90s Disney Trivia
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110 free 90s Disney trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
61 free 90s Disney trivia questions with answers. The 1990s were Disney's second golden age. This quiz covers the whole decade: the Renaissance films from The Rescuers Down Under through Aladdin, the Simba saga, Hunchback and Tarzan; the Pixar partnership that gave us Toy Story and A Bug's Life; the Disney Afternoon and One Saturday Morning cartoons (TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Gargoyles, Recess, Pepper Ann); TGIF's Boy Meets World and the Mickey Mouse Club cast that produced Britney, Justin and Ryan Gosling; and the live-action hits, from Hocus Pocus and Cool Runnings to The Mighty Ducks and The Santa Clause. It also goes behind the curtain: the Eisner-Katzenberg-Wells regime, the DreamWorks split, the $19 billion ABC deal, Euro Disney's rocky launch, and the parks and shows that opened during the decade. Questions start easy (who voiced Mushu?) and climb to genuinely hard studio history. Every answer has been verified against the Wikipedia article for the film, show or company involved, and each question shows its source, so you can settle any argument the quiz starts.
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Q 01Which film was the first animated feature nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture?
Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast earned the 1991 Best Picture nomination, the only one for an animated film until Up in 2009, after the category expanded to ten slots; it also won the Golden Globe for Best Musical or Comedy.
Q 02Which Disney film held the title of highest-grossing animated film until Finding Nemo overtook it in 2003?
The Lion King
The Lion King was the project most of Disney's top animators passed over for Pocahontas, expecting that film to be the prestige hit; it then became the top-grossing animated film until Finding Nemo in 2003.
Q 03Early story treatments for Simba's 1994 film were submitted under which working title?
King of the Jungle
Linda Woolverton, who was also writing the Belle musical, drafted it as King of the Beasts before it became King of the Jungle. Lions do not actually live in jungles, hence the eventual change.
Q 04Which composer scored the 1994 Simba film after A World Apart and The Power of One?
Hans Zimmer
Hans Zimmer took the job, he said, so his young daughter could finally see one of his films; the score won him the Academy Award for Best Original Score, with Lebo M arranging the African vocals.
Q 05Which Simpsons voice actor replaced Robin Williams as the Genie in The Return of Jafar (1994)?
Dan Castellaneta
Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Homer Simpson, took over the Genie for The Return of Jafar and the Aladdin TV series; Williams returned for Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996) after Disney apologized.
Q 06After its Aladdin marketing feud with Robin Williams, Disney sent him a painting by which artist?
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso: Disney sent the painting, reportedly worth $1 million, after using Williams's Genie voice to sell merchandise against his wishes; he still sat out the first sequel, returning only after the studio apologized in 1994.
Q 07Which song was the first from a Disney film to win the Grammy Award for Song of the Year?
A Whole New World
A Whole New World, sung by Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle, won Song of the Year in 1994; a year earlier it had knocked Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You' off No. 1 after a then-record 14 weeks.
Q 08Animators aged up Aladdin mid-production, borrowing features from Calvin Klein models and which actor?
Tom Cruise
Tom Cruise became the model after Glen Keane's first Aladdin, based on Michael J. Fox, was judged too boyish; the character was aged to about eighteen and given a more heroic build.
Q 09Which film was the first feature made mainly at Disney's Florida animation studio?
Mulan
Mulan was produced mainly at the Florida animation studio, which had opened in 1989 at Disney-MGM Studios to make shorts like Roller Coaster Rabbit; Lilo & Stitch and Brother Bear followed as Florida-made features.
Q 10Whose pop recording of 'Reflection' landed her a contract with RCA Records?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera won the job by taping a cover of Whitney Houston's 'Run to You' to prove she could hit the song's highest note; RCA then signed her, while Lea Salonga sings it inside the film.
Q 11BD Wong spoke Captain Li Shang's lines, but which singer provided his singing voice?
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond provided Shang's singing voice on 'I'll Make a Man Out of You' while BD Wong spoke the lines; Jackie Chan voiced Shang for the film's Chinese-language dubs.
Q 12Which comedian voiced Mushu, the small dragon guarding the Fa family's daughter?
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy, cast after the filmmakers first approached Joe Pesci, recorded Mushu's lines from a studio in his New Jersey home rather than at the Disney studio.
Q 13Which musician wrote and recorded the songs for Tarzan (1999), winning the Oscar for Best Original Song?
Phil Collins
Q 21What did Pixar call its disastrous November 1993 screening of Toy Story story reels for Disney executives?
The Black Friday Incident
The Black Friday Incident, Pixar's name for the November 19, 1993 screening, led Disney's Peter Schneider to halt production; Tom Hanks had already complained that Woody had become a jerk, so the script was rewritten.
