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50 free The Aristocats trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This Aristocats trivia quiz covers Disney's 1970 film from the plot up: Madame Adelaide's will, Edgar's sleeping pills and his motorcycle ride into the countryside, Napoleon and Lafayette, the milk truck, the train trestle, the Gabble geese and Uncle Waldo, Scat Cat's rooftop jam session and the packing case bound for Timbuktu. It asks about the kittens' names and talents, the voice cast from Phil Harris and Eva Gabor to Sterling Holloway and Scatman Crothers, and the animals who help save the day. It also covers how the film got made: the live-action TV script it started as, the last project Walt Disney personally approved, the maid who was cut, the songs the Sherman Brothers wrote and lost, Maurice Chevalier coming out of retirement, and how the film became the biggest hit of 1971 in France and Germany. About a third are easy for anyone who has seen it, a third are medium, and the rest are for real Disney nerds. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia and the production histories it cites, and each question carries the sentence that establishes it. If you think one is wrong, use the report button and we will look again.
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Q 01In which city is The Aristocats set?
Paris
The original story was set in New York; producer Harry Tytle moved it to Paris after London had worked so well for 101 Dalmatians.
Q 02In what year is the film set?
1910
The Belle Époque setting explains the horse-drawn carriage, the early motorcycle and Georges Hautecourt's Charleston-free dancing.
Q 03What are the names of Duchess's three kittens?
Berlioz, Marie and Toulouse
Two are named after French artists, Hector Berlioz and Toulouse-Lautrec, and Marie after Marie Antoinette.
Q 04Which kitten is the talented painter, loosely based on a Post-Impressionist painter of Montmartre?
Toulouse
He is the oldest and idolises alley cats, especially O'Malley.
Q 05Berlioz, the youngest kitten, is talented at what?
Playing the piano
He is named after the composer Hector Berlioz and shares the piano bench with Marie for 'Scales and Arpeggios'.
Q 06The only girl kitten is named after which French queen?
Marie Antoinette
She is the family's accomplished singer and does her best to be a lady like her mother.
Q 07What is the name of the retired opera diva who owns the cats?
Madame Adelaide Bonfamille
Hermione Baddeley voiced her; a song for the character called 'Pourquoi?' was cut from the film.
Q 08What is the surname of Edgar, the scheming butler?
Balthazar
He was originally to have an accomplice, the maid Elvira, who was cut to make him the sole villain.
Q 09How does Edgar overhear Madame's plans for her will?
Through a speaking tube
He then works out, wrongly, that he will die before the cats do and never see the money.
Q 10How does Edgar sedate the cats?
Sleeping pills in a dish of cream
Roquefort the mouse also samples the cream and drops off, which is why he knows something is wrong later.
Q 11Which two farm dogs ambush Edgar in the countryside?
Napoleon and Lafayette
The bloodhound and basset were so popular with the filmmakers that a second scene was added for them.
Q 12Napoleon insists he is in charge, then does what whenever Lafayette makes a suggestion?
Adopts the idea as his own
Pat Buttram and George Lindsey, both from Green Acres and Mayberry, supplied the country voices.
Q 13Which vehicle do Duchess, O'Malley and the kittens briefly hitch a ride in on the way back to Paris?
A milk truck
The driver chases them out, and their next obstacle is a train on a railway trestle.
Q 21What is the alley cat's full name?
Abraham de Lacy Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley
The Italian dub renamed him Romeo, 'the best cat of the Colosseum', because Rome's alley cats famously lived there.
Q 22Which actress, praised by the director for 'the freshest femme voice we've ever had', voices Duchess?
Eva Gabor
Robie Lester provided her singing voice; Gabor later voiced Bianca in The Rescuers.
Q 23Duchess is what breed of cat?
Turkish Angora
The refined white cat must choose between loyalty to Madame and her feelings for O'Malley.
Q 14Which kitten falls into the river while the cats cross a railroad trestle?
Marie
O'Malley dives in after her and is then rescued himself by two English geese.
Q 15The two English geese who rescue O'Malley are named what?
Abigail and Amelia Gabble
They are on holiday and lead the cats to Paris before rejoining their tipsy Uncle Waldo.
Q 16The geese's inebriated relative, whom they go off to find, is called what?
Uncle Waldo
He was voiced by Bill Thompson, the voice of the White Rabbit and Mr. Smee, in his final film role.
Q 17Where does Edgar plan to ship the cats after recapturing them at the mansion?
Timbuktu
By the end of the fight it is Edgar who is locked in the packing case and sent there instead.
Q 18What kind of animal is Roquefort?
A mouse
Sterling Holloway, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, played him; he fetches Scat Cat's gang for the final fight.
Q 19Frou-Frou, who helps subdue Edgar in the finale, is what kind of animal?
A carriage horse
Nancy Kulp of The Beverly Hillbillies spoke for her, and Ruth Buzzi sang.
Q 20Who voices Thomas O'Malley, the alley cat?
Phil Harris
Reitherman said O'Malley was modelled more on Clark Gable than on Wallace Beery, the model for Harris's Baloo.
Q 24Which jazz legend was originally to voice Scat Cat before illness forced him out?
Louis Armstrong
Scatman Crothers was hired at short notice with instructions to imitate him.
Q 25Which instrument does Scat Cat play?
Trumpet
His gang includes Hit Cat on guitar, Peppo on concertina and Billy Boss, voiced by Thurl Ravenscroft, on bass.
Q 26Which character led Disney+ to restrict the film to viewers aged seven and over in 2021?
Shun Gon, the Chinese cat
The studio said the piano-playing cat, voiced by Paul Winchell, was a racist stereotype of East Asian people.
Q 27Who directed The Aristocats?
Wolfgang Reitherman
One of Disney's Nine Old Men, he had just finished The Jungle Book and took on producing duties too.
Q 28The Aristocats holds what distinction in Walt Disney's own career?
The last film he personally approved before his death
He saw Ken Anderson's preliminary sketches shortly before dying in December 1966; the film came out four years later.
Q 29The Aristocats began life in 1962 as what?
A two-part live-action TV episode
It was planned for Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, with Boris Karloff in mind as the butler, before being reworked as animation.
Q 30Which character, to have been voiced by Elsa Lanchester, was cut entirely to simplify the story?
Elvira the maid
A villainous romantic duet for Edgar and Elvira went with her.