Can you name the author of the books upon which these Disney movies were based?

Disney Movie	Author	Original Work
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs		Snow White (1812)
Tarzan		Tarzan of the Apes (1912)
Winnie the Pooh		Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea		20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Swiss Family Robinson		The Swiss Family Robinson
Pinocchio		The Adventures of Pinocchio (1881)
Oliver and Company		Oliver Twist
The Hunchback of Notre Dame		Notre-Dame de Paris (1831)
The Little Mermaid		The Little Mermaid (1837)
Peter Pan		Peter and Wendy (1911)

Disney Movie	Author	Original Work
Mary Poppins		Marry Poppins (1934)
The Jungle Book		The Jungle Book (1893)
Sleeping Beauty		Sleeping Beauty (1697)
Sword in the Stone		The Once and Future King (1938)
One Hundred and One Dalmatians		The Hundred and One Dalmatians
Song of the South		Uncle Remus
Bedknobs and Broomsticks		The Magic Bed Knob
Alice in Wonderland		Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
Treasure Island		Treasure Island
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

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Disney Authors Quiz

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Created by: spqr -
Contributed: October 22nd, 2009
Published: November 3rd, 2009
Category: Literature
Plays: 24,175

Tags: Disney Quizzes, Book Quizzes, Novel Quizzes, original, based, upon, author

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	spqr:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 21:22 GMT	4 points
	I was going to make a sequel to my somewhat controversial quiz One Novel Authors, but this idea came to me and seemed a little more fun. I think this does belong in literature because you have to name authors and originally I was going to give you the name of the book, but then the Disney angle becomes meaningless. Anyway, enjoy!

	Tahnan:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 22:15 GMT	2 points
	"Mary", not "Marry"; but it's a neat little quiz idea.

	spqr:	Oct 22nd, 2009 at 22:32 GMT	2 points
	thanks for the catch and the compliment

	Fidelio:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 13:25 GMT	0 points
	I'm surprised so many people knew Edgar Rice Burroughs.

	pandafan:	Oct 23rd, 2009 at 14:43 GMT	1 point
	Fun quiz - knew Pinocchio's author started with C but couldn't remember it. Also, missed a couple more.

	RebeccaAMax:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 19:57 GMT	3 points
	This is a great idea; I don't know why no one's done it before. I think you should add 101 Dalmatians, Song of the South, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, 20,000 Leagues, Swiss Family Robinson, Treasure Island, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, others; Lion King (Hamlet) and Pocahontas (R&J) might be too much of a stretch, but those aren't, nor are they too obscure, like The Parent Trap. Maybe Oliver&Company?

	spqr:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 22:48 GMT	4 points
	Thanks a lot for the suggestions, you might of noticed I added most of them

	Nicktroptopolis:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 21:10 GMT	2 points
	The Rescuers was based on a book by Margery Sharp, though it bore very little resemblance to the plot

	BentKangaroo:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 16:28 GMT	0 points
	Why when I go to type in "Anderson" it gives me Brothers Grimm?

	shawnoc:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 16:39 GMT	1 point
	Cool quiz. I'm surprised that TH White, Charles Dickens, and Washington Irving scored so low. Maybe people didn't know that Oliver & Company was based on Oliver Twist or didn't know which Arthur tale to choose for Sword in the Stone? Also, was The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad the "name of the movie" or just the name of the DVD when they packaged the two shorts together? (Maybe "Wind in the Willows" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" should be listed seperately.)

	rockgolf:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 16:55 GMT	3 points
	So then, Mulan wasn't based on Mulan Rouge? ;)

	shanz818:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 17:13 GMT	0 points
	What about Beauty and the Beast?

	3_1415:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 17:14 GMT	1 point
	yay

	wolv82:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 17:54 GMT	3 points
	I mixed up "Swiss Family Robinson" with "Robinson Crusoe" and kept typing "Defoe" to no avail, oops. Fun though

	Mutford:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 17:57 GMT	4 points
	Joel Chandler Harris and the Brothers Grimm weren't really the authors as much as they were collectors. Harris's stories were African American folklore and many versions of Snow White were floating around Europe by the time the Grimm brothers collected that one. I'd still include them, but just wanted to have that out there.

