlin teaches the boy by turning him into a fish, a squirrel and a bird, with a grumpy talking owl called Archimedes looking on.
Q6.Who changed Pinocchio from a wooden puppet into a real boy?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Blue Fairy
She gives the puppet life at the start and makes him a real boy once he has proved himself brave and honest. The film's opening song, When You Wish Upon a Star, won the Academy Award for best original song and became the studio's signature tune.
Q7.With whom does Ariel fall in love in The Little Mermaid?Tap to reveal
Answer: Prince Eric
Ariel trades her voice for legs to reach him, which means she has to win him over in three days without being able to say a single word.
Q8.Who is Aladdin's beloved?Tap to reveal
Answer: Princess Jasmine
Jasmine's whole argument in the film is that she refuses to be married off to a prince she has never met, which is exactly what the law her father keeps quoting demands.
Q9.Who does Cinderella fall in love with at the royal ball?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Prince, usually called Prince Charming
The 1950 film never actually gives him a name. The credits list him simply as The Prince, and Prince Charming came from the way other characters and later merchandise described him.
Q10.Who is Robin Hood in love with in Disney's version of the legend?Tap to reveal
Answer: Maid Marian
In Disney's telling Marian is a vixen and Robin a fox, they were childhood sweethearts, and the film closes with their wedding.
Q11.What is the name of the prince whose kiss wakes Aurora in Sleeping Beauty?Tap to reveal
Answer: Prince Phillip
Disney spells it Phillip, with two Ls. He and Aurora were promised to each other as babies, then meet by chance in the forest years later with neither one knowing who the other is.
Q12.In Disney's Pocahontas, who is the love interest of the heroine?Tap to reveal
Answer: John Smith
John Smith is voiced by Mel Gibson. The romance is Disney's invention: the real Pocahontas was a child when the English settlers arrived at Jamestown.
Q13.In The Lion King, what is the name of the lioness Simba loves?Tap to reveal
Answer: Nala
Nala is his childhood playmate, and she is the one who tracks him down years later and tells him what his uncle has done to the Pride Lands.
Round 5: movie quotes for kids - name the film
The hardest round, and the loudest. Read the line out with as much of the voice as you can manage and let the room shout the title. Children who cannot place a quote from a film they have seen will often get it from the character's voice alone.
This round reaches past the fairy tales into Pixar and one live-action classic, so it is the round where the parents finally get to win something.
Q1.Which Disney movie contains the line: "Fine conscience I turned out to be"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pinocchio
The line is Jiminy Cricket's, after he loses track of the puppet he was supposed to be guiding. Jiminy was built up for the film - in Carlo Collodi's original book, the talking cricket is squashed within a few pages.
Q2.Which Disney movie is this quote from: "My little baby is all grown up and... and savin' China. You have a tissue?"Tap to reveal
Answer: Mulan
Mushu, voiced by Eddie Murphy, is the family guardian dragon. He is the smallest guardian the family has, which is the joke - Mulan asks the ancestors for help and gets a dragon who fits on a shoulder.
Q3.Which Disney film is this line from: "Close your mouth, please, Michael. We are not a codfish"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins (1964) was Julie Andrews's first feature film, and she won the Academy Award for best actress for it.
Q4.Which Disney movie contains these lines: "Twinkle twinkle, little bat / How I wonder what you're at? / Up above the world you fly / Like a tea tray in the sky"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Alice in Wonderland
The verse is Lewis Carroll's joke on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, and in Disney's 1951 film it belongs to the tea party scene.
Q5.Which Disney film is this quote from: "Now the snarfblatt dates back to prehysterical times when humans used to sit around and stare at each other all day"?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Little Mermaid
Scuttle the seagull explaining human objects he has never understood. A snarfblatt is a pipe, and a dinglehopper, in Scuttle's expert opinion, is a fork.
Q6.Which Disney film contains this line: "His destructive programming is taking effect. He will be irresistibly drawn to large cities, where he will back up sewers, reverse street signs, and steal everyone's left shoe"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Lilo & Stitch
Jumba is describing his own creation, and the joke sets up the whole film. Stitch was built to wreck things and has to work out what else he might want to be.
Q7."I shall call him Squishy and he shall be mine and he shall be my Squishy" is a quote from which animated film?Tap to reveal
Answer: Finding Nemo
Dory says it to a baby jellyfish moments before the swarm stings them both. Finding Nemo won the Academy Award for best animated feature.
Q8.Which computer-animated film is this quote from: "Superladies? They're always trying to tell you their secret identity. Think it'll strengthen the relationship or something like that"?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Incredibles
Frozone, voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, telling the story to Mr Incredible. The scene is a flashback to the years before being a superhero was banned in the film's world.
