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50 free The Emperor's New Groove trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free The Emperor's New Groove trivia questions with answers. The Emperor's New Groove flopped in 2000 and became one of Disney's most quoted films anyway. This quiz covers the whole story of it: Kuzco the 18-year-old emperor turned llama, Pacha and his hill, Yzma and her potions, Kronk and his diner, the collapsing bridge, the jaguars and the cat, and the summer cabin at the end. The making-of round is the good part. Roger Allers's serious musical Kingdom of the Sun, the Prince and the Pauper plot, Sting's songs and the ending he refused to accept, the six-month shutdown that turned it into a Chuck Jones-style buddy comedy, why Manco became Kuzco, The Sweatbox documentary, the Oscar nomination and the box office numbers. Then Kronk's New Groove and The Emperor's New School, where Kuzco had to graduate to get his throne back. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the film and its spin-offs, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01In what year was The Emperor's New Groove released?
2000
It opened on 15 December, six months after its planned summer slot went to Dinosaur.
Q 02Who directed The Emperor's New Groove?
Mark Dindal
He took over after original director Roger Allers stepped down.
Q 03Who voices Emperor Kuzco?
David Spade
The character is described as an entitled, pampered and arrogant 18-year-old.
Q 04How old is Kuzco?
18
The birthday party where he meets Pacha kicks off the plot.
Q 05Who voices Pacha, the village leader?
John Goodman
The role was originally meant for Owen Wilson in the film's earlier incarnation.
Q 06Which singer and actress voices Yzma?
Eartha Kitt
The performance won her an Annie Award and she kept the role through two spin-offs.
Q 07Who voices Kronk, Yzma's muscular sidekick?
Patrick Warburton
The Seinfeld and Family Guy actor got his own film, Kronk's New Groove, in 2005.
Q 08Wendie Malick voices Chicha, who is what?
Pacha's pregnant wife
Her children Chaca and Tipo help protect Kuzco later on.
Q 09Into what animal is Kuzco accidentally transformed?
A llama
Yzma had meant to poison him, but Kronk grabbed the wrong vial.
Q 10What does Kuzco plan to build on Pacha's hilltop?
Kuzcotopia, an amusement park
The plan involves destroying a rainforest, and Sting refused to be party to that ending.
Q 11What does Yzma order Kronk to do with the unconscious Kuzco?
Take him out of the city and kill him
Kronk's conscience wins and Kuzco ends up on Pacha's cart instead.
Q 12Pacha rescues llama Kuzco from which animals in the jungle?
Jaguars
The pair then plunge over a waterfall together.
Q 13Where do Kuzco and Pacha first learn to work together?
On a collapsing rope bridge
The scene is a classic buddy-comedy forced-cooperation set piece.
Q 21Harvey Fierstein was cast in the original version as Huaca, which was what?
A 10,000-year-old rock
The rock kept an eye on the emperors who ruled before Manco.
Q 22Kuzco was originally named Manco. Why was the name changed?
It resembled a rude Japanese slang word
Producer Randy Fullmer discovered the problem before release.
Q 23For how long did the producers halt production in December 1998 to retool the film?
Six months
Dindal pitched 'a buddy road picture with two guys being chased in the style of a Chuck Jones toon'.
Q 14Where do both duos, hunters and hunted, coincidentally end up at the same time?
A roadside diner
Kronk ends up cooking in the kitchen, and the near-misses pile up.
Q 15During the finale, Yzma is turned into what?
A cat
One of her own potions gets her, and she stays a kitten in the spin-off series.
Q 16Instead of Kuzcotopia, what does Kuzco build at the end?
A shack like Pacha's next door
The redemption arc ends with the emperor swimming with his new neighbours.
Q 17The film's setting is inspired by which ancient civilisation?
The Incas
The mountainous landscape resembles the highlands of Peru.
Q 18What was the working title of the film in its original, more serious form?
Kingdom of the Sun
Roger Allers, fresh from The Lion King, began developing it in 1994.
Q 19The original version's plot borrowed from which Mark Twain novel?
The Prince and the Pauper
The emperor and a peasant swapped places so the emperor could escape his boring life.
Q 20In the original story, Yzma planned to summon the god of death and destroy what?
The sun
The goal was to make herself young and beautiful forever.
Q 24Which animator's cartoons did Dindal cite as the style for the retooled film?
Chuck Jones
The result was a chase comedy far removed from a Lion King-style epic.
Q 25Which musician wrote songs for the original version and stayed on for the finished film?
Sting
His wife Trudie Styler documented the whole painful process in The Sweatbox.
Q 26Which Sting song from the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song?
'My Funny Friend and Me'
'Perfect World' is the Tom Jones theme; 'Snuff Out the Light' was Yzma's cut villain song.
Q 27Sting objected to the original ending in which Kuzco did what?
Destroyed a rainforest for Kuzcotopia
He said 'I will not be party to this', and the ending was changed.
Q 28The Sweatbox, the documentary about the film's troubled production, was made by whom?
Trudie Styler
It premiered at the 2002 Toronto festival and Disney has largely kept it under wraps since.
Q 29The film's budget was about $100m. Roughly what did it gross worldwide?
$169.5m
It was considered a box-office disappointment but became Disney's best-selling home video of 2001.
Q 30Which Welsh singer voices Kuzco's Theme Song Guy?
Tom Jones
The emperor's personal theme-song conductor performs 'Perfect World'.