101 Dalmatians Trivia
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48 free 101 Dalmatians trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
101 Dalmatians is one of Disney's most-loved films and the origin of one of its greatest villains. This quiz covers the 1961 animated classic from Roger's flat to the Twilight Bark, the Colonel, Sergeant Tibbs and the soot disguise; the Dodie Smith novel that started it all; and the whole franchise since, from Glenn Close in the 1996 remake and 102 Dalmatians to Emma Stone in Cruella and the TV series. There are also questions on how the film was made, from the Xerox process to Marc Davis's animation of Cruella, and a few facts about the breed itself. About a third of the questions are easy for kids who know the film, a third are medium and the rest are for Disney historians. Every answer is checked against the films' and novel's reference pages.
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Q 01Who wrote the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians?
Dodie Smith
Dodie Smith kept Dalmatians of her own, and a friend's remark that one would make a nice fur coat gave her the idea for the puppy-stealing plot.
Q 02What is distinctive about Cruella de Vil's hair in the Disney films?
Half black, half white
Half black, half white hair is Cruella's trademark, straight from the 1956 novel; the 2021 prequel has her born with it and dyeing it to blend in until she becomes Cruella.
Q 03What are the names of the two adult Dalmatians in the Disney film?
Pongo and Perdita
Pongo and Perdita are the film's parents; in the novel Pongo's mate is Missis, and Perdita is a separate liver-spotted Dalmatian who helps nurse the litter, the film merging the two.
Q 04In One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961), who rubs the seemingly stillborn fifteenth puppy back to life?
Roger
Roger rubs the lifeless fifteenth puppy in a towel until it stirs, so the litter is 15 after all, moments before Cruella arrives wanting to buy them.
Q 05What is Roger's profession in the animated film?
Songwriter
Roger is a songwriter; his novelty number 'Cruella De Vil' becomes a radio hit, and the money lets the family plan a 'Dalmatian plantation' in the country.
Q 06How does Cruella know Anita?
They were schoolmates
They were schoolmates: Cruella calls her 'Anita darling', sweeps in as soon as she hears puppies are on the way, and later tries to buy the whole litter.
Q 07What are the names of the two crooks Cruella hires to steal the puppies?
Jasper and Horace
Jasper and Horace Badun are the bumbling crooks Cruella hires; in the novel the brothers are Jasper and Saul Baddun.
Q 08What is the name of the nationwide dog gossip network Pongo uses to find the puppies?
The Twilight Bark
The Twilight Bark is the dogs' bark-relay gossip chain; Pongo's alert passes from dog to dog out of London until it reaches the countryside where the puppies are hidden.
Q 09What kind of animal is Sergeant Tibbs, who helps rescue the puppies?
A tabby cat
Sergeant Tibbs is a tabby cat, the Colonel's second-in-command, who sneaks into Hell Hall and shepherds the puppies out while Cruella's two crooks watch television.
Q 10What breed is the Colonel?
Old English Sheepdog
The Colonel is an Old English Sheepdog of military bearing, the shaggy farm dog who picks up the barked alert and leads the puppies' rescue with Tibbs and the horse Captain.
Q 11How do the Dalmatians slip past Cruella on the way home?
They roll in soot to look like Labradors
They roll in soot to look like Labradors and board a moving van bound for London; melting snow washes the soot off one puppy, Cruella spots the spots, and she tries to ram the van off the road.
Q 12Which cheap animation process, championed by Ub Iwerks, gave One Hundred and One Dalmatians its scratchy outlined look?
Xerography
Xerography photocopied the animators' pencil drawings straight onto cels, skipping hand-inking; Ub Iwerks adapted a Xerox camera for it, which made 101 spotted dogs affordable to animate.
Q 13Which Disney animator, who also drew Maleficent and Tinker Bell, was the sole animator of Cruella de Vil?
Q 21What is the family's surname in the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, before Disney renamed them Radcliffe?
Dearly
Dearly is the novel's surname, and its running joke is that the dogs regard Mr. and Mrs. Dearly as their pets, not their owners.
