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Contents: Author, ExiledWarrior [a.k.a. ExiledWarrior@Hotmail.com]
(New Sence Of Sunday, May 17th, 2003)
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Questions and Answers to Disneys Movie, "The Lion King"

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1) On what date did The Lion King open in theaters?

Answer = June 24, 1994. It was also re-released on November 18, 1994.
2) In how many different "ages" do we see Simba?
Answer = 4 (Young cub with spots) + (Cub) + (adolescent) + (adult).
3) What does "Simba" mean in Swahili?
Answer = "Simba" means "Lion" in Swahili.
4) What is the color of Simba's eyes?
Answer = Burgundy on Yellow.
5) What is the name of Simba's father?
Answer = Mufasa.
6) Do we ever see Mufasa's claws?
Answer = Yes, twice.
7) What is the name of Simba's mother?
Answer = Sarabi.
8) What is her position in the pride?
Answer = She is the head female, and Queen.
9) What does "Sarabi" mean in Swahili?
Answer = "Sarabi" means "mirage".
10) Who is Simba's best friend as a cub?
Answer = Nala.
11) In how many different "ages" do we see Nala?
Answer = 2 (cub) + (adult).
12) What is the color of Nala's eyes?
Answer = Aquamarine on Yellow.
13) Do we ever see Nala's claws?
Answer = Yes, Five Times.
14) How many times did Nala pin Simba?
Answer = 3.

15) What is the name of Simba's home?

Answer = Pride Rock.
16) What is the name of Nala's mother?
Answer = Sarafina.
17) What is Scar's relationship to Mufasa?
Answer = Scar is Mufasa's younger brother.
18) What color is Scar's eyes?
Answer = Green on Yellow.
19) Over which eye is Scar's scar?
Answer = His left.
20) Where does Scar live?
Answer = In a crack/cave in the back of Pride Rock.
21) Who is the pride's shaman?
Answer = Rafiki.
22) What is Rafiki?
Answer = A mandrill.
23) What kind of tree does Rafiki live in?
Answer = Baobab.
23) What is odd about Rafiki's mixing bowl?
Answer = It is a large turtle shell.
24) What does "Rafiki" mean in Swahili?
Answer = "Rafiki" means "friend".
25) Who is Mufasa's bird friend and retainer?
Answer = Zazu.
26) What is Zazu's title?
Answer = Majordomo.
27) When is the first time we see Zazu?
Answer = He flies past the camera to Pride Rock in the presentataion of Simba.
28) What kind of bird is Zazu?
Answer = Hornbill.
29) What is Timon?
Answer = A meerkat.
30) How many stripes does Timon have?
Answer = 5.
31) What is the color of Timon's eyes?
Answer = Black on white.
32) How many fingers does Timon have?
Answer = 8. (He has four fingers on each hand.)
33) What is Pumbaa?
Answer = A Warthog.
34) For what two actions does Pumbaa use his tusks for during the movie?
Answer = To lift Simba up, and to lift a log for bugs.
35) What does "Pumbaa" mean in Swahili?
Answer = "Pumbaa" means "Simpleton".
36) Name the three main hyenas...
Answer = Shenzi, Banzai, and Ed.

37) When do they first appear?

Answer = At the Elephant Graveyard, from the skull that Simba thinks about entering.
38) What is one of Ed's most noticeable features?
Answer = He has warts on his tongue.
39) Which of Ed's ear has a notch?
Answer = Trick question! both of Ed's ears are notched.
40) Who is Banzai's voice?
Answer = Cheech Marin.
41) What does "Banzai" mean in Swahili?
Answer = "Banzai" means "skulk" or "lurk".
42) Who is Shenzi's voice?
Answer = Whoopi Goldberg.
43) What does "Shenzi" mean in Swahili?
Answer = "Shenzi" means "Uncouth".
44) Who first says "Hakuna Matata"?
Answer = Timon.
45) Where does Timon first say "Hakuna Matata"?
Answer = While talking with Simba in the desert.
46) What does "Hakuna Matata" mean?
Answer = "No worries!"
47) How many years does Simba spend with Timon and Pumbaa?
Answer = 5 years. (It takes five years for a lion to develop a full mane.)
48) What is the first line spoken (Not Sung) in the movie?
Answer = "Life's not fair, is it?"
49) By whom says that first line spoken?
Answer = Scar.
50) What is the last line spoken in the movie?
Answer = "Remember..."
51) Who speaks it?
Answer = Mufasa, from the Stars.
52) What is the last sung line of the movie?
Answer = "Circle of Life".
53) What is at that "Shadowy Place" beyond the northern border?
Answer = It's an elephant graveyard.
54) What Japanese animated series do some purists claim was the basis for "The Lion King"?
Answer = Osamu Tezuka's "Jungle Taitei", or "Jungle Emperor".
55) "The Lion King" is based on what Shakespeare play?
Answer = Hamlet (Right down to the order of soliloquies!).
56) How many cheetahs appear in the movie?
Answer = Two (One in the presentation of Simba) + (In the crowd of animals that runs over Zazu
in "I Just Can't wait to be King.")
57) What animal(s) were at the base of the animal pyramid that formed in "I Just Can't Wait to
be King?"
Answer = A hornbill (Zazu, don't say you don't remember!?!).
58) What does Timon suggest that the stars are?
Answer = Fireflies on "that big bluish-black thing."

