As we continue celebrating 50 years of Walt Disney World Resort, Disney Files Magazine is testing your knowledge of the place where Disney Vacation Club was born with 50 trivia questions throughout “The World’s Most Magical Celebration,” presenting 10 questions for each decade across five issues of the magazine. Each question comes with only two answer options, giving you a 50/50 chance of being right. In this fifth and final installment of the series, we wrap things up by getting trivial with years even our interns are old enough to remember, pulling questions from Walt Disney World happenings since 2010!
1. Golden Oak at Walt Disney World Resort, a luxury residential resort community featuring distinctive neighborhoods, expansive nature preserves and concierge-style resident services, welcomed its first residents in 2011. The neighborhood is named with a nod to the Golden Oak Ranch. What’s the significance of that ranch?
A. It’s a California ranch that Walt and Lillian Disney owned as a vacation home
B. It’s a California ranch where many Disney productions have been filmed
2. The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train attraction opened at Magic Kingdom Park in 2014, inspired by a landmark Disney animated classic that, based on the number of tickets sold, ranks among the top 10 box office performers in the history of cinema. Across the Disney family of studios, which of the following films has sold more tickets?
A. Star Wars: A New Hope
B. Avengers: End Game
3. The transformation of the Downtown Disney District at Walt Disney World Resort into Disney Springs culminated in 2015 with the creation of four “neighborhoods” inspired by idyllic Florida towns of the early 20th century. Which of the following is one of those Disney Springs “neighborhoods?”
A. The Landing
B. The Wharf
4. Pandora – The World of Avatar added floating mountains to the Disney’s Animal Kingdom landscape in 2017. What was the name of the land that previously operated at that site?
A. Camp Minnie-Mickey
B. Beastly Kingdom
5. Toy Story Land, which opened at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2018, is designed to create the illusion that guests have shrunk to the size of a particular toy in Andy’s backyard. Which of the following toys from Disney and Pixar’s Toy Story films is said to match your imagined height in this playful place?
A. Bo Peep’s sheep
B. Green Army Soldiers
6. Space pirate Hondo Ohnaka briefs guests on their mission at the Millennium Falcon: Smugglers Run attraction, part of the immersive Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge land that opened at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2019. That Audio-Animatronics figure, like the animated series character it portrays, is voiced by Jim Cummings, who voices a number of Disney animated characters. Which of the following Disney ducks does Cummings voice?
A. Scrooge McDuck
B. Darkwing Duck
7. Among the most buzz-worthy features at Disney’s Riviera Resort, which opened in 2019, is its dedicated Disney Skyliner station. Which of the following Walt Disney Animation Studios films is among those celebrated in arching mosaic tile murals along the walkway to that station?
A. Tangled
B. Beauty and the Beast
8. As you discover that anything can happen aboard Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, which opened at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in 2020, on what railway are you running away?
A. Runamuck Railroad
B. Runaway Railroad
9. EPCOT guests began embarking on Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure in 2021. What’s the name of the chef who chases your trackless rat vehicle through the kitchen?
A. Chef Skinner
B. Chef Gusteau
10. Guests hear one of six songs from the “Awesome Mix” tape aboard Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind, which opened at EPCOT in 2022. Which of the following is among those songs?
A. “Love Roller Coaster” by The Ohio Players
B. “Disco Inferno” by The Trammps
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