V11llain Quiz: The Wicked Queen
No one knew what to expect with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the first feature-length cartoon. Lavishly expensive, years past deadline, it was called Disney’s folly…right up until its release in December 1937. Then the world fell in love with in Snow and the Seven…and fell to despise the Wicked Queen. Now known as the Evil Queen (is that an improvement? Show of hands, would you rather be called wicked or evil?), Queen Grimhilde (her name is never used in the movie) shows that beauty may be skin deep, but vileness runs to the bone.
How much do you know about the Wicked Queen?
1. Cinderella is French, Mulan is Chinese, Pinocchio is Italian: what county gave us the fairy tale of Snow White?
2. REDRUM! REDRUM! The Wicked Queen flies into a murderous rage when what magical item tells her someone else is the most beautiful in all the land?
3. iSymbolism: In disguise as the Old Hag, what type of fruit does she give to Snow White?
4. The Evil Queen’s facial coloring was so consistent and realistic that rumors spread in the 1930s it was achieved using what, instead of paint?
5. Another rumor was that The Wicked Queen was based on this chilly but beautiful Hollywood actress, who briefly modeled for Walt Disney back in his Kansas City days.
6. Stage actress Lucille La Verne was the voice of the Wicked Queen: for what alliterate Disney cartoon series did she also voiced a witch in the short, Babes in the Woods?
7. A Snow White ride opened at this theme park in 1955: it’s still running to this day.
8. The American Film Institute named the Evil Queen as the 10th best villain in cinema history. What character, from a film released just two years later in 1939, is the fourth best villain?
9. In Once Upon a Time Lana Parilla plays both the Evil Queen and this character, whose name means queen.
10. Kathy Najimy played the Evil Queen in The Descendants TV movies; she played a saintlier character in which series of Whoopi Goldberg films?
11. What gal is going to play the Wicked Queen in the inevitable Disney live-action remake of the original?
ANSWERS BELOW! ARE YOU A TRUE V11llAIN!?
1. Cinderella is French, Mulan is Chinese, Pinocchio is Italian: what county gave us the fairy tale of Snow White?
GERMANY
2. REDRUM! REDRUM! The Wicked Queen flies into a murderous rage when what magical item tells her someone else is the most beautiful in all the land?
A MIRROR
3. iSymbolism: In disguise as the Old Hag, what type of fruit does she give to Snow White?
AN APPLE
4. The Evil Queen’s facial coloring was so consistent and realistic that rumors spread in the 1930s it was achieved using what, instead of paint?
MAKEUP
5. Another rumor was that The Wicked Queen was based on this chilly but beautiful Hollywood actress, who briefly modeled for Walt Disney back in his Kansas City days.
JOAN CRAWFORD
6. Stage actress Lucille La Verne was the voice of the Wicked Queen: for what alliterate Disney cartoon series did she also voiced a witch in the short, Babes in the Woods?
SILLY SYMPHONIES
7. A Snow White ride opened at this theme park in 1955: it’s still running to this day.
DISNEYLAND
8. The American Film Institute named the Evil Queen as the 10th best villain in cinema history. What character, from a film released just two years later in 1939, is the fourth best villain?
THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
9. In Once Upon a Time Lana Parilla plays both the Evil Queen and this character, whose name means queen.
REGINA
10. Kathy Najimy played the Evil Queen in The Descendants TV movies; she played a saintlier character in which series of Whoopi Goldberg films?
SISTER ACT
11. What gal is going to play the Wicked Queen in the inevitable Disney live-action remake of the original?
GAL GADOT