	Bethannie:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 19:46 GMT	6 points
	Mutford: the same could be said for Perrault- there are other versions of Sleeping Beauty (Grimms covered that one too!) - but the answers given are the best known versions of the stories.

	Platypus222:	Nov 3rd, 2009 at 20:29 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz, but I feel like it should also accept "AA Milne" (without the periods).

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	trumanburbank:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 00:01 GMT	5 points
	THIS IS THE BEST QUIZ EVER YOU ROCK SPQR

	spqr:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 00:18 GMT	1 point
	I am incredibly excited my quiz got published, thanks to those who liked it. @emusonparole Treasure Planet is a movie, but not the one referenced in the clue. That one is called Treasure Island

	mouserie:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 01:31 GMT	2 points
	Excellent idea for a quiz! The moment I saw the title I got extremely (perhaps overly) excited about it. =D Very cool, thank you!

	ZapRowsdower:	Nov 4th, 2009 at 02:04 GMT	4 points
	And yet Disney is incredibly protective of their own copyrighted characters (like Mickey) and won't let anyone use them in derivative works. The irony!

	Father_Time:	Nov 5th, 2009 at 01:11 GMT	-4 points
	...wow I never knew how many Disney movies were someone else's book. Besides fantasia does Disney have anything original made?

	jiminymatthew:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 09:06 GMT	4 points
	@ZapRowsdower: They buy the rights to all these characters/books before they make the movie. If someone bought the rights to Mickey, then he or she could use Mickey wherever. @Father_Time: Actually, I would argue all their films are original ideas, since they don't copy the stories word for word, but create something new out of it. Like for the new Princess and the Frog, the only thing from the original story is the frog bit, but they wrote something entirely different, set it in New Orleans, and it looks like a great film. And Pinocchio the film is entirely different from Pinocchio the book. But if that doesn't work for you, most of the shorts are original ideas, as well as some of the live-action/animation mix films. Then you have Saludos Amigos and Three Caballeros.

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	BaconTim:	Dec 11th, 2009 at 20:54 GMT	1 point
	cool

	covertman:	Dec 14th, 2009 at 17:39 GMT	1 point
	Fun Fact: Hans Christian Andersen died from falling out of his bed too hard.

	bookworm1016:	Jan 1st, 2010 at 01:41 GMT	2 points
	The movie the Black Cauldron was based on a book by Lloyd Alexander.

	feste26:	Jan 28th, 2010 at 07:21 GMT	1 point
	Perhaps you could try adding Thomas Mallory to the Sword and the Stone?

	daHOOK:	Feb 20th, 2010 at 03:12 GMT	2 points
	The French-language version of Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame was titled Le Bossu de Notre-Dame, instead of using the original title.

	alaric1224:	Mar 13th, 2010 at 16:10 GMT	1 point
	I didn't know how to spell Barrie and kept trying variations, didn't think to not use Y.

	SAEinSoCal:	May 25th, 2010 at 04:02 GMT	-1 points
	I think the Disney movie was, "Treasure Planet," and the book was "Treasure Island."

	Aspirations:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 19:42 GMT	1 point
	Officially, Princess and the Frog is based (loosely) on E.D. Baker's The Frog Princess. Asise from those on the list, Meet the Robinsons is based on William Joyce's A Day With Wilbur Robinson. As pointed out before, Lion King is loosely (?) based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. Pocahontas's source is usually credited as the legend plus Disney embellishment. (Even though it is similar the plot of Romeo and Juliet.)

	Aspirations:	Jun 20th, 2010 at 22:48 GMT	1 point
	*Aside

	Taz4591:	Dec 4th, 2010 at 09:36 GMT	1 point
	Fun Fact: Accorting to Disney's Histories, the Disney version was based on the first film (Snow White) Walt saw as a child. As I've read the whole compilition, it could be argued that almost every Disney classic is/was from the Grimm Brothers or Anderson. The original title for half of the last box was The Adventures of Ichabod Crane. All I remember from "Mr. Toad" is that the movie had a really long and wacky title. @spqr: before I took your quiz I was about to make one similar to this.