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60 free Cruella trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Cruella trivia quiz starts with the 2021 film: Estella's black-and-white hair, the job at Liberty, the Black and White Ball, the necklace, the moth cocoons sewn into a dress, the rock show in Regent's Park and the twist about who her mother really is. There are questions on the cast (Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Joel Fry, Paul Walter Hauser, Mark Strong, Kirby Howell-Baptiste), the director and writers, the score, the Florence and the Machine song, the Disney+ Premier Access release and the Oscar the costumes won. The second half goes back to the villain herself: Dodie Smith's 1956 novel, the ink-drinking schoolgirl, the furrier husband, the zebra-striped Daimler, the Dracula allusion in her name, the 1961 voice and animator, the Tallulah Bankhead inspiration, Glenn Close's two films, and her turns in Once Upon a Time and Descendants. Easy questions suit anyone who has seen the film once; the expert ones are for people who know which actor turned down the Baroness and what Cruella's French name means. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia articles for the film and the character and their cited sources before publishing, and each question shows its citation once you have answered.
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Q 01Who plays Estella, the aspiring designer who becomes Cruella, in the 2021 film?
Emma Stone
She was cast back in January 2016 and also served as an executive producer.
Q 02Who plays the Baroness, the haute couture designer Estella goes to work for?
Emma Thompson
The other three were all considered; she joined in May 2019, described as pivotal to Cruella's transformation.
Q 03In what year was Cruella released?
2021
It had been scheduled for December 2020 before the pandemic pushed it to May 28, 2021.
Q 04Who directed Cruella?
Craig Gillespie
He had just made I, Tonya, and critics saw the same sympathetic-antihero storytelling here.
Q 05The main action of the film is set in London during which movement?
The 1970s punk rock scene
Estella's crew is 20-something in 1977, a decade after her mother's death.
Q 06What is the full title of the fashion-house head who becomes Estella's boss and rival?
Baroness von Hellman
Her Suffolk mansion, Hellman Hall, is where Estella's mother falls to her death.
Q 07Which London department store gives Estella a job, though only as a janitor?
Liberty
Her drunken redecoration of the window display is what catches the Baroness's eye.
Q 08Who plays Jasper?
Joel Fry
He deliberately did not rewatch the animated film or the 1996 remake, copying only the character's physical mannerisms.
Q 09Who plays Horace?
Paul Walter Hauser
He had just played the title role in Richard Jewell for Clint Eastwood.
Q 10The actor playing Horace drew inspiration from which earlier performance?
Bob Hoskins as Smee in Hook
Smee, Captain Hook's put-upon bosun, is another henchman with a soft centre.
Q 11Who plays Anita Darling, Estella's childhood friend turned gossip columnist?
Kirby Howell-Baptiste
Anita is the one who makes Cruella famous in print, and ends up with a puppy called Perdita.
Q 12Who plays John, the Baroness's valet?
Mark Strong
He is the man who could not bring himself to kill a baby, and who pulls the necklace from the fire.
Q 13What does Estella secretly disguise as beads on the dress she designs for the Baroness?
Moth cocoons
By the night of the show the whole collection has been eaten, and the Baroness realises Estella and Cruella are the same woman.
Q 21What are the two Dalmatian puppies Cruella sends to Anita and Roger called?
Perdita and Pongo
Roger promptly sits at his piano and starts writing a song about Cruella, setting up the 101 Dalmatians story.
Q 22What is Roger Dearly's job in the film before he turns to music?
The Baroness's lawyer
She fires him for failing to stop Cruella, which turns out to be the best thing that ever happened to him.
Q 23Who plays Roger Dearly?
Kayvan Novak
He is best known as Nandor in What We Do in the Shadows; Dev Patel had been considered for the part.
Q 14Where does Estella stage her own rock-music fashion show?
Regent's Park
It is immediately after this triumph that the Baroness's men capture her and frame Jasper and Horace.
Q 15What tips Estella off, at the Black and White Ball, that the Baroness killed her mother?
She summons the Dalmatians with a dog whistle
Estella already knew the dogs pushed her mother off the balcony; the whistle tells her who sent them.
Q 16What does the necklace turn out to unlock?
A box holding Estella's birth records
The papers prove who Estella really is, and why a maid ended up raising her.
Q 17What is the film's big twist about the Baroness?
She is Estella's biological mother
She had ordered the newborn killed rather than let motherhood interrupt her career.
Q 18How does Estella survive being pushed off the cliff at the charity gala?
A hidden parachute
Being legally dead lets her inherit her own estate as Cruella.
Q 19Cruella takes the surname "de Vil" from what?
Her Panther De Ville car
The original novel's name is a pun on cruel and devil, and Dodie Smith owned a Rolls-Royce Sedanca de Ville.
Q 20What does Cruella rename the Baroness's mansion once she inherits it?
Hell Hall
That is the name of her country house in the 1956 novel and the 1961 cartoon too.
Q 24Artie, the vintage-shop owner in Cruella's entourage, was modelled on which two glam-rock figures?
David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and Marc Bolan
He was the first original character in a live-action Disney film to be openly gay.
Q 25Who composed the film's score?
Nicholas Britell
His score album and a separate song soundtrack were both released by Walt Disney Records a week before the film.
Q 26Which act performs "Call Me Cruella", the original song over the end credits?
Florence and the Machine
The track appears on both the score album and the song soundtrack.
Q 27What was Cruella's production budget?
$100 million
Filming ran in England from August to November 2019.
Q 28Roughly how much did Cruella gross worldwide?
$233 million
Its simultaneous Disney+ Premier Access release was blamed for eating into the theatrical take.
Q 29Which Academy Award did Cruella win?
Best Costume Design
It was nominated for Makeup and Hairstyling as well but lost that one.
Q 30Who designed the film's costumes?
Jenny Beavan
She had already won two Oscars, for A Room with a View and Mad Max: Fury Road, and this made three.