Disney Villains Trivia
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110 free Disney Villains trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
58 free Disney Villains trivia questions with answers. Every Disney fan has a favourite villain, and this quiz has room for all of them. Fifty questions cover the classics (the Evil Queen, Maleficent, Captain Hook, Cruella de Vil, Lady Tremaine), the Renaissance icons (Ursula, Jafar, Scar, Gaston, Frollo, Hades), the modern twists (Hans, Mother Gothel, King Candy, Bellwether) and Pixar's rogues from Sid and Syndrome to Lotso and Ernesto de la Cruz. The easy questions are family-safe and answerable by anyone who has watched the films: which villain keeps a parrot named Iago, who wants a Dalmatian coat, what animal Yzma turns into. The hard ones dig into voice actors, animators, cut songs and the real people the characters were modelled on. Ideal for a Disney movie night or a themed round at pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the characters, films and songs, and each question carries the sentence that backs it up.
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Q 01Which villain owns a talking parrot named Iago?
Jafar
Jafar's parrot Iago was first written as a calm, British-sounding bird; then the directors saw Gilbert Gottfried in Beverly Hills Cop II and recast him as a hot-tempered comic sidekick.
Q 02In One Hundred and One Dalmatians, the puppies roll in soot to pass as which other breed?
Labradors
Labradors: a black Labrador offers the dogs a ride to London in a moving van, so with Cruella in the village Pongo has them all roll in soot, until melting snow washes some of it off as they board.
Q 03Ursula gives Ariel how many days as a human to win Prince Eric's kiss?
Three
Three days: Ursula's contract gives Ariel until sunset on the third day to win a kiss of true love, or she belongs to the sea witch forever.
Q 04In The Lion King, Scar is the brother of which lion?
Mufasa
Mufasa is thrown into a wildebeest stampede by his younger brother Scar, who tells the pride that father and cub both died and takes the throne, a plot that borrows from Hamlet.
Q 05Which villain is terrified of a crocodile that swallowed a ticking clock?
Captain Hook
Captain Hook lost his hand when Peter Pan cut it off and fed it to the crocodile, which liked the taste so much that it has followed him ever since, ticking as it comes.
Q 06In Disney's Snow White, what does the Queen turn herself into to deliver the poisoned apple?
An old peddler woman
An old peddler woman: the Queen drinks a potion to age herself and takes the apple to the dwarfs' cottage; chased up a cliff afterwards, she falls to her death when lightning strikes the ledge.
Q 07In Disney's Snow White, the Huntsman fools the Queen with the heart of which animal?
A pig
A pig: the Huntsman cannot bring himself to kill Snow White, so he warns her to flee into the forest and brings the Queen a pig's heart in the box meant for the princess's.
Q 08What creature does Maleficent transform into at the end of Sleeping Beauty?
A dragon
A dragon: Maleficent takes the fire-breathing form to stop Prince Phillip reaching the castle and dies with his Sword of Truth in her heart; animator Eric Cleworth modelled the beast on a rattlesnake.
Q 09In Sleeping Beauty, what is the name of Maleficent's pet raven?
Diablo
Diablo, Maleficent's raven, finds Aurora's cottage after spotting the sparks from Flora and Merryweather's pink-or-blue wand fight over the dress; Merryweather later turns him to stone.
Q 10In The Emperor's New Groove, Yzma turns Kuzco into which animal?
A llama
A llama: Yzma means to poison Kuzco, but Kronk grabs the wrong vial and the emperor becomes a llama; Yzma herself ends the film as a kitten.
Q 11Which villain hoards the magic of a golden flower to stay young in Tangled?
Mother Gothel
Mother Gothel kidnaps baby Rapunzel because the healing power of the golden sun-drop flower passed into the child's hair; her look was modelled partly on Cher.
Q 12Which Frozen character, thirteenth in line to his own throne, plots to seize Arendelle's instead?
Hans
Hans has twelve older brothers ahead of him, so he courts Anna to marry into Arendelle's crown, then locks her in a room to freeze and tells the court that Elsa has killed her.
Q 13Which villain is the vain hunter who wants to marry Belle in Beauty and the Beast?
Gaston
Gaston, voiced by Richard White and animated by Andreas Deja, is the boastful hunter who leads the mob against the Beast and falls from the castle to his death.
