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49 free Sleeping Beauty trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
43 free Sleeping Beauty trivia questions with answers. Sleeping Beauty is really several stories stacked on top of each other: Basile's grim Sun, Moon and Talia, Perrault's tale with the ogress mother-in-law, the Grimms' Little Briar Rose, Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet, Walt Disney's 1959 widescreen epic and the Angelina Jolie Maleficent films. This Sleeping Beauty trivia quiz covers all of them, with the biggest share going to the Disney classic: Aurora and Briar Rose, Prince Phillip, Flora, Fauna and Merryweather, Maleficent's dragon, Eyvind Earle's tapestry backgrounds and why the film nearly sank the animation studio. The 49 questions run from easy ones any Disney fan will get to hard ones about voice casting, the ballet's premiere and the fairy tale's oldest versions. Every answer is checked against the original texts and documented production history, not fan sites.
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Q 01In Disney's Sleeping Beauty, what name do the three good fairies give Aurora while hiding her?
Briar Rose
The fairies raise her as a peasant girl called Briar Rose in a woodcutter's cottage deep in the forest, so that Maleficent cannot find the princess before the curse's deadline passes.
Q 02What is the name of Prince Phillip's father in Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
King Hubert
Prince Phillip's father is King Hubert, the jovial neighbouring monarch who plans the children's wedding with Aurora's father and tipsily toasts it in the 'Skumps' drinking song.
Q 03On which birthday does Maleficent's curse say Aurora will prick her finger and die?
Her 16th
Merryweather softens the curse to a deep sleep broken by true love's kiss.
Q 04Which gifts do Flora and Fauna bestow on baby Aurora before the curse interrupts?
Beauty and song
Flora gives the gift of beauty and Fauna the gift of song; the third fairy holds hers back and uses it to soften Maleficent's curse from death into sleep.
Q 05Which blue-clad good fairy duels Flora with magic wands over the colour of Aurora's birthday dress?
Merryweather
Merryweather, in blue, wants Aurora's dress blue while Flora wants pink, and their wand duel sends colours up the chimney, which draws Maleficent's raven to the cottage.
Q 06What is the name of Maleficent's pet raven in the 1959 film?
Diablo
Diablo, Maleficent's raven, is her spy; one of the good fairies turns him to stone at the climax. The 2014 film renamed the character Diaval and made him a shapeshifting man.
Q 07What is the name of Prince Phillip's horse in Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
Samson
Prince Phillip's horse is Samson, whom he bribes with the promise of an extra bucket of oats and a few carrots to chase the singing in the forest; Samson dumps him in a stream instead.
Q 08What is the name of Maleficent's domain in the 1959 film?
The Forbidden Mountain
Maleficent rules from the Forbidden Mountain, a craggy fortress manned by her goons; there she plans to keep Phillip locked up until he is an old man before releasing him to an Aurora who has not aged a day.
Q 09Which two magical items do the fairies give Prince Phillip to fight Maleficent?
The Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue
The fairies arm Phillip with the Sword of Truth and the Shield of Virtue; at the climax Flora enchants the sword so that it flies straight into the transformed Maleficent's heart.
Q 10Into what creature does Maleficent transform for the climax of the 1959 film?
A fire-breathing dragon
Maleficent becomes a huge black-and-purple fire-breathing dragon for the final battle; animator Eric Cleworth modelled the beast's heavy, muscular movement on a rattlesnake.
Q 11Who voiced Princess Aurora in Disney's 1959 film?
Mary Costa
Mary Costa, a Tennessee-born soprano who later sang at the Metropolitan Opera, was cast in 1952 after a chance meeting at a party; her Southern accent nearly cost her the part until she proved she could lose it.
Q 12Eleanor Audley, the voice of Maleficent, had earlier voiced which Disney villain?
Lady Tremaine
Eleanor Audley voiced Lady Tremaine, Cinderella's stepmother, in 1950; she initially declined Maleficent because she was recovering from tuberculosis, and ended up providing the villainess's live-action reference too.
Q 13Which artist devised the film's flat, tapestry-like art style inspired by pre-Renaissance European art?
Eyvind Earle
Q 21In which century is Disney's Sleeping Beauty set?
The 14th
Disney set the film in the 14th century, with Aurora betrothed at her christening to a neighbouring prince to unite the two kingdoms; the medieval setting shaped the Gothic, tapestry-like design.
Q 22What are the names of Aurora's parents in the Disney film?
