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50 free Oliver & Company trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Oliver & Company is Disney's 1988 take on Oliver Twist, with the orphan recast as a kitten, Fagin's gang as a barge full of dogs and Victorian London swapped for late-1980s New York. Billy Joel voiced Dodger, Cheech Marin stole scenes as Tito, Bette Midler belted 'Perfect Isn't Easy', and it became the first animated film to pass $100 million worldwide on its first release. This quiz covers the characters and the making of the film: the breeds and the voices behind them, the Gong Show pitch meeting, the panda subplot that was cut, the telephone audition, the eleven minutes of early CGI, the first product placement in a Disney cartoon, the same-weekend fight with The Land Before Time, the eight-year wait for a VHS release and the band Dodger fronts in House of Mouse. Fifty questions, four options each, with a short explanation after every answer. Play on your phone or print it for a quiz night.
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Q 01In what year was Oliver & Company released?
1988
It opened on November 18, the day Disney marked the 60th anniversary of Steamboat Willie.
Q 02Which Charles Dickens novel inspired the film?
Oliver Twist
It also borrows from Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, and relocates the story from Victorian London to 1980s New York.
Q 03Where is the film set?
1980s New York
Director George Scribner photographed real streets with cameras 18 inches off the ground to get a dog's-eye view.
Q 04What kind of animal is Oliver?
An orange tabby kitten
His design was based on the kitten from the 1941 Mickey Mouse short Lend a Paw.
Q 05Who voices Dodger?
Billy Joel
He was the fifth person to audition, read his lines over the telephone, and had turned down film roles for years.
Q 06What breed of dog is Dodger?
Jack Russell Terrier
He is the leader of Fagin's gang and boasts what he calls 'street savoir-faire'.
Q 07Which comedian voices Tito the Chihuahua?
Cheech Marin
He was encouraged to ad-lib but recorded about 75 percent of his lines as written, and did fifteen sessions instead of four.
Q 08What is the Chihuahua's full name?
Ignacio Alonso Julio Federico de Tito
He falls for Georgette, who is initially repulsed by him.
Q 09Einstein, the dim-witted member of Fagin's gang, is what breed?
Great Dane
His name is ironic; Richard Mulligan of Soap and Empty Nest voiced him.
Q 10Francis the bulldog detests being called what?
Frank or Frankie
Tito does it constantly; Francis prefers Shakespeare and the theatre, voiced by Roscoe Lee Browne.
Q 11What breed is Rita, the street-wise female member of the gang?
Saluki
Sheryl Lee Ralph spoke her lines and Ruth Pointer sang 'Streets of Gold' for her.
Q 12Which singer was originally considered to voice Rita, who briefly shared her first name?
Tina Turner
The name went through Tina, then Nancy, before settling on Rita in August 1986.
Q 13Who voices Fagin, the kindly thief who lives on a barge with his dogs?
Dom DeLuise
Character animator Glen Keane designed both Fagin and the villain Sykes.
What is Sykes's profession in the film?
Q 21How does Sykes die at the end of the film?
His car collides with a train
The chase runs into the subway tunnels and out onto the Brooklyn Bridge.
Q 22Which two new Disney executives oversaw the film's start, the first made under them?
Eisner and Katzenberg
Both had come from Paramount in 1984, as chairman and head of production respectively.
Q 23What was the nickname of the pitch meeting where the film was proposed?
The Gong Show
Ron Clements pitched The Little Mermaid and Treasure Planet at the same session.
Loan shark
Robert Loggia voiced him; he gives Fagin three days to repay his debt.
Q 15What are the names of Sykes's two Dobermans?
Roscoe and DeSoto
They meet their end on the third rail of the subway during the climactic chase.
Q 16Who voices Georgette, the Foxworths' prize-winning poodle?
Bette Midler
Thirty-four actresses auditioned for the 'brassy, extroverted' part before it was offered to Midler.
Q 17What is the name of the girl who adopts Oliver?
Jenny Foxworth
She frets that her parents won't be back from a business trip in time for her eighth birthday.
Q 18Which future teen star voiced Oliver, starting the role at age ten?
Joey Lawrence
His voice deepened over two and a half years of recording, making the high pitches a struggle.
Q 19What is the name of the Foxworths' clumsy butler?
Winston
William Glover voiced him, and the character was redrawn slightly heavier after Glover recorded.
Q 20Who provided the uncredited voice of Louie the hot dog vendor?
Frank Welker
Dodger calls Louie 'a well-known enemy of the four-legged world'.
Q 24Which story artist pitched 'Oliver Twist with dogs'?
Pete Young
He was made story supervisor but died unexpectedly in late 1985.
Q 25Who ended up as the film's sole director after his co-director was fired?
George Scribner
Richard Rich was let go about six months into production.
Q 26Which future director of Logan and Walk the Line co-wrote the screenplay?
James Mangold
He shares the credit with Jim Cox and Tim Disney.
Q 27Roy E. Disney's dropped subplot had the gang stealing what from the Central Park Zoo?
A rare panda
The idea survived until August 1986 before being replaced with the kidnapping of Jenny.
Q 28A cut character named Kaminski was what kind of animal?
A policeman's horse
He would have kept asking Dodger whether he was staying out of trouble.
Q 29Which 1930s tough-kid actor did Joel use as inspiration for Dodger?
Leo Gorcey
Joel saw him as the epitome of a tough kid who deep down was a nice guy.
Q 30Joel had been too scared to audition for which director's Once Upon a Time in America?
Sergio Leone
His then-wife Christie Brinkley had tried to persuade him he might be a good actor.