Mulan Trivia
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99 free Mulan trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
42 free Mulan trivia questions with answers. Mulan began as a 1,500-year-old Chinese folk song about a woman who served twelve years in the army before her comrades realised she was a woman, and became a Disney film that launched Christina Aguilera, needed two voices for its heroine and gave McDonald's a sauce that Rick and Morty later revived. This quiz runs 99 questions on the 1998 film (Mushu, Cri-Kee, Shan Yu, the avalanche, the Florida studio, the songs, the awards, the China release), the 2020 Niki Caro remake with Liu Yifei (no Mushu, the Rourans, Premier Access, the credits controversy), Mulan II, and the original Ballad of Mulan and the debate over whether she ever existed. It starts easy and works up to questions for people who know who Xu Wei was. Every answer has been checked against reference sources, shown under each question once you answer, so it works for a Disney movie night, a classroom unit on Chinese legends or a film round at pub trivia.
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Q 01Who provides the speaking voice of Mulan in the 1998 Disney film?
Ming-Na Wen
Ming-Na Wen won the part with a voice-over: the producer heard her narration at the start of The Joy Luck Club and said, 'we knew we had our Mulan'.
Q 02Who provides Mulan's singing voice in the 1998 film, including the song 'Reflection'?
Lea Salonga
Lea Salonga was up for the speaking part too, but her voice was judged not deep enough for the soldier disguise; she had already sung for Princess Jasmine in Aladdin.
Q 03Who voices Mushu, the tiny disgraced guardian dragon, in Disney's 1998 Mulan?
Eddie Murphy
Eddie Murphy was the pick of Disney chief Michael Eisner after the team had been looking at Joe Pesci and Richard Dreyfuss; he recorded the part at home rather than at the studio.
Q 04BD Wong speaks Li Shang in Mulan, but who sings the captain's song 'I'll Make a Man Out of You'?
Donny Osmond
Donny Osmond got the job because his singing voice was a near match for Wong's speaking voice; he had earlier tried out for the lead in Hercules and been turned down.
Q 05Which action star voiced Li Shang in the Chinese-language versions of Disney's Mulan?
Jackie Chan
Jackie Chan dubbed the captain in Mandarin and Cantonese and sang his training song too, in a music video that has him showing off kung fu moves between the verses.
Q 06In the 1998 Mulan, what name does Mulan use when she poses as a male recruit?
Fa Ping
Fa Ping keeps her real family name, because she is answering her father's call-up in his place; the 2020 remake changes her soldier's name to Hua Jun.
Q 07In the 1998 Mulan, which three fellow recruits become Mulan's closest friends?
Yao, Ling and Chien-Po
Yao, Ling and Chien-Po start by brawling with her in camp and end by dressing up as concubines to slip past the Huns who are holding the Emperor.
Q 08What is the name of the Hun leader in Disney's 1998 Mulan?
Shan Yu
Shan Yu survives the battle in the mountains and seizes the Emperor in his own palace, where Mulan lures him onto the roof and a giant firework finishes him.
Q 09In the 1998 Mulan, what does Mulan set off with a single cannon shot to bury the Hun army?
An avalanche
An avalanche swallows the Huns, but she is slashed in the chaos, and it is while the wound is being bandaged that her comrades learn she is a woman.
Q 10In Disney's Mulan, who gives Mulan the 'lucky' cricket Cri-Kee before she meets the matchmaker?
Her grandmother
Her grandmother hands him over in a cage for luck; the directors had not wanted him in the film at all, but veteran artist Joe Grant kept slipping sketches of him under their door.
Q 11What does Mulan turn down from the Emperor at the end of Disney's 1998 film?
A seat on his council
A seat on his council is offered after the whole city has bowed to her; she asks only to go home, carrying his crest and the enemy's sword as gifts for her father.
Q 12Which pop star's first US single was 'Reflection' from the Mulan soundtrack?
Christina Aguilera
Christina Aguilera won the song with a demo: asked whether she could hit its highest note, she taped herself singing a Whitney Houston ballad that reached it, and the job was hers.
Q 13Stephen Schwartz lost the job of writing Mulan's songs by agreeing to work on which rival studio's film?
The Prince of Egypt
Q 21Who voices the Emperor of China in Disney's 1998 Mulan?