Q9.Which computer-animated film is this line from: "One minute you're defending the whole galaxy, and, suddenly, you find yourself sucking down Darjeeling with... Marie Antoinette and her little sister"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Toy Story
Buzz Lightyear says it after being dressed up and sat at a little girl's tea party. Toy Story (1995) was the first feature film animated entirely on computers.
Q10.In which Disney film does this exchange take place: "I want to do something for her... but what?" "Well, there's the usual things: flowers, chocolates, promises you don't intend to keep..."Tap to reveal
Answer: Beauty and the Beast
Cogsworth the mantel clock, advising the Beast on courtship. Beauty and the Beast was the first animated film ever nominated for the best picture Oscar.
Q11.Which Disney film is this line from: "Oh, that clock! Old killjoy. I hear you. Come on, get up, you say, time to start another day. Even he orders me around"?Tap to reveal
Answer: Cinderella
Cinderella says it to the birds and mice as the castle clock wakes her. The animators worked from live-action reference footage of an actress performing the whole part first, then drew over it.
Q12.Which Disney film is this dialogue from: "Don't tell me. We're about to go over a huge waterfall." "Yep." "Sharp rocks at the bottom?" "Most likely." "Bring it on"?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Emperor's New Groove
Kuzco, an emperor turned into a llama, arguing with Pacha, the farmer whose village he tried to flatten. Kuzco is voiced by David Spade and Pacha by John Goodman.
Round 6: newer films - the ones on repeat right now
Everything above this point is a film the adults in the room grew up with. This round is the one the children will win, because it covers the films that have been on in their house this year rather than in 1995.
If the room is all under ten, start here instead of with Round 1 and work backwards. The questions are the same shape - a name, a creature, a family - so nothing gets harder, only older.
Q1.In Frozen, what is the name of Elsa and Anna's snowman?Tap to reveal
Answer: Olaf
Olaf is the snowman the sisters build as children and Elsa brings to life again years later. Josh Gad voices him, and the running joke of the character is a snowman who dreams about summer.
Q2.In Moana, what is the name of the demigod she sets out to find?Tap to reveal
Answer: Maui
Maui is a demigod from Polynesian legend, voiced by Dwayne Johnson. His giant fish hook is what lets him change shape, which is why losing it matters to him more than anything else in the film.
Q3.What is the family surname in Encanto?Tap to reveal
Answer: Madrigal
Every Madrigal child is given a magical gift on their fifth birthday except Mirabel, and the film is about why. Its song We Don't Talk About Bruno went to number one in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
Q4.Name two of the five emotions living in Riley's head in Inside Out.Tap to reveal
Answer: Any two of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust
Riley is eleven, and the five run her from a control panel. The turn of the film is that Sadness, the one everybody wants to get rid of, is the one she actually needs.
Q5.What kind of animal is Judy Hopps, the police officer in Zootopia?Tap to reveal
Answer: A rabbit
Judy is the first rabbit in a police force built for much bigger animals, and she is partnered with a fox called Nick Wilde. In the United Kingdom the same film is called Zootropolis.
Q6.What is the name of Rapunzel's chameleon in Tangled?Tap to reveal
Answer: Pascal
Pascal never says a word and does all of his acting by changing colour. Tangled was Disney's fiftieth animated feature.
Q7.What kind of animal is Remy, the cook in Ratatouille?Tap to reveal
Answer: A rat
Remy wants to cook in a Paris restaurant, which is the one animal no kitchen is allowed to have. Ratatouille won the Academy Award for best animated feature.
Q8.In Despicable Me, what are Gru's little yellow helpers called?Tap to reveal
Answer: The Minions
The Minions speak a made-up language stitched together out of bits of several real ones, which is why a room of children from different countries all half-understand them. They went on to get films of their own.
Frequently Asked Questions
What age are these movie trivia questions for?
Round 1 is answerable by a five-year-old who has seen the films, and so is Round 6, which covers the newest ones. Rounds 2 to 4 suit roughly ages seven and up. Round 5 asks you to recognise a film from a line of dialogue, which usually needs an older child or a parent on the team.
How many movie trivia questions do I need for a kids' party?
Twenty to thirty is plenty for children. Run two of the rounds below with a scoring break between them, and stop while they still want more rather than working through all of them.
Which films do these questions cover?
Mostly Disney and Pixar animation, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937 through to Frozen, Moana and Encanto, plus Mary Poppins. They are the family films most likely to have been watched more than once in the same house.
How do I make a movie quiz work for a mixed group of ages?
Put a child and an adult on every team, and alternate rounds instead of going strictly easiest to hardest. Children own the sidekicks and villains rounds; adults own the quotes round.
Can I use these movie trivia questions for free?
Yes. Read them out at a party, in a classroom or on a car journey. Trivio.NET also has a much larger bank of movie and cartoon quizzes if you want to build your own rounds.
