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1. What is the heroine's name?
Belle
Belle is French for beauty, and the whole village sings about how odd she is in the opening number for wanting more than a provincial life. Cinderella, Aurora and Ariel are earlier Disney princesses; Ariel had arrived just two years before.
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2. What does Belle especially enjoy doing?
Reading
Her favorite book is one she has read twice already, about a girl who meets Prince Charming but does not realize who he is until chapter three. The Beast wins her over partly by handing her his library, which is roughly the size of a cathedral.
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3. What is Belle's father's name?
Maurice
Maurice is an inventor who sets off to show his wood-chopping machine at a fair, gets lost in the woods, loses his horse Philippe to the wolves and stumbles into the castle, where the Beast locks him up. Belle trades her freedom for his.
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4. Who is the boastful hunter who wants to marry Belle?
Gaston
Gaston is the village's hero and knows it; his proposal scene ends with him face down in a mud puddle. When Belle keeps refusing, he arranges to have Maurice committed to the asylum unless she agrees, and ends by leading a mob to the castle.
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5. What is Gaston's sidekick called?
LeFou
LeFou, whose name is French for the fool, is Gaston's punching bag and cheerleader, and leads the tavern song that lists his boss's virtues, down to the spitting. Josh Gad played him in the live-action remake, where he was given rather more to do.
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6. What household object is Lumiere?
A candelabrum
Lumiere is the castle's maitre d', voiced by Jerry Orbach in his best Maurice Chevalier accent, and he leads the household in the big dinner number. He and Cogsworth bicker constantly over whether to break the Beast's rules; Lumiere always does.
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7. What household object is Cogsworth?
A clock
Cogsworth is the head of the household, a mantel clock who insists on rules and schedules, voiced by David Ogden Stiers, who also narrates the prologue. The wardrobe is a separate character, and the footstool is the castle dog.
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8. Who is the castle's enchanted teapot?
Mrs. Potts
The teapot is the castle's housekeeper and the one calm head in a building full of overexcited furniture, and she sings the title song over the ballroom dance. Madame de Garderobe is the wardrobe in the 2017 remake; Lady Tremaine is Cinderella's stepmother.
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9. What is Mrs. Potts's son called?
Chip
Chip is a teacup with a chipped rim, hence the name, and he gets the film's last line, asking whether he still has to sleep in the cupboard. He also rescues Belle and Maurice from the cellar by firing up Maurice's wood-chopping machine.
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10. Who voices Belle?
Paige O'Hara
O'Hara came from Broadway, and the animators borrowed her habit of brushing a loose strand of hair from her face. Jodi Benson had voiced Ariel two years earlier, and Susan Egan originated Belle on Broadway before voicing Megara in Hercules.
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11. Who voices Mrs. Potts and sings the title song?
Angela Lansbury
Lansbury thought the song needed a younger voice and asked for someone else, then recorded it in a single take when the producers insisted. It won Best Original Song over two other songs from the film; Celine Dion and Peabo Bryson sing it over the credits.
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12. Which song welcomes Belle to dinner?
Be Our Guest
The number was written to be sung to Maurice, and was reworked once the filmmakers realized they were spending their showstopper on a supporting character. Howard Ashman wrote the lyrics and died months before the premiere; the film is dedicated to him.
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13. What flower marks the time remaining on the curse?
A rose
The enchantress leaves the rose as a timer: the Beast must learn to love and be loved before the last petal falls in his twenty-first year, or stay a beast forever. The servants have been rusting, as their dinner song puts it, for ten years.
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14. What color is Belle's famous ballroom gown?
Yellow
The gold gown is Belle's one princess moment, and the ballroom around her was computer-generated, the first fully 3D set in a Disney feature, with the hand-drawn couple danced across it. In the village she wears blue, the only person there who does.
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15. What Oscar milestone did the film achieve?
The first animated Best Picture nomination
It was nominated for Best Picture at the 1992 ceremony, losing to The Silence of the Lambs, and won for its score and the title song. The Best Animated Feature category did not exist until a decade later, when Shrek took the first one.
