2000s Disney Trivia
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60 free 2000s Disney trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Disney's 2000s were strange and rich: the studio's hand-drawn era faded with Treasure Planet and Home on the Range, Pixar carried the box office with Nemo, The Incredibles and WALL-E, Jack Sparrow turned a theme-park ride into a billion-dollar franchise, and Disney Channel minted stars named Hilary, Raven, Zac and Miley. This quiz has 52 2000s Disney trivia questions with answers spanning all of it. Expect questions on the animated features from The Emperor's New Groove to The Princess and the Frog, the Pixar run and its Oscars, live-action hits like Pirates of the Caribbean, National Treasure, The Princess Diaries, Freaky Friday, Narnia and Enchanted, the Disney Channel boom of Lizzie McGuire, That's So Raven, High School Musical, Hannah Montana and Camp Rock, plus the corporate drama of Eisner's exit, Iger's arrival and the Pixar and Marvel deals, and the decade's new parks from California Adventure to Hong Kong Disneyland. Difficulty runs from easy to expert and is marked on each question. Every answer is checked against Wikipedia's article on the film, show, park or executive in question, and each question shows its citation.
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Q 01The Emperor's New Groove (2000) began development in 1994 as a musical epic with what working title?
Kingdom of the Sun
Kingdom of the Sun was planned as a dramatic musical epic with songs by Sting; in 1998 Disney threw out most of the story and rebuilt the film as a comedy.
Q 02In The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma accidentally turns Emperor Kuzco into which animal?
A llama
Yzma's potion turns Kuzco into a llama because Kronk grabbed the wrong vial, so Eartha Kitt's villain ends up with a talking llama instead of a poisoned emperor.
Q 03Which actor voices Milo Thatch in Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)?
Michael J. Fox
Michael J. Fox voices Milo, a linguist, and Disney had a language built for him to read: Marc Okrand, who developed Star Trek's Klingon, devised Atlantean for the film.
Q 04Lilo & Stitch's soundtrack makes extensive use of which singer's music?
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley's music runs right through the film, and the characters do more than listen: they praise him and even dress up as the King.
Q 05In Lilo & Stitch (2002), what experiment number is Stitch before Lilo adopts him as her 'dog'?
626
626 is Stitch's lab number; at first he only plays along as Lilo's 'dog' to use her as a shield against the aliens sent to recapture him.
Q 06Treasure Planet (2002), a sci-fi take on Robert Louis Stevenson, holds what unwelcome record?
Most expensive traditionally animated film ever
Most expensive traditionally animated film ever, at $140 million, it took just $109.6 million, yet was still nominated for the Best Animated Feature Oscar.
Q 07Treasure Planet (2002) opened in regular cinemas and, on the same day, in which other format?
IMAX
IMAX cinemas got Treasure Planet on opening day; in 2000, Disney's Fantasia 2000 had played only on IMAX screens for four months before its general release.
Q 08In Brother Bear (2003), Kenai is transformed into a bear as punishment for what?
Killing one out of revenge
Killing one out of revenge for his brother Sitka's death gets Kenai turned into a bear by the Great Spirits, so that he sees the world through another's eyes.
Q 09Home on the Range (2004) follows three dairy cows trying to capture which cattle rustler?
Alameda Slim
Alameda Slim steals whole herds without a fight: his yodelling sends the cattle into a trance, and they simply follow him away.
Q 10Chicken Little (2005) marked what milestone for Walt Disney Animation Studios?
Its first fully computer-animated feature
Its first fully computer-animated feature also launched Disney Digital 3-D: about 100 cinemas were fitted with new projectors to show it.
Q 11What led to nearly 60% of Meet the Robinsons (2007) being scrapped and reworked?
Disney's acquisition of Pixar
Disney's acquisition of Pixar put John Lasseter in charge of Disney animation; he found the villain not scary enough, and ten months of rework followed.
Q 12Which two stars voiced the leads in Bolt (2008)?
John Travolta and Miley Cyrus
John Travolta and Miley Cyrus voice Bolt and his owner Penny; the TV-star dog believes his superpowers are real until he is accidentally shipped across the country.
Q 13The Princess and the Frog (2009) is set in which American city?