King Stefan and Queen Leah
Aurora's parents are King Stefan and Queen Leah; Taylor Holmes voiced Stefan, and Verna Felton, who also voiced Flora, spoke the queen's few lines.
Q 23Which Italian author wrote 'Sun, Moon, and Talia', an early Sleeping Beauty tale?
Giambattista Basile
Eyvind Earle, the film's colour stylist and background painter, gave it a flat, vertical, tapestry-like look drawn from medieval art; animators found his backgrounds so detailed that the characters struggled to stand out.
Q 14Whose ballet supplied the score and songs for Disney's Sleeping Beauty?
Tchaikovsky
George Bruns adapted Tchaikovsky's 1890 ballet The Sleeping Beauty for the film's score and songs, earning an Oscar nomination for Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.
Q 15'Once Upon a Dream' borrows its melody from which piece in the 1890 ballet?
The Garland Waltz
'Once Upon a Dream' sets Jack Lawrence and Sammy Fain's lyrics to the Garland Waltz from Act I of the ballet; Lana Del Rey recorded a dark cover of it for the 2014 Maleficent.
Q 16Sleeping Beauty was the first animated film released in which widescreen process?
Super Technirama 70
Sleeping Beauty was the first animated feature in Super Technirama 70, shot on large-format horizontal 35mm Technirama and printed on 70mm for its roadshow engagements; Disney's earlier Lady and the Tramp had used CinemaScope.
Q 17Roughly how much did Sleeping Beauty cost to make, a record for a Disney animated feature at the time?
$6 million
Sleeping Beauty cost about $6 million, the most for any Disney animated feature to that point, after nearly a decade in production; it was the studio's last fully hand-inked feature before xerography arrived with One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
Q 18How did Sleeping Beauty perform at the box office on its original 1959 release?
It lost money
It lost money on first release, earning about $5.3 million in rentals against a record budget, which contributed to Disney's first annual loss in a decade and layoffs at the studio; re-releases later made it profitable.
Q 19Which Disney legend was the supervising animator of both Aurora and Maleficent?
Marc Davis
Marc Davis, one of Disney's Nine Old Men, supervised both Aurora and Maleficent, designing the villainess with horns and a bat-wing collar; two years later he animated Cruella de Vil.
Q 20Which actress, who had also modelled Cinderella, provided live-action reference for Aurora?
Helene Stanley
Helene Stanley, who had acted out Cinderella for the animators in 1950 and later did the same for Anita in One Hundred and One Dalmatians, provided Aurora's live-action reference, which Walt insisted on.
Giambattista Basile's 'Sun, Moon, and Talia' appeared in his Neapolitan collection the Pentamerone (1634–36); in it the sleeping Talia is assaulted by a king and gives birth to twins before waking.
Q 24In Basile's version, what pricks the princess's finger instead of a spindle?
A splinter of flax
A splinter of flax lodges under Talia's fingernail and she falls down as if dead; Perrault and the Grimms switched it to a spindle, which is why kings keep burning spinning wheels.
Q 25Perrault's 1697 collection containing Sleeping Beauty is known in English by what title?
Tales of Mother Goose
Perrault's Histoires ou contes du temps passé carried the subtitle Contes de ma mère l'Oye, so the 1697 collection is known in English as Tales of Mother Goose; it also holds Cinderella and Puss in Boots.
Q 26How many good fairies are invited to the christening in Perrault's version?
Seven
Seven fairies are invited as godmothers and given golden cases of cutlery; an eighth, old fairy who had not left her tower in fifty years is forgotten and delivers the curse.
Q 27For how long does the princess sleep in Perrault's tale?
A hundred years
The young fairy's amendment turns the death into a sleep of a hundred years, after which a king's son will wake her; she also puts the whole palace to sleep so the princess will not wake alone.
Q 28In Perrault's tale, what is the prince's mother, who tries to have Sleeping Beauty and her children cooked?
An ogress
The cook hides the children and serves lamb instead; the ogress ends up in the death she planned for them.
Q 29What are the names of Sleeping Beauty's two children in Perrault's version?
Morning and Day
Perrault's princess has a daughter called Morning (L'Aurore) and a son called Day (Le Jour); the ballet and then Disney borrowed the daughter's name, Aurora, for the princess herself.
Q 30How many wise women does the king invite to the feast in the Grimms' version?
Twelve
The king owns only twelve golden plates, so he invites twelve of his kingdom's thirteen wise women; the uninvited thirteenth storms in and pronounces the curse.