Q 22Toy Story was the first animated film to be nominated in which Academy Award category?
Best Original Screenplay
Best Original Screenplay was the nomination, for a script rewritten after Disney halted production in 1993 over an unlikeable Woody; John Lasseter also received a Special Achievement Oscar.
Q 23Which DreamWorks film reached theaters weeks before Pixar's similar 1998 film, sparking a feud with Steve Jobs?
Phil Collins sang four of the five songs himself because the directors refused to have Tarzan burst into song; he also recorded them in French, German, Italian and Spanish for the film's dubs.
Q 14What was the 3D painting-and-rendering system built for Tarzan's jungle backgrounds called?
Deep Canvas
Deep Canvas let painted jungle backgrounds exist as 3D environments so the camera could swoop with Tarzan as he surfed the trees; its developers received an Academy Technical Achievement Award in 2003.
Q 15In which unlikely venue did The Hunchback of Notre Dame hold its June 1996 premiere?
Louisiana Superdome
The Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans hosted the premiere on June 19, 1996, with a parade through the French Quarter, two days before the wide release; the film grossed over $325 million worldwide.
Q 16Which actor, also the voice of Shere Khan in TaleSpin, voiced Judge Claude Frollo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame?
Tony Jay
Tony Jay won Frollo on the strength of a brief turn as the asylum keeper in the same directors' previous film, and sang the villain's song 'Hellfire' himself.
Q 17Alongside Victor and Hugo, what is Quasimodo's third gargoyle friend called?
Laverne
Laverne, the eldest gargoyle, was voiced by Mary Wickes, who died in October 1995 before the film's release; Jane Withers recorded her remaining lines.
Q 18Which 1990 film was the first feature-length sequel ever produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation?
The Rescuers Down Under
The Rescuers Down Under opened fourth with just $3.5 million, and the studio pulled its TV advertising after that first weekend; it was also the first feature made entirely with digital ink and paint.
Q 19Which 1990 box-office smash opened on November 16, the same day as Disney's underperforming animated release?
Home Alone
Home Alone opened that day. The old gangster movie Kevin watches in it, Angels with Filthy Souls, was never a real film: the crew shot it specially for the comedy.
Q 20Buzz Lightyear began as the lead character of which earlier Pixar short?
Tin Toy
Tin Toy's hero Tinny, a wind-up one-man band, was Toy Story's first lead; judged too old-fashioned, he was rebuilt as a space toy and renamed Lunar Larry, then Buzz Lightyear.
Antz
Antz opened on October 2, 1998, nearly two months ahead of A Bug's Life; both films center on an oddball male ant who saves his colony and wins a princess, and Pixar believed DreamWorks had lifted the premise.
Q 24Which Disney executive quit in 1994 after Eisner denied him the presidency, then co-founded DreamWorks?
Jeffrey Katzenberg
Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had run Disney's film studio since 1984, left after Eisner refused him the presidency; he then sued for bonuses he said he was owed and settled out of court in 1999.
Q 25Disney president Frank Wells died in April 1994 in what kind of accident?
Helicopter crash
Helicopter crash: on April 3, 1994, the helicopter carrying Wells's heli-skiing party went down in Nevada's Ruby Mountains; his death set off the succession fight that split the studio.
Q 26Which Hollywood super-agent was named Disney's president in August 1995, only to be fired in 1996?
Michael Ovitz
Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency and a longtime friend of Eisner, lasted about 14 months; his roughly $140 million severance became the subject of a long-running shareholder lawsuit.
Q 27In 1995 Disney announced a $19 billion takeover, then the second-largest in US history, of which company?
Capital Cities/ABC
Capital Cities/ABC, owner of the ABC network, agreed to the $19 billion deal in the summer of 1995; it brought Disney an 80 percent stake in ESPN and ESPN2 and half of Lifetime.
Q 28Which network had Eisner planned to buy before General Electric insisted on keeping a majority stake?
NBC
NBC was Eisner's earlier target, but owner General Electric would part with only a minority stake; Eisner wanted a broadcast network to guarantee distribution for Disney's programming.
Q 29Which indie film distributor did Disney buy for about $60 million in 1993 to reach adults?
Miramax
Miramax, the Weinstein brothers' company, soon released Pulp Fiction under Disney, but its new parent barred NC-17 films, so the brothers set up a one-off company to release Kids in 1995.
Q 30Euro Disney, which opened in 1992, was built about 32 km east of Paris at which location?
Marne-la-Vallée
Marne-la-Vallée, a planned new town, hosts the resort, which opened on April 12, 1992; after losing money in its first years it was restructured and renamed Disneyland Paris in October 1994.