Cruella Trivia
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58 free Cruella trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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
Emma Stone was in talks for the part in January 2016 and outlasted the film's first director, who left nearly three years later over a scheduling clash.
Q 02Who plays the Baroness, the couture designer Estella goes to work for in Cruella?
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson plays her as a boss who takes nine-minute power naps and plans to pass off Estella's best dress as her own work.
Q 03Cruella opened in US cinemas over which holiday weekend in 2021?
Memorial Day
Memorial Day had been its slot since 2019, when Disney moved the film from Christmas 2020, so the date was a planned summer launch rather than a pandemic delay.
Q 04Which director of I, Tonya made Cruella?
Craig Gillespie
Craig Gillespie stepped in when the first director's schedule clashed, and again told a notorious woman's story from her own side, as he had with Tonya Harding.
Q 05Cruella's main action unfolds in London during which movement?
The 1970s punk rock scene
The 1970s punk rock scene is partly an illusion: the soundtrack leans on the Clash's Should I Stay or Should I Go, which was not released until 1982.
Q 06Cruella crashes one of the Baroness's galas by arriving in which vehicle?
A garbage truck
A garbage truck delivers her dressed like so much rubbish, and the enormous chiffon train of her gown streams from the back of it.
Q 07Which London department store gives Estella a job, though only as a janitor?
Liberty
Liberty keeps her on cleaning duty until she drunkenly redoes a window display overnight, and the Baroness likes it enough to hire her.
Q 08Which Yesterday actor plays Jasper in Cruella?
Joel Fry
Joel Fry said he did not look back at the cartoon or the 1996 film, and thought instead about Jasper's thin arms and legs.
Q 09Which Richard Jewell star plays Cruella's Horace?
Paul Walter Hauser
Paul Walter Hauser, an American, already knew the director: he had played Tonya Harding's bumbling bodyguard for him in I, Tonya.
Q 10The actor playing Horace in Cruella says he borrowed the voice from which earlier performance?
Bob Hoskins in Hook
Bob Hoskins in Hook, as the pirate Smee: finding little to borrow from the cartoon Horace, he said he was ripping off that voice instead.
Q 11Which Killing Eve actress plays Anita Darling, the gossip columnist, in Cruella?
Kirby Howell-Baptiste
Kirby Howell-Baptiste's Anita went to school with Estella, recognises her by her hair, and turns Cruella into a celebrity by reporting her stunts.
Q 12Who plays John, the Baroness's valet, in Cruella?
Mark Strong
Mark Strong's John seems a loyal fixer until he pulls Estella out of a burning building and hands back her mother's necklace.
Q 13What does Estella secretly disguise as beads on the dress she designs for the Baroness?
Moth cocoons
Moth cocoons hatch inside the vault where the collection is locked away, so the Baroness opens it on show night to find the dresses eaten.
Q 21What are the two Dalmatian puppies Cruella sends to Anita and Roger called?
Perdita and Pongo
Perdita and Pongo, the parents in the 1961 cartoon, arrive here as gifts, and Roger, now a songwriter, starts writing a song about Cruella.
Q 22What is Roger Dearly's job in Cruella before he turns to music?
A lawyer
A lawyer for the Baroness until she fires him for failing to stop Cruella, Roger then takes up songwriting, his trade in the 1961 cartoon.
Q 23Which Fonejacker star plays Roger in Cruella?
Kayvan Novak
Kayvan Novak, later the vampire Nandor in What We Do in the Shadows, turns up in a mid-credits scene starting to write a song about Cruella.
Q 14Where does Estella stage her own rock-music fashion show?
Regent's Park
Regent's Park is where the orphaned Estella had hoped to go with her mother, and where Jasper and Horace found her asleep by the fountain.
Q 15In Cruella, what tells Estella at the ball that the Baroness killed her mother?
She whistles for her Dalmatians
She whistles for her Dalmatians with a dog whistle, the same signal that sent them charging at Estella's mother on the night she died.
Q 16In Cruella, what does the necklace turn out to unlock?
A box holding Estella's birth records
A box holding Estella's birth records: the valet who rescued the necklace from the fire shows her the papers that reveal who she really is.
Q 17What is Cruella's big twist about the Baroness?
She is Estella's biological mother
She is Estella's biological mother, and had ordered her valet to get rid of the newborn so that a child would not get in the way of her career.
Q 18How does Estella survive being pushed off the cliff at the charity gala?
A hidden parachute
A hidden parachute, sewn into her skirt, saves her after the Baroness shoves her off the cliff in full view of the guests, which gets the Baroness arrested.
Q 19In Cruella, where does the surname de Vil come from?
The model name of a car
The model name of a car: Estella borrows it from a Panther De Ville, respelling De Ville as de Vil for her new identity.
Q 20What does Cruella rename the Baroness's mansion once she inherits it?
Hell Hall
Hell Hall takes the middle three letters out of the old name, Hellman Hall, and matches her country house in the original novel.
Q 24Artie, the vintage-shop owner in Cruella's entourage, was modelled on which two glam-rock figures?
David Bowie and Marc Bolan
David Bowie and Marc Bolan: the actor said Bolan was given as a reference at his audition, and Artie's look follows Bowie's Ziggy Stardust years.
Q 25Which Succession composer wrote the score for Cruella?
Nicholas Britell
Nicholas Britell also co-wrote the film's original song, a new tune on a soundtrack built mostly from vintage chart hits.
Q 26Which act performs "Call Me Cruella", the original song over the end credits?
Florence and the Machine
Florence and the Machine's track was co-written by the film's own composer, and Disney previewed it in a trailer more than two weeks before release.
Q 27Which Stones hit ends Cruella?
Sympathy for the Devil
Sympathy for the Devil is the on-the-nose pick for a heroine newly named de Vil; one critic said the film could have been titled Sympathy for the de Vil.
Q 28What colour is the dress Cruella unveils at the Baroness's Black and White Ball?
Red
Red was chosen as the most standout colour for a black and white ball, and in the story the dress is cut down from one of the Baroness's own old designs.
Q 29Which Academy Award did Cruella win?
Best Costume Design
Best Costume Design suited a film whose heroine fights her duel with dresses, crashing gala after gala in outfits built to upstage her rival.
Q 30Who designed the costumes for Cruella?
Jenny Beavan
Jenny Beavan gave the heroine looks in the spirit of Vivienne Westwood and John Galliano, having already won Oscars for A Room with a View and Mad Max: Fury Road.