Cinderella Trivia
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116 free Cinderella trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
62 free Cinderella trivia questions with answers. Cinderella is not one story but thousands. The oldest version on record is a Greek slave girl in Egypt whose sandal is stolen by an eagle; the Grimms' heroine gets golden shoes from a hazel tree and watches doves blind her stepsisters; the glass slipper, the pumpkin and the fairy godmother only arrived with Charles Perrault in 1697. This quiz runs 116 questions across all of it: the folk tales from Naples to ninth-century China, Disney's 1950 film that pulled the studio back from bankruptcy (the 380 auditions, the calico cat, the Nine Old Men), Kenneth Branagh's 2015 remake and its unwearable crystal shoes, the three Rodgers and Hammerstein television versions, Ever After with Drew Barrymore, and the steel-and-plaster castle in Florida with two missing tower numbers. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know their Aarne-Thompson types. Every answer has been checked against reference sources and is shown with a short explanation once you answer, so it works for a family movie night, a Disney round at pub quiz or settling an argument about what the slipper was really made of.
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Q 01Which French writer's 1697 telling of Cinderella added the fairy godmother and the glass slippers?
Charles Perrault
Charles Perrault called it Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre, and it came with two morals, the second admitting that talent gets you nowhere without a godparent.
Q 02In the Grimms' Aschenputtel, where does the heroine's help come from instead of a fairy godmother?
A tree on her mother's grave
A tree on her mother's grave, a hazel grown from a twig her father brought home and watered with her tears, is where a white bird throws down whatever she wishes for.
Q 03In the Grimms' Cinderella, what are the heroine's slippers made of on the third and final night?
Gold
Gold, not glass: the glass slipper belongs to the French telling, while the Grimms' heroine wears slippers embroidered with silk and silver on the first night and pure gold on the last.
Q 04In the Grimms' final text of Cinderella, what does the elder stepsister cut off, on her mother's advice, so the slipper fits?
Her big toe
Her big toe goes first, since her mother says a queen need never walk; the younger sister then slices off part of her heel, and blood in the shoe gives each of them away.
Q 05In the Grimms' Cinderella, what does the prince use to trap the fleeing heroine on the third night?
Pitch smeared on the stairs
Pitch smeared on the stairs only half works: her left slipper sticks fast but she still gets away, as she had on earlier nights by way of a pigeon coop and a pear tree.
Q 06In the Grimms' 1819 coda to Cinderella, what happens to the stepsisters at the wedding?
Doves peck out their eyes
Doves peck out their eyes, one each on the way into the church and the other on the way out; the 1812 first edition had let the stepsisters off with no punishment at all.
Q 07Which ancient writer first recorded the tale of the Greek girl Rhodopis?
Strabo
Strabo's Geographica, around the turn of the first century, tells how Rhodopis's sandal was carried off to the king at Memphis; Herodotus had mentioned her centuries earlier only as a courtesan, without the shoe story.
Q 08In the ancient tale of Rhodopis, an early Cinderella, what snatches her sandal and carries it to the king of Egypt?
An eagle
An eagle snatches it while she bathes and flings it into the lap of the king as he judges cases in the open air at Memphis; struck by its shape, he has the country searched for its owner and marries her.
Q 09In the ninth-century Chinese tale of Ye Xian, the heroine's festival finery comes from the magical bones of what?
A fish
A fish she secretly raised is killed by her stepmother; its bones, hidden in her room, grant her wishes and dress her for the festival in a cloak of kingfisher feathers.
Q 10Basile's 1634 Cinderella tale, an early Italian version, was written in the dialect of which southern city?
Naples
Naples: Basile wrote his fairy tales in Neapolitan and never saw them in print, because his sister Adriana published the collection there after his death.
Q 11In Rossini's opera La Cenerentola, what replaces the slipper as the proof of the heroine's identity?
Matching bracelets
Matching bracelets: the heroine hands the prince one and tells him to find its twin, in a libretto that dropped the fairy and the slipper and gave her the philosopher Alidoro as helper.
Q 12Folklorists classify the tale under which Aarne-Thompson-Uther type number, 'Persecuted Heroine'?
510A
Type ATU 510A, the Persecuted Heroine, also covers The Wonderful Birch and Fair, Brown and Trembling; stories where the father himself is the persecutor, like Donkeyskin, are type 510B.
Q 13If Cinderella's 'glass' slipper came from confusing French verre with vair, what would the slippers be?
Squirrel fur
Q 21Where did Walt Disney find the model for the villainous cat Lucifer?
