1. In which year was Ben Sharpsteen born?
A) 1890
B) 1895
C) 1900
D) 1905
Answer: B) 1895
2. Where was Ben Sharpsteen born?
A) Seattle, Washington
B) Tacoma, Washington
C) Los Angeles, California
D) San Francisco, California
Answer: B) Tacoma, Washington
3. What was Ben Sharpsteen’s full name?
A) Benjamin Luther Sharpsteen
B) Benjamin James Sharpsteen
C) Benjamin Thomas Sharpsteen
D) Benjamin Edward Sharpsteen
Answer: A) Benjamin Luther Sharpsteen
4. Which university did Ben Sharpsteen attend?
A) University of Washington
B) University of California, Davis
C) Stanford University
D) University of Southern California
Answer: B) University of California, Davis
5. What was Ben Sharpsteen’s major in college?
A) Film Studies
B) Agriculture
C) Fine Arts
D) Engineering
Answer: B) Agriculture
6. During which war did Ben Sharpsteen serve in the United States Marines?
A) World War I
B) World War II
C) Korean War
D) Vietnam War
Answer: A) World War I
7. In which year did Ben Sharpsteen join The Walt Disney Studios?
A) 1925
B) 1929
C) 1933
D) 1937
Answer: B) 1929
8. Before joining Disney, which company did Ben Sharpsteen work for as an inker?
A) Warner Bros.
B) Hearst International Film Service
C) Universal Studios
D) MGM Studios
Answer: B) Hearst International Film Service
9. Which animation studio did Ben Sharpsteen work for before Disney, known for “Out-of-the-Inkwell”?
A) Fleischer Studios
B) Sullivan Studios
C) Iwerks Studios
D) Harman-Ising Productions
Answer: A) Fleischer Studios
10. How many Mickey Mouse cartoons did Ben Sharpsteen animate at Disney?
A) 57
B) 77
C) 97
D) 117
Answer: C) 97
11. Which Disney short was Ben Sharpsteen’s first as a director?
A) The Cookie Carnival
B) Two Gun Mickey
C) Mickey’s Follies
D) The Chain Gang
Answer: B) Two Gun Mickey
12. In which year did Ben Sharpsteen direct his first animated short for Disney?
A) 1930
B) 1933
C) 1934
D) 1937
Answer: C) 1934
13. Which Disney feature film did Ben Sharpsteen serve as a sequence director for?
A) Cinderella
B) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
C) Sleeping Beauty
D) The Jungle Book
Answer: B) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
14. Ben Sharpsteen was a supervising co-director for which Disney film?
A) Pinocchio
B) Bambi
C) The Lion King
D) Aladdin
Answer: A) Pinocchio
15. How many films did Ben Sharpsteen direct between 1920 and 1980?
A) 21
B) 31
C) 41
D) 51
Answer: B) 31
16. Which Disney series did Ben Sharpsteen produce in the 1950s that won him Academy Awards?
A) Silly Symphonies
B) People and Places
C) Mickey Mouse Club
D) True-Life Adventures
Answer: D) True-Life Adventures
17. For which documentary did Ben Sharpsteen win an Oscar in 1959?
A) Ama Girls
B) White Wilderness
C) The Alaskan Eskimo
D) Men Against the Arctic
Answer: A) Ama Girls
18. Which other documentary earned Ben Sharpsteen an Oscar in 1959?
A) Portugal
B) White Wilderness
C) Seal Island
D) The African Lion
Answer: B) White Wilderness
19. In which year did Ben Sharpsteen formally retire from Disney?
A) 1959
B) 1960
C) 1962
D) 1970
Answer: C) 1962
20. What role did Ben Sharpsteen play in the Disney anthology television series starting in 1954?
A) Writer
B) Producer
C) Actor
D) Cinematographer
Answer: B) Producer
21. Which museum did Ben Sharpsteen create in Calistoga, California?
A) Disney Animation Museum
B) Napa Valley History Museum
C) Sharpsteen Museum
D) California Pioneers Museum
Answer: C) Sharpsteen Museum
22. The Sharpsteen Museum documents the history of which California figure?
A) Walt Disney
B) Sam Brannan
C) John Sutter
D) Leland Stanford
Answer: B) Sam Brannan
23. In which county did Ben Sharpsteen pass away?
A) Los Angeles County
B) Sonoma County
C) Napa County
D) Orange County
Answer: C) Napa County
24. On what date did Ben Sharpsteen pass away?
A) December 20, 1980
B) November 4, 1980
C) January 15, 1981
D) October 10, 1980
Answer: A) December 20, 1980
25. In which year was Ben Sharpsteen posthumously named a Disney Legend?
A) 1990
B) 1995
C) 1998
D) 2000
Answer: C) 1998
