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69 free DCOM Trivia: Disney Channel Original Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
68 free DCOM Trivia: Disney Channel Original Movies questions with answers. Disney Channel Original Movies have been a rite of passage since Under Wraps kicked off the brand in October 1997. This quiz runs the whole timeline: the late-90s classics like Halloweentown, Zenon, Smart House and Brink!, the mid-2000s boom of Cadet Kelly, The Cheetah Girls and Twitches, the High School Musical ratings explosion, and the modern franchises of Descendants and Zombies right through the 2021 Under Wraps remake and Spin. It is built for people who grew up scheduling their Friday nights around a premiere. Easy questions cover the stars and premises everyone remembers; harder ones dig into filming locations, ratings records, casting near-misses and the 100th-DCOM milestone. A couple touch on Camp Rock, but that franchise gets its own quiz on BrainPickle. Every answer was checked against the Wikipedia article for the film in question, so the viewer counts, premiere dates and behind-the-scenes details are as documented, not as half-remembered from a sleepover.
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Q 01Which 1997 comedy is considered the very first Disney Channel Original Movie?
Under Wraps
Under Wraps premiered in October 1997 as the first film branded a Disney Channel Original Movie; Bill Fagerbakke played the revived mummy, and Disney remade it in 2021.
Q 02Before the DCOM brand was introduced in October 1997, what were the network's TV movies branded as?
Premiere Films
Disney Channel branded its TV movies as Premiere Films, starting with Tiger Town in 1983, until the Disney Channel Original Movie label arrived in October 1997.
Q 03Which 2016 remake was celebrated as the 100th Disney Channel Original Movie?
Adventures in Babysitting
Adventures in Babysitting premiered in June 2016 as the 100th DCOM; Disney Channel built up to it with a Memorial Day weekend marathon of 51 earlier DCOMs.
Q 04The 100th DCOM paired Sofia Carson with which Girl Meets World star as rival babysitters?
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Hart on Girl Meets World, played babysitter Jenny Parker opposite Sofia Carson's Lola Perez in the 2016 remake.
Q 05Which DCOM premiere set an all-time basic cable record with 17.2 million viewers in August 2007?
High School Musical 2
High School Musical 2 drew 17.2 million viewers on August 17, 2007, at the time the largest audience ever for a basic-cable telecast.
Q 06In 2007 a DCOM sequel took the most-watched basic-cable record from Monday Night Football on which network?
ESPN
ESPN's Monday Night Football game between the Giants and Cowboys in October 2006 drew 16 million viewers, the basic-cable record that fell in August 2007.
Q 07Troy Bolton's East High is set in Albuquerque, but the 2006 film was primarily shot in which state?
Utah
High School Musical was shot in Utah: the real East High School in Salt Lake City doubled as the fictional Albuquerque campus.
Q 08How many million viewers watched the January 2006 premiere of High School Musical?
7.7
High School Musical's January 2006 premiere drew 7.7 million viewers on a budget of about $4.2 million, and its soundtrack topped the Billboard 200.
Q 09What is the name of the Evans family's country club where Troy and the Wildcats work in the 2007 sequel?
Lava Springs
Lava Springs is the Evans family's country club in the 2007 sequel; Sharpay gets Troy hired there, and the staff talent show ends the film.
Q 10Which director-choreographer helmed the Wildcats trilogy and the first three Descendants films?
Kenny Ortega
Kenny Ortega directed all three High School Musical films and Descendants 1-3; he also choreographed Dirty Dancing and directed The Cheetah Girls 2.
Q 11Which 2009 DCOM drew 11.4 million viewers at its premiere?
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie drew 11.4 million viewers on August 28, 2009, and won the 2010 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.
Q 12In the 2009 DCOM spun off from Selena Gomez's sitcom, the Russos hunt what magical object in the Caribbean?
Stone of Dreams
The Stone of Dreams grants one wish; Alex and Justin race to find it to undo Alex's wish that their parents had never met.
Q 13Which 2009 film was the first DCOM ever shot in Puerto Rico?
Princess Protection Program
Q 21Which actress played Zenon's best friend Nebula Wade?
Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné played Nebula Wade, Zenon's best friend aboard the space station, four years before her own Disney Channel sitcom That's So Raven debuted in 2003.
