DuckTales Trivia
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93 free DuckTales trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
DuckTales premiered in syndication in September 1987, ran for 100 episodes, spawned a movie and one of the best NES games ever made, and came back in 2017 with David Tennant as Scrooge. This quiz covers the whole franchise: Scrooge McDuck and his Number One Dime, Huey, Dewey and Louie, Webby and Mrs. Beakley, Launchpad McQuack, Gyro Gearloose, Fenton Crackshell and Gizmoduck, Flintheart Glomgold, Magica De Spell, Ma Beagle and the Beagle Boys, the Treasure of the Lost Lamp, Capcom's pogo-cane platformer and the reboot's Della Duck, F.O.W.L. and Darkwing Duck crossovers. Easy questions ask what Scrooge guards most jealously and which of the boys wears which colour... well, not quite; they ask who Scrooge's crash-prone pilot is and which comic-book artist created him. Harder ones dig into how much the theme song's writer was paid, which pop group nearly sang it, why Donald barely appeared in the original, and which Mega Man designer worked on the NES game. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia's articles on the series, the film, the game and the characters, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01DuckTales was based on comic books about Scrooge McDuck created by which artist?
Carl Barks
Carl Barks meant Scrooge as a one-off rich uncle for a 1947 Donald Duck story, but the old miser proved so useful that he had a comic book of his own by 1952.
Q 02Which 'caveduck' follows Scrooge home in the 1988 DuckTales serial Time Is Money?
Bubba
Bubba stows away in the time machine with his pet triceratops Tootsie after Scrooge's trip lands a million years in the past, and so ends up living in the present day.
Q 03Why does Donald Duck leave his nephews with Scrooge at the start of the original DuckTales?
He joins the US Navy
He joins the US Navy, which turns the comics' leading duck into an occasional guest star and leaves Scrooge and the three nephews to carry the show.
Q 04What prized possession are villains, especially Magica De Spell, forever trying to steal from Scrooge?
His Number One Dime
His Number One Dime is the first coin Scrooge ever earned, for shining a pair of muddy boots as a boy in Scotland; Magica wants to melt it into an amulet with the Midas touch.
Q 05Who voiced Scrooge McDuck in the original DuckTales and for more than 40 years overall?
Alan Young
Alan Young, Wilbur on Mister Ed, found the broad Scottish accent easy because his father was a Scottish miner and he spent his first years in Edinburgh; he kept the role from 1974 until he died in 2016.
Q 06Which voice actress played all three of Huey, Dewey and Louie, plus Webby, in the 1987 DuckTales?
Russi Taylor
Russi Taylor voiced all four ducklings and, from 1986, Minnie Mouse; in 1991 she married Wayne Allwine, the voice of Mickey, making Mickey and Minnie husband and wife off screen.
Q 07Which youth organisation do Huey, Dewey and Louie belong to, carrying a guidebook that seems to hold every answer?
The Junior Woodchucks
The Junior Woodchucks began in the comics as a gentle satire of the Boy Scouts, complete with buckets of badges; their Guidebook somehow covers any crisis the nephews meet.
Q 08Which superhero identity does Scrooge's accountant Fenton Crackshell secretly adopt?
Gizmoduck
Gizmoduck is born by accident: the robot suit's inventor picks 'blatherskite' as its secret codeword, unaware that the word is part of Fenton's favourite exclamation.
Q 09In DuckTales, which kilt-wearing villain schemes to replace Scrooge McDuck as the 'richest duck in the world'?
Flintheart Glomgold
Flintheart Glomgold is Scottish and wears a kilt in the TV version, unlike the comics; in the reboot he and Scrooge bet their companies on who will be richest by year's end.
Q 10In DuckTales, which character heads the gang of masked robbers who target Scrooge's money bin, springing them from jail?
Ma Beagle
Ma Beagle was invented for the show and modelled on the real gang matriarch Ma Barker; in the comics the gang's occasional leader is a grandfather, Blackheart Beagle.
Q 11Magica De Spell is Italian in the comics, but what accent was she given in the DuckTales cartoon?
Eastern European
Eastern European was June Foray's choice, an accent close to her Natasha Fatale in Rocky and Bullwinkle; the comics' Magica is an Italian sorceress who lives on the slopes of Vesuvius.
Q 12What is the name of the city where DuckTales is set?
Duckburg
Duckburg began, in the comics' lore, as the British outpost Fort Drakeborough; settler Cornelius Coot took it over and renamed it, since a drake is a male duck.
Q 13DuckTales was Disney's first cartoon produced for what?