New Orleans
Q 21Pixar's Cars (2006) held its world premiere at what fitting venue?
A motor speedway in North Carolina
A motor speedway in North Carolina, Lowe's Motor Speedway, suited a film about a racing car whose voice cast includes racing driver Richard Petty as The King.
Q 22Lightning McQueen gets stranded in Radiator Springs, a forgotten town along which highway?
Route 66
Radiator Springs sits on Route 66, the highway bypassed by the interstate; the story grew out of John Lasseter's own cross-country road trip with his family.
Q 23Which comedian voiced Remy the rat in Ratatouille (2007)?
Patton Oswalt
New Orleans was John Lasseter's idea: the Disney animation chief loved the city, and the directors met locals there who inspired several of the characters.
Q 14Who voiced Tiana in The Princess and the Frog?
Anika Noni Rose
Anika Noni Rose left her mark on Tiana's design: the animators gave the princess her dimples and made her left-handed, just like Rose.
Q 15Which segment from the original 1940 Fantasia was carried over into Fantasia 2000?
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
The Sorcerer's Apprentice stayed as a link to Walt Disney's original plan: he wanted Fantasia re-released regularly, with new segments swapped in for old ones.
Q 16Disney's Dinosaur (2000) combined computer-generated characters with what?
Live-action location backgrounds
Live-action location backgrounds, filmed from Venezuela to Australia, replaced an earlier plan: in the late 1980s Paul Verhoeven and Phil Tippett meant to make the film with stop-motion puppets.
Q 17In Monsters, Inc. (2001), the city of Monstropolis is powered by what?
Children's screams
Monstropolis runs on children's screams collected by scarers like Sulley; the twist is that the monsters end up making children laugh instead.
Q 18Finding Nemo was the first Pixar or Disney film to win what?
The Oscar for Best Animated Feature
The Oscar for Best Animated Feature was only in its third year: Pixar's Monsters, Inc. had been nominated for the very first one without winning.
Q 19Who voiced Dory in Finding Nemo?
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres voices Dory, whose short-term memory loss wipes almost everything except the one thing that matters: the address 'P. Sherman, 42 Wallaby Way, Sydney'.
Q 20Which character in The Incredibles (2004) is voiced by its own writer-director, Brad Bird?
Edna Mode
Edna Mode got Brad Bird's voice by default: he offered the part to Lily Tomlin, who heard his test recording and told him to keep doing it himself.
Patton Oswalt got the part after Brad Bird heard his comedy routine ranting about a steakhouse chain's adverts and wanted that same passion for food in Remy.
Q 24In WALL-E (2008), humanity was evacuated to space by which megacorporation?
Buy n Large
Buy n Large meant the trip to last five years while robots cleaned up Earth; 700 years later, humanity is still out in space.
Q 25Up (2009) was the first Pixar film to do what?
Be presented in 3D
To be presented in 3D paid off for Pixar: fewer than half of Up's North American cinemas showed that version, yet those showings took more than half of its opening-weekend box office.
Q 26Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) was based on what?
A Disney theme park attraction
A Disney theme park attraction inspired the film: Pirates of the Caribbean opened at Disneyland in 1967, months after the death of Walt Disney, who had worked closely on it.
Q 27Which Pirates of the Caribbean villain, played by Bill Nighy, first appears in Dead Man's Chest (2006)?
Davy Jones
Davy Jones, captain of the Flying Dutchman, comes to collect a debt: Jack Sparrow must serve aboard his ship or be dragged down by the Kraken.
Q 28In National Treasure (2004), a treasure map is hidden on the back of which founding document?
The Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence hides the map, so Nicolas Cage's treasure hunter steals the document himself to keep it out of a rival's hands.
Q 29Enchanted (2007) sends princess-to-be Giselle from the animated realm of Andalasia into which real city?
New York
Giselle is pushed down a well and surfaces in New York's Times Square; Amy Adams starred and the film earned three Best Original Song Oscar nominations.
Q 30Which actress shot to fame as Mia Thermopolis in The Princess Diaries (2001)?
Anne Hathaway
Anne Hathaway won the part in a single audition, during which she fell off her chair, a slip that helped convince director Garry Marshall she was right for clumsy Mia.