Q 22In the novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, which runt puppy's traits did Disney's film give to Lucky?
Cadpig
Cadpig is the novel's runt, too weak for the long walk home, so she rides in a toy farm cart lent by a two-year-old boy; Disney gave her traits to Lucky instead.
Q 23What is the title of the 1967 sequel novel to The Hundred and One Dalmatians?
The Starlight Barking
The Starlight Barking (1967) is the sequel: every creature except dogs falls into a deep sleep, and the Dalmatians are contacted by Sirius, the Dog Star.
Marc Davis
Marc Davis animated Cruella single-handedly, one of the few Disney characters left to one artist, and gave her the cheekbones of the actress who voiced her.
Q 14Who voiced Cruella de Vil in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)?
Betty Lou Gerson
Betty Lou Gerson voiced Cruella, giving her a theatrical mid-Atlantic accent; she had also narrated the opening of Cinderella a decade earlier.
Q 15Which actor voiced Pongo in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)?
Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor voiced Pongo, who also narrates the film and introduces his owner as his 'pet'; Taylor had just starred in The Time Machine.
Q 16Who was the single writer who developed the story for Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians?
Bill Peet
Bill Peet wrote the whole story and storyboards alone; he condensed the novel, dropping Cruella's husband and her white cat, and merged the two nannies into one.
Q 17Which dog food is advertised in the TV jingle the puppies watch in One Hundred and One Dalmatians?
Kanine Krunchies
Kanine Krunchies gets a cheery jingle in a TV commercial; unusually for Disney, all three of the film's songs were written, words and music, by one man, Mel Leven.
Q 18The name Cruella de Vil is a pun on which two words?
Cruel and devil
Cruella de Vil is a pun on cruel and devil; the joke extends to her country house, which is called Hell Hall.
Q 19What TV quiz show are Cruella's crooks watching while Tibbs sneaks the puppies out?
What's My Crime?
What's My Crime? has a quizmaster and a panel, and Cruella's own voice actress doubles as one of its panelists, Miss Birdwell.
Q 20Which organization ranked Cruella de Vil 39th among screen villains in 2003?
American Film Institute
The American Film Institute put Cruella 39th of its 50 villains in 2003, behind two other Disney entries: Snow White's Queen at 10th and the unseen hunter of Bambi at 20th.
Q 24Under what title was The Hundred and One Dalmatians first serialized in Woman's Day?
The Great Dog Robbery
The Great Dog Robbery was the title when Woman's Day ran the story as a serial; in the book Cruella is married to a furrier, a husband Disney's film left out.
Q 25Who plays Cruella de Vil in the 1996 live-action 101 Dalmatians?
Glenn Close
Glenn Close plays Cruella as the head of a London fashion house who sacks her own designer, Anita, for refusing to sell her the puppies.
Q 26What is Roger's job in the 1996 live-action 101 Dalmatians?
Video game designer
Roger, played by Jeff Daniels, is a video game designer in the 1996 film, reworking the villain of his spotted-dog game into a Cruella figure.
Q 27Which writer-producer behind 1990s family comedies wrote the 1996 live-action 101 Dalmatians?
John Hughes
John Hughes wrote and produced the 1996 remake, as he had Home Alone, updating the story so that Cruella runs a London fashion house.
Q 28Which actor plays one of Cruella's two crooks in the 1996 live-action 101 Dalmatians?
Hugh Laurie
Hugh Laurie plays one of the bumbling pair opposite Mark Williams; after a string of mishaps the two give themselves up to the police.
Q 29Which French actor plays the furrier in 102 Dalmatians (2000)?
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Depardieu plays Jean-Pierre Le Pelt, the furrier Cruella recruits once a clock's chimes undo the therapy that had cured her of loving fur.
Q 30What is unusual about Oddball, the puppy in 102 Dalmatians?
She has no spots
She has no spots, and Oddball frets about being different from her family; a few finally appear on her coat at the very end of the film.