Q 21Which villain from Fantasia is a giant devil who summons spirits on Bald Mountain?
Chernabog
Chernabog: Dracula star Bela Lugosi was brought in to pose for the demon, but animator Bill Tytla disliked the results and had Wilfred Jackson, the segment's director, pose shirtless instead.
Q 22Eleanor Audley, the voice of Maleficent, also voiced which other classic Disney villainess?
Lady Tremaine
Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's stepmother, came nine years before Maleficent; Audley did more than speak the two parts, acting each villain on film as a guide for the animators.
Q 23Ursula's look was famously inspired by which drag performer?
Divine
Q 14Which fast-talking Disney villain has blue flames where his hair should be?
Hades
Hades, lord of the dead in Hercules (1997), waits eighteen years for the planets to align so that he can free the Titans and seize Olympus, a plan the Fates warn will fail if Hercules fights.
Q 15In Hercules, what are the names of the Underworld god's two shape-shifting minions?
Pain and Panic
Pain and Panic, a pair of bumbling imps, feed baby Hercules a potion to make him mortal but flee before he drinks the last drop, so he keeps his strength, and they hide the failure from their boss.
Q 16Judge Claude Frollo is the villain of which Disney film?
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996): Frollo, voiced by Tony Jay, is the Paris Minister of Justice who raises Quasimodo after killing his mother on the cathedral steps.
Q 17The 'Shadow Man' villain of The Princess and the Frog practises what kind of magic?
Voodoo
Voodoo: the Shadow Man is a New Orleans voodoo witch doctor who uses talismans and spirits to turn Prince Naveen into a frog and pass off Lawrence as the prince.
Q 18Which cat belongs to Cinderella's stepmother and torments the mice Jaq and Gus?
Lucifer
Lucifer, the stepmother's fat black cat, hounds Jaq and Gus throughout Cinderella (1950) until Bruno the dog chases him out of a tower window.
Q 19The Queen of Hearts plays croquet using flamingos as mallets and which animals as balls?
Hedgehogs
Hedgehogs: the Cheshire Cat hooks the Queen's flamingo mallet to her dress so that she topples over, and the furious Queen blames Alice and puts her on trial.
Q 20George Sanders, an Oscar winner for All About Eve, voiced which villain in Disney's The Jungle Book?
Shere Khan
Shere Khan hates humans because he fears their guns and fire, so the fight ends when Mowgli ties a burning branch to the tiger's tail and he bolts.
Divine lent Ursula his eye make-up, jewellery and build but never saw the result: the star of John Waters's films died in 1988, the year before The Little Mermaid opened.
Q 24Who voiced Ursula in The Little Mermaid?
Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll got the part only after Broadway's Elaine Stritch, cast first, clashed with lyricist Howard Ashman over how to sing Poor Unfortunate Souls and was let go.
Q 25Which giant crab in Moana sings 'Shiny' while showing off his treasure-covered shell?
Tamatoa
Tamatoa has Maui's lost fish hook in his hoard, so Moana gets the vain crab singing about himself to buy Maui time to grab it back.
Q 26Which actor voiced Scar in the 1994 Lion King?
Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons won an Oscar as Claus von Bülow in Reversal of Fortune, so the writers gave Scar one of that film's lines, 'You have no idea', delivered in the same drawl.
Q 27In Toy Story, which toy does the villain Sid tape to a big firework, planning to blow him up?
Buzz Lightyear
Buzz Lightyear is saved when Woody and Sid's mutant toys come to life and scare the boy off; later Woody lights the rocket, still taped to Buzz's back, to launch the pair after Andy's moving truck.
Q 28In Disney's Pinocchio, the villain Monstro, who swallows Geppetto, is what kind of creature?
A whale
A whale: Monstro swallows Geppetto, who had sailed out to look for Pinocchio; the puppet gets them out by making the beast sneeze, and Monstro smashes their raft in the chase.
Q 29Who played Cruella in Disney's 1996 live-action remake?
Glenn Close
Glenn Close had it written into her contract that she kept every costume she wore as Cruella, a clause Disney regretted once it saw what the wardrobe had cost.
Q 30The 2021 film Cruella is set in London during which musical movement?
Punk rock
Punk rock: in 1970s London, Estella invents the alter ego Cruella and upstages her boss, the Baroness, at one event after another, while her friend Anita feeds the stunts to the press.