59) How many belches are heard in the film?

Answer = 2 (One by Pumbaa) + (One by Simba).
60) What other animated features, aside "The Lion King", were animal only?
Answer = Bambi and Robin Hood.
61) How many characters and animals does Scar strike?
Answer = 4 (He kicks Ed away into a pile of bones) + (He hits Zazu into the rock wall)
(He smacks Sarabi when she refuses to hunt) + (When he fights with Simba).
62) What well-know film music composer worked with Elton John on the music for "The Lion
King"?
Answer = Hans Zimmer.
63) What is the title of Scar's only song?
Answer = "Be Prepared".
64) What famous organization's motto is the same as this song?
Answer = "Be Prepared" is the motto of The Boy Scouts of America.
65) What is odd about the kick that Simba uses to block Scar's attack and throw him down the
cliff?
Answer = It is the exact same kick that Nala used to flip and pin Simba earlier.
66) In how many locations was music for this film recorded?
Answer = 3 (London) + (New York) + (South Africa).
67) What is Rafiki's chant? (recite it)
Answer = Rafiki's Chant:
Asante sana!
Squash Banana!
We we nugu!
Mi mi apana!
68) Where did it come from?
Answer = It was written down by Brenda Chapman (story head) while she was visitng Africa with
Hans Zimmer, Chris Sanders, and assorted other story people. It was sung by their guide during
their 2 week trip to the savannah.
69) What is its translation?
Answer = Rafiki's Chant translates directly to:
Thank you very much!
Squash banana!
You're a baboon,
And I'm not!
70) Who is Brenda Chapman?
Answer = Brenda Chapman, was "The Lion King" Story Head.
71) What is Lebo M.'s full last name?
Answer = Morake.
72) What is the only thing Mufasa is "afraid of"?
Answer = Losing Simba.
73) What is Mufasa's last line before he dies?
Answer = "Scar! Brother... help me!"
74) What is the last thing Scar says before killing Mufasa?
Answer = "Long live the king."
75) What do Pumbaa and Timon eat?
Answer = Bugs, grubs, and so forth.
76) What did Mufasa tell Simba that the stars were?

Answer = "The great Kings of the past."

77) What causes Scar to "quiver with fear"?
Answer = That Mufasa was coming to see why he didn't show up at the presentation of Simba.
78) What is the other name that Pumbaa said he could be called?
Answer = "They call me... MR. PIG!"
79) Why is Pumbaa an "outcast"?
Answer = He has a gas problem!
80) What were Timon and Pumbaa doing when they happened upon Simba?
Answer = "Bowling for Buzzards."
81) What dictator was Scar portrayed as in "Be Prepared"?
Answer = The "Be Prepared" scene was very much like early Nazi Germany's. Scar made a
splendid leonine Hitler.
82) What does Scar offer to the hyenas as food?
Answer = Zazu.
83) What saves Simba from being killed by the hyenas?
Answer = The first time, Mufasa. The second, the thorn bushes.
84) How many scenes occur on the upper point of Pride Rock?
Answer = 2 (Mufasa talking to Simba as a cub) + (Simba fighting in the end).
85) What is odd about Scar's claws?
Answer = They are always part-way extended.
86) After his bath, where does Simba say he and Nala are going?
Answer = "Around the water-hole."
87) Which is the first Hyena to speak?
Answer = Shenzi.
88) What does she say?
Answer = "Well, well, well, Banzai. What have we got here?"
89) How does Mufasa discipline his son?
Answer = He "noogies" him.
90) What kind of meat does Scar give the Hyenas?
Answer = A zebra haunch.
91) Why is Timon leery about keeping Simba?
Answer = "Lions eat guys like us!"
92) What are all the songs in which Zazu sings?
Answer = "I Just Can't Wait to be King", "Nobody Knows", "It's a Small World (after all)", and
"I've Got a Bunch of Coconuts".
93) How does Pumbaa explain to Timon that he's being chased by a lioness?
Answer = By shouting "SHE'S GONNA EAT ME!" in Timon's face.
94) Where does Timon sleep (the only time we see him asleep)?
Answer = Curled up on Pumbaa's stomach.
95) What old Spike Jones' hit does Timon sing a corrupt version of while wearing a hula skirt?
Answer = "The Hawaiian War Chant".
96) Who corners Timon in Zazu's cage?
Answer = Banzai.
97) What does Rafiki tell Simba before he ascends Pride Rock?
Answer = "It is time."
98) Who are the characters on Pride Rock during the presentation of Simba and Nala's cub?

Answer = Simba, Nala, Rafiki, Timon, Pumbaa, Zazu, and the cub.
99) Who has the best "Lion King" web-site out there?
Answer = Brian Tiemann
100) What is the Authors email of this Document?
Answer = ExiledWarrior@Hotmail.com

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