Weekday syndication
DuckTales was Disney's first cartoon made for weekday syndication, sold station by station rather than to a network; its success paved the way for Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin and the Disney Afternoon block.
Q 21In the DuckTales movie, whose long-lost treasure is Scrooge hunting when the magic lamp turns up?
Collie Baba
Collie Baba, a pun on Ali Baba, hid the lamp among his treasure after stealing it from the sorcerer Merlock, who has spent the centuries since trying to get it back.
Q 22Which company developed the 1989 NES game based on DuckTales?
Capcom
Capcom gave the licence to key Mega Man staff, among them artist Keiji Inafune, which is why Scrooge's adventure plays so much like a Mega Man game.
Q 23In the NES DuckTales game, what does Scrooge bounce on like a pogo stick to squash enemies?
His cane
His cane doubles as a pogo stick for bouncing on enemies and over hazards; the makers of Shovel Knight later borrowed the move for their hero's downward shovel bounce.
Q 14DuckTales premiered in 1987 with which television movie, later split into a five-part serial?
The Treasure of the Golden Suns
The Treasure of the Golden Suns sends Scrooge after a lost hoard of gold, and by the last chapter he has caught 'gold fever' and cares about nothing but the treasure.
Q 15The DuckTales theme song opens with 'Life is like a' what?
Hurricane
A hurricane is the image that opens the lyric by pop songwriter Mark Mueller, who says Disney paid him a 'whopping' $1,250 for the song.
Q 16In the original DuckTales, Magica De Spell's brother has been transformed into which bird?
A raven
A raven is the shape her brother is stuck in, which is why the writers named him Poe, after the author of The Raven; he serves his sister as her familiar.
Q 17Which nanny does Scrooge hire to mind his nephews in the original DuckTales, bringing along her granddaughter Webby?
Mrs. Beakley
Mrs. Beakley is a kindly housekeeper in the 1987 show, but the 2017 reboot rewrote her as Agent 22, a retired spy who once went on missions with Scrooge.
Q 18Composer Ron Jones said he scored DuckTales seriously, like which film, rather than as a kids' show?
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiders of the Lost Ark was his model: Ron Jones said he never patronises an audience, so he pitched treating the ducks 'like real people on real adventures', and got the job.
Q 19Which Back to the Future actor voiced the sorcerer Merlock in the DuckTales movie?
Christopher Lloyd
Christopher Lloyd voices Merlock, a shape-shifting sorcerer who once used the lamp's wishes to destroy Atlantis and Pompeii; his talisman lets him ignore the limit on wishes.
Q 20In the DuckTales movie, which animal does Webby wish for from the Genie?
An elephant
An elephant, still a baby, appears in the library and runs amok through Scrooge's mansion; the children also wish up a giant ice cream sundae, and Webby later brings all her toys to life.
Q 24Which of these is one of the five levels in the NES DuckTales game?
The Moon
The Moon stage's music is the game's best-known tune, and the 2017 reboot brought it back as a lullaby sung by the boys' mother; the other stages are on Earth, from the Amazon to Transylvania.
Q 25Which studio made DuckTales: Remastered, the 2013 HD remake of the NES game?
WayForward
WayForward redrew the 8-bit game with hand-drawn characters and brought back the surviving 1987 voice cast to record a full script for a game that had never had speech.
Q 26Which Doctor Who star voices the richest duck in the world in the 2017 reboot?
David Tennant
David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor, gives Scrooge his own Scottish accent; almost every role was recast for the reboot, though Tony Anselmo, Donald's voice in the 1987 show, stayed on.
Q 27Which character, Donald's twin sister and the triplets' mother, made her animated debut in the 2017 DuckTales reboot?
Della Duck
Della Duck took Scrooge's rocket, the Spear of Selene, before her sons hatched and vanished into space; the mystery of what happened to her drives the reboot's first season.
Q 28Which Community actor voices Huey in the 2017 DuckTales reboot?
Danny Pudi
Danny Pudi, Abed on Community, plays Huey, with Ben Schwartz as Dewey and Bobby Moynihan as Louie; the cast announced itself in 2016 by singing the theme a cappella.
Q 29Which Hamilton star voices Fenton Crackshell-Cabrera in the 2017 DuckTales reboot?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda's Fenton is a young scientist interning for Scrooge's inventor rather than the 1987 show's accountant, and he gained the Spanish surname Cabrera.
Q 30Who voices Webby Vanderquack in the 2017 DuckTales series?
Kate Micucci
Kate Micucci, half of the comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates, plays a very different Webby: the timid girl with a doll in the 1987 show became an athletic, adventure-hungry action hero.