Beauty and the Beast Trivia
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225 free Beauty and the Beast trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
44 free Beauty and the Beast trivia questions with answers. Beauty and the Beast trivia questions for anyone who has ever hummed along with a candelabra. This 225-question quiz covers the whole story: the 1740 French fairy tale and its 1756 rewrite, Jean Cocteau's 1946 film, the 1987 TV series, Disney's 1991 animated classic, the Broadway musical that ran for 13 years, and the 2017 live-action remake that grossed over a billion dollars. The easy questions are about Belle, Gaston, Lumière, Cogsworth and Mrs. Potts. The harder ones dig into the making of the film: the London studio where it started as a non-musical, the lyricist who died eight months before release, the song cut and restored a decade later, the one-take recording of the title ballad, the Oscar record it set, and why the Beast has the horns of a bison and the tail of a wolf. Every answer is checked against a documented source, so you can host a Disney night, settle a family argument, or just find out how much you really remember. Be our guest.
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Q 01Which two first-time directors made Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast?
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise, both first-time feature directors, took over after Richard Purdum's non-musical version was scrapped in favour of a musical.
Q 02Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast premiered as an unfinished work in progress at which festival?
The New York Film Festival
The New York Film Festival showed it on 29 September 1991 with storyboards and pencil tests filling the unfinished scenes, and the audience still gave it a standing ovation.
Q 03Beauty and the Beast was the first Disney animated feature to have what finished before storyboarding began?
A complete screenplay
A complete screenplay came first: Linda Woolverton's script was written before the artists began storyboarding, reversing the studio's habit of working the story out in drawings.
Q 04Which two films were Disney's only Best Picture nominees before Beauty and the Beast?
Mary Poppins and Dead Poets Society
Mary Poppins and Dead Poets Society were the studio's only earlier nominees, both live-action; Dead Poets Society counts because Disney released it under its grown-up Touchstone label.
Q 05Which film musical later matched Beauty and the Beast's record of three Best Original Song nominations?
Dreamgirls
Dreamgirls earned three Best Original Song nominations in 2007 and lost all three to a song from the climate documentary An Inconvenient Truth.
Q 06In the 1991 film, how does Belle win her father's release from the Beast's dungeon?
She takes his place
She takes his place: Belle offers to stay as the Beast's prisoner forever if her ailing father goes free, and the startled Beast accepts.
Q 07Which song was cut from Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast, then restored with new animation in 2002?
Human Again
Human Again, a long number for the castle's servants, was dropped during production, revived for the 1994 Broadway show and finally animated for the 2002 special edition.
Q 08Angela Lansbury reportedly recorded the Oscar-winning title song in how many takes?
One
She had doubted she was the right singer for it; Menken and Ashman asked for one take and she reduced the studio to tears.
Q 09Before Ashman pushed for simple names, Mrs. Potts was nearly called what?
Mrs. Chamomile
Mrs. Chamomile was her working name until Ashman asked for short, simple names for the household objects, which is how we got Mrs. Potts, Chip, Lumière and Cogsworth.
Q 10Which Broadway actress beat about 500 hopefuls to become the voice of Belle in 1991?
Paige O'Hara
Paige O'Hara got the call on her birthday, after five auditions; the filmmakers had wanted a heroine who sounded more like a woman than a girl.
Q 11Which former teen idol of Ice Castles and One on One voiced the Beast?
Robby Benson
Robby Benson recorded his scenes standing beside his co-star rather than alone, an unusual and costlier set-up that she later credited for the pair's chemistry.
Q 12The Beast's massive head and beard were modelled on which animal?
An American bison
An American bison: the Beast's lead animator spotted a stuffed buffalo head in a taxidermist's shop and kept it on his wall, struck by the sad, heavy way the animal hangs its head.
Q 13Which actor voiced Lumière, the French-accented candelabra?
Jerry Orbach
Jerry Orbach, a Broadway veteran, pitched the candelabra's accent partly on the amorous cartoon skunk Pepé Le Pew, and he sang 'Be Our Guest' himself.
Q 21Beauty and the Beast became the first animated film to win which Golden Globe?