Q 22Which Disney Channel series premiered immediately after Zenon: The Zequel in January 2001?
Lizzie McGuire
Lizzie McGuire debuted on January 12, 2001, right after Zenon: The Zequel's premiere; Hilary Duff's sitcom ran 65 episodes and spawned a 2003 feature film.
Q 23In Smart House, what does the name of the house's virtual assistant PAT stand for?
Personal Applied Technology
Princess Protection Program was filmed in Puerto Rico in 2008, with Demi Lovato as a princess in hiding and Selena Gomez as the American teen who shelters her.
Q 14Demi Lovato's Rosalinda, hidden in Louisiana in a 2009 DCOM, is princess of which fictional country?
Costa Luna
Rosalinda is princess of Costa Luna; when General Kane of neighboring Costa Estrella seizes her country, she is hidden in Louisiana as plain 'Rosie Gonzalez'.
Q 15Halloweentown (1998) was shot in which small Oregon town?
St. Helens
St. Helens has hosted anniversary screenings of the film; a bed and breakfast called Nob Hill Riverview stood in for the exterior of Aggie Cromwell's house.
Q 16Which Hollywood legend played the witch grandmother Aggie Cromwell in the Halloweentown films?
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds played Aggie Cromwell in all four Halloweentown films, from the 1998 original through Return to Halloweentown in 2006.
Q 17What is the name of the Halloweentown mayor who turns out to be the first film's villain?
Kalabar
Kalabar, Halloweentown's mayor, is the first film's villain, unmasked as a warlock who once dated Marnie's mother Gwen.
Q 18Who replaced Kimberly J. Brown as Marnie in Return to Halloweentown (2006)?
Sara Paxton
Sara Paxton took over Marnie Piper for Return to Halloweentown, which sends her to Witch University; Kimberly J. Brown had played the role in the first three films.
Q 19In what year is Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century set?
2049
Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century is set in 2049, with 13-year-old Zenon Kar living on an Earth-orbiting space station before being sent down to Earth.
Q 20What is the name of the pop idol Zenon Kar is desperate to see in concert on the space station?
Proto Zoa
Proto Zoa, frontman of the band Microbe, is Zenon's idol; he returns in Zenon: The Zequel as a washed-up star she coaxes back on stage.
PAT stands for Personal Applied Technology, the computerized housekeeper voiced by Katey Sagal that grows dangerously protective of the Cooper family.
Q 24Which Star Trek: The Next Generation actor directed Smart House (1999)?
LeVar Burton
LeVar Burton, Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: The Next Generation, directed Smart House, the 1999 DCOM about a computerized home whose AI turns possessive.
Q 25In Johnny Tsunami, a Hawaiian surfer has to adapt when his family moves to which state?
Vermont
Johnny Kapahala's family moves from Hawaii to Vermont, where the surfer swaps his board for the slopes; the 2007 sequel Johnny Kapahala: Back on Board followed.
Q 26Brink! (1998) loosely updates which 19th-century novel?
The Silver Skates
Brink! reworks Mary Mapes Dodge's 1865 novel Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates: Erik von Detten's 'soul-skater' takes a paid spot on Team X-Bladz to help his family.
Q 27In The Thirteenth Year, swimmer Cody Griffin discovers on his 13th birthday that he is turning into what?
A merman
Cody learns he is becoming a merman, born to a mermaid mother; the signs include sticky hands, electric-shock kisses and scales that appear when he gets wet.
Q 28Motocrossed (2001), where Andrea races disguised as her twin brother, loosely adapts which Shakespeare play?
Twelfth Night
Motocrossed reworks Twelfth Night: like Viola posing as a man, Andrea Carson races as her injured twin Andrew, and the love tangle follows Shakespeare's.
Q 29In The Luck of the Irish, basketball star Kyle Johnson learns his mother is secretly what?
A leprechaun
Kyle's mother is a leprechaun, and Kyle himself starts shrinking and turning Irish after his lucky gold coin is stolen; the film premiered on March 9, 2001.
Q 30How many viewers, in millions, watched the 2002 premiere of Cadet Kelly, then a DCOM record?
7.8
Cadet Kelly's March 2002 premiere drew 7.8 million viewers, then the biggest audience for a DCOM; Hilary Duff shot the military-school comedy around Toronto.