Pat Morita
Pat Morita's Emperor has the last word on Mulan, telling her captain that the flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.
Q 22Which Motown star joins the boy band 98 Degrees on True to Your Heart, the end-credits song of Mulan?
Stevie Wonder
Stevie Wonder was first asked only to play harmonica on the track; he liked the song so much that he offered to sing on it as well.
Q 23Who plays Mulan in Disney's 2020 live-action film?
Liu Yifei
Liu Yifei was chosen after casting directors toured five continents and saw nearly 1,000 candidates, looking for martial arts skill, clear English and star quality.
The Prince of Egypt belonged to DreamWorks; Disney's bosses told him to choose, he kept his word to the rival studio, and Matthew Wilder and David Zippel wrote Mulan's songs instead.
Q 14Mulan was the first of three features produced mainly at which Disney animation outpost?
Bay Lake, Florida
Bay Lake, Florida, held a studio that doubled as a theme-park attraction: visitors to Disney-MGM Studios walked through the working building and watched its animators at work.
Q 15Which animated film out-grossed Mulan worldwide in 1998?
A Bug's Life
A Bug's Life took about $363 million to Mulan's $304 million; Mulan had opened only second in the US, beaten that weekend by The X-Files, yet ended the year far ahead of it.
Q 16Which award did Disney's 1998 Mulan win?
The Annie Award for Best Animated Feature
The Annie Award for Best Animated Feature comes from the animation industry's own ceremony; the Oscars had no prize for animated features until Shrek won the first in 2002, too late for Mulan.
Q 17In an early draft of Disney's Mulan, what was Mulan running away from when she left home?
A betrothal
A betrothal to Shang, a man she had never met, drove the first version; it was dropped because it made her seem to go to war for herself rather than for her father.
Q 18In the video game Kingdom Hearts II, what is the world based on Disney's Mulan called?
The Land of Dragons
The Land of Dragons has Mulan join the hero Sora's party as an ally, at first under her soldier's disguise.
Q 19Which McDonald's dipping sauce, launched in 1998 to promote Mulan, returned in 2017 after a Rick and Morty joke?
Szechuan sauce
Szechuan sauce came back in such small amounts that fans who had queued for hours were told it had run out, and ugly scenes followed at some restaurants.
Q 20China held back Mulan's release after which Disney-backed film about the Dalai Lama angered Beijing?
Kundun
Kundun had soured Disney's dealings with China; Mulan was let in only after the lucrative New Year holiday had passed, and it did poor business there.
Q 24Who directed Disney's 2020 live-action Mulan?
Niki Caro
Niki Caro, the New Zealander who made Whale Rider, answered critics who wanted an Asian director by saying the job also needed fluency in another culture, Disney's own.
Q 25Which new family member does the 2020 Mulan give its heroine, who has none in the animated film?
A younger sister
A younger sister, Xiu, was added because the film-makers felt she gave Mulan more to fight for; later tellings of the legend had already given her one.
Q 26How did the 2020 Mulan reach US audiences that September?
On Disney+ behind a Premier Access paywall
On Disney+ behind a Premier Access paywall meant $29.99 on top of the subscription, after the pandemic ended hopes of a US cinema run; three months later it was free to every subscriber.
Q 27Who plays the shape-shifting witch Xianniang in the 2020 Mulan?
Gong Li
Gong Li's witch has no counterpart in the animated film: she serves the invaders' leader until the end, when she turns into a hawk and takes an arrow meant for Mulan.
Q 28Who are the invaders in the 2020 Mulan, replacing the animated film's Huns?
The Rourans
The Rourans were a real nomadic power of the northern steppe, and the foe that the army in the original ballad is usually taken to be fighting.
Q 29The original voice of Mulan cameos in the 2020 remake as whom?
The guest who presents Mulan to the Emperor
The guest who presents Mulan to the Emperor appears for only seconds, but the actress behind her had been cheering the remake on in public since its first teaser, saying how excited she was to see it.
Q 30What controversy arose from the end credits of the 2020 Mulan?
It thanked government bodies in Xinjiang
It thanked government bodies in Xinjiang, among them the public security bureau of Turpan, a city where re-education camps for Uyghurs have been documented; calls for a boycott grew.