At animator Ward Kimball's home
At animator Ward Kimball's home: none of Kimball's designs for Lucifer had pleased Walt until he came to visit, saw the animator's own pet cat and announced that there was the model.
Q 22Cinderella's reference model Helene Stanley later did the same job for which Disney heroine?
Aurora in Sleeping Beauty
Aurora in Sleeping Beauty: Helene Stanley acted the scenes out on film for the animators, and on Cinderella she had posed as one of the stepsisters too, heroine and tormentor both.
Q 23Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo lost the Academy Award for Best Original Song to which song?
Squirrel fur: vair was a prized medieval fur, probably squirrel, and Balzac later argued that the tale's 'verre' was a mix-up, although the original French title spells out a slipper of glass.
Q 14Which French film pioneer made Cendrillon, an 1899 Cinderella full of trick effects?
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès made Cendrillon his first film with several scenes, and its success in fairgrounds and music halls pushed him to make more multi-scene story films.
Q 15Who provided the voice of Cinderella in Disney's 1950 animated film?
Ilene Woods
Ilene Woods recorded demos of the film's songs as a favour to two songwriter friends, not knowing Walt Disney would hear them and offer her the title role.
Q 16Which song is heard as Cinderella scrubs the floor among multiplying soap-bubble reflections?
Sing Sweet Nightingale
Cinderella sings Sing Sweet Nightingale while scrubbing the floor, harmonising with several reflections of herself in the soap bubbles, after the stepsisters have mangled the same song at their music lesson.
Q 17Who plays Cinderella in Disney's 2014 film of the Sondheim musical Into the Woods?
Anna Kendrick
Anna Kendrick's Cinderella, fleeing her prince, runs into the Baker's Wife, played by Emily Blunt, who needs one of her slippers for the potion that will lift a witch's curse.
Q 18Eleanor Audley, the voice of the stepmother Lady Tremaine, went on to voice which other Disney villain?
Maleficent
Maleficent: Eleanor Audley did more than speak both villains, because she also acted out their scenes on film so the animators could copy her face and gestures.
Q 19Which stepsister, alongside Anastasia, torments Cinderella under Lady Tremaine's roof in Disney's 1950 animated film?
Drizella
Drizella and Anastasia rip Cinderella's first ball dress to pieces when they spot their own cast-off beads and sash sewn onto it.
Q 20What is the name of Cinderella's dog in the 1950 film, who is turned into a footman for the ball?
Bruno
Bruno later saves the day by scaring the cat Lucifer out of the tower window, which lets Cinderella get downstairs in time to try on the slipper.
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa won for the thriller Captain Carey, U.S.A., where another singer performs it on screen; Nat King Cole's separate record was the one that went to number one.
Q 24In Disney's 1950 film, what is the name of Cinderella's horse, who becomes the coachman?
Major
Major, the old horse, expects to pull the coach, but the Fairy Godmother tells him that tonight he will handle the reins, and turns him into the coachman instead.
Q 25At the first Berlin festival in 1951, Disney's Cinderella won a Golden Bear in which category?
Music film
Music film: the first Berlinale gave a Golden Bear for each genre, and the public sided with its jury, voting Cinderella their favourite film of the whole festival.
Q 26Cinderella's 1988 VHS release was the best-selling video title ever until which film overtook it?
E.T.
E.T. reached video stores the same month with double Cinderella's record pre-orders, and went on to sell over 15 million tapes, about twice the Disney total.
Q 27Disney's 'Nine Old Men' nickname borrowed a Roosevelt-era jibe aimed at what?
The Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's justices were tagged 'nine old men' during Roosevelt's fight with the court; Walt borrowed the tag as a joke for his nine core animators, two of whom, Eric Larson and Marc Davis, drew Cinderella herself.
Q 28Which prolific video-game voice actress took over as Cinderella in Disney's 2002 sequel Dreams Come True?
Jennifer Hale
Jennifer Hale, also Mass Effect's Commander Shepard, speaks the part in both sequels but does not sing it: in A Twist in Time the songs are performed by Broadway's Tami Tappan.
Q 29In Cinderella III: A Twist in Time, how does the stepmother undo the happy ending?
Rewinds the past with a stolen wand
Rewinds the past with a stolen wand: Anastasia picks up the Fairy Godmother's dropped wand, and her mother uses it to return to the slipper fitting and make the shoe fit Anastasia.
Q 30In Disney's 1950 Cinderella, what happens to the glass slipper the Grand Duke brings for her to try?
It shatters on the floor
It shatters on the floor: the stepmother trips the servant carrying it, and Cinderella calmly reveals that she has kept the other one.