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Q 01In what year did Disneyland officially open its gates to the public?
1955
Disneyland first opened its gates to invited guests and the media on July 17, 1955, with the public opening the following day. This date is widely recognized as its official birthday.
Q 02In which California city is the original Disneyland theme park located?
Anaheim
Disneyland is located in Anaheim, California, approximately 30 miles south of Los Angeles.
Q 03Which organization did Walt Disney hire in 1953 to run the feasibility study that picked the park's site?
Stanford Research Institute
Walt hired the Stanford Research Institute in 1953; its analyst Harrison 'Buzz' Price steered him to Anaheim in Orange County, citing projected population growth and the planned Santa Ana Freeway.
Q 04How many themed lands did Disneyland feature on its opening day?
Five
Disneyland opened with five lands radiating from the central hub, a layout Walt likened to spokes on a wheel so each land's entrance was visible from the castle plaza; the count later grew to nine.
Q 05Which castle stands at the hub of Disneyland Park?
Sleeping Beauty Castle
Sleeping Beauty Castle anchors Disneyland's central hub; its look drew on Neuschwanstein in Bavaria, and a walk-through retelling the Sleeping Beauty story opened inside it in 1957.
Q 06Which Disneyland Railroad locomotive, the line's fifth, is named after a Disney animator?
Ward Kimball
Ward Kimball, engine No. 5, entered service for the park's 50th anniversary and honours the animator and railroad enthusiast whose backyard line helped spark Walt's own; the other four engines are named for railroad executives.
Q 07Which future U.S. President was among the hosts of the live telecast for Disneyland's opening day?
Ronald Reagan
The broadcast was famously chaotic: at one point Linkletter tried to hand over to Cummings on the pirate ship, who was not ready and tossed it back to Linkletter, who had lost his microphone.
Q 08Which of these Disneyland lands opened in 1966?
New Orleans Square
New Orleans Square opened on July 24, 1966, the first land added after opening day; Walt Disney dedicated it alongside New Orleans mayor Victor Schiro.
Q 09In what year did Disneyland celebrate its 50th anniversary, launching 'The Happiest Homecoming on Earth'?
2005
Disneyland's 50th-anniversary celebration, 'The Happiest Homecoming on Earth', launched on May 5, 2005 and ran 18 months to September 2006, bringing the Remember... Dreams Come True fireworks and Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams.
Q 10Which classic Disneyland attraction was the first tubular steel roller coaster in the world?
Matterhorn Bobsleds
Matterhorn Bobsleds, built by Arrow Development, was the world's first tubular-steel roller coaster; its mountain rose on the spot of a picnic mound once called Holiday Hill.
Q 11Who personally oversaw the construction and design of Disneyland Park?
Walt Disney
Disneyland was the only theme park designed and constructed under the direct supervision of Walt Disney.
Q 12Mickey's Toontown, added in 1993, drew on the Toontown of which film?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Who Framed Roger Rabbit's Toontown was the model; the land is built to a 1930s cartoon aesthetic and its three rides include Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin.
Q 13Which real-world region is NOT a primary setting for scenes in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise?
Australia
Australia is never visited; the cruise's rivers are the Amazon of South America, the Irrawaddy and Mekong of Asia, and the Congo and Nile of Africa, where gorillas have overrun a safari camp.
Q 21Where was Walt Disney's private apartment located within Disneyland Park?
Above the firehouse
Above the firehouse on Main Street, off-limits to the public; Walt used to drive the firehouse's engine around the park before it opened.
Q 22Which animal named the land that opened in 1972, before it was rebranded Critter (1988) and then Bayou (2024)?
Bear
Bear Country opened in 1972, the same year as the Main Street Electrical Parade, and was home to the Country Bear Jamboree; it became Critter Country in 1988 and Bayou Country in 2024.
Q 23Which 1967 dark ride was the last attraction Walt Disney personally oversaw?
Pirates of the Caribbean
Q 14Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A. is largely inspired by Walt Disney's boyhood hometown of what?
Marceline, Missouri
Marceline, Missouri, where Walt spent part of his boyhood, is the model for the idealised turn-of-the-century Main Street.
Q 15In what year did The Haunted Mansion first open in New Orleans Square?
1969
The Haunted Mansion, located in New Orleans Square, officially opened on August 9, 1969, after several years of development and delays.
Q 16How tall is the castle at the end of Disneyland's Main Street, U.S.A.?
77 feet
Disneyland's castle stands 77 feet tall, modest beside Magic Kingdom's 189-foot Cinderella Castle; shrinking its stones and turrets toward the top makes it look far grander.
Q 17Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, 'the wildest ride in the wilderness', opened at Disneyland in which year?
1979
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad began thrilling guests in Frontierland on September 2, 1979.
Q 18What did adult general admission to Disneyland cost on opening day?
$1.00
On opening day, general admission to Disneyland cost $1.00, with individual attractions requiring additional tickets.
Q 19The Disneyland Monorail, the Western Hemisphere's first daily monorail, debuted in what year?
1959
The Disneyland Monorail opened on June 14, 1959, as part of a major expansion that also included the Matterhorn Bobsleds and the Submarine Voyage.
Q 20How large was the Anaheim site Walt Disney bought in 1953 to build the park?
160 acres
The park itself now occupies more than 100 of those acres; the small Burbank site Disney first considered is today home to Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Pirates of the Caribbean opened on March 18, 1967, three months after Walt's death; it later spawned the film franchise and Shanghai Disneyland's 2016 version, Battle for the Sunken Treasure.
Q 24The nighttime spectacular Fantasmic! made its Disneyland debut in what year?
1992
Fantasmic! premiered at Disneyland on May 13, 1992, staged on the Rivers of America in front of Tom Sawyer Island with water-screen projections and Mickey as the sorcerer's apprentice.
Q 25'it's a small world' premiered at which city's 1964 exposition before moving to Disneyland?
New York
'it's a small world' debuted at the 1964-65 New York World's Fair in the Pepsi-sponsored UNICEF pavilion, behind Rolly Crump's 120-foot Tower of the Four Winds, and reopened in Anaheim in May 1966.
Q 26Which private, members-only restaurant, named after its Royal Street address, sits in New Orleans Square?
Club 33
Club 33 opened in 1967 at 33 Royal Street, modelled on the corporate lounges Walt saw at the 1964 World's Fair; for decades it was the only place in the park that served alcohol.
Q 27What nickname did Imagineers give the Abominable Snowman that lurks inside the Matterhorn?
Harold
Imagineers nicknamed the Matterhorn's Abominable Snowman Harold; he was added in the 1978 refurbishment that gave the bobsleds their ice caverns, and received a new animated figure in 2015.
Q 28In what year did the castle walkthrough reopen, restored to Eyvind Earle's original dioramas?
2008
The castle walkthrough reopened in November 2008 with dioramas in Eyvind Earle's style, having closed in October 2001; a ground-floor room lets guests who cannot climb the stairs view it virtually.
Q 29Which riverboat plies the Rivers of America in Disneyland's Frontierland?
Mark Twain Riverboat
Mark Twain Riverboat, a 5/8-scale stern-wheeler whose hull was built at Todd Shipyards in San Pedro, made its maiden voyage on July 13, 1955 as the venue for Walt and Lillian's 30th anniversary party.
Q 30What type of fuel did the original Autopia cars at Disneyland use?
Gasoline
The original Autopia cars, which debuted with the park in 1955, were powered by gasoline engines.