Disney Princess Quiz: Movies, Songs & Characters Trivia

This Disney Princess quiz runs from Snow White in 1937 to Moana in 2016, with questions on Cinderella, Ariel, Mulan, famous songs and the sidekicks who steal every scene. Ten questions, 90 seconds, and the answers are explained below.

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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 90 Seconds

Question 1 / 10 Time: 90s

The Little Mermaid
What is the name of Ariel's best fish friend in The Little Mermaid?
Cinderella
At what time does Cinderella's magic spell end?
Beauty and the Beast
What does Belle's father, Maurice, do for a living?
Disney History
In which year was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's first animated feature film, released?
Mulan
In Mulan, what is the name of the small dragon sent to protect her?
Songs
Which Disney princess sings How Far I'll Go?
Pocahontas
Which Disney princess is based on a real historical person?
Tangled
In Tangled, how long is Rapunzel's magic golden hair?
Brave
In Brave, what does Merida's mother turn into?
The Princess and the Frog
In which U.S. city is The Princess and the Frog set?

Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions

Q1: What is the name of Ariel's best fish friend in The Little Mermaid?
Answer: Flounder
Flounder is Ariel's loyal tropical-fish friend, while Sebastian is the crab who serves King Triton and Scuttle is the seagull who gets every human object wrong. The film came out in 1989.
Q2: At what time does Cinderella's magic spell end?
Answer: Midnight
The Fairy Godmother warns Cinderella that the spell will break at the last stroke of midnight. She runs from the ball in a hurry and leaves a glass slipper on the palace steps.
Q3: What does Belle's father, Maurice, do for a living?
Answer: Inventor
Maurice is an eccentric inventor who gets lost on his way to a fair and becomes a prisoner in the Beast's castle. Belle takes his place, which sets the 1991 story in motion.
Q4: In which year was Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's first animated feature film, released?
Answer: 1937
Snow White premiered in December 1937 and was the first full-length cel-animated feature made in Hollywood. Its success turned Disney into a major studio, and Cinderella followed in 1950.
Q5: In Mulan, what is the name of the small dragon sent to protect her?
Answer: Mushu
Mushu, voiced by Eddie Murphy, is a demoted family guardian who hopes to win back his place by helping Mulan. Meeko is Pocahontas's raccoon, and Pascal is Rapunzel's chameleon.
Q6: Which Disney princess sings How Far I'll Go?
Answer: Moana
Moana sings How Far I'll Go as she longs to sail past the reef around her island, Motunui. Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote the song, and it was nominated for an Academy Award.
Q7: Which Disney princess is based on a real historical person?
Answer: Pocahontas
Pocahontas was a Powhatan woman who lived in Virginia in the early 1600s, around the founding of Jamestown. The 1995 film changes much of her real story, including her age.
Q8: In Tangled, how long is Rapunzel's magic golden hair?
Answer: 70 feet
Rapunzel's hair is 70 feet (about 21 meters) long and glows when she sings her healing song. Disney's animators built new software just to make that much hair move naturally.
Q9: In Brave, what does Merida's mother turn into?
Answer: A bear
A witch's spell turns Queen Elinor into a bear, and Merida must mend their relationship to reverse it. Brave (2012) was Pixar's first film led by a female hero and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature.
Q10: In which U.S. city is The Princess and the Frog set?
Answer: New Orleans
The film is set in 1920s New Orleans, where Tiana works as a waitress and saves to open her own restaurant. Randy Newman wrote its jazz-flavored songs.

Disney Princess Quiz – From Snow White to Moana

Disney's princess films span almost 80 years of animation. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs opened in 1937, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty followed in the 1950s, and The Little Mermaid in 1989 began a run of hits that included Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas and Mulan. Later films such as The Princess and the Frog, Tangled, Brave and Moana gave the heroines new kinds of goals, from opening a restaurant to sailing across the Pacific.

Disney grouped these characters into the official Disney Princess line in 2000, and today they appear on everything from books to theme park parades.

The films also show how animation changed. Snow White was drawn and painted by hand, The Little Mermaid was the last Disney feature to use hand-painted cels, Tangled was the first princess film made fully with computer animation, and Moana mixed computer animation with hand-drawn tattoos on the demigod Maui. Many of the songs became hits on their own, and A Whole New World from Aladdin won the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

What This Quiz Teaches

This quiz works for families watching the films together and for adults who grew up with them. It mixes easy questions about sidekicks and songs with a few harder ones about film history.

When Disney released its first animated feature and how it changed the studio
Which sidekick belongs to which princess, from Flounder to Mushu
Which princess is based on a real person from American history
Where and when some of the later films are set
Small story details, such as why Cinderella leaves the ball in a hurry

Quick Facts About Disney Princesses

Adriana Caselotti, the voice of Snow White, was 18 when she recorded the role.
Aurora speaks only about 18 lines in Sleeping Beauty (1959), even though the film is named after her.
Jasmine is the only official princess who is not the main character of her own film, Aladdin.
Mulan is based on the Ballad of Mulan, a Chinese poem more than 1,500 years old.
Tiana, from The Princess and the Frog (2009), was Disney's first African American princess.
Elsa and Anna from Frozen are hugely popular but are not part of the official Disney Princess line.