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy went to an animated film for the first time in January 1992, a win Disney's marketers credit with waking Oscar voters up to it.
Q 22The pop single of 'Beauty and the Beast' paired Celine Dion with which American singer?
Peabo Bryson
Peabo Bryson and Celine Dion sing the pop version over the end credits, and the pair performed it at the 1992 Oscars on the night the song won.
Q 23At the 1993 Grammys, Beauty and the Beast's pop duet lost Record and Song of the Year to which track?
Q 14As well as voicing Cogsworth, David Ogden Stiers did which other job on Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast?
Narrated the prologue
Narrated the prologue: David Ogden Stiers opens the film as its storyteller, then plays the fussy clock, a part he won only after auditioning for the candelabra and losing.
Q 15In Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Gaston's tavern song boasts that he uses what in all of his decorating?
Antlers
Antlers cover the tavern walls, and the line is one of a string of boasts his cronies sing back at him to cheer him up after Belle turns him down.
Q 16What invention is Belle's father taking to the fair when he gets lost and stumbles on the Beast's castle?
A wood-chopping machine
Maurice's wood-chopping machine is the invention he hauls toward the fair; when his horse returns without him, Belle rides it back to the Beast's castle.
Q 17Which actor, rejected as Gaston for not sounding arrogant enough, later voiced Prince Charming in Shrek 2?
Rupert Everett
Rupert Everett was told he did not sound arrogant enough for Gaston; years later he made the vain Prince Charming of the Shrek sequels as arrogant as he could.
Q 18Disney's 1991 Beauty and the Beast used CAPS, a digital ink-and-paint system developed for Disney by which company?
Pixar
Pixar built the system with Disney years before the two made Toy Story; it let artists scan their drawings and paint them digitally, which made hand-painted cels obsolete.
Q 19In 1987 Disney revived Beauty and the Beast as a non-musical drama at a satellite studio in which city?
London
London: Disney's satellite studio there had been set up for Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Richard Purdum was hired to direct the non-musical version that was later scrapped.
Q 20On first release, Beauty and the Beast became the first animated film to pass which US box-office milestone?
$100 million
$100 million had been out of reach for animated features on first release: the record, set by Disney only two years earlier, was $84 million, and this film left it far behind.
Tears in Heaven
Tears in Heaven, the ballad Eric Clapton wrote after the death of his young son, won both Record and Song of the Year, so the Disney duet settled for a pop-vocal award instead.
Q 24Alan Menken won two Oscars apiece for Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and which later Disney film?
Pocahontas
Pocahontas won Alan Menken both the score Oscar and, for 'Colors of the Wind', the song Oscar in 1996, his seventh and eighth Academy Awards in just seven years.
Q 25The Broadway musical opened in April 1994 and ran for how many performances?
5,461
5,461 performances: it opened at the Palace Theatre on 18 April 1994 and closed 29 July 2007 as Broadway's sixth-longest-running show at the time.
Q 26Which lyricist wrote the six new songs for the Broadway musical with Alan Menken?
Tim Rice
Tim Rice stepped in because the film's lyricist, Howard Ashman, had died in 1991; he had already finished Ashman's incomplete lyrics for Aladdin.
Q 27Who directed the 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast?
Bill Condon
Bill Condon set off a row weeks before release by saying LeFou would have a brief 'gay moment' on screen, then called the fuss overblown.
Q 28Which actor played the Beast opposite Emma Watson in 2017?
Dan Stevens
Dan Stevens acted every scene twice: once on set in a heavy grey motion-capture suit, and again later with his face sprayed with dots so cameras could record each expression.
Q 29Who played LeFou, Gaston's sidekick, in the 2017 live-action Beauty and the Beast?
Josh Gad
Josh Gad, the voice of Olaf in Frozen, played the sidekick, who in this version finally sees through Gaston and changes sides in the middle of the battle for the castle.
Q 30Which 2017 film outgrossed Disney's Beauty and the Beast remake?
The Last Jedi
The Last Jedi, the Star Wars sequel released that December, was the only 2017 film to pass the remake's $1.26 billion, which had been the year's best total since the spring.