Disney Quiz: Disney Magical Trivia Questions 2023

Walt Disney Studios released the first teaser trailer for the live-action remake of “Pinocchio” on May 31, 2022, giving the first look at Tom Hanks as Geppetto. Pinocchio premiered on Sept. 8, 2022, on Disney+.

Wasn’t there another Pinocchio planned for 2022?

Netflix has set a Dec. 2022 release for Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion musical adaptation of “Pinocchio” starring Ewan McGregor, David Bradley, Gregory Mann, Finn Wolfhard, Cate Blanchett, and John Turturro.

We Don’t Talk About Bruno is Encanto’s most popular song. With songs written by Lin-Manuel Miranda, the Encanto soundtrack was released on Nov. 19, 2021. On Jan. 18, 2022, the song became the highest-charting from a Disney animated film in more than 26 years, ranking higher than even “Let It Go.” It’s behind only Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle’s “A Whole New World” from Aladdin, which gained the No. 1 spot for one week in March 1993. The Encanto album is the sixth animated film soundtrack to hit No. 1 since the Billboard 200 began regularly publishing weekly in 1956.

The 2022 Toy Story prequel, Lightyear, features Disney/Pixar’s first onscreen same-sex kiss. In the film, starring Chris Evans as the real-life inspiration for the “Toy Story” character Buzz Lightyear, Buzz’s close friend is a female space ranger who marries another woman. A scene showing milestones in the couple’s relationship includes a brief kiss. As a result, Disney has been unable to obtain permission to screen “Lightyear” in 14 Middle Eastern and Asian countries, and it’s unlikely to open in China, according to a June 14 Reuters report. Lightyear premiered on June 17 in theaters. Watch the trailer.

Directed by Domee Shi, Turning Red is the first Pixar movie directly solely by a woman – with an almost entirely female crew. The film’s protagonist, 13-year-old Meilin Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang), is a Chinese-Canadian eighth-grader in the throes of puberty. The film was released on March 11, 2022.

Who was the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio?

Brenda Chapman, co-director of Pixar’s Brave (2012), became the first woman to direct an animated feature from a major studio in 1998 when she helmed DreamWorks Animation’s The Prince of Egypt.

Cinderella is not considered racist by Disney, but Dumbo, Jungle Book, Peter Pan, and many other Disney classics got an updated content advisory notice saying, “This program includes negative depictions and/or mistreatment of people or cultures. These stereotypes were wrong then and are wrong now.”

Hocus Pocus, starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy, premiered in 1993, telling the story of the three Sanderson sisters in Salem, Mass., who spent 300 years asleep before being resurrected on All Hallow’s Eve. The film failed at the ’93 box office but gained massive fan recognition over countless Halloween reruns.

Is there a 2022 Hocus Pocus?

The first teaser trailer for “Hocus Pocus 2” was released on June 28, 2022. The sequel premiered on Disney+ on Sept. 30. Watch the trailer.

In the 2002 Disney animated movie, Lilo is a young Native Hawaiian girl who lives with an extended family of alien visitors on Earth. Stitch is an illegal genetic experiment created by a mad alien scientist – who Lilo adopted as her “dog.”

Bonus Fact

Disney announced in 2018 that it had added Lilo And Stitch to the list of its animated canon that it would turn into a live-action. According to Hollywood Reporter, Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu is in final talks to direct the movie’s live-action version.

While Cruella de Vil’s original attire includes all of the above, the 2021 Cruella lacks the iconic cigarette holder featured in the original animated version of the beloved villain. “We are not allowed to smoke onscreen in a Disney film,” Stone explained in a New York Times interview.

“Soul” is the first Pixar movie to have a Black character in the lead. 

Another fact:

It is also the first feature-length Pixar released as a Disney+ Original, without wide theatrical distribution. 

The 2021 movie Jungle Cruise is based on a Disneyland riverboat attraction that opened in 1955 and is now located at four Disney theme parks worldwide: Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland, and Hong Kong Disneyland. Starring Dwayne Johnson as a riverboat captain and Emily Blunt as a scientist, “Jungle Cruise” opened on July 30, 2021, simultaneously in theaters and Disney+.

Jungle Cruise Fun Fact

The Jungle Cruise attraction was inspired by a 1955 Disney documentary, “The African Lion,” about a pride of lions, and the film The African Queen, which inspired the ride’s vehicles.

Disney Dreamlight Valley is a hybrid life-sim and adventure video game featuring Disney and Pixar characters, old and new. Starting on Sept. 6, 2022, the game is available in Early Access for players who purchase a Founder’s Pack or have an Xbox Game Pass membership. The game’s free-to-play launch is set for 2023. Watch the trailer.

The character Ironheart, portrayed by Dominique Thorne, broke her iron suit in “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.” Thorne will star in a six-episode television series titled “Ironheart,” to premiere on Disney+ in fall 2023.

In Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, released over the 2022 thanksgiving weekend, the MCU heroes kidnap Hollywood actor Kevin Bacon as a gift for Star-Lord. Watch the hilarious trailer.

In 2017, Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Orlando dedicated an entire park area to the “Avatar” film’s fictional world of Pandora. The area, called Pandora: The World of Avatar, features rides, attractions, and experiences based on the film’s characters and locations.

Giancarlo Esposito, who was the unforgettable Gus Fring on Breaking Bad, plays the main antagonist of The Mandalorian, Moff Gideon. The third season starts on Disney+ on Mar. 1, 2023. Minari’s Lee Isaac Chung and Black Panther’s Rachel Morrison will helm some new episodes. Watch the trailer.

This image shows Lizzo and Jack Black as the Duchess and Captain Bombardier of Plazir-15, a fictional planet in the Star Wars universe. They appeared as guest stars in The Mandalorian Season 3 Episode 6/Chapter 22, released on April 5, 2023, on Disney+. The episode also featured another celebrity cameo by Christopher Lloyd as Commissioner Helgait, Plazir-15’s head of security. Lizzo and Jack Black celebrated their Star Wars debut on social media by posting photos of themselves with Grogu merchandise and each other.

Bob Iger, who brought Star Wars, Pixar, and Marvel to Disney, replaced his successor Bob Chapek on Nov. 21, 2022. Iger held the position of Disney’s CEO for 15 years before handing it over to Chapek in 2020. Earlier this month, Disney’s quarterly financial performance fell short of expectations on Wall Street. Disney shares have fallen 40% in 2022.