Disney Trivia Thursday

Correct: Mickey Mouse made his first big screen appearance on November 18, 1928 in Steamboat Willie along with his longtime girlfriend Minnie Mouse.

Correct: Walt Disney provided the original voice of Mickey Mouse from 1928 to 1947.

Correct: Walt Disney was originally going to give Mickey the name of Mortimer Mouse until his wife Lillian suggested Mickey Mouse because the name sounded cuter.

Correct: The first words that Mickey Mouse spoke was "Hot dogs!" in the 1929 short The Karnival Kid in which he portrayed a carnival hot dog vendor. Before this he had only whistled, laughed and grunted.

Correct: The first Mickey Mouse wristwatch manufactured by Ingersoll-Waterbury sold for only $3.75 in 1933.

Correct: Mickey Mouse's early cartoons from 1928 to 1935 were in black and white. His first color cartoon was The Band Concert which premiered on February 23, 1935.

Correct: The Mickey Mouse Club first appeared on American television in 1955, the same year that Disneyland Park opened in Anaheim, CA.

Correct: After a 30 year hiatus from the big screen, Mickey Mouse returned to movie theaters in 1983 as Bob Cratchit in Mickey's Christmas Carol.

Correct: In 1983's Mickey's Christmas Carol, Mickey Mouse portrayed Bob Cratchit, Ebenezer Scrooge's underpaid clerk.

Correct: Mickey Mouse has received ten nominations for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The Animated short films nominated are Mickey's Orphans (1931), Building a Building (1933), Brave Little Tailor (1938), The Pointer (1939), Lend a Paw (1941), Squatter's Rights (1946), Mickey and the Seal (1948), Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983), Runaway Brain (1995), and Get a Horse! (2013). However, only Lend a Paw from 1941 won an Oscar.

Correct: In Italy, Mickey Mouse is known as Topolino.

Correct: Shanghai Disneyland Park is the only International Disney Resort that does not have the Mickey's PhilharMagic 3D film attraction.