DCOM Trivia: Disney Channel Original Movies
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119 free DCOM Trivia: Disney Channel Original Movies trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 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 does Disney Channel itself count as the first Disney Channel Original Movie?
Under Wraps
Under Wraps opened Disney Channel's own count of 100 DCOMs and was remade in 2021; some lists instead start with Northern Lights, shown two months earlier in August 1997.
Q 02Before the DCOM brand arrived in 1997, what were Disney Channel's TV movies branded as?
Premiere Films
Premiere Films was the label from Tiger Town in 1983 until 1997; Disney even dropped the DCOM name for 'Disney Original Movie' in March 2023 before bringing it back.
Q 03Which 2016 film 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?
Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter, Maya Hart on Girl Meets World, starred opposite Sofia Carson; she had first drawn notice by placing third in an online singing contest run by Miley Cyrus.
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 held the cable record for under four months: a Patriots–Ravens Monday Night Football game drew 17.5 million viewers that December.
Q 06In the summer sequel to High School Musical, which song does Troy sing alone on a golf course?
Bet on It
Bet on It is Troy's furious solo after Gabriella quits and his friends stop speaking to him: questioning what the summer has made of him, he resolves to put things right.
Q 07High School Musical is set in Albuquerque, but it was primarily shot in which state?
Utah
Utah's real East High School in Salt Lake City played the Albuquerque campus; a later spin-off series is set at the actual school, among students staging the film as a musical.
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 where Sharpay has Troy hired for the summer, hoping to win him over; he takes the job only after getting Gabriella and the other Wildcats hired too.
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; his own first film as director, the 1992 musical Newsies, flopped in cinemas before finding a cult following.
Q 11Which 2009 DCOM drew 11.4 million viewers, then the second-biggest DCOM premiere ever?
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie has Alex wish in anger that her parents had never met; it comes true, so she and her brothers start to forget their past and face vanishing for good.
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 can grant any wish or reverse any spell; Alex and Justin race to find it to undo Alex's wish that their parents had never met.
Q 13Selena Gomez's two 2009 DCOMs were both filmed on which Caribbean island?
Puerto Rico
Q 21Which actress played Zenon's best friend Nebula Wade in the 1999 original?
Raven-Symoné
Raven-Symoné played Nebula four years before That's So Raven began; she is missing from the 2001 sequel, where Shadia Simmons took the part, and returned for the third film.
Q 22Which Disney Channel series premiered immediately after Zenon: The Zequel in January 2001?
Lizzie McGuire
Lizzie McGuire followed Zenon: The Zequel's premiere and was still one of Disney Channel's top-rated shows when filming stopped: it had reached 65 episodes, then the channel's customary limit for a series.
Q 23In Smart House (1999), what name does the Cooper family's computerized home answer to?
PAT
Puerto Rico hosted both shoots a year apart; in the first, Gomez plays the Louisiana tomboy whose home hides a princess posing as an ordinary American teenager.
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 lent its riverfront district as the film's town square, and each October the town now stages a month-long Halloween celebration that draws crowds of families.
Q 16Which Hollywood legend played the witch grandmother Aggie Cromwell in the Halloweentown films?
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds, the Singin' in the Rain star, played Aggie in all four films; in the first, her grandchildren stow away on her magic bus home and discover the town is real.
Q 17Which Halloweentown mayor turns out to be the villain of the 1998 original?
Kalabar
Kalabar is the mayor unmasked as the film's demon: a warlock and old boyfriend of Marnie's mother Gwen, he urges the townspeople to help him take over the mortal world.
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 19Zenon, raised on a space station in 2049, is punished by being sent where?
Earth
Earth is the strange new world for Zenon: sent to live with her Aunt Judy after angering the station's commander, she finds classmates who think her space slang is weird.
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; by the sequel he has become a recluse who feels his career has peaked, and Zenon has to track him down.
PAT, short for Personal Applied Technology and played by Katey Sagal, is reprogrammed to be more motherly, studies 1950s TV shows for pointers and ends up refusing to let the family leave.
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, in which a family wins a computerized home in a contest and ends up locked inside it.
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 30In Cadet Kelly (2002), which squad does Kelly mock as robots and then try out for?
Drill team
The drill team starts as Kelly's punishment: a cadet court sentences her to shine its uniforms, but she warms to the squad